“Secret recording: ATF agent suggests digging up dirt on Sen. Chuck Grassley to help forestall Gunwalker investigations” Let’s see what kind of play this gets, or if those with investigative powers think it a kind of smoking gun. My guess is, this agent will be left hanging out there all alone. Loyalty to this Administration only gets you as far as the next seat on the Obama Express; until, that
September 20, 2011
The Wire, season 6
I’m heading back to Baltimore later on and won’t be back until Monday. Please try to keep the place clean in my absence. I trust that the majority of you will. For those who won’t, however — well, let’s just say I’ve left a little armored someone a rack of loaded pump action shotguns, my collection of Cold Steel survival knives, a Taser, and an inflatable kiddie pool filled to
Plight of the poor in Obama's new America
As Victor Davis Hanson describes them, many of the contemporary “poor” are part of a class of savvy system abusers and civic thieves who extend the metaphor into the spaces inside other people’s homes, sheds, businesses, etc. As prc notes, “not exactly the Joads, eh?”
BREAKING: DAVID BROOKS A FAN OF OBAMA'S
Stunning admission that he is “a sap for Obama” takes 14 Democrats + David Frum completely by surprise. Developing…
"FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries?"
Well, I suppose that would depend on how we define “rich” and who the secretary is — for instance, the President has defined “millionaires and billionaires” as anyone making over $200K, or a family bringing in $250K, and is using as an instance of a “secretary” the personal assistant to one of the US’s wealthiest men — but I’ll bite. from the AP: President Barack Obama makes it sound as
Perry and Israel
During his speech on Israel, Rick Perry argues that if the UN supports statehood for the Palestinians — that is, taking Israel’s land and giving it to those who have, in an actual charter, sworn to annihilate Israel — the US should cease any funding of the UN. Which, while it is a nice gesture — and also a political gauntlet dropped at the feet of a President steeped in
