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Where Are the Grownups? JED BABBIN

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An SGO roundup, inspired by the weirdness pervading not only our domestic scene but the entire world.

You don’t need a crystal ball to forecast that next year we’ll see the nastiest, most expensive and exhausting presidential campaign ever. We can take the low comedy and the irrationality. We can even understand why the angry liberal narrative labels those conservatives who are supporting Herman Cain racists.

We should welcome the Occupy Wall Streeters’ invention of the Teat Party. They want wealth to be redistributed, from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs. Which has a familiar ring to it and explains why President Obama and Noo Yawk Mayor Mikey Bloomberg are siding with them and against sanitation.

We can handle it all because we love full-contact politics. But what we can’t handle is the sense of weirdness that pervades not only our domestic scene, but seemingly grips the whole world. There’s a lot of really strange SGO out there, stretching from the inner sanctums of Tehran to Shenzhen, China.

The Netanyahu Capitulation By Steven Plaut “Those released will return to armed struggle.  It is a great national achievement.”  Khaled Mashal, Chairman, Hamas Political Bureau, Damascus, Syria I think that the best definition of leadership is where a political leader is willing to resist populist pressure to do “popular” things whenever those “popular” things are […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10600/pub_detail.asp Much has been written of the Israeli commitment not to leave a wounded soldier in the field, and of late, the wisdom of trading a thousand terrorists for a single Israeli hostage. The release of Gilad Shalit after five years in Hamas captivity, however, is more than a moral issue for Israelis. It is […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10596/pub_detail.asp  Rael Jean Isaac interviews Rich Trzupek, author of Regulators Gone Wild: How the EPA is Ruining American Industry, New York, Encounter Books, 2011. This book could not have been published at a more propitious time. As the economy falters, it seems that every critic of this administration cites the role of regulation in strangling […]

“The Heritage Foun­da­tion makes [politicians] see the light; Heri­tage Action makes them feel the heat.” The activist group seeks to convert the think tank’s more than 700,000 members into a potent political force.” http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/280098  ‘I’d say it’s been quite considerable,” says Ed Feulner, “judging from both the friendly and critical calls that I hear on […]

http://pajamasmedia.com/andrewklavan/2011/10/17/mitt-romney-versus-the-end-of-western-civilization/ To do that, we need a man not just of policies but of vision, not just of proposals but of high ideals. A mere Romney might — might — take us back from the brink to which Obama has sped us, but that would only delay the fatal catastrophe. Worse, it would perforce recreate the exact […]

Are the generals stealing Egypt?  By Spengler http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MJ18Ak01.html After public warnings that it faces bankruptcy within a few months, Egypt’s central bank has taken firm and decisive action: it has fired all of its outside directors. Al-Ahram reported on October 16 that the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces has cut the number of board […]

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/10/clarence_thomas_constitution.html About ten years ago I told some friends and colleagues that the judicial opinions of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, often written in dissent of majority opinions eviscerating freedoms, would be widely cited 40 years hence.  And, if establishment Republicans were in power, I predicted that the Thomas opinions would be cited even by […]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/romneys_smoking_gun_picture.html ROMNEY IS NOW “THE ANOINTED GOP CANDIDATE” FOR FOX NEWS….WHAT A COLOSSAL BLUNDER…FIX AMERICA BY RUINING IT MORE?…..RSK  Does Mitt Romney have a political death wish?  When I heard him utter the phrase, “There are plenty of reasons to vote against Mitt Romney…,” I cringed, imagining endless repetition of this sound byte in the […]

http://bigpeace.com/smitsotakis/2011/10/16/the-tyrants-of-cuba-murder-once-again/ On the 40th birthday of her daughter, one of the bravest freedom fighters in the world, Laura Pollan, founder and leader of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White, died this week of a mysterious “illness”. Sound strange? Her friends know so: In my opinion, and in the opinion of many others, Laura Pollan […]