1. Lighter cars and tune-ups. 2. Less drilling, refining, and mining. 3. Punish the producers, refiners, miners and those they employ — along with everyone who uses gas, oil, or electricity. 4. Hot Air. So. The rebuttal: (h/t JD)

If you take a look in the footer or at the right sidebar you’ll see click-able ads for Strongergrip.com, an online store featuring what I believe to be some of the best specialty strength-training equipment available on the market today. The site is run by Ryan Pitts, who makes all his own equipment, and both Ryan and his site are favorites in the strongman community. I have set up an

And? That’s the point, isn’t it? Less non-union jobs here = more people dependent on government. Which means more people voting their “economic interests.” Which means more class warfare. Which means more for the activist mainstream press to demagogue. Which means greater opportunity for the progressive Democrats to point fingers, demonize, and blame job loss on “draconian cuts” by Republicans to a budget that has, built in to it in

To listen to Chuck Schumer tell it, “unscrupulous employers” — not border jumpers — are to blame for the illegal immigration problem. Which, Schumer suggests, wouldn’t be a problem were we to simply make the illegals legal! This is what passes for wise problem-solving in Democrat land: have a crime problem? Easy enough to fix: simply recontextualize the crime such that it is no longer criminal. Similarly, having a problem

I strayed. Not physically — not yet, at least. But I have to tell you, I’m no longer sure that simply drinking the International Delight Special Edition Almond Joy candy creamer is enough to satisfy me. The bottle: so curvy and smooth and stoic, dressed in dramatic blues and whites. Like a kimono-clad geisha who exhales coconut and whose hair looks and smells like delicious milk chocolate…

Surrender: House Republicans have abandoned a campaign proposal by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to draft spending bills by agency instead of lumping Cabinet departments together in bulky appropriations measures. Boehner issued the plan in a speech on congressional reform last September, but the Appropriations Committee says it received no instructions from the leadership to follow through with it. As a result, the committee is plowing ahead with the traditional 12

I realize the Visigothery of such a post title is likely to cause the mint in Rick Moran’s Julep to wilt, but here’s Jay Carney at a White House press briefing today, essentially signaling the linguistic shift I and others have been warning about for several months: […] the President sees, as a means of holding everyone’s feet to the fire to ensure that we take the action necessary to

So nice they’re going to use it twice. Because the first time didn’t quite finish off the job of assisted national suicide. (thanks to JD and Rush Limbaugh; see also, here)

Global warming, champion of ethanol subsidies, individual mandate… A simple newspaper archive search bears this out. At an Alegent Health event in Omaha in 2008, Gingrich said it was “fundamentally immoral” for a person to go without coverage, show up at an emergency room and demand free care. During the keynote address to the Greater Detroit Area Health Council’s annual Health Trends Conference in April 2006, Gingrich said he would

Bitch slap! A U.S. senator — a Democrat – is taking a strong stand against a bill introduced by a fellow Democrat that would end energy subsidies for big oil companies. In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Mary Landrieu, from the oil-producing state of Louisiana, said the bill introduced by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) targets an industry that supports 9.2 million jobs and contributes more than 7.7