In response to Healthcare.gov is Taking Pre-Orders by Phone: You’ve put your finger on a particular sore spot of mine: the immense amount of time Americans are being made to waste on this ObamaCrash garbage. We must be into millions
In response to HHS Sec: Obama Had No Idea of Healthcare.gov Malfunction Until After Launch: I recall a few ObamaCare critics floating this theory last week – maybe Obama honestly didn’t know what was going on with his “signature achievement”
In response to Is Rubio’s Amendment to Obamacare a Good Idea?: Rubio’s proposal seems like smart politics, given that there is no way the Democrats can accept it. If there’s going to be an individual mandate delay, Obama will do
Emily Miller, “it” girl of the Second Amendment (and author of a lively book about her adventures in exercising her gun rights) brings us another example of inequality under the law, as the D.C. police hand over a pile of
“Frustrated by trying to register on HealthCare.gov?” asks Consumer Reports. “You’re hardly alone. Of the 9.47 million people who tried to register in the first week, only 271,00 were able to create an account, according to one analysis. That’s about 1 in
In response to Kathleen Sebelius Dodges House Requests To Testify At ObamaCare Hearing: I’ve been saying it all weekend in conversation, so let me restate it here for the record: Kathleen Sebelius’ refusal to testify about ObamaCare should be taken
I was afraid this remake of the classic Brian de Palma film would be a pointless exercise in cash-grabbing, and I was right. The new “Carrie” is the worst kind of flat, soulless Hollywood product, a paint-by-CGI-numbers remake of the
Huzzah! The shutdown is over, the non-essential federal employees are all back at work, they’ll be reimbursed with full back pay, and Harry Reid will allow kids with cancer to get treatment again. But who’s going to make the tax
I see Kurt Schlicter has made a fine effort to comprehend the popularity of The Walking Dead, which is perhaps an even more remarkable pop-culture phenomenon than the amazing show we just said goodbye to, Breaking Bad. Let me put
America has never had a President so openly hostile to the First Amendment, and the very concept of dissent, even rhetorical dissent. (If you attempt meaningful practical dissent of his policies, he’s got a fresh army of IRS agents standing
Now that it looks as if we’re going to survive our latest brush with the debt ceiling, I’d like to suggest Republicans open the next round of negotiations by making President Obama eat one of his more absurd talking points.
As we enter the endgame of the “budget crisis” (reminder: no actual budget will be involved) and Obama’s Shutdown Theater winds down, I thought the most fitting finale would be the President’s shock troops swooping in to barricade the United
Over the weekend, the computer system that drives EBT cards – in other words, food stamps – crashed during software maintenance. This left the system down for a few hours… and almost instantly provoked near-riot conditions from the frustrated folk
It looks almost certain that we’ll crash into the “debt ceiling,” which really isn’t a ceiling in any meaningful sense, since every previous close encounter has ended with the limit on debt blown higher into the stratosphere, accompanied by negligible
In response to ‘Captain Phillips’ Movie Sucked: I had that thought about the “drawn out, long, boring” part of the film – it seemed like the sort of narrative lint trap fiction writers would avoid. You don’t put together a
When I reviewed “Captain Phillips” over the weekend, I mentioned the stripped-down, matter-of-fact documentary quality of the production. As a matter of fact, it turns out the crew of the Maersk Alabama thinks the movie contains few matters of fact,
Truth is stranger than fiction. Sometimes truth gives us plotlines that violate everything in the Hollywood screenwriters’ handbook. What to do with the story of the Maersk Alabama hijacking – an amazing, harrowing, historic event from just a few years
In response to So about that ‘Confederate Flag’: It’s a wonder they haven’t digitally edited the Confederate flag right off the roof of the General Lee in “Dukes of Hazzard” reruns. Imagine that: a generation ago, one of the most
In response to Majority of Dems and Republicans Want A Third Party: I also noticed a poll from NBC this morning poll that said 60 percent of Americans want to defeat and replace every single member of Congress, which would
Big Government is always presented to us as a wise and intelligent guardian, better able to handle our affairs than we could manage through voluntary action. In reality, Big Government is a $4 trillion neurotic hot mess. It falls to
In response to Ryan Weak on Obamacare? Are You Serious?: If you’ll indulge me for a further moment of sour grapes, one thing from Paul Ryan’s op-ed that sticks in my craw is his proposal to “ask the better off
In response to Ryan Weak on Obamacare? Are You Serious?: I chewed over Rep. Ryan’s op-ed at length this morning, and while I remain a fan of his work – please, no “Paul Ryan is a RINO!” taunting – I
In response to Carrie Promo is Funny and Awesome at the Same Time: Trailers are better than the film with depressing frequency, but this might be the first movie justified by its advertising. I’d rather watch 90 minutes of that
In response to Liberal Intolerance: You Believe What?: I’ve seen conversations like that, both in person and online. Liberals have a white-knuckled grip on the “all opposition to Obama is racist” safety blanket these days; it’s just about all they
An awful lot of Shutdown Theater looks suspicious arbitrary, including Obama’s habit of ordering some perfectly functional business operations to close down, while others remain open. I thought it was a pity we didn’t have Occupy Wall Street up and
