Oh good lord. “Sometimes when we’ve gotten great answers is when presidents have had enough authority to take some actions,” Davis told TheDC on Capitol Hill Friday. “I mean, remember that we just celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and if Abraham Lincoln had not had the power, authority and the will to make that decision, we may have gone on with the war that was going to
January 5, 2013
Saturday wrestling meet / Satch’s 9th birthday party / NFL playoffs / another day closer to economic collapse open thread
In no particular order. The point being, I’ll be gone most of the day, so post anything of interest here, or just use the thread to gab, if you’re so inclined. Meanwhile — and I posted this on Twitter last evening, but may as well repeat it here — my state of the nation report for this, Saturday, January 5, 2013: I now own both concealable body armor and a
January 4, 2013
“For God’s Sake, Please Stop the Aid!” [Darleen Click]
Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati explains what American conservatives already know and what Left-libs refuse to even address. SPIEGEL: Mr. Shikwati, the G8 summit at Gleneagles is about to beef up the development aid for Africa… Shikwati: … for God’s sake, please just stop. SPIEGEL: Stop? The industrialized nations of the West want to eliminate hunger and poverty. Shikwati: Such intentions have been damaging our continent for the past 40
January 4, 2013
“Red-faced state officials admitted last night they are trying to find as many as 19,000 missing welfare recipients …” [Darleen Click]
… after the controversial taxpayer-funded voter registration pitches the state mailed to their addresses last summer were sent back marked “Return to sender, address unknown.” The Department of Transitional Assistance contacted 477,000 welfare recipients who were on their books from June 1, 2011, to May 31, 2012, after settling a voter-rights lawsuit brought by Democratic-leaning activist groups that demanded an aggressive voter information effort by the state. That $274,000 push
January 4, 2013
Pursuant to my last post
What are we prepared to do? Howsabout we take a page from Hobby Lobby — with its icky social conservative values, and embarrassing Christian pieties — and stand up for its liberty by simply denying the government and the courts their usurped authority? “Hobby Lobby Defies Obama Administration with Civil Disobedience for Religious Liberty”: Now that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s application for an emergency injunction
January 4, 2013
“Op-Ed: Harry Reid’s filibuster plan and the Supreme Court”
ObamaCare was famously foisted onto Americans with no Republican support. And if Harry Reid and the progressives have their way, this will become the rule, not the exception — with the biggest impact coming in a fundamental transformation of the Court, the final step needed by progressives to deconstruct the Constitution while appearing to play by its rules, and to (in the short term) implement the fundamental transformation Obama desires,
January 4, 2013
“Angry at the NRA? That Won’t Reduce Gun Violence”
No, but the left does like it some scapegoats, and what can be more evil than an organization that stands for the wholesale slaughter of little teeny-tiny childrens? Or, to put it more clinically, since when did we start thinking rationality would trump self-serving self-righteousness, particularly when it comes from the political left? Prof. Stephen L Carter, writing in Bloomberg: Support for stricter U.S. gun laws hasn’t jumped as fast
January 4, 2013
“Obama’s jobless ‘recovery’ continues as unemployed jumps by 164,000”
Guess there’s really no reason to massage the numbers any more, right? After all, we got The One we’ve been waiting for for a second time. Which means Utopia is right around the corner, just past that pile of dead and rigored “rich Republicans” stacked like cordwood on the corner of Fair Share Lane and Social Justice Ave. Bill Wilson, ALG: Supposedly the recession ended in June 2009, but more
January 4, 2013
“The law of unintended consequences hits the low information voter crowd” (a protein wisdom micro fiction)
“Wait, Obama said he’d soak the rich. ‘The fuck, dude?” ~ finis ~ (h/t Pablo)’