Random July 4th Thoughts

As this is written, I’m heading up I-81, from Harrisburg, PA to Syracuse, NY, and then home. I have a trainee, this week, and he’s doing the driving.

It’s July 4th.

But, frankly, there doesn’t seem much to celebrate as

Let me preface this with a question:

If a woman’s birth control of choice is to keep her clothes on, should the government be able to force her employer to buy her wardrobe?

You see, there’s a logical inconsistency with

Yes, this getting to be all Hobby Lobby all the time, but it is a target rich environment, from Emily Zanotti, American Spectator:

If you’re still on social media after yesterday, you’re profoundly masochistic, in need of a stiff

Hobby Lobby covers circa sixteen out of twenty forms of contraception.   From the hissy  fit thrown by the left, you’d think the Supremes has just ruled in favor of mandatory female genital mutilation, or something, from John McCormack, Weekly Standard

Obama’s version of good government. Remember, he wanted to take us down a notch in the world.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101787838

Well, this is what happens when you punish success, and move to limit how successful you can be in the name of

So, that we are being lied to, that Climate Change is about as big a hoax on the American people and the world as has ever been played, … a breathtaking lie… is now a given. Observe:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/06/23/Global-warming-Fabricated-by-NASA-and-NOAA

Now the

Is this the prevue of the third Clinton administration, Mrs. Clinton trying, ever so hard, to play the class warfare card, via Right Scoop:

“They don’t see me as part of the problem,” Clinton said of Americans who are

No shock here. Mrs. Clinton thinks that ordinary citizens should not have guns and compares them to terrorists, from Bob Owens, Bearing Arms:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about her views on gun control Tuesday, saying she

Moochelle Obama, the Fat Lady of the United States believes the regime should dictate what school children eat for lunch, from Hill:

First lady Michelle Obama on Monday blasted back at critics of her school lunch program, arguing parents

Snark of the Day from Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit:

Why should the president of any university getting federal funds earn more than the President of the United States?

We hold car dealers responsible for defective cars. Why not hold college

Chris Christie may or may not be too fat to be president, he however is too stupid to be president, via ABC News:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is denouncing comments by fellow Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry comparing

Snark of the Day from George W. Bush,via AEI:

To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we are ready … would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al Qaeda. It would mean that we’d be risking mass

Mrs. Clinton has long professed to be a Methodist.   Yet somewhere along the line she must have become a humanist, and forget to include it in her book, from Right Wing News:

“One of my big problems right now

The Obama regime and the angry feminist are enraged over a supposed epidemic of rape on college campuses.   The problem, while they want to pretend the problem is rape, they refuse to call it rape.   Rather some nebulous crime called