it was absolutely the hardest exam… ever. Will be back to blogging shortly!

This may be the best article written on the Obama administration to date.  Turns out that all those criticisms Obama leveled against Bush… were a bunch of bunk compared with the way Obama runs the country.

Victor Davis Hanson on NRO:

There were many legitimate critiques of the Iraq war. But insisting, as Barack Obama did, that we invaded recklessly and in haste was not one of them. From the fall of the Taliban in December 2001 to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the Bush administration deliberately and in public fashion sought debate in the Congress for over a year, received bipartisan authorization, and tried for months to win sanction from the United Nations.

In contrast, Barack Obama immediately upon entering office demanded the largest government expansion in the history of the nation. The staggering debt program will require nearly a trillion dollars in borrowing to fund all sorts of entitlements and redistributive efforts, and in revolutionary fashion redefine the role of government itself. Obama pronounced the current economic crisis the moral equivalent of war, and he wanted a national mobilization to meet it — pronto.

But unlike the Bush administration, which took 15 months to prepare the country for a real war in Iraq, the Obama administration gave the public only a few hours to read the final draft of the legislation before it was made into law. Where the polarizing partisan George Bush managed to obtain the vote of majorities in both parties to remove Saddam Hussein, the healing bipartisan Barack Obama lacked the support of even a single Republican in the House and won over a mere three Republicans in the Senate.

Liberals who once screamed that congressional opponents of the Iraq war were being unfairly tagged as unpatriotic by the Bush administration now yelled louder that the opponents of the Obama debt program were, in fact, unpatriotic.

Bush was pilloried for supposedly hyping al-Qaeda in order to create a security state. Obama trumped that by proclaiming that the present recession is a catastrophe, a disaster, a Great Depression. He ceased his scare-mongering only when he had exhausted the vocabulary of doom. “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” bragged Rahm Emanuel, reminding us that the envisioned Obama socialism could take root only if a climate of fear was created.

via The Audacity of Irony by Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online.

One fundamental purpose of this blog is to expose my readers to that which is worthwhile in the arts and entertainment… to help introduce you to style, beauty, charm, and class. Well, I am pleased to introduce a fantastic film called ‘Metropolitan’… a sophisticated social critique on the lives of spoiled children in New York in the 80’s.

Allow me to set this scene up for you: Tom (with red hair), a common, poor, committed socialist, accidentally finds himself hanging out with the very people he despises… and finds that perhaps they aren’t so bad after all…

CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing.

via Washington Times – CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul.

I wanted to pass along a few really great articles I stumbled across… (and a few plugs for some of my favorite bloggers) but don’t have time to comment on at the moment.  Enjoy.

• The Myth of the ‘Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor’
• Bush Hatred and Obama Euphoria are Two Sides of the Same Coin
• Five Truths about the Banking Crisis
• How Government Prolonged the Depression