davidl on February 23rd, 2009

Bertha Lewis, ACORN:

Housing is a right.

See the video:

Read the transcript, via Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light.

No Ms Lewis, housing is not a right.  Housing is a commodity, to wit a product of human endeavor. 

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Eric Florack on February 23rd, 2009

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere; Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

It’s the Corner Store edition. Just a few quick items. In, and out.

  • Obama to be upstatged: As you likely already know, Barack

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Eric Florack on February 23rd, 2009

Christopher Buckley writes today:

It’s tricky, trying to channel your father’s ghost. Hamlet tried it. I think I won’t. But I miss WFB’s takes on—everything that’s going on. Often, I’d find myself flailing aimlessly or circularly about some issue, trying

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davidl on February 23rd, 2009

ABC 2 News, Baltimore, MD:

Some community activists could face criminal charges after breaking into a home in Southeast Baltimore.

[…)

After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters “this is our house now

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davidl on February 23rd, 2009

Alan Reynolds, New York Post, writes of the Foreclosure Five states:

When President Obama discusses his $275 billion mortgage bailout, he talks as if it was a national problem, caused by a national decline in home prices. “We must

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davidl on February 23rd, 2009

Michelle is calling it a Tea Party.   William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, offers another analogy:

This movement can succeed if it does not stop at protest and includes changes in economic behavior. Obama’s redistributive plans require higher taxation,

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