Year: 2010

For a guy who says he’s an unequivocal backer of equal protection of the laws, you’d think Rand Paul might be a bit more, let’s say, careful in avoiding another big fight on civil rights issues. The 14th Amendment is the Holy Grail of the U.S. civil rights regime, and within a week of suggesting […]

Over at the WAPO, they’ve done an incredibly dishonest editorial about immigration that unfortunately mirrors so much of the debate, EVEN DRACONIAN measures like the one adopted in Arizona are not going to make 11 million immigrants already illegally here in this country magically disappear, let alone address this country’s dysfunctional immigration system. Neither is […]

Whenever an administration wants to bury a story, they put it out on a Friday. They hope it will be old news by Monday when people start to pay attention again. The administation got lucky on the Sestak report. It’s also a holiday weekend. It’s no wonder they want it buried: The White House asked […]

Theo Spark has a brief news clip, but see Jules Crittenden, “Miracle of Deliverance“: Under heavy attack by the Luftwaffe, an estimated 5,000 were killed in the evacuation and more than 200 vessels, one in four, were lost. Total allied casualties in the battle of Dunkirk, an estimated 30,000 killed or wounded and 34,000 missing […]

In any crisis you can be sure that the opposition party will be critical of the President. But you know the President has a bigger problem when those in his own party start criticizing him: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Thursday that President Barack Obama will pay a political price for his lack of visibility […]

Via I Hate the Media: Cross-posted from American Power.

That “but make no mistake” is the giveaway for President Obama’s damage control mode. The New York Times has a report, “Obama Defends Handling of Oil Spill.” Also, at Politico, “Obama: Critics ‘don’t know the facts’.” (Via Memeorandum.) The big question is whether this is Obama’s Katrina, and there’s no contest. Unlike 2005, the response […]

As if Rand Paul wasn’t enough! Now we have plump Indonesian 2 year-old Ardi Rizal creating an international sensation with his pack-a-day cigarette habit! Fearing for the health of the child, the Indonesian government offered to buy the family a car if they’d get the tot to quit. But Ardi’s proud freedom-loving daddy Mohammed responded, […]