Archive for 2010

A SOLUTION: Let Turkey Have Gaza. “Turkey’s Islamist government, not known for its compassion to, say, Kurds in Turkey, has been shedding crocodile tears over Gaza for several years now, and helped instigate the flotilla fiasco. So I have a modest proposal: if Turkey is so concerned with the welfare of Gazans, why not let Turkey run the place. Israel doesn’t want it, and never has; it tried to give it back to Egypt several times, but Egypt doesn’t want it, either. Meanwhile, Gaza is controlled by a terrorist government that is both cruel and incompetent; and Israel is not going to lift its siege to long as Hamas is in charge.”

HAITIAN “SOCIAL JUSTICE” GROUPS want to burn aid materiel. Sure, that makes sense.

POLITICO: White House political team stumbles, bumbles.

Related: Political problems converging on Obama White House all at once. “While his first year and a half may have been challenging on a policy level, the president is now facing political problems that have thrown his administration completely off message and are likely to inflict lasting damage on him and his reputation as both a political reformer who represents a new kind of politics and as a competent manager of the government.”

DAILY DEBT GROWTH:

Here’s a fun fact: Since the beginning of the 2000′s, the national debt has increased by $7,274,735,146,661.64, more in a period of ten years than in the previous 211 year history of the Republic.

Obama’s share of that? So far, $2,423,949,411,973.89 in 499 days. Or over $4.8 billion in debt growth per day.

Under President Bush? Debt growth was at over $1.6 billion per day. Now, that $1.6 billion isn’t a good number, but it’s better than the $4.8 billion per day under Obama.

Now ask yourself this: Does the government have a revenue problem, meaning that we’re not taxed enough? Or does the government have a spending problem?

Indeed.

LIST: 20 under 40.

LIVEBLOGGING THE NATIONAL SPELLING BEE at Throwing Things.

INJUSTICE IN Rwanda.

CHANGE: National Debt Tops $13 Trillion For First Time. “The National Debt topped $13-trillion for the first time in U.S. history – reflecting the surge in government spending that will push the Debt to increasing highs through the rest of the decade. Posted on the Treasury Department website this afternoon, the National Debt hit $13,050,826,460,886.97 as of June 1st. Tallied against the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, the latest Debt number amounts to nearly 89.4 percent of the total economy.”

RON FUTRELL: Who In the MSM Will Stand Up For Michael Yon? “Let the administration boot Helen Thomas out of her seat in the front of a White House press conference and there would be outrage. Remove Jonathan Karl from the Capitol and media would revolt. Kick Andrea Kremer off Sunday Night Football and there would be pandemonium. And yet nobody in the media seems to have much of a problem with Michael Yon being removed from the front lines by Obama/General McChrystal.”