An overview of the first day of the Department of Justice’s attempt to keep Texas from securing for actual Texas citizens the value of the franchise. — Which, in a country built on federalist principles and created only with certain assurances given to states who agreed to join the union, is no more surreal than was the federal government’s suit to keep Arizona from being able to protect its own
July 2012
July 13, 2012
Phrase ‘Kitchen Cabinent’ is racist. Really? [Darleen Click]
Really. MSNBC guest, Mark Thompson, beclowns himself. The political term “kitchen cabinet” was coined in the early 1800s to describe the group of informal advisers around President Andrew Jackson. According to a guest on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” on Wednesday, however, the term is “culturally insensitive.” Mark Thompson, host of SiriusXM’s “Make It Plain,” told host Lawrence O’Donnell that Mitt Romney should not have used the term
July 12, 2012
“Report: Thousands fled Canada for health care in 2011”
Evidently, they’re either confused and don’t realize how wonderful nationalized health care is, or else they’re most likely racists. I mean, what other excuse can these confused, likely racist ingrates offer for fleeing free shit provided them by goodly and beneficent statists whose goodliness and beneficence is self-evident, given the free shit they’re providing in a goodly and beneficent way? To confused racists? Daily Caller: A Canadian study released Wednesday
July 12, 2012
“House Conservatives to Boehner: Defund Obamacare Now”
But of course, he won’t do it. Instead, he’ll just cry little orange tears, so worried is he over being demagogued for taking away some poor (and entirely fictional) person’s healthcare without full Congressional approval. At least, that’s my guess. You don’t get to be head of the GOP establishment in Congress without proving you can cave to the left and preen for the “moderates” who are never, ever going
July 12, 2012
Histrionic Left lectures: Even running against His Holiness Obama is RAAAAACIST [Darleen Click]
Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky takes it to 11 … Until yesterday, I thought of Mitt Romney as a spineless, disingenuous, and supercilious but more or less decently intentioned person who at least wasn’t the race-mongering pyromaniac that some other Republican candidates of my lifetime have been. Then he gave his speech to the NAACP, and now I think of him as a spineless, disingenuous, supercilious, race-mongering pyromaniac who is very
July 11, 2012
Romney being booed by audience at NAACP is proof he is a RAAAAACIST! [Darleen Click]
Just when you think the Left has reached the bottom of delusional race-baiting, now comes the charge that Romney staged the booing at the NAACP in order to appeal to “his racist base.” Politicians don’t write speeches expecting to be booed. They try to word their views in a way to appeal to voters. Mitt Romney didn’t write his speech to appeal to African Americans. He intentionally wrote it to
July 11, 2012
“Environmental Extremists Exposed as Political Goliaths”
Shocking, I know. […] in 2010 $100,000,000 was donated to the environmental advocacy organization ClimateWorks by a single progressive funding organization: the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. While the Hewlett Foundation’s $100 million dollar donation is an outlier, the amount of liberal money flowing into environmental groups is undeniably extreme. According to tax records, in 2010 the aforementioned Hewlett Foundation gave a total of $135,203,199 to environmental advocacy groups. Similarly,
July 11, 2012
“A Short History of Congress’s Power to Tax”
Paul Moreno, professor of history at Hillsdale College: In 1935, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was fretting about finding a constitutional basis for the Social Security Act. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone advised her, “The taxing power, my dear, the taxing power. You can do anything under the taxing power.” Last week, in his ObamaCare opinion, NFIB v. Sebelius, Chief Justice John Roberts gave Congress the same advice—just enact
July 11, 2012
“Outsourcer-in-Chief: Obama Admin. Outsourced Jobs with Taxpayer-Funded Stimulus!”
Forward! The Obama administration allowed millions of dollars in federal stimulus funds to go to foreign companies, despite recent statements by President Barack Obama that he opposes “shipping jobs overseas.” “I want to stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs and factories overseas,” Obama said in a speech in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Tuesday. “As long as I’m president, I will keep fighting to make sure jobs are