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Here’s a quote that resonates with me today

Megan McArdle: …every single voter who is benefitting from a government program right now not only wants to continue benefitting, but believes they have a moral right to do so. Word. On Thursday, I spent eight long hours at a public hearing. The subject: Wisconsin’s proposed state budget. The testimony fell into one or more […]

Sibling Rivalry (of a sort) in Wisconsin

Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan is either a few days old or several years old now, depending on whether you’ve been paying attention to him since he first won election. So far, reaction falls into a few basic categories: It’s a horrific (and probably fascist) attack on the elderly, the poor, America, childhood, and rainbows; […]

A post you should read at a blog you should visit

My son asked me “Is Princeton a good school?”  I didn’t quite know how to answer that.  It’s an old school.  It’s a school with a great reputation.  It’s expensive.  It has its pick of the nation’s best students.  It also employs Paul Krugman and Peter Singer. What!?  You don’t know who Peter Singer is, […]

A Short, Obligatory Post On The Averted Government Shutdown

The Democrats and Republicans reached a deal to avoid shutting down the government and everyone seems to see it differently. Did the Republicans win or did the Democrats? Was a great start to getting the budget under control or not even a drop in the bucket? Here’s the reality; Democrats believe we should be spending […]

Apparently, After Budget Battle Washington Is Still Broken

That’s the conclusion of the Washington Post’s Dan Baltz As the midnight Friday deadline loomed for a possible government shutdown, and politicians continued their rhetorical war of words, a larger message went out to the rest of the country: Washington is still broken. Unfortunately, Dan never quite says “why” Washington is still “broken.” But, is […]

Louise Slaughter Escalates the Projection

The projection and hypocrisy that typify the left have been taken to new extremes by the aptly named congresscritter Louise Slaughter (D-NY), who shrieks that Republicans have come to Congress “to kill women” by slowing down the firehouse of taxpayer money gushing into the highly profitable baby-killing industry. “I went through this as co-chair of […]

John Edwards Pules About Suicide

If it were up to Democrats, ambulance-chasing con artist John Edwards (a.k.a. Silky Pony, a.k.a. the Breck Girl) would have been Vice President of the United States. Instead, he may soon find his way to where he belongs: prison. After living the high life on $zillions stolen from doctors through the bogus malpractice lawsuits his […]

Drunken Pawlenty Worker At Iowa Family’s Door at 3AM

For some unexplained reason a drunken campaign worker for the Tim Pawlenty Presidential Exploratory Committee was found at a Polk County, Iowa Family’s back door at 3AM on Wednesday morning. Ben Foster was arrested and ended up in the Polk County jail after the Steward family called police about a drunken intruder trying to get […]

Shutdown Threat Tests Obama’s Leadership Skills

Oh, wait, sorry, the headline for Dan Balz’s Washington Post opinion piece says “style,” not “skills.” Surprised? I’m not. Kinda hard to discuss skills that a person lacks. One would think that a former community organizer would posses some leadership skills, yet, I suppose whipping up some people who are agitated to begin with is […]

Wind Power: It’s Even More Useless Than You Thought

You’d think the first requirement for a source of energy that’s going to replace coal, oil, or natural gas would be that the new source of energy could actually keep the lights on. However, when it comes to wind power, no one seems to worry about such petty concerns. Yet, the reality is that unless […]

Mission Creep In Libya: It Has Begun

One of the problems with getting involved in a country militarily is that the whole business has a tendency to take on a life of its own, one that you don’t always expect, particularly if it’s not clearly defined. Welcome to mission creep, boys and girls. …This time around, Obama has bungled the whole thing […]

This Week In Quotes: April 1 – April 7

Defense officials slammed the brakes on any broad participation Thursday, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates saying there will be no American ground troops in Libya “as long as I am in this job.” — Associated Press I don’t want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many of the […]

Real Life And Antibiotic Resistance

CHURCHVILLE, VA—The Wall Street Journal recently made a dreadful error in a news story. That’s “dreadful” as in causing consumers to dread the potential loss of the antibiotics we need to cure pneumonia, tuberculosis, and infected scratches. On January 10, the WSJ online told its readers that America’s hog farmers were overusing antibiotics in their […]

Lefty Journalist Doubts Libyan Woman’s Gang Rape Allegations

Cross-posted from NewsReal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! Yet again, an oh-so-enlightened left-winger tries to discredit politically inconvenient rape allegations. By now you’ve heard the story of Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman who was dragged off to prison after telling reporters of the vicious gang […]

Illegal Immigrants Make Heavy Use of Welfare Programs

The one nice thing about the illegal aliens Big Government deliberately allows to swamp our country is that until pernicious politicians like Obama and McCain manage to ram another amnesty through, they can’t collect welfare because they aren’t US citizens. Or maybe I’m wrong: Census Bureau data show that the share of immigrant-headed households (legal […]

Obama Golf Buddy Bobby Titcomb Busted for Prostitution

From before he was even born, red diaper baby Barack Hussein Obama has always surrounded himself with some of the most nefarious characters imaginable, prominently including his primary role models, the militant communist and child-molesting pervert Frank Marshall Davis and the America-hating professional racist Jeremiah Wright. His taste in company hasn’t improved: The Honolulu Police […]

Left-Wingers Have the Cash To Constantly Beat Conservatives

As some of you may remember I have been covering the anti-vote fraud efforts of True The Vote, a program created by the Texas-based King Street Patriots. They recently sent out a fund raising letter that almost immediately drew the notice of left wingers intent on destroying their anti-vote fraud work. This immediate response by […]

Obama’s Bribes to the Wash. Post and CBS

In a blow to the autonomy of the media it has been discovered that employees of two Old Media outlets are the happy beneficiaries of hundreds of thousands of federal dollars from an Obamacare slush fund. CBS and the Washington Post have both taken large payments from Obama’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP), with the […]

Can Libertarians Breed Their Way To Success?

I’m all in favor of smart people breeding and I do think that over time, the higher conservative birth rate and the liberal lust for abortion will help tilt the political scales a bit our way. Still, some people take that line of reasoning further. For example, there are apparently a few people who believe […]

The Real Scoop On A Government Shutdown

First of all, it’s worth noting that the budget that’s being fought over is the one that the Democrats neglected to pass last year, when they controlled the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. In other words, they could have easily passed a budget last year, but didn’t fulfill that basic responsibility because they were […]