Sierra Faith

Or is that incompetent cunning: People in the opposition are always inclined to imagine that those in power are fantastically clever and every little thing happens for a reason. I find the Washington version of Hanlon’s Razor works better to explain things: Never attribute to cunning what can be adequately explained by incompetence.

Five states lead in foreclosures: The beneficiaries of taxpayer charity will be highly concentrated in just five states – California, Nevada, Arizona, Florida and Michigan. . . . It turns out that the five states with by far the highest foreclosure rates have some things in common with each other, but very little in common [...]

Here it comes: I explained to [Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton)] that even people who make $150k in Northern Cal. are not “rich” and should not be taxed as if they were…I also expressed my concern that about half the people in the country now pay no income taxes, so there is overwhelming incentive for them [...]

Now this is a hoot: Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said. Uh, oops.

And blowing kisses: Colorado is blowing kisses and singing love songs to California companies and talent, hoping to woo those fed up with the state’s budget and political troubles.

President Hope: Whatever the case, Obama did seem to convince many people he represented some kind of hope. And all he’s done since entering office is talk financial pain and gloom. Somehow there’s something a little dishonest and even a bit disgraceful in that. And it wouldn’t take much to convince me that, while he [...]

Congress: As Montesquieu once wrote, “When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty.”

The Anchoress: Well, the deed is done. In a scant four weeks we’ve moved from an exceptional nation to one like all the rest.

Andrew McCarthy: Major Muslim organizations throughout the United States are controlled to one degree or another by the Muslim Brotherhood and are engaged in an incremental campaign to install Islamic law — shariah. So says former FBI agent John Guandolo, who is now speaking out about both the threat and the disinclination of the government [...]

Mark Steyn: [The] self-pitying imam is part of a now familiar pattern: Pay no attention to that dead body; the real victim here is Islam. And so it goes. . . .