Dumbo Doesn’t Know History

Nor much of anything else, for that matter.

What CBS left on the Sixty Minutes cutting room floor, via Karen, the Lonely Conservative:

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, we’re not done yet. I’ve got five more years of stuff to do.

Buffalo, NY– I’m at the Erie County Medical Center, dropping off some furniture that I picked up at Elkhart IN. A nice little stretch of the legs. I’ll be back at the yard in a few hours and ready for

Piscataway, NJ– Grabbing a load for May’s Landing. From here back up to NY state. Still hot, but a clear and beautiful looking day.

• REPEATING HISTORY: FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate. Any more questions about

Buffalo, NY– At the moment, I’m in Buffalo, NY. I have my younger boy Alex with me and he’s doing fine. I’ll post more on this topic as we go. It’s a nice day all told. Truck is running fine.

Gurkha – 30, Taliban – 0, from Daily Mail (UK):

Corporal Dipprasad Pun defeated more than 30 Taliban fighters single-handedly

Used the tripod of his machine gun to beat away a militant after running out of ammunition

A Gurkha

Newsweak ponders if the presidency has grown too big for one mere mortal:

Can any single person fully meet the demands of the 21st-century presidency? Obama has looked to many models of leadership, including FDR and Abraham Lincoln, two transformative

FDR brought  Americans the New Deal.

HST gave us:The Square Deal

FDR: The New Deal

JFK:   The New Frontier

LBJ: The Great Society

Barack Hussien Obama: The New Reality?

Hat tip:  Tim Williams and Jim Geraghty, Campaign Spot.

Source

Today we introduce our newest writer at The Conservative Reader, Brian Nygaard.  Brian and his wife Mary live in San Rafael, California. – Ed.

As the Healthcare debate in Congress was drawing to a close, Americans were asking themselves “Why

Comment by Jammie Wearing Fool:

Obama Reflects On His Favorite Subject

Barack Obama is trying to sell his favorite subject, to wit himself, Glenn Thrush, Politico:

Rep. Marion Berry’s parting shot, published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette [no link,

George Will, Washington Post,  October 5:

Presidents often come to be characterized by particular adjectives: “honest” Abe Lincoln, “Grover the Good” Cleveland, “energetic” Theodore Roosevelt, “idealistic” Woodrow Wilson, “Silent Cal” Coolidge, “confident” FDR, “likable” Ike Eisenhower. Less happily, there

Lee Cary over at American Thinker:

In a one sentence order, Justice Ginsburg left open the possibility that the SCOTUS may scotch the Chrysler-Fiat deal that gives 29 cents on the dollar to the Indiana Fund and other Chrysler

OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with

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

Obama’s press conference. What can be said? Nothing, and yet everything. It’s a target rich environment, as I said this monring, and

Near the end of Q&O’s weekly podcast this week, Dale makes the point that FDR was able to get us out of the depression only by means of turning the entire country, essentially, over to war production.

He’s quite

David Kope who writes with the Volokh boys, says this morning:

Earlier this year, Eric Holder–along with Janet Reno and several other former officials from the Clinton Department of Justice–co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller.