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That bastard Vladimir Putin has finally gone too far.  His mischief in the Crimea might actually scuttle President Obama’s Vacation Getaway of the Month.  Politico reports: Vladmir Putin has put President Obama’s vacation plans on hold. Obama is headed to

Remember how there were supposedly 38, 41, 50, or 55 million uninsured Americans out there, on the verge of keeling over in the middle of the street, and that’s why we had to let Barack Obama wreck the health insurance

In response to If Congress Wants to Stay Relevant as an Institution, They Should Not Stand Idly By And Let the President Take Their Power Away: I remain comforted by my serene conviction that we can end the imperial presidency

8-year-old Myles Eckert was with his mom at the Cracker Barrel when he found a $20 bill in the parking lot.  He ran back into the restaurant and gave the twenty to Lt. Col. Frank Dailey, a uniformed solider he

The latest mutation of the Affordable Care Act, informally announced to insurance executives during an industry conference this week, will apparently push insurance plan mandates back by at least a year… and maybe longer.  There is little pretense that this

A long Thomas Frank piece at Salon presents a complicated argument that the “subversive” films written or co-written by the late, great Harold Ramis – “Animal House,” “Caddyshack,” “Ghostbusters” – backfired politically by giving cultural ammunition to the Reagan revolution

Weary from trying to spin ObamaCare as something more than an absolute disaster, liberals are now expected to make his foreign policy look good, or at least coherent.  Part of this strategy has involved dredging up an old quote from

In response to Lupita Nyong’o’s Emotional Acceptance Speech For Winning Best Supporting Actress (Video): I haven’t paid much attention to the Oscars in years, and maybe this year that was a mistake, because it seems like there were some humble

In response to Obama: Republicans Are 0 For 2 Against Me: Say this for Obama: he’s good at developing his self-centered personality into high-octane fuel for his personality cult.  I guess you can’t really have a personality cult built around

As 2013 drew to a close, American taxpayers were introduced to John C. Beale, a “climate change expert” at the Environmental Protection Agency who bilked taxpayers out of a million dollars in salary, benefits, and expenses over the course of

In response to Contrary to Harry Reid, 29 Percent of Americans See Negative Impact from Obamacare: Call me demanding, but I can’t help thinking a plan that spends trillions of dollars, and upsets the American constitutional order, to make 17

In response to Democrat Congressional Candidate Says Hispanics Are Needed To Clean Hotel Rooms And Cut Grass: Ace has some interesting thoughts about the clown-car efforts to get Sink off the hook for these remarks, which essentially boil down to

In response to Have YOU Actually Read the Arizona ‘Gay’ Bill?: This all seems like the sort of legal wrangling that will never really end, because the driving force is to discard general freedom in favor of a hierarchy of

In response to Food Stamp Using Surfer Rocker Dude Approves: I remember how angry liberals got that we merely noticed the existence of the Food Stamp Surf Dude, and other abusers like him.  There was a tidal wave of outrage

It’s a damn good thing for Alex Sink, the Democrat running against David Jolly in a tight Florida special election for Congress, that she isn’t a Republican.  If she had an (R) after her name, there would be nothing left

Thomas Sowell wrote a two-part column last week taking Senator Ted Cruz to task for advancing his own interests at the cost of the conservative movement and Republican Party.  (Part I here, Part II here.)  It’s mostly about the political

HBO has a crime drama called “True Detective,” improbably starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, neither of whom seems like they would appear in a cable-TV crime drama.  That’s part of why it works.  It’s a densely-layered police procedural, largely

Did you like the Starz TV series “Spartacus?”  If so, you’ll probably enjoy a matinee of “Pompeii,” which is like the PG-13 Cliff’s Notes version of “Spartacus,” plus millions of dollars of CGI exploding-volcano effects at the end. More than

Yesterday afternoon there was talk of a new agreement been Ukraine’s Russia-aligned strongman, President Viktor Yanukovych, and the protesters gathered for an increasingly violent showdown in Kiev’s Independence Square.  The last “truce” lasted a matter of hours before demonstrators, believing

If you noodle around liberal web sites a bit, you’ll come across a talking point designed to cushion the blow of ObamaCare job losses: a lot of those cuts, such as the 2.5 million “job equivalent” losses predicted by the

In response to Madonna Labels Maduro a Fascist on Instagram: The aging pop star has a fine sense of history.  Leftists for generations have used “fascism” as the rubbish bin for their discarded strongmen.  Every left-wing superhero who grows too

In response to Rehab Addict’s Nicole Curtis Demolishes Entitlement Culture of Women: What is the strange allure of these home improvement shows?  HGTV is my “default” TV station now.  It’s what I put on when I’m cooking dinner, want something

One of the things I like about the “Hunger Games” series of books and movies is that author Suzanne Collins did her homework on the use of enforced starvation as a control mechanism.  Virtually every totalitarian government deliberately starves its

When I was a kid, conventional wisdom held that DC Comics was the dominant force behind pop-culture penetration.  DC characters got on TV, and became the stars of A-list Hollywood productions.  Everyone knew who Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman were;