To anybody paying attention, this man should have no credibility:

"If Obama were a CEO,...he’d be prosecuted for fraud."

And what would your political acumen get you, Professor?

You'd become The Blog Father - Of Massive Wrong Calls,...

 

Defying critics at home and abroad, the Indian Space Research Organization is preparing to launch its first interplanetary exploration satellite to Mars. Called the Mangalyaan—”Mars Craft”—the satellite is expected to launch tomorrow afternoon and will reach the Martian atmosphere in September 2014.

India has been criticized for spending $72 million on the project instead of on “toilets and teachers,” as the FT‘s Victor Mallet put it. Indeed, the statistics are jarring. According to the World Bank a third of the world’s poorest people live in India. “I don’t understand the importance of India sending a space mission to Mars when half of its children are undernourished and half of all Indian families have no access to sanitation,” the well-known economist Jean Drèze told the FT last year when the Mangalyaan project was being organized. “It seems to be part of the Indian elite’s delusional quest,...”

I hope it works.

Anyone who acquires the narrative of 12 Years A Slave and finds it within his shrunken heart to continue any argument for the sanctity and perfection of our Founding Fathers, for the moral wisdom of their compromised document of national ideal that begins the American experience, or for their anachronistic or historically understandable tolerance of slavery — they are arguing from a desolate, amoral corner.

If original intent included the sadism and degradation of human slavery, then original intent is a legal and moral standard that can be consigned to the ash heap of human history. Hardcore conservatives and libertarians who continue to parse the origins of the Constitutions under the guise of returning to a more perfect American union are on a fool’s journey to decay and dishonor.

“No libertarians identify as black Protestant,…”