Are Christian missionaries “pernicious”? The Washington Post seems to think so. You know the word “pernicious,” which Webster’s defines as  “highly injurious or destructive.” Webster’s then offers these synonyms for “pernicious,” including, “noxious,” “deleterious,” and “detrimental.”

As is so typical of the Post, and of the MSM in general, this little bit of bigotry was a throwaway, a gratuitous dig–a dig, of course, that reveals much about The Post’s underlying mentality.

In a review of a book about a botanical garden in Hawaii, Carolyn See, a longtime contributor to the Post’s “Style” section, includes this nasty little aside about newcomers who changed the ecosystem of Hawaii: “then white people and their pernicious missionaries.” Needless to say, no other group was similarly saddled with an insulting modifier. Only missionaries are “pernicious.”

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Should the federal government bail out the state of California?   You know, the federal government that owes trillions–should it give borrowed money to a state that owes billions?   The Washington Post sure seems to think so.   Here’s the way its front-page story this morning begins:  “The Obama administration has turned back pleas for emergency aid from one of the biggest remaining threats to the economy — the state of California.”  Wow.  One’s first reaction is that if even the Obama administration opposes a bailout, then it must be a pretty bad bailout.

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Even the Obama administration recognizes that California doesn’t have a ‘budget crisis’ — it has a spending crisis.

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But the word-choices in The Post piece are instructive–instructive about the knee-jerk bailout mentality of the MSM: those meanies in the Obama White House have “turned back pleas” from the Golden State.   And then this is rich: The Post describes California’s budget crisis as “one of the biggest remaining threats to the economy.”

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Nancy Reagan, born nearly nine decades ago, has now lived long enough to see her late husband, President Ronald Reagan, permanently enshrined in the pantheon of America’s civic faith: A statue of The Gipper now stands tall in the Rotunda of the Capitol, where he was sworn in for a second presidential term in 1985 — and where his body lay in state in 2004.

Mrs. Reagan, you are the queen of our hearts.  And not just the hearts of those of us who worked in your husband’s political campaigns, or served with him in Sacramento or Washington, or who proudly voted for him.  Now, all Americans — OK, almost all Americans — regard your Ronnie as a great president, and they revere you as the woman who helped him every step of the way, and who added style and grace to her eight years as First Lady.

Born during the term of the 29th President, Warren G. Harding, the former Nancy Davis always said that her life truly began when she met the man who would become the 40th President.  And now she has the pleasure of seeing the 44th President, Barack Obama, pay tribute to the two of them. Keep Reading …

The world thunderously opposes the North Korean a-bomb blast, vowing decisive action.  Or does it?

No matter what the answer to the above question, there’s no doubt the world is watching to see what President Obama will do.  So far, the signs are not encouraging.

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This is a test for President Obama.  He says that North Korea must disarm, and he says that Iran must disarm.  But what if they don’t want to?

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The mainstream media is doing its best to paint a rosy scenario of a post-George W. Bush world, falling into line behind Barack Obama’s leadership.

The headline in The Washington Post is both blunt and encouraging: “North Korea Nuclear Blast Draws Global Condemnation/China, Russia Decry Ally.” The Post goes on to quote the Chinese as saying that they are “resolutely opposed” to such tests.

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The election news from Hawaii seems both interesting and unobjectionable: Honolulu has became the first jurisdiction to run an “all digital” election–that is, all the ballots were cast on the Internet, or by telephone.  After the voting was finished on Friday, the  Associated Press headline painted the Aloha State as e-pioneers: “Honolulu’s Internet vote considered 1st in nation.”

For its part, The Honolulu Advertiser praised the digital balloting, calling it “a worthwhile experiment that can help Hawai’i move toward a more efficient, electronic polling system for all of its political contests.”

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For Republicans, a Democrat-dominated e-vote system would be a swift road to political extinction.

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The Honolulu elections were for neighborhood councils; they had no effect on any state or federal offices.  Yet it’s easy to see a precedent in the making here: If 115,000 people voted from the comfort of their own homes, saving the city $100,000, then how much hassle and money would be saved if the city deployed more “digital democracy” in the future?  For city elections?  For statewide elections?  And, most consequentially, for federal elections?

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