tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-201778872012-01-30T13:17:17.127-08:00Good. Better. Best. Never let us rest. Until our good is better, then our better best.Bob Leibowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768155301342607900noreply@blogger.comBlogger5711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20177887.post-85818818277596706392011-12-08T07:08:00.000-08:002011-12-08T07:08:06.739-08:00

Barack Obama manages the federal government with the same level of skill and judgment that Jon Corzine brought to MF Global.

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First reaction: Wow! Second reaction: It's about time! Third reaction: Thank goodness. A very intelligent friend of mine, who spends far too much time with the folks in Washington and therefore should know, says that Barney Frank is easily the most intelligent guy in Congress. That's sad on a number of levels.

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William F. Buckley, Jr.

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After 642 posts, time for a little humor. It's not often that I pass on to others one of the dozen email chain letters that arrive before breakfast every morning, but this one—from a truly seasoned citizen—struck a chord. $5.37! That's what the kid behind the counter at Taco Bell said to me. I dug into my pocket and pulled out some lint and two dimes and something that used to be a

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Every resident of Oakland, every business, every city employee, especially the Oakland Police Department, should hang their heads in shame.

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Today, the first day of life in the iCloudWithout the man who made it so

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Remember when we thought spending $600 for a toilet seat and $400 for a hammer was bad? Sounds absolutely terrific in this day of $24 million for a day job at a relative's solar panel factory. Let's all hope future history books view the Obama administration as an aberration!

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Charly has been my best friend for more than 40 years, though we never met in real life. We couldn't, him being a fictional character and all. Charly and I grew smarter at about the same time, though his growth, thanks to his surgery, was much more rapid. He enjoyed being intelligent, at times far too much so. I was more ambiguous. His retreating IQ was much more rapid, but in that retreat were

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This is how it's done. Notice that he said "I" just once, because it was never about him. It was all about them. Thank you, Mr. President.

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FIrst, it's Aunt Obama, poor, dirt poor living in government housing, here illegally. Now it's Uncle Obama, a drunk driving illegal. What's the man doing, smuggling them in on Air Force One?

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Dear Mr. Buffett: I've never thought of you as helpless and I am not now enjoying the mental image of you publicly whining about your plight in The New York Times. Quit complaining that you only paid $6,938,744 in federal taxes last year. After all, it's your own fault. You've spent zillions through the years paying CPAs and tax lawyers to help you and your companies avoid the very taxes you

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It's that simple.

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Let's agree to Change so that we can Hope! Without Change there can be no Hope.

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In a development that surprised many within the Beltway, Michelle Bachman today announced that she plans to campaign in all 50 states. No response yet from the White House on whether Mr. Obama will extend his campaign to the 57 states he spoke of earlier. Nor has the White House commented on Mrs. Backman's apparent greater familiarity with American geography.

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Imagine a scouting team of aliens arriving on Earth from planet Hubris, a team with absolutely no concept of economic freedom and free markets. If all they knew were macroeconomics learned from a book, they would not realize that billions of individual decisions underlay and direct markets every day, 24/7, each of which is made to provide narrow advantage, but in the aggregate provide the best

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Barack Obama is awash in a sea of his own misconceptions, drowning in mountainous waves of misperceptions. He is by far the most idealogical of our presidents, and the most mistaken.

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I've never thought much of Alan Greenspan, whose aura outweighs his judgment by a wide margin, but this is the absolute stupidest approach ever taken to calm financial markets: "The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default," said Greenspan on NBC's Meet the Press.Boy, that'll do it. The cat's out of the bag, all

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During his confirmation process as Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner famously blamed TurboTax for his errors on his personal tax returns. Now he's blaming the rating agency for his debt mistakes. The man will never learn.

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For the first time in more than two centuries, the American federal government has been awarded a less than top credit rating. After months of warnings, S&P downgraded the U. S. government to a AA+ rating from the AAA rating that it held for 70 years. It is now in the same league as Spain. We're awaiting word from the White House of exactly how the downgrade is the fault of President George W.

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First, the national sideshow of Anthony Weiner, who claimed for more than ten days that his Twitter account had been hacked by some mysterious malefactor, perhaps the notorious right wing conspiracy of Hillary's day, intent on either destroying him or playing an innocent prank. Now, Barack Obama is claiming that his very signature was hacked fifteen years ago to validate a survey which his

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It's official. According to Anthony Weiner, he has exercised horrible judgement over the past three years or more. Why on earth should we trust this cad about anything? He has run roughshod over those who disagree with him, casting aspergions right and left. He is a baldfaced liar, a slime. Worse, we – you and I – continue to pay him a salary that puts him in the top 5% of the working

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Jack Kervorkian assisted in untold numbers of self-murder over the decades. He fought God for much of his misguided adult life. Last night, God won. As He always does.

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Just when you thought Anthony Weiner couldn't make it wurst, he does. Notice his very first words: This guy's way too cool for Congress. He should be on SNL

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The question on the minds of millions: Why, when he is the victim of a malicious hack of his Twitter and Facebook accounts, why did representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) call a lawyer? Answer 1: Liberals constantly confuse victims with perpetrators, so their first thought is to call a lawyer either way. Answer 2 : The switchboard at Oscar-Mayer was closed. Bonus Question: Who do you think is

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In recent days Mr. Obama spent more time in an Irish pub than visiting the destroyed city of Joplin, Missouri. Erin go bragh! Joplin? Meh.

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While former President Barack Obama continued his goodwill pub crawl through Europe, his replacement at the head of government signed the renewal of the Patriot Act which was presented for Presidential approval. The Teleprompter President, Mr. Obama's replacement, known to friends as TOTUS, for the first time used its robotic arm to sign legislation. Former President Obama had earlier described

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Here the former head of the International Monetary Fund opens with his very best line "And then, I pop naked out of the bathroom! C'est tre bon, oui?"

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Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner, the financial genius who admitted he couldn't use TurboTax properly, believes that the solution to a chronic over-limit condition on our national credit card and an admitted inability to pay our debts as they come due is… to raise the limits. I think the Secretary is confusing tactics for winning at blackjack with those needed for spending addiction and

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I generally enjoy listening to Juan Williams and regard him as an honest leftist, of which our society produces few. Every once in a while, though, and Juan really jumps the shark. This morning saw one of his largest jumps at what he termed "the murder of Osama." Peculiar.

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Imagine a land where the rulers could arbitrarily order you to pick up your family, all your possessions and move to a distant location. It happened in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s. It happened in Red China in the 1960s. Lafe Solomon And in 2011 it happened in the United States as the Obama administration once again invented a brand new power not found in law or authorized by the

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I suggest we bury him in 3,000 pieces, each tagged with the name of one lost on 9-11 and each wrapped separately in the finest of leathers.

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Jobless claims are trending up again while economic growth is slowing and inflation growing. We're looking at a nearly perfect storm of economic woes, where one key indicator, the inflation rate, is obscured only because the costs of housing as defined by the government are falling. That a basket of commodity prices have risen 35% in the past year is not a reflection of supply or demand nearly so

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Apparently Mr. Obama has not heard of FedEx, DHL or UPS. Perhaps he doesn't trust the U.S. Post Office. For whatever reason, he felt delivery of his certified birth certificate was so important that it required the dispatch of a lawyer from the Washington, DC offices of Perkins Coie to personally pick it up in Honolulu and hand deliver it to the White House Tuesday evening. And no, the Perkins

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Has a Debt Limit ever actually limited the debt? I don't think so. Remind me to ask Paul Krugman if he can think of a time it's happened. Why do we have Debt Limits set by Congress if they don't serve a purpose such as limiting the debt? Is it all just posturing, political kabuki? As I understand it, refusing to lift the current limit wouldn't cause a default so much as a quick restructuring of

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Under the theory that magic is only the working of that which we don't understand, the leftists in the White House must be absolutely awestruck and skeptical to the point of active disbelief by free markets. They have a much easier time with the old command/control model, where even when things don't work out quite the way they were supposed to, easy explanations came to mind. Oil prices increase

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It appears that Coca-Cola pressured its hometown law firm to drop the House of Representatives of the United States as a paying client. The Obama administration, speaking through Attorney General Eric Holder, had declined to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, leaving what is normally an executive branch duty to Congress to perform in its stead. The House of Representatives retained Atlanta

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I've spent too many decades and too many dollars working with lawyers to have very many illusions of the industry left. Many of the lawyers I've known are terrific people and impressive professionals. Some, not so much. In all that experience, I've not yet personally met an outright coward or a complete prostitute for fees. The King & Spalding firm and its chairman, Robert Hays, set a new low

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First, Standard & Poor's let fly Easter Week with a scathing warning of financial ruin. Then God chipped in on Easter. But, no need for us to worry.Mr. Obama is absolutely certain that he has everything under control.

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In 2008 the Securities and Exchange Commission for the first time filed a complaint for securities fraud against public officials, citing five employees of the city of San Diego with misleading purchasers of the city's bonds. I was struck by the language in the SEC's announcement The SEC charged the former officials for failing to disclose to the investing public buying the city’s municipal bonds

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In his speech last week on the American debt crisis, Barack Obama volunteered that a number of millionaires would be delighted to volunteer to pay more to support the government. Well, with an income last year  of $1.7 million Mr. Obama is one of those very "millionaires" of which he speaks.  How many dollars is he willing to contribute to his cause? Not a one. Not a dime, not a penny. In fact,

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The Obama administration has a real affinity for Alice in Wonderland interpretations of the law. According to both Mr. Obama and Humpty Dumpty,  the law means what they say it means, the writings be damned. We've seen this with their defense of Obamacare. Seeking a constitutional grounding for taking over the medical payments industry, Obama's lawyers are claiming authority under a power to

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The Associated Press found itself making news this week rather than merely reporting it. First, the AP misreported election results in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, leading the challenger to mistakenly believe she had won the contest. While awaiting official returns and open to confusing their own expectations with facts, the unionized writers at AP failed to notice that votes from an entire

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Peggy Noonan was an powerful and moving speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and the senior Bush. She is a truly masterful wordsmith. Somewhere along the way, though, she lost direction. She became what she opposed, a female David Brooks. In 2008, Peggy Noonan became enamored of presidential candidate Barack Obama. She wrote He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of

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Two years is forever in the land of politics. Heck, two weeks can cover a multitude of conversions. Proving the point, Mr. Obama, exhausted by his need to scoop up after the elephants on a march, is now racing to get ahead of the parade. He's apparently ready to abandon his 2012 budget, on which the ink is barely dry, in an attempt to recapture budget leadership from Paul Ryan. I don't think

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The election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court is a truly big deal. Its outcome will influence the direction of the country for decades to come. Are we to be governed by those we elect or by the union thugs who roam the halls, more powerful than the gangs that roam the streets. Help now by donating to help keep this ad on the air:  https://secure.donationsafe.com/wisc

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The Wisconsin Senate tonight approved (18-1) a bill to allow employees of the state a real choice whether or not to become or remain members of a union. For the first time in years, employment will not be subject to non-voluntary membership. More, state employees who choose not to become a union member will not be required to pay "dues" to a group in which they choose not to belong. If passed by

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It's been three years since William F. Buckley, Jr. left us for his eternal reward. The world is a far better environment for his presence and a lesser place since his departure. There's not a day that ends without a thought of what he would have thought about its events but with equal appreciation for the thinkers he mentored, the leaders he helped on their ways. What would he have thought of

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The latest Gallup poll reports that more residents of Washington, DC approve of the job being done by Barack Obama than in any state. Where 47% of the country approves his job performance, in the capital the number is nearly twice as great, 84.4%. The Kingdom of Obama In fact, according to an earlier Gallup survey more residents of our nation's capital approve of Mr. Obama than believe in God.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has just announced that Democrat Senators will next week pass only a continuing resolution that contains no spending cuts at all, but is designed to keep federal spending at its current breakneck levels. Senator Reid gave his group this week off for vacation, just ten days before the government will run out of spending authority. His solution, a demand for more

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Not since 1987, when in a fit of temper CBS newsreader Dan Rather stepped out of a live network news broadcast for seven minutes, have so many witnessed as much dead air as is present today in Madison, Wisconsin. Fourteen Democrat senators abandoned their senate seats last week. They ran from the capitol building and didn't stop until they had skittered like mice across the Wisconsin border with

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The federal government runs out of money in two weeks, when its existing authority to spend is reached. The House of Representatives, now managed by Republicans, has passed new spending authority for the balance of the year. By doing so, they corrected an oversight of the previous management of the House under Nancy Pelosi, when she and they neglected to pass a budget for the year. Sadly, Harry

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I had a toy poodle once, a show dog. It had three tricks: It yapped endlessly, got into stuff, and randomly crapped on things that were much more valuable than the dog. There are similarities.

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Ronald Reagan "made" his presidency the day he personally fired more than 10,000 air traffic controllers who refused his order to cease their illegal strike. The country enjoyed an eight year break from serious labor unrest during his administration. Years later, even the Soviets admitted they had taken note of his backbone. In Wisconsin today, several thousand union teachers in Wisconsin lied

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Union thugs are attempting a takeover of the state capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. They are threatening legislators and the governor and their families. They are looking to dictate state policies for their own benefit, to keep the largess flowing their direction. They care not that the state is broke. They want everything and more. Democrat senators have fled the state in order to prevent the

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There can be no excuse for Mr. Obama's 2012 budget. It is a disaster. Worse, it is a distraction. With it, Mr. Obama has abdicated one of the most serious duties of his office, to lead the government at the head of which he sits. Mr. Obama is leading the American people into depths way over our heads, and way over his.

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With his 2012 budget proposal, Mr. Obama will consign 100 million American children to lives of perpetual servitude, selling them into slavery with his debt. He's requesting the authority to spend $45,000 from our three children's pockets, just this year. Over the course of his remaining presidency, he will charge more on their good credit than we have spent on them their entire lives to date.

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As I forecast on Monday, when push came to shove it was Mr. Mubarak who did the pushing and shoving. Just hours after Mr. Obama told us that today was an historic day in Egypt, and just hours after our intelligence chiefs announced to us, and apparently Mr. Obama, that Mubarak was resigning: Surprise! In just ten days Mr. Obama has reinforced for the entire world to see three truths: America

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In the current contest of wills between Hosni Mubarak and Barack Obama, who will come out on top? Leaving aside the almost daily uncertainty over the Obama administration's position, which seems to cycle more frequently and extremely than the tides at Fundy, my money is on Mr. Mubarak. As the entire world's people, especially in the Middle East but mysteriously not including Americans, now knows

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In future days, when historians discuss this year's Super Bowl XLV, I'll be pointing out that the very best play of the game occurred shortly before it opened: This is a class act. Thank you, NFL, for making it possible.

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You've heard "the people who know it all" blame the Tucson rampage on conservatives' words and images. The complain that Sarah Palin's maps, Glenn Beck's words and TEA party opposition to the Obama administration caused the shooter to wake up one morning with murder in his heart and an "assault pistol" in his hand, intent on killing. Never mind that the shooter is unquestionably unbalanced.

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Do you think Barack Obama has any greater appreciation for the pressures on George Bush now that Mr. Obama has himself suffered from the complete lack of American intelligence in the middle east? What is the missing ingredient, when anyone with even a middling IQ can figure that a authoritarian regime in office for 30 years might have only a finite remaining political lifespan? Here's a

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Imagine for a moment that you're a proud and pleased investor in a bank, a major bank. As an investor, it's treated you and other shareholders well. Dividends have been paid to investors every year since inception and and the Board of Directors have increased them in most years. Over time, you've reinvested those dividends and your stake has increased to the point where it is now substantial. In

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Representative Peter King (R-NY) is concerned about his personal safety, given the recent shooting in Tucson that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords so grievously injured and six lesser lights, at least in Rep. King's eyes, dead. He suggestions a solution: that "high profile government officials," be encircled 24/7 by a protective bubble within which no citizen could lawfully possess a firearm. I can

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Barack Obama is normally a very good orator, not great but very good. While he rarely leads, he does a terrific job of pandering, not as good as Clinton but pretty darn good. Often, that's enough to convince the audience that he's with them. But his speech tonight didn't work. It was disjointed, literally. It was flat. It will resonate with neither citizens nor lawmakers. It is a blown

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One thing is immediately apparent from the SOTUS. Barack Obama has become a believer in American exceptionalism, at least when it suits him. What truly grates, however, is his tone. It implies he's the only one, that he's newly discovered what others don't know. In his rush to occupy the center, it's as though he's won the race to get there.

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I had hopes that NBC's David Gregory would prove a worthy replacement for Tim Russert as host of Meet The Press, but that seems a step too far for Mr. Gregory. On a Sunday awash in real news, Mr. Gregory seemed stuck on stupid as he spent an easy million dollars of NBC's precious broadcast time attempting to blow Mr. Obama's birth certificate into a first-tier news item. He asked, re-asked, and

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From a comment at Transterrestrial Musings by Jody Green, To the private sector a half a billion dollars is enough to start a whole new industry. To the federal government it is a rounding error. How many new industries will be lost due to a wasteful spending of a totally dysfunctional federal government?Truer words were never spoke. The Obama administration has sucked the market dry for

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Michelle wants to downsize the Big Mac. I say McDonalds should keep the supersize meal but we should downsize the presidency to a more digestible portion. There was a time when an imperial office was justified—the cold war years come to mind—when actual leadership of the western world was exercised by the American president. The whole world was in a constant state of near-war then, a state of

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The lime-green bag on the left is the First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Barack Obama, on tour in Indonesia, where women are not… men. Obviously, she's caught the short end of the stick: disguised from head to barefoot toe, walking off the carpet on the hot pavers. I'd pay a penny for her thoughts! Two and one-half people President Obama is well-known for his extreme sense of self, the

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For the first time ever, the Obama administration is taking steps to register rifles sold through firearms dealers begininning January 5, 2011. It seems that otherwise law-abiding rifles used for recreation—plinking, hunting and shooting competitions— and self-defense while north of the Mexican border, turn into stone cold cartel killers once they cross south of the Rio Grande. There's no data

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Only six weeks after the election destined to change modern American history, an election which saw hundreds of public offices at all levels across the land change—from left to right, blue to red, liberal to conservative, Democrat to Republican—Harry Reid and his henchmen in the Democratic leadership in Washington responded to voters with a resounding, "DROP DEAD!" The Senate Majority Leader has

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Mr. Obama is killing the economy slowly, practicing a spooky form of medieval medicine that slowly bleeds producers dry. Every week he applies more leeches, more regulators who latch onto the economic body and suck out it's life. Early warnings of our coming trials can be seen in the indicators of inflation, a potentially fatal form of economic fever. The Price of Gasoline Under President

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He thinks of himself as an amalgam of the best of presidents past, ascending past them into his own historic greatness. He may have a soaring intelligence, though the jury is very much out on that, but the greatest share of it seems always to be taken up with his own self-awareness, leaving never quite enough left over for the issues he faces. Yes, the man can talk. He certainly can talk. He's

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Most of us remember well Hans Christian Andersen's delightful tale of the emperor who searched far and wide for the very finest clothes, suits of golden fabric and silver threads, clothes so perfect, so exquisite that they can be seen and appreciated only by those fit for the positions they hold. Only those operating above their skills and the hopelessly stupid fail to see the stunning colors,

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We've seen an advance copy of the president's script for his historic speech to India's parliament. According to the speech, President Obama will convey a moving and heartfelt apology to the Indian people. Next month we will observe the 120th anniversary of  the massacre at Wounded Knee. For far too many years, American historians called it a "battle," but it wasn't. I acknowledge that. I

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Your Good Morning! map The 2010 House of Representatives. Not a bad start!

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So, which do you believe, the natonal media or your own lying eyes? Here's 24 minutes of Christine O'Donnell of Delaware. Yes, the one the media has described as "the witch" who knows nothing. I think you'll find otherwise. There's nothing wrong with sending ordinary people to Washington. After all, how well have the "extraordinary people" done?

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Marco Rubio Remind anyone of Ronald Reagan?

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, speaking at a campaign stop Friday with President Obama, managed in one sentence to explain everything that has gone wrong under his watch. "We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole." Obviously, Harry Reid has completely ignored the first rule of holes, to quit digging. This explains why so much

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There was a time, I guess, when the FBI really was a premier investigatory agency. Back when Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. was the agent of the week, every week, on Sunday night. While those days may be long gone, killed by the deadening weight of bureaucracy piled onto political correctness, it remains unfair to blame the Bureau for the superficial and misleading reporting that accompanied the release of

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If, as Mr. Obama continues to complain, President Bush is the problem, perhaps we should elect a president who can replace him? Mr. Obama obviously doesn't have the solution.

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H/T Lucianne Change in November

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Dateline: Tel Aviv From this moment the State of Israel declares a state of war exists between the State of Israel and the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Because Israel views the threats by the government of the IRI in conjunction with its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and means of delivery as existential threats, Israel will  take all actions necessary, specifically including

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Mass. representative and home mortgage guru Barney Frank was so upset over being denied a senior citizen's discount on the ferry fare to Fire Island's gay fantasia that he caused quite a scene. Mr. Franks' current special friend, James Ready, had requested the special ticket but was denied because Mr. Franks lacked local ID. The photo has nothing to do with the story, other than showing Mr.

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During his single-minded drive last year to secure passage of his signature health insurance plan, President Obama repeatedly and intensely defended the costs as fees or premiums, anything but a tax. According to the administration, from top to bottom, and specifically including the president, there are no taxes contained in the thousands of pages of Obamacare. Now, though nothing has changed

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For perhaps the first time in history, it's been confirmed that even dead voters intend to abandon the Democrat Party this year. We know this because a dead person told us. In fact, a dead Democrat, Charlotte McCourt, a former supporter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who passed away July 8 has asked in her obituary that friends and relatives abandon Reid and vote for "a more worthy

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Presidential daughters ask penetrating questions. There was this, told by Jimmy Carter closing his 1980 debate with Ronald Reagan, I think to close out this discussion, it would be better to put into perspective what we're talking about. I had a discussion with my daughter, Amy, the other day, before I came here, to ask her what the most important issue was. She said she thought nuclear weaponry

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The richest piggy bank in the history of the world has been broken, its porcelain shell shattered into a zillion pieces never to be put whole again. While Barack Obama will be remembered by history as wielding the final blow that broke the bank, the truth is that American politicians have been sneaking and snorting little piggy's riches at a prodigious rate for decades. Millions of Americans

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Helen Thomas demonstrates almost daily the inner ugliness of the main stream media, an enterprise that continues to honor her and hold her to its bosom long after her decay became apparent to all others. Ms. Thomas presents a true to life portrait of the modern American leftist, the blame America first crowd (unless Jews are involved, then blame them first). The White House Correspondents

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No one knows why moths circle a flame so intently that they will sacrifice themselves on its pillar of light. Learned scientists offer theories. Perhaps the flame is a proxy for the moon's navigational beacon. Maybe burning gasses emit an odor  mimicking female moth pheromones. While we can  guess that the underlying motivation may be beneficial in other circumstances, the immediate effect is

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Windows 7 is supposed to be Microsoft's best offering in years. The Chinese spies who spend their careers attempting to find back doors into American technology probably think so. But with a nearly complete dearth of publicity, it's just become public that Google effectively banned Windows 7 from its corporate headquarters five months ago.According to Financial Times, Google is phasing out the

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Just when you thought all the characters had settled into their roles for the four-year epic The Godfather VII, The White House Years, along comes Bill Clinton.Mr. Clinton, the ghost of the White House's sleaziest past, a perjurer and expert multi-tasker while on the phone, has returned in the role of honest broker between Rham Emmanuel and Rep. Joe. Sestak.In a Friday news dump, White House

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The Cost is High, the Value Priceless.Sgt. James Regan, Army Ranger, R.I.P.H/T to Ed Morrissey

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In protest of Arizona's stance enforcing existing laws against illegal aliens, the City of Los Angeles City Council voted to ban travel by city employees to the State of Arizona. The ban is expected to reduce Arizona's travel and tourism industry's $18 billion income by about $58 million.I suggest Arizona call a meeting in Phoenix of the parties to the Colorado River Compact, the multi-state

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According to USA Today, Americans paid the lowest level of taxes last year since 1950, sayingSome conservative political movements such as the "Tea Party" have criticized federal spending as being out of control. While spending is up, taxes have fallen to exceptionally low levels.Federal, state and local taxes — including income, property, sales and other taxes — consumed 9.2% of all personal

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