Yesterday, husband and I paid $9 each to go see the new Bond film, Skyfall. Wonderful film, a great time had by all in the theater. This morning I read where Skyfall’s debut this weekend in America grossed $90 million (including Thursdays receipts). Now as much as I enjoyed the film, movies are candy. They are sodas with empty calories. In Bloomberg parlance, we really should restrict ourselves when it
November 2012
November 12, 2012
Today, the Feds could have received a check for just over 18 million dollars [Darleen Click]
November 12, 2012
My advice to “social conservatives”
It’s unsolicited, but here it is, anyway: leave the GOP. Give your two weeks notice. Because you are always going to be portrayed as the problem, and the solution is always going to be that you need to shut your clownish pieholes. Not only that, but you use your franchise in a way that simply isn’t helpful, voting in primaries the way you do for candidates that don’t have the
November 11, 2012
“Congress to investigate whether Petraeus scandal was a political cover-up”
Which it was, but nothing will come of it, anyway. Because MANDATE: CIA Director David Petraeus revealed his affair almost immediately after the election, even though the FBI may have discovered it months ago. The timing has caused Congress to wonder if it was a political cover-up to help Obama’s campaign. The FBI began a criminal investigation in February after discovering that Paula Broadwell, Petraeus’ 40-year-old mistress and biographer, had
November 11, 2012
Oh, dear, you don’t say #3: Left Illiberals feel boycotting businesses will create more jobs [Darleen Click]
Businesses don’t run on feelings, there’s stuff like math involved. So in the face of the huge costs of ObamaCare and a dumptruck full of new ObamaBureaucratic regulations about to descend, businesses are laying off, freezing hiring or moving people to part-time status. Lefty reaction? Hysteria. From calling for boycotts of Appleby’s and Papa Johns to Democrat reaction to Murray Energy, it is clear why New York City still has
November 11, 2012
About that “all of the above” energy policy Obama promoted while campaigning —
Well, the campaign’s over. So back to leftist first principles we can return. Because MANDATE! The Hill: The Interior Department on Friday issued a final plan to close 1.6 million acres of federal land in the West originally slated for oil shale development. The proposed plan would fence off a majority of the initial blueprint laid out in the final days of the George W. Bush administration. It faces a
November 11, 2012
first Sunday in a post-constitutional America (with mandate)
pw wife: “I think I’m going to pick up breakfast burritos. You want anything?” me: “Yes. While you’re there, immersed in the Latino culture made manifest in the restaurant’s simple, rustic decor and the romantic smells of mole sauce and hard hairnetted work, make sure you mention to the counter girl that of course you would support amnesty and comprehensive immigration reform, and note offhandedly that Marco Rubio, who spoke
November 11, 2012
Oh, dear, you don’t say #2: Food stamps surge, report was delayed [Darleen Click]
The timing has all the “coincidence” of Petraeus’ resignation. While there had been speculation that the BLS may delay the release of its October nonfarm payroll number until after the election, it turned out there was no reason to worry. Perhaps this is because the number, while at stall speed, was not quite as horrible as some had expected (even if the change in average hourly earnings did tumble to
November 10, 2012
Oh, dear, voter fraud you say? [Darleen Click]
Please, can’t we all just move on to our bright shiney FORWARD! future as subjects to The State we all belong to? A review of voter registration data for ten counties in Colorado details a pattern of voter bloat inflating registration rolls to numbers larger than the total voting age population. Using publicly available voter data and comparing it to U.S. Census records reveals the ten counties having a total
November 9, 2012
question for a Friday evening
Here’s one to ponder: how is it that America’s first half-black President managed in only 4 years to turn the roughly 9 million people who wouldn’t vote for him a second time into bitterclinging racists? And is that some sort of record?
November 9, 2012
“Why Hispanics Don’t Vote for Republicans”
Not surprisingly, their voting choices have nothing to do with the amnesty pander now being pushed by the same people who keep steering us down disastrous electoral paths and everything to do with why that very amnesty pander — that is, trying to co-opt the tactics of the left — will only in the long-term create more leftists and more leftism. Heather McDonald, breaking down the numbers: If Republicans want