If you read nothing else today, or even this week, read this. Daniel Henninger’s Wonderland column cleanly and fairly summarizes what went wrong with science.
As the hard sciences—physics, biology, chemistry, electrical engineering—came to dominate intellectual life in the last century, some academics in the humanities devised the [...]
Utopias: Extreme Beer From Samuel Adams
In 1516 Thomas More wrote “Of the Best State of a Republic, and of the New Island Utopia” It is a book based on Plato’s Republic and describes an island civilization of a perfect socio-political-legal culture. The [...]
You have probably heard the cogent points surrounding Climategate by now. A concise summary: Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) alarmists at East Anglica University, with input from other “scientists” around the planet, have been caught red handed at their data manipulation trickery. Apparently it wasn’t terribly complicated. Anyone who passed [...]
Debate on the Healthcare Bill begins in the congress of liars today. The Senate is up first: they will start anew lying not only to us, but to themselves. Their hat trick of lies will consist of mathemagician tricks that divert our attention while twisting facts to prove that:
We [...]
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Lee Greenwood: God Bless the U.S.A.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there, and especially to our troops stationed around the world. Team Dewey is taking a few days [...]
Al GORE: People think about geothermal energy - when they think about it at all - in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, 'cause the interior of the earth is extremely' [...]
Apparently there is yet another photographer who has figured out how to profit from Detroit’s misery (Ruins Of a Once-Great City). Such portfolios have become so ubiquitous that a term has been coined to describe it’s titillating nature: “ruin-porn." I don’t mind: Detroit is certainly fair game in the [...]
"Michigan is going to lead a green industrial revolution in our nation," Granholm said. "We'll be a beacon that guides this country along the path …”
“For Michigan, growing a green economy means realizing we can no longer depend on the industries that once were our bedrock,"' [...]
As shocking as it may seem, Motown may be in for a big win this year: Dewey From Detroit has been nominated for the 2009 Weblog Awards!!!
Dewey From Detroit has been nominated in the following categories:
Best Blog Best New [...]
How is it that the “stupidest” woman on earth can drive the MSM to such distraction?
Sarah addresses the crowd in Grand Rapids Michigan before her book signing.
Maybe because the MSM is the source of this fraudulent [...]
Well don’t that beat all? Did the Won just now get around to reading his Econ 101 briefing book?
And why did the President have to go to China to lecture us on the inherent problems with deficit spending?
President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the [...]
Here’s an exact copy of an email team Dewey got from the White House two weeks ago (Dewey can be remiss in regularly checking all his email accounts). I have no idea how the White House got our email, but thought you might enjoy their attempt at “getting their message [...]
Tammy Bruce shares a few of Charles Krauthammer’s choice words regarding Obama’s trip overseas with us, and encourages us to do the same. So here it is: enjoy.
“Well, that was definitely a world class bow in Tokyo.
…there was a [...]
Barrack Hussein Obama continued his Far East Apology Tour this week. He continued to spend time bowing, scraping and prostrating himself in front of minor dignitaries and heads of state. His campaign to convince the rest of the world that the United States is now a third rate country seems [...]
Question: Why would a powerful, narcissistic head-of-state bow to foreign royalty?
Answer: For the same reason liberals bow to the proprietors of certain ethnic restaurants; because they feel superior to them. And that makes them feel a little bit guilty.
And so now we [...]
The doctor is in:
It’s a beautiful Saturday in November. In Michigan it’s likely to be the last beautiful day we see for months. How would you like to spend it? Football game, yard clean-up, Christmas lights? How about waiting in line for a [...]
MOTUS received this communiqué from one of her faithful readers and insisted that I post it in it’s entirety here. It’s from HillBuzz, a blog by two gay Hillary supporters from Chicago who were completely disgusted with the Chicago style head-butting that took Hillary out and shooed “Mr. [...]
Yikes. Under Britain’s socialized medical system, even if you’ve had a fall nasty enough to warrant X-rays, there may not be anyone around to read them.
That’s what happened to Hugh Jackson who took a bad tumble in his yard, hit his head on an apple tree and knocked [...]
Kudo's to the President. He delivered a fine speech at the memorial for the fallen soldiers at Fort Hood. It was appropriate and respectful in a muted and almost eloquent way. Not generally terms that I associate with Obama. In fact it was strikingly different from the usual piffle he' [...]
Gordon Lightfoot: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
For those not familiar with the Great Lakes Basin, it is comprised of a vast series of in-land seas. Four of the Great Lakes more or less wrap around Michigan, continue east to Ontario on their way through [...]
Didn’t Janet Napolitano tell us months ago that the terrorists we really had to worry about were in the Army?
From the Department of Homeland Security February 20, 2009 report "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment:"
(U) Disgruntled Military Veterans
(U//FOUO) [...]
Because it’s been a heavy-lifting week, here’s a Sunday treat. Grab a bagel and a cup of joe. Sit back, crank up the volume and enjoy this youthful explosion of athleticism and musicality.
These are the Kings Firecrackers, 4th through 8th grade girls from Cincinnati, performing at this year’s [...]
Random thoughts from the week:
H1N1 vaccine was sent to Wall Street firms by New York City government health authorities while little children and pregnant women are still waiting in line. We wouldn’t want Barry’s Banks to sneeze now, would we? We all remember what happened last time.But this [...]
There is something innate in human nature that draws our gaze to an impending train wreck, and maintains our slack-jawed attention as we gape at its aftermath. It’s like that with Detroit, which has been voted the worst train wreck in the “major American city” category. Journalists, artists and bloggers [...]
Why is it that people are so fascinated with the decline of our city? It’s not that Detroit is the only urban center beginning to collapse in on itself, Baltimore, Newark, Buffalo, St. Louis come readily to mind. But Detroit is different. Possibly there’s an element of schadenfreud attached to [...]
Sadly, Detroit is best known to the world’s under-30 population for its decline, decay and danger. Few aspects of Motown life contribute to this image more than Devil’s night: which is actually a 3 day event that commences on October 29 and ends on Halloween.
Fire – Crazy World [...]
Michelle announced on the Leno show last Friday that she has Sting on her iPod , and the next thing you know we get this: Sting: Obama Best Person to Handle World’s ‘mess’
In addition to believing he’s the world’s savior, something else Sting [...]
Conservatives are fortunate to have so many clear thinking political writers to help us refine our own positions. Who do you suppose Progressives rely on for that? Oh that’s right: Sean Penn and Janeane Garofalo. I’ll get to them next week. For now, here are some good reads from a [...]
Note: this was originally written in 2006 as a skeptic’s view of the foolish complicity of business and consultants in destroying value and industry in America. It was posted on Dewey last February as it seemed interesting in light of the Autos’ tenuous situation following the financial meltdown. Since then, [...]
Steve Salerno had an interesting piece in the Wall Street last week; Self-Help Doesn’t Help – And Often Hurts. He captured what is undoubtedly a widely shared attitude about the huge self-help industry:
"OK, we all know this is a silly and sometimes expensive exercise in navel-gazing. But really, [...]
This is worthy of reprinting in it’s entirety. From The New Republic, via AnnaZ : It’s a parable about how democracies consume themselves.
--From a teacher in the Nashville area
"The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year...
The presidential election was heating up" [...]
I would like to thank Legal Insurrection for naming Dewey From Detroit as the Blog of Day.
In case you missed it, he said I’m Pathological. I’m assuming he meant that in the best possible way.
Thanks [...]
Now that Democrats control the White House and Congress, dissent has once again fallen out of fashion. In case you haven’t heard the latest from the august Kennedy clan, Congressman Patrick Kennedy has tried to wave off the Catholic Church’s opposition to parts of the Health Care Reform Bill [...]
American Thinker has a graph tracking unemployment rates with the party controlling the US Senate over a 25 year period:
Query: coincidence, or something more sinister?
Hat Tip to Canada’s Small Dead Animals. I’m beginning to think there might be more right thinking [...]
The Quote of the Week award (so far) from Doug Ross@Journal deserves to go viral :
"Once you get past the facade there's only an abyss...
People have mistakenly used the "Emperor has no clothes" analogy for [Obama]. The real point is the clothes have no Emperor."' [...]
Yet another Detroit icon bites the dust. Along with Twin Pines Milky the Clown and the Vernor’s Gnome.
Although he left Detroit in the 60’s, Soupy Sales will [...]
Wow! Technically it’s only 1 minute 47 seconds. I’m not saying it’s a record, but clearly President Obama is no piker. I suppose it’s possible that Reverend Wright was so busy railing against “rich, white people” and reminding his congregants why “the chickens are coming home to roost” that he [...]
Kathleen Sebelius appeared a little punch drunk at the Senate hearings yesterday. No truth to the rumor that she took one for the team. Although the plummeting health care approval polls combined with the lagging delivery of flu vaccines – swine and otherwise – does make the swollen eye suspect.
[...]In case you missed this amidst the furor over the White House’s attack on one of the largest news media outlets, FOX wasn’t the only object of the attack dogs last weekend. Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod were also busy trashing financial institutions for not supporting Obama’s reforms for those [...]
This megalomaniacal White House can’t help themselves; they are so impressed with their own cleverness and power that they can’t stop bragging about it.
First we have the charming and accomplished Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director, explaining how this administration works by describing how they manipulated the [...]
Here’s this weekend’s must read: a Dennis Miller rant on the stupidity of relativism vis a vis the Roman Polanski apologists.
His points are valid and amusing as they can be, given the insanity of the argument: "what Roman Polanski did was wrong but ..."
One liberal pundit or [...]
From Ted, a commenter at Moonbattery:
Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives
If a Conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a Liberal doesn't like guns, they believe no one should have one.
If a Conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat. If a [...]
Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
Democrats seem to have figured this out long ago, but, amazingly, they don't think it will negatively impact them. As if the demise of the republic' [...]
Team Dewey is celebrating our 37th anniversary today. No, we’re not really that old. We married young. I think we were 12.
But since that sets our wedding date in the way-way back machine to 1972, we thought it might be fun to reflect on a few interesting [...]
In a contest between the governor of Michigan and Las Vegas real estate developer (Bellagio, Venetian, Treasure Island, Mirage and Wynn Las Vegas) Steve Wynn, who would you put your money on?
Take Wynn and a million points.
As an aside, Michigan’s overall unemployment stands [...]
Finally, two honest articles on the plight of Detroit in one of Detroit’s major newspapers. The last time that happened was … well, never. Dan Howes’ articles Detroit Supplies Ammo For Its Bad Image and Bing Battles an Environment of Corruption finally begin to pull the curtain back [...]
The Wall Street Journal ran an article yesterday titled “Is the Columbus Holiday Sailing Off the Map?” in which they explain why Columbus Day is no longer a noteworthy holiday for some.
This gives me an excellent opportunity to celebrate the day and do a little green-blogging (aka “re-cycling [...]
MWC’s comment on Who Didn’t Win the Nobel Peace Prize just reminded us of one of our earliest forays into Obama-rama: so from deep in the vault we’re reposting for your entertainment Dewey’s First Flatsimile Production: Welcome Back Carter.
[...]
Rational Jingo has a great post on “who didn’t win the Nobel peace prize”.
I would just like to add a few additional people who did not win:
Hugo Chavez (Venezuela) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Iran) Kim Yong-Il (North Korea) Muammar Gaddafi (Libya) Mohammed Omar (former head of the Taliban [...]As you can see above, our motto at Dewey From Detroit is “Come for the Politics, stay for the Pathologies.” It used to be that the pathologies were as much fun, if not more so, than the politics. But lately we’ve found ourselves being a little uneasy about that phrase, [...]
In case you’ve run out of things to worry about this week, there’s this little gem: it appears our up-to-now friends and our sworn enemies have banded together to end the dollar as the world currency denomination. According to “The Demise of the Dollar” in the Independent:
Gulf Arabs are [...]
You don’t usually want to see your President surrounded by 2 guys in white jackets.
People might get the wrong idea.
If you catch [...]
Time Magazine showcased Detroit on its October 5 cover:
They try to present a “fair and balanced” approach – which is hard, given the facts - because they surely don’t want to blame Detroit’s demise on 50 years of failed liberal policy and leadership.
But the [...]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper sings Beatle tune with Yo Yo Ma at the Canadian National Centre of Arts gala.
I’ll trade you one post-racial, post-partisan president, one angry first lady that might be prouder to be a Canadian anyway and 37 czars, for one prime minister.
[...] * tag line from SNL’s infamous Point/Counterpoint segment in the late 70’s with Dan Akyroyd and Jane Curtin.
A frequent feature of Update during this time was Point/Counterpoint, in which Curtin and Aykroyd made ad hominem attacks on each other's positions on a variety of topics. Aykroyd regularly began his' [...]
In Charles Krauthammer’s WaPo column today, French Lessons, he lands a knockout punch regarding Obama’s dealings with nuclear Iran:
When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom.
And if you think that’s bad, it gets much, much uglier:
Confusing ends and means, the Obama' [...]
Remember Robin, our recovering liberal from Berkley currently posting at American Thinker? She has a post today about evil. The concept of evil is rather critical in a cultural milieu where half the population refuses to accept its existence.
And yet, is there anything more persistent and [...]
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm signed into law today a bill mandating that Michigan’s entire 3177 miles of Great Lakes coastline be isolated for the exclusive development of wind turbine generated power. This follows a fierce battle within the state legislature over the past 2 years.
[...]The IRS announced today that they are severing ties with ACORN in the wake of the mounting scandal surrounding the community organizing group.
I wonder? If I committed tax fraud, supported a pimp and prostitute operation that brought underage girls into the country illegally for the express purpose of [...]
In Venezuela they will put up with a lot.
Beginning with their great, glorious leader, Hugo Chavez. He controls the presidency (potentially for life, or as long as he wants to run for re-election, and Jimmy Carter’s available to certify the results), the courts, the media (he just shuts [...]
When does the pimping stop and the governing begin?
First there’s ACORN, willingly and literally accommodating pimps and prostitutes. Now comes the National Endowment of the Arts scandal in which administration functionaries pimp out the all too willing artists to prostitute themselves for the Obama-tization of America. All this after [...]
I just love it when New York Times columnists accidently tell the truth. Especially when they expose themselves in the process. Take Bob Herbert’s column today, for example.
First he explains that Jimmy Carter spoke one of the 10 great truths in America when he charged anyone disagreeing with [...]
Michelle is out pedaling the softer side of Obamacare “be sure to eat your vegetables, or we’ll have to tax your food at a higher rate.” BHO himself will be making the rounds on the Sunday shows. He’ll be on every channel that has a Sunday show - and even [...]
The ACORN corruption scandal? So bad that even liberal FAKE news broadcasters are embarrassed. Must see TV.
Watch the White House run from Acorn as fast as they can. Watch President Obama throw his community organization group under the bus so fast you won’t [...]
While it might sound a bit ghoulish, we love hunting for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa.
This somewhat peculiar past time has continued sporadically ever since Jimmy went missing form the Machus Red Fox restaurant on Telegraph in 1975.
[...]Top 10 signs we are living in an alternate universe:
10. Seven US senators voted to continue funding an organization that promotes tax fraud, money laundering and prostitution by underage illegal aliens.
We’ve finally achieved the impossible: bipartisan dissatisfaction with the mainstream media. Two big opposable thumbs up to the Pew Research Center. They’ve inadvertently done a “follow-up” piece to my post from last Saturday “Why Blogging Matters”.
Pew reports in its latest People & the Press survey the shocking [...]
You’ll never forgive yourself if you don’t read this little story.
But if you’re in a hurry, here are the highlights (there aren’t many):
The president of the United Nations General Assembly, Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, on Saturday declared Bolivian President Evo Morales as “World Hero of Mother [...]
He was not an icon of conservatism as we may have hoped for. He certainly couldn’t even be counted on in the right hand column when it came to fiscal conservatism.
But no matter what your other complaints about George W. Bush, it must be said, and remembered, [...]
Paul Miller’s piece at American Thinker is a little shot in the arm for all of us hapless bloggers floating – untethered - out in the ether-net. Miller takes issue with Tom Friedman, who took to the airwaves (that would be the MSM airways) last Sunday to criticize the [...]
Thanks to Darryl Worley and Pam Geller for song, pictures and remembering.
Never forget. They hate us because we are free. Never apologize.
Technorati Tags: [...]Have you ever wondered what ACORN workers do in between elections – when they’re not arranging mortgages for the Keebler elves to buy homes in oak trees all across America?
It turns out that some of them provide advice on how to lie to banks and the US treasury department, [...]
Tonight we’ll hear from the President why we should all bow at the altar of government for one of the most important aspects of our life: healthcare.
So let’s see how well the government regulatory bureaucracy has worked in another arena. Enter Bernie Madoff. In the wake of the largest [...]
Future Fake News Stories From the Dewey News Network
Breaking:
Michigan Petitions For Secession From the USA
Today the bankrupt state of Michigan filed it’s previously rumored petition for secession from the United States of America. Canada immediately took steps to annex the distressed state as the 11th Canadian Province. Canadian Minister [...]
Today’s Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed called “The Michigan Experience.” It tracks Michigan’s industrial policy over more than a decade. During this time the rest of the state’s taxpayers financed subsidies for businesses - selected by bureaucratic state agencies - with the goal of creating and retaining jobs. [...]
The Obama “I Pledge” video, an inane piece that has been around since the election last fall, has recently been getting a lot of attention. It seems some schools in Utah have been showing it as part of their back-to-school assembly. And in conjunction with the President’s planned speech to [...]
With so many to choose from, who would’ve guessed that Chris Matthew’s would have been my first nominee for the “To a Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like a Nail” award?
But damn, here he is performing in the “To a Race-monger, Every Disagreement Looks Like Racism” category:
Honorary winners in [...]
President Obama tells us that health care reform does not include illegal aliens (undocumented workers, for the deconstructionists), and the “right-wing racists” don’t believe him.
He says there won’t be rationing, and right-wing racists and senior citizens don’t believe him.
He says there will be no death-panels and, again, [...]
And this just in from Michigan (The state just marginally behind California in the insolvency sweepstakes), a plan from a coalition of educators, labor, and social service agencies to solve Michigan’s economic woes: you guessed right! Raise taxes!!!
This coalition, ironically named “A Better Michigan Future” is an obvious group [...]
How might Obamacare 2.0, as laid out by Charles Krauthammer, still result in rationing? On it’s face it looks like all the “town hall mobsters” got what they have been screaming they want: elimination of the public option and maintenance of private healthcare insurance.
Unfortunately, with government, nothing is as [...]
Look for an address light on history and heavy on indoctrination when President Barrack Obama addresses the nation’s PreK-12 grade students on September 8. Specifically, look for what the President is likely to tell malleable little minds about what their roll in the Obamatization of the nation is.
Actually the [...]
Once again Charles Krauthammer presents us with much unpleasantness to think about. This time in the form of a grim alternative to Obamacare: Obamacare 2.0.
First the good news. The public option? Out, it scared people to death. End of life counseling? Ditto. Comparative effectiveness studies for use in determining [...]
The latest installment in the “let no crisis go to waste” passion play, brought to you by the Leftist “We Know Better Than You” Repertory Theatre: Teddy’s grandchildren pray for universal KennedyKare.
“That we be spared from the channeling of Ted Kennedy via his [...]
Meet Dianne Watson, another shining example of public education’s efficacy. She’s a Democratic Representative from California, and that’s probably all you need to know, but for additional grist there’s this:
Just for the record, she can’t really be stupid because she has a PhD in [...]
I swore there would be no more mention of Ted Kennedy’s demise on this blog. But then this Huffpo post started making the rounds, with such a ludicrous premise, for such a ludicrous punch line that a response is called for.
Here’s the money quote:
We don't know how' [...]
In a Joe Biden-esqe moment of “Committing Truth in Public,” Howie Dean explains to a Townhall why tort reform wasn’t included in any of the five Health Care Reform bills floating around on the Hill:
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, a medical doctor who served as governor of Vermont, [...]
If there’s still anyone out there who doesn’t believe public education is reckless child endangerment, please read Kay Hymowitz’s review of NurtureShock in today’s WSJ.
Written by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, NurtureShock takes you on a post-Dr. Spock tour of the educational theories du jour, debunking most [...]
Rumor has it that the first Halfrican- American president is going to play golf with the first Chigro-American Masters winner on the Vineyards this week. Not exactly a match up, on more than one level. In a normal world, I would argue that Barack Obama’s achievement has greatly eclipsed that [...]
Rumor has it that the first Halfrican- American president is going to play golf with the first Chigro-American Masters winner on the Vineyards this week. Not exactly a match up, on more than one level. In a normal world, I would argue that Barack Obama’s achievement has greatly eclipsed that [...]
Sometimes words, just words, aren’t enough to persuade the masses.
Sometimes even happy talk about the good intentions and likely outcomes aren’t convincing.
That’s when edicts and Chicago style thuggery are your best options.
Technorati Tags: obamacare,rahm emanuel,jack kevorkian,andy [...]
President Obama has again promised to ram Obamacare through, telling a radio show caller: "I guarantee you, Joe, we are going to get health care reform done."
So, call in the mad dogs when you need them. MSM, of course, is already on board, ensuring that any opponents are [...]
…went wee, wee, wee all the way home?
I see I’m not the only one wondering about the President’s odd turn of phrase at a DNC on-line Health Care forum on August 19th:
Michelle Malkin suggests several possible source codes for the phrase “all [...]
With apologies to Freud, sometimes a jokester is just a joke. So the genesis for the evil, racist poster of Obama as the Joker socialist wasn’t a rabid right winger. He’s actually Firas Alkhateeb, a bored college student who found a tutorial on how to “Jokerize” photos on the [...]
