Category Archives: Politics

“…our Founding Fathers who, I promise you, would be shocked…”

I really loathe knobs like this woman: “Here we have an openly gay federal judge, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, substituting his views for those of the American people and of our Founding Fathers who, I promise you, would … Continue reading

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Where is *our* Teddy Roosevelt?

I’ve been catching up on some TV programs that I had recorded on my DVR and as of yet hadn’t watched and tonight I decided to start watching The National Parks series by Ken Burns. Simply put who is our … Continue reading

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Is this the best PowerLine can do?

Apparently John Hinderaker over at Power Line blog can’t come up with anything better so he makes fun of the way Obama pronounced the word Orion at a White House roundtable on clean energy issues. Note to Hinderaker….I don’t know … Continue reading

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McCardle on universal healthcare: “The US is not France”

Megan McCardle writes of a national healthcare system: It will be something jury rigged out of Medicare, S-Chip and insurance mandates, ugly and very expensive. How is what we currently have not jury rigged out of the same pieces she … Continue reading

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Ross Douthat in at the NYT

Douthat from the Atlantic gets the nod to replace that turd Kristol.   I’d have preferred Daniel Larison myself but as DFS at Balloon Juice said: Anybody who thought they would seriously consider Larison is delusional. He writes about seventeen … Continue reading

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Enough with the earmarks already

If I hear another mention of “pork”, or “earmarks” in the news I’m going to scream.  Today the news was filled with the hand wringing being done over President Obama signing the Omnibus bill that had almost 9000 earmarks in … Continue reading

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Thank you economic stimulus…I’m saving on transit costs!

I commute on the train every day to work.  I live far enough from the city that my monthly pass costs about $152.  Up until April I could only get $120 of that pre-tax.  As of April, and because of … Continue reading

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David Frum, Mark Levin, and why Frum’s wife is nuts

On NewMajority.com today David Frum related the story of his “appearance” on the Mark Levin talk radio program.  While I’m not surprised at what happened  (I listened to the segment as linked) I am pretty surprised that the instigator of … Continue reading

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It’s too much already

I’m as excited as anyone else I think about Obama being President.  Starting tomorrow we have the possibility ahead of us to heal this country after 8 years of complete mismanagement by the Bush administration.   But it worries me to … Continue reading

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Mr. President

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