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Submitted by Seton Motley on March 12, 2006 - 4:04pm.
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The Texas Press Corps, Stepping It Up
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Or what is wrong with Lone Star political reporting.
As we have discussed previously, the parallels between the national and Texas Press Corps’s are striking. The ideological outlooks are indistinguishable; so too is the shamelessness with which each gaggle is able to deliver slanted news with a straight face.
Their top down, herd mentality approaches to all things news are likewise indiscernible. One person or outlet delivers a story, and the race is on to see how many of their journalistic brethren can deliver the exact same account utterly undifferent in content, tone or style from the leader or any and everyone else.
Submitted by Seton Motley on March 10, 2006 - 1:31pm.
Walking softly, and carrying no district.
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The Environmentalist Color Scheme
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It appears that as a political issue, the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC) does not cut nearly the swath its opponents allege the asphalt itself will.
For we find CorridorWatch.org (CW.org) founder David Stall falling pronouncedly flat in his bid to become District 18's state Senator. In a jurisdiction he has spent the last two years dousing with disinformation regarding just what the TTC will be, his attempts at grassroots movement failed to translate into grassroots support.
Short of Dan Patrick's decade long aural immersion via the radio airwaves (on a station that he in part owns), no candidate spent more time intimating himself with his potential constituents than did Stall.
Submitted by Seton Motley on March 8, 2006 - 1:04pm.
Careful, Misters Emirates, the truth is showing.
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The First National Bank of Dubai
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As we have twice catalogued (here and here), the deal to sell the authority of six major United States ports to the United Arab Emirates government-owned company Dubai Ports World is more than a little questionable, predicated on their less than exemplary ability to play well with the Infidels.
(Not on what those in favor thereof are saying, by which they are summarily dismissing the opposition as underpinned by "racism" and "xenophobia". As is almost always true when such charges are levied, those so doing, in their inability to address the facts on hand, instead thereby attempt to summarily dispatch those making cases with which they can not deal.)
Submitted by Seton Motley on March 6, 2006 - 2:26am.
They should have been either with us or with the terrorists long before September 11th, 2001.
Should the United Arab Emirates really receive the tremendous credit that President George W. Bush insists on bestowing upon them simply because they have increased their assistance to us, and decreased same for the Islamists, since the latter slaughtered nearly 3,000 of our innocent citizenry in 2001? Osama bin Laden was decidedly active in the anti-American and anti-Civilization business for a full fifteen years prior to this attack, committing many other acts of violence against us and others in the run-up to the Big One. He finally got around to officially declaring war on the United States in early 1996, but he was never shy nor retiring about his intentions or his means. This is the very same bin Laden of and with whom the Emirates portion of the United Arab Emirates were quite fond and quite familiar right up to the point where he orchestrated and executed the September 11th murders.
Submitted by Seton Motley on March 2, 2006 - 10:34am.
And it is not why anyone thinks.
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Robin Hood's Legislative Result
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The reasons for this Donkey daily raft of joyous reveling are myriad. Created out of whole cloth by the Texas Supreme Court's 1989 decision in Edegewood Independent School District v. Kirby, the modus operandi of the educative robber baron of Sherwood Forest is the grand theft lucre of "property rich" tax districts to augmentively munerate the very many others.
Submitted by Seton Motley on February 28, 2006 - 12:29pm.
On the utter ridiculousness of Medicare and Medicaid, and how the federal government chooses to fund these inanities.
Via today's Wall Street Journal:
It is within this context that we should view the National Governors Association's meeting in Washington this week. Like all interest groups, the states' chief executives are determined not to leave town empty-handed; and every year a top agenda item for them is getting more federal dollars to cover the ever-expanding cost of Medicaid. And who could blame them? After all, the federal government created Medicaid as a tiny program in the 1960s. Today it eats up, on average, about a quarter of each state's budget and grows every year at a rate that outstrips inflation and threatens to gobble up dollars needed for education and other priorities.
Submitted by Seton Motley on February 24, 2006 - 2:37pm.
A Jonathan Swiftian for the Information Age.
One of the fundamental tenets upon which our success in Iraq and the Muslim macrocosm is predicated is the desire of the Common Man to live free, and to be able to avail himself (and, importantly, herself) of as many and whatever parcels and portions thereof he wishes, as free people do. The opportunity for self-determination is the single, best hope for peace in the Middle East.
(Of course, equally as important is the understanding that one's choices can not infringe on the self-determination of others, which seems to be the predominant sticking point for the Islamic world. Should anyone doubt this, ask a practicing Danish cartoonist or Saudi Arabian Catholic, or a Jew [making a go of] residing anywhere within the truncated Caliphate.)
Submitted by Seton Motley on February 22, 2006 - 7:47pm.
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The Man Who Would Not Be King
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This day can not come to a close without mentioning our greatest American on the day of his birth.
The General who led us out of British colonialism, he then became our leading Founding Father and the first President of the new republic.
He forsook ensconcement on a throne by the people, choosing instead to serve two terms and then to return to his preferred role as Citizen.
The man who led a nascent nation through its most turbulent years deserves our thanks and admiration for all of this, and much, much more.
Happy Birthday, General and President Washington (an order we are sure he would have preferred), and may God continue to keep you.
Submitted by Seton Motley on February 22, 2006 - 4:16pm.
Can not this delineation be made?
The United States is now potentially a ship without a port authority.
The sale by British corporation Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (POSNC) of their interest in providing security for six major American ports to the United Arab Emirates's state-owned Dubai Ports World (DPW) has raised hackles on both sides of the aisle, and calls to at least delay the transaction pending further review.
(In going forward, we will ignore the Democrat flank of this bipartisan charge, for it has become impossible to take anything they say seriously, nor unsuspect of pruriently political motivation. Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer? Puh-leazzze.)
Conservatives are split on the issue, with an unslight lean towards allowing the deal to be consummated. The Wall Street Journal and commentator Tony Snow have all already come out in favor of this transfer, with radio uber-host Rush Limbaugh "undecided", but definitely teetering towards aural approval.
Submitted by Seton Motley on February 20, 2006 - 2:39pm.
Anti-wiretappers and Patriot Acters fiddle whilst the Document burns
For months (in response to President George W. Bush's National Security Administration phone surveillance program) and years (rejoinders to Congress' Patriot Act) respectively, we have heard hues and cries from the Left in totality and some libertarian shavings from within the Right's midst that these two governmental endeavors to preempt domestic Islamist assaults represent egregious takings of our Constitutional rights. There has been debate aplenty, which has revolved predominately around the Fourth Amendment, The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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