“She’s never seen a Republican before!”
I needed a pick-me-up after last night’s news… My Uncle Les came through by sending me this Ronald Reagan classic:
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Clint Eastwood ‘Half-time in America’ ad invites criticism
And so Mark Wiberg obliges: Would Dirty Harry ask for a handout? Hell no, he wouldn’t. He could build a car made out of his melted Smith and Wesson handgun, all while eating a sandwich and zinging bad guys with one-liners. So, bringing in the city of Detroit as some city on the ‘comeback’ after [...]
A reminder as we ponder the Giants win over the Pats in the Super Bowl
The Redskins beat the Giants twice during the regular season. Carry on.
Komen CEO defends decision to defund Planned Parenthood (UPDATED)
The pro-aborts are up in arms and are slinging many arrows in the direction of the breast cancer awareness charity. The following is from SGK Founder and CEO Nancy G. Brinker defending the decision: Hats of to her and her organization as they find out how committed the baby-killers truly are. UPDATE: Komen reverses, and caves [...]
“Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States”
From the WaPo: An assessment by U.S. spy agencies concludes that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States, highlighting new risks as the Obama administration escalates pressure on Tehran to halt its alleged pursuit of an atomic bomb. In congressional testimony Tuesday, U.S. intelligence officials indicated that Iran has crossed a threshold [...]
Komen sez goodbye to Planned Parenthood
Big tip of the hat to the breast cancer awareness charity: In what looks to be a break between two organizations dedicated to women’s health, a national breast cancerawareness group said it would stop providing funds to Planned Parenthood centers for breast cancer examinations and other breast health services. Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a leader in [...]
DHS detains/deports British Twitter jokesters
You could probably say that the Homeland Security folks aren’t exactly a humor filled bunch: Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to ‘destroy America’ and ‘dig up Marilyn Monroe’. Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican [...]
“What are the vegetarian and vegan store business owners to do?”
The Obama administration is now assaulting those whose conscience abhors all things beef: Shock! Utter shock!!! The Obama Administration has mandated that all food stores in the United States selling refrigerated goods, MUST sell beef! There is an exemption for vegetarians who only employ, and sell their goods to, vegetarians; and, for vegans who only [...]
“Computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause”
Don Surber is airing some most inconvenient facts: 16 actual scientists have joined 1973 Nobel-winning physicist Ivar Giaever in calling global warming concerns overblown. In a letter published in the Wall Street Journal today, the scientists called for everyone to remain calm — and mocked the alarmism by UN bureaucrats over global warming and carbon [...]
“I accuse you, Mr. President”
Michael Sean Winters: I come at this issue as a liberal and a Democrat and as someone who, until yesterday, generally supported the President, as someone who saw in his vision of America a greater concern for each other, a less mean-spirited culture, someone who could, and did, remind the nation that we are our [...]
Has Newt’s campaign just been derailed… by Newt’s own words?
It’s a little hard to think otherwise at this juncture. These are the links up currently at Drudge: NEWT FLASHBACK 1983: REAGAN RESPONSIBLE FOR NATIONAL ‘DECAY’… NEWT 1986: ‘The Reagan administration has failed, is failing… NEWT 1988: ‘If Bush runs as continuation of Reaganism he will lose’… VIDEO… INSIDER: GINGRICH REPEATEDLY INSULTED REAGAN And [...]
AP blasts SOTU speech
Calvin Woodward is going to pay a price for this one: It was a wish list, not a to-do list. President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the Union speech as if his hands weren’t so tied by political realities. There can be little more than wishful thinking behind [...]
Seal Team rescues American hostage in Somalia
MSNBC: In a daring nighttime raid Tuesday, U.S. Navy SEALs rescued two hostages, including one American, who were being held by kidnappers in Somalia, U.S. officials tell NBC News. American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and a 60-year-old Dane, Poul Thisted, were working for a Danish relief organization in northern Somalia when they were kidnapped last October. U.S. officials [...]
Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas thumbs nose at traditional White House visit
Via the LA Times: In what he says will be his only comment on the matter, Thomas wrote: I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People. This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the [...]
“I happened to read it, and was struck by this brazen bit of Obama BS”
John Hinderaker on Obama’s comments commemorating the 39th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade Superme Court decision: Obama’s proclamation was not widely noted, except in circles that take (as Scott put it long ago) the sacramental view of abortion. But I happened to read it, and was struck by this brazen bit of Obama BS: [...]
Rand Paul detained by TSA
You know… if this had been his father Ron, then perhaps it would’ve made a little sense… I mean, some people think Ron Paul is off his rocker… but Rand? Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s press secretary Moira Bagley tweeted on Monday that Transportation Security Adminstration officials were detaining her boss in Nashville, Tenn. “Just got [...]
“We understand that you are no longer a press that is free, but one that is enthralled to its own ideologies”
The Anchoress, post Newt Gingrich’s evisceration of CNN’s John King and his cohorts in bias, reacts as only she can: The standing ovation for Newt’s remarks were not an endorsement of his behavior — many conservatives are troubled by Gingrich’s past and character does matter to them, while other conservatives are remembering their own sins and [...]
“America is so racist!”; “Everything is racist!”
That and other Stuff Liberals Say, brought to us by Tom Elia at The New Editor: I especially like the “I’m really very moderate” line.
“They want us to tolerate them but they don’t want to tolerate us”
Washington State is looking to change the religious liberty landscape: A Gay Marriage Equality bill (read bill) has been introduced this month in Washington State. The measure is deceptive and exceedingly dangerous. It represents a radical shift in the definition of marriage, and it would pose a serious threat to religious freedom. The bill’s introduction says it [...]
AmericanIdol-in-Chief
Let’s talk the guy into giving up his current gig, auditioning at the popular show where I’m sure he’ll receive lots of support, and get him the hell out of Washington DC. Who’s with me?
“I call them ‘dumb arses’”
Sarah Palin, in case you weren’t aware, isn’t fond of the mainstream media: In an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Thursday radio show, Palin likened the pending interview to her experience with author Joe McGinniss, who staked out her Alaska home while writing a book. But according to Palin, with Gingrich the media “overplayed their hand.” “The American public [...]
“An act of national insanity”
Via Dan Friedman in email, a piece by Robert Samuelson excoriating President Obama for his decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline, in the WaPo no less: President Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is an act of national insanity. It isn’t often that a president makes a decision that [...]
What will Marianne Gingrich say?
Drudge blares the headline ‘Newt Ex-Wife Unloads’, Politico picks up the story and expounds: Matt Drudge first broke news that Marianne Gingrich, Newt Gingrich’s second wife who he left after a lengthy affair with his current wife, Callista, has given an interview to ABC News, which appears to mark only the second time she’s spoken this cycle. [...]
“I’m recording this conversation, Cmdr. Schettino …”
Fascinating exchange between the Captain of the stricken Cruise ship and an Italian Coast Guard Commader, as reported by MSNBC: Meanwhile, a transcript of a conversation between the cruise liner’s captain, Francesco Schettino, and Capt. Gregorio De Falco of the Italian coast guard in Livorno, was released this morning. In the recording, De Falco can [...]
“You are defying the King holiday. Shame, Shame, Shame. This is a racist act”
Protesters in a leaflet to a bank that did not close its doors today: After a Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance at Burlington’s City Hall Contois Auditorium Monday, about a dozen demonstrators marched on the TD Bank branch just down the street to protest the bank’s opening on the holiday. The marchers briefly gathered [...]
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