Drudge Retort: Jeffj's blog

Welfare's Devastating Effects

jeffj — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:19:39 -0500

To most people, I imagine, welfare seems an obviously good thing. But in fact the corrosive and iniquitous side of welfare has been evident for many decades. It's only now that people are poking their heads out of the trench and daring to say so. You can see the devastating effects of welfare in Britain, for example, in the exponential rise in single motherhood. The figures are astonishing. In the 1950s almost all children in Britain were brought up by their natural parents. Today, only around half the children in Britain are brought up by their natural parents. Half!

Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio

JeffJ — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:51:45 -0500

Barack Obama sought to silence his critics during his 2008 campaign. Now, with the ink barely dry on this November's ballots, Obama has begun a war against conservative talk radio.

Obama is on record as saying he does not plan an exhumation of the now-dead "Fairness Doctrine". Instead, Obama's attack on free speech will be far less understood by the general public and accordingly, far more dangerous...

Obama Out-Gores Gore at Climate Summit

JeffJ — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:44:53 -0500

Barack Obama managed to say all the wrong things at this week's Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles -- without even showing up. The President-elect appeared to the green faithful on Tuesday in the form of a mammoth video image, and opened his pre-recorded pledge to "take the lead" in addressing global warming with these eerily familiar words:

World waits to see Barack's true colours

JeffJ — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:39:36 -0500

SO now we know for sure. The Noam Chomsky-John Pilger-Phillip Adams view of America is wrong. In George W. Bush's America, a land allegedly rife with militarism and racism, the white military hero lost and the black memoirist won a slashing election victory...

Do You Need an Obama to Believe?

jeffj — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:21:13 -0500

"Does Obama's victory, as a black man, make you feel that you can do anything?" Someone asked me that on election night.

It is a caricature of America that, pre-Obama, major obstacles blocked achievement. It is equally a caricature that Obama's win suddenly creates opportunity that did not exist before.

The American Eagle Needs Two Wings to Soar

jeffj — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:37:29 -0500

More than a week before Election Day, a prominent MSNBC commentator was clearly irritated that McCain was continuing to campaign strongly and, at least in her view, with extreme negative attacks. She surmised that the only purpose behind this campaign push must be to undermine (her word) the upcoming Obama presidency.

In the Tank: A Statistical Analysis of Media Bias

jeffj — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:48:34 -0500

During the 2008 presidential election, even center-left observers have noted the unmistakable bias of the prestige news media toward Democratic candidates and the Democratic Party in general. As we shall reveal, the bias of the media is pervasive, ideologically motivated, and quantifiable: that is, it has been admitted, measured, and analyzed in statistical terms. Those results reveal a media doggedly out-of-touch with the political center and tilted decidedly leftward.

Election 2008: Objective journalism the loser

jeffj — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:16:23 -0400

Did you see that amazing video obtained by the Los Angeles Times of Sen. Barack Obama toasting a prominent former PLO member at an Arab American Action Network meeting in 2003? The video in which Obama gives Yasser Arafat's frontman a warm embrace, as Bill Ayers look on?

You haven't seen it? Me, neither. The Los Angeles Times refuses to release it.

The Mass Media Mugs Joe the Plumber

JeffJ — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:57:30 -0400

...My real problem with this scene is what the media has done to Joe. The media has treated Joe as an enemy and probed his personal life...

Who's the funniest person on Drudge?

jeffj — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:27:17 -0400

Please nominate whom you feel is the funniest person on the DR.

A Liberal Supermajority

jeffj — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:27:47 -0400

If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to it. Without the ability to filibuster, the Senate would become like the House, able to pass whatever the majority wants.

Sowell: The Real Obama

JeffJ — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:50:46 -0400

Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they talk about his "past associations." That just gives his many defenders in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against "guilt by association."

Does Obama Have America's Interests at Heart?

JeffJ — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:24:27 -0400

I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt. I've said to myself and to others more than once: "While it is true that Democrats are seriously misguided, at least they believe they're doing what is right for the country." And by that I have meant that their motives are far less insidious than is our wont to portray them.

Sarah Palin and the Experience Factor

jeffj — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:32:02 -0400

Why is it that liberal misrepresentations are never fully addressed before they become established as received wisdom? Whatever the topic may be, the left is consistently allowed to set the terms on which the argument takes place.

Warnings About Obama Loss May Be Self-Fulfilling

JeffJ — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:21:17 -0400

Seven weeks before the 2008 presidential election, liberals are warning America that if Barack Obama loses, it is because Americans are racist. Of course, that this means that Democrats (and independents) are racist, since Republicans will vote Republican regardless of the race of the Democrat, is an irony apparently lost on the Democrats making these charges.