Monthly Archives for November 2012
Six figure salary, guaranteed job security, 11 weeks’ paid vacation — NOT GOOD ENOUGH [Darleen Click]
TweetBut but it’s the nasty 2% that are the problem, not hardworking union guys, right? The small band of strikers that has effectively shut down the nation’s busiest shipping complex forced two huge cargo ships to head for other ports … Continue reading
“New Study: Rachel Carson Was Wrong”
TweetWow. I didn’t think we needed studies to prove that Carson’s environmental advocacy was responsible for millions of deaths, all so she and her acolytes could preen about their concern for the planet (well, except for the human component of … Continue reading
Empowered cannon fodder?
TweetThis is actually quite interesting: “The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), representing four military women and the activist Servicewomen’s Action Network (SWAN), has filed a San Francisco lawsuit demanding that female soldiers be forced into direct ground combat (infantry) battalions.” This … Continue reading
Picking nits with Charles Krauthammer: a messaging plan that CAN work
TweetDarleen points to Krauthammer’s advice to the GOP (mirroring the more sternly-worded advice offered here ever since talk of the “fiscal cliff” got John Boehner’s delicious orange tears of imminent surrender flowing) that Republican leadership merely walk away from what … Continue reading
Better not use the term “death panels” … [Darleen Click]
Tweet… that just marks you as an ignorant snowbilly engaged in teh raaaaacism A British physician’s disturbing testimony is shedding light on the increasingly common practice of National Health Service (NHS) hospitals sending sick or severely disabled newborn babies home … Continue reading
GOP choice: Walk away or wither away [Darleen Click]
Tweet ****************** “CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It’s not just a bad deal, this is really an insulting deal. What Geithner offered, what you showed on the screen, Robert E. Lee was offered easier terms at Appomattox, and he lost the Civil War. … Continue reading
“What Is Obama So Afraid Of?”
TweetQuick, how many of you answered “truth”? Good for you! Precisely right! Now, the rest of you? Should be ashamed. Unless your first thought was either “Michelle” or “spiders.” In which case, you get a pass. This time. (h/t JHo) … Continue reading
“UN vote is a boost to Palestinian statehood hopes”
TweetThis opens Israel up to endless prosecutions before the ICC, and gives a terror state the imprimatur of legitimacy. Which was a predictable move in the trajectory of transnational progressivism, the disease that will in the end kill off any … Continue reading
Perspective
TweetBig government math: Two lucky individuals won $587.5 million last night by matching all six numbers in the Powerball lottery. This represents the second-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. To put this amount in perspective, and to shed light on the United … Continue reading
“Inside the talks: Fiscal framework emerges”
TweetOh, goodie! That must mean Obama has given in and decided not to raise taxes at all — and that the Republicans held firm, letting Obama know that they’re happy to go over the fiscal cliff, getting rid of Bush’s … Continue reading
