The Weekly Enlightenment

Another great week. The biggest news was of course of Sarah Palin resigning as governor of Alaska. It's really no surprise. Multiple ethics complaints have been brought against Palin, all of which have been dismissed, but they keep bringing them. Obviously it takes time and money to fight these battles in court, and all the time is spent NOT being the governor of Alaska. Much speculation is that it is to run for President in 2012. May or may not be true, we'll have to see. Since it is all speculation, for now we just have to take it at face value. For this decision, however, Palin has been the target of a lot of vitriol from the press. Which is weird. For someone who is supposed to be irrelevant and stupid, they sure are focusing a lot of time on her. You can be assured when the press and Democrats attack someone, it's not because they actually are stupid or irrelevant (Rush Limbaugh has been called irrelevant many times throughout the past 20 years). It is because that person threatens their power. Palin connected with ordinary voters as being not part of the Washington establishment. She rallied conservative voters, many of whom would not vote for the maverick McCain and were demoralized from out of control Republicans. If she were really irrelevant, it would not be necessary to even bother with her, but they are. And she isn't.

Great point by Mark Steyn and Sean Hannity: Biden now says they didn't know how bad the mess was. But during the campaign, Obama kept saying it was the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Was he understating the problem by comparing it to the Great Depression? Of course not. Election year, trying to spin the economy as the fault of Bush, fine. But there's no way they underestimated how bad it was unless their talk before the election was deceitful.

Nuke reduction. Obama talked with Medvedev of Russia about reducing our nuclear arsenal. Put aside the question of whether Russia would actually reduce its arsenal. The whole idea behind this is that if only America would reduce its nukes, other countries would follow suit. So basically it is the same thing we always see with Obama, that no matter the circumstance, it is America's fault.

MUST READ
* Obama declares the Constitution optional.
* Simple economics. Insurance raises the price of medical care.
* This is what climate change is all about.

Silly Liberals
* Liberals stuck in the abstract.
* Why is Obama not standing by the people of Honduras?
* Releasing violent criminals has been part of the left's backwards justice system for years. Just another example.
* I doubt this would not be considered a hate crime. Hate crimes are just a tool to start regulating thoughts.

Energy
* It appears T. Boone Pickens is scrapping his wind energy plan. It's just not feasible that wind power will take over our energy needs.

Abortion
* Abortion from its inception was to root out undesirable races. Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood explicitly wanted to root out blacks. Now you have it from Ruth Bader Ginsburg.