GOP Moving Away From Path To Citizenship For Illegals

Well, this should drive Democrats nuts (Washington Times) House Republicans are meeting Wednesday to hash out their own strategy on immigration, but already one major difference has emerged between them and their Senate counterparts – they are far less enthusiastic about an eventual path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Even many of the 32 Senate […]

 

We’re Apparently All Deniers Of The Third Kind Now

One of the things I adore when it comes to the “climate change” debate is that Warmists are always coming up with new ways to amuse me. Sure, Democrats/Liberals/Progressives (you can add in Marxists, Socialists, and authoritarians in, too) can be maddening, and Warmists are primarily made up of those people, but their unhinged pronouncements […]

 

WSJ: King Obama Suspends The Law

Michael McConnell notes that (NMP) Obama is acting more like an English king of old (Wall Street Journal) President Obama’s decision last week to suspend the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act may be welcome relief to businesses affected by this provision, but it raises grave concerns about his understanding of the role of […]

 



Obamacare Exchanges Won’t Bother Verifying Income

What could possibly go wrong? (Washington Post) The Obama administration announced Friday that it would significantly scale back the health law’s requirements that new insurance marketplaces verify consumers’ income and health insurance status. Instead, the federal government will rely more heavily on consumers’ self-reported information until 2015, when it plans to have stronger verification systems […]

 

Fast And Furious Gun Used In Killing Of Mexican Police Chief

During a Republican presidential administration, this would be big news. Heck, it would have been big news from the get-go, with angry opinion pieces and editorials demanding massive Congressional inquiries. At least two American federal agents were killed by the 2,400 guns that were “walked.” At least 200 Mexican civilians, including children, have been killed […]

 



NY Times Publishes Pro-Muslim Brotherhood Op-Ed

Of course, this is one of the great things about American democracy (don’t start with the “it’s a Republic” thing), based on the 1st Amendment: allowing other viewpoints. Which is interesting for the NY Times, because, at best, they rarely allow more than super-squishy Republicans to publish op-eds. Anyhow, here’s the Brookings Institute’s Shadi Hamid, […]

 





Obama Calls For “Calm” In Egypt While Offering Toast To Tanzanian Dictator

As I tweeted yesterday George W Bush had his faults, but standing up for liberty, freedom, and democracy wasn't one of them #egypt — WilliamTeach (@WilliamTeach) July 1, 2013 (Daily Caller) President Barack Obama toasted the founding dictator of post-colonial Tanzania on Monday, who collectivized the nation’s low-tech agricultural sector, established a one-party state and […]

 

Man With 41,000 Metric Ton Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Want Africans To Have AC And Big Houses

1st World Warmists simply hate that people in the 3rd world want the same things 1st worlders have (via JGlanton) (CNS News) President Barack Obama said at a town hall event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday that unless we find new way of producing energy “the planet will boil over” if people in Africa […]

 



Atheists Build Monument In Florida, Promise 50 More

I’ve often said that I have no problem with the 10 Commandments being on public property: the religious clause is about government establishing a nation religion, not against the government displaying religion. The clause was in response to how much the Church of England was involved in government pre-revolution. That said, I’ve also stated that […]

 

Congressman Steve Stockman Says Senate Amnesty Bill Is Unconstitutional

Not that many elected officials actually care about that pesky Constitution thingy (Washington Times) Rep. Steve Stockman, a Texas Republican, said Friday that the Senate immigration bill is a revenue measure, which makes it unconstitutional because all revenue bills must start in the House. “Not only is the Senate amnesty bill an abuse of taxpayers […]

 

Horrified Bird Watchers See Rare White Throated Needletail Whacked By Wind Turbine

But, as we’ve seen, most Warmist supporters forget that they’re cult is supposed to be based in environmentalism, and tell us that a few bird deaths are no big deal, not when we’re saving Gaia from catching a fever and having Bad Weather. (UK Daily Mail) There had been only eight recorded sightings of the […]

 

More Than Half Of Republican Senators Vote Against Amnesty Bill

That’s the headline at The Hill, except it says “immigration bill” rather than amnesty bill. Alternated headline: 100% of Democrats Vote For Amnesty Bill that Doesn’t Actually Secure The Border And Will Allow Criminals To Obtain Legal Status and Federal Benefits (The Hill) More than half of the Senate GOP conference voted against the immigration […]

 

Obama Talks NBA During Toast In Senegal

So, the man with the Largest Carbon Footprint In The World who just stated that he’s going to Do Something about reducing “carbon pollution” flies to Africa and gives a toast in Senegal, which includes this Sadly, it appears as if he’s looking down to read his toast, and was still a stuttering fool. I […]

 

White House Releases Its Scareathon State By State “Climate Change” Report

The best is the one from Hawaii, which notes (via Watts Up With That?) The US Department of Agriculture designated 31 counties in Hawaii as primary natural disaster areas due to damages and losses from drought in 2012. Hawaii has 5 counties. One would think that a president who was raised there might know that. […]

 

Surprise: Several Liberal Groups Enraged Over Border Control Provisions

Liberal and pro-amnesty groups must surely know that the border control provisions in the Democrat Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill will, for the most part, be ignored, especially by the current far-left administration. Just like happened when the last amnesty was passed. Just like with much of the border control legislation passed in 2006 (which was also […]

 

Man With Giant Carbon Footprint Squees Over Speech Given By Man With Biggest CFP In World

If you guessed that the first was Al Gore, and he’s congratulating Obama for making a speech, you get a cookie. No beer. It contains CO2 (Al’s Journal) This was a terrific and historic speech, by far the best address on climate by any president ever. I applaud the new measures announced by President Barack […]

 


Fifteen Republicans Duped By Shumer-Corker-Hoeven Border Amnesty Bill

Does anyone else think that the National Republican Senatorial Committee is going to have a really tough time getting donations for 2014? (The Hill) The Senate voted 67-27 Monday to advance a border security amendment to bipartisan immigration legislation, building momentum for a final vote later this week. Fifteen of the “yes” votes were Republicans, […]

 

Big Carbon Footprint Obama To Give His Deflection To Climate Change Speech Today

The big question is, will he forgo either traveling in a huge fossil fueled motorcade or taking fossil fueled Marine 1 to Georgetown and instead slapping on the Mom Jeans and ride his bicycle? Yeah, we know which mode of transportation he’ll choose (CBS) With little to no hope on Capitol Hill for action on […]

 

Rich SecState Takes Fossil Fueled Flight To India To Complain About Fossil Fuels

If Obama wanted a Secretary of State whose primary focus was “Climate change”, he picked the right one in John Kerry, a true disciple of Gore and Mann, who cares little for science, and ignores the 15+ year pause in warming, ignores that most climate models fail, and is an utter climahypocrite. (NY Times) Secretary […]