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  1. Doing the health care anecdote-vetting the Left won’t do

    → Michelle Malkin | 16 Mar 2010 | 9:27 pm MDT

    Here is Larry Scary O’Donnell — who can usually be seen frothing at the mouth with bulging neck veins as he melts down on MSNBC — sloooowly reading a teleprompter as he chastises me, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck for “attacking” 11-year-old Marcelas Owens. Nice to see your Valium working, Larry: As usual, he gets basic [...]

  2. ‘Desperate’ Says Instapundit

    → The Other McCain | 16 Mar 2010 | 9:21 pm MDT

    by Smitty DESPERATE: President Obama seeks Democratic votes on Fox News. This suggests just the spokesman for ObamaCare, to help convey the non-chalant urgency of it all:

  3. The Math Is Flawless

    → The Other McCain | 16 Mar 2010 | 9:14 pm MDT

    by Smitty (h/t Hot Air) Ornstein at AeI: In the last Congress that Republicans controlled, from 2005 to 2006, Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier used the self-executing rule more than 35 times, and was no stranger to the concept of “deem and pass.” I had wondered how the Republicans had managed to conquer 1/6*35*100 = 583% of the [...]

  4. What are Pelosi and the House Democrat women up to now?

    → Michelle Malkin | 16 Mar 2010 | 8:55 pm MDT

    The gender card is the first and last refuge of House Scoundrel Nancy Pelosi. She’s played it since Day One of her reign of error. She wielded it last week when she surrounded herself with kiddie human shields. And it appears she may be plotting it to use it in the Demcare end game. Via Roll [...]

  5. Quotes of the day

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 16 Mar 2010 | 8:48 pm MDT

    The rules of the game.

  6. Code Red Protest: The Rest Of The Story

    → The Other McCain | 16 Mar 2010 | 8:13 pm MDT

    by Smitty American Power gathered some great clips. I have one of my very own, of a fellow Virginian, Tom Whitmore, with the Kill the Bill Chorus in full swing:A few other stills that died during the upload on site (click for full size):This one is taken from the Taft memorial, of the crowd:While he [...]

  7. Inevitable: DHS scraps “virtual” border fence

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 16 Mar 2010 | 8:05 pm MDT

    Waste.

  8. Governor Arpiao?

    → All American Blogger | 16 Mar 2010 | 8:00 pm MDT

    Sheriff Joe says if he’s ever going to run for governor of Arizona, it’s now or never: “I’m not going to wait until I’m 85 or 80 if I wanted to run for governor,” he says. “I would run for governor for two reasons, because the people want me, and I know I can do the [...] Related posts:
    1. Hispanic Group Voices Support For Arpaio
    2. Arpaio bans Illegal immigrants from visiting people at county jails
    3. “After 16 years in office, Sheriff Joe Arpaio is showing no signs of mellowing.”


  9. Foreclosure worries cramping your style? President Obama's Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) lets taxpayers foot the bill!

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:54 pm MDT

    The invaluable Market Ticker pulls a troubling snippet of news out of Hanson Advisors' latest missive. Put simply, President Obama's HAMP program is a complete failure; it seemingly encourages fraud, harms banks and isn't finished yet. Consider the profile of the average consumer with a new, "affordable" mortgage:Gross debt-to-income ratios of 59.8% after modification?Folks, do you understand




  10. Today’s “Grandfather Shoots Home Invaders” Story Brought to You By Springfield, MO

    → All American Blogger | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:34 pm MDT

    Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or don’t break into this guy’s house unless you feel your body is lacking in holes: A grandfather wants to know why two burglars kicked in his door, holding knives. The 57-year-old man didn’t question grabbing his gun and quickly firing at the masked men. He asked KSPR [...] Related posts:
    1. Rape Victim Shoots Rapist in Her Home
    2. Wounded 11 Year Old Fires Back At Home Invaders, Hits One
    3. North Carolina State Senator Shoots Home Intruder


  11. Alan Grayson is a Poor Excuse for a Congressman

    → All American Blogger | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:30 pm MDT

    Rep. Alan Grayson is no statesman. In fact, he’s an extraordinarily poor excuse for a Congressman. Here’s why. On Friday, Gov. Sarah Palin was in Florida for a Republican fundraiser. In her speech, she said: “[W]hat can you say about Alan Grayson? Piper is with me tonight, so I won’t say anything about Alan Grayson that can’t be [...] Related posts:
    1. IT’S A BOY!
    2. Rep. Alan Grayson is A Candidate for a Punch in the Mouth
    3. The Libertarian Case for Palin


  12. Ricochet Podcast: Midnight Blue

    → Big Government | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:22 pm MDT

    “Midnight Blue” It’s the debut of a new Ricochet Podcast feature: The Ricochet Smack Down. This week, John Yoo and Richard Epstein enter The Octogon to argue whether the names of the so-called “Al-Qaeda 7″ ought to be made public, the legality and morality of torture, and other associated issues (see NYT article here). It’s [...]

  13. Coming Up Real Soon Now: Live Cassone

    → The Other McCain | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:22 pm MDT

    by Smitty Cassone speaks: I will be on live tonight at 10 PM EST. John Clark has reportedly the largest streaming audience in that time slot. So please pass on. I’ll be debuting several new songs and talking tea. Also appearing is my friend, Mark Meckler of the Tea Party Patriots who will talk about how to stop [...]

  14. CNN: ObamaCare opponents 11 votes away from killing the bill

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:21 pm MDT

    So close.

  15. Get Yer 'Call Congress Now' Blog Widget

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:21 pm MDT

    Don't bother calling the power-mad oligarchs like Hoyer and Pelosi. Instead, call the NRCC's Code Red Targets. Now.And, if you have a blog, add the widget.200 pels wide by 138 pels high<a href="http://www.nrcc.org/CodeRed/targets/"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/S6AvU8H1chI/AAAAAAAAbkk/At2QGuNLGeM/s400/100316-call-congress.jpg" alt="Dial: 877-762-8762 or 202-224-3121 ... Code




  16. InTrade on Obamacare

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:03 pm MDT

    InTrade's been wrong on occasion, but this chart isn't encouraging.Call now -- make your voice heard.




  17. Is General Petraeus Behind Obama’s Dressing Down of Israel?

    → Commentary | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:00 pm MDT

    What’s behind the administration’s new get-tough policy with Israel? If you believe Mark Perry, a former Arafat adviser and author of Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with Its Enemies, it’s the doing of General David Petraeus. In a rather imaginative post at Foreign Policy’s web site, he claims that on Jan. 16, a team [...]

  18. SlaughterHouse Four Thirty-Five: The Revenge of Deem-ocrats

    → Cold Fury | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:00 pm MDT

    JACK SHELDON …your country needs you! “But Schoolhouse Rock Said a Bill Had to Get Voted Upon to Become a Law!” Kill the Bill, deemit.

  19. Holder solves problem of how to interrogate Bin Laden by pretending it doesn’t exist

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 16 Mar 2010 | 6:53 pm MDT

    Denial.

  20. Top 10 Reasons We Can Trust Democrats to Run Health Care as Well as They Run the Economy

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 16 Mar 2010 | 6:37 pm MDT

    .bbb { margin-right: 9px; font-family: arial black,arial,tahoma; font-weight: bold; font-size: 24pt; }10 New home sales hit the lowest level on record in January.9The percentage of delinquent mortgages hit 5.1%, another high.8Nearly one out of four mortages are underwater. It's another Obama miracle!7A huge wave of adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) are about to reset, many from ultra-low "teaser"




  21. Why Is Da Tech Guy Radicalizing Fitchburg?

    → The Other McCain | 16 Mar 2010 | 6:35 pm MDT

    by Smitty The simple fact is that, since Da Tech Guy attended CPAC just a few short weeks ago, Fitchburg, Mass. has become a hotbed of activism, scoring simultaneous protests today. Inquiring blogs want to know: just where is he going with this Fedora sportin’ reign of activism?

  22. NBC poll: After nine months, public still doesn’t like ObamaCare

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 16 Mar 2010 | 6:07 pm MDT

    Shocka.

  23. Democrats: We're so proud of our awesome takeover of health care that we won't go on record as actually having voted for it

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 16 Mar 2010 | 5:38 pm MDT

    House Majority Leader Stenky Hoyer and Speaker Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi hit the press circuit earlier today to defend the so-called Slaughter Solution, an unprecedented method for enacting government-run health care. This last-gasp Democrat attempt to squeeze out a health care bill would "deem" the Senate health care bill as passed without a direct vote.Legal experts believe such a maneuver




  24. Would you buy a used car from this man?

    → | 16 Mar 2010 | 4:33 pm MDT

    Here’s our President telling people that the cost of  health insurance  premiums will fall by “3000%” with his plan and their employers could give them a raise!  Woot Woot. Loud Applause!  It all sounds so attractive and so immediate! Let’s do the math, but first, a word from the man who has no idea that 100% [...]

  25. Obama Officials: Relax, We’re Just Trying to Break up Bibi’s Coalition

    → Commentary | 16 Mar 2010 | 4:31 pm MDT

    Jeffrey Goldberg spoke with White House officials today and posted this report. So what is the goal? The goal is force a rupture in the governing coalition that will make it necessary for Netanyahu to take into his government Livni’s centrist Kadima Party (he has already tried to do this, but too much on his terms) [...]

  26. Somebody Wake Me Up!

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 16 Mar 2010 | 4:19 pm MDT

    Never, NEVER would I have thought I would see the day when a sitting President actually forbade our Military from flying the Stars and Stripes. NEVER. Until today that is, and I wish it were just a bad dream. Our Military which are at this time in the midst of participating in relief efforts in Haiti (which by [...]

  27. Thread: Breitbart Guest-Hosts ‘The Savage Nation’

    → Big Government | 16 Mar 2010 | 4:04 pm MDT

    Andrew Breitbart guest-hosts Michael Savage’s mega-national radio show, 6pm to 9pm EST.  Debate, discuss, and live-blog in the comments.  LISTEN HERE. Also, Happy 21st Birthday to Hannah Giles.

  28. ACORN’s Maryland Chapter Shuttered

    → Big Government | 16 Mar 2010 | 3:48 pm MDT

    Group is undone in national scandal sparked by videos showing illegal activity From today’s Baltimore Sun: A former leader of Maryland’s ACORN chapter said Monday the group will no longer operate in the state, doomed by an embarrassing national scandal six months ago from which the organization never recovered. An undated sign hangs on the entrance to the [...]

  29. Lost Shakespeare Found, Mistaken for Real Final Episode of “Seinfeld”

    → Commentary | 16 Mar 2010 | 3:20 pm MDT

    In our March issue, John Gross examines the phenomenon of “Denying Shakespeare,” a condition in which the afflicted insist that Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare but that, in fact, only Shakespeare was. Everybody got that? Now we find that Shakespeare (no not him — him!) may have written a play heretofore lost to civilization but recently found. It’s called [...]

  30. False Charges of Israeli Racism Are No Defense of Obama’s Bias

    → Commentary | 16 Mar 2010 | 3:00 pm MDT

    Roger Cohen’s decision to join the crowd piling on Israel with a column that seeks to fan the flames of anger at Israel over the building of Jewish homes in Jerusalem was to be expected. Just about everything the Times columnist has written in the last year, including his shameful apologia for Iran’s dictators, has [...]

  31. A Clarification and Apology

    → Commentary | 16 Mar 2010 | 2:53 pm MDT

    I received a note from a reader in the context of my exchange with Tom Ricks. He is someone who reads me fairly regularly and said this: I thought you were being way too hard on the guy before, and was saddened to see you double down on it today. In my experience, lots of people use that [...]

  32. Obama: My "Stimulus" Was Useless

    → Bizblogger | 16 Mar 2010 | 2:51 pm MDT

    ...OK, so those weren't his exact words, but that is what Obama is saying when he tells us now that unemployment will not decrease at all this year.

    This, after he said that it would stay below 8% if his $800,000,000,000.00 spending bill passed last year.


  33. Wreckonciliation Tweet of the Day; Update: Bobby Gibbs squirms; Capitol switchboard meltdown

    → Michelle Malkin | 16 Mar 2010 | 2:47 pm MDT

    From @johnthune2012, a perfect summation of the last year in the Age of Obama/Pelosi/Reid: *** As noted below in comments by Dan, our Texas blogger friend Kathleen McKinley said it first last week: “We’ve Moved From Passing Bills Without Reading Them to Passing Bills Without Voting On Them.” *** Related: Via Allahpundit, Bobby Gibbs discovers it’s not just the [...]

  34. Dodd’s Main Street Punishment Bill

    → Big Government | 16 Mar 2010 | 2:01 pm MDT

    With the focus this week on health care’s “home stretch” and concerns about government limiting the ability of ordinary Americans to make choices about medical treatment, another threat to freedom is accelerating that could harm Americans’ abilities to start a business, invest for retirement, and get affordable home and auto insurance policies. On Monday, after [...]

  35. Braceletgate Update: Left, White House Actually React to Silly ‘Doubtful’ Theory

    → Big Government | 16 Mar 2010 | 1:09 pm MDT

    On Monday, I floated a theory about the purple bracelet Robert Gibbs was wearing on a couple Sunday talk shows.  I wondered if it had any connection to a similar purple bracelet SEIU heavy Andy Stern had worn at some point. The silly theory, which I called “doubtful,” solicited a reaction that surprised even me.  Besides [...]

  36. Good News for Democrats

    → Cold Fury | 16 Mar 2010 | 12:47 pm MDT

    I’ve always thought the hard core left of the Democrat party was delusional. I mean like, full-on-in-need-of-medication-batshit-barking-at-the-moon crazy. Turns out I was right. The president will refuse to make fund-raising visits during November elections to any district whose representative has not backed the bill. Ummm….dude? That’s a feature, not a bug. See? Maybe you could just [...]

  37. “No Worse Friend, No Better Enemy”

    → Cold Fury | 16 Mar 2010 | 12:39 pm MDT

    THE WORLD TURNED DOWNSIDE-UP Seth Leibsohn: Blazoned across the NYT today is the headline: “Israel Feeling Rising Anger From U.S.” How I just pray for the headline someday that reads ”Iran Feeling Rising Anger From U.S.” or “Venezuela Feeling Rising Anger From U.S.” or “Cuba Feeling Rising Anger From U.S.” or “Myanmar Feeling Rising Anger From U.S.” [...]

  38. Get the cameras into the House Rules Committee hearing room Updated

    → Michelle Malkin | 16 Mar 2010 | 12:27 pm MDT

    Open the door.

  39. “She’s a Damned Old Flag, She’s a No-Flyin’ Flag…”

    → Cold Fury | 16 Mar 2010 | 10:23 am MDT

    …BUT DON’T QUESTION THE PATRIOTISM! “I believe that a man must be a good patriot before he can be, and as the only possible way of being, a good citizen of the world. Experience teaches us that the average man who protests that his international feeling swamps his national feeling, that he does not care [...]

  40. Pelosi: Democrats Will Have The Votes

    → Sweetness & Light | 16 Mar 2010 | 9:41 am MDT

    From Bloomberg.com: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, march 15, 2010, following a meeting with children’s advocates to discuss the health care overhaul legislation. Pelosi Says Democrats to Have Votes for Health Bill By Laura Litvan and Kristin Jensen March 16 (Bloomberg) — House Speaker [...]

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  41. House Republicans to force vote on Pelosi’s Slaughter House solution; Update: Democrat condemns “deem and pass”

    → Michelle Malkin | 16 Mar 2010 | 9:23 am MDT

    Deem this.

  42. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!!

    → Cold Fury | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:51 am MDT

    Yet another Obama stage prop fails to stand up to scrutiny: Natoma Canfield, the cancer-stricken woman who has become a centerpiece of President Obama’s push for health care reform, will not lose her home over her medical bills and will probably qualify for financial aid, a top official at the Cleveland medical center treating her told [...]

  43. Netanyahu: We Will Build in All of Jerusalem

    → Bizblogger | 16 Mar 2010 | 7:30 am MDT

    Israeli PM Netanyahu defies Obama:

    “Over the past 40 years, no Israeli government has agreed to limit building in Jerusalem,” Netanyahu said today in a speech to Parliament, ticking off five sections of the city that were captured from Jordan in the 1967 war and now house tens of thousands of Israelis.

    I think the Israelis know what to expect from Obama in terms of help - nothing. And on top of that, Obama wants them to agree with allowing a nuclear Iran. Besides, the stopped building in the Gaza Strip several years ago and look what that's gotten them: a daily barrage of missiles.


  44. Sowell: Obama Would Make Bernie Madoff Proud

    → Bizblogger | 16 Mar 2010 | 6:45 am MDT

    Steal hundreds of billions from Medicare. Take 10 years of revenue and 6 years of expenses. Jack taxes by hundreds of billions more.

    What we have is Obamacare - and how it magically becomes "deficit neutral." So says Thomas Sowell. Somewhere, Bernie Madoff must be smiling.


  45. Pelosi, Slaughter Against ‘Deeming’ In ‘05

    → Sweetness & Light | 16 Mar 2010 | 6:15 am MDT

    From the Washington Examiner: Pelosi, Slaughter went to court against GOP’s self-executing rule in 2005 By: Mark Tapscott 03/16/10 You’ve been hearing a lot this week about the Slaughter Solution, the rule devised by House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter of New York whereby the House would pass an Obamacare reconcilliation bill via a rule that [...]

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  46. Advertisement:

    → Sweetness & Light | 16 Mar 2010 | 5:39 am MDT



  47. AP: Obama Administration Not So Open

    → Sweetness & Light | 16 Mar 2010 | 5:39 am MDT

    From, of all place, his usually dependable acolytes at the Associated Press: U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden (L) watches while U.S. President Barack Obama signs an executive order on Executive Branch ethics. PROMISES, PROMISES: Is gov’t more open with Obama? By Sharon Theimer, Associated Press Writer March 6, 200 WASHINGTON – Federal agencies haven’t lived up to President [...]

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  48. Crocodile Tears From The Parents Of Jihad Jamie?

    → Common Sense Junction | 16 Mar 2010 | 4:22 am MDT

    Ms. Paulin-Ramirez’s interest in Islam “came out of left field,” said her mother, Christine Holcomb-Mott, in an interview at her home Friday, wearing a blue sweatsuit with a silver cross around her neck. How out of left field? Mr. Mott, a convert to Islam himself, says he went to Denver to find his stepdaughter but couldn’t track [...]

  49. …And the Defective Scumbag Of The Week Award goes to Mbarek Lafrem

    → | 16 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am MDT

    This defective Missing Link is Mbarek Lafrem. He asked a nurse to dance and she said No. Well she had a lot of nerve, being just a woman and all. So this shitbag followed her into the ladies’ room and beat the crap out of her within an inch of her currently semi-conscious life. The woman, who lives near the [...]

  50. Headlines and Summaries

    → Common Sense Junction | 16 Mar 2010 | 3:00 am MDT

    • Robin of Berkeley: “Brain-Dead in Berkeley” • Robin of Berkeley: “Is Obama a Narcissist?” • Terminally ill sentenced to premature death in UK’s NHS” • Rights versus Wants~~~~~~ [Your Browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. However, you may use Site Map Pages to navigate this site.] -

  51. LA To Up Energy Cost 28% To Go Green

    → Sweetness & Light | 16 Mar 2010 | 12:40 am MDT

    From the Los Angeles Times: DWP rates may rise between 8% and 28% to pay for mayor’s green initiatives The hike would pay for more aggressive conservation programs and a solar plan designed to create 16,000 jobs as well as cover the fluctuating price of coal and natural gas. By David Zahniser and Phil Willon March [...]

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  52. Obama to Israel: 'Drop Dead'

    → American Thinker | 16 Mar 2010 | 12:04 am MDT

    It took awhile -- fourteen months, to be exact -- but both the ADL and AIPAC have issued very solid statements condemning the president's new verbal war on Israel.

  53. The Coffee Party Con

    → American Thinker | 16 Mar 2010 | 12:04 am MDT

    The new and much-publicized Coffee Party movement sports a fairy tale narrative about being a spontaneous uprising of concerned Americans.

  54. Soros's Deal

    → American Thinker | 16 Mar 2010 | 12:04 am MDT

    George Soros has another terrible idea, one that will make him even richer.

  55. Hope(fund) and Change: Breaking the Obama Code

    → American Thinker | 16 Mar 2010 | 12:03 am MDT

    Always looking ahead for the next stage, Barack Obama launched his Hopefund PAC on January 25, 2005, twenty days after he was sworn into the U.S. Senate.

  56. Wake-Up Call for the Tea Party

    → American Thinker | 16 Mar 2010 | 12:03 am MDT

    Tea Partiers who think they're onto something special are right. In terms of competing with the organized left, though, they're light-years and hundreds of millions of dollars behind.

  57. Cartoon Time……

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 15 Mar 2010 | 6:18 pm MDT



  58. Minnesota Gipper Billboard and the “Marxist” Billboard North of Kansas City

    → All American Blogger | 15 Mar 2010 | 2:24 pm MDT

    First came the “Miss Me Yet?” bill board in Minnesota. Now, a billboard with the Gipper has appeared. Via Hot Air: Somehow, I think people will miss this man more than the one featured in the “Miss Me Yet?” billboard that appeared outside the Twin Cities in Minnesota last month. Another anonymous advertisement has appeared on [...] Related posts:
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    3. Thousands of Right Wing Extremists Protest in Kansas City, or Pics from the Kansas City Tea Party – UPDATED


  59. “I managed to get two confirmed kills.” Brit Sniper Speaks (Video)

    → All American Blogger | 15 Mar 2010 | 2:15 pm MDT

    The Telegraph is doing a series on British military members in Afghanistan. In this video, they talk with a Brit sniper: Here’s some of the other videos: Hear from one of the chefs responsible for keeping the troops well fed, the soldiers returning from battle pumped with adrenaline, the young officer preparing to take his platoon out [...] Related posts:
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    2. Army Presents Iraqi School with Soccer Uniforms
    3. A Field Guide To American Politics: July 9, 2007


  60. JPost: Obama an "Enemy of Israel"

    → Bizblogger | 15 Mar 2010 | 1:34 pm MDT

    From Carline Glick of the Jerusalem Post, via Gateway Pundit:

    Anyone who paid the slightest attention to who Barack [short for Barakeh in Arabic] Obama is before he was elected knew full well that this man is an enemy of Israel. He was a member of an ardently anti-Semitic church for more than two decades. His friends ranged from virulently anti-Israel and anti-Jewish like Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, William Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, Samantha Power and Susan Rice — among others — to radically post-Zionist like Arnie Wolf, Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod not to mention Joe Biden.

    Given his pedigree, no one should have been surprised that Obama has chosen to stir up a crisis in his relations with Israel.

    Yet, I'm sure the Jewish population will continue to support Obama.


  61. Glengarry Glen (Cong)Ress

    → iowahawk | 15 Mar 2010 | 1:17 pm MDT

    (with apologies to David Mamet) ACT I. A seedy, dimly lit boiler room under the U.S. Capitol. A group of hardbitten health care legislative salesmen are seated at grim Steelcase desks, on the phone with prospects. Steny "The Lawyer" Hoyer...

  62. Geraghty the Genius

    → California Conservative | 15 Mar 2010 | 11:01 am MDT

    Once again, Jim Geraghty proves that his posts are must-reading for conservative activists with this post. Yesterday, Obama administration uber-flacks David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs insisted that they’d love running on the health care issue. Geraghty’s post highlights the fact that Virginia’s Democrats aren’t quite as enthusiastic as Mssrs. Axelrod and Gibbs: That’s funny, neither of [...]

  63. Contratulations, John Edwards! You’ve got a real live one, you shitbag.

    → | 15 Mar 2010 | 9:19 am MDT

    Very classy, Reille. Very classy. You and that bag of shit deserve each other. May you  both disappear into oblivion. Soon, we hope. You and that bag of crap are walking proof that sometimes the wrong people get terminal cancer. And of course, this is all Elizabeth’s fault, isn’t that right, Reille? What a wonderful example you [...]

  64. Debunking the White House’s Myths

    → California Conservative | 15 Mar 2010 | 8:21 am MDT

    This WSJ article does a stellar job of debunking the Obama administration’s myths about what the Democrats’ health care legislation will do. Here’s a great example: Insurance premiums will fall. Dan Pfeiffer, Mr. Obama’s communications director, took to the White House blog to claim that the plan “will make insurance more affordable by providing the largest [...]

  65. Harry Reid: Taxes Are Voluntary

    → Common Sense Junction | 15 Mar 2010 | 6:30 am MDT

    He not only says taxes are voluntary, but he emphasizes it over and over. He says “forced” taxation is a system where the government takes taxes first. — Hm….why does that ring a bell? Reid says other things also make it a voluntary system, like mortgage interest and dependent deductions. Do we need change? Real change [...]

  66. Carly Fiorina, Head-to-Head With Barbara Boxer

    → Common Sense Junction | 15 Mar 2010 | 4:42 am MDT

    Can Carly Fiorina pull it off in California? The legend goes that it all started innocently enough, in local politics. But then we sent Barbara Boxer to the Senate where she has taken root for the last 18 years as one the most liberal, partisan members — more full of hot air than she is solutions [...]

  67. Medicare Is Broke Sooner Than Expected….

    → Common Sense Junction | 15 Mar 2010 | 4:22 am MDT

    …and BEFORE Obama’s planned $500 billion theft. PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration. It’s time to start cashing them in. For more than two decades, Social Security collected [...]

  68. The Ides of March is upon us.

    → | 15 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am MDT

    In Rome, The Ides of March referred to March 15, a day of celebration dedicated to the Roman god of war, Mars (not to be confused with the candy bar). You might say that the Ides of March celebration was the Festivus For The Rest Of Us. There is one day that ingrained the words “Ides of [...]

  69. Axelrod’s Target Audience

    → California Conservative | 15 Mar 2010 | 1:27 am MDT

    During his appearance on Meet the Press Sunday morning, David Axelrod said that he’s spoiling for a fight on health care. I’m confident that Axelrod doesn’t want that fight. It’s just that he knows that’s what’s facing congressional Democrats. Top White House adviser David Axelrod says that if Congress passes the Democrats’ national health care bill, [...]

  70. I Figured That

    → California Conservative | 14 Mar 2010 | 5:51 pm MDT

    A couple days ago, I talked with a couple friends of my friends about the Democrats’ health care legislation in the context of whether Democratic candidates would distance themselves from the subject. This article in The Hill Magazine not only tells me the answer is yes. It tells me that the answer is an emphatic [...]

  71. Your open thread and a man and his cat

    → | 14 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am MDT

    Meet Lava. I love men who love their cats, don’t you? Lava the Cat was on Cats 101 (Animal Planet). Apparently this guy takes his cat with him everywhere. Here’s Lava and Dad boating to their sailboat.  At the very end of this video, you will see Lava jump onto Dad’s sailboat for a nice sail. h/t [...]

  72. …The Tyrant’s shadow on the years …

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 13 Mar 2010 | 6:36 pm MST

    Ok, I have been being a blog slut again, gibbering at other sites. Some things come up deserving wider attention. Over at what is primarily an economics group blog, there was discussion of an appearance by the Speaker of the House, Nancy “Granny McBotox” Pelosi. The primary thrust was about the obvious [...]

  73. The Sniper Dings A Bullseye

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 13 Mar 2010 | 6:16 pm MST

    ‘Nuff said.

  74. Well, That Was Quick

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 13 Mar 2010 | 3:59 pm MST

    When we asked in the previous post about the NSDWP’s cost concerns about letting babies be born as opposed to blended in the womb how they’d like the shoe being on the other foot, we hadn’t expected an answer quite this soon. LC & IB Dan, sticking his tongue firmly in his cheek, turned the table [...]

  75. President, Pelosi Get Sober Advice

    → California Conservative | 13 Mar 2010 | 2:44 pm MST

    President Obama and Speaker Pelosi got some sober advice from two old pro Democratic pollsters in Friday morning’s Washington Post. Here’s the advice the White House and House Democrats should pay most of their attention to: First, the battle for public opinion has been lost. Comprehensive health care has been lost. If it fails, as appears [...]

  76. Obamacare to Pass Without Vote?

    → Bizblogger | 13 Mar 2010 | 12:32 pm MST

    It's quite disturbing, but it appears the Democrats are preparing to pass Obamacare without a vote in the House. Unconstitutional? Yes. Thuggish? Yes. Cramdown? Yes.

    If this really happens, I don't know what differentiates Democrats from fascist dictators anymore. And I really don't know why Americans would bother to be law abiding citizens anymore either.


  77. E.E.O.C. Rules In Favor Of Founder of Brooklyn Madrassa

    → The Urban Grind | 13 Mar 2010 | 9:24 am MST

    Do you all remember Dhaba “Debbie” Almontaser? She was the founder of the Brooklyn based Khalil Gibran Academy, New York City’s first English-Arabic public school. Just to refresh your memory, she was ousted over the “Intifada NYC” t-shirt controversy. The principal had come under fire for comments she made to The New [...]

  78. New Video – President Obama’s Killing Granny

    → The Urban Grind | 13 Mar 2010 | 6:51 am MST

    Here’s a video made by reader Soundoffsongster about Obamacare. Enjoy! Related Posts:Hamas’s New Anthem – Sowing The Seeds Of WarRush Limbaugh Bitch Slaps ObamaHappy Thanksgiving Everyone!Merry Christmas!Hamas Supporters Protest In KansasPowered by Contextual Related Posts Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d4539').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });

  79. The Cigarette City Flash

    → iowahawk | 12 Mar 2010 | 9:43 am MST

    The Legend of Zach Reynolds and the Tobacco King (This story originally appeared in Garage Magazine #18. Many thanks to Eddie Krusch, Dorothy and Kathryn Reynolds for images.) It’s a bright Spring Saturday afternoon in Indianapolis, and I’m playing inside....

  80. Herod orders top UN scientists to investigate mysterious infant slaughter in Judaea

    → James Delingpole | 11 Mar 2010 | 9:58 pm MST

    What marvellous news to learn that the UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon is to launch a thorough investigation into the science behind climate change! It’s the equivalent of Kenneth Lay promising to organise a full and frank investigation into the accounts at Enron, or Herod ordering an urgent inquiry into the appalling and mysterious [...]

  81. Two things I love about the Arabs

    → James Delingpole | 11 Mar 2010 | 9:53 pm MST

    Today’s blog is brought to you from Dubai, courtesy of Emirates Airlines, which is sponsoring the city’s annual Festival of Literature. As always when I’m in the Middle East, I’m instantly reminded why it is that Britons from TE Lawrence to the Prince of Wales to pretty much anyone who has ever worked in our [...]

  82. American Jihad Jane Gets Cought

    → The Urban Grind | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:39 pm MST

    While I’m all for ethnic profiling of Muslims (and others), I think Americans need to start watching out for native born converts to Islam, such as Jihad Jane. This woman was involved in a plot to kill the Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who drew an image of Mohammed as a dog. Frankly, America [...]

  83. Obama Vs. The Supreme Court, Round Two

    → The Urban Grind | 11 Mar 2010 | 3:20 pm MST

    Round two started when Chief Justice John Roberts called Obama’s singling out of the Supreme Court during his State of the Union speech “troubling.” TUSCALOOSA, ALA. — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said Tuesday that the scene at President Obama’s State of the Union address was “very troubling” and that the annual speech [...]

  84. One Afternoon in Washington

    → iowahawk | 10 Mar 2010 | 12:57 pm MST

    WH Sources: Help Us Rahm, You're Our Only Hope by Dana Milbank Amid fading polls and a stalled legislative agenda, a growing chorus of White House insiders say that the fate of Barack Obama's presidential legacy now depends on expanding...

  85. Be Sure to See the Glamorous Girls of the MISS MOTORAMA PINUP CONTEST Saturday Night

    → iowahawk | 9 Mar 2010 | 9:51 pm MST

    Dangit! Didn't make it to the Chicago World of Wheels show until Sunday, so had to miss that competition. But I did bring back these photos (click arrow for the slide show; full size here).

  86. How the British Establishment is conspiring to prop up the AGW myth

    → James Delingpole | 9 Mar 2010 | 8:47 pm MST

    News has just reached me that the great Professor Ian Plimer, scourge of climate-fear-promoters everywhere, has been suddenly disinvited by the Royal Society of Artists (RSA) from a lecture he was due to give in May before an audience including the Duke of Edinburgh. Here’s part of the embarrassed kiss-off Prof Plimer received from the RSA’s [...]

  87. Why we need more conservative madrassas

    → James Delingpole | 9 Mar 2010 | 8:45 pm MST

    Watching another dismal episode of the BBC’s Question Time last week, I realised why British politics is in such a dire state. It’s because the language of debate has been hijacked so comprehensively by the liberal left that not even conservatives dare speak up for right-wing views any more for fear of being dismissed as [...]

  88. The majesty and usefulness of recycling captured in an exquisite hand-crafted child’s toy

    → James Delingpole | 9 Mar 2010 | 8:44 pm MST

    A Texas reader, Robert Birch, wishes to draw your attention to a magnificent artistic creation he is selling on Ebay, which he lovingly constructed from 100 per cent recycled materials (not all of them organic, unfortunately, but still…). Clearly he believes as passionately in the virtues of recycling as I do. Unfortunately I can’t seem [...]

  89. Chef At Manhattan Restaurant Serves Dairy Dishes Made From Wife’s Breast Milk

    → The Urban Grind | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:43 am MST

    The things people do to be “creative” and open minded! Gross! The name of this chef is Daniel Angerer, and place is called the Klee Brasserie, located in the chi chi neighborhood of Chelsea. Here he is. After blogging about his efforts with the human cheese, customers started demanding a sample, he said. “The phone was [...]

  90. Once More Into the Breach

    → iowahawk | 8 Mar 2010 | 10:50 am MST

    (with apologies to the Bard) ACT XXIV, SCENE 13. On the eve of the health care battle. Enter the PRESIDENT. PELOSI. O that we now had here But one one-hundred of those Blue Dogs That face no re-election to-day! OBAMA....



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