Opinions - some recommended reading

Laura Ingraham on Trump's path (and Cruz' path) to defeating an entrenched establishment. Spot on and an excellent but quick read.

Peggy Noonan believes the Republican part is in it's death throws.  I disagree.  It's being swept clean of an entrenched establishment which is absolutely necessary in both parties.  Whether it gets replaced with something better or worse is actually moot - if Trump wins and is a disaster he'll be quickly swept aside in four years.  That said, these points are especially incisive;

Party leaders and thinkers should take note: It’s easier for a base to hire or develop a flashy new establishment than it is for an establishment to find itself a new base...

The establishment was slow to see what was happening, slow to see Mr. Trump coming, in full denial as he continued to win. Their denial is self-indicting. They couldn’t see his appeal because they had no idea how their own people were experiencing America.

Bobby Jindal, unlike Noonan, believes it's not the GOP Establishment that created the Trump political animal.  He blames Obama. He argues among other things;

You can draw a straight line between a president who dismisses domestic terrorist attacks as incidents of workplace violence and a candidate who wants to ban Muslims from entering the country.

Jonathan V. Last thinks Ted Cruz crushed the Detroit debate. 

Meanwhile Bruce Walker explains just how weak of a candidate Hillary will be in November.  And an Investors Business Daily editorial thinks she's right to fear Trump.

Mark Cunningham claims there's no GP establishment cabal, just entrenched interests, but they have brought Trump's hostile takeover upon themselves.

Blog economies of scale

I am a contributor over at Left Coast Rebel.  It's a great site, more libertarian than conservative (I hope that's a fair assessment). But I guess I have enough in common in terms of viewpoints that the blog owner over there, Mr. Left Coast Rebel himself, was gracious enough to invite me to be a contributor.  Mostly I just cross post my posts from here over there because I've been too busy over the last 6 months to be able to create enough content for one blog let alone two.  As a result of posting some of my posts in both places I have noticed there are some economies of scale* between the two blogs.

Instructive Links - oppression edition

A belated Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I've been travelling this week and unable to blog. There's so much to blog about but my energy level is still a bit low.  Fear not, there are well over 100 million blogs out there, and there are at least 80 or so blogs that frequently provide gold. I've got links to a few of them today.

Oppression is a bad thing.  Liberals live by it.  In their defense, many do so unknowingly. Covert oppression in the form of political correctness and groupthink, fostered by a same-songbook media - from the news to movies to other venues like public education - covert oppression exists all around us.  Overt oppression is harder to find in America, though it does exist, mostly at a governmental level.  Neither is good.

Here's some links to some good blog reading this weekend, with a focus on the perils of oppressive societies.

Some great reading from around that webophere thing

Some great recent reading in the links below.

No, you didn't save the auto industry Mr. President.  From the Cato Institute

Full Metal Patriot has a logical take on the Democrats' We Belong All to the Government insanity.

Elizabeth Warren truth exposed at Legal Insurrection

Line of the week is at Capitalist Preservation.

The first in a long line of fact checking the Clinton speech: Job creation?  From The Foundry

HuffPo not happy with God. Via RWN.

What??? King Shamus has gone bi-partisan for the Democrats.

Clinton apologizes for his speech. I guess it wasn't Castroesque enough. Via Diogenes Middle Finger

I've been 'wondering' why there haven't been a ton of state polls since the RNC convention. Virginia Right 'wonders' a little bit further and more specifically.

Wonderful, under-appreciated linkage.

Check out these great links:

Opinipundit on the North Carolina governor's suspension of democracy. Oh, it's real.

Fredd says Fair Schmair, Obama's class warfare.

Robbing America discusses the dangers of the Republican debates.  I hope this is wrong.

JoeTote has an example for everyone to follow.

Barack Obama's Telepromter re-engages.

Gonzalo Lira - copper's price spells really bad news.

Super-Economy - there's a heated (?) battle discussion underway on ethnic diversity and the size of government.

What We Think and Why - Is Cain Able?

Bread Upon the Waters talks shoes.  I wonder if they are nonsensible.

A Conservative Teacher defends Perry on the Florida debate.

Western Hero laments Obama's scorched earth campaign.

Bonsai from the Right - "Hey Obama, hook us up."

Adam Smith Institute to Paul Krugman - Ireland's got 99 problems but austerity ain't one.

And finally, A Cop's Watch provides a moron update.

Sunday Reading Linkage

Happy Father's Day to everyone.  As a special Father's Day edition, I'm linking to some new blogs (for me) in addition to a number of my regular reads.  It'll be a short set of linkage today, as I'm due to get served a coffee from my son momentarily.  It'll be his first brewing of coffee and making of a cup.  I'm sure it will taste great.

Maggie's Notebook covers Project Gun Runner (aka Gunwalker, aka Fast and Furious)with precision. My two cents as to whether Holder knew, which I strongly suspect he did, he will have some type of plausible deniability.

For more on Gunwalker, King Shamus frames the Eric Holder background and helps the 'why he knew' case with a plausible motive.  

Proof Positive has the Klaven comparison of Obama and Ryan on the economy.

Conservative Pup eloquently addresses the alarming, unabated effort to remove religion from the country in contravention of the founders' intent.

Rational Nation USA's Les Carpenter III looks at the nation's historical IQ, and the results are double plus ungood. Watch the video at the end if you want to be particularly taken aback.

Moonbattery has a quick note on Sheila Jackson Lee's reflexive ability to do no right.  This time it has to do with somehow confusing Islamic terrorists with Christian militants. (Hat Tip to Paul Mitchell aka Mean Ol' Meany).

Quality conservative opinion

I've been busy today and unable to post much but here's a list of good reads on other conservative sites today (these sites are so money, to paraphrase Vince Vaughn);

Political landscape for 2010: Charlie Cook on the changing landscape for Democrats

The Campaign Spot at National Review lists a spate of recent bad news polls for the Obama administration all the way down to public opinion on unions.

JE Braun has a follow up posting on the NJ everyone-who-is-a-Democrat-is-apparently-involved-in-fraud case.

Gateway Pundit has been all over the Van Jones Obama Czar communist case. As is IndyMind.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is on top of the latest CBO impact assessment on Obamacare increasing costs, yet again.

Pajamas Media has a piece on how Obama portends an end to self determinism.

And John Hawkins at Right Wing News weighs in on the reasons for concern over the Obama School Speech.

Check out the links, there's some interesting reading available. Unfortunately I haven't had much of a chance to be a provider of it today. Of course that assumes I ever am.