Klaus Rohrich

I like Sarah Palin, but…

The one good thing we can take away from the first 25% of Barack Obama’s train wreck of a presidency is that it isn’t a job that’s particularly conducive to on-the-job training. While Obama is an outstanding speaker with a magnificent and well-tenored voice, a grand sense of timing and speechwriters that could be the envy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, his ability to deliver on his promises is not so great.

Neo-Socs guilty of delusional thinking

One of the prime factors that set the Neo-Socialists apart from normal Americans is their delusional thinking. Nearly every legislative initiative introduced by the current management of the White House and Congress is fraught with silly premises that have no basis in reality.

Obama pulls end run

As I wrote here yesterday, I believe the feeding frenzy currently taking place at the Copenhagen trough will result in the ultimate global governance of every man woman and child on the planet. A climate treaty may not actually be signed and agreed upon by the 192 countries whose representatives are currently living LARGE on caviar and limousines at the conference, but the rules such a treaty might impose will still take effect.

Copenhagen: socialism’s wet dream

The Copenhagen ‘climate change’ conference is a bold initiative on the part of the world’s socialists to spread the wealth, as Barack Obama promised when campaigning for President. The disclosure that many leading climate scientists ‘cooked the books’ and attempted to actively hide data contrary to their hypotheses could theoretically derail the conference, but I don’t think it will.

What’s so irrational about fearing Islam?

The Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary defines a phobia as “any persistent, irrational and excessive fear of some particular thing or situation,” Take note of the adjective, “irrational,” as it is key in debunking the idea of Islamophobia. People who are deemed to be Islamophic by the politically correct arbiters of acceptable emotions are actually quite justified in their fear of Islam, given the almost daily reports of violence perpetrated against innocent people in the name of that religion.

Losing in Afghanistan—on purpose

An interesting trait that has come to light about the Procrastinator in Chief is that any proposed program or initiative that advances his transformative socialist agenda can’t be enacted quickly enough.

Energy independence most important priority

Here’s an interesting (and very likely) prognostication: Some time in the very near future Iran will be in possession of a nuclear weapon and Israel’s hand will be forced. Strike preemptively or be struck. Either way, the result will be a conflagration in the Middle East that will stop access to oil not just from Iran, but also from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

The one thing wrong with Obamacare

The healthcare bill congress passed over the weekend, HR 3962, a mere 1,990 pages of drivel is a bill that will decrease the quality of care most Americans currently enjoy.

Reality never a big issue with Toronto politicians

When City of Toronto budget chief Shelley Carroll contemplated imposing a city sales tax, it was clear proof that even the mentally retarded can get an important position in politics. But then, being in touch with reality has never counted for much in the machinations of the Great Socialist Workers’ Paradise known as Toronto.

Yes, Virginia, you are Santa Claus

The off-year elections just concluded have served notice on advocates of Big Government that Americans aren’t particularly interested in kowtowing to bureaucrats and still value their personal freedom.

Whistling past the graveyard

Lately there have been an inordinate number of media reports focusing on acts of terrorism, as well as attempted or contemplated terrorism. The FBI reported arresting two men of Pakistani descent in Chicago in a plot to bomb the newspaper Jylands-Posten of Danish cartoon fame. The so-called “Toronto 18”, a group of young men accused of planning terrorist attacks in Toronto and Ottawa, are beginning to fall like dominoes, as those charged are pleading guilty in efforts to minimize their punishment. Terrorist plots are being uncovered in places as diverse as Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Iraq, Pakistan and Indonesia.

Acting boldly—and in ignorance

If the obvious foibles of the Obama administration weren’t so pathetic, they would be humorous. But laughing at the Obamites is equal to playing one’s fiddle while the country burns.

Carbon offsets to form new bubble

I am no economist, but for an amateur I have a track record in predicting economic trends at least as good as Paul Krugman’s and I didn’t bother attending an Ivy League school to be able to do that. In predicting economic bubbles there are two things to remember. One is that most bubbles deal with intangibles, such as Michael Milliken’s junk bonds and the dot com bubble that saw insane valuations for non-performing stocks simply because they had an “E” in front of their name.

It’s never been about global warming

Anyone who believes that the Kyoto Accord and all the subsequent meetings spearheaded by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is actually about global warming or climate change, would be well advised to submit a wish list to Santa Claus in care of the North Pole. Chances of having jolly St. Nick deliver what’s on that list are better than the chances of stopping global warming. That’s because global warming has already stopped with no help from Al Gore and his friends. In fact, recent scientific discoveries have found the smoking gun of global warming isn’t actually smoking when it was revealed that some of the IPCC’s data were, um, fudged. The IPCC’s lead scientist, Keith Briffa has attempted to debunk archeological and historic records about the medieval warm period, when Greenland was actually green, using as proof tree core samples taken from Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula.

Sick of the healthcare debate

For all those people wanting the United States government to provide them with “public option” healthcare, be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. America isn’t the first nation that’s been seduced by the siren call of publicly funded healthcare. In fact, the U.S. is one of the few civilized nations left on earth that doesn’t have a public healthcare system—for good reason.

Like a deer in the headlights

I’m noticing that people are a lot more nervous than they used to be, say back in the Bush days, when our greatest fear was another, possibly worse, terrorist attack that could result in scores of thousands of deaths. The pervasive nervousness these days is of the kind one might see upon entering a room where a baby is playing with half-filled bottles of nitroglycerin or maybe a loaded Glock-17.

Who would have guessed the IOC was racist?

-Satire- (Note: The following article was made possible through the generosity of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Tides Foundation) The rejection of Chicago as host city for the 2016 Olympiad can only be ascribed to one ugly factor: racism. When President Obama, his beautiful wife Michelle and Oprah Winfrey, no less, took time out from their busy respective schedules to plead with the International Olympic Committee on behalf of the Windy City, most observers believed that the games would be held there. But in a stunning betrayal of our beloved President’s extended hand, the IOC chose instead to bite that hand by rejecting Chicago during the very first round.

Simultaneous sucking and blowing

In the most blatant case of attempting to suck and blow at the same time, the government of Ontario is filing a $50 billion lawsuit against the tobacco industry to recover money the province claims it has been forced to spend on smoking-related illnesses. It’s the kind of government action that’s tailor-made for really stupid people who might not realize that the government has already been paid more than that just in taxes.

Redistributing wealth?!

The Obama White House is attempting to perpetrate the biggest hoax in the nation’s history by insisting that the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ‘60s was really about the redistribution of wealth. The claim is that had the Civil Rights Movement not gotten bogged down in court action, the focus would have shifted to how wealth was distributed in America. Would have, could have, should have...

Blood in the water

In his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly Libyan dictator, Col. Muammar Gaddafi called for the UN to be relocated somewhere in the eastern hemisphere. Using the rationale that for the past 64 years the UN has been headquartered in New York, the heart of the Great Satan, Gaddafi insisted that it’s time to move. But that was only the beginning of his bizarre tirade.