Is it possible that Al Franken’s win in Minnesota is legitimate given ACORN’s biggest problem: participation in voter fraud? Read Katherine Kersten piece in the Star Tribunefor some compelling information on said organization’s participation in voter fraud.
Once again, the elites in this country get the nod. Also, just the old adage “Follow the Money,” seems more than appropriate here. A few persuasive phone calls have been placed to officials within the Energy Department. Ahhhh the age of government transparency!
Friday evening on Fox Charles Krauthammer skewers the latest presidential pomposity at the United Nations:
The diocese of Los Angeles has long been a mess both financially and with regard to the strength of orthodox episcopal leadership. Cardinal Mahoney has been utterly incompetent and allegedly ordered a cover up of clerical abuse. According to the L.A. Times Sept 19, 2009:
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, is arguably the most credible leader in the West right, given Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s utter failure in directing America’s foreign policy. Of course Obama is far more culpable that Clinton as he continues his empty rhetoric and enables a retreat from American leadership in the world. Sarkozy definitely is responsible for the quotation of the week at the recent UN Security Council session Obama chaired to much fanfare. As usual he was long on posturing and short on substance. U.S. papers as of this post have not covered Sarkozy’s rebuke of Obama. I never thought I would ever say in my lifetime that I fully support the comments of a French president on world affairs. Well given the vacuum of leadership by our own White House that day is here.
Hugo Chavez, who praised Obama’s empty speech on nuclear disarmament, is talking with Iran about getting some uranium of his own. Moreover, he has decided to sell gasoline to Iran if the free world decides to sanction Iran. What is the White House response: your guess is as good as mine.
According to Politico Sen. John Ensign from Nevada received a handwritten note from Tom Barthold, Chief of Staff for the Committee on Taxation, which said anyone who did not pay the fine of $1900.00 for not buying government insurance would face 1 year in jail or a $25,000 fine. I don’t think you’ll hear about this except from the blogs–Gee I wonder why.
We’ve come a long way since January 2009. The British press has also recovered from their love affair with Obama and have coined a new name for our illustrious president: President Pantywaist.
The Festival of Dangerous Ideas, a post-modern panoply of lectures, sponsored by the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, promises to be anything but boring during the weekend of October 4 and 5. Hitchens will be evangelizing for athiesm and Cardinal George Pell of Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, will be speaking on the emptiness of secularism and the humanizing nature of believing in God. Pell is a lion when he speaks and he is an intellectual heavy-weight, more than a match for Hitchens; Hitchens is a bright man who obsessed with God. He reminds me of Malcolm Muggeridge before his conversion which took a number of years to achieve. Hitchens’ anti-God protestations are so labored and so fulminating; he seems hounded to me like a man who has to keep defending his beliefs out loud in order to continue to convince himself.