The Weekly Enlightenment

As far as weeks go in the Obama administration, this one didn't seem all that exciting. I actually kind of miss the boring weeks of the Bush administration. Oh well.

For news this week the big one was Sarah Palin's book coming out. As usual, the media had a frenzy. I don't know what it is, but I swear liberals hate Palin even more than Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and George W. Bush put together. Even more funny was the AP assigning 11 reporters to fact-check her book. Where were the fact checkers checking out Obama during his candidacy? The Wall Street Journal had a good comparison.

"An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book. Here goes:
Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
• ObamaCare bills: 2
• Palin book: 11
Number of pages in document being covered:
• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
• Palin book: 432
Number of pages per AP reporter:
• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
• Palin book: 39.3
On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That's what they call accountability journalism."

Right now Palin can't force anyone to do anything (Obama can). As usual, some in the media are saying she is irrelevant while others are saying she has some sort of supernatural power.

A few samples:

* Norah O' Donnell fact-checks a Palin fan (a young one at that). Perhaps someone should tell Norah that the Vice Presidential candidate during the campaign is supposed to agree with the Presidential candidate, even if they don't, presumably to reinforce unity.
* Former editor of the Chicago Tribune suffers from PDS.
* It is obvious how much they hate Palin and her followers, but notice also that it is liberals who are constantly focused on race.
* And of course, the cover of Newsweek showing Sarah Palin in shorts. Anything to destroy her.

Wow. No one gets under their skin as much as Palin does.

Some short observations:
* Recently Obama held a job summit, the express purpose of it being NOT about creating jobs. What is it about then? Again, how many summits does this President need?
* Price controls on Medicare...how is that not the same thing as cutting reimbursements to doctors? They get about 20-25% reimbursement right now. Presumably inflation will occur so that price control means they are getting something like 15% instead since the price has gone up but they can't charge more.

MUST READ
* McCarthy is right. The decision to bring KSM and other terrorists to civilian court is one of the most irresponsible ever decided by a President.
* I would normally say unbelievable, but on second thought I can see Obama bowing to other world leaders.
* The AP finds errors in Palin's book, that...well...aren't errors.
* In the author's own words, the KSM trial will be an intelligence bonanza for Al Qaeda.
* The new liberal talking point is that Moussaoui trial was in civilian court and that no one complained. Andy McCarthy quickly debunks that and points out that there are some judges who will side with the enemy.

Silly Liberals
* A great article on Obama hating America. Always willing to give people a chance (hoping Obama really wasn't as radical as he seemed), but you reach a certain point where when all other explanations fall apart, the one that is left must be the truth.
* The only time Obama will take blame is...wait, never mind. This time human error blamed for stimulus jobs created in nonexistent districts.
* AG Eric Holder talks about delays in the trials for terrorists. Only problem, it was friends of Holder's that were causing the delays.
* According to Jesse Jackson, you can't be a black man and not support health care reform. Obama's version at least.
* Why is the SEIU president Obama's most frequent visitor?

Health Care
* The claim was made that 50% of all bankruptcies result from a medical condition. This article helps debunk that.

What Climate Change?
* In the latest story to support how global warming is a farce, now it is being claimed climate change pushes women into prostitution.

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.