The Left: Stepping on the Consumer

An interesting, and mostly unsurprising report from the New York Times this morning.  Indeed, the only thing surprising about it is that it comes from the New York Times. Here’s some of it:

SAN FRANCISCO — It sounds like such

I’ve managed to get a WYSIWYG editor to the comments area. Tiny MCE is nice if it works, but for some reason I’ve  never figured out, it doesn’t get along with this theme.

So I found another way to get

Look at the bright side with a gross income in excess of a million and half dollars a year, George Tiller is the type of small business man that Barack Obama wants to punish,  Associated Press:

Tiller estimated that

Representative Eric Cantor (Virginia – Seven) has created a media firestorm because he went to a Britney Spears concert rather than a Barack Obama press conference,  Anne Schroeder Mullins, Politico:

Everybody has been asking GOP Whip Eric

Sad word from the radio just now… Dan Seals… One half of the duo of England Dan and John Ford Coley, has died. Apparently, Seals contracted lymphoma two years ago, and it was complicatioons from that, that took his life

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• Olberman still a loser: Glenn Reynolds notes that Glenn Beck is outdrawing Keith Overbite. Like, this

The long and winding road, the Gipper nails Obama, with a wee bit of help from Fred Barnes.   Ronald Reagan (audio), 1964:

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so

James Joyner, this morning:

President Obama says he’ll help GM and Chrysler but they’ll have to agree to some “pretty drastic changes.”

“We will provide them some help,” Obama said. “I know that it is not popular to provide help

John Ray, Stop the ACLU, reports on another skewering of Algore pet theory of anthropengic global warming:

By Richard Courtney

I write to report on a debate that defeated the motion “This House Believes Global Warming is a Global

On March 8, President Barack Obama falsely claimed to have lifted the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, Gilbert Meilaender, Paul McHugh, Benjamin Carson, Nicholas Eberstadt, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Alfonso Gómez-Lobo, William Hurlbut, Donald Landry, Peter Lawler,

Barney Frank(MA – Four) writing in the Puffington Post attempts, rather lamely, to offer a defense for calling Justice Anton Scalia a homohobe:

Justice Scalia denounced the court majorities not simply for finding that it was unconstitutional to

Look, I know this has long since become a matter of repeating earlier comments and replacing the names, dates and positions not being filled, but another of he president’s appointees… this time the number two slot at the EPA   (Yeah,

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• The magical disappearing tax cut: One of the things that did come out of that presser

For generations, the Radical Islam has sought to move us back to the 14th century. Now, we see they have an unlikely ally in that effort; the moder enviro-whack-job.

David Owen in The New Yorker, today:

The popular answer—switch to

Remember the late Carl Sagan, the theoretical astronomer?    Sagan was probably the only astronomer to be regular quest to the Tonight Show.   For all I know, Sagan was very good theoretical astronomer.  Not my cup of tea.    However Sagan never