Today’s “ Whoops. Somebody was recording that? ” moment will be brought to you today by Rep. Steve Rothman (D, NJ-09): ‘Portability’ in this context refers to the ability of people to take their health care plan with them if they lose their jobs – a feature not found in Obamacare, and one of four supposed deal-killers for Rep. Rothman . As …
Newsweek on Saturday did an astonishingly poor job of exploring why Republican women are suddenly being attacked for their beauty. “There seems to be an insistent, increasingly excitable focus on the supposed hotness of Republican women in the public eye, like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Michelle Malkin, and Nikki Haley-not to mention veterans like Ann Coulter,” the article now being prominently featured at the magazine’s website began. Hypocritically…
As the November election draws closer, Democrats are running out of time to reverse the perception that they have blown their chance in the majority. Here is how likely voters sampled by Rasmussen rate the parties on the key issues: On the all-important issue of the economy, Republicans lead by nine points. They lead by 16 points on taxes–just wait until people figure out their taxes are slated to rise on January 1–and by 11 on health care. Republicans lead on national security by a whopping 17 points, and on immigration–notwithstanding all the palaver about the supposed political advantages of “comprehensive…
The Climategate emails, the Interior Department’s misrepresentation of the scientific analysis of the Gulf spill, the supposed Kagan touch-up of a bothersome medical opinion, the fraudulent Kos poll — there have been a number of news stories lately about fraudulent means being used to further noble liberal ends. What all these diverse incidents have in common is a general feeling that exalted progressive aims — stop global warming, gulf drilling, restrictions on abortion, and the Right — sometimes necessitate a “by any means necessary” …
The Democrats’ busily futile attempts to revive America’s economy remind me of the death of George Washington . On December 12, 1799, he spent five hours riding around his plantation on a cold, wet day. The next day he grew progressively sicker, and on the 14th, three doctors were summoned. Each had his own idea of how to treat the patient, but all agreed that one thing was unquestionably called for: bleeding. Over the course of the day, Washington was …
A while ago, I and others suggested a non-trivial chunk of this supposed “recovery” was being fueled by mortgage payments being redeployed towards other things as people shucked away the now (apparently) obsolete traditional social mores that (in the past)…
(H/T: Hot Air Headlines ) I refuse to believe that Eric Alterman is dumb enough to not know the answer to the questions: Why in the world did he go blabbing about it? What did he possibly think he had to gain? …if only because his essay* rather conspicuously danced around even trying to work out a rationale – which is odd, because said rationale is really fairly simple. In reverse order: what Joe Sestak thought that he had to gain was the Democratic nomination …
Texas School Board, the supposed authority on textbook standards, meets for fight over what our kids learn • FULL COVERAGE: Texas Textbook Battle
Bill O’Reilly plans to lead off his show tonight with the Obama administration’s apology to China for Arizona’s new immigration law and other supposed American “human rights violations.” I will be on the show at the top of the first hour, at around 5:00 Eastern time. UPDATE: Even as the State Department trashes Arizona to other countries, Rasmussen reports that 55 percent of voters favor a law like Arizona’s for their state. Could the Obama administration possibly be more out of touch?
Ace blogged a bit about it last night but there’s so much garbage being spewed about I think it’s worth noting some of the more egregious claims individually. Eugene Robinson has a fairly typical column on the supposed horrors of…