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Open Thread Friday

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have. Ronald Reagan Since I am on the road today, and you asked […]

Obama Goes After Companies That Hire Illegals, And Fox News

One should never follow praise with criticism, so, let’s start with the latest in the White House’s War On Fox New, perhaps knows as Operation Domestic Contingency. Doug Ross reports Today the White House stepped up its attack on Fox News, announcing that the network would no longer be able to conduct interviews with officials […]

The Uniter Expands His Enemies List

Remember all the hokey talk about how the Moonbat Messiah would unite us? Chairman Zero doesn’t: “When you’re on their side, it’s all OK, but if you’re not, they rain hell down on you,” said R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, bemoaning the administration’s bellicose response to differing opinions […]

Senate Defeats Dem Leader Reid’s ‘Doc Fix’ Plan

Roll Call is reporting that the $250 billion extension to the Medicare physician payment program was defeated in the Senate today. Reid couldn’t even get a simple majority losing in a 47 to 53 vote. Naturally Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev) blames the Republicans. Reid complained that the loss was a result of “activities […]

Moonbat Musicians Unite for Al Qaeda

Patriots defending us from terrorists have found a use for some of even the worst pop music; playing it until jihadists cough up their plans for mass murder rather than have to listen anymore. Personally I would rather listen even to R.E.M. than have my fingernails ripped out, as is customary in the countries most […]

New York’s Dede Scozzafava MUST Withdraw

In July liberal Republican DeDe Scozzafava was tapped by the 11 Republican county chairmen of New York’s 23rd Congressional District to run for the seat being vacated by John McHugh, who resigned to take Obama’s offer to become Secretary of the Army. The NY GOP made a huge mistake with this smoke-filled-room choice. Scozzafava has […]

Guess Who Is Getting Your Swine Flu Shot

It’s bad enough that there is already a massive backup on the Swine Flu vaccine, but….. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told CNSNews.com Wednesday that one in 10 doses of the swine-flu vaccine purchased by: the U.S.: will be donated to other nations before U.S. demand is filled. Sebelius also told a Senate committee […]

AGW Today: All Dogs Must Be Eaten!

Will Lassie be the next thing on the Climate Alarmists hit list? The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, researchers have found. Victoria University professors Brenda and Robert Vale, architects who specialise in sustainable living, say pet owners should swap cats and dogs […]

Alan Grayson: Real Internet Genius

Congressman Alan Grayson, who’s been purposefully making a jackass of himself over the last few weeks in a sort of pitiful attempt to get noticed, is back with a hot new website: Names of the Dead. I like to say that kind of slow: Names. Of. The. Dead. It makes it sound like a horror […]

TARP Report – “We don’t even know where the money went”

So let’s give them health care too! Sorry, couldn’t help myself. The quote in the title is from Democratic Representative Daniel Lipinski of IL. It’s a good preface to a Treasury Department Inspector General report issued today which was rather scathing. USA Today provides the “executive summary”: A Treasury Department watchdog is warning that a […]

Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Slashing Executive Salaries

Even for Congress, this is extraordinarily dumb: Responding to the growing furor over the paychecks of executives at companies that received billions of dollars in the government’s financial rescue, the Obama administration will order the companies that received the most aid to deeply slash the compensation to their highest paid executives, an official involved in […]

Wanted: Pot-Head Journalists

Despite the financial troubles the mainstream media has brought on itself by sneering at both the public and journalistic professionalism in pursuit of its progressive agenda, there are still jobs to be found in print news. For example, Westword — Denver’s version of the militantly liberal Village Voice — is looking for a cannabis critic: […]

Democrats Still Against Transparency in Congress

According to McClatchy news, in the Democrat’s 2006 campaign book, in the “integrity” section, the Democratic leadership vowed that legislation would be posted online for 24 hours before consideration of the final versions of any bill. That promise coupled with their president’s claims that he’d post all bills online for five whole days — that’s […]

Tea Party Breaks Out in San Francisco

Of all the preposterous claims made by Obamunists before the cataclysm that befell us last November, the one surest to draw bitter laughter from those who knew better was the promise that this megalomaniacal Marxist would unite us. Yet amazingly enough, that’s the one promise he may fulfill. Just as all patriotic Americans loathe what […]

A Teleconference With Senator John Thune About Health Care

A few minutes ago, I just finished up a teleconference on health care with Senator John Thune. What follows are my notes, not quotes from the teleconference. Opening Statement We have a 250 billion dollar addition to the debt by paying more to doctors. The Democrats are saying that this won’t add to the deficit, […]

For 39%, Government Option Support Depends On Details

I guess they will not support it, since there really are no details While the majority of Americans appear to have made up their minds on healthcare reform, 39% say their support for a final healthcare bill will depend on how the details still being worked out in Congress are resolved. The finding comes from […]

About Swine Flu

This Swine Flu harms younger people far more disproportionately than the regular flu. Go check out the charts at this link [h/t Instapundit] By the time the vaccinations get fully prepared, Swine Flu will have swept the country. People will either be dead or immune. In the Spring of the year, my kids and I […]

UN Says Gender ‘Not Fixed,’ Is ‘Changeable’

UN “Special Rapporteur” Martin Scheinin recently filed a report with the UN titled “Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism” in which he states that human gender is not a fixed thing but a mere “social construct” that is “changeable over time.” In this paper Scheinin, the “Special Rapporteur” — I do […]

What Say To A “Green” Military?

Looks like the days of shooting flowers and hugs at the enemy might be coming sooner then we thought President Barack Obama signed an executive order earlier this month requiring federal agencies to set a 2020 greenhouse gas emission reduction target within 90 days — and he followed up by asking : “our brave men and […]

Convenient Rape and the Senate

Lefties care about rape when it is convenient to do so. If they don’t have to go out of their way to check pesky facts or give up a decent movie script *polankispupportingdouchebags* or take a hit in the abortion debate or defend a conservative woman, rape is bad. Currently there’s a meme floating around […]

Bribing Doctors With Your Money

Of course this sort of political bribery isn’t necessarily unusual or confined to one party. It is just a particularly blatant example of the practice that is at the heart of the rot infecting our form of government: The White House and Democratic leaders are offering doctors a deal: They’ll freeze cuts in Medicare payments […]