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This is un-freaking-believable….or maybe not so unbelievable in today’s America. Todd Starnes reports (Fox News) A family-owned restaurant in Pennsylvania is under a state discrimination investigation for offering a ten percent discount for diners who present a church bulletin on Sundays. The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission confirmed there is an investigation against Prudhomme’s Lost Cajun […]

You understand, of course, that when I say “click the link under each picture for more information,” that’s not just an offer. It’s more of a command. Link: Ed Driscoll. Link: Conservatives 4 Palin. Link: Soopermexican. Link: Jim Romenesko. Link: Pundette. Link: The Trog. Link: And so it goes in Shreveport. And: Previously: This Week […]

By now, you’ve all heard this story: Circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm, a German court ruled Tuesday in a landmark decision that the Jewish community said trampled on parents’ religious rights. The regional court in Cologne, western Germany, ruled that the “fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity […]

Sure surpised me.

Illinois is a land of contradictions. We may have birthed Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, but we’ve been struggling to spit out an elected representative with any semblance of idealistic commitment ever since. We claim to set an example for the nation, but insist on electing dudes whose only expertise is selling favors to supporters over […]

Barack Obama doesn’t respect democracy, the rule of law, the American people, or the office he holds. He is unfit to be the President of the United States and that’s become clearer by the day. Obama broke the law to cheat people — rightfully owed money by Chevrolet and GM — out of their cash […]

A generic waifish English-rose gives her thoughts on Americans and their perspicacity, or lack thereof, with regard to politics: I can remember when Bush got in for the second time, just feeling like so much of the problem about the way that politics go here is that people are improperly informed. That they didn’t know […]

Click the link under each picture for more details. Forgot that one last week. Link: Trog. Link: Hot Air. Link: Grandpa Steve. Link: Insty. Link: Sean Hackbarth. Link: Daley Gator. Link: View from the Porch. Previously: This Week in Automotivators, June 4-10 This Week in Automotivators, June 11-17 Make your own automotivators.

Here’s the actual headline: Polygamous towns face federal lawsuit for religious discrimination Officials of polygamous sect near Utah-Arizona border discriminate against nonmembers by putting their leader Jeffs above law, suit claims. Shouldn’t any legal action against a “polygamous sect” somehow involve…polygamy? It is still illegal, isn’t it? And if Justice isn’t going after them for […]

Café Hayek’s Don Boudreaux made an interesting argument in a letter he wrote to the Wall Street Journal: …industrial capitalism is history’s greatest anti-pollutant. Asphalt and automobiles, for example, combine to cleanse our cities and towns of the bacteria and insects (and stench) that are inseparable from animal-powered transportation. The petroleum used to make asphalt […]

Obviously, by now its’ clear that, while a job in private equity means that Mitt Romney can’t be President, Barack Obama finds his forays into picking winners and losers in the American market a perfectly acceptable use of his time and your money. His next exciting venture? Biotech! Because who needs precious dollars to prevent […]

“…and I’m here to tell you how you can win a cameo as a disembodied head, just like me!” Just kidding. Dubya didn’t say any of that. But maybe he should have. Surely you’ve heard of this by now: HBO and producers of “Game of Thrones” apologized Thursday for a scene that depicted former President […]

We’re a little Obama-heavy this week, but, feh. Click the links for more backstory. Link: Kevin Binversie. Link: Creative Minority Report. Link: Trog. Link: Grandpa Steve. Link: Trog. The guy was evil, I’m telling you! Link: Daley Gator. Link: Pundette. Previously: This Week in Automotivators, May 28-June3 This Week in Automotivators, June 4-10 Make your […]

“It’s a Dad Life.” Thanks to GS (Girlfriend’s Sister).

Okay…let’s do the run-down with links, maybe we can save some space… Our first National Pharoah is “heckled”…as He announces that He’s going to change the rules by Executive Order in a way He couldn’t, by doing it the right way, which would be going through Congress. Tucker Carlson defends the heckler, pointing out — […]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what it looks like when one advocate of a point-of-view completely thinks circles around another. She’s got the radical feminists figured out, pegged, nailed to the wall, and they wouldn’t even understand the first thing about any of it. Naughty language warning. Thanks to Dean Esmay for finding this, […]

Jonathan Bydlak is the President of the Coalition to Reduce Spending, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to one thing: reducing federal spending to balance the federal budget. Jonathan, a former fundraiser for the 2008 Ron Paul for President and 2012 Gary Johnson for President campaigns, believes the debt is the greatest threat to the future […]

In his June 08 column, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says a major part of the reason the recession under Reagan recovered more quickly than the current recession is because of government spending. From the column: Why was government spending much stronger under Reagan than in the current slump? “Weaponized Keynesianism” – Reagan’s big […]

Click the links below each picture to see the story or post it came from. Link: Trog. Link: Badger Blogger. Link: Trog. Link: Da Tech Guy. I’ll leave it to you to decide which of them is talking. Link: Hot Air. Link: Trog. And don’t forget this one: Admit it: you were hoping to see […]

Does everybody know what “spoofing” is? It’s when you make a phone call, but cause the receiving Caller ID to display a fake phone number. That is to say: I can call you, but your caller ID says it’s your grandmother. If I have her number. Here’s an older news story that explains it: Notice […]

The money. So far, that’s the liberal excuse #1 for “why we lost the recall.” Walker spent so much money! Case in point: And sure, if you only look at what the candidates themselves spent, they’re right: Overall, over $63.5 million was spent on the recall effort by various parties. Walker spent about $30 million; […]

Going back through my archives, I see I first noticed this pre-Obama. There would have been value in describing the problem succinctly, but this was not within my efforts, nor within my achievements. Since then, I’ve made some references to it, on my way to noticing something else, but I’ve not been giving it the […]

About 35 years old but still as good as when I first read it: Norman Spinrad, “Carcinoma Angels“. Great read for a summer weekend.

Just a few stories from the previous week (and one, technically, from next week), whether or not I blogged about them at the time. Click the link under each one for more explanation. Link: Hot Air. Link: American Thinker. Link: Trog. Link: The Wyblog. Link: View from the Porch. And: Previously: This Week in Automotivators, […]

Does everybody know what “The Tragedy of the Commons” is? It’s an economic dilemma wherein multiple people have incentive to work against their own long-term interests. Here, let Walter Williams explain it: Imagine there are 100 cattlemen all having an equal right to graze their herds on 1,000 acres of commonly owned grassland. The rational […]

“I do not suppose you could speed things up?” and: eight others.