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December fundraiser begins today [sticky; new posts below; Tuesday update; FINAL FRIDAY UPDATE]

Yes, November sucked, politically speaking.  Which means I’m committed to at least a few more years of trying to right the ship of state before I give up the ghost and sell my soul for whiskey and ammo, then move to the hills of West Virginia and learn the banjo/ mouth organ as a kind of currency for acceptance into an extended family of self-sufficient pioneer types.  And their inbred

Six figure salary, guaranteed job security, 11 weeks’ paid vacation — NOT GOOD ENOUGH [Darleen Click]

But but it’s the nasty 2% that are the problem, not hardworking union guys, right? The small band of strikers that has effectively shut down the nation’s busiest shipping complex forced two huge cargo ships to head for other ports Thursday and kept at least three others away, hobbling an economic powerhouse in Southern California. The disruption is costing an estimated $1 billion a day at the ports of Los

“New Study: Rachel Carson Was Wrong”

Wow. I didn’t think we needed studies to prove that Carson’s environmental advocacy was responsible for millions of deaths, all so she and her acolytes could preen about their concern for the planet (well, except for the human component of the planet, I mean).  CEI: This year marks the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the book credited with launching the modern environmentalist movement. Carson famously warned man-made chemicals,

Empowered cannon fodder?

This is actually quite interesting:  “The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), representing four military women and the activist Servicewomen’s Action Network (SWAN), has filed a San Francisco lawsuit demanding that female soldiers be forced into direct ground combat (infantry) battalions.”  This despite  “numerous studies and tests conducted over the past 30 years, in the direct ground combat environment” showing “women do not have an equal opportunity to survive, or to help

Picking nits with Charles Krauthammer: a messaging plan that CAN work

Darleen points to Krauthammer’s advice to the GOP (mirroring the more sternly-worded advice offered here ever since talk of the “fiscal cliff” got John Boehner’s delicious orange tears of imminent surrender flowing) that Republican leadership merely walk away from what Krauthammer rightly notes is an “insulting” offer from Geithner and the President, who are not only offering no cuts, but want increased taxes and an increase in spending by calling

Better not use the term “death panels” … [Darleen Click]

… that just marks you as an ignorant snowbilly engaged in teh raaaaacism A British physician’s disturbing testimony is shedding light on the increasingly common practice of National Health Service (NHS) hospitals sending sick or severely disabled newborn babies home or to hospices to die of starvation or dehydration. Newborn babies are being being placed on the Liverpool Care Pathway for end-of-life care, a system originally allotted and designed for

GOP choice: Walk away or wither away [Darleen Click]

****************** “CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It’s not just a bad deal, this is really an insulting deal. What Geithner offered, what you showed on the screen, Robert E. Lee was offered easier terms at Appomattox, and he lost the Civil War. The Democrats won by 3% of the vote and they did not hold the House, Republicans won the house. So this is not exactly unconditional surrender, but that is what the

“What Is Obama So Afraid Of?”

Quick, how many of you answered “truth”? Good for you!  Precisely right! Now, the rest of you?  Should be ashamed. Unless your first thought was either “Michelle” or “spiders.”  In which case, you get a pass.  This time. (h/t JHo)  

“UN vote is a boost to Palestinian statehood hopes”

This opens Israel up to endless prosecutions before the ICC, and gives a terror state the imprimatur of legitimacy.  Which was a predictable move in  the trajectory of transnational progressivism, the disease that will in the end kill off any free country, delegitimize national sovereignty, and create an untouchable permanent bureaucratic ruling class, a crony class, and the “masses” to be administered to in ways the betters see fit. Sadly,

Perspective

Big government math: Two lucky individuals won $587.5 million last night by matching all six numbers in the Powerball lottery.  This represents the second-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history. To put this amount in perspective, and to shed light on the United States’ spending problem, the math below shows that the federal government’s pace of deficit spending would consume this amount in just four hours. In fiscal year 2012, the debt of the U.S. government