davidl on January 31st, 2014

Left Coast LifterHaving blogged about UP 4014 a/k/a Big Boy, we continue with the Big Toys for Big Boys theme from Judy Rife, Record Online:

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The supersized crane that will build the new Tappan Zee Bridge

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davidl on January 31st, 2014

snark2.jpgThe Snark of the Day, from Ronald Reagan, via Robert Knight, American Thinker:

“It doesn’t seem right to reduce a man’s take-home pay with taxes and then send him a government dole which robs him of the feeling of

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davidl on January 30th, 2014

snark2.jpgThe Snark of the Day, from Jammie Wearing Fool:

It’s pretty clear Democrats have little hope of retaking Congress this year, but on the upside their ugliness may decline a bit as Henry ‘Nostrilitus’ Waxman has announced his retirement.

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davidl on January 30th, 2014

Do they say in the Windy City, Chicago:  Don’t bring a tired, and rebutted, argument to a policy discussion?   When, even if  the did Dim Won, a/k/a Barack Obama would not understand it anyhow, from Dim Won’s State of the

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davidl on January 29th, 2014

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FLOTUS (Fat Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama has a plan, the Snark of the Day, from Lily Dane @ Doug Ross:

Lost your health plan? Doctor won’t see you? No problem, Michelle’s got a plan: give her

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davidl on January 28th, 2014

Wendy Davis (Harvard)The perception in all urination contests is that the combatants are equals. Hence Dave’s rule of pissing contests is never piss down hill. For example when President Fifty Seven States gets into a urination contest with Rush Limbaugh he puts

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davidl on January 28th, 2014

Dim Won, b/k/a Barack Obama has talked of solving problems by waving his magic pen.   Yet Joe the Plumbers pipe wrench is capable of doing something that Dim Won’s magic pen can not do, to wit create wealth.   A Mickey

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davidl on January 28th, 2014

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The Snark of the Day, from Jim Moran, via Gateway Pundit:

“I’m afraid that the millennials, if you will, are less likely to sign up. I think they feel more independent, I think they feel a little more invulnerable

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davidl on January 27th, 2014

Because the thought of getting behind the controls of this one point two million pound machine is enough to make the founder blogger drool and that thought spending five year restoring in enough to make me pine for Cheyenne, Wyoming,

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davidl on January 27th, 2014

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The Snark of the Day, from Ted Cruz, via Ed Morrissy, Hot Air:

“For the State of the Union, one of the things President Obama really ought to do is look in the TV camera and say to the

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davidl on January 24th, 2014

President Fifty Seven States knows best.   He told the New Yorker’s David Remnick,  that his problems were all the fault of those stoopid republicans and dastardly Rush Limbaugh,  from Hill:

President Obama said that gridlock on Capitol Hill stemmed

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davidl on January 24th, 2014

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The Snark of the Day, from Jay Leno:

‘Doctors warn pot smoking impairs young people’s thinking, which of course makes them much more likely to sign up for Obamacare’

Hat tip and video: Jammie Wearing Fool

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davidl on January 23rd, 2014

A never ending campaign to instill a fear of guns, from Christopher Flavelle. Bloomberg:

One of the report’s more distressing findings centered on the effect mass shootings have on Americans’ ability to cast a ballot. The commission noted that

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davidl on January 22nd, 2014

Roe v. Wade was decided forty-one years ago and fifty-five million American babies have died.   Yet for some strange reason, Dean Obeidallah is concerned about what is said outside of aborturiums, Daily Beast.

So why did I visit an

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davidl on January 22nd, 2014

The Volokh Conspiracy is now associated with, partnered with or controlled by the Washington Post.   From William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

In the earliest days of the internet, an Instapundit reader suggested the term “take the Boeing” to describe

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