Whenever we do a Veritas Salad, we try to present three or more items of interest, of more or less significance, usually mixed in subject matter, that caught our eye that day. The format is intended to suggest that we have little to add or little needs to be added because it is thoroughly good. When we do add commentary we try to be a little more brief and instead just introduce the article. For this writer that brief part is a relative term. Anyway here are today’s Veritas Salad fixings.
Raising the minimum wage . . . if you believe in it, then . . .
George Will is capable of writing articles for which there is little or nothing to effectively add. Of course those are the ones we agree with the most:-) This weekend his gift of incisive writing provides a devastating litany of the predictable adverse effects of minimum wage legislation. Raise the minimum wage – It’s iffy. Read the online version of his Washington Post column because it includes links to background information verifying and adding to the points made. It allows the uncluttered visual appeal of online live links for those interested, compared to the cumbersomeness of footnotes and long internet address in printed media.
Art of the BIG Lie
We know that the rational behind the BIG lie is synonymous with Hitler. It is practiced by socialist regimes as a matter of course, but mentioning the connection, however accurate is viewed as off limits. However Mark Alexander, writing at the Patriot Post, does not shrink from a mere accusation of histrionics. He explains the culture of lies surrounding Obamacare and the entire Obama administration as situation ethics emanating from that historic path.
Some reading this will question: Really Alexander? Obama and Hitler? Is this another histrionic example of Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1”?
If you’re among those who’d rather dismiss such associations because they seem too strident – or because you want to help maintain Obama’s deception – then your answer is yes. But the fact is, Obama’s lies fit neatly into the Big Lie framework defined by another pathological narcissist, Adolf Hitler.
Complete with compelling quotes, read the entire article Art of the BIG Lie.
Channeling Phil Hare or maybe Phil Hare in drag?
We Quad Citians lost one of the Democratic “greats” when Congressman Phil Hare of Rock Island was defeated, helped along by some really cringe inducing truth telling about not worrying about what the Constitution says, in spite of his oath of office.
Now comes Representative Annie Kuster of New Hampshire who has managed to make Phil Hare look smart. Kuster’s little big flub: at a district town hall meeting she refused to discuss Benghazi with constituents, insisting that she was there (instead) to “talk about the Middle East.”
Jim Geraghty at National Review has the story on video. How will Democrats handle the gaff? We bet that they will circle the wagons and defend Kuster in spite of her mistake of revealing her profound ignorance. Republicans on the other hand have had salvageable candidates in important races, and I include Todd Akin, where the establishment went beyond demurral over some inarticulate statement, which by the way was promptly revised and extended, and threatened and aggressively undermined the candidacy. It is a pattern worse than the French Army. Republicans candidates stumble and the establishment shoots them in the back and or run hysterically from them. The back shooters looking for the opportunity to make some internecine point.
AP calls a commie a commie
The recent school shooting in Aurora Colorado produced a number of stories that referred to the 18 year old shooter as a “Keynesian” and “Socialist.” It was part of basic journalistic research into motivations and demeanor. When the first rumor hits that the accused had the slimmest of conservative connection, we expect to see that rumor endlessly bandied about in the mainstream media. When the accused is shown to have leftist inclinations (as most accused mass murderers have had of late), we never seem to see that analysis reported in those same outlets. That’s what makes it so interesting that while the likes of Drudge and conservative and libertarian outlets reported that individuals who knew the accused described him as being an ardent political leftist, of all news outlets, the Associated Press had this to say:
Students and a teacher described Pierson as a smart and sometimes goofy student who often talked about his beliefs during class, sometimes even debating his teachers. They said he was outspoken about his Communist-leaning political views.
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