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Getting crabby about welfare abuse

In response to HuffPo FAIL: Food Stamps Used to Buy Crab: Well, of course Food Stamp Nation is buying all kinds of luxury goods with the public’s $82.5 billion in compulsory “charity.”  There are very few restrictions on what EBT

The other Thor should tackle the Federal Reserve, too

In response to Thor’s Latest Thriller Tackles Secretive World Of The Federal Reserve: This would also have been a great plot for the upcoming sequel to the Marvel super hero Thor movie.  Imagine the Hammer of the Gods smashing through

ObamaCare Goes Down the Toilet

The ongoing effort to corrupt every square inch of American life into an ObamaCare propaganda delivery system marches onward… and straight down the toilet.  From the Washington Post: In Connecticut, selling Obamacare involves renting an airplane. Oregon might try to

Senator Palin

I think Sarah Palin struck exactly the right note when Sean Hannity asked her about supporting a third party on Tuesday: “Well, it’s certainly not my first choice. The Republican Party is the party of Lincoln and Reagan and the

The eco-propagandists are back to their old tricks

Green energy: the industry so marvelous that it can’t survive without gigantic taxpayer subsidies, government-mandated purchases, special legal breaks of the sort that give wind farm operators an unlimited license to shred bald eagles, and blatant lies peddled by well-funded

Sarah Palin Weighs in on Yacht-gate

Writing on her Facebook page, Sarah Palin makes a great point about the State Department’s ridiculous lies on the topic of SecState John Kerry’s whereabouts: Being on his boat isn’t the issue. Blatantly deceiving the American people is the issue. 

Hard times for super heroes

In response to Police: 295 Lb Man Vandalizes High School Wearing Only Spider-Man Underwear: Alternate headline: “Poor diet and sequestration budget cuts finally catch up with Spider-Man.”

Teresa Heinz Kerry in critical condition

After a weekend of watching her husband and the Obama Administration lie extravagantly and shamelessly about his activities during the fall of the Morsi regime in Egypt, we learn that Secretary of State John Kerry’s wife Teresa is in critical

King of the foreign policy fumble

Let’s take stock: Egypt is in flames, and both sides of the bubbling civil war hate Barack Obama and his foreign policy team.  Turkey is descending into an Islamist sinkhole on a more controllable glide path, which means the Islamists

ObamaCare on the honor system

ObamaCare includes subsidies for those who are not offered what the commissars deem “affordable” coverage by their employers.  But if the employer mandate – and all of its associated reporting functions – are delayed until the Democrats managed to slither

Media buries Egyptian loathing of Barack Obama

I’ve made a point of including the anti-Obama banners brandished by Egypt’s revolutionaries in every post I’ve written on the fall of the Morsi regime, because I had a suspicion the mainstream media wouldn’t be showing people that stuff.  I

Calibrate your savage beatings carefully

In response to State’s Witness: ‘You Probably Don’t Want’ to Wait Until You’re Almost Dead to Defend Yourself: This is one aspect of the Zimmerman case that seems baffling to me: the assertion that you’re supposed to let yourself be

'Hail Satan" and liberal rage fuel

Politics is a bitter business.  It’s a zero-sum game, in which wealth is taken from some and given to others.  This process can only be influenced by popular pressure and the ballot box, as the ruling class is increasingly willing

Second-term grumpiness liberation

In response to Re: Obama’s Cratering Approval Ratings: I’ve always thought one factor in the infamous second-term lame-duck slump in poll numbers is that many people support any given President because they don’t like the other guy, or the other

The third party devolution

Over the weekend, Sarah Palin floated the idea of forming a third party – tentatively dubbed the “Freedom Party,” at the suggestion of a Fox News viewer – if the Republicans continue to disappoint conservatives.  This drew a spirited response

Belief beyond question

In response to Wendy Davis Struggles When Asked a Single Tough Question: I’m not surprised to hear Davis can’t answer questions.  For the true abortion zealot, belief is the answer to all questions.  They’re supposed to be holding all the

Identity is bad, except for your mandatory socialist awareness

In response to Obama’s Hypocrisy on Identity Politics: It really is something to watch the most bitterly divisive President in American history lecture other people about identity politics.  Particularly if you step back from the identity-politics gambits made by Obama

The road to polygamy

Proponents of gay marriage often make light of the slippery-slope argument that same-sex marriage will lead to legalized polygamy.  I can see why they want to dismiss that argument, but they’re being silly.  Of course same-sex marriage will lead to

Hollywood heads offshore to escape ObamaCare

In response to While Hollywood Payroll Folks Grouse About ‘Irksome’ ObamaCare Laws, Stars Sign Up To Promote It: There was so much to love in that Hollywood Reporter article that it had me rolling in the aisles.  It was funnier

Rare bird takes wing, only to be pureed by windmill

Another great moment in the history of “green energy,” brought to us by the UK Daily Mail: There had been only eight recorded sightings of the white-throated needletail in the UK since 1846. So when one popped up again on

I wish we lived in the Gang of Eight’s world

Perhaps the biggest under-reported story about the Gang of Eight immigration plan is that it would radically increase legal immigration, in addition to putting the working-age contingent of those 12 million illegal aliens into the American workforce.  Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) picked