CNS News: The government shut down at midnight earlier this morning, closing memorials in the nation’s capital – but, some visiting veterans weren’t taking “no” for an answer. A group of veterans decided to storm the World War II memorial and pay their respects – aided by Congressional Republicans. The majority of the group was made up of octogenarians, some them pushing ninety. A group of honor veterans from Iowa said that

Courtesy of The Right Scoop. The takeaway:  no matter what the DC-centric media and political class tries to tell you, we are not beholden to the government:   “the federal government is not the country,” and politics matters not a whit when our very liberties as a free people are in jeopardy.   Party matters little here. The time to fight is now, win or lose.  But the time for capitulation is

How many park employees does it take to hang a “closed” sign? It is time we stop dancing around what is happening:  Obama is at war with the American way of life. There is no earthly reason to shut down open air monuments, or deny WWII vets access to their memorial, save a desire to take out your petulance on the American people, to show your power, and to instill

Of course they did.  And we need to keep making them kill and kill and kill and kill and kill — and show that it is they who refuse to fund the non-essential parts of the government, they who refuse to compromise, they who refuse to listen to the American people who don’t want ObamaCare and have applied enough pressure on a consistently timid GOP leadership to force its hand.

Ours, if you can believe that.  Albeit inadvertently, for sure. To see how, try their ObamaCare subsidy calculator.  In my case, I entered the required data as if my family didn’t have an employer-provided health care plan.  And with those parameters, I found that, should we be forced into an exchange, our costs would increase over 100%.  Which makes the 14.9% increase this year of our employer-provided plan seem downright

Well, that’s to be expected, isn’t it? When your goal is a European-style nanny welfare state run by a permanent political ruling class, you’re going to have to “nudge” people into behavior that’s in “their best economic interests.” That you have to circumvent Constitutional protections to do so? Meh. Enlightenment absolutism demands that, and progressives — on both sides of the aisle — increasingly embrace antifoundationalism. Which is just a

Aside from the feint to a balanced budget offered by Clinton — today’s Dems don’t even pretend such a thing is necessary or even useful, what with the availability to printing presses and QE infinity — take a listen to Bill Clinton in 1995 on the government shut down, which the GOP used to enact meaningful reforms and to create the “surplus” that today Clinton still takes credit for.  Listen

1.  this welcome respite from nannystate meddling into everything from my shower head to the puddles in my back yard. 2.  greenhouse gas poisoning, though the symptoms won’t show up until the government re-opens and tells me how damaged I’ve been by water vapor and human exhalation 3.  more profound idiocy from Davids Brooks and Frum 4.  this lousy teabagging 5.  the chance to use a potato-chip dispensing vending machine