Jindal response to Obama… Jindal in ’12!

Prof calls student fascist, tries to expel him

A professor at Los Angeles City College, John Matteson, must have been on one diet pill too many when he went to work last November. During a public speaking class taught by Matteson, student Johnathan Lopez gave a speech opposing gay marriage and was not allowed to finish his assignment by Matteson.

In fact, according to online news accounts, the professor called Lopez a fascist, followed by an expletive, and when Lopez attempted to protest to school officials, Matteson allegedly threatened to get Lopez expelled. So much for the “marketplace of ideas” in higher education. Then again, Los Angeles City College is hardly the Ivy League, now, is it?

A lawsuit is in the works.

Netanyahu may prevail; Obama sweats

Israel’s next prime minister may be Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the conservative Likud Party. Although Likud finished one seat behind the incumbent center-left Kadima Party, conservative parties won far more seats than center and leftist parties, giving Netanyahu a stronger likelihood to form a coalition majority.

Israel’s shift to the right comes just as the US has taken a radical shift to the left under new President Barack Obama, he of the Patek Philippe watches. Obama, apparently, is arrogant enough to believe his victory last November means not only does the US need to give him his way because he won, but that Israel should, also.

Obama’s administration has openly rooted for Livni of Kadima to emerge as the victor. It will be interesting to see how Obama and company respond if Israel offers a hearty, “Screw you,” to Washington.

Pope Benedict XVI muffs Jewish-Catholic relations

It’s been a bad month for Jewish-Catholic relations as Pope Benedict XVI has muffed it pretty badly. First he attempted to reinstate a Holocaust-denying British Bishop, Richard Williamson, then stepped back a bit by insisting Williamson recant those statements before being reinstated. All without the benefit of even so much as Hamilton watches as an apology.

Benedict has also attempted to reinstate a prayer for the conversion of the Jews into his Easter Week service, which drags the church back to its Constantinian anti-Judaic roots. To make matters worse, a senior cardinal recently was quoted comparing Gaza under the Israeli offensive to a concentration camp.

Maybe Pope Benedict XVI needs to take a long, long nap and wake up a bit less grumpy… like, no sooner than a week from now. A big, divine time-out for the Pontiff is definitely worth considering.

Tzipi Livni trying to close deal with Israelis

Foreign minister Tzipi Livni of Israel’s centerist party, Kadima, is still trailing Likud candidate Binyamin Netanyahu, a conservative, by margin, but that margin is closing as she is coming off a 22-day offensive against Hamas in Gaza, a popular move in Israel.

Netanyahu’s popularity is based on his stronger stance on foreign policy issues; a former prime minister himself, Netanyahu is the favored candidate at this point, but late moves could still change the momentum in Livni’s favor.

If elected, Livni would not be the first female prime minister of Israel; that honor fell to Golda Meier back in the 1970s. How’s that compared to a reasonable life insurance quote?

Obama gets cocky

Joining his former colleagues in the US House and Senate, President Obama has decided to adopt a cocky tone in his dialog on how the nation should proceed with a $900 billion stimulus bill that includes funding for such things as federally funded abortions.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been quoted as saying that funding abortion would stimulate the US economy.

What?

As his ideas are being questioned more closely, President Obama is adopting a cocky tone similar to that employed by Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, constantly reminding everyone, “We won the election, so we get to do what we want.”

That kind of arrogance won’t extend President Obama’s honeymoon period in Washington for very long. Look for rugs to start being pulled from under him very soon by the same media that “made” him.