Do Principles Change?

Me to John Hawkins, just now:

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Magnus Anderson makes an excellent point.

Maybe we are challenged both by a general trend of “modern” relativistic thinking, which we havn’t been anaware as we should as well as a slippery slope

Online conservative activists have rallied to CNBC’s Rick Santelli’s call last week, backed by mortgage traders, for a “Nationwide Chicago Tea Party” to protest the Obama Administration’s bailout plan. Over 40 cities held Tea Parties on February 27, 2009. Now,

From the AP:

MIAMI – An abortion clinic owner is accused of delivering a live baby during a botched procedure and then throwing the infant away.

Belkis Gonzalez, 42, was arrested Tuesday and charged with practicing medicine without a license

First it was Joe the Plumber, then Rush Limbaugh, then Rick Santelli and now it is Jim Cramer.   Call it a rant, Cramer makes some good points, video:

At some point the Obama administration has to stop trying to shoot

So just who is running the show in Washington?    It sure isn’t one Barack Obama.   The worst presidential press secretary ever, Robert Gibbs, suggests that BO was looking to establish guidelines for congressional earmarks.   In response, House Majority Leader, Steny

The more the clueless one, a/k/a Barack Obama talks, the more the market tanks BO seeme to think that Main Street and Wall Street are two seperate entities.  BO’s clueless is driving American wealth down.

In contrast, Bobby Jindal has

I wondered when these would come back again:

SSG Jason Fetty was assigned to a Provincial Reconstruction Team, which, as the name denotes, isn’t a combat unit. It is a civil affairs unit with a much different role. He was

But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. There is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor

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This is the “More Snow” edition.  Scientists agree that reading these daily updates…

I’ve been watching this grudge match between Michael Steele and the grass roots, including Rush Limbaugh, with a jaundiced eye. I’ve seen this developing before, and frankly I see it as a part of the anti-Republican-grassroots  efforts I’ve commented

Mrs. Clinton, Reuters:

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged $300 million for Gaza reconstruction and $600 million to support the authority’s budget shortfalls, economic reforms and security and private sector projects run by the PA.

She was adamant

Over at Pajamas Media, this morning,  I examine the apparent rift between Republican grassroots and the Republican elite at CPAC.

One such respondent placed his objections within the framework of the Republican Party being the middle-class party and therefore

Jim Gehaghty, National Review, 4 August 2008:

All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them

Econosphere, 6 Janauary:

Just incredible. Breaking news on CNN right now, President-Elect Obama has said his budget will eliminate

This is not a fight between Rush Limbaugh and Michael Steele. This is a fight between Michael Steele’s mouth and his foot. Matt Lewis has some more thoughts.

Erick Erickson, Red State.

Michael Steele has  dismissed Rush Limbaugh as a mere entertainer, CNN:

Late last week, Steele told CNN’s D.L. Hughley that Limbaugh is an “entertainer” whose comments are “ugly.”

El wrongo moose breath, Sam Youngman, Hill:

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