Race. How does it work these days, race-managers? Because, ironically, freedom is the topic. It’s the ideal worth sacrificing for … [visit site to read more]
[...]edited by: Conservative Belle,
Moronosphere Editor
Race. How does it work these days, race-managers? Because, ironically, freedom is the topic. It’s the ideal worth sacrificing for … [visit site to read more]
[...]Dear Senator Mary L. Landrieu,
You don’t know me and I’m not a Lousianan, but I did want to share one brief thought with you this Sunday morning. I pen it in reference to your national performance supporting the federal hijack of up to a fifth of the US economy.
I’ve been [...]
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Friday night that she’s “leaning towards” voting to start debate on the health care bill – which would leave Democrats just a single vote shy of clearing a critical test for the reform package on Saturday.
Asked outside the Capitol if she’s made up her mind [...]
From Market Watch:
A key congressional panel on Thursday approved legislation introduced by the Texas congressman that - for the first time in the central bank’s 95-year-history — would require government audits of Federal Reserve monetary policy, as well as how much the central bank has lent and will lend [...]
Baffled?
That thing about language and meaning Jeff’s been stressing? Nah.
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years.
Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish [...]
One hundred billion dollars in about ten months. Ten billion dollars a month.
Improper payments by the U.S. government to people, firms and contractors rose sharply to $98 billion in fiscal 2009 and President Barack Obama plans new rules to clamp down, the White House said Tuesday.
Falling just short of [...]
Simply brilliant.
…the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil.
The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister [...]
From the NYT:
In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident.
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of [...]
Michael Connelly is a retired attorney, constitutional law instructor, Army veteran, and author.
When I first read HR 3200 in its entirety several months ago I was appalled at the blatant disregard in the bill of … [visit site to read more]
[...]Writer Jerry Pournelle has a balanced view of how things work. This one is no different. h/t Reynolds.
Meanwhile today may be the most important vote in Congress since the days of the New Deal. If the health care bill passes, it will fundamentally convert these United States into a [...]
Open thread. The road to tyranny starts in Washington DC. MSNBC has a larger video viewer, here.
DrewM. at AOSHQ has a perspective on today.
Have a Dem rep? Find here if yours is leaning. Then call.
Malkin: … [visit site to read more]
[...]I remember how we used to call them Socialist-Democrats. One chuckles to recall those days:
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy [...]
Talk about gratitude: We spend decades working the proles with promises and freebies - and a veiled religious justification - when a insurrection in a blue state on the other side of the continent stalls an entire supermajority. One day you’re lecturing from the microphone of [...]
…shoot ‘em.
“Time to end this,” bellowed Meade, according to Klocker. “Enough is enough.” From a distance of six to seven feet, Meade fired eight shots into the car, murdering … [visit site to read more]
[...]Frequently cited as an example of how to not run monetary policy, Japan is said to have lost some 20 years of prosperity due to central management. Despite this, Japan is simultaneously cited as an example of high productivity, something the US cannot lay consistent claim to.
While the Japanese economy entered its crisis a long time [...]
And you can take that as snark or as a very literal statement on … [visit site to read more]
[...]Penn Jillette’s monologue on thought and tolerance needs no commentary. Just wow. Where are you, Mr. … [visit site to read more]
[...]h/t Glenn Reynolds: Hate speech law unconstitutional: rights tribunal
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that Section 13, Canada’s much maligned human rights hate speech law, is an unconstitutional violation of the Charter right to free expression because of its penalty provisions.
The decision released this morning by Tribunal chair [...]
Apparently Rep Jim Moran (D-VA) is tougher on constituents than he is on illegals.
(I’ve been very busy lately but if you need me, I’ll be off somewhere violating The … [visit site to read more]
[...]Nicked from Theo Spark. Drop by to get the full effect, if you dare:
Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!!
Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments and [...]
The biggest fraud in history might just make the MSM. h/t The Barricade.
The clip is most interesting four minutes in…and raises the highly implicit question, where’s Hope & Change? Are the Democrats waiting for a … [visit site to read more]
[...]…and hands on visit site to read more]
[...]Warming, this is:
Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a joint resolution declaring Alaska’s sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution – and now 36 other states have introduced similar resolutions as part of a growing resistance to the federal government.
Anyone see a problem with this? Won’t this upset Hope [...]
And on kindly invitations to consider alternate … [visit site to read more]
[...]In the latest installment of Barack Obama: What Once We Called Neocon, we learn that Goldman Sachs and The Hope For Change Administration are friendly.
President Obama said Friday he would nominate Robert Hormats, a vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, to a top economic position at the State Department.
Good [...]
With the hard-won new right to mold American society to any end they deem appropriate, the honorable Democrats now turn their benevolent eyes to seeing to our security. From a few days ago: U.S. mulling mortgage aid for unemployed
President Barack Obama is mulling new ways to delay foreclosure for [...]
There’s lots of sobering news on the economy these days, but this piece competes for the most sobering of the summer:
America Sliding Into a Pit of Foreign Debt.
The graph below shows the United States net foreign debt. It hit an unprecedented $3.5 trillion, 24.3% of our GDP, at the [...]
CSPAN link. As of 10:25am Eastern, Jeff Sessions is just not letting up as Sotomayor (unsuccessfully, I think) tries to walk back past statements and deeds.
In among a definite tinge of condescension and the revisions are, as Malkin notes, lots of wise Latina ritual reassurances. This is … [...]
Despite the President’s efforts to court the Russian leadership, Russians remain deeply skeptical. Perhaps they know something we don’t.
A new poll of Russians, conducted by the Levada Center as part of a larger WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds that just 23 percent of Russians have confidence in Obama to do the [...]
From FOX:
Detainees, Even if Acquitted, Might Not Go Free
Obama administration said Tuesday it could continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely.
Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration argues that the legal basis for indefinite detention of aliens it considers dangerous is separate from war-crimes prosecutions. Officials say that the laws [...]
Leading with a myth and closing with a foregone conclusion. The halo is a nice touch, if not exactly … [visit site to read more]
[...]It’s almost like they aren’t listening. It’s almost like they’re all subscribed to the same service. But I’ll hand it to them: This’ll keep us (and the generations following us) employed for decades.
But it’ll be fair. In fact, being ruled was never so fair.
To fairly divide the climate [...]
Well, then:
“We are not investigating her,” FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez said on Sunday. “Normally we don’t confirm or deny those kind of allegations out there, but by not doing so it just casts her in a very bad light. There is just no truth to those rumors out there [...]
With Porkulus having done not a thing to “stimulate” the US economy, the Vice President now assures us that more of the same will work
This time.
Vice President Joe Biden said the Obama administration “misread how bad the economy was” but stands by its stimulus package and believes the plan [...]
Re: Darleen of yesterday, at NRO Mark Steyn concludes a short comment about Palin’s exit in most excellent form. Consider that last paragraph; give a wry holiday h/t to Reynolds.
From the link, an excerpt about the state of approved thought and how we elect by the principles of [...]
From Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi on money, cap and trade, markets, and, uh, bipartisanship. h/t the skyrocketing Zero Hedge blog:
Fast-forward to today. It’s early June in Washington, D.C. Barack Obama, a popular young politician whose leading private campaign donor was an investment bank called Goldman … [visit [...]
I like this guy…because he is tearing this thing up. And This Thing is onerous beyond belief.
Open thread. (Posted Friday, 6pm est)
“A 300 page amendment filed at 3 in the morning.” “My constituents don’t want more unemployment, they want jobs!” “So we recognize that we’re gonna take jobs and [...]
h/t sdferr:
Running reports from Iran at nicacINsight. The reported shootings are covered in the top post at 5:26. Iranians who are wondering why Obama has[n't] spoken out on their behalf may be beginning to understand that he has made a choice and it isn’t them.
ABCNews: visit site' [...]
From this post at Maggie’s Farm, and pursuant Darleen yesterday, a visual of epic fail from Dr. Sanity “adapted from Stephen Hick’s book, Explaining … [visit site to read more]
[...]In the wake of Darleen’s mention of right-blogosphere limpwristry (in the first update to that post) and Jeff’s subsequent exhortation to finally grow the blank up and stay that way, kindly allow me to point to a clip from PJTV wherein Bill Whittle administers one of the [...]
From Zero Hedge, Time To Make The Federal Reserve Accountable For Its Actions. Paraphrasing Zero Hedge: HR1207, aka The Federal Reserve Transparency Act, would allow the GAO to audit the Federal Reserve and would require a Fed report to Congress by the end of 2010.
The bill’s sponsor is [...]
Sorry, was that heartless?
Embarrassing disclosures about the vast expenses claims of MPs amount to a “McCarthy-style witch-hunt” that risks driving politicians to suicide, an MP warned on Friday.
Nadine Dorries wrote on her blog that the two-week scandal, in which the Daily Telegraph has drip-fed details of how MPs have [...]
Google’s “Doodle 4 Google” campaign has kids competing to win the coveted Google logo contest. For this Google offers a brief invitation.
This year we’re inviting U.S. kids to join in the doodling fun, around the intriguing theme “What I Wish for the World.”
And what whims best prompt children to [...]
From the Washington Post:
Since leaving my post as CIA director almost three years ago, I have remained largely silent on the public stage. I am speaking out now because I feel our government has crossed the red line between properly protecting our national security and trying to gain partisan [...]
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) has all the backing of the press. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is on a mission visit site to read more]
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