And honestly, it’s somewhat comforting for me to discover that, like his music, his politics hasn’t much evolved since the usefully-idiotic radical chic days of Little Drummer Girl. Here’s an idea: take several hundred Jews, drop them into Transjordan, and have them demand equal rights, etc.,– all while openly proclaiming that their political and religious mission, forever more, is to wipe the Arabs who host them off the face of
December 2013
December 16, 2013
IRS now to make its targeting of TEA Parties legal [Darleen Click]
Obama and Democrats used the IRS to suppress TEA Party activity in 2012, now they want to codify it for 2014 and beyond. In the media blackout of Thanksgiving week, the Treasury Department dumped a new proposal to govern the political activity of 501(c)(4) groups. The administration claims this rule is needed to clarify confusing tax laws. Hardly. The rule is the IRS’s new targeting program—only this time systematic, more
December 15, 2013
Told you so … [Darleen Click]
When any relationship can be held out as “marriage” then marriage ceases to have any meaning. Advocacy groups for polygamy and individual liberties on Saturday hailed a federal judge’s ruling that key parts of Utah’s polygamy laws are unconstitutional, saying it will remove the threat of arrest for those families. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups said in the decision handed down Friday that a provision in Utah law forbidding cohabitation
December 15, 2013
“If you like your checking account, you can keep your checking account …” [Darleen Click]
Well, it’s not like your actually earned your money … Shannon Bruner of Indianola logged on to her checking account Monday morning, and found she was almost 800 dollars in the negative. “The first thing I thought was, ‘I got screwed,’” she said. The Bruners enrolled for insurance on the Washington Healthplanfinder website, last October. They say they selected the bill pay date to be December 24th. Instead the Washington
December 15, 2013
RIP Peter O’Toole [Darleen Click]
He was 81 Peter O’Toole, the legendary actor who starred in the classic 1981 (sic – the film is from 1962) film “Lawrence of Arabia,” has died at age 81, his agent told several media outlets including the BBC. The Irish-born star of the stage and screen got his big break when he won the role of British adventurer T.E. Lawrence in the flick. It earned him eight Oscar nominations,
December 14, 2013
“Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College” [Darleen Click]
Well worth the 41 minute investment …
December 14, 2013
I just bought a new house! [Darleen Click]
I’ve moved in to the home of my dreams. All mine … and I don’t have to pay a thing to be a homeowner. Fearing that many people will think they have health insurance coverage when they do not, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is “urging” insurance companies to “give consumers additional time to pay their first month’s premium and still have coverage beginning Jan. 1, 2014.” Insurance
December 13, 2013
John Boehner earns admiration of Reid, Pelosi, Matthews, and the GOP establishment and its corporatist cronies
Which means — despite his ardent insistence that no one is more conservative than he (the man who, as Speaker, has presided over the single greatest explosion of debt in American history, despite the GOP having control of the purse strings) — he’s probably not doing the whole opposition party thing correctly. Too, it bears noting that when the GOP leadership is working hand in glove with the progressive left
December 13, 2013
Stop it, guys. [Darleen Click]
Why does Paul Ryan need you to explain the “strategy” of losing more slowly when Ryan, and especially Crier Boehner are slagging conservatives rather than being [ostensibly] honest about why they are doing this deal? Why should conservatives accept the GOP Establishment narrative, as trickled down by spokesholes who fail to understand why the great unwashed snowbillies beyond the Beltway no longer have any trust in the meme “Well, we