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Wendy Davis, avatar of our era

In response to Wendy Davis: Paraplegic Greg Abbot ‘ Never Walked A Day In My Shoes’: Wendy’s so fortunate to be a Democrat, because they’d already be shoveling dirt over her career and using her as the answer to trivia

Obama to Discuss 'Income Inequality' with Pope Francis

Obama to Discuss 'Income Inequality' with Pope Francis

USA Today has the announcement that President Obama will meet with Pope Francis next month, and hopes the Pontiff will prove useful to his political agenda: President Obama will meet with Pope Francis on March 27, capping a European trip

Wendy Davis: nonsense with a side order of sanctimony

In response to Wendy Davis Blames Her Opponent for News Story Questioning Her Biography: It’s fascinating to watch a pointless vanity candidacy come to a screeching halt like this.  I can hear the tires squealing all the way across the

Will Republicans be ready for the ObamaCare backlash?

It certainly seems like the Democrats are getting ready for the big ObamaCare backlash coming their way.  A key tactic involves entering the Witness Protection Program when they hear Barack Obama is coming to town, as with last week’s comical

Poverty causes everything

Michelle Malkin notes the bizarre, utterly counter-factual insistence of Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama that poverty is the root cause of terrorism: While meeting with Catholic Church officials at the Vatican in Rome on Monday, Kerry expounded

Pope Francis auctions off his Harley for charity

Yes, Pope Francis has a Harley.  It was given to him as a gift by motorcycle enthusiasts on the occasion of Harley-Davidson’s 110th birthday in June.  They also gave him a leather jacket, which he’s also auctioning off for charity,

More on Senator Udall and the ObamaCare cancellation numbers

Over the weekend, I mentioned the controversy over ObamaCare cancellation numbers in Colorado, where staffers for Democratic Senator Mark Udall have been accused of trying to intimidate state officials into keeping the true fallout from Obama’s (and Udall’s) Big Lie

Attack of the demon baby

The pointless and forgettable remake of “Carrie” released last fall was accompanied by a truly awesome publicity stunt, in which a coffee shop was rigged to simulate a telekinetic rampage by an enraged teenage girl. The new movie “Devil’s Due,”

The Big Government machine grinds on

In response to Rise of the ‘Uber Presidency’: Obama Promises More Executive Overrreach In 2014: The scary thing is that even many people who object to the Obama agenda won’t object, in principle, to him forcing it through with executive

ObamaCare death spirals and the individual mandate

In response to HHS: 24 Percent of Enrollees Between 18 and 35: I know this will sound brutally cynical, but I find it necessary to assume every report pertaining to ObamaCare has been fudged or manipulated in some way, until

Income inequality and crony capitalism

National Review has an article from James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute in which he offers suggestions for the Republicans to swipe the “income inequality” issue, by highlighting how political connections and favoritism account for much of that growing

Movie review: 'Lone Survivor'

It’s tough to criticize the plot of a movie that faithfully recreates real events.  What happened, happened.  The storyteller’s role becomes editorial – deciding where the narrative begins and ends, choosing a viewpoint for the unfolding events, infusing a documentary

ObamaCare's Medicaid claims are bogus, too

In response to Obamacare Enrollment Mix Looking Worse Than Expected: You’re right on about how the demographic mix of ObamaCare enrollments would be trumpeted unto the heavens if it was good, rather than being guarded more closely than anything Edward

Now THIS is what a scandal frenzy looks like

It’s not as if the media completely refuses to cover Democrat scandals.  It’s that they never assemble into the kind of piranha feeding frenzy that immediately erupted over Chris Christie’s bridge scandal.  In fact, you’ll be very hard pressed to

ObamaCare sucks worse than Wal-Mart heath insurance

Well, it does.  The Washington Examiner brought in a team of experts to prove it: For many years, the giant discount retailer has been the target of unions and liberal activists who have harshly criticized the company’s health care plans, calling them “notorious for

This economy isn't going to get the medicine it needs

After President Obama toddled forth to once again extol the amazing stimulus powers of perpetual unemployment welfare – a stimulus that has been completely undetectable for the past five years, but Democrats assure us it will kick in any day

The icy mailed fist of climate fascism

In response to The Angry Sky Gods Shall Not Be Mocked: That’s hilarious!  These people are such jackbooted thugs that their idea of snide humor is to “joke” about physically assaulting people who disagree with them.  Hey, Al Gore says

Global warming and the polar vortex

As a massive blanket of arctic air brings twenty-year record cold temperatures to the United States, it’s not surprising to see the Church of Global Warming in full-on shrieking panic mode, screaming at the top of their lungs that a

More top-shelf journalism from MSNBC

Now that we’ve gotten a couple of apologies and some on-air crying from Melissa Harris-Perry, followed by a characteristically gracious statement from Mitt Romney, the saga of MSNBC’s mockery of Romney’s adopted grandson appears to be winding down.  I’ve read