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Eight years later, I’m still angry. Decent Americans, going about their business–going to work on a gorgeous Indian summer day got the shock of their lives. Buildings crashed down around them and nothing would be the same. A new friend in Texas moved from the New York a couple years ago, finally. She worked in […]
Eight years have passed since Al Qaeda terrorists used airplanes as weapons of mass destruction. Nearly 3,000 people died at the Twin Towers in New York City. Angela Susan Perez was one of those people. Angela was the “cool aunt and baby sister.” She was a mother of three. Last year, her son wrote this: […]
For the record, the national debt at the time this was written was $11.7 trillion. It’s higher now, but that doesn’t stop these porkers: In the next 16 days, Congress will spend more than $3 trillion in taxpayer money. To cover these programs, some Americans will be working up to three hours of each day. […]
Just to be up front: I like Palin, but am not a real supporter of her. I’ve been pretty open about the things I view as her flaws. But she’s been out in force this week and I love it. First, there was the op-ed she published in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Common […]
The good old media waterboy comes through again. Immediately after the speech last night, CNN released the following: Two out of three Americans who watched President Barack Obama’s health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans – a 14-point gain among speech-watchers, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll of people […]
A couple of stories have recently come out that really put the lie to President Obama’s claims that “his” healthcare bill is revenue neutral. These on top of the original plan-killing news that came out of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office in July. In July the CBO said that Obama’s plan was clocking in at […]
1) Wilson’s “You lie” outburst is a political plus, not a minus because the discussion over it, even from people criticizing or disagreeing with him, will focus an inordinate amount of attention on the fact that Obama is lying and that illegal aliens will be able to get coverage under the bill. 2) Obama’s insurance […]
A day doesn’t go by without a story from Britain warning us not to let bureaucrats push us over the cliff into socialized medicine. Today’s tale of terror: A drug that significantly extends life expectancy for patients with liver cancer is set to be refused by the government’s health watchdog. Nexavar increases survival rates by […]
Just leave it to the self-righteous liberals to feign moral indignance, AS IF they were ever actually concerned about congressional decorum. Do I need to bring up the last eight years under President George Bush?
Kevin Mooney of the Washington Examiner has a piece from Sept. 2 that warns that H.R. 3200, the House healthcare bill, gives special consideration to union bosses for positions on various healthcare management boards. This means that Barack Obama is handing official government power to union bosses! Sections 123 and 2251 of H.R. 3200, the […]
Out of all the things I didn’t plan to write about today, an ad for St. John’s College would have to be pretty high on the list. Wait, should that be low on the list? And, a list of things I don’t plan to write about? Wow, that would be pretty long. Ah, screw it. […]
There really is nothing beneath Obama’s red-shirted goon squad ACORN — not even child prostitution: Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage […]
Lunatics of all stripes Health care experts, including two former U.S. Surgeons General, said on Wednesday said that obesity has reached epidemic proportions and is a threat to security in the United States and abroad. “Obesity is not just a health issue,” said Richard Carmona, who served as surgeon general in the George W. Bush […]
The paper of record will probably not report the flaming ignorance of their own reporter, Stephen Farrell, but the British press is less inclined to cover for him. Remember the NYT reporter who got abducted and subsequently rescued? Remember how good the NYT was with keeping that secret, you know a secret that mattered when […]
Was the President’s address a win? In the short term, just like Bill Clinton, yes. Did Bill Clinton get health care reform passed? Don’t think so. The speech, like most Obama soliloquies was rife with Strawmen. Neo Neocon knocks ’em down. Do Americans want a mandate to get insurance? We’ll see. Was Joe Wilson right […]
The House and Senate did good! US lawmakers Wednesday paid tribute to the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 who fought back against hijackers to stop it possibly hitting the Capitol in the September 11, 2001 attacks. “In memory of the passengers and crew of Flight 93 whose brave sacrifice on September 11, 2001 not […]
Last night, during his health care speech, after Barack Obama lied about Republicans, he moved on to lying about the coverage of illegal aliens: Some of people’s concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim, made not […]
At 8 PM EST tonight, I will be liveblogging Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress. Make sure to head back over to RWN as you watch the address and comment on what BO has to say in the comments section. Alternately, you can just skip the speech, watch me liveblog it, and […]
Yes, him…
As expected, bits and pieces of the contents of the speech President Obama will give tonight before a joint session of Congress are beginning to leak out (naturally they begin to do so right after I posted my thoughts on what he must do tonight). And, it appears, he’s going to go with his base […]
Comrade Obama is all heart when it comes to bailing out bloated corporations, but he’s less sympathetic regarding the most vulnerable people on the planet — as when he aggressively defended the policy of leaving the survivors of botched abortions unattended until they die. This is fortunate, because it takes unsentimental resolve to impose socialized […]
Forbes Magazine will feature a report by the Hudson Institute’s Marie-Josee Kravis who points out the fallacy of tying a nation’s average life expectancy to its level of effective healthcare. In her estimation, life expectancy does not translate necessarily to good or bad healthcare and the left’s penchant for using it as a metric to […]
President Obama is going to offer “his” healthcare prescriptions tonight at a special joint session of Congress. But why is he doing this now? After all, the bills are already written and most of the committees have already passed their versions out of committee. What is it that Obama will say that will make any […]
It’s no secret that Democrats are much more forgiving of the foibles of their own side than Republicans have ever been. Look to liberal heroes like Ted Kennedy (left a woman to drown to death), Robert Byrd (member of the KKK), and Barney Frank (had a prostitution ring running out of his house) for evidence […]
How’s this for symbolic: Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council. The topic for the summit-level session of the council on September 24 is nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament — one of […]
For a couple election cycles, Republicans have clearly believed “the more moderate the better”. The result has been that the American people have had two versions of Democrats to choose from–the middle left and the hard left. Forget social issues for a moment. Just think of something that affects us all: Money. When it comes […]
The press alternately calls Sarah Palin stupid or irrelevant. However, both in political instinct and policy substance, it’s clear that she is neither. Today, her Op-Ed appears in the Wall Street Journal. It’s good. Cogent, clear, and well-written. She’s got a ghost-writer, say lib operatives. Let’s hope! Does Barack Obama write all his own stuff? […]
Late last week I was pleased to get an opportunity to interview Michelle Malkin about her newest best seller, Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation: Alright, right off the bat, one of the most under-reported stories of 2008 […]
The New Republic admits what we already knew: Democrats are Truthers (via Jonah Goldberg) Jones was wrong, actually, in disavowing his support for 9/11 conspiracy theory. He signed the document, which can only mean that he supports the idea that 9/11 was planned, or that the Bushies knew something more than they have said, or […]
Oh, my, with Congress back in session doing things to restrict and mess up our lives (unless you are basically a ward of Los Federales. Then you get free big screen TVs), it is getting hot and heavy in the opinion pages. Let’s start with Krugman But what is one to make of the practical, […]