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“Ditching unwritten rules for freshmen, Paul does it his way”

— Which, that’s not very helpful, I don’t think. I mean, that’s what we have Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin for, right? To keep the fringe purists distracted with shiny sequined dresses while the pragmatists do the adult work of figuring out ways both parties can benefit — while selling expansionist programs and ever-increasing entitlement spending to the voters in the feel-good language of reform? Compromise. It doesn’t have to

“Deepwater Spill Was Just an Excuse”

Really? Because next you’ll be telling me that the government will declare that what we exhale — and what plants “breathe” — is a pollutant. And I’m just not buying your slippery slope arguments. WHY DO YOU HATE CLEAN WATER AND FOWL WITHOUT CRUDE OIL ON THEIR FEATHERS THAT VOLUNTEERS WILL SHOW UP TO CLEAN OFF WITH PRISTINE WHITE CLOTHS?

“Can Obamacare Be Repealed ‘Plank by Plank’?”

Marc Theissen, NRO: This view is clearly shared by many Senate Republicans, who are falling over themselves to introduce targeted measures that would eliminate various individual provisions of Obamacare, with the goal of repealing the bill plank by plank. This may seem like a good idea. But in today’s Washington Post, I argue that by pursuing piecemeal repeal Republicans are walking into a trap Obama set in his State of

A tale of two demographics

For TEA Party types, who hope to expand their grass roots mobilization, a magazine. For those the left hopes will come to support ObamaCare? Some smart dude has decided a comic book might help the dullards understand an erstwhile 2700 pages of what’s good for them. Blessedly, he decided not to put either Barack or Michelle in tights.

Gibbs to the Constitution:

“We’ll tell you how you’re supposed to work.” Elections have consequences. But if the rule of law no longer applies for this administration — you don’t get to pick and choose which court rulings you wish to follow — by what authority can they insist any law is binding on us? Smoke ’em if you got ’em, people. Preferably inside a government building. While eating a bag of heavily salted

By the way

That Egypt uprising? A product of global climate change. No, really. A Nobel laureate and New York Times’ columnist told me so. — Just before he dressed himself in lederhosen and bib suspenders, donned a feathered Bavarian cap, and spent a half-hour yodeling himself into a frenzy on 5th Avenue in advance of eating an entire tabby cat. And even that wasn’t as crazy as his Egypt column.

Mitch Daniels’ “An ObamaCare Appeal From the States”: staunch

Governor Daniels, writing in the WSJ: The default option if any state declines to participate is for the federal government to operate an exchange directly. Which got me thinking: If the new law is not repealed by 2013, what could be done to reshape it in the direction of freedom and genuine cost control? I have written to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Services (HHS), saying that if her

The “the post-SuperBowl, post-Egyptian Jeffersonian Utopia delayed Monday morning quarterback post” post

I missed the last quarter of the SuperBowl last evening — well, live, at least — because my son got sick at the party we went to, and we had to drive an hour home. Then, his fever spiked to 105 in the early morning hours, so I spent the entire night up with him, alternating ibuprofen and acetaminophen dosages and applying wet wash cloths to bring his fever down.

Reaganesque-ness

“…know that we are a force for good in this world, and that is nothing to apologize for… Whatever. Stupid hoochie. Gravitas. Civility.

“Top leadership quits Egypt ruling party” [updated]

One toke over the line sweet Jesus, one toke over the line: The leadership of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party resigned on Saturday, including Gamal Mubarak, the son of President Hosni Mubarak whose rule has been shaken by days of protests, state television said. Al Arabiya television said Mubarak had also resigned as head of the ruling party. This could not immediately be confirmed. A party official could not confirm