We recently noted that the White House seems to be putting on a production of “Mr. Capone Goes to Washington.” That only puts the White House in the same league the Congress, controlled by the same party, has been in for years. » Continue reading “(wink, wink) Like Frequent Flyer Miles, Capiche?”
Australia remains a precious haven of things once, but no longer, characteristic of other English-speaking countries. To wit, a frank willingness to tell the truth and flout the popular hysteria of the day.
It’s been a while since we flogged the not-yet-dead horse of the Carbon Cult, and, truth be told, Horatius always gets a little guilty pleasure when someone with some standing says the same things, in the same terms, that he does.
In a related note, we see the beginning of the obvious response to the idiotic light bulb fiasco, where a safe, clean technology is being outlawed for frivolous and irrational reasons in favor of a dangerous and polluting one.
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A story today points out that 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. might as well be on the “L”, so much an enclave of Chicago politics has it become.
As was noted well before the election, when the messianic fervor for The One was ramping up, of all the routes to the Presidency, Barack Obama chose the one that involves the most notorious Machine in the country, with its dynastic mayoralty, structural corruption, strongarm tactics, and all those reliably Democratic voters in graveyards.
The image of the Obama White House may still involve rainbows and unicorns, but the reality is closer to Al Capone and Frank Nitti.
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