Ho-hum, Another Democrat Tax Cheat

We have yet another tax issue showing up on the list of people nominated for service in the Obama administration. There seems something of a pattern, here. Jake Tapper and Jon Karl at ABC say:

ABC News has learned

I’ve been teling you since… well, forever, that FDR made things worse not better…  So  along comes Harold Cole and Lee Ohanian at The Wall Street Journal this morning:

The New Deal is widely perceived to have ended the Great

Millions are without power in Kentucky, forty-three are dead.   Does Barack Obama care?  Is Obama even vaguely aware of the situation?

More, Anchoress

Addendum: (Bit)

So much for global warming.

And where is FEMA? Bob McCarty writes:

Five days after

Heather Mac Donald over at The Corner touches on Kirsten Gillibrand, perhaps unintentionally making a nice follow on to my Pajamas Media peice of last week:

What are the chances that New York’s new senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, will

Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; 46% voted for John McCain, and 1% voted for wackos. Give that 1% to President Obama. Let’s say the vote was 54% to 46%. As a way to bring the country

The House  republicans set an example  for the jelly spined republicans in the Senate to which to uphold.    The Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt Plan passed the House nary a single republcan vote.  David Espo, AP:

WASHINGTON – In a swift victory

The Washington Post:

Republican criticism of the stimulus package that the House will vote on tonight has focused on its soaring price tag, but some Democrats on Capitol Hill and other administration supporters are voicing a separate critique: that

An American hero, speaks little, says much, video:

Hat tip: Moe Lane.

Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, American hero.

Lesson  learned:  experience counts,  competency matters,  results trump promises.  DG Sully.

Fred Dicker at :The New York Post:

Caroline Kennedy last night withdrew from consideration to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton – just two months after she rocked the New York political landscape by throwing her hat in the

McQ notes, this morning, something that bothered me last night, as well:

If there is indeed an “era of maturity” evident, it has nothing to do with the leftists of this country. Indeed, even on this day, they just

I have another piece up over at Pajamas Media, this morning. Here’s a taste:

You see, while the numbers suggest that there has been no president since Richard Nixon or — depending on how you judge these things — Harry

On Saturday, Brian Douglass opened up over at Pajamas Media:

A little over a year ago, Honda’s luxury Acura brand was criticized for not offering a powerful V8 engine in its flagship sedan. After all, the pundits opined, luxury buyers

I was on the road while most of the events with the Bird-strike plane landing in the Hudson were going on, and by the time I got home, there wasn’t much to write about.  So, I didn’t. Everyone else seemed

We’ve recently watched as Israel and Hamas have slugged it out.  As always, when Israel seeks to defend itself, there have been many saying Israel’s response to Hamas has not been “proportional”. 

What is, in fact, a proportional response?.  Any

Unless those two countries are giving these things away, Hamas has been buying them. So instead of spending money for food and humanitarian supplies, apparently Hamas opted for weaponry and aggression. Somehow, however, it is Israel’s fault that the humanitarian