tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255544422024-03-28T03:33:00.858-04:00The Influence PeddlerAs Heard on XM Radio's POTUS 08The Editor at IPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07271471626482554372noreply@blogger.comBlogger3117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-40545172967853855082009-04-28T23:13:00.003-04:002009-04-28T23:43:21.027-04:00Good Riddance to Bad RubbishSen. Arlen Specter evidently reached satisfactory terms from the Democratic Party and evaded a likely-terminal primary challenge by Club for Growth Chairman Pat Toomey. It's fascinating to see the media establishment attempt to spin this as a story of an intolerant Republican Party driving out its thoughtful moderates, when in fact the only principle Sen. Specter has consistently embraced Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-50732266240699037682009-04-08T16:17:00.004-04:002009-04-08T16:58:04.646-04:00What's the Matter with Iowa?The Governor of Iowa weighed in mendaciously yesterday on the Iowa Supreme Court's abusive ruling on homosexual "marriage," declaring--in a trope familiar to pro-choice Catholic politicians--that, while he personally felt marriage should be a bond between a man and a woman, he couldn't impose his personal, religious preferences which were only "a tenet of my personal faith."The dishonesty of his Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-85190162905426557062009-04-06T11:58:00.006-04:002009-04-06T12:40:10.436-04:00The Purpose of MarriageIn the course of Philo-Junius' examination of the illegitimacy of the Iowa Supreme Court's decision mandating the absurdity of homosexual marriage, it may be useful once again to remind everyone of the traditional meaning of marriage, taken from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, which the Iowa Supreme Court felt keenly enough to spend three pages arguing veiledly against under the heading of "Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-69223945078925430922009-04-03T14:36:00.004-04:002009-04-03T15:43:11.628-04:00Another Iowan Discovers SecularismIn addition to refueling the joke-tellers of the northern Great Plains for years to come, the absurd decision of the Iowa Supreme Court striking down the state's statute defining marriage as a state between one man and one woman provides at once both a striking example of advocacy adjudication in the text of the decision, which verges both on the maudlin in its treatment of the plaintiffs' case Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-45154651395421481772009-03-28T14:50:00.003-04:002009-03-28T14:55:43.011-04:00THIS is the smartest woman in the world?It turns out that Hillary!, in addition to not knowing anyone who can translate "reset" into Russian, or that Russian is written in a Cyrillic alphabet, also is profoundly ignorant of Mexican culture:"During her recent visit to Mexico, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unexpected stop at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and left a bouquet of white flowers “on behalf of the Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-50273089763473313172009-03-20T16:14:00.002-04:002009-03-20T16:18:22.376-04:00Formal Cooperation with EvilPresident Obama to deliver Notre Dame’s Commencement address.The cooperation of the Notre Dame faculty with the culture of death, by providing its current champion a platform from which to obfuscate, scandalise and confuse the faithful is duly noted--can anyone stop them?Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-80835122308713459012009-03-20T15:14:00.004-04:002009-03-20T15:37:59.054-04:00For the Love of Heaven, Let Them DieRattner: GM, Chrysler May Need 'Considerably' More Govt. Money Ailing Detroit automakers GM and Chrysler may need “considerably” more government bailout money than they've already asked for, said Steve Rattner, Treasury's de facto "car czar."So far, GM and Chrysler have asked for $21.6 billion. But Rattner said that figure could go as high as $30 billion or $40 billion, according to an interview Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-53716809658172348842009-03-20T15:01:00.004-04:002009-03-20T15:05:59.546-04:00Is Anyone Who Can Add REALLY Surprised?From The Washington Post:U.S. Federal Deficit Soars Past Previous Estimates"Deteriorating economic conditions will cause the federal deficit to soar past $1.8 trillion this year and leave the nation wallowing in a sea of red ink far deeper than the White House had previously estimated, congressional budget analysts said today."In a new report that provides the first independent analysis of Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-26959187828205927402009-03-20T00:14:00.003-04:002009-03-20T00:15:49.820-04:00"Great Job, Brownie"Obama to Leno: Geithner doing 'outstanding' jobBy MARK S. SMITH – 4 hours ago BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama says his embattled treasury chief, Timothy Geithner, is doing an "outstanding job."Philo-Junius will say it first:"President Obama just don't care about taxpaying people."Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-60965924418164191402009-03-19T22:38:00.003-04:002009-03-19T23:47:23.793-04:00Letting the Contempt ShowSteve Pearlstein of The Washington Post evidently got his bailout talking points today:There's nothing remotely fair about using taxpayer money to rescue a free-market financial system from the mistakes of the financiers. But the reality is that we can punish the bankers or we can save the banking system, but we can't do both at the same time. Philo-Junius invites Mr. Pearlstein to demonstrate Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-21642840098314346382009-03-18T18:50:00.007-04:002009-03-18T20:01:50.975-04:00If Sarah Palin Is the Answer, Could You Please Repeat the Question?Bad news for the Palindrones in the latest poll numbers released today. Yet a 35% plurality of conservative bloggers polled say she's their first choice for the nomination at this point.Still, we'll see if she has anything new or interesting to say at the NRCC/NRSC dinner in June, if her staff can indeed see to it that she makes it there.Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-65309789903648783482009-03-18T18:09:00.004-04:002009-03-18T19:10:25.780-04:00Geithner and ObamaIt is fairly well known that Timothy Geithner's father, Peter Geithner, worked extensively with Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, through their common projects in Asian microfinance under the auspices of the Ford Foundation from the 1970s into the 80s.What might not be as well known is the ongoing role of the Ford Foundation, after its capture by left-establishment figures such as Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-83547049389443631782009-03-16T21:05:00.005-04:002009-03-16T21:09:48.677-04:00"Of Course the Fundamentals Are Sound......now that WE'RE in charge."From Fox News today--just connecting a few dots:"Stubborn." "Out of touch.""Incapable of understanding" the economic crisis. That's how Barack Obama and his presidential campaign team described John McCain last year when the Republican candidate famously said "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." But now President Obama and his advisers are adopting similar Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-52925442804833156872009-03-15T22:00:00.003-04:002009-03-15T22:24:14.672-04:00Declaring Victory in the Culture WarsNew York Times columnist Frank Rich crowed victory atop the dungheap yesterday, declaring that the right's anemic response to Obama's various leftist movements on social policy represent the capitulation of the right on most social issues.Unfortunately, recent experience leads Philo-Junius to concur. The ongoing soap opera of Bristol Palin, coupled with such past episodes as the shameful case of Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-78498744936164214482009-03-11T11:56:00.002-04:002009-03-11T12:01:54.542-04:00Thomas Friedman Answers the BellFriedman takes his private equity overlords' marching orders with enthusiasm in today's NY Times editorial (registration required), the takeaway line:"...we need to get a market going that would bring fair value and clarity to the “toxic mortgages” crippling the balance sheets of our major banks. This will likely require some degree of government subsidy to private equity groups and hedge funds Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-39220609733111476092009-03-06T00:25:00.003-05:002009-03-06T00:35:21.661-05:00Here's Your ChangeTomorrow's Post includes news of the Treasury Department's trillion-dollar plan to make sweetheart loans to private equity firms to encourage them to buy up high-rated asset-backed securities, drawing the winners from the last years' casino markets back into the game.Philo-Junius for one would like to be the first to welcome our new private equity overlords--George Soros is presumably at the headPhilo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-83999710633793163242009-03-04T23:37:00.006-05:002009-03-05T00:58:04.953-05:00Spinning the MessageIt's interesting to note the careful wordsmithing the White House and other Democrats have hammered out in their ad hominem campaign against Rush Limbaugh. The current, precise phrasing of the indictment against Limbaugh is that Limbaugh "hopes the President's economic policies fail" (to quote Robert Gibbs from yesterday).Philo-Junius thinks that's artful, because it implies that Obama's policiesPhilo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-87477817248406964452009-03-03T17:43:00.002-05:002009-03-03T17:49:19.979-05:00Newt To Swim Tiber?Say what you like about his checkered personal life or his fading prospects on the national political scene, but the New York Times Magazine profile on Newt Gingrich (registration required) let fall the following little nugget:"At a moment when the role of religious fundamentalism in the party is a central question for reformers, Gingrich, rather than making any kind of case for a new Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-31827540445506663332009-03-03T10:13:00.005-05:002009-03-03T10:42:45.284-05:00I Can Has Chairman Who Doesn't Think We're Nazis?Philo-Junius doesn't have a lot to say about the moderate Republicans' disdain for Rush Limbaugh, except that one can't fight a runaway freight train of nationalisation and leftward social engineering with nothing, which is all we've seen from the moderates since the financial meltdown, but he does strongly feel that any party chairman who nods and agrees with a hostile interviewer who Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-11873590783739915972009-03-03T09:51:00.005-05:002009-03-05T00:59:12.442-05:00Bluffing the KGBThe hot story this morning at the Washington Post is the Obama administration's attempt to enroll Russia in Obama's half-hearted attempts at containment of Iran (which, we learned Sunday, now has the materials for an atomic bomb--oops) and the mullahs' attempts to acquire the ability to produce atomic weapons.The question, though, is this: given Obama's deliberate humiliation of Poland's Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-28760486102770271202009-03-02T16:53:00.005-05:002009-03-02T18:27:15.803-05:00Thinking about the Sinking of AIGNews today about the parlous state of AIG, and the strong likelihood that the government will ultimately wind up owning AIG lock, stock and bookkeeper, gave Philo-Junius the urge to investigate the process of cleaning up AIG's books. It seems that when the credit-default swap mess was first unearthed during the collapse of Lehman Bros. last summer, that AIG's CDS exposure was about $400 billion, Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-21594799839423833382009-03-01T14:16:00.008-05:002009-03-02T18:26:47.388-05:00Confirmation Question for SebeliusQ: Given your public statements that you believe abortion is wrong, do you believe that Roe v. Wade was correctly decided, in that it held that the life and health of unborn children were of no concern to governments?Readers are welcomed to append their favourite questions below. Some have said that abortion, and Sebelius' well-publicised entanglement with the abortion industry in Kansas-Philo-Juniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16002165427743112883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-62417333032177848242008-10-31T21:02:00.002-04:002008-10-31T21:18:44.356-04:00Are you sure...... they didn't record this for Obama-Biden?MikeDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13785168564438440791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-2954395605027158962008-10-31T20:42:00.002-04:002008-10-31T20:59:22.626-04:00What a Difference a Year and a Half MakesGood news from Iraq as the effects of the Surge continue. Fatalities at an all time low for the war. What's even better is that one of the chief architects of the new approach in Iraq is finally where we need him to be. Welcome to your new job, CENTCOM COMMANDER. Let's HOPE that if things go badly on 4 Nov, our new President doesn't CHANGE things before General Petraeus helps us win the war inMikeDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13785168564438440791noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25554442.post-26353628524343386652008-10-30T20:06:00.001-04:002008-10-30T20:12:36.861-04:00Testing, testing...Just making sure this thing still works. I think we're gonna need it after 5 Nov.MikeDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13785168564438440791noreply@blogger.com0