davidl on August 13th, 2009

The Retard in Chief trying to dispell the rumors of  death panels:

Well, I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to

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Eric Florack on August 8th, 2009

David Boaz has noticed a pattern… one we’ve mentioned here before.

Some people on the left can’t see any excuse for opposition to collectivism except racism. (Which is, of course, as Ayn Rand said, “the lowest, most crudely primitive

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davidl on August 6th, 2009

I am over fifty and have neve been a member of the  AARP.  Why?   Because the AARP does not represent their members, they use them.    The AARP does not listen to their members and does not seek to advance their

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davidl on August 4th, 2009

Linda Douglas has posted video where she tried to convince the public that her boss, Barack Obama, does not want to eliminate private health insurance, video.   Tje problem for Douglas is that Obama was for Single Payer before hie

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davidl on July 31st, 2009

The Thirteenth Amendment, to the Constitution of the United States:.

Section. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any

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davidl on July 29th, 2009
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Eric Holder

The reprobate who is attorney general,  Eric Holder has called for a national conversation on race.   Holder throws this piece of fat into the fire,  from the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder says he

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davidl on July 29th, 2009

Glenn Beck has causes a minor tremor by opining the Barack Obama is a racist, video:

Hat tip video:  TVNewser.

No shat Sherlock!    Obama sat through twenty years of the Reverend Jerimiah Wright’s sermons.   Who’d have thunk:  video:

One

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From the Associated Press:

BOSTON – Police responding to a call about “two black males” breaking into a home near Harvard University ended up arresting the man who lives there — Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation’s pre-eminent black

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Eric Florack on July 26th, 2009

Frankly I think there are few people on the sphere who bring greater gravitas to the entire matter about the Gates /Crowley affair than Sister Toldjah. Yesterday morning’s post on that point reinforces that perception.

— President Obama expressed “regret”

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davidl on July 23rd, 2009

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The president is “not familiar” with the bill. No one can explain how it will work yet, as Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., told a contentious town meeting. There are various plans, and negotiations are still in the early stages.

But

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davidl on July 23rd, 2009

I commented on the saga of  poor oppressed Henry Gates, earlier.   What happened to Professor Gates wasn’t “racial profiling” then and it isn’t now.   Even if the accusation comes from the chief law enforcement officer of the nation, the

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2009

Noted in passing, a note from NRO’s Nina Owcharenko, in which we find:

This weekend President Obama dedicated his weekly address to defending Congress’s plans for an overhaul of the nation’s health-care system.

He argued, “Once you’ve seen

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davidl on July 18th, 2009

Let me make myself clear, from the Wall Street Journal:

In the health debate, liberals sing Hari Krishnas to the “public option” — a new federal insurance program like Medicare — but if it’s good enough for the middle

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davidl on July 16th, 2009

Martin Luther King:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

For

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Eric Florack on July 16th, 2009

This morning, James Joyner speaks to… and quotes… a Ezra Klien article:

Since obesity has somehow become our unofficial theme this morning, I’d be remiss not to mention Ezra Klein‘s observations about trying to eat healthy at Cheesecake

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