Guess the number of those adversely impacted by it has been…delayed: The improvement is “slight,” they concede, but who’s excited for an Obamacare rebound? Not the American people, it turns out, despite CNN’s hopeful spin: According to the poll, 39% of Americans say they support the health care law, up from 35% in December, a record low in CNN polling. The uptick of four percentage points is within the survey’s
March 2014
March 10, 2014
Gov. Jerry Brown to Californians: Your safety means nothing to me. [Darleen Click]
It’s bad enough when it appeared to be mere stupidity that Brown and his administration was just surprised that AB109/Prison Realignment has resulted in released felons re-offending … Unexpectedly! … but only malice can explain the blame of the rise in crime and, especially, second-strikers on county District Attorneys. San Bernardino District Attorney Mike Ramos was on Los Angeles radio station KFI640 this afternoon and revealed that not only is
March 10, 2014
Radical Atheists demand 9/11 museum censored [Darleen Click]
If these anti-theist bigots are successful, what stops them from challenging any Holocaust museum displaying menorahs or any art museum displaying any number of religious objects? American Atheists on Thursday asked an appeals court in New York to remove the “miracle cross” from the 9/11 Museum, where it was placed two years ago. The steel beams were discovered in the devastation at Ground Zero. Eric Baxster of the Becket Fund
March 9, 2014
Update on Malaysian flight stolen passports [Darleen Click]
Exactly what good is a database if you never check it? Interpol says no country checked its database for information about stolen passports that were used to board the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared with 239 people on board Saturday less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bound for Beijing. In a sharply worded criticism of shortcomings of national passport controls, the Lyon, France-based international police
March 8, 2014
Stolen passports used on missing Malaysian jet [Darleen Click]
Does not bode well. Foreign ministry officials in Rome and Vienna confirm that names of two nationals listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysian airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand. […] A foreign ministry functionary, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed Italian reports that Luigi Maraldi had reported his passport stolen last August. […] Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss confirmed that a name listed on
March 8, 2014
Unexpected! Confounding! [Darleen Click]
Proof of the death of basic reporter skills in modern J-school grads. From Ass.Press: California counties are confounding the state’s court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of second-strikers. The surge in offenders requiring state prison sentences is undermining Gov. Jerry Brown’s 3-year-old realignment law that restructured California’s criminal justice system to keep lower-level felons out
March 8, 2014
Molon Labe [Darleen Click]
******************* While speaking at a town hall meeting in Milford, Conn., on Wednesday, Gov. Dannel Malloy was interrupted by a heckler who advised him to read the Constitution sometime. The comment came when Gov. Malloy, a Democrat, was answering a question from a small business owner who said he is at a disadvantage to businesses in adjacent states that have a lower wage structure. “I think that’s not only a
March 7, 2014
“Black Teen Unemployment 32.4%”
The post-racial President with the great pant crease and the faculty lounge argot in action: The unemployment rate for black teens, ages 16 to 19, was 32.4% in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), whose data also show that only 24.9% of black youth are participating in the nation’s labor force. The participation rate for black youth has decreased from 26.4% in January to 24.9% in February,
March 7, 2014
From our cold, dead arteries!
Ah, don’t you just love sneering, self-styled multiculturalists who, when it comes down to brass tacks, are about as fair-minded, non-judgmental, and accurate in their internalized caricatures as was, say, Hitler? Or for you Godwin’s Law adepts, at least John Kerry testifying about his fellow American soldiers? “As a European this is how I imagine Americans have breakfast” Fortunately, the comments are hilarious — and go a long way toward
March 6, 2014
What I would have posted had I posted anything today:
I’m just speculating, but it probably would have been something along the lines of this: instead of just calling ourselves TEA Partiers, I think it’s time we gather together a million or two disgusted citizens angry at the politicization of the IRS, which is now one of the police arms of the progressive left’s soft coup, and dump a bunch of real tea into the Potomac. But we’ll make it