Immanentize the Eschaton

I didn’t watch President Obama’s speech last night. I rarely watch State of the Union addresses; I prefer to read the transcripts the next day.
So I was reading the transcript in the NY Times and saw this section:
“…we must also address the crushing cost of health care.
This is a cost that now causes [...]

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Went to Fred Reed’s blog, and to my dismay I find that he’s retiring his website! He has several reasons, but this speaks volumes:

“…the hope that, however minor my voice might be, in combination with thousands of others it might engender pressure for slowing the rush into the high-tech medieval twilight that the culture [...]

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Michael Ledeen at Pajamas Media has a two-part series titled “We Are All Fascists Now”, riffing on the infamous Newsweek cover “We Are All Socialists Now.” It is well worth your time, as are some of the comments.
Part one is here; part two is here.

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As I write this, the House of Representatives has passed the final version of the (so-called) stimulus bill. Not a single Republican member voted for it; seven Democrat members voted against it. The bill is currently under debate in the Senate, where it is almost certain to pass. Our Congress will have [...]

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Nadya Suleman, as everyone knows, recently gave birth to a set of octuplets.  She had undergone fertility treatment and had six embryos implanted, two of which “split”.  After she gave birth, we found out that:

she is a single mom
is unemployed
lives with her parents
is on welfare (she disputes this, though her explanation is along the lines [...]

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This past Jan 25 was the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. In “To A Mouse”, the poet has a prescient warning for our Democrat/Socialist Overlords, and sums up how many of us feel right about now:

“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men,
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ [...]

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Treasury Secretary/Unindicted Tax Evader (TS/UTE) Tim Geithner was touted by President Barry O as the smartest financial mind around, that only Geithner understood the vast problems in the country’s financial system, that Geithner was indispensable in solving the economic crisis and bringing the United States (and thus the world) out of recession.
Yesterday, TS/UTE Geithner unveiled [...]

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For much of my adult life, some people have have said that America needs a “new politics”, that the way the government works is broken. These folks always seem to complain about the “meanness” of our politics, and decry “personal attacks”. They call for a “new spirit of co-operation”, “national unity”, and bipartisanship.
They’re [...]

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According to this AP article, the Senate GOP is warning that the so-called “stimulus” bill may not pass the Senate. McConnell says that he “…can’t believe that the president isn’t embarrassed about the products that have been produced…”
As usual, the Dems are saying the situation is dire; “we cannot delay this”, says Durban. [...]

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