"Mr. Pharoah, you can plunge in right after those pesky Israelites -- we'll cover you 100 percent!" >

But there are some things that even I cannot pass over in silence. How does a society that claims to be sophisticated, cultivated, and governed by the rule of law allow Damien Hirst to continue swindling the art world and a gullible public? And not just swindling, but insulting everybody in the bargain. He is to Andy Warhol what Bernard Madoff was to Charles Ponzi. Granted, much of contemporary art is tasteless, but Hirst sets a galactic record for tastelessness.

Actually, Anthony Kennedy is usually regarded as a moderate swing vote, when other things are equal. It's only when he doesn't vote the way people want that he becomes an arch-conservative/liberal.

<might now utilize the “judicial activism” for which conservatives have criticized liberals.>

That's the party line Obama test marketed the other week, but the test was a failure. All it did was get people thinking he didn't know about Marbury vs. Madison, and a hundred other cases. Striking down unconstitutional laws is in fact what the court is there to do. Activism is the exact opposite, when the court makes new laws. Obama knew this, he was simply hoping that you didn't and would just blindly repeat whatever he said. (Give him credit, he pegged that one.)

<Hypocrisy should no longer surprise us.>

<Last December, a poll revealed something encouraging about spirituality in America. When asked if they had ever had a religious or mystical experience, more responders said yes than no. This was a first in the 47 years that the Pew Research pollsters have been asking the question. (A religious or mystical experience was defined as "moment of sudden religious insight or awakening.")

<<<<< >>>>>>

Hardly. I have been noting the rise and fall of the DOW with Obama's chances here. Been Pooh Poohed, naturally.

However....

http://www.politico.com/politico44/...

Hmm-mmm-mmm.

Unfortunately for me, the correlation is the opposite from what I was promoting!!!!

=== Obama Goes After the Market--Again ===

Obama made another speech with his traditional 40 lies about the Buffett rule nd what a sin it is for him to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary (omitting the fact that he is comparing apples to oranges, and that he himself also pays a lower rate than HIS secretary--which was comparing APPLES to APPLES. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/... )

I can't over praise the Levin monolog on Obama's obvious lies from his recent speech about taxing the rich...and what the Obama administration actually has to do to raise more taxes. Plus his lies again about why Oil Speculators are to blame for price increases. Take a listen:

http://tiny.cc/ow4zcw

=== Obama Not Marxist in Outlook? ====

Such a great show from Levin on the 17th April, and features an interview with a Cuban refugee caller about the horrors of Castro's glorious "Hope and Change" in Cuba....and how that echo from Obama sent fresh fear shivers down his back. (And he never mentions the Glorious Great Health Care in Cuba, btw!!!!) Hear the discussion around the 92 minute mark of that link. NOTED: People do not flee TO communist countries.

Also in the program: Mark comments about Diane Sawyer asking Romney if he isn't too rich to connect with the American public. Mark's take on that is too *SANE* for any American to ignore. I have an additional comment: When did Diane Sawyer or any MSM left-wing journalist ask john Kerry (arguably richer than Romney...and with no work on his part) if he wasn't "too rich to connect with the American people" when he ran against George Bush in 2004? Of course they didn't. They are "in" as Michelle Obama would say...they are with Obama in his class warfare strategy, and want the "richness" of Romney to be on our minds.

With Kerry, it was the last thing they wanted on your minds.

And Kerry's image as a New England blue blood certainly hurt him in the campaign against "regular guy" Bush.

Damien Hirst lives and works in Devon and London, U.K. He was included in the 1992 Young British Artists exhibition at Saatchi Gallery, London and in 1995 he won the Turner Prize. Solo exhibitions of Hirst’s work have been held at Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples (2004), Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo (2005), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2008), Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2009), The Wallace Collection, London (2009–10), the Oceanographic Museum, Monaco (2010), the Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Florence (2010) and Tate Modern, London (2012). Damien Hirst has been exhibiting with Gagosian Gallery since 1996.>