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This Week In Quotes: 11/14 – 11/20

The percentage of federal prosecutions tried by juries declined from 19 percent in 1980 to 3 percent today, as prosecutors have huge advantages over defense counsel and throw a great raft of counts against a defendant who declines to roll over. The prosecutor wins most of the cases that are tried and, as he can […]

The Truth About Obama’s “Temporary” Ebola Amnesty

When it rains, it pours. Just before unveiling his colossal administrative amnesty for millions of “undocumented” aliens and foreign tech workers on Thursday, President Obama separately ordered up to 8,000 more executive pardons and special work passes for Liberians, Sierra Leoneans and Guineans illegally in this country. Strange, isn’t it? The same administration that refused […]

Medicaid Is Destroying Public Education

One of the truly unheralded disasters caused by Obamacare is the sharp reduction in spending on public education as Medicaid costs eat up an ever-larger share of state budgets. When Obama took office, the proportion of state spending that went to Medicaid was smaller than that for public education (K-12). In 2008, states spent 22.0 […]

Gruber flap reopens not-so-old wounds

I understand we’ve turned the page to the next controversy — Obama’s unconstitutional immigration pander — but I’d like to dwell a little longer on the previous travesty. Obama administration health-care consultant Jonathan Gruber was discovered to have boasted that Obamacare was designed to exploit the “stupidity” of American voters and elude honest accounting by […]

Obama’s Amnesty Lawlessness Demands Accountability

Time and time again, President Obama demonstrates his contempt for the Constitution and for the American people, whose integrity and will must be subordinated to his personal prerogative and hijacked sovereignty. Obama has admitted on several occasions that he had no authority to act unilaterally, via executive order, to grant amnesty to millions of immigrants […]

The Will To Power

“I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” President Obama twice pronounced those words. On the first occasion, Chief Justice Roberts erred slightly in the […]

Cops: Mom allegedly forced her daughter to eat soiled kitty litter and tried to sew child’s mouth shut

When you think of a “good mother”, you probably don’t think of someone stuffing soiled kitty litter into a child’s mouth before trying to sew their mouth shut. But that’s exactly what cops are saying self-described “good mother” Rana Cooper did. •Cops: Rana Cooper forced her daughter to eat soiled kitty litter, hit her multiple […]

Students Forced to Endorse Liberal Ideology Before Registering for Classes at UC Davis

Before moonbattery brought America down to its current level, our universities were known as open marketplaces of ideas. Now they take ideological rigidity to the point of self-parody: The University of California, Davis, requires students to complete an online activity in which they must identify certain words and phrases as “problematic” before they register for […]

Dispensing With the Fatuous Argument That Reagan and Bush Did What Obama Is About to Do

Obama’s upcoming amnesty maneuver is an attempt to alter the demographics of the USA and still more disastrously to establish his power as above constitutional restriction. Democrats defend it by bleating predictably that it’s okay because everybody does it — those last three words constituting the liberal moral creed. Specifically, they claim Reagan and Bush […]

Democrats Introduce Carbon Fee Legislation In Senate

Hey, why not? Obama and his Democrat henchmen have already done great damage to the economy, why not kick it up a notch? (Think Progress) In a sense, the problem of climate change is incredibly simple: certain people are dumping carbon into the atmosphere, and in the coming decades we will all suffer from the […]

Meet the snobocrats

Last week, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Jonathan Gruber, one of prominent architects of Obamacare, was exposed as little more than an elitist fraud. Gruber was caught on videotape expressing the haughty attitude that drove the Affordable Care Act, deriding the “stupidity” of Americans as a way to justify misleading them. Gruber apparently thinks such […]

Uber Forgot Charm in ‘Charm Offensive’

When Uber hired onetime Obama whisperer David Plouffe, CEO Travis Kalanick wrote: “We are in the middle of a political campaign and it turns out the candidate is Uber. Our opponent — the Big Taxi cartel — has used decades of political contributions and influence to restrict competition, reduce choice for consumers, and put a […]