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May 31, 2012

SQUIRREL!!1! [Darleen Click]

Newsbusters While the networks largely ignored 43 Catholic institutions suing the Obama administration over the ObamaCare contraception mandate, since news broke on May 25 of the Pope’s butler leaking classified Vatican documents, those same networks saw fit to provide 13 stories in 5 days proclaiming “another black eye for the Vatican” and supposed “corruption at some of the highest levels.“

Is Romney the next McCain? [bh]

Reading the good Professor Reynolds today I’m noticing the theme that Romney is a better candidate than McCain ever was.  Here.  Here.  Here. You know what?  I agree.  It wasn’t expected but here it is.  It needs to be acknowledged.  That very low bar has been passed.  Yet, here I am, still wondering if that’s going to result in any policy we desire being implemented after Obama’s very bad November.

“NYC Council: Ban Of Large Sugared Sodas ‘Seems Punitive,’ ‘Won’t Yield A Positive Result'”

You mean if King Bloomberg decrees that one can’t purchase a bottle of single Coke larger than 16 oz., the masses might figure that two, three, or even four 16 oz bottles will do the trick — and screw the King? Astounding! I should add:  thanks to King Bloomberg’s arbitrary dictates, a slew of extra plastic bottles will make their way into society, where they’ll get all tatted up, huff

“Lawyer Arrested for Constitutionally Protected Blogging Against Convicted Bomber, After Hearing Before Judge C.J. Vaughey”

Hans Bader of CEI expands on his earlier arguments, this time ending with a call for the removal of Judge Vaughey from the bench: At the hearing, Judge Cornelius Vaughey reportedly “said he didn’t care” about the Supreme Court’s Brandenburg ruling on the First Amendment.  Sadly, Judge Vaughey has absolute immunity against monetary damages for any constitutional violations he has committed against Aaron Walker.  But judges have been removed from

“Federal appeals court rules Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional”

LAT: The U.S. appeals court in Boston became the first such court to strike down as unconstitutional the federal Defense of Marriage Act, ruling Thursday that it unfairly denies equal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. The ruling is a victory for gay-rights advocates and the Obama administration, which had refused to defend that part of the 1996 law. The decision sets the stage for a ruling next year by

“Warren concedes she told Harvard and Penn about Native American ancestry”

However, she did firmly deny that she’d appeared before department heads in interviews wearing nothing but a buffalo poncho, rough-hewn turquoise earrings, and some moccasins made from tanned deer skin and bindwind she’d chewed, boiled, and finished with a resin made from black bear semen. So that ends that ridiculous rumor.*      

“GOP softens anti-tax rhetoric”

It’s like a preemptive surrender on the part of the establishment GOP.   And these are the guys who we’re supposed to believe will push Romney toward the right?  Politico: Interviews with more than a dozen Senate Republicans show a growing openness to higher tax revenues to reach a so-called grand bargain on overhauling Medicare, other entitlements, discretionary spending and the Tax Code. On top of that, a small group

For your consideration: Myth v Facts in Obama Energy ‘policy’ [Darleen Click]

Just released pdf from House Committee on Oversight and Reform. In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Obama declared, “This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy.”1 Yet in 2010, President Obama declared quite different intentions, stating that, “One of my top priorities next year is to have an energy policy that begins to address all facets of our overreliance on