“I may be the Vice President, but I’m just a working-class guy and I’ve got a wrench in my pocket to prove it.” h/t The Right Scoop with some other interesting pics from Ohio. ************* update I cannot bring myself to post this one directly. Just, ewww.
September 9, 2012
September 9, 2012
Public Employee Unions — why thuggery in Costa Mesa, CA, matters to you [Darleen Click]
Because, really, do you believe this is anything new? California city officials typically spare police officers even modest reductions in the pay and pension packages that are a main source of local budget problems, even when the other alternatives are cuts in public services or even municipal bankruptcy. The common explanation is politicians are afraid of the cop unions’ political muscle come election time. That is true, but disturbing behavior
September 9, 2012
“The truth is increasingly irrelevant” [Darleen Click]
NRO’s Andrew McCarthy gets it You cannot cede the campus and the culture to the progressive, post-American Left for two generations and expect a different outcome. So even if Obama is the second coming of Jimmy Carter — and he has actually been much more effective, and therefore much worse — it is unreasonable to expect a Reagan-style landslide, and would be even if we had Reagan. The people coming
September 9, 2012
Free speech — no brainer [Darleen Click]
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo enjoys stumping for same-sex marriage. Emmett C. Burns, Jr. is a Maryland Democrat legislator who decided to write the Ravens owner to try and get Ayanbadejo to Shut up* *Side note, CNN plays “name that party” with Burns. Heh. Burns was wrong. If Burns wants to publicly respond to Ayanbadejo in a speech or in a column to debate the particulars of same-sex marriage, that’s