The Sarah Palin as Trainable Parrot Theory

I continue to read about and hear this notion that if Sarah Palin can "bone up" on her grasp of the issues, she can come back and be a force.

Simple question: Would anyone be saying this if she were a man? Isn't treating her like a parrot misogynistic on some level?



I strongly recommend reading "The Meaning of Sarah Palin" by Yuval Levin.

The fabled shift to a "green energy" economy is a pipe-dream

It takes a special kind of naivete to believe subsidizing energy which costs 3x to 6x as much as fossil fuels (depending on who you ask) is going to benefit anyone, except for the politically connected...even so, the fabled shift to a "green energy" economy is a pipe-dream to succor the feel-good set into supporting what is essentially just a big tax hike.

Ten years from now, the percentage of energy produced from wind and solar will be no higher than it is today -- we'll just be paying a lot more for the oil and coal energy we consume.

There does exist a real green and cost effective energy source not many in power seem interested in -- nuclear power, of course.

My home state of Maine has been ahead of the curve lately, passing gay marriage laws and income tax cuts. Perhaps Maine can lead country forward with clean nuclear energy. Let's bring Maine Yankee back online and continue to show the rest of the country how it's done.

Only 3.27 Trillion?

Heritage Foundation estimates the true cost of stimulus: $3.27 Trillion. I actually think they are underestimating, as many of the programs (and the failures they create) will lead to new programs and greater spending in the future.

Best comment:

Dick Turpin, Dallas writes:

True act of highway robbery.

There are two types of people in America today:
1- those who remember the Carter years and
2- those who are going to find out.

We are going to laugh at this fad 20 years from now, right?

This "green" product brings the movement form ridiculous to absurd.

Green funerals make for eco-exits

And check this out: Natural Death Centre, where they ask you, "How green is your life."

Obama is a politician in denial (video)

Here is Obama today in Pennsylvania, defending his demeaning put-down of blue collar America. Here is a politician who has already gotten away with so much, always escaping unscathed. Watch this video and you'll see someone in denial (yet sub-consciously, it is clear he knows he is in trouble). He is trying to spin his blunder like it is nothing, only he comes across as an insecure bully who knows he is cornered (even his laughs, and the crowd's laughs, are strange and pleading).



Look at this guy. There is no way he is going to be the next president. Even though I doubt Hillary catches him, especially after Bosnia-gate, it doesn't matter; you are looking at McGovern 2008.

8 Year Old Asks for Divorce

At Weasel Zippers: 8 Year-old Girl Seeks Divorce From Husband.....

SANA’A, April 9 - An eight-year-old girl decided last week to go the Sana’a West Court to prosecute her father, who forced her to marry a 30-year-old man.

Nojoud Muhammed Nasser arrived at court by herself on Wednesday, April 2, looking for a judge to handle her case against her father, Muhammed Nasser, who forced her two months ago to marry Faez Ali Thamer, a man 22 years her senior. The child also asked for a divorce, accusing her husband of sexual and domestic abuse.

Obama: Merely Changing the Subject

Investor's Business Daily understands that Obama is merely changing the subject:

But Obama's recent troubles, which this much-hyped speech was supposed to put past him, are not about race relations. They're about one churchman who happens to be black, whose views from the pulpit are repugnant and from whom Obama doesn't seem to have the guts to distance himself.

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The supposed divide between black and white is not the issue here; Obama's longtime association with Jeremiah Wright is.