Well, if it serves the greater good, maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss that idea, even if it means the bitter clingers might whine and cry and rend their garments like flannel-clad trailer trash caught up in a doublewide love triangle. The objection could be raised that Mr. Obama’s relative lack of overt action on gun control initiatives indicates that he is not a stereotypical progressive gun banner.
The "the 'is it 2012 yet?' wistful open thread post" post
I mean, I realize it might seem a rather curious use for a time machine, but if I had one, 2012 is the first place I’d go, just to make sure America did the right thing. Unless I got stupid drunk and decided on a whim to go back to the early 80s and ask Valerie Bertinelli to my prom, that is. Which, hey, I’m as patriotic as the next
Curiouser and Curiouser
Maybe the birthers are actually on to something. And maybe we’ve been looking at Obama’s agenda all wrong: perhaps he was born in some socially democratic European country somewhere, and his entire stint in office has been an idealized and nostalgic attempt to recapture the romanticism of his actual homeland. I’m joking, naturally. Occam’s razor suggests that it’s far more likely he’s just an arrogant elitist douche who believes himself
Obama White House dismisses claim that "stimulus" cost US $278K per job "created"
— a claim made by, wait for it: The White House’s Council of Economic Advisers. Question: how many Obama Administration officials can squeeze themselves simultaneously into a VW Beetle? And, once they got out, would they be able to provide us with an accurate accounting of the feat? — or would they wait to see if anyone was watching, and then just make some shit up to fit the political
"If Obama ignores the debt limit, he’ll totally get away with it"
If a tree is felled illegally in the forest, and the only people there to hear it are the repulsive, hypocritical leftist sycophants and enablers of the imperial President who ordered the tree be cut down in the first place, does it make a sound? And if so, does it sound like the muffled screams of a Constitution being smothered in its sleep with pillows by Ezra Klein, Dick Stengel,
The first rule of socialized business:
For every ostensible successful government entry into, and manipulation of, the market by way of the private sector, there isn’t one. Not really. But that won’t keep an ever new set of indoctrinated, leftist elites from seizing power and making it work the next time — their being so much smarter and more able than all who have tried before them. Plus, they really really really want socialism to work.
The first rule of socialistic medicine:
For every advance in medical science, there is a corresponding devolution in the idea of sanctity of life — particularly when getting old and terminally sick fuckers to believe they have a “duty to die” rather hamfistedly hides the fact that your malign bureaucratic scheme to control the populace through government distributed health care was born in fail, and can only really exist if it actively kills off enough people
America, then and now
A note from Dr Larry Arn, President, Hillsdale College: The 4th of July cover article of Time magazine claims that the Constitution is irrelevant. Frightening. As proof of its irrelevance, Time lists a dozen products of modern society inconceivable to the framers, including antibiotics, “sexting,” and Medicare. The Constitution’s only virtue, they say, is that it has many meanings and thus leaves us able to do whatever we want to
Happy Independence Day
— And that’s what it is, Independence Day — the day we declared our unwillingness to answer to the arbitrary whims of a centralized authority, the day we demanded our unalienable rights be recognized. “Distributional justice” is just another way of declaring that what’s yours isn’t truly yours — that man, in the form of government or a (“democratic”) mob, has decided that he owns the fruits of your labor
things to do in Denver when you're dead, #64
Go see Transformers 3. Which, at nearly 160 minutes, no living human should ever have to sit through.
