A plague on Islamist fanatics. San Franciscans tear Free Tibet bumperstickers off their Priuses. Oh, the smiting of the gob.

They’re both from Illinois, except for Obama. Eventually, they intersect. Trust me on this.

Baracky’s so beholden to the proles that he will never sell them out, right? Nearly 100 wealthy families and power couples contributed at least $100,000 each to help Barack Obama over the past two years, creating an elite set of donors to whom the president-elect repeatedly turned in financing his campaign, transition and inauguration, a Washington Post analysis shows. As inaugural donations become public, a list of Obama’s most loyal

As the nation arrives, for the first time since 1825, at the end of consecutive eight-year presidencies, a summing up of the second of them must begin with this fact: Not since Abraham Lincoln’s has an administration been so defined by a single subject as George W. Bush’s has been by the Iraq War, which the country now thinks was improvidently begun and incompetently conducted. Historical judgments are, however, subject

David Weisman has the scoop about how the Obama (PBUH) declaration of emergency eggnoguration is SO NOT four times more expensive than the Bush one that the MSM got all in a tizzy about. Just how much they cost relative to one another, Weisman doesn’t say, because it’s apples and orangutans, my friends. So don’t expect anyone to do any hard digging, as the whole thing is incommensurate.

Your self-pleasuring is killing off orangutans! Geez, they look just like Treacher.

As some of you may know, one of our cats was hit by a car and killed over the hols. The ground is frozen too hard to bury her properly, so this evening we are building a bonfire (including the Christmas tree) and cremating the poor wee bobbie. Suzie was our owl-headed cat, the most independent of the three, and a wonderful mouser who also brought many gifts of small

It’s an O. Henry story about an Illinois school bureaucrat who created a lucrative position in the district and had it bestowed upon . . . himself. I love it when people pull themselves up by their bootstraps: Illinois is well known for far exceeding other states where it concerns lucrative salaries for administrators and top teachers, too. As Bill Zettler of Champion News reports, there is no recession in

Go over to the Pub to enjoy dicentra handing David Weisman his . . . head.

Everyone will have their own–the one that jumps into my head is that jackass chasing Malkin around and threatening her. Since I don’t have anything else to offer up at the moment, please share yours in the comments. That’s not entirely true, but I didn’t want to go off about how absurd the notion of a new declaration of independence coming from nanny-state Obama is. Because it’s Saturday Night. People