Sorry, Karzai

I got a chance to meet and hang out with Kira Davis in Denver last November at a conference of bloggers, and can tell you firsthand that she’s an absolute dynamo. The idea that we have to even consider what may or may not be appropriate to say to Afghani President Hamid Karzai following the [...]

A Snapshot in Time

When you go home Tell them for us For your tomorrow We gave our today Inscription above the Marine Corps’ cemetery, Iwo Jima As we’ve seen during the bitterly contested past few years in American politics, the “new media” has very quickly begun to make life quite difficult for the American political Left. No longer [...]

The Laffer Curve in Britain

UK Telegraph: 50p Tax Rate ‘Failing to Boost Revenues’ The Treasury received £10.35 billion in income tax payments from those paying by self-assessment last month, a drop of £509 million compared with January 2011. Most other taxes produced higher revenues over the same period. Senior sources said that the first official figures indicated that there [...]

Daily Reminder: February 18, 2012

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and we, I believe, continue to be in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.” – Eric Holder, the nation’s first black Attorney General, appointed by the nation’s first black president of the United [...]

Daily Reminder: February 17, 2012

On February 17, 2009 the president signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, saying that day that it was “put together without earmarks or unnecessary spending.” Of course, an $8 billion Mag-Lev train running from Disneyland in Anaheim, CA to Las Vegas in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Nevada sure isn’t a “pet [...]

Daily Reminder: February 16, 2012

Three years ago this week, the president traveled to foreclosure-ravaged Phoenix, AZ to unveil a brand new $75 billion initiative billed as a “homeowner rescue” plan and intended to help five million homeowners refinance their current loans and assist another four million homeowners already facing foreclosure. The idea was that lenders would be offered taxpayer [...]

Santorum’s Perceptional Problems

Washington Post: Santorum: Birth Control ‘Harmful to Women’ This is how, in part, he lost Pennsylvania — by appearing extreme and schoolmarmish, too far to the right of average voters in a purple state. If he is the nominee in 2012, he might get some blue-collar fellows, but what about those women in Ohio, Pennsylvania, [...]

Daily Reminder: February 15, 2012

Two years ago today, America learned a little more about Amy Bishop, a neurobiology professor who on February 12, 2010 had burst into a faculty meeting and shot three professors dead and wounded three others. As with other mass shooters, Bishop was originally characterized by the mainstream press as a right-wing extremist; but as with [...]

Daily Reminder: February 14, 2012

Two years ago today, Phil Jones, the scientist at the center of the ongoing farce that is global warming, admitted that the world isn’t warming after all, that warming periods have occurred before and without the help of man, and that much of his raw data is missing. The data acknowledged as “missing” by Jones [...]

Daily Reminder: February 13, 2012

With zero Republicans in support and seven Democrats voting against, the House of Representatives passed the then $787 billion (now $862 billion) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act three years ago today. That day, North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones told America’s Right that “it’s fitting that this bloated bill was passed on Friday the 13th, because [...]

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