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Hard times for the Church of Global Warming

In response to Hillary Clinton Does ‘Hard Hitting’ Climate Change Interview With Hollywood Actor : You know the global-warming fanatics have hit a low point when they’re reduced to asking Benghazi Rodham Clinton and an antique actor to shovel their

The new normal of State-controlled religion

In response to IRS Asked Pro-Life Group To Include The Content Of Their Prayers?!: Come, come, Debra!  Surely you cannot be surprised that the People’s Glorious Internal Revenue Service would be reviewing prayers.  After all, the ObamaCare commissars get to

Impolite society cannot function

Ace, I see you’ve got a post about National Review’s Kevin Williamson going vigilante on a cell-phone-wielding boor at a theater.  As Williamson tells the tale: The lady seated to my immediate right (very close quarters on bench seating) was

Eric Holder, greatest Attorney General ever

One of the 56 times Attorney General Eric Holder answered “I don’t know” to a question during his unpleasant House Judiciary hearing on Wednesday pertained to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.  It’s been around since 2002, but Holder doesn’t

IRS and the Beckett protocol

In response to IRS IG Report Could Not Determine Who Was Involved in Creating Criteria: Liz, a great historical analogy for the allegedly spontaneous decision of so many “low level” IRS agents to join the Obama 2012 oppo research team

Bipartisanship means submission

In response to NPR: Scandals May Cost Obama His Dream of Bipartisanship: Ace, your little NPR derp is just following the marching orders handed down by Dear Leader.  Even as his Administration was rocked by multiple abuse-of-power scandals, Barack Obama

One other Obama scandal to watch

On top of everything else, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced on Monday that it will probe Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ efforts to shake insurance companies down for cash, to help “educate” the public about the

Mother's Day: Fathers needed

You can’t have Mother’s Day without fathers, and children.  Too many fathers don’t stick around to pay due respect to the mothers of their children.  The Hallmark-card image of Dad and the kids bringing breakfast – sometimes cooked with lovable

Pro-life Gosnell conversions

In response to Pro-Choice Reporter Covering Gosnell Changes His Mind on Abortion: I feel compelled to point out that this story of pro-life conversion by a reporter in the face of the Gosnell horror is coming to us as anonymous

The ghetto of inconvenient truth

In response to Here’s How the LATimes Covered Today’s Explosive Benghazi Hearings: As we watch the Left furiously attempt to wish Gregory Hicks away into the cornfield, we can easily appreciate why Obama’s campaign operation – the only truly functional

Dick Harpootlian clears the air

Dick Harpootlian, the comically nasty dinosaur who headed up South Carolina’s Democrat Party until last Friday, doesn’t like Republican governor Nikki Haley very much.  In fact, at the Democrat convention last year, he compared her to Hitler’s mistress, Eva Braun.

More CNN news priorities

In response to CNN’s Home Page: Limo Fire, Jodi Arias, Amanda Knox: I see that in the hours since your post, CNN’s “Top News” section also brings us sizzling-hot breaking news about New Jersey governor Chris Christie squashing a spider

Hunt for the Benghazi perpetrators

In response to Has Any Reporter Ever Asked Obama What Was Done “To Hunt Down The Perpetrators” After The Attack?: Not only has the FBI been reduced to crowd-sourcing photos of Persons of Interest, but the special ops source who

Spoilerific 'Iron Man 3' gripes

My old friend Ed Morrissey of Hot Air liked “Iron Man 3” much better than I did.  To recap, I enjoyed the film as popcorn entertainment but found it the weakest of the four films to feature Iron Man thus

Iron Man 3 review

I thought “Iron Man 3” was the weakest of the three films, having never understood the grousing about part 2.  Sure, the second film was overcrowded and suffered from the imperative to set up the other Marvel movies, but it

Let’s all laugh at the superstitious primitives

In response to Iran Cleric: Women to Blame for Earthquakes: Women dressed immodestly cause earthquakes?  What a bunch of primitives the Iranian theocrats are!  Why, the next thing you know, they’ll be telling their easily-manipulated, superstitious population how divine wrath

The electron microscope recovery

Today’s unemployment report for April is a good way to detect “low-information voters.”  If you’re talking to someone who thinks the April report is great news, you’re either dealing with a low-information voter, or the spinmeisters who control them. There’s

Same-sex partnerships and green cards

Among the many little surprises lurking in the Gang of Eight’s “comprehensive immigration reform bill” could be an amendment, proposed by Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT), that would allow “gay Americans to sponsor foreign-born partners for green cards,” according to The

Google's latest groaner

In response to Google Recognizes Palestine as a State: Once again, as a happy user of Google’s well-designed products, I must heave a mighty sigh at the editorial decisions of their web page.   Apologists for Google’s failure to observe

Blogging from the Chromebook

In response to You Can Blog on It, Right?: Yes, absolutely.  About half of everything I write these days is done on the Chromebook.  It’s had no problem loading WordPress or any other blogging back-end I’ve encountered.  It also handles