For today’s reading, may I refer you to my Human Events article from Thursday, “Who Wants This Healthcare ‘Reform’?” in which I discuss not only that question but also the issue of whether it is OK for such massive legislation to be passed on a party-line vote.
Please see “Who [...]
I’m proud to announce my first ever article for the American Spectator, now up at spectator.org. It’s about an interesting and not widely publicized crack in the global warming alarmist establishment which preceded Climategate (and is now somewhat dwarfed by it, but is important nevertheless as you consider the actual [...]
Being married to an Australian and having lived “down under” for a brief time, I pay more attention than most Americans to Aussie politics. A couple of years ago, Australian voters tossed out long-time Prime Minister John Howard basically because they were ready for something new, not because he was [...]
I got this in my e-mail on Wednesday.
Where are you now, Algore?
WHISTLER BLACKCOMB SMASHES 30-YEAR RECORD FOR SNOWIEST MONTH EVER WITH OVER 5.5 METRES (18 FEET) OF SNOWFALL
As the calendar flips over to December, it’s now official that November 2009 will go down in history as [...]
From Americans for Limited Government, the following article is a must-read if you want to understand what health care “reform” is really about. As many of us have said all along, it’s not about health care, it’s about power.
See “Obamacare: How The Unions Are Getting Well“, Howard Rich, GetLiberty.org, [...]
According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, the number of Americans self-identifying as Democrats has dropped to a 4-year low of 36%. While still 2.9% higher than the number of Republicans, the current spread is the narrowest since December, 2007. A closer look at the numbers implies that [...]
Like it or not, a lot of young-ish Americans get their “news” from Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and his Daily Show. Stewart, while no Chris Matthews, does tend toward the liberal. And, again like it or not, Stewart is a bit of an opinion leader in this country. So when [...]
Congressman David Obey (D-MI), who holds the extremely powerful position of Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is proposing an income surtax to fund any additional troops sent to Afghanistan.
It’s not a new idea for Obey, who suggested roughly the same plan in 2007. This time, Obey is arguing for [...]
It’s being reported this morning that Seattle police have shot and killed the man who murdered four Tacoma-area police officers in a coffee shop on Sunday morning.
Looks like my guess of a gang initiation was wrong. (Not that it was important.)
There’s little to add about this horrible murder and [...]
[H/T The American blog and Red State…]
We’re all familiar with Barack Obama’s lack of qualifications to be president, particularly during a time of economic turmoil when real-world (i.e. private sector) experience is so important. As far as I can tell, he’s never during his adulthood had a job outside [...]
President Barack Obama is just barely willing to talk to Fox News but believes in speaking to the world’s leading dictators and terrorists “without preconditions.” While his naive leftist base and enemies of the nation might find that position appealing in its “modesty”, what it really shows to people who [...]
Yesterday, a month after an execution-style drive-by killing of a police officer in Seattle, four Tacoma (Washington) area uniformed police officers were shot in a coffee shop as they were doing their morning administrative work on their laptop computers.
We may or may not ever learn with certainty why this gruesome [...]
I’ll be guest-hosting for John Andrews’ “Backbone Radio” show this evening from 5 PM to 8 PM on Denver’s 710-AM KNUS.
Please listen in if you get a chance, either on the radio if you’re in the area or over the web if you’re elsewhere.
Complaints by Democrats about the GOP offering nothing but obstruction miss the target for several reasons and mask a fundamentally important question about what Democrats are now trying to do in Congress.
The first problem with a charge of GOP obstructionsim is that it’s numerically impossible: The Democrats have such a [...]
First, below, is a note I sent to Colorado’s junior senator, Michael Bennet, last Thursday. Following my note is the vacuous form letter I received in response.
Dear Senator Bennet,
I realize this note is almost certainly falling on deaf ears, but I’ll try anyway:
I urge you to vote NO in [...]
Here are two interesting charities I’ve learned about recently. I’ve contributed a modest sum to the first one:
Heifer International: Among other things, gives food-providing animals to poor people around the world, with the condition that the recipients share the offspring of those animals with other poor people. (They do [...]
Thanks to Australia’s Herald Sun for breaking this story.
In a potentially game-changing turn of events regarding “global warming” alarmism and its cap-and-trade policy implications, a hacker got into the computer system of the British University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (”CRU”), one of the leading sources [...]
The Politico, hardly a conservative outlet of political opinion, offers a devastating analysis of Barack Obama’s trip through Asia.
You can read the article for yourself, but here are a couple of highlights:
Obama’s minimalist approach was most consequential in China, where he did not meet with Christians, dissidents or bloggers, [...]
There has been a clear (if not perfect) correlation in recent months between the value of the dollar and the price of broad stock market indices, i.e. S&P 500.
In particular, the market goes up when the dollar goes down. See the chart below of the last few months. The blue [...]
I’m going to keep this short…there will be a lot of time to dissect the Democrats’ lies over the next two months.
Yesterday, Harry Reid presented “The Senate Bill” which, if it gets through a cloture vote, will soon be replaced by some other unknown bill.
Just a few of thoughts:
The Senate [...]
Local talk radio host and attorney (former prosecutor, now criminal defense) Craig Silverman has written an excellent piece laying out the many reasons why Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 terrorists in civilian courts in New York is a stupid and dangerous [...]
After the Associated Press broke the left-leaning media’s cone of silence about the Administration errors and/or lies regarding jobs “created or saved” with so-called “stimulus” money, other would-be journalists and even Democratic politicians have found a bit of courage and are castigating the reported statistics.
From the “Are you kidding me?!?” files comes this remarkable story by the Washington Times describing how “Environmental laws put gaps in Mexico border security“.
The title, while disturbing enough, puts a nice face on a remarkable problem that shows just how confused our federal government’s policies and priorities are.
The [...]
Over at HumanEvents.com, Connie Hair has writte one of the most interesting “inside baseball” political articles I’ve ever read, in this case about how the Senate might maneuver to pass health care “reform”.
It’s a must read for anyone who wants to understand what’s about to happen:
See “Alan Frumin May Determine [...]
David Goldhill, author of a fascinating and troubling article entitled “How American Health Care Killed My Father“, spoke at a Cato Institute event recently. His roughly 20-minute talk is one of the most important, thought-provoking opinions on the issues of health insurance, the structure of the health care system, [...]
Thanks to Karen K. for sending along this link. The cartoon is over 9 minutes long, but enjoyable and essentially timeless.
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[...]Last Friday, Politico.com reported that President Obama will announce in the upcoming State of the Union speech a new focus on spending discipline and deficit reduction.
[Ed: Pause a few seconds here to allow readers to stop laughing.]
Even the somewhat left-leaning Politico was repeatedly skeptical in their article, noting that [...]
The following video does not need any comment from me except to say please watch it and please share it.
For more about the video and the 15-year old girl who created it, please see THIS article by Salena Zito.
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Thanks to CMR for sending these along…
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[...]The second half of this note is a guest blog post by one of my former Tahoe Trading colleagues who went by the acronym SAT; I thank him for finding the news report and contributing this piece to my site.
(First, in the section in brackets below, a few comments from [...]
I thought we’d never again have an Attorney General as bad as Janet Reno. But Eric Holder is making Reno look downright competent:
See “Bombshell: Obama bringing KSM to NYC for trial“, Michelle Malkin, 11/13/09
Yet the latest example of the Administration trying to bury horrible decisions in Friday news…
[...]In a new poll, Gallup finds that for the first time since they started asking the question (in 2001), “More Americans now believe it is not the government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than think it is (47%).”
From the Gallup article on their poll:
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Since before Barack Obama’s election, there’s been an urban legend “letter from the boss” that goes something like this (there are always multiple versions of such things):
As the CFO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama will be our next [...]
I reported a couple of weeks ago on an AP story describing how errors or lies are massively inflating the “jobs created or saved” number touted by the Administration as a sign of the effectiveness of the so-called “stimulus”. In that note, I pointed out that when as pro-Obama [...]
Now that Lou Dobbs has resigned from CNN, there is speculation that he might end up at Fox News. I hope not.
Mr. Dobbs has consistently demonstrated much more interest in beating a political drum than in explaining and reporting economic issues. While I have no problem with opinion providers, [...]
I’m about halfway though the DVD set of the HBO series “John Adams” which my wife gave me for my birthday a few weeks ago.
As I watched an episode on Sunday after reading the news about the passage of the health care “reform” bill in the House – the legislation [...]
In a report that’s already generating controversy, the Indian environment ministry released a report on Tuesday arguing that global warming is having no impact on glaciers in the Himalaya mountains, despite predictions of glacial demise by the UN’s IPCC.
While I’m not going to make too much of one report [...]
Following his being a leading cause of the removal of communist radicall and 9/11 “truther” Van Jones, Glenn Beck can celebrate again with the announcement that White House communications director Anita Dunn was resigning.
Dunn, the woman who claimed that Fox News was not a news organization but just an arm [...]
In an unusual turn of events, the most recent Gallup poll shows Republicans ahead of Democrats on Gallup’s generic Congressional ballot question, by 48% to 44%.
As we’ve seen in both the Virginia and New Jersey elections, there’s been a huge swing among independent voters, and Gallup captures that trend [...]
From the “please tell me he didn’t really say that” files comes General George Casey, the Army Chief of Staff, who said on Meet the Press on Sunday regarding the terrorist massacre of our soldiers at Fort Hood last week “And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our [...]
One of the strengths of the American left is their mastery of using language. They say things that mean exactly the opposite of what they sound like (such as the “Employee Free Choice Act” which means to strip the right to a private ballot in a decision about unionizing.) And, [...]
On Saturday, by a vote of 220-215 with the support of just one Republican, House Democrats passed their version of health care reform, a $1.3 trillion (and that will be too low, and just for the first decade) monstrosity of taxes, penalties, bureaucracies, and European-style socialism that will, if it [...]
The only Republican to vote for Nancy Pelosi’s disastrous health care bill was Joseph Cao, from inner-city New Orleans.
I have two things to say to Mr. Cao:
First, in supporting your vote, you argued that you did it because health insurance costs “are exploding”. But anybody who’s been paying even the [...]
H/T Greg Staff…
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[...]Over at Andrew Breitbart’s BigHollywood.com, the openly gay Charles Winecoff has written one of the best articles I’ve read on the issue of gay marriage – and it’s not just one of the best because his policy solution is the same as mine.
I highly recommend you read:
I don’t know who created this cartoon, but it made me laugh out loud. The truth hurts, maybe literally…
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[...]Not much needs to be added to the somber statistic except to wonder how it will effect waivering Democratic votes on the House health care “reform” bill, given that all but the most far-left of the Dems must understand that the measure will be extremely destructive to American employment.
I have a few questions for you, my readers, at the end of this note. I hope you’ll take a moment to respond with your answers as comments to this post.
Yesterday’s horrific murder of at least 12 soldiers at the Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, was reportedly committed by [...]
For 12 hours, starting at 1 PM Eastern (11 AM Colorado time) on Thursday, the GOP is doing a live 12-hour broadcast explaining the disaster of the Democrats’ proposed health care “reforms”.
You can tune in HERE, and please pass this around!
H/T Michelle Malkin!
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