Unca Darrell

FEBRUARY 25 / The remarkable thing is how easy it has been

PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA has ceased to operate as a president in any recognizable constitutional sense and commenced to rule to by decree. And none stays his hand.

The attempt to resist his unconstitutional, unlawful, and irregular (under regulatory procedures) immigration decree in Congress is . . .

FEBRUARY 24 / Was Harvey Mansfield right?

HARVARD HISTORY PROFESSOR Harvey Mansfield said after Barack Hussein Obama's reelection victory in November 2012 that Americans were voting "for dependency, for lack of ambition, and for insolvency."

He was right on the diagnosis. But his optimistic prescription? From my declinist perspective, I see it as wishful thinking.

Mr. Mansfield's interview -- Sohrab Ahmari, "The Crisis of American Self-Government," wsj.com, November 30, 2012 (emphasis added)  --  is well worth rereading. 

 

FEBRUARY 19 / How and why the Houston Chronicle . . .

. . . and other big-city Texas newspapers all got the Wallace Hall story wrong, per the Dallas Observer and Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Instapundit):

FEBRUARY 17 / State Department spokeswoman . . .

. . . Marie Harf did not invent her rather strange theory of how to defeat Islamic terrorism. She learned it. All leftists since Marx have seen the world through a materialist lens. Thus it is perfectly sensible to ignore the perverted religious justifications from ISIS for burning infidels alive and cutting off their heads. The real motive . . . well, let her explain:

FEBRUARY 17 / Has Western Civilization lost its nerve?

JOCHEN BITTNER, political editor of Die Zeit, says the answer is yes.

His recent essay on the subject begins with President Kennedy's famous declaration: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall . . .

FEBRUARY 7 / Jukebox musicials . . .

. . . are strictly for fun; they are not high art. Even by this modest standard, however, last night's production of "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story" at Houston's Jones Hall was a big ol' . . .

FEBRUARY 5 / Small snapshot of a large truth

THE PRESIDENT'S annual budget reminds the Beltway tribes of what they do -- tax the country, distribute revenues to their allies, and euphemize it as a budget. With his 2015 budget, Barack Obama at least makes clear his presidency's reason for being: . . .

FEBRUARY 4 / The Houston Rockets . . .

. . . are worth . . .