Christmas is a rather convoluted holiday. I say, the holiday is simply what you make it. What Greenpeace is making out Christmas to be is ugly. Greenpeace is playing like the Grinch and attempting to steal Christmas from everybody. The
Ann Althouse has managed to rat out Time‘s list of Person of the Year nominees. I have taken the liberty of denoting what award each should really win:
Bashar Assad, President of Syria [democide]
Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder [free
Don’t mend it, end it. Abolish the TSA Glenn Reynolds (2 December):
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Abolish The TSA. [SPAM on link]
Yesterday (KING5):
TSA agent confiscates sock monkey’s toy pistol
Amen, Professor!
Yet more evidence that Obamacare was never intended for the ruling class, but rather only the subject class, from Stephanie Kirchgaessner, FT:
Americans who are buying insurance plans over online exchanges, under what is known as Obamacare, will have
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The Snark of the Day, Charles Krauthammer on the White House’s touted Obamacare enrollment numbers, via RCP:
Well, if you do the math on that and you continue that enrollment up until the deadline of the 23rd of December,
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Some democrat congresscritters have apparently conflated McFood franchise owners with the federal government, apparently believing that if you own a McFood franchise, you can just print money, from Bloomberg
Democrat members of the U.S. Congress are urging McDonald’s Corp. and
President Period, a/k/a Barack Obama, from Hill:
President Obama declared Tuesday that ObamaCare “is working” and that “we’re not going back,” as the White House looked to reboot its efforts to sell Americans on the president’s signature healthcare law.
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Should the real address of the Regime’s website be Potemkin.gov
As President Obama kicks off another campaign tour to tout Obamacare, the bad news about the law keeps pouring in. Something tells me he won’t mention that up to a
The fierce urgency of then, ala New York Times (2004):
What is critical is for the winner of the presidential race, and for the three European nations, to make it urgently and abundantly clear to Iran’s president, Mohammad Khatami, and
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The Snark of the Day, from R.S. McCain:
So there you have the New York Times worldview in a nutshell: The SEIU and the AFL-CIO, good. American troops, bad.
I don’t expect any McFood brigade ever would
Roger Taney wrote that citizens had the right to keep and travel with guns, Scott v. Sanford (1857)
For if they were so received, and entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens, it would exempt them from the operation
It is One December, the date for the re-rollout of the Obamacare website, Healthcare.gov. So how did it go, video from CNN, via Powerline:
Maybe CNN’s computer crashed because of was a substandard?
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For Thanksgiving some few cook a turkey. Many more dine on bird. But this year Dana Milbank wrote a turkey, Washington Post:
At this time of Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for the U.S. military — not just for the usual
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No secret, I have never been a fan of Barack Obama. His candidacy never passed the smell test. Give me a break, the most liberal member of the Senate was somehow was going to morph into some sort post-partisan President.
President Obama does not consider himself to be particularly ideological, and I don’t consider President Fifty Seven States to be particularly smart, from Ed Roger, Washington Post:
The president’s belief that little of what he does is ideologically driven suggests
