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This one sentence tells you all you need to know about Obama. Speaking to Katie Couric on Feb. 7, Obama said: “I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, academically approved approach to health care, and didn’t have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it, and just go […]

FreedomWorks is asking everyone that is able to come to Washington, DC on March 16th, 2010 for one last push against Obamacare. We will meet at the Cannon building at 9am and speak with as many representatives as possible, encouraging them to vote NO on this version of health care reform.

Let me explain the less than honest way the Democrats are trying to pass Obamacare. Newt Gingrich, who certainly knows the rules, explains it here. The problem the Democrats are having is bringing the pro life Democrats on board. They don’t want to vote for a bill with abortion funding in it. So House Democrats […]

Original post at Big Government The other day I exposed the fact that Harry Reid switched the languagein the House-passed H.R. 3590 Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 and inserted the Senate version of the healthcare bill via a manager’s amendment in order to meet the requirement of all legislation raising taxes originate […]

Tom Hanks has brought more attention to the stories of World War II than one man can be expected to bring. However, a recent article in Time magazine makes me wonder what he is going to do with stories from the Pacific Theater. The Pacific, his new 10-hour epic about the Pacific theater in World […]

Part of Obama’s appeal was his intelligence. I may have thought him wrong on the issues, but still intelligent. I am starting to question that. Rasmussen’s latest daily poll shows Obama now at 43% approval, with 56% disapproving, the lowest figures of his presidency. It took Pres. George Bush almost six years to get to […]

“We need to rise above an ends justify the means mentality” What a difference five years makes. Suddenly the ends justifying the means is the way to go. What a hypocrite. Update: This is related since it also points to Obama’s hypocrisy. From ABC’s The Note: Obama, speaking at an event for health care reform […]

If you were listening to Glenn Beck this morning you heard him and Michelle Malkin get into a rather heated argument about Beck having ex-Congressman Eric Massa on his show today. Yes, it’s just delicious political theatre to listen to Massa talk about Rham Emanuel walking round naked in the House showers and intimidating House […]

David Brooks is always fun to kick around, so let the fun begin.:  Brooks is another one of these columnists who has run with this, “Tea Partiers are just wingnutty versions of hippies, why, they’re no conservatives at all!” idea.:  Oh, sure, there are some small similarities with the New Left, but the idea that […]

This has been all over the net yesterday and today. Dan Rather is kind of known for his folkisms. Here is the transcript: When you talk about a triumph though, part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama’s leadership and the Republicans are making a case, a lot of […]

At the Los Angeles Times, “‘Hurt’ Locks it Up“: “The Hurt Locker,” a gritty, challenging and little-seen drama about bomb disposal in the Iraq war, was the leading winner with six Academy Awards on Sunday night, including best picture and the first directing honor for a female filmmaker. Academy Award organizers had doubled this year’s […]

Paul Krugman, an op-ed columnist for the The New York Times, truly illustrates the warped thinking of many liberals. In his latest piece he states that Republicans and Democrats live in different universes. That part is undeniably true. But his universe is clearly the “Alice In Wonderland” type of universe. Nothing quite makes sense when […]

See update below In an interesting turn of events this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced by her caucus to pry Rep. Charlie Rangel’s (D-NY) Ways and Means gavel out of his hands and throw Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) under the bus. Then, she cut Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) loose late Friday afternoon, pressuring […]

While I agree most of the time with Byron York, there is a clarification needed in his article correcting left-wing writer Ezra Klein’s piece today. This December article by RedState’s Dan Perrin explains: Now, because of Senator DeMint’s objection, unless the House votes for the Senate bill unchanged – which is highly unlikely (see below) […]

At least, as long as you don’t read too far past the first few paragraphs of this story, they’re wise. GENEVA — The result was emphatic: Swiss voters don’t think abused animals need to have their own lawyers. It’s a proposal that would never even come near a referendum in other countries… Interjection: depends on […]

Here’s Reed Johnson, discussing “Hurt Locker” director Kathryn Bigelow, in a February 28th piece at the Los Angeles Times: In the old-boys club that is modern Hollywood, there are few surer ways to kill off a promising film career than by getting yourself labeled a “feminist” director. Over the years, Kathryn Bigelow has quietly steered […]

UPDATE: Via Bloomberg, “FBI Says U.S. Hasn’t Confirmed Arrest of Adam Gadahn, and at CBS News, “U.S.-Born al Qaeda Arrest News Incorrect: Confusion Over Militant’s Identity Sparked Reports of Gadahn Arrest; Some Media Say It is Another U.S.-Born Terrorist.” *********** A tweet from Adam Housley of Fox News: This is flaming-skull material at AOSHQ, “Report: […]

My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND. Check out the FREE audio and webcast highlights from the week in conservative talk radio: Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and more! PLUS: Sarah Palin and Michael Reagan will do guest appearances along Salem’s 12-city “America Unplugged” tour. The first stop on the […]

Americans need to understand the devastating significance of the House vote on the Senate health care bill set for March 18th. The Democrats have–by design–created the perfect storm to take over the US healthcare system, while providing an ideal distraction–reconciliation. First, let’s examine exactly how we got here. In late December, while Americans were arguing […]

A few points about the status of health care reform. First, if the votes were there for passage in the House, the bill would now be law. That should tell you all you need to know about the present status of the bill. The votes aren’t there. The bottom line, however, is if the House […]

Obama gave his 35th speech on Health Care yesterday. He says that the country deserves and “up or down vote.” He can’t even bring himself to say “reconciliation.” Maybe that’s because in 2007 he emphatically said that they would never use it because one couldn’t govern that way. You’ve got to break out of what […]

Surprisingly, they are actually partially correct Watching your government at work can be an appalling spectacle. Politicians posture and bicker, and not much gets done. It’s gotten so bad–or at least seems so bad–that pundits are beginning to wonder if the system is broken in some fundamental way and to cast about for a big […]

Yesterday we went to a small village called Citae outside of Jacmel. The journey there was an adventure in and of itself — there really aren’t any roads by American standards, more like paths wide enough for a car to get through. We drove through 3 rivers to get there, passing huts filled with women […]

Yesterday morning was spent at the Sisters of Charity orphanage in Jacmel, Haiti. I was told going in that they follow the “Mother Teresa” model — in other words, they only take the poorest of the poor and the sickest of the sick. We were going specifically to hold babies. The babies we were visiting […]

Anybody here know what’s going on with the health care bill? No? Well, you are not alone. Those in Congress, or the leaders, don’t seem to know either. You may or may not have heard reports that Obama plans to unveil a “Plan C” type of bill tomorrow. No, this isn’t the 11 page summary […]

Crossposted from tabithahale.com As I said a couple hours ago, we headed to Sisters of Charity — a Catholic orphanage in Jacmel. The babies there, predictably, broke my heart. There were children that had to be at least 2 and a half years old… who don’t really walk. Babies that are two, that look like […]

A writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, Neil Steinberg, has a problem with anti-abortion legislators refusing to allow the health care bill to go forward with language that makes tax dollars available for abortions. Hard to believe, I know. In order to illustrate his disdain with the opponents of the health care bill, Steinberg decides to […]