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Obama’s chutzpah [Darleen Click]

The usual campaign blather from The One’s weekly address President Obama says that while technology and outsourcing have eroded the traditional American manufacturing base, innovation and skill will position the country to compete in the future. “Jobs that provided a decent living have been shipped overseas. And the hard truth is that a lot of those jobs aren’t coming back,” Obama said in his weekly address, released Saturday. “But that

A Valentine’s Day Present from Dear Leader to the On-Deck Team [Guest Post by motionview]

I got a wonderful Valentines Day present for the California crew. Do you know that insane clown posse from out west? You should, one of them is going to be your President someday. Phil Angelides – Prime cover-upper in the investigation into the cause of the housing market crash. Kamala Harris – first pretty openly Marxist state attorney general Gavin Newsom – Rule of Law? We marry gay people whether

Societal Entropy: Inexorable? [Guest Post by Dicentra]

I’m currently reading Melanie Phillips’s The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power. Her thesis is not at all new to regular readers of protein wisdom; Jeff has repeatedly observed that “Black is white; Up is down; Potsie is the Fonz” and suchlike. So in quoting Philips’s book I’m not breaking any ground here, though it’s nice to see someone else independently come to the

“Contraception Mandate’s Authors Gave $116,500 To Pro-Abortion Candidates And Groups, Nothing To Pro-Lifers”

Meh. Coincidence. Or, if you don’t buy that, definitive proof that SCIENCE is on the side of pro-choice. Either way, just noticing this so-called discrepancy marks you as a bitterclingery neanderthal who is anti- woman, anti- health, and anti- choice/freedom. — Which, speaking of discrepancies, reminds me: you shouldn’t make contraceptives an issue because 99% of all women in the US have used them. Which is why we need to

Rick Santorum thinks gambling is bad for you

Meaning, he can’t possibly support a liberty agenda — and as a moral scold will take away your March Madness pools and your Fantasy Football leagues. After he’s done taking away your right to slide a jimmie on your whipstick. Or else it doesn’t mean any of that. There’s a difference between being a moral scold and being a dictator. Just as there’s a difference between agitating and advocating for

More unhelpful Visigothery

— this time from Rebecca Rast, who whines that there is very little difference between Republicans and Democrats in Congress: The gap of opposing viewpoints between Republicans and Democrats in Congress is closing. The fears of a Tea Party takeover in Congress from the 2010 elections are far gone, and in fact, should now be laughed at. Republicans had their opportunity, as the leading party in the U.S. House of

As a matter of men’s health

I demand HHS do something, somewhere, somehow that makes it a law that I receive free Chic-fil-A classic chicken sandwiches and waffle fries. Because so help me, if my wife makes me eat another goddamn “heart-healthy” Paprika cod fillet and endive salad dinner, I’ma shoot up a fucking Whole Foods, then use my Cold Steel San Mai to start cutting heads off of any dudes wearing sandals. And yes, Mr

Pragmatism rising!

Rasmussen: “52% Say It’s Better for GOP To Work With Obama Than Stand on Principle” The sheep are turning. Long live the King! (h/t JHo)

“HHS Prohibited Panel Developing Contraception Mandate from Considering ‘Cost Effectiveness’”

Money is no object! Particularly when it isn’t yours! And yet those with the Utopian impulse still seem mystified when their grand schemes crumble under the weight of both math and the individual’s refusal to be enslaved by the State. CNS News: There would be no consideration of cost effectiveness. That was the explicit condition that the Department of Health and Human Services imposed on the panel of scientists it

A Tale of Two Rickys

Two pieces on Santorum’s candidacy throw into relief the narrative being developed around his what is becoming a real and growing challenge to Mitt Romney’s campaign of inevitability. First is Byron York’s Washington Examiner piece, which attempts to strike a fair tone and largely succeeds. The thesis — that Santorum’s 18 point loss in Pennsylvania will have to be better explained eventually — is a solid one, and presents a