If the Democrats take enough hostages during Shutdown Theater to get their way, and the House eventually passes a “clean” resolution to fund the entire government plus ObamaCare, it might be time to think about doing away with the House
Let’s get the bad stuff out of the way first, because there isn’t much of it. “Gravity“, the new film by Alfonso Cuaron (who also directed “Children of Men” and the most offbeat of the “Harry Potter” films) suffers from
In response to The NPS Government Shutdown Contingency Plan: No doubt Obama’s loyal followers will soon be pushing the Empty Chair defense. They’ll tell us Obama is as surprised as the rest of us by these outrages. He’ll probably say
In response to The Shutdown and American Exceptionalism: Oh, we’ve gone far past barricading open-air memorials, Joel. On that score, I notice the Vietnam Wall and the Iwo Jima memorial have been added to Obama’s target list, and he really
One of the big Democrat talking points about ObamaCare is to bleat that it’s “constitutional,” blessed by the Supreme Court, and is the “settled law of the land.” They never explain how this is supposed to intimidate the nominally free
In response to Dems On Defense: Carney Disavows, Reid Apologizes – Are They Sure They’re Winning?: Speaker Boehner responded to that “we’re winning” crack by snarling, “This isn’t some damn game,” which is politically the right thing to say, and
In response to Did They Have to Shoot?: I’m sure this question will be debated for a while, and it’s entirely appropriate for the authorities to carefully review the situation and ask if the level of force directed at Carey
In response to The President Learned the Wrong Lesson from 2011: These crises always seem to go through an initial stage of general annoyance – the man on the street growls, “Why can’t these guys just get together and make
In response to Service Academy Football Games Cancelled For The ‘Optics’: The “optics” of this little donnybrook have been astonishing. The Democrats will stoop to any depth to make people hurt, and they’re not doing a very good job of
I’m increasingly encouraged by this “government shutdown.” If we can just make it permanent, it’ll be the greatest reform measure ever implemented. It looks like we finally learned what it takes to make Democrats admit that at least 60 percent
Let’s take stock: hundreds of thousands of non-essential government workers aren’t working. The House is trying to fund the government with a series of small, focused bills instead of the usual gigantic, incomprehensible, pork-stuffed omnibus kaiju behemoth. Now if we
President Obama once again compared the mind-boggling disaster of the ObamaCare rollout to an iPhone product launch today. This is a really dangerous comparison for him to make. It does not reflect well at all on ObamaCare. For starters, the
In response to The Community Organizer In Chief Appalls Again: They say there’s no crying in baseball, but there’s nothing except crying in “community organizing.” It’s just an endless series of complaints, Americans pitted against each other savage combat, with
In response to Video: Glitches Force MSNBC to Give Up on Health Care Exchange Sign Up Attempt: It’s funny as hell to watch the Obama cultists at MSNBC fail to get his stupid health-care disaster to work, but it doesn’t
In response to Inevitable Backlash Blog: Breaking Bad’s Finale Fizzles: I was much more satisfied with the finale, although I found it the weakest episode of a stellar half-season. It felt as though it really needed to be a full
“South Park” had a great season kickoff with an episode largely dedicated to making fun of NSA surveillance (and, in true “South Park” cream-pies-in-every-face fashion, they also made fun of NSA surveillance paranoia.) It’s always fun to figure out where
In response to Issa Fumes, ‘How Dare You!’ At Impertinent Reporter (Video): With all due respect to Rep. Issa, I’m not really a big fan of the “how dare you!” style, and I’m rather fond of impertinence. In fact, I
Allahpundit at Hot Air put together a nice collection of quotes about New Jersey governor Chris Christie as he cruises to an easy re-election win. No, that’s not quite right. He’s driving a turbo-powered steamroller to victory, and he’s rolling
In response to To Make Star Wars Great Again Bring Back Black Markets and Oppressive Government: Love the video, both for what it said, and how it was said. That was more entertaining than 80% of the Prequel Trilogy.
In response to A Woman Doing Something Nice for Her Boyfriend? That’s Sexist!: Let’s see if I’ve got current feminist thinking right: the sweet young lady who happily makes sandwiches for her boyfriend – an activity she clearly enjoys, and
In response to Detroit Needs a Tough Love Intervention: Well-said, Lisa. Tough love is just what Detroit needs. But that tough love is very difficult to give. Government dependency is one of the hardest of all addictions to break… because
John McCain tried to grab a few minutes at the end of the Ted Cruz filibuster, leading magnificently sarcastic Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan to Tweet that McCain wanted to give the Democratic response to Cruz’ speech. Eventually McCain
I refuse to call it “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD,” because that’s just plain silly. Have a little faith in your brand, corporate honchos. After “Avengers” made a gazillion dollars at the box office, I think everyone knows who owns this
In response to An Article Every Student, Intern and Entry-Level Employee Needs to Read: That all sounds like great advice, Lisa, but I wonder how easily it will rest in the ears of the Empty Chair generation – young people
Jonah Goldberg at National Review has a great piece about the success of “Breaking Bad,” including a discussion of its classically (not politically) conservative themes. He mentions, in passing, the “far less laudable series ‘Dexter’” as an inferior example of
