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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 […]
Seen to the left in actual size is the world’s smallest violin, playing a special rendition of “My Heart Cries for You” in honor of George Monbiot, aka George Moonbat. The collapse of the global warming hoax has made him tragically aware that his life has been a waste of time. Whimpers Moonbat: No level […]
Before you ask, this is not a story from The Onion, it’s not a prank, and, no, it’s not April Fool’s Day. To the contrary, the story you are about to read actually comes from ABC News: Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that […]
After the nightmare progressives call Hope & Change is finally over, it may take years to sort out all the liberties we’ve lost. Some of the most outrageous encroachments are hardly even reported, having been drowned out by the thunderous artillery aimed at our healthcare system. For example: The Obama administration will accept no more […]
What part of “We Will Kill Your ‘Fix’” do the Democrats not understand? Using reconciliation to try to pass socialized medicine is the nuclear option and it means all-out-political-warfare in the Senate. If the Democrats are going to play it dirty by going that way, the GOP is going to use every procedural trick in […]
To little avail, I tried explaining why Health Care Reform scares Americans on Bloggingheads the other day. While, Democrats haggle over the details of health care reform, they’re ignoring how the entirety of the bill feels like to the American people. Rasmussen sums it up, with data: Why can’t the president move the numbers? One […]
Race hustlers, hate peddlers and “critics” strike again with their wolf-crying about raaaacism. This time it’s that eeevil Walmart (again) that is raaaacist because one of its stores marked down the black Barbie doll to $3.00 while the white Barbie doll was still being sold at $5.95. See? It’s raaaacist! ABC claims it found some […]
The Better Government Association (http://www.bettergov.org/), a beleaguered Chicago-based watchdog group that has its work cut out for it, recently released its “Hall of Shame” report that details the nearly 150 county officials that have gone to jail for corruption in Barack Obama’s home county of Cook. And that doesn’t even include the over 100 Chicago […]
What in the heck? I wasn’t impressed with Meg Whitman at Western CPAC. Her delivery was flat. She seemed disinterested and bored and it was at the beginning of the campaign to a friendly audience. I don’t think she likes politics very much, but likes ruling things a lot. P.S. I’m only interested in California […]
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 […]
It’s time for me to rank my favorite blogs for the 1st quarter of 2010. Do keep in mind that as the quarter has progressed, some blogs have, of course, moved up and others have dropped, based on how often I visit them, how much I like what I see when I get there, how […]
Nancy Pelosi proves that it is possible to give “tells”, even if your face can’t move and you are an accomplished liar. First, the “she made an utter fool of herself” part, because any chance to point and snicker at Pelosi is A-Okay with me. While giving a speech to the National Association of Counties, […]
A 7 year old boy calls 911 and begs police to come save his family from a home invasion: There is no mistaking the terror in the boy’s voice. On the 911 recording, you can feel it like a physical object. “They come. They come. They open and ring the door. They have guns. Can […]
A parliamentary procedure could stand between Democrats and American cultural domination? Awesome. Via Bill Dupray this from the New York Times: The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders said Tuesday that they were bracing for a key procedural ruling that could complicate their effort to approve major health care legislation, by requiring President Obama to […]
One of the most maddening arguments from overly-optimistic friends of mine goes like this: Even if the Democrats pass health care reform, Republicans can run against it and say they’d repeal it and then look like heroes when they do it. The only problem with this flawed logic? The veto pen of Barack Obama for […]
Yes, the War on Terrorism is real and still matters A petite, blond-haired, blue-eyed high school dropout who allegedly used the nickname JihadJane was identified Tuesday as an alleged terrorist intent on recruiting others to her cause, as federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges that could send her to prison for life. Colleen Renee LaRose, 46, […]
We all remember that members of both State governments and the Federal government have suggested taxes on soda. Now, a group of busy bodies have recommended a tax on pizza U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults’ calorie intake enough to lower their average weight […]
Roll Call is reporting: Rep. Dale Kildee (D-MI), a key supporter of Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) anti-abortion language intended for the health care bill, said Tuesday night that he’s satisfied the Senate abortion language prohibits federal funding of abortions and will likely vote for the bill. “I think the Senate language keeps the purpose of […]
The founding fathers debated bills for weeks. They then wrote them, referred them to committee’s of style and prose, brought them back to the floor, debated them again, wrote newspaper articles about them, went home to their districts to discuss them, and finally passed them — or not — after much deliberation. Today’s Speaker of […]
“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 […]
-By Warner Todd Huston For the Independent Weekly of Durham, North Carolina, writer Sam Wardle proves that he hasn’t a clue how the phrase “religious extremist” is properly defined. But, I’d suggest that his confusion is endemic in the far left and proves to show why so many in the west don’t understand how to […]
Not long ago union advocate Stewart Acuff penned a piece for the Huffington website that was filled with soaring rhetoric about unions “creating the middle class” and pleading for voters to pressure Congress to pass the absurdly named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). He claimed that this piece of… legislation would “restore the right to […]
Hopey Change didn’t have much of a shelf life. In Europe, they’re already writing the Moonbat Messiah’s political epitaph: The descent of Barack Obama’s regime, characterised now by factionalism in the Democratic Party and talk of his being set to emulate Jimmy Carter as a one-term president, has been swift and precipitate. It was just […]
Fausta has a funny little piece up about a business whose sole purpose is to rent friends, ostensibly, to the friendless. Fausta says, “The tough part about having friends is being a friend. Maybe that’s why so many people don’t have friends.” Well, yes. It can be a lot of work to be a friend. […]
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 […]
Why do leftists insist on making everything a right? Why can’t they let the market do its thing? Here’s the deal: When people say that broadband is a right, what they mean is that the United States should pay for the world’s internet access.
The strategy is simple: cripple business with taxes and regulations so that it is unable to employ people, which will drive them into the arms of Big Government. It worked for FDR, keeping him in power for so long that the 22nd Amendment was passed to prevent another socialist demagogue from entrenching himself for life. […]
“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” — Ronald Reagan One of the reasons liberals tend to do such an incredibly poor job of governing is that they fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the American people. Given that liberals also fundamentally […]
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 […]