De Blasio’s War on the Carriage Trade

You gotta give former mayor Micheal Bloomberg some credit. He was willing to spend vast amounts of his own money to advance his own private agenda. For example, Bloomberg never meet a gun. other than his own, that he did

Hapless Akademik Shokalskiy flat landers cause environmental disaster, from New Zealand Herald:

The hapless Australasian Antarctic Expedition is finally homeward bound – and thousands of trees will have to be planted to offset the carbon footprint from the prolonged

Is sex rape, or are some particular forms of sex always rape?    Radical Wind  says yes:

Just to recall a basic fact: intercourse/PIA is always rape, plain and simple.

This is a developed recap from what I’ve been saying in

A Ship of Fools, From the BBC:

The Chinese ice-breaker that helped rescue passengers stranded on the Akademik Shokalskiy vessel in Antarctica may now itself be stuck.

An Australian ice-breaker carrying the rescued passengers has been placed on standby

Hanna Rosen writing at Time snarks:

Are men literally obsolete? Of course not, and if we had to prove that we could never win. For one thing, we haven’t figured out a way to harvest sperm without them being, you

The nun-sense that emanates from Washington,  a smart person knows the limits of his knowledge.    Kathleen Sebelius is not a smart person, for she recognizes no limits to her presumed expertise.   A smart person would realize that a nun requires

About the only thing wrong with this story is that Algore is not on board, from Paul Tilsey, Fox News:

The leader of a scientific expedition whose ship remains stranded in Antarctic ice says the team, which set out

Has the Moron in Chief, a/k/a Dumbo, a/k/a President Fifty Seven States, b/k/a Barack Obama just realized that the Unaffordable Care Ace,  a/k/a Obamacare has taken too many torpedoes has is now sinking?   This sure look like full panic mode,

John Podesta, accused congressional republican of being part of Jonestown like cult. via National Review:

“[The White House] need to focus on executive action given that they are facing a second term against a cult worthy of Jonestown in

Note, Canucks know snark,

Is Algore covered by Obamacare yet, and if so does cover removing his foot from his mouth?   From via Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:

Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice

The Snark of the Day, from Allah Pundit, Hot Air:

In other news today, because Healthcare.gov’s doing so amazingly well now, HHS announced that they’re going to extend the deadline for phasing out state high-risk pools from December 31st

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!

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,

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

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