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Blockbuster fatigue

In response to Breaking: The Lone Ranger Murders Captain Jack Sparrow: Interesting points, Ace.  Your comment about the ship-to-ship flying sequence in “Star Trek: Into Darkness” reminded me of the ship-to-ship passage in “2010,” which was far more suspenseful and

Where's Warren now?

In response to Warren Buffett Sours On ObamaCare:’We Need Something Else’: I saw people buzzing about Buffett’s comments, and then noticed when it was discovered they were actually being reprinted from 2010 without proper notification, which seems like a very

Gun control: hysteria by default

In response to Report: Navy Yard Gunman ‘Gathered Weapons Along the Way’: This would seem to detonate a number of cherished arguments from the gun control lobby, since the one bit of our Second Amendment rights they’ve been (loudly pretending)

Criminals do not need guns

The latest thrilling tale of the Second Amendment in action brings us the story of a machete-wielding thug who came across the counter of a Little Rock pharmacy in search of painkillers, only to find himself staring down the barrel

Federal employees say 'Hell, NO!' to ObamaCare

Forbes cites a new survey of federal workers that reveals over 92% of them think they should be allowed to keep their current health care plans, instead of being forced into ObamaCare.  Less than 3% of them are eager to

Your future of ObamaCare identity theft

The crazy race to shove a broken ObamaCare system into our faces is going to make identity theft so common that we’ll revert to sending each other parchment letters with wax seals.  Today’s triumph of government data security comes from

The Party of Obfuscation

In response to Dems Block Cruz Resolution to Create Joint Select Committee to Investigate Benghazi: Ah, Democrats – the Party of Obfuscation.  They can’t govern to save their lives.  They’re all over the map on a crisis like Syria, falling

Congratulations, Australia

I’d like to congratulate the voters of Australia for doing what the voters of America should have done in 2012: Australia’s conservative leader Tony Abbott swept into office in national elections on Saturday as voters punished the outgoing Labor government

The race card trumps democracy

In response to MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Plays Race Card in Debate On War with Syria: I see that John Nolte also picked up on Ed Asner’s comment about the Hollywood Left being afraid to criticize the black President, even though

Russia’s Game in Syria

A day after Obama’s slobbering sycophants at NBC News ran a hilarious article about the Community-Organizer-In-Chief “dominating” the black-belt KGB man with his imposing body language, the world knows Putin kicked Obama’s butt sideways at their summit meeting.  “Putin overwhelms

Enemy of our enemy

In response to The Truth About Al Qaeda Infiltration in Syria: It’s fun to watch the Obama Administration chomping at the bit to provide air support for savages when you remember that the BIG liberal knock on Republican foreign policy,

Dictators make bonehead plays

In response to Mark My Words: Someone Is Going to Test This President : If you’ve been following our conversation about the Syrian conspiracy theories, you know I’m holding at roughly 70% confidence the Assad regime was responsible for the

Missed opportunities "Under the Dome"

The summer TV series based on Stephen King’s “Under the Dome” only has a few episodes to go, but it’s already been renewed for a second season based on boffo ratings.  That’s too bad, because this really could have worked

Boehner and Cantor give Obama an unlimited checkbook

In response to Boehner and Cantor Cash Obama’s Syria Check: I have no doubt Boehner and Cantor are thinking along those lines, Joel, but is that likely to be the effective political aftermath of a Republican-approved Syrian intervention?  The President

Losing credibility in Syria

Now that President Obama has decided to seek authorization for a Syrian strike from Congress, there is much talk about how Republicans must preserve the credibility of the United States, and avoid weakening the presidency, by giving Obama what he

Constitutional convention chaos

Phyllis Schlafly thinks a Constitutional convention called under Article V would be “a recipe for chaos:” There is no proof that the VIPs promoting an Article V convention have any first-hand knowledge of the politics or procedures of a contested

Assault on the age of consent

In response to Wow: Judge Defends Decision to Sentence Rapist of 14-Year-Old Girl to Only 31 Days In Jail: “It wasn’t some horrible rape”… “It wasn’t a forcible, beat-up rape”: That whole “age of consent” concept is getting to be

Ben Carson tells it straight

For someone who does have a good handle on what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. might be talking about today, we turn to Dr. Ben Carson at the Washington Times.  Carson offers a reasonable list of black achievements that would