What? Seriously. What?
California's incoming Governor Jerry Brown in his State of the State address made the following statement:
When democratic ideals and calls for the right to vote are stirring the imagination of young people in Egypt and Tunisia and other parts of the world, we in California can’t say now is the time to block a vote of the people. (LA Times Blogs)Is Governor Brown comparing the rioting in Tunisia and Egypt to the stirring of the democratic process? I suppose if he has his way, when the citizens of California take to the streets in riots, he'll be able to say "Mission Accomplished."
Is this also the same Brown who, when blocking the vote of the people of California in passing Proposition 8, refused to defend the law as California's Attorney General?
Global Warming
Al Gore keeps spreading his global warming doctrine. According to his ideology, any climate change verifies global warming with absolute certainty:
A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires and loss of endangered species. (Al Gore Blog)It's completely obvious to anyone except climate change ideologues that they can blame any kind of weather on man-made global warming and still be perfectly consistent. Of course, if we go back to the 1970s, all the same hysterical predictions were made about global cooling. (Wikipedia) Meanwhile, the climate changes while the ideologues stay the same.
The Feeling's Mutual
Egyptian President Mubarak stated today that he won't run for another term as president. (NY Times)
In other news, Mubarak called President Barack Obama and suggested that he should follow his lead and also not run for another term as president.
Unconstitutional Healthcare
US District Court Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the Healthcare mandate for Americans to purchase healthcare insurance was unconstitutional and therefore the entire law must be declared void. (WSJ)
As part of Judge Vinson's ruling, he pulled out this gem: "If a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house." (Washington Times)
The source of this dissenting view of the healthcare mandate? Barack Obama, of course, in an election debate with Hillary Clinton.
Flip Flopping Leftists
In responding to Judge Vinson's ruling, defenders of Obamacare all took pretty much the same position. Here's a sample:
"We don't believe this kind of judicial activism will be upheld and we are confident that the Affordable Care Act will ultimately be declared constitutional," Assistant to the President Stephanie Cutter said in White House blog post. (Bellingham Herald)
In a decision that constitutes radical judicial activism run amok, Judge Vinson declared the "individual mandate" portion of the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. (Huffington Post)
The judge's ruling, like the rulings in similar lawsuits in Virginia and Michigan, is sure to excite commentary about the proper role of judges in our society. And tragically little of that commentary will actually involve an honest debate about either the Constitution or the important role judges play in enforcing it. (Huffington Post)
He then took the opportunity to insert his political philosophy into public policy, striking down the entire law! This decision flies in the face of fourteen other decisions, contradicts decades of legal precedent, and could jeopardize families' health care security. And to make matters worse, this is the very kind of judicial activism that most conservative justices and politicians have argued against for years. (Huffington Post)
The bottom line is this case, from our perspective, is and always will be about the law and not about the judge who decides it.... The appellate courts are going to focus on the law. (Huffington Post)Oh. Wait. That last one was a leftist praising the decisions of activist Judge Vaughn Walker when he ruled in favor of the leftist position favoring same sex marriage. Of course, judges are only activist when leftists disagree with their position.
Or, perhaps, judges aren't the bastion of measured thought and opinion that we seem to think they are? Which is it, oh Ye Defenders of American Social Justice? Do judges act in their own interests or don't they?
Aren't They the Bad Guys?
Wikileaks released documents showing that three suspected terrorists involved with the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are still at large. (Telegraph) In addition, the documents seem to reveal a plot to use nuclear materials to manufacture and set off a nuclear "dirty" bomb.
Wasn't Wikileaks supposed to be the Bad Guy? I guess if you're pretending to be a news agency, like The New York Times (a former newspaper), anything Wikileaks produces is underhanded and suspect.
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