Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Just as Jonah Goldberg was inspired by Obamacare, so too is Mark Steyn. Obamacare may be the greatest political disaster since . . . well, since ever,* but its virtue is that it provides free-range for real talent. I was trying to find a paragraph from the Steyn column to
Continue readingI could have done this as myriad small posts, but I was in the mood for something big. I’ll separate the different ideas and issues with asterisks (after all, Obama’s promise with his unspoken asterisk has made asterisks the hot new thing in writing). My friend (I like say that
Continue readingThe Constitution is very clear: Congress writes the laws; the President enforces them. In light of Obama’s announcement today that he was unilaterally “improving” a law by ignoring its terms (i.e., the time limits contained within Obamacare), Veronique de Rugy asks a good question: What authority does the president of
Continue readingJust a few fisks about the lies and anti-constitutionalism in Obama’s ukase this morning. As a preliminary to this, let me just say that the Affordable Care Act, i.e., the actual law that Congress passed, requires the health care exchange and the new policies to go into effect as of
Continue readingYou can feel Jonah Goldberg’s glee crackling right through the monitor, so please read Goldberg’s glorious wallow in schadenfreude here. Only by reading the whole thing will you get the full flavor of such felicitous rhetorical gems as this one: The president may now claim that he knew nothing, but
Continue readingI blogged about the first batch of posters, aimed at the binge drinking crowd. I couldn’t make myself blog about the current batch. Fortunately, Robert Avrech did it for me. So, regarding this vile poster and the others in the series, I point to Seraphic Secret and yell out “Yeah!
Continue readingDuring the Cold War, there were two types of jokes about the Soviet Union: those told within the Soviet Union about how bad life was there, and jokes told outside of the Soviet Union about how bad life was there. Americans told the jokes with gusto. Secure in their freedom
Continue readingHouse Republicans have promoted footage of Obama talking about the “stray cats and dogs” in Obamacare: I don’t normally consider myself a conspiracy theorist, but I instantly knew what secret message Obama was sending to his followers — and let me just say that you better prepare for Armageddon, mass
Continue readingThe last time Congress considered a government medicine takeover, Harry and Louise beat it back. In that regard, IOwnTheWorld discovered a couple of prophetic Harry and Louise commercials. Here’s a question for you: why were Americans and Congress resistant the last time around? Have we changed? Has the media become
Continue readingThose of us who remember the Cold War also remember the Cold War joke. Many of these were jokes that had actually originated within the Soviet Union itself, as Russian citizens used mordant humor to deal with communist life. When I was growing up, those jokes had a great deal
Continue readingI think Charles Krauthammer may have written one of his best articles ever. I’m quoting a few select phrases, but you’re cheating yourself if you don’t read the whole thing: “Obama to campaign to ensure health law’s success” – The New York Times, November 4 The Obamacare website doesn’t work.
Continue readingDemocrat spinmeister Lanny Davis appeared yesterday on Fox & Friends to be telling Obama to ‘fess up about his early statements regarding Obamacare, and Obama seems to have tried to do so. At least, that’s the spin. But let’s see what really happened. First, a little history. Between 2009 and
Continue readingMy day is not proceeding as planned. Grumble, grumble, grumble. But I still found some good stuff out there: For all the criticism aimed at him for daring to defend his nation from nuclear annihilation, Netanyahu successfully shifted the paradigm — not far enough, but it’s movement in the right
Continue reading“Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!” — Shakespeare, Othello Those of us paying attention have long known that Obama lies . . . and lies . . . and
Continue readingMore than five years ago, when Barack Obama threw his hat into the political ring, I realized that he was a malignant narcissist who lied compulsively. For Obama, truth was then and is now defined by the needs of the moment. If it will benefit him at that moment to
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