January 2011
Florida Judge Rules Obamacare in Its Entirety is... →
Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void. This has been a difficult decision to reach, and I am aware that it will have indeterminable implications. At a time when there is virtually unanimous agreement that health care reform is needed in this country, it is hard to invalidate and strike down a statute titled “The Patient...
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Diversity Lane by Zack Rawsthorne.
The web comic now in dead tree format! Great strip, on my short list of web comics to check daily. Rawsthorne captures the liberal mindset in brilliant one…
Republican lawmakers begin assault on fannie mae... →
About time. They never managed to follow through on their multiple attempts to bring Freddie & Fannie in the past. Hopefully they have the political will to do so now.
Obama's State of the Union Was Tantamount to... →
jessarmentrout:
“That Obama could utter almost identical words days after paying tribute to Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of the delivery of that famous speech and not making reference to it suggests a self-absorption rare even among presidents.”
“In the early 1930s, the Communist Party of the United States censured a comrade...”
– Al Nofi’s CIC, Strategy Page
HT to Leslie Bates
Talk Straight: NY Dem election official indicted... →
talkstraight:
The 2009 primary election in Troy, NY attracted much attention for election shenanigans from Democratic officials who are associated with the Working Families Party. Well, yesterday, a grand jury issued indictments on 116 charges against a Democratic City Councilmember Michael LaPorto and…
A Breitbart Hat Trick →
Breitbart.tv has three hits here.
O’REILLY’S CATCHES JON STEWART WITH DECEPTIVE EDIT
Money Quote: “If Stewart was a journalist I would pound him into pudding. But he’s not. He’s a comedian.”
TEA PARTIER SCOLDS MATTHEWS ON HARSH RHETORIC
White House quietly exempts pampered politicos... →
“Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt.”
– Aluf Benn
Money Quote:
Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as “the president who lost Iran,” which during his term went from being a major strategic ally of the United States to being the revolutionary Islamic Republic. Barack Obama will be remembered as the president who...
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of...”
– A quote from the late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931–2005 (via combattant-de-la-liberte)
“CONGRESS AND the Obama administration are in the market for fresh ideas to...”
– A sugar policy that’s costing America jobs and money
I don’t know what’s more unbelievable: that someone in Congress found the balls to take on the Sugar Lobby, or that lunatic liberal Jeanne Shaheen is the standard-bearer.
In any case, I’ll take this sort of victory wherever I can get it. Watch...
“Detractors are more obsessed with [Gov. Palin] than supporters are. And they...”
– Found at Hot Air’s Green Room
“It is caffeine alone that sets my mind in motion. It is through beans of java...”
“We secretly replaced the dilithium with Folger’s Crystals…
Lets...”
“Han reacted naturally, that is to say, without thinking…”
– Star Wars, the original novel.
“You are a true believer. Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. Thou...”
– THX-1138
“…MSNBC over the course of five hours mentioned Palin in connection with...”
– Sarah Palin: MSNBC’s Obsession With Her
Quote of the Day →
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent…the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,…
“We’re experts on this kind of stuff. We’ve talked about it on the...”
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution...”
– John F. Kennedy (via laliberty)
Maddow Producer: ‘MSNBC Does Not Have a Political... →
talkstraight:
Thanks to the tough investigative work done by The Hollywood Reporter, we can finally clarify that MSNBC is apolitical and they do not have nefarious reasons for focusing so much negative coverage on the former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
In a story titled, “Sarah Palin: MSNBC’s Obsession With Her” the cable channel’s primetime programming veep and executive producer...
Quick Round Up →
Let’s take a look at what’s going on in the world.
U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose More Than Estimated Last Week to 454,000
“Unexpectedly” is the word used to describe this jump by those not…
“Bad ideas live on in policy. And bad policy eventually creates a crisis which...”
– Belmont Club » Dustbins I Have Known (via kaching)
The Stossel Rule: For every new law passed, we...
“The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is...”
– P.J. O’Rourke
“When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That...”
– PJ O’Rourke (via coeus)
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man...”
– Winston Churchhill
“‘Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money....”
– Joseph Sobran
Obamacare Waivers Jump from 222 to 729, Totaling... →
evilteabagger:
Today, the day after the President’s State of the Union, the new waivers are up. You may recall that there were 222 such waivers approved in November. That number has now jumped to 729 through the end of December. The total number of people covered by the waivers has gone from 1.5M to just under 2.2M. The list includes the usual assortment of union locals and businesses.
“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent...”
– Henry Morgenthau, Roosevelt’s Treasury Secretary, 1939 (via combattant-de-la-liberte)
“I did not commit a crime. What I did was to fail to comply with the law.”...”
– NYC ex-mayor, and democrat, Dinkins, accused of not paying taxes for a number of years
Mr. Reynolds points out the obvious →
“YOU WANT A “SPUTNIK MOMENT?” HERE’S YOUR FREAKIN’ SPUTNIK MOMENT: US Budget Deficit to Pass $1.5 Trillion This Year.”
Yup, Mr. Reynolds nails it in one.
House democrat "leader" Pelosi Logged 43 Flights... →
Your tax dollars at work. Remember this when the democrats claim that they need to raise your taxes.
Money Quote:
“Despite the media firestorm over her military travel abuses, Nancy Pelosi continued to use the United States Air Force as her own personal travel agency right up until her final days as House Speaker,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Nancy Pelosi demonstrated an alarming...
The AP fact checks Obama and finds problems with... →
“…Obama offered far more examples of where he would spend than where he would cut, and some of the areas he identified for savings are not certain to yield much if anything.”
“The idea that Obama’s health care law saves money for the government is based on some arguable assumptions.
To be sure, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated the law will...