The Best of Uncommon Commentary

Calling UC #62 a "best of" uncommon commentary might seem naught more than a euphemism for an old one, but I have updated it since it made its debut, and you might not have seen it in the first place; and so, why don't you stop reading this and start reading it?

Uncommon Commentary #345

Many opinioneers correctly decry our government as dysfunctional, corrupt, and, as the scandals of the current presidential administration have reminded us, sometimes even oppressive.  Judge Andrew Napolitano, for instance, with whom I usually agree despite his excessive reverence for the USA's Founding Fathers, often likens the present regime's practices to those of King and Parliament that allegedly impelled (some of the) denizens of the Thirteen Colonies to revolt against the rule of the home country.  These pundits, however, always shrink from what I consider to be the inescapable conclusion of their logic, which is that what some call the "American experiment" has failed and that we're no better governed—indeed, probably worse so—than we would be had we never waged our war of independence.

Uncommon Commentary #344: Kermit the Toad

It's hard to feel that justice has been done in the case of infanticide Kermit Gosnell, who has been sentenced only to life imprisonment despite being found guilty on three counts of first-degree murder (and on hundreds of lesser charges).  The life expectancy of a male in this country is currently 75.94 years, and so, should the 72-year-old Gosnell survive until the mean age of death, he will effectively serve a total of under four years in prison for the three of his thousands of murders for which he's actually been convicted.  Since I consider it appropriate to let the punishment fit the crime, I would, if I had the power to do this, and at the risk of being accused of cruelty, have the prisoner executed using the same method that he used to kill those babies: cutting through the neck with scissors.

Miscellaneous Musing #51: He Couldn't Have Dun More to Free Slaves

It's been established that in 1862, the year of his "Emancipation Proclamation", President Lincoln still had disturbingly unenlightened attitudes toward Blacks.  This raises an intriguing question: Was the motivation for his proclamation any different from that for the one made four-score-and-seven years earlier, by Virginia's royal governor Lord Dunmore, viz., to recruit slaves as soldiers to help win a war of secession?

Uncommon Commentary #343: Kermit the Dog

I find it extraordinary that no one, to my knowledge, made the same observation that I am now about public attitude during the just-concluded trial of serial killer Kermit Gosnell: Even someone who believes that there is a right to commit fœticide ought to be appalled to learn of the unsanitary conditions and medical inadequacies of Gosnell’s pseudo-clinic.  Do pro-choicers not care that his malpractice caused the death of a woman who was exercising what they consider to be her "right to choose"?  Evidently not.  The lack of indignation from Abortion Land demonstrates at least their true lack of concern for the women in whose interests they pretend to act, and perhaps also that they know that the "House of Horrors" was not exceptional.

Uncommon Commentary #342: "Benghazi-Gate"? May I Suggest "Give-Obama-the-Gate"?

In his ongoing cover-up of the cover-up related to the 11 September 2012 attack, President Obombast said “There’s no there there”.  That Obama eloquence just keeps flowing, doesn't it?
The Obfuscator-in-Chief also dismissed as a "sideshow" the efforts of Republicans (and a pitifully small number of Democrats, whom, unsurprisingly, he didn't mention) to learn the whole truth about the actions that his administration took as a result of what happened in Benghazi.  In a way, he's right; just as when the Clintons were jointly president, government scandals are coming along so quickly that you practically need a database to keep track of them, and so the one concerning Benghazi could well become lost in the crowd.

Uncommon Commentary #341: Tweets by Twits

The White House Twitter account put out "tweets" on the Tenth of this month to promote the (Patient Protection and) Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCareless (see the list of domanisms).  One read: "Thanks to the #ACA, 1 in 3 women under 65 gained access to preventive care—like birth control—with no out-of-pocket costs. #HappyMothersDay".  A story from LifeNews related this information, but did not explicitly note the irony of affixing a "hashtag" (if that's what those things are called) that reads "HappyMothersDay" to a "tweet" touting what the ACA (or OC) has done for birth control; hence, one of two reasons for this uncommon commentary.  My second reason for writing is to alert you to the use of the phrase "preventive care"; since when does this term, which applies to the prevention of disease, subsume birth control?  As I previously wrote here on the D.D., conceiving and bearing children is absolutely normal; in fact, without the ability to reproduce, our species would have gone extinct quite some time ago.  Twits don't come any "twitter" than those who work for Obama.