John Snow, a former Treasury Secretary, has a good piece in the Journal today about the enormous capital gains tax increases looming in our future. It’s worth a read. He ends with, “As taxmageddon looms, let’s hope we choose wisely.” Unfortunately, we know one rather important person who has already made a choice on this matter. Let’s review the tape. Now, what we all predominantly remember from that debate is
May 14, 2012
Obama Admin to Tombstone, AZ: Suck dirt! [Darleen Click] UPDATED
As a Californian who has watched the Feds turn our Central Valley, one of the nation’s most productive tracts of farmland, into a dustbowl using a bait fish as an excuse, I thought I couldn’t be shocked anymore by the politically-driven depredations out of Washington. I was wrong The City of Tombstone is squaring off against the U.S. Forest Service over water rights in a fight to rescue “The Town
May 13, 2012
ObamaCare sends out Mom Day cards … [Darleen Click]
… using the White House’s own site. What other Obama policy can be anthropomorphized? Maybe Earth Day cards from CAFE Standards? Suggestions welcome.
May 13, 2012
Gayest statement evah [Darleen Click]
Clinton was our first Black President, so it’s left that Obama is, according to Andrew Sullivan, our first Gay President. And President Obama has much in common with the gay community. “He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family,” Sullivan writes. Sully asserts that our essential
May 13, 2012
Happy Mother’s Day [Darleen Click]
Ran across this duo a few week’s ago from Britain’s Got Talent. This was the final from yesterday and a beautiful, moving performance … My prayers and good wishes to all the moms out there this beautiful Sunday morning.
May 12, 2012
Obama’s Enemies List getting results [Darleen Click]
Nixon never had it so good … Businessman Frank Vandersloot, the CEO of Melaleuca, has been targeted by the Obama campaign after donating money to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. “Three weeks ago, an Obama campaign website, ‘Keeping GOP Honest,’ took the extraordinary step of publicly naming and assailing eight private citizens backing Mr. Romney,” Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal reported. “Titled ‘Behind the curtain: a brief history of
May 12, 2012
Spinal Tap as serious performance “art” [Darleen Click]
Recall the description of the cover art Spinal Tap wanted for their Smell the Glove album: We laughed. We chuckled. Now David Thompson points out: You will, therefore, be thrilled to the tips of your nipples by Mr Fabre’s recent curatorial triumph. Sweat is a performance piece by Peter De Cupere, in which five fellow narcissists spend fourteen minutes rolling about and jumping up and down – naked, obviously –
May 12, 2012
Democrat Training 101: No matter what a Republican says, “it’s racist.” [Darleen Click]
Ok, we knew this anyway, but now they even have training materials House Democrats received training this week on how to address the issue of race to defend government programs, according to training materials obtained by The Washington Examiner. The prepared content of a Tuesday presentation to the House Democratic Caucus and staff indicates that Democrats will seek to portray apparently neutral free-market rhetoric as being charged with racial bias,
May 11, 2012
RIP Carroll Shelby [Darleen Click]
The man was a legend in more ways than one. Carroll Shelby, the legendary auto racer and car designer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford’s Mustang and Chrysler’s Viper, has died. He was 89. Shelby’s company, Carroll Shelby International, said Friday that Shelby died a day earlier at a Dallas hospital. He had received a heart transplant in 1990 and a kidney transplant