Links & Comment
Remember "Paul Harvey News and Comment" on the radio? (Or am I showing my age?) At least that guy had the guts to let you know that he had commentary in his show, unlike some journalists these days that sneak it in. Well, no hiding it here. This is "Doug Payton Links and Comment".
Becky Garrison, writing at the liberal "God’s Politics Blog", on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, says that "more walls need to fall". Fair enough, and I’d tend to agree with that. But sometimes walls are necessary, and are the least intrusive method of dealing with an actual problem. They can protect more so than divide. One of the walls that Ms. Garrison says needs to come down is the Israeli wall on the West Bank. Meryl Yourish, however, compares these two types of walls — Berlin vs. Israeli — and notes major differences in the motivation and the result of each. The Christian Left perhaps needs to understand a little nuance here.
Dale Franks, writing at Q&O, notes that the supposed upside of the government takeover of Chrysler, and subsequent sale of a large portion to Fiat, hasn’t, and looks like it won’t, materialize. Your government, and your money, at work flushed away.
An insufficiently colorful color guard. Scott Johnson at Power Line point out political correctness in the smallest aspect of our lives. (And he needs to because the media doesn’t seem to want to notice it. Or it looks on with admiration and doesn’t consider it news.)
For all the accusations of hate directed at the Right, and the religious Right in particular, Jeff Jacoby points out that they don’t hold a candle to the irreligious Left.
President Obama doesn’t think that the prospect of jail time over choosing not buying government-mandated health insurance (and likely choosing not paying the fine) is not the "biggest question" Congress is facing now. Yeah, no big deal. (Riiight.) And in an Irony Alert, candidate Obama criticized Hillary Clinton for proposing a health care system with a mandatory purchase requirement.
The New York Times has no problem calling Jim DeMint a "conservative Republican", but decides that Bernie Sanders, a self-described "socialist", is only a "left-leaning independent". Courage and truth from that liberal media.
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This line that the wall the Israelis built to protect themselves “must come down,” drives me nuts. Worse that some compare it to apartheid; think Jimmy Carter.
Here the Israelis were assaulted by hundreds of suicide bombers, even one of which would have driven the United States into a tizzy, and these leftist elitists get all upset when they build a wall to protect themselves.
It’s like the Goldstone report recently adopted at the UN, whereby all blame is assigned to Israel and Hamas gets off scot-free.
Insane
The “zero tolerance” for walls is about as reasonable as schools that have zero tolerance for plastic knives to cut birthday cakes with. They’re protesting against a slogan more than anything.