For the benefit of anyone who doesn’t get how the “right of access” (i.e. you either buy me free contraceptives, or you’re denying me access to them) leads inevitably to socialist lunacy, let Saint Sandra Fluke explain it to you,
So Energy Secretary Steven Chu became the latest cabinet official to depart the Obama administration, receiving a fond farewell despite being one of the most spectacular failures in the long history of goofball government. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) gave
In response to Does Piers Morgan Know Something Atlanta’s Police Chief Does Not?: The link Piers provided goes to a story titled “Armed guard disarmed teen in Atlanta school shooting, police chief says.” Is he suggesting the officer failed because
“It’s somewhere between baffling and incomprehensible,” a cruel partisan hack Republican said of the confirmation testimony by President Obama’s brilliant Secretary of Defense nominee, Chuck Hagel. Oh, wait, sorry, I’ve got the source on that wrong. That comment came from…
The Hagel nomination probably isn’t in terminal danger, no matter how comically awful his confirmation performance was. Although it’s interesting to note that Team Obama is striving to paint Hagel as the victim of mean Republican hecklers, which could be
In response to Binge-viewing: I wrote about Netflix binge viewing a while ago, Elizabeth, and as I recall the king of binge-viewing shows at the time was “Breaking Bad.” I also found the first few seasons of “24” were even
In response to An Armed Cop Disarmed School Shooter in Atlanta: And this news breaks just as the Newtown school board votes to include a full-time police officer to provide security for each elementary school. Seems like everybody’s picking up
I see that the contraception socialists are once again buzzing about “access” to contraception in the wake of the new HHS rulings, by which they mean “forcing other people to buy it for them.” Socialism lives by twisting language, and
The January unemployment report lands with a soft thud, showing a mild worsening of the permanently dreary job market. Factor in all the adjustments to previous months, and you’ve got an unemployment flatline stretching back for months, which is consistent
In response to NYT Turns Up Heat on Menendez, Melgen: Good call on the media response to the Menendez sex scandal. They’re very sensitive to the perception that they’ve been led into a story by alt-media right-wing scoopers. I think
It seems like this season of “Justified” is an extended meditation about the terrible things people can justify to themselves. Even Raylan is talking himself into feeling entitled to break an awful lot of rules, and his fellow marshals are
In response to Media flipping out over Ted Cruz questioning of Hagel: I think it’s a great idea to have “some kind of victim” as Secretary of Defense. You wouldn’t want some sort of super-patriotic America-is-awesome tough guy in a
The overwhelming feeling you get from watching the low points of Chuck Hagel’s SecDef hearings is: what on Earth is this man doing here? He scarcely seems as if he wants to be there. The angles of attack taken by
In response to Quick, If You’re At Home, Put on the Golf Channel — Phil Mickleson is Two Birdies Away from a 58: I propose we celebrate Mickelson’s triumphant performance by raising his taxes through the roof, then strong-arming him
This is at least as believable as much of what MSNBC splices together and tries to pass off as hard news. Someone thought it would be a good idea to PhotoShop a few historically inaccurate people into pictures with Eisenhower,
Farewell, sweet Jobs Council, we hardly knew ye. And neither did the President who formed you, because he rarely bothered to pretend he was interested in anything you had to say. It seems like only yesterday the White House
In response to Hey, Media: Chicago Teen’s Shooting Called Gang-War Mistake: This is incredibly disappointing, Jerome, because I distinctly remember Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel pleading with gang-bangers to aim more carefully. He even appealed to their “values.” Kids these days
What more can you say about a trillion-dollar boondoggle so awful that it makes union bosses think about kicking their lower-tier employees out of union health plans… into a welfare program that many of the intended dirt-poor beneficiaries don’t even
In response to Occupy Wall Street Was Overwhelmingly White & Privileged and Somehow CNN Didn’t Notice: There’s always been an element of snotty upper-class self-loathing at the forefront of leftist movements. I suspect one reason for that is the ability
Here’s what I don’t get about the Left’s furious efforts to spin away the fourth-quarter GDP numbers: the new talking point is that we only had an economic contraction because government spending is down, so it’s all the fault of
In response to Review: ‘Paranormal Activity 4’: John, I’m also a big fan of the Paranormal Activity series, but I thought the latest installment somewhat lacking. It seemed like it was struggling to find new ways to use its creepy
In response to David Frum: I’m Man Enough to Admit I’m Still Right, Even Though the Facts Are Stupid: Man, if you keep building posts around stupid things David Frum says, someone is going to accuse you of frummaging through
In response to I call….: Come now, are you really going to doubt the unnamed friend of an anonymous source? What will happen to Washington journalism if we start applying such standards universally? (I anticipate using “PULLSH!T” many times in
Great news, everyone! It looks like someone willing to testify that they actually saw Obama shooting skeet has been found. Our long national skeet shooting nightmare is over. Contrary to the President’s boasts of frequent gunplay, the actual event seems
In response to Medio Bistro: CNN Axes Soledad O’Brien Because Her Audience Was “Too Ethnic?”: Savor the rich, creamy irony of someone who needed “critical race theory” explained to her, by panicked staff members reading Wikipedia entries into her earpiece,
