A New England grandmother used to say of her dogs, without a trace of irony, “they’re good little bitches.” It was all my brothers and sisters and I could do not to leap from a window to muffle our laughter. Now, we learn of this poor, 800-year-old Austrian town that is considering changing its name. […]
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Leave Panetta Alone
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is under fire for the expense of his weekend trips from Washington, DC to his home in California. They have totaled in excess of $800,000. Mr. Panetta is from California. His family lives there. And as Defense Secretary, is he required to travel on military jets where he has full access to military […]
Read the rest of this entry »Greedsters Occupy Occupier’s Non-Occupational Gains
The yesterday’s-news Occupy Wall Street movement is calling for a national labor strike on May Day, the International Communist Party holiday. But how will it pay to advertise its day of inertia without the $500,000 in donations that seem to have been stolen by OCW leaders opposed to greed? That’s right, much of OWS’s money is missing […]
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President Obama’s job approval rating is now back under water, according to today’s Real Clear Politics average of national polls. The President had managed to catch a breath of air in recent weeks, as the at-times nasty Republican primary raged on, but gas prices and angry rhetoric have pressed the President’s numbers back down under. […]
Read the rest of this entry »A Glimpse of Bad Andrew
Not a stellar morning for Governor Cuomo. Ben Smith of Buzzfeed reports that his office has compiled a hit dossier on at least one of New York State’s top political reporters, Liz Benjamin of YNN. Mr. Cuomo’s office reportedly brought the document to Ms. Benjamin’s bosses, not in a good way presumably. Mr. Cuomo’s press […]
Read the rest of this entry »Steyn Afire
There’s no one better today than Mark Steyn when he gets really cooking. And this morning he’s afire with thoughts on President Obama’s so-called Buffet Rule and other inanities. A couple of gems: On President Obama’s rhetorical obliques In the end, free societies get the governments they deserve. So, if the American people wish to […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Non-Presidency
The best summation I’ve read of where a lot of us think the Obama presidency is.
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Saw this photo on Drudge late last night and thought, “can you imagine being one of those guys doing the clapping?” I woke up this morning thinking, “Oh my G-d, I am one of those guys!”
Read the rest of this entry »The Consequences of Legalization
George Will predicts in his syndicated column this morning that hard drugs — cocaine, methamphetamine, etc. — will be legalized in America. This is one of the rare times I think Mr. Will is wrong. I pray he is anyway. All the arguments for legalizing drugs are sound, but one. Casual users will not remain casual where hard […]
Read the rest of this entry »It’s Night of the Living Dead in Wisconsin
Great op-ed out this morning in the Orange County Register about the stakes of what’s going on Wisconsin. The public employee unions are trying to recall Governor Scott Walker (R) after losing a pitched battle with him last year over pension and other work-rule reforms. If you’ll recall, public employee unions across the country, aided […]
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