Sierra Faith

We are a dumb nation: Very few people really care about “sound science” and even fewer would recognize it if it were to slap them in the face. Almost everyone, however, thinks that “sound science” (if it were every properly done) would back up whatever preexisting political biases they might have. For a walking embodiment [...]

Scott Johnson: On the occasion of the Lincoln bicentennial, Obama left Lincoln in the shadows. In part, this is because Obama knows so little of him. In part, this is because Lincoln’s thought is alien to Obama’s own thinking. Professor Krannawitter concludes: “There is no greater student and therefore no greater teacher of American politics [...]

Sending pork rinds to the porkmeister: Last week, I noted Kentucky radio talk show host Leland Conway’s campaign to send Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer bags of pork rinds in response to his arrogant claim that Americans don’t care about the pork in the trillion-dollar-porkulus. Guess what? Conway’s call produced a mountain — an estimated 1,500 [...]

Hugh Hewitt: It has become clear over the past 96 hours that any GOP legislator voting for the tax hikes is finished forever in state politics. That may be enough to stop the economic suicide that is a massive tax hike in the middle of a recession, but watch that space.

Read it and weep indeed: Robert Rector, a prominent welfare researcher who was one of the architects of Clinton’s 1996 reform bill, warned last week that Obama’s stimulus plan was a “welfare spendathon” that would amount to the largest one-year increase in government handouts in American history. Douglas Besharov, author of a big study on [...]

From the trenches of Maine: I guess what bothers me the most is that we have lost the days of reasonably civil discourse. I have a gentleman whom I have known for many many years. He and I are polar opposites, politically. We’ve clashed at a number of debates, rallies, and town meetings, but always [...]

This is most interesting: “I was there when the Secretary (of the Treasury Hank Paulson) and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Ben Bernanke) came those days and talked to members of Congress about what was going on. It was about Sept. 15. Here’s the facts, we don’t even talk about these things. “On Thursday [...]

Hmmm: I thought, why not take Obama up on his transparency pledge and check out whitehouse.gov, where I’m sure he’s posted up a quick link to the bill? After all, he said we would be able to read and comment on legislation well before Congress voted on it. By what I’m sure is just an [...]

Incredible: We’re receiving E-mails from Capitol Hill staffers expressing frustration that they can’t get a copy of the stimulus bill agreed to last night at a price of $789 billion. What’s more, staffers are complaining about who does have a copy: K Street lobbyists. E-mails one key Democratic staffer: “K Street has the bill, or [...]

Mark Steyn: On Monday, I testified before a parliamentary committee in Ontario. What was striking to me was that the default position of “liberal” members is that the citizenry are knuckledragging neanderthals whose worst instincts can only be restrained by ever more government regulation. I regret to say that, even in the land of the [...]