Trench Warfare

Dark Night Of The Soul
Mr. Obama spoke darkly of the consequences of a failure to reach a budget deal, which would set off automatic spending cuts on the military and other programs. “These sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize our military readiness,” he said. (NYT, 2/12/2013)

As Charles Krauthammer has reminded us; the sequester is Obama's invention and military cuts is exactly what Obama and the Dems desire. The 'Legitimate Media' will not, of course, report this.


Shadowland
In another sign of the election’s lingering shadow, Mr. Obama was creating a bipartisan commission to investigate voting irregularities that led to long lines at polling sites in November. Studies indicate that these lines cost Democrats hundreds of thousands of votes. (NYT, 2/12/2013)

Republicans have been talking about voter fraud for years while Democrats have insisted it does not exist. Recent reports from Ohio indicate that there may be truth to the Republican claim. In response, Dems have now created the Next Big Lie which a compliant media will enshrine as fact (see Climate Change). The lie is that "hundreds of thousands" of Democrat voters were disenfranchised; notwithstanding, of course, an Obama victory.


Autonomous
Vermont’s independent child care providers continue to resist efforts by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and a number of state legislators, including Governor Peter Shumlin, to force them into becoming part of a collective bargaining unit under the AFT’s umbrella.

Vermont's Child Care providers are independent small business owners, many of whom chose their profession because of the autonomy if affords them. The concept of a union is antithetical to the core values of many, and they’ve vowed to fight the effort. (TrueNorthReports.com, 2/10/2013)

We had heard a bit about this issue and thought mistakenly that Vermont's child care providers were looking to unionize. Silly us! It's the teachers union that is demanding that they unionize and Vermont's feckless Progressives who are supporting it. It's all about the union dues, of course. It is always about the union dues. A portion of such dues which first go to pay off the union bosses and the balance of which get funneled to Liberal politicians. Vermont's child care workers are no different than other workers who - when given the opportunity to do so - opt out of joining a union. 


Transfixed
Over the last decade, as activists started pushing colleges to accommodate transgender students, they first raised only basic issues, like recognizing a name change or deciding who could use which bathrooms. But the front lines have shifted fast, particularly at the nation’s elite colleges, and a growing number are now offering students health insurance plans with coverage for gender reassignment surgery. 
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Those lists include many of the top American universities — Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Penn, Emory, Northwestern, the University of California system, Yale, Princeton, M.I.T., Washington University and others. 
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Princeton says on its Web site that it has been named a “top 10 trans friendly university” and that “recently, we launched an online guide” for transgender students. (NYT, 2/12/2013)

Need more proof that the End of Days is rapidly approaching? 

Here it is. 

You have been warned.  


Expectations
Mr. Obama's second inaugural was a clarion call to "collective action," as he put it, and Tuesday's speech showed what he thinks that should mean in practice. "The American people don't expect government to solve every problem," he said, while proceeding to offer a new government program to solve every problem. (WSJ, 2/13/2013)

Mr. Fix-it.