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This Week In Quotes: Double Edition (Dec 21 – Jan 3)

Spread Your Legs, You’re Gonna Be Frisked. — Joe Biden to Heidi Heitkamp Go f*** yourself. — John Boehner to Harry Reid Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option – keep your gun but permit it. — Andrew Cuomo Savers are getting ripped […]

Coming Next: Blunt Instrument Ban?

Any around the house honey-do’s that require driving nails should be attended to promptly, because after our nanny state overlords have confiscated firearms, their next target may be hammers. It would make more sense than banning “assault weapons,” in light of Big Government’s own numbers: According to the FBI annual crime statistics, the number of […]

House To Vote On Partial Sandy Relief Bill Friday

Most in the Legacy Media are referring to this as some sort of capitulation from John Boehner, instead of an understanding that the Senate porked up the Sandy bill (US News) Cowing to bipartisan pressure, House Speaker John Boehner is bringing to the House floor Friday a measure to help fund recovery efforts for Hurricane […]

Surprise! FTC Drops Google Anti-Trust Case

I’m wondering if Liberals and Occupiers will protest against what appears to be yet another Big Company involved in a pay for play scheme to avoid punishment? Anyhow, there are two big stories over at Politico about how Google beat the feds, the first linked by Drudge, more about the nuts and bolts of the […]

Winning ugly: Obama and the fiscal cliff

By all accounts, President Obama won the fiscal cliff showdown. Why anyone would take much pride in this kind of “win” is beyond me. It’s a bit like being the least filthy toddler in the mud pit. One of the main reasons Obama won, according not only to Obama but an at times cheering press, […]

The Right’s Unwitting Obama Apologists

I hate to break it to those deniers who believe that President Obama’s tax-guzzling capacity has somehow been diminished by the fiscal cliff provision to fix “permanent” tax rates. You’re dreaming. Several smart columnists and respected conservative editorial pieces tell us that a major silver lining in the crisis deal just concluded is that by […]

Al Gore, Joel Hyatt Sell Out Israel

Al Jazeera is coming to America — courtesy of former Vice President Al Gore and entrepreneur Joel Hyatt. The Arab network, funded by Qatar, has just bought Current TV — the low rated liberal cable station Gore and Hyatt founded — for a reported $500 million. The deal gives the anti-Israeli Arab network access to […]

Avoiding ‘Fiscal Cliff” May Be a Bad Deal for Official Washington

In Washington, many are celebrating the deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. Some, like The Washington Post, are hailing the “strong bipartisan votes (on) a big, contentious issue.” Outside of Washington, however, the reviews aren’t nearly as strong. Forty-six percent of voters nationwide approve of the deal, while the identical number disapprove. And the […]

Treasury’s Last Pillar Crumbles

With the return of Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party to power in Japan, the market for US Treasuries may be losing its last external pillar of support. Re-elected on September 26th, Abe has quickly set a course for limitless inflation, saying Japan must “free itself from deflation and the strong yen.” This is […]

Reminder: Sen. Feinstein Said She Wants All Guns Banned

One of the lines that many progressives and TV talking heads are reiterating is that no one really wants to take away Americans’ guns. Senator Dianne Feinstein apparently missed that directive. She admitted as far back as 1995 that she does, indeed, wish to take everyone’s guns away from them. In a 1995 broadcast of […]

Al-Jazeera Buys Al-Gore’s Current TV

Among the people scrambling to unload assets before the descent of Obama’s monstrous 2013 tax guillotine is bitter 2000 loser Al Gore, who confirmed the enduring bond between America’s worst two enemies — moonbats and militant Muslims — by selling his ultra-left Current TV to the Islamic propaganda outfit Al-Jazeera. In related Current TV news, […]

The 20 Most Annoying Liberals of 2012 (10th Annual)

Honorable Mentions: Bill Ayers, Bob Beckel, Joy Behar, Eric Boehlert, Margaret Cho, Candy Crowley, Code Pink, Lena Dunham, Dianne Feinstein, Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Kathy Griffin, Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson, Ezra Klein, Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher, Bill Press, Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton, Jon Stewart, and Jeremiah Wright. 20) Chris Hayes: He’s a smarmy, politically correct beta male […]

Priorities: Obama Used Autopen To Sign “Fiscal Cliff” Legislations

Roughly since mid-November (NMP) Obama has been Cranking up the pressure on passing “fiscal cliff” legislation. He’s been excoriating Republicans. He made dire predictions. He came out to make statements and Blame Republicans. Of course, he himself created a situation whereby the deal was done after the last minute. Nor did he excoriate Harry Reid […]

Bad Inventions

I am bored with politics, refuse to pay attention to the news and am watching only True Crime TV shows and Turner Classic Movies these days. With the Democrats controlling the Senate and presidency, nothing good can possibly come out of Washington for at least another two years. So I thought I’d start the new […]

Once More Unto the Cliff, Dear Friends

It tells you something about the news media that before the House vote Tuesday, talking heads were warning Americans that unless the GOP House voted for a bill to stall our going over the fiscal cliff, taxes would go up on 98 percent of Americans. President Barack Obama’s big talking point matched the cable news […]

More of the same

Everything that everyone loathes about Washington was present in the “fiscal cliff” bill just passed by Congress. It is 153 pages long; most members probably hadn’t read all of it before voting on it; it was delivered in the middle of the night; it was loaded with pork — the mother’s milk (to mix a […]

So What’s Next, Mr. President?

The worst part of the fiscal cliff deal isn’t the specifics — though they do stink. It’s being reminded again how utterly detached Washington is from reality. The question, now that we’ve finally hiked taxes on the rich (and doesn’t everyone feel better knowing that life is that much fairer?), is: How are we going […]

If Demography Is Destiny, Good News for Texas, D.C.

Demographics buffs get a special Christmas present every year courtesy of the Census Bureau: its annual estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This gives demographers a chance to see where the nation is growing and where it is not, and to get an idea of the destination of […]

The Uselessness of a Republican House

The way the House rolled over and passed the Democratic/Liberal fiscal cliff “deal” was not the only disgusting sight in Washington, D.C. this New Year’s Day. Even worse was the craven way the Republican Congressmen embraced Democratic tactics by voting against the bill only when they were certain that it would pass despite their votes. […]

Dr. Keith Ablow of Fox News — Soon To Be Senator Ablow ?

Fox News Contributor Dr. Keith Ablow announced today he will consider a run for U.S. Senate in the special election that will be held to fill Sen. John Kerry’s seat if Senator Kerry is confirmed as Secretary of State and if neither former Governor William Weld nor former Senator Scott Brown announce a run. : Keith […]

Fiscal Cliff Capitulation Includes Payoff to Hollywood

Hollyweird doesn’t back Obama to the hilt out of sheer moral depravity alone. Loyal support buys it a lucrative seat at the table: Section 317 of the freshly approved [fiscal cliff] legislation includes an extension for “special expensing rules for certain film and television productions.” Congress first enacted production tax incentives favorable to the domestic […]

Obama: “I Will Not Negotiate Over Debt Ceiling”

Der Fuhrer has spoken (Slate) In a brief address Tuesday night, President Obama saluted the passage of a fiscal cliff deal that the White House had negotiated with the Senate. Then he fired a warning shot at Congressional Republicans, saying he won’t tolerate another down-to-the-wire battle over the debt ceiling this spring. “I will not […]

Obama’s Tax Evaders of the Year

President Obama will kick off the new year the same way that he kicked off the old year: by demanding that the wealthy pay their “fair share” in taxes. But while millions of small-business owners, struggling entrepreneurs, inventors and investors brace for a double whammy of fiscal cliff tax hikes and new Obamacare taxes, the […]