Moochie's Right About THIS

Michelle Obama, who is (currently) proud of America, utters the truth.

...First Lady Michelle Obama told a campaign event Monday evening that the “kind of world we’ll be leaving for our children” was at stake.

“[W]hether it’s health care or the economy, whether it’s education or foreign policy, the choice we make will determine nothing less than what kind of world we’ll be leaving for our children,” she told an Obama for America bowling fundraiser at New York’s Chelsea Piers complex.

Indeed, Moochie.

"Your Truth, My Truth" Games: Critical Race Theory

Not hard to find the pig in this poke.

...California teacher Matthew Kertesz: When our black and brown students underperform, it’s not based on any lack of ability, but it’s because equal resources isn’t the same thing [sic] as equally served.  So our schools often falsely assume that kids of color can and will simply change and thrive in an environment based on white culture.  Now, when our schools and society truly value our black and brown youth -– and that’s shown through school culture, and practice, and policy –- then we’ll start to see equal performance.....

The 'culture' of mathematics, grammar, physics, chemistry, and spelling never used to vary much.  Maybe "progress" has changed that, eh? 

Has "progress" changed the nature of logic?  Art?  Biology?  Or 'what IS', as the philosophers put it?

"Critical race theory" is more of the same slushbucket 'thought' which has been around--in one disguise or another--for thousands of years; it's denial of truth.

Whither Conservatism?

McCotter:

...Bereft of the soulful perspective requisite to rebel against itself and reform, the conservative movement became a racket of GOPimpery.  Losing its beloved leader, as well as the conservative movement’s initial creativity, entrepreneurship, impishness and, above all, roots in the shared experiences of Americans, a culturally flaccid Republican Party could no longer even make a pretense of aping Reagan in speaking to Americans; instead, the GOP bewailed his absence in revisionist, discordant country-pop dirges of empty praise that littered the new conservative establishment media.  Such culturally atonal singing may have resonated with the die-hard members of a shrinking choir and facilitated the Republican Cashocracy’s lingering in political power for an extra Sunday or so; but culturally the die was cast and the GOPhilistines’ “permanent majority” imploded beneath the street level activism, dominant media bombardment, and cyber-broadsides of a politically revitalized, culturally attuned and revanchist Left.

Subtitle:  is RoJo a flash in the pan?  Can Hovde use the same tools to achieve the same success?

Or will we watch more "Hollywood Movie Tax Credit" schemes befoul Wisconsin?

HT:  The Winning McCain

The Statist Pubbie Party

Oh, yes, Statism is infectious.

HR 347 passed the House with only 3 Republicans against, and zero Democrats against.

Why?

Because politicians hate anti-politician demonstrations.  Someone might be offended, or maybe have to duck a few tomatoes.

Awwwwwwww.  Po', po' babies.

Oh, yes, it's another attack on the First Amendment.  Perhaps they don't realize that they lost the fight on the most important one--the Second.

Tap the Oil Reserve? Why?

Noted here:

....for all the rhetoric about flat-earthers who believe in strange things like supply and demand, Obama himself knows that increasing oil supply does matter. Why? Because he is pondering again tapping the strategic oil reserve, while Democratic senators keep reminding us that the U.S. is begging the Saudis to increase their own production. So why would increased oil from a reserve or from Saudi Arabia matter in a way that increased domestic production heretofore has not? --Cold Fury quoting VDHanson/Corner

Irony abounds, and Obozo is its bitch.

McPain Still Last in His Class

John McPain, former candidate and current bozo, was not a star student at Annapolis.  (That's being kind about his record.)

He's still not very bright.

...Sen. John McCain said Sunday that the GOP needs to stop talking about contraception and that focusing on the issue is hurting voter perceptions of the party.

...“I think there is a perception out there because of the way this whole contraception issue played out — we need to get off of that issue in my view. I think we ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives and make that clear...

First off, turkey, it's the Fifth Column which is yapping about 'contraception.'

That's so that dimwits like you forget that this is a FIRST AMENDMENT matter. 

It worked, too, sap.

The Coming Breakdown in the (D) Ranks

You only have to read the very short take in this post to get the impression that Obozo has few (D) pals left in Congress--if any at all.

College Women, Cats, and Dogs

The Obozo-ites don't think too much of "college women," do they?

All student health care plans covering female college students in the United States must include coverage for free voluntary sterilization surgery, the Department of Health and Human Services announced late Friday afternoon.

Women of college age who do not attend school will also get free sterilization coverage whether they are insured through an employer, their parents, or some form of government-subsidized plan.

Can't have them going around and re-pro-DU-cing, can we now?   After all, feral college women ....well, ....you know.....

The Obozo Queerness Re: Families, "Privacy", and Life

We've often mentioned "legal positivism" as a danger to the country (and mankind, as it turns out here). 

Lecturer Obozo, while at U of Chicago, shows us how this is so; he ignores the Declaration to lead his students to a Statist conclusion.

...Once again, constitutional law exams work in a very specific way: the teacher presents an “issue-spotting” question, in which students are asked to provide analysis of a set of facts; the teacher then provides sample answers, so students know if they covered the issues....

...Obama suggests that there is a fundamental constitutional right to clone oneself. The precedent cases “all argue for a broad reading of the right at stake: a right to make decisions regarding childbearing free from government interference—at least absent a government showing that such interference is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest.”

...Obama next examines the state’s interests in preventing cloning. He rejects nearly all of them, but focuses in particular on the state’s interest in “preserving the sanctity of life/family bonds.” The state, says Obama, probably doesn’t have a “compelling interest in preventing what it considers to be the ‘devaluation’ of human life that might result from cloning.” As to the family, Obama states, the state has no ability to restrict “an individual’s fundamental right to bear children or form a family solely on the basis of the state’s abstract judgment of what a family should look like.” The case law may support the first proposition in this sentence – that who bears children is not up to the state. But the second proposition – that forming a family is also not up to the state – is an early argument for gay marriage,...

In the real world, the State has a grave and compelling interest in 'preventing the devaluation of human life...'.  The consequences of such devaluation are ......ahhh.......Statism.  Surprised?  In contrast, the Declaration of Independence implicitly and explicitly calls for the State to protect "life, liberty, and the pursuit...."  Notice the word-order here:  'life' is the first-mentioned for a reason; it is the most important of the three.  

...Obama believes that the right to privacy should encompass everything up to and including cloning...

That assumes that Griswold's "right to privacy" is actually a Constitutional finding.  It is not so (pace Charlie Sykes and other libertarian-oriented folks).

The GAB: Following the [Obozo] Un-Constitutional Leader

Who in Hell does the GAB think it is?  You have a bunch of semi-senile retired blackrobes who are managed by a Left-O-Wacky and his pack of do-nothing bureaucrats (the Democrat Party's sixth column), now blatantly adjudicating the Wisconsin Constitution to assume control of special elections!!

Egads. 

Owen points out their latest Eric Holder-esque stunt:

...The GAB, however, is out of line here. First, it does not have the authority to make this decision. The Constitution clearly states “Filling vacancies. SECTION 14. The governor shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies as may occur in either house of the legislature.” The governor. Not the GAB. There should not be a recall because there isn’t anyone to recall. And the governor has the sole constitutional authority to call an election to fill the seat.

It's not "out of line".  It's insubordination or worse.

Order the GAB to STFU on the Galloway replacement, and hold a special election when the Governor SAYS so.

The Legislature's Next Project: Truth in Budgeting

It's a good thing that the Wisconsin Leggies are trying to pass an "earmark ID" bill.  Let the sun shine in!

Here's another good thing for them to do next session:  GAAP standards for Wisconsin budgets.

...Last year, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a budget that avoided most of the accounting tricks and fund transfers used by previous administrations, Democrat and Republican alike, to balance the budget as state law requires.

“(W)e balanced the $3.6 billion budget deficit with long-term, structural reforms. We thought more about the next generation than we did about the next election,” Gov. Scott Walker said in this year’s State of the State address.

Well, maybe not.

...A report from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau indicated that Wisconsin is projected to have a $53 million deficit at the end of fiscal 2012, which concludes June 30, and a $208 million deficit at the end of fiscal 2013, due largely to lower-than-expected tax revenue.

Even if the state’s general fund — which covers most state expenses — was statutorily balanced, the state’s Generally Accepted Accounting Principles deficit, or GAAP, measuring beyond the general fund, is running between $2.5 billion and $3 billion, said Dale Knapp, research director of WISTAX, a private government research nonprofit.

GAAP is a much more stringent way of accounting.

Knapp gave the analogy of charging an item on a credit card: Under the state’s current way of accounting, there isn’t a budgeted expense until the bill comes due.

Balancing the budget using GAAP principles may take another 6 years or so, but honest budgeting should be a priority for actual Conservatives.