This writer in the Atlanta Journal Constitution has it right. I don’t type that sentence very often.
At the present time, 60% of Facebook users think NEITHER Barack Obama or the new Democratic Congress is doing a good job handling the economy.
College freshman are more politically engaged now than they have been in the last 40 years, a UCLA study has found.
The study found 35 percent of first-year students frequently discussed politics last year, which is higher than the previous record of 33 percent in 1968 — a year when college students across the country marched for the Civil Rights Movement and against the Vietnam War.
It also found that 31 percent of freshman considered themselves liberal, which is a 35-year high and found about 21 percent of students identify themselves as conservatives, which is down from 23 percent in 2007.
National Review Online has a handy guide. Here are the questions(I got a 21 on the quiz).
It’s unlikely you’ll vote for Obama if you….
1. aren’t a news anchor.
2. read the New York Times for pretty much the same reason the NSA monitors radio transmissions.
3. automatically conclude that the person laughing in the car next to you must be listening to Rush. Or maybe Obama off teleprompter.
4. dislocated your shoulder trying to explain Obama’s position on Iraq to co-workers.
5. find autobiographies generally more interesting when the author has, you know, done something.
6. remember the Carter Administration.
7. would give a month’s pay to play Jack Bauer’s partner on 24.
8. increasingly agree with Mark Steyn that “almost everything [Obama] says is, well, nuts.”
9. think it’s relevant — despite what the sophisticates say — that several of Obama’s mentors and associates have displayed a dislike for America or a disdain for Americans.
10. think it’s relevant that several of McCain’s mentors and associates are American heroes of historic magnitude.
11. think about 9/11 more than once a year.
12. have concluded that Larry the Cable Guy makes way more sense than Howard Dean.
13. feel a little safer during turbulence when your pilot is a calm “white haired dude.”
14. thought about Hillary’s 3:00 a.m. phone call ad when you first heard about Russian tanks in Georgia.
15. wonder why Obama felt it necessary to give a speech on patriotism.
16. get sorta creeped out by 200,000 Germans chanting “Obama! Obama!”
17. think the jury may still be out on Harvard Law School.
18. suspect “merci beaucoup” is French for “empty suit.”
19. doubt that teleprompters are really magical dispensers of good ideas.
20. know in your gut that defiantly withstanding 4 1/2 years of torture trumps all of Obama’s qualifications and accomplishments combined — regardless of what the elite pundits say.
21. repeatedly find yourself asking “Change to what?”
22. have ever used the term “pompous twit’ in the same sentence with “Marx,” “Marcuse,” or “Sartre.” 23. don’t like being told what to do — especially by someone who hasn’t done it.
24. really like ticking off the media, Hollywood, academics, and PC busybodies everywhere.
25. weren’t born yesterday.
Score (# of descriptions that apply to you):
0— Go ahead, write in Dennis Kucinich
1—3 Obama may be your choice after all
4—5 You think Hillary got a raw deal and won’t vote Obama
6—24 McCain’s your man
25 It’s OK to write in Reagan
Brian Fitzpatrick over at Human Events calls The Dark Knight “pornography of violence.”Batman has also been compared to George W. Bush and Rudy Giuliani. You can decide on the latter, but the former claim is balderdash. Batman tries to save the innocent in the film and is faced into grave moral choices. As for the violence claim, evil does not come in sunshine and lollipops. If we used Kirkpatrick’s arguments about violence in film, Patton and Saving Private Ryan would be unacceptable for displaying graphic images, regardless of their messages. I mean, if good must make tough choices when combating evil, we had better not show it. This movie is conservative because it rejects moral relativism of the Left and shows a character willing to take the burden of leadership on behalf of truth.
Their latest video features “snippets” of candid interviews with the candidates they have encountered along their journey. Def. check it out.
And Christie tells the story of how they ran into one of WITR’s donors while on the road. Read it here. Really kind of a cool story.
