davidl on December 6th, 2011

Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas:

Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James Goodfellow, when his careless son happened to break a pane of glass? If you

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davidl on August 29th, 2011

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Much ado, from Toby Harnden,Telegraph(UK):

The surf may have told a story but so too did the sight behind the reporter of people chatting and ambling along the sea front and just goofing around. There was a

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davidl on August 23rd, 2011

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Dumbo’s record, if the media had spent half much time and energy examining Dumbo’s b/k/a Barack Obama, record,they could not have missed the fact that the man is flat out lazy, from Tony Katz, Pajamas Media:

I have

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Leaders lead, Dumbo shucks, from Daily Caller:

A cascade of bad economic and political news knocked President Barack Obama off his game today, and prompted him to revive his 2008-style criticism of his predecessor, and also to suggest

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davidl on June 6th, 2011

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Somewhere the Sun is shining, from Scott Wong, Politico:

And Palin turned to an extended ship metaphor to make her point that the country needs to “shift gears and change course” from Obama’s economic policies of bigger government,

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davidl on June 5th, 2011

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Gurkha – 30, Taliban – 0, from Daily Mail (UK):

Corporal Dipprasad Pun defeated more than 30 Taliban fighters single-handedly

Used the tripod of his machine gun to beat away a militant after running out of ammunition

A Gurkha

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davidl on May 11th, 2011

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Bye-bye binny, from New York Times:

WASHINGTON — The adult sons of Osama bin Laden have lashed out at President Obama over their father’s death, accusing the United States of violating its basic legal principles by killing an

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davidl on May 4th, 2011

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Question Mr. President, from Ann Althouse:

So… was bin Laden shot because he resisted — the official story — or because a live, captured bin Laden would have torn the Obama administration apart?

More over, did the White

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davidl on May 1st, 2011

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Obama Can’t, Victor Davis Hanson on the problem with the Obami, from RCP:

[A] president who believes that modern cars get eight miles per gallon or need frequent tune-ups, and that proper tire inflation can substitute for drilling

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davidl on April 12th, 2011

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Geraghty’s Law Redux,  Jim Geraghty, the author law o eponymous law wins yet another convert,  from Micheal A. Walsh, New York Post:

After weeks of warning of the apocalypse, the leader of the Democratic Party, who never met

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davidl on April 11th, 2011

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Dumbo gets distracted, a lot, Debra Saunder argues that President Barack Obama, a/k/a Dumbo, seems to view to process of actually governing as a mere distraction, from RCP:

President Obama has dedicated his time in office to soaking

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davidl on March 24th, 2011

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Dumbo’s Disaster, Victor Davis Hanson on what it wrong with Barack Obama’s war of choice on  Libya, from National Review:

4) Aims and Objectives: Fact: We are now and then bombing Libyan ground targets in order to

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davidl on March 7th, 2011

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The Audacity of a Dope, Jack Kelly explains the political phenomenon formerly attributed to one Barack Husien Obama, from RCP:

Mr. Obama’s campaign speeches consisted mostly of empty platitudes, which nevertheless were greeted with wild applause.

“Obama’s appeal comes

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davidl on February 27th, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleDumbo’s Dream Energy, if Barack Obama is for it, be it Obama Care or his so-called green energy, figure  it will cnost the consumer more to get less, rom Lee Lane and Paul Bernstein, ,RCP:

For all the

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davidl on February 26th, 2011

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Obami stand mute, from Dana Milbank, RCP:

WASHINGTON — There have been worse times to start a new job in Washington. When Abraham Lincoln arrived in the capital 150 years ago this week, for example, the South had

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