Ellen Goodman on Nadya Suleman

Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe  asks:

Does anyone have a right to tell anyone else how many kids to have? Can only people who can afford them bear children? Do you need a husband to have a baby? These are questions

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• It is jolly well amazing to me that Obama should be resorting to the politics of fear so quickly.  There’s a simple reason

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post:

After Obama’s miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie. The

Explain why this is a good bill. I double dog dare you. And if you can’t or won’t, explain why I shouldn’t be siding with the GOP in opposition, despite how crazy they are

John Cole, Balloon Juice, via James

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Coming to you today, direct from the frozen tundra of western NY, the very heart of the chruch of Global warming.

• This Global

All in all, after reading the list of boondoggle, pork-laden goodies in that so-called stimulus bill, I must conclude that there aren’t two people up there who have ever balanced a checkbook or paid off a credit card. Why, to

Jay Newton-Small, Time, on the coming  Beltway cage fight, Obama-Pelosi:

For all his high-minded talk of bipartisanship and common purpose, Barack Obama was always aware that Republicans in Congress weren’t going to simply set aside their philosophical differences and

Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, warns of the coming meltdown of Barack Obama:

If [Barack Obama] doesn’t quit the messianic style and perpetual campaign mode, and begin humbly governing, then he will devolve into Carterism-angry that the once-fawning press

Making the rounds on email just now:

After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to
Target. Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunate,

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This is the “Under The Bus” edition.

• What about the rest? With all the activity on Obama’s appointees and taxes, it shouldn’t shock

This is one stupid b*tch, video:

Hat tip:   Jeff Emanuel:  Red State.

House Democrats, you elected this twit Speaker.   Shame on you!

Addendum I: (Bit)

Does anyone remember during Reagan and Bush41, how we were told in no uncertain

Well whore is not the perfect way to describe Samira Jassam, but it will do.   This story is disgusting on several levels,  Herald Sun (AU):

A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising

First off, you’ll pardon me if I don’t shed any tears over Tom Daschle. Hopefully, he’ll be staying gone for good this time, though I doubt that’ll happen.  He’s too deep in the councils of the Democrats to stay gone

 The names?  Well, they’re ones you’ll want to keep tucked away, because in my estimation,

Philip Sherwell, Telegraph(UK) asks:

[Is Barack Obama’s] determination to push through Mr Daschle’s nomination, regardless of the developments of the last few days, was either politically tone-deaf, inept, naïve loyalty or straightforward “I won” arrogance. Or some combination of