If you always expect the NY Times to bend over backwards to help Democrats in trouble, you’ll rarely be disappointed. Such is the case today with the NY Times coverage of the Jonathan Gruber affair. Not surprisingly, the Times’ Neil
In response to George W Bush: Run, Jeb, Run: I’m not completely sold that Jeb will run, regardless of what his hermano or son say about a possible candidacy for President. Today’s news that Rubio will release his book this
When a New Orleans 2-year-old was determined to have a sexually transmitted disease after an emergency room visit brought on by an alleged sexual assault, it appears detectives responsible for what should have been an investigation simply swept the issue under
I don’t often comment on affairs in my native South Africa, which I follow somewhat sporadically these days, but a recent speech by former finance minister Trevor Manuel caught my attention and deserves to be singled out. Manuel rose from
In response to Obama gets rolled everywhere from Beijing to Tehran: Did you know that if you don’t support Obama’s nuke deal with Iran you just may be shamefully rooting for the other team? Apparently, “a crack team” of propagandists
Perhaps the most vocal and even most visible Progressive member of the Senate Democrat caucus, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is reportedly “under consideration for a leadership position.” If Hillary Clinton is to be challenged from the Left for her party’s nomination
Want to watch a desperate politician at the end of her rope throw her entire Party under the bus, in a last-ditch effort to hang on to her seat while the breakers of a wave election roll across the shore?
Perhaps trying to save face by proving he can win something, outgoing Senate majority leader Harry reid is reportedly putting the arm on Democrats in a big way in an effort to save a struggling Mary Landrieu in Louisiana. Politico
In response to GOP Targets Reid In 2016: If Republicans can find a viable candidates to take on Reid in 2016, a candidate that can refrain from veering too far to the right of crazy, they will be Reid. Reid
Rubio is running! Rubio is running! That is what I think, after finding out that Senator Marco Rubio’s new book will be released on January 13, 2015. Amazon, which is preselling, “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone,” for $21. Rubio’s
On MSNBC, Wednesday morning, Politico health care reporter Jennifer Haberkorn quipped that the White House would love it if Jonathan Gruber would just stop talking and added that they would probably put a gag order on him if they could. House Republicans, on
Some new words have been added to the American lexicon thanks to the serial lies and insults of embattled ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber. To “gruber” is to lie to someone because you think they’re too dumb to know any different. It
Love him or hate him, but liberal Democrat Alan Grayson is doing the right thing by announcing that he would be providing “American-made flags” to high schools in his congressional district. “Some of our schools are buying flags made in
As CBS News in Denver is careful to note, it’s not really fair to refer to the amazingly foolish and corrupt “Lifeline” program – free cell phones for Food Stamp Nation – as “Obamaphones,” because the program existed long before
In less than a year Jonathan Gruber has gone from being cited as an outstanding expert on health reform modeling to being downplayed as “a private citizen” who misspoke. The tone in Halbig/King filings has certainly changed over the past
President Obama sent out a letter to his Organizing for American brownshirts, asking them to stand up and voice their support for his liberal agenda in final two years of his presidency. Here is the letter. Please try to contain
Five years ago it was already obvious that the Obama administration and congressional Democrats were engaged in an elaborate deception, a series of them really. But back then most of the media and much of the public didn’t seem to
In response to Jonathan Gruber – ACA and ‘The Stupidity Of The American Voter’: I see the Left is drenching the Internet in flop sweat as they either search for some mystical “context” that will change the plain meaning of
The law may have finally caught up with longtime Obama friend and basketball buddy Eric Whitaker, who is close to being labeled a “hostile witness” in a Chicago corruption case. Taking a page out of his powerful friend’s playbook, Whitaker
In what is perhaps one of the more politically cynical moves one might imagine during the upcoming lame duck session of congress, Senate Democrats are considering moving forward on a vote on the Keystone pipeline as a means of propping
In response to Landrieu Makes It Personal With Cassidy Attack: This Landrieu ad is really dumb. She makes fun of Sullivan for stumbling on their words, yet probably didn’t stop to think that maybe he, like many other Americans, have
Another I told you so moment, and yes I’m taking this one. FIRST … Louisianan’s, when you go to the polls December 6th remember Senator Mary Landrieu’s Obamacare vote bought with the $300 million 2010 Louisiana Purchase which is over 20 times the original
Senate Democrats may have one last parting display of animosity for Barack Obama. Reports indicate they have no intention of trying to ram through his pick for Attorney General in the lame duck session. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
In case you thought the last Bush in the White House didn’t want Jeb Bush to run for president, former president George W. Bush has made his support official. “Jeb is making a very personal decision, and we can pressure
Looks like the Russian hackers responsible for so much mayhem sat this one out, as suspicions for the massive U.S. Postal Service data breach are falling upon the Chinese government. Which is kind of awkward, because President Obama is currently
In response to Dems to double down on Koch Brothers attacks: I’ll take a stab at guessing why Democrats are doubling down on Kochmania, even though they got creamed in the last election, and their Koch obsession makes the party
If memory serves correctly, the first random access storage device I seriously considered purchasing, as a preteen with some odd-job money to fuel his insatiable appetite for high technology, was a floppy disk drive that stored 128K per disk. (Gather
Struggling in the polls and locked in a race most believe she can’t win, Democrat Mary Landrieu goes after her Republican challenger Bill Cassidy in a very personal way with a new TV spot entitled “ WHOA.” See below. The ad
We’ve officially come a long, long way from the Obama administration’s promises that the Affordable Care Act would be something of a cure all for everything that might ail the American health care system. In fact, the administration’s message today
In response to Dems to double down on Koch Brothers attacks: Of course the Dems and Reid do not have any intention of backing down from this lucrative campaign, which that has fooled many on the left (not hard to
With the decision last week by the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the King v. Burwell case, there is renewed interest in the arguments surrounding the case. Today, Brian Beutler at the New Republic poses a legal solution
In response to Democrats’ Failed Attacks On The Koch Brothers: Dan, you missed the punchline to your story on the Democrats’ failed attacks on the Koch brothers. Apparently, they have no intention of backing down but are in fact doubling down
Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds has an excellent list of suggestions at USA Today for an early salvo of bills the Republicans could fire off when the new Congress comes into session. As he puts it, there are three kinds of bills
What is that old saying about a picture and 1000 words?
The number of unaccompanied minors at the southwest border was up 77% in FY 2014 while family apprehensions were up 361% overall compared to the previous year. The full data set for the 2014 fiscal year is not yet available
Our esteemed President George ‘W’ Bush is now on the record of saying that his ‘hermano’ Jeb is still “wrestling with the decision” of whether or not to run for President in 2016, adding that he believes the chances that
The president’s perpetual campaign arm, Organizing For Action, had an ominous message for America this morning on Twitter: Going to be a big week, everyone. Get ready. pic.twitter.com/4XqhD24lFO — OFA (@OFA) November 10, 2014 OFA has been taking a low
Democrats and aligned groups ran “nearly 100 different political spots that ran in states from Alaska to Florida” attacking businessmen Charles and David Koch but a funny thing happened on the way to the would be lynching, according to the Washington Post. …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a blistering report detailing “38 deficiencies in state and local management of the food stamp program, many of which “are significant and show lack of oversight and internal controls.”’ The state Department of
In a recently uncovered video taken at an event in October 2013, Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber says that lack of transparency was a key advantage in helping get the law passed. “This bill was written in a tortured way to
