The Widow Carolyn McCarthy Goes Home.

Congress has gotten a wee bit smarter.   The dumbest woman in Congress, one Carolyn McCarthy has retired, from Useless Toady:

MINEOLA, N.Y. – Early in her congressional career, Carolyn McCarthy’s plea – rare in politics – was, “Let me

Two political campaigns, albeit both losing, two political icons, one national and one partisan. and two speeches. Up first Mario Cuomo at age 52 in 1984, video:

Next, Ronald Reagan at age 53 in 1964, video:

Compare and contrast, funny

Mayor Bill, b/k/a New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio thinks the New York City Police Department is the problem, from Heather Mac Donald, New York Daily News:

Following the nonindictment of Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the lethal arrest

Snark of the Day from Ralph Peters:

“[Barack Obama] tried to romance [Vladamir] Putin and he got date-raped.”

Source and video: Mediaite

There are three sixty-four days left this year, but the colonel is in good shape for take the

Exposing the lie based protest movement, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal:

The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal

The real story behind the murder of two NYPD officers

Since last summer, a lie has overtaken significant parts

Like John Forbes Kerry, Mrs. William Clinton was for extraordinary rendition before she was opposed to it.from Daily Mail (UK):

Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. should never be involved in torture anywhere in the world – and also slipped

In the wake of the imploded Rolling Stone story on an fictitious rape on the University of Virginia campus, New York State junior Senator Kristen Gillibrand ( D -New York) is still jousting  with imaginary enemies, from Chicago Tribune

Chuck Hagel has  been shown the exit from the regime, from Doug Mataconis, Outside the Beltwey:

What is perhaps unusual about the way this story has broken, of course, is the fact that it is being made clear from

Dr. Martin Salia, late of Sierra Leone, has passed. Sorry to see Dr. Salia go, but he could just as well died in his native country. There is simply no rational to import infectious aliend i9to this county, from CBS

Snark of the Day from Howard Dean:

“The core problem under the damn law[Obama Care] is it was put together by a bunch of elitists who don’t fundamentally understand the American people. That’s what the problem is.”

Hat tip: Washington

I have discussed at length the idea that most folks aren’t voting and why. I note a graphic that showed up in my E-mail this morning…

Now… as to WHY they don’t vote…  it is as I’ve been saying all

Video:

As a candidate Chris Christie has much, very much, (too much?) for which to account and atone.  Yet as a republican, at least he is firing back at the democrat and media mythology.  Bully for Chris.

There is no I in the word team and with Dim Won, b/k/a President Barack Obama, there is nothing more important than feeding his vanity, from Hill:

President Obama delivered a blow to Democratic Senate candidates looking to distance

Tom Frieden, head of the Center for Disease Control:

“[T]he fact that it’s possible to take care of Ebola safely, but it does change, substantially, how we approach it,”

Hat tip and reax, Vox, Vox Popoli:

You are permitting

First, let me say that the USSC’s recent (non-)decision was the correct and logical one, if the only issue was the law and the wording within the Constitution. The choice, you see, was made the moment government made