Year: 2009

Hm. Instapundit cites Randy Barnett, who writes: When [Jeffrey] Rosen published his critique [of Sonya Sotomayor], I knew very little about Sotomayor. After forcing myself to watch much of the hearings, I wonder if those who criticized him then are having any second thoughts today. I am having second thoughts about my own measured enthusiasm […]

Over at FiveThirtyEight, True Believer Nate Silver is a wee bit upset about something John Hinderaker wrote about the cool period in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which John compared to the Year Without A Summer (1816,) which, yes, is a stretch. Nate goes to lengths to point out that the average temperature has been pretty much right […]

Crossposted from Stop the ACLU Here is the problem with hope and change. If you throw around empty phrases like this, and build people’s hopes up with high expectations and utopian ideals, things can only go in one direction…anti-climax. This is especially true if the utiopian ideals are built on a platform of flawed logic. […]

Most of the world’s media members, if asked, would undoubtedly identify themselves as sophisticates, who are too cynical and world-weary to take anything at face value. Their mental self-image almost certainly falls somewhere between wise-cracking Cary Grant (His Girl Friday) and idealistic Woodward and Bernstein. They care deeply, but they’ve seen it all. To which […]

No one could have predicted it, The world was probably not ready for it. But after I’d posted a response at The American Spectator, I noticed that Ace used the word “integrity,” and figured, what the heck? Like Paul F***ing Anka, Baby

Dennis Miller returned to the airwaves on Monday, after his vacation in Japan. Not a moment too soon — I was going through withdrawal. On Friday, Miller had on Steven Crowder, the young video satirist whose short video expose on Canadian "health care" I posted here earlier this week. (To those uninformed snarkers in the […]

The turnout in front of Jim Webb’s office was great! Please pass around.

I‘m not sure how often everyone has to be told, but here’s the warning again, just as Democrats attempt to pile another trillion plus dollars in federal health care spending (and debt). From the CBO Director’s blog: Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow […]

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I consider the American Conservative Union to generally be a force for good. I also have generally liked David Keene, the head of the ACU. However, after this story, the credibility of the ACU is now dependent on firing him, The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million […]

How immediate is immediately? Four months later…… AJ Strata: And what little stimulus money that has been spent (more on that at the end) has gone to keeping government bureaucrats in their cozy little jobs doing much of nothing. The private sector (where the vast majority of us work) is the one taking the pounding […]

No matter how bad things get under Comrade Obama, at least we have PETA for comic relief. The latest word in their campaign to have fish renamed “sea kittens” so that we’ll feel too guilty to eat them: PETA sent a letter to California State Parks Director Ruth Coleman on Wednesday offering to pay to […]

Possibly the scariest thing about moonbats is that they are morally capable of killing their own babies. People who can have their own children’s skulls crushed and brains sucked out for the sake of convenience aren’t going to have a problem doing even worse things to you. To quote Mother Teresa: I feel that the […]

Head count. Reducing head count is the quick and dirty way for companies to cut costs because employee salaries make up the biggest percentage of overhead in most businesses. So, when other costs go way up, when the economy is too weak to support raising prices, what’s a businessperson to do? He must, to stay […]

Wait a moment, I thought we were supposed to be planting lots and lots of trees in order to stop the spector of man made global warming so that the Earth cools down and the seas stop rising? Heck, there is a large part of the House AGW bill all about planting trees. No? Jobs […]

Yeah, yeah, I know, discussing health care is boring as dry white toast, like discussing taxes, like discussing school with Mom when you were thirteen. ZZZZZZZZ. But, something tells me that the CBO Director, Douglas Elmendorf, is going to be out of a job very soon if he keeps telling the truth about Democrat agenda […]

From the Guardian: The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has predicted that “almost all” news organisations will be charging for online content within a year. Barber said building online platforms that could charge readers on an article-by-article or subscription basis was one of the key challenges facing news organisations. “How these online payment models work […]

The American Spectator: CNN’s Roesgen Reportedly WillLeave Network; Bias AllegedCNN reporter Susan Roesgen will leave the network, a media-industry Web site reported Thursday, three months after Ms. Roesgen’s coverage of an April protest in Chicago drew widespread criticism. Ms. Roesgen’s “contract will not be renewed and she will be leaving the network,” Chris Ariens, managing […]

A number of lefties (See here, here, and here for examples) have seized on predictions made by conservative bloggers at Right Wing News back in 2003. Here’s the question I posed back then, If we go into Iraq, how many casualties do you expect to see (on the side of the US and our allies) […]

Speculations, even from Rush Limbaugh, that Governor Sarah Palin might form a third party has put her back in focus even more than after her recent resignation as governor. Thus, it is reasonable for Republicans, conservatives, and traditionally minded Americans to ask: Is Mrs. Palin producing a rebirth of conservatism and conservative candidates, or is […]

Meanwhile, as Europeans know, the most effective way to squeeze out costs, as Obama promises, is denial of care. Hip replacement at 60? Hey, that’s expensive and you’re too old. — Michael Barone Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have […]

At first glance, the folks over at AMERICAblog seemed to have a great scoop. Forget that copy of Playboy, kids, you don’t need to go any further than your local RNC.com Web site. Of course, in all seriousness, it’s far worse than that – the Web site of the Republican National Committee is also promoting […]

Why can’t all minorities understand that white liberals know what’s good for them? Why do they have to get all uppity and think differently? Further, why would a black man want to rely on facts instead of his empathy? Bad minority via Ed Morrissey who says, “I just love it when white politicians set themselves […]

There are two ways a company can make more money: increase fees or cut overhead. Overhead, for government run insurance would be….well, YOU. So, the way to cut overhead would to make it so you go to the doctor less, get less time with the doctor, and the doctor will get paid less. All in […]

Does anyone know who Dr. Doug Elmendorf is? He’s the director of the Congressional Budget Office. And today, in testimony before the Senate Budget Committee he answered a few questions from Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) about the supposed great savings the country would reap under the planned Democrat “health care reform” bills under consideration by […]

Some people DO get somethin’ for nothin’ and those people are costing the people who actually work a lot of money. In California and Michigan, the governments are deep in debt and losing workers by the thousands (and therefore, tax revenue). California is consuming 1/3 of U.S. welfare dollars and has only 12% of the […]

Dan Collins, lyrical genius: Take a little closer look, ah will ya huh. Ricci really sticks in my craw, Latina. Reasoning a mystery but empathy Sucking logic into its maw, Latina Read the whole thing. You might say Sotomayor has got the knack. But then again, you would say that, you racist!

There’s a reason Democrats try to ram their massive bills through quickly before anyone can read them. Look what someone found in the upcoming ObamaCare legislation: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making […]

There is no global warming occurring. That’s a plain, indisputable fact — or as Al Gore might put in, an inconvenient truth. But, let’s set that all-important fact aside and make three assumptions commonly made by global warming alarmists, all of which are untrue. 1) Global warming is occurring. 2) Manmade greenhouse emissions are causing […]

As Big Government prepares to replace the world’s finest healthcare system with another massive, dysfunctional, unsustainable entitlement, Social Security teeters on the verge of bankruptcy. Whatever happened to the $billions upon $billions that have been stolen from workers and shoveled into this sinkhole since the dark days of FDR? Here’s a clue: PHOENIX — A […]