Remember Ray’s Hell Burgers, the burger joint Obama visited a couple of times early in his first term? Dead. Kaput. The latest victims of the Obama Kiss of Death, in which seemingly every business he personally visits – especially those
In response to It’s Enough Already: One reason for the popularity of a creature like Chris Dorner among the Left is that those who control the culture in modern America still love to think of themselves as the counter-culture. Nothing
In response to Warning: This Will Get Your Blood Boiling: Lisa, sometimes when I write about the stunning growth of Food Stamp Nation and its constellation of giveaways, such as the “Obamaphone” (an inaccurate name, but apparently somewhat popular with
In response to Naomi Wolf, Author of “Vagina: A Biography,” In Talks with Al Jazeera: Not to toot my own horn, but I knew this was coming, on the day of Suziparkerpalooza: At some point, Al Jazeera America is going to hire
In response to South Africa’s domestic violence disaster: The health of a society may be reliably measured by how well it treasures its women. Abandoning them with children or demanding government-subsidized contraception, so they can be more easily treated as
In response to Tesla vs. the NY Times Follow Up: Oh, let us not quibble so fiercely about precisely when our six-figure heavily subsidized electric cars will drop dead on us, Mr. Sexton! Let’s just sit back and enjoy our
In response to What the NYT got wrong on Republican tech: It occurs to me that technology is a force multiplier for organization, not a replacement for it. The Romney team wasn’t the first organization I’ve seen that made such
You know those “manufacturing hubs” Obama said he wants to blow another huge stack of taxpayer cash building? Does anyone know if they’ll be manufacturing job-killing ATMs or corporate jets? It seems like only yesterday that a core tenet of
In response to Blaming Sandy on Climate Change, Obama Contradicts Himself in SOTU: I was almost a bit surprised that Obama tried skimming that little “global warming causes hurricanes” stone, because the climate-change cult has grown a bit sensitive about
Professor Marc Lamont Hill is angling to become the public face of the “Team Dorner” mutants, popping up on CNN to hail the late left-wing spree killer as a “real-life superhero” whose story was “exciting” and brought much-needed attention to
Among the lines in Obama’s SOTU address that stuck out for me was: “It is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country – the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you
In response to Obama: Preschool for Everyone!: So: 1. Welfare state creates epidemic of single mothers 2. Single mothers need government programs to take care of kids 3. Public education trains kids to be socialists. Also: 1. Leftist unions ruin
In response to The Big News of the Night: Rubio Gets Thirsty During Speech: It’s hardly fatal to his political career, but it doesn’t speak well of the people who set up Rubio’s address that they created a situation that
Another zombie groan released in advance from the State of the Union speech: “Tonight, I’ll lay out additional proposals that are fully paid for and fully consistent with the budget framework both parties agreed to just 18 months ago. Let
We’ll all have plenty to say about the State of the Union as delivered, but the excerpts released in advance by the White House are so old and tired that the email is covered in cobwebs. Here’s the mummified
A raging gun battle with mad-dog killer Chris Dorner erupts at Big Bear Lake in California. Two officers down, and the killer’s fate is still unknown at the moment of this writing. But the media has its priorities. Howard
At some point, Al Jazeera America is going to hire some on-air talent, right? I think they’re supposed to launch sometime this summer. They’ll probably have a bit of trouble securing commentators – especially now – but if they throw
In response to Suzi Parker Now Happily Dating Area Man: Ace, you magnificent b**tard. If I were Suzi Parker, I’d be taking a long vacation away from the Internet right about now. And if I were a Washington Post editor,
In response to Gun Control May Be “In Vogue” But It’s Not Popular: Doubtless that’s why we’re getting a big gun-control show at the SOTU tonight, complete with human props. This issue is the quintessential example of emotion triumphing over
In response to Suzi Parker, Ace Reporter: It’s even funnier when you read the material that has been surgically removed from Parker’s post: Late last week Al Jazeera America announced the former vice-presidential candidate would be joining their news network. “As you
In response to The New Republic Settles for What’s Safe, Avoids Real Controversy: What great timing for The New Republic to push out its “Party of White People” issue just as grassroots Republicans across the nation are asking Dr. Benjamin
Reading the story of how Army Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha became the fourth living Medal of Honor recipient from the War on Terror is a bracing reminder that the spirit of valor which won our independence, and threw down the
In response to Getting ‘Lost’ Again: John, I was a rabid “Lost” fan back in the day, but now I’m afraid to go anywhere near a box set, because I’m afraid to take that roller-coaster ride of fascination and disappointment
In response to White House rules out raising Medicare eligibility age: I must admit I’m not entirely enchanted by the usual tactic of “saving” these entitlement programs by raising the eligibility ages. It happens to Social Security too. These bad
During a radio interview this morning, I was asked if I thought Nancy Pelosi was nuts for saying during a Fox News interview on Sunday, “It’s almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem. We have a budget
