07/13/2010 03:10 PM Congressman accused of colluding with White House Controversy over job ‘offers’ for election favors boils over again - The controversy over allegations White House officials at least as high as Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel offered two congressional candidates jobs in return for campaign favors, which apparently would violate the law, is reheating – with a claim that one of the candidates colluded with the White House on what story to tell. 07/12/2010 04:40 PM Fallen under the rule of lunatics In the past, if anyone asked whether the folks in charge in the nation’s capital were certifiable lunatics, or whether policy decisions were being made by superannuated college kids with no experience out in the real world, who apparently stayed up too late last night, smoking too much dope and listening to too much heavy metal, those questions could be safely dismissed as exaggerations for rhetorical effect. 07/10/2010 04:54 PM Regime Uncertainty in the 1930s: A New Deal Insider’s Account In the mid-1990s, when I was engaged in the research that would eventually be published early in 1997 in an article titled “Regime Uncertainty” (a modestly revised version of which appears as chapter 1 of my Depression, War, and Cold War), I had not read Raymond Moley’s book After Seven Years, published in 1939. Mea culpa. I should have read it much earlier. I am embarrassed to admit that although I purchased a copy in a used-book store many years ago, it sat on my shelf unread until recently. 07/08/2010 04:53 PM ‘Obama, Holder blistered for ‘racism’?’ WASHINGTON – Our “post-racial” president is actually our “most-racist” president, says the author of a blistering new book on race politics, “Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal – America’s Racial Obsession.” 07/04/2010 02:26 PM Wash Post Forgets to Mention that Writer Is Obama Operative Ron Brynaert has a story over at his The Raw Story blog(1) that reveals yet another denizen of the Old Media that is trying to be both a “journalist” and an official operative of Barack Obama’s White House. She is Patricia McGinnis, an unpaid advisor at the White House and also one of the contributors to the Post’s “On Leadership” blog.  07/03/2010 03:30 PM Why Obama socialists love Sweden, hate the Constitution ...Back in the 1960s, leftists confronted with the argument that socialism necessarily subjects a society to totalitarian government control would point to Sweden as the example of “social democracy,” i.e., a democratic country that followed the socialist path. Now we hear the news that “the Kingdom of Sweden took a dramatic turn toward totalitarianism with the adoption of a sweeping new education ‘reform’ package that essentially prohibits homeschooling and forces all schools to teach the same government curriculum.” It also places restriction on religious education, so that religious schools “can’t make any children to pray or confess to the God, but they will still be allowed [to exist]. ...” 07/02/2010 06:01 PM Worse Before Getting Better Good day to all and a very happy 4th of July. Before I plan to BBQ and launch fireworks in celebration of America’s 234 birthday, I will opine on the topics below. Read them, pass them on to others and fight to change everything for the better before it gets any worse.  06/29/2010 04:27 PM Search engines spy for gov’t: ‘It would blow people’s minds’ The European Parliament has adopted a proposal to collect citizens’ private search queries and store them for up to two years – framing the controversial plan as a measure to crack down on pedophiles. 06/07/2010 08:12 PM Al-Qaeda/FARC connection: Running drugs to U.S. Three suspected al-Qaeda associates who were apprehended in West Africa by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents during an international anti-drug operation, were extradited to New York and appeared in federal court in Manhattan, according to reports obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police’s Terrorism and Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs committees. 05/24/2010 06:22 PM China, Europe to Fuel Second US Recession The United States could easily experience a double-dip recession from repercussions in Europe and China, said Christopher Wood, equity strategist for CLSA Ltd. in Hong Kong.