Quote of the Day

"When you're marching down the wrong road, making 'Forward' your slogan is less than entirely helpful." -- Jonah Goldberg

Nanny Bloomberg Is At It Again

Bloomberg is trying to ban the sale of sweetened drinks in sizes greater than 16 oz. in NYC. Danial R. Moody at Breitbart explains how Bloomberg's Soft Drink Ban Will Subsidize Soda Drinkers.

A commenter on that story, CB750, expresses the insanity perfectly: "A woman has the right to abort a fetus but she doesn't have a right to drink a large Cherry Coke."

Another Craven Act By The Coward-In-Chief

President Obama Shuns Lech Walesa

Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the Polish Solidarity movement before the fall of the Iron Curtain, is one of the greatest political figures and proponents of freedom of the 20th century. Poland wanted him to accept the Medal of Freedom at the White House on "behalf of Jan Karski, a member of the Polish Underground during World War II who was being honored posthumously this week."

Obama said no. Walesa is too "political."

What a coward Obama is. Obama is a blight on the much-tarnished Nobel Peace Prize. He's not fit to lick Walesa's boots.

Unintended Consequences

I can never read articles like this one without the words "unintended consequences" flashing over and over in my brain. The science of using genetically modified or alien species to achieve some human goal is one that has an extraordinarily spotty record. It's great in theory, and the biggest successes have obviously been with genetically modified plants and food animals, which exist and propagate under fairly controlled conditions. However, when we've introduced plant and animal species into the wild to solve some human "problem" we've often found the newly introduced invasive species to cause more problems than they solve.

Insects and microbes are a particularly touchy case, because once they're out in the wild, they could prove impossible to eradicate and to prevent from spreading to unwanted areas. A bug that could "swim in a pond and soak up sunlight and urinate automotive fuel" is a bug that could pollute vast bodies of open water, one might think.

The technology is fascinating, and has many possibilities, but it's frustrating to read an eight-page article that never does due diligence and goes beyond "Rah, Rah! Isn't this cool?" to ask hard questions about safety and responsibility.

Are We Supposed To Be Outraged By This?

Florida tells 91-year-old World War II veteran he must prove his citizenship to vote

Florida did an audit of its voter registration rolls and is trying to clean them up. It's hardly a huge imposition to have to provide some citizenship info, no matter whether you're a WW II vet or not. What does it matter that he's a 91-year-old vet? We all have to deal with paperwork now and then.

I think we should be giving Florida  kudos for trying to protect the integrity of its elections.

History Is Only Important As It Relates To Obama

Via Commentary Mag: Obama has added references to himself into the whitehouse.gov biographies of every President since Calvin Coolidge. Obama has thereby achieved a standard of creepy previously not seen outside Hollywood, The Soviet Union and North Korea.

The Candidate of Consequences

Power Line has a good article comparing Obama and Romney's analytical skills and experience. It's pretty sobering to consider that Obama has never in his entire life been in a position where his decisions -- and his failures -- had significant consequences, until becoming President. Wow. Romney has been dealing in terms of measurable success and failure his entire adult life.

It's hard to escape the conclusion that Romney is, in every measurable way, the more serious, tested, experienced person.