Author: TrogloPundit

Senate Democrats target pay of health insurance executives: Senate Democrats will offer an amendment this weekend to curb the pay of executives at health insurance companies that benefit from federal subsidies, fueling the growing feud with the powerful industry. Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) have sponsored an amendment that […]

Well that’s interesting. (CNN) — Music from late rapper Tupac Shakur has been included as part of the Vatican’s official MySpace Music playlist. …”The genres are very different from each other, but all these artists share the aim to reach the heart of good minded people,” the Vatican wrote on its official MySpace Music page. […]

Headline: Unemployment Rate Falls to 10%. Unemployment is down! Hip hip…oh, no, wait, it’s still at 10%. Holy crap. And this is the good news? And…is it really the good news? Here’s the story from the Wall Street Journal: U.S. job losses in November posted the smallest drop since the start of the recession and […]

“I don’t believe in the no-win scenario.” Captain James T. Kirk Who should conservatives be: Captain Kirk or John Galt? Duane Lester’s asking that question over at All American Blogger. James T. Kirk — the brash young Starfleet officer who became a brash old Starfleet officer who refuses to accept defeat no matter the odds. […]

1. Katie Couric was totally hitting on her before their interview. 2. McCain really only picked her for Veep in an attempt to make Mrs. McCain jealous (it worked). 3. It also made Meghan jealous. 4. The boots are left over from an old Nazi Mistress costume. 5. Sarah was the quiet mousy girl nobody […]

I’m painting with a broad brush, of course. I’m applying one guy’s statement to a large (although not the largest) segment of American society. Still, I think I’m on solid ground here. Liberals think money grows on trees. Ezra Klein, talking about the health care “reform” bill currently being bandied about in the U.S. Senate: […]

When the federal government can take money out of our pockets — out of our grandchildren’s pockets, that is — to build a tunnel for turtles; when the Commerce Clause and the General Welfare Clause are cited as authority to regulate anything from what farmers can plant to what Grandma can sell at her yard […]

In “Goodfellas,” the mob movie that won Joe Pesci an Oscar, the restaurant owner found out what it means to take the money. Not money, exactly — he took protection. He asked the mob boss to become a silent partner, in order to protect him from other mobsters — like Joe Pesci — who were […]

The fact that I don’t own a dog offsets the carbon footprint I create with my daily commute, see. Add that to the European vacation (including round-trip flights and several hours on the Autobahn) that I didn’t take, and I am as green as Kermit with the flu. What am I talking about? This: New […]

As President Obama loves to say, let me be perfectly clear: I’m not about to argue this point with Sen. Specter. You know. Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA). He was a Democrat until political opportunity made him a Republican in 1955, and he was a Republican until political oppportunity made him back into a Democrat in […]

Winnie the Pooh got his head stuck in a honey jar, but Winnie the Pooh isn’t from Wisconsin. HAYWARD, Wis. — Shoppers in a Wisconsin grocery store got an unexpected surprise when a 125-pound black bear wandered inside and headed straight for the beer cooler. That’s kind of a small one. Somebody probably should have […]

Heck if I know. I’ve read a little about other potential candidates, none of whom I’d ever heard of before. But this is an interesting idea: As bad as they are, nukes have been instrumental in reversing the long, seemingly inexorable trend in modernity toward deadlier and deadlier conflicts. If the Nobel committee wants someday […]

Twenty-four-plus hours after the fact, and the blogosphere is still in an uproar over Nobel Laureate Barack Obama. By the way, whose mirror do you think heard that phrase — Nobel Laureate Barack Obama — more over the past day: Obama’s, or Hillary Clinton’s? Anyway. Something like this makes it easy to separate the ideologues […]

Headline: Fear of Losing Private Health Insurance Trumps ‘Public Option’ Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters nationwide say guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage is a higher priority than giving consumers the choice of a “public option” health insurance company. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just […]

So President Obama went to Copenhagen, to “convince” the IOC that Chicago should get the 2016 Games. He failed. Rio got them instead. And all along the way, some of the most popular, widest-read, most influential conservative columnists were getting it wrong. For example, Allahpundit: There’s no way The One would risk his political capital […]

So David Letterman is a chronic adulterer whose failings made him a target for blackmail. “Just imagine how this would play if it were Glenn Beck,” Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds writes. Yeah, good point. Not that major media haven’t covered it — it was the lead story on Yahoo for large portions of Thursday and Friday, […]

Kevin Jennings, director of the White House “Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools” (a.k.a. the “Safe Schools Czar”), is the latest Obama czar to come under conservative fire. The main reason, purportedly: he thinks schools are an awesome place to promote homosexuality. Pat “And So It Goes in Shreveport” Austin has a great rundown […]

Just imagine: your philosophy calls for large-scale government intrusion in everyday life. Government should control industry. Control health care. The profit motive has no place in your ideal society. Capitalism is the problem. You are a member of the National Socialist Party, better known as the Nazis. Oh, yes, they exist, right here in the […]

Somebody tell Eugene Robinson: I think we’ve got a clear example of racism, and it’s coming from the White House: In a stunning request, the Obama administration has made it clear to poll-challenged Gov. Paterson that the White House would prefer he not seek election to a full four-year term next year. The “official” line […]

No such thing as intelligent design, you say. No higher power, no Creator, no Builder setting the universe’s Legos one on top of the other to create the perfect world for sustaining life. No great weaver of tapestries, pulling this thread, then that one, setting the stage for human existence. Human prosperity. Human life — […]

Here’s how it works. One: start with one black president. Two: add peaceful (if rowdy) protest. Three: enjoy the widespread appreciation that lively debate can ensue in the post-racial society called Obamaland. Ha! I crack myself up. Number three should read: Racism! Writing in the Washington Post, columnist Eugene Robinson says that, yeah, some anti-Obama […]

Politico: DNC promises ‘rain of hellfire’ The increasingly aggressive Democratic National Committee on Friday launched a new “Call ’Em Out” website targeting prominent Republicans for statements they have made about President Barack Obama’s health reform plans. …DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan said: “The message to opponents of change who would lie or misrepresent the truth should […]

President Obama said it: illegal aliens (or immigrants, or “undocumented” immigrants…or workers…pick your euphemism) will not be covered under his health care plan. Actually, they could be, in several different circumstances. But they won’t be. The president said so. They so won’t be covered under ObamaCare, in fact, the U.S. Senate working to take the […]

No, really. The South Carolina Republican who yelled “you lie” at President Obama Wednesday night served 31 in the Army and National Guard. Retired as a Colonel. His four sons all serve, too. That hypocritical bastard. Newsweek’s Adam Weinstein writes: Cut the man some slack. He’s passionate! I know this because he told me, in […]

I hadn’t heard about this: The campaign finance reform case being argued Wednesday at the Supreme Court is about the tension in federal elections between free speech and government regulation. Another campaign finance reform vs. free speech case. Last time, the Court ruled in favor of free speech. Five to four. This time…well, I don’t […]