Read the fine print

Five Endangered Freedoms

If you read the fine print in the Congressional plans, you'll find that a lot of cherished aspects of the current system would disappear

Protest is Patriotic, Right, Dear Leader?

I Am The Mob

My family members did not shed blood for this country so that their elected officials could silence them into shame if they dared to speak out and voice their concerns

If you really want to fix health care, here is how to do it.

This is just about the most elegant explanation of the only way to truly fix the health care cost curve:

How to fix the Health-Care "Wedge"

The patient is then separated from the transaction in the sense that costs are no longer his concern. And when the patient doesn’t care about costs, only those who want higher costs—like doctors and drug companies—care.

But, of course, the Obamabots won't have any of it -- it's not their idea of socialized medicine.

Can we have a Constitutional amendment to require politicians to take Econ 101 before they are sworn in?

And for a more lighthearted take on this solution, see Ann's piece. Gasp! Actual proposed solutions from a Republican. Bet the Obamabots didn't see that coming!

FreeRangeKids: Of Peanuts and Pedophiles

We are making them, essentially, allergic to life. The world should be their oyster. Instead, it’s their their peanut.

http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/of-peanuts-and-pedophiles/

This quote from the man that The Messiah thought highly enough of to nominate to his cabinet:

All the presidents -- including George Bush -- since the beginning of our republic, will not have run up as much debt as this budget will run up in the first period of its term.

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So, you essentially have set up a scenario here under this bdget, where we will pass on to our children in the very near future, at about the end of four years from now, a debt-to-GDP ratio which is unsustainable and a deficit ratio which is unsustainable. And that means our kids are going to have a hard time digging themselves out of this hole.

Think about that: a doubling of the national debt -- not the deficit, but the debt -- in five years. Remember the hue and cry over the need of an extra digit on the debt clock in Times Square? In five years, if this plan proceeds, we will need an entire additional clock.

Breathtaking.

This is America?

What happened to Land of Liberty, let freedom ring, and all that?

But these virtues are more than offset by the more radical features of Obama’s plan: spending at levels previously thought unimaginable, deficits as far ahead as the eye can see, a significant redistribution of the nation’s income from wealth creators to dependants on the state, government takeovers of significant sectors of the economy, more regulation of almost every business.

Welcome to the Facist States of Obamerica.

Oh, and someone remind me: wasn't Obama supposed to make the Europeans like us again? Take a look at where this article is from.

Big spender Obama sets the red ink flowing

Funny, I must have missed reading about this in 2000

Glad to see we're all on the same page here...

"On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics."

Well, I guess some people missed the memo:

Others, however, cheered when they heard a television broadcaster announce, "George Bush is no longer president of the United States." Still others in the crowd, broke into chants of "Na-na-na-nah, hey, hey, hey, goodbye."

Real Tolerance Training: Christian = ‘Intolerant’

Hey moonbats, this is what tolerance means:

You can tell a lot about a person who treats someone with dignity and value whom they deeply disagree with.

Andrew Breitbart: Real Tolerance Training

Meet the new boss

... same as the old boss?

I thought when The One was president, the world would love us again?

I repeat: anyone who would set US policy according to what others think of us is, by definition, committing treason.

Kennedy, Windsor, Romanov

Would someone please draw a dark line of distinction between what we call a scandal in Illinois and business as usual in New York? Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is accused of trying to sell a vacant Senate seat, while New York Gov. Paterson is expected to give a Senate seat to the woman whose family can raise lots of money for his benefit.

Nepotism Nation

A Cornucopia of Corrupt Crapulence... Craptastic!

There’s the enormous I-should-have-had-a-V8! moment as the mainstream press collectively thwacks itself in the forehead, realizing it blew it again. The New York Times — which, according to Wall Street analysts, is weeks from holding editorial-board meetings in a refrigerator box — created the journalistic equivalent of CSI-Wasilla to study every follicle and fiber in Sarah Palin’s background, all the while treating Obama’s Chicago like one of those fairy-tale lands depicted in posters that adorn little girls’ bedroom walls. See there, Suzie? That’s a Pegasus. That’s a pink unicorn. And that’s a beautiful sunflower giving birth to a fully grown Barack Obama, the greatest president ever and the only man in history to be able to pick up manure from the clean end.

A little Blago for Everyone!

That magical time of year

I have no doubt that that parent is miserably thinking about how her kids will feel when all their classmates have new Christmas presents, and they have nothing to show. What makes me mad is that we've created an environment where the most magical thing that can happen to a child is to be given a few pieces of plastic glued together in China.

Megan McArdle

Good news from Baghdad, but who will report it?

The war is over, and we won.

Should make it easier for The Chosen One to please his MoveOn overlords. Think he'll thank anyone, or will he take all the credit for himself? Don't think too hard.

Hitting the nail on the head, election edition

This just about sums it up:

In short, Mr. Obama, your political philosophies represent everything that is wrong with our country. You represent the culture of government dependence instead of self reliance; Entitlement mentality instead of personal achievement; Penalization of the successful to reward the unmotivated; Political correctness instead of open mindedness and open debate. If you are successful, you may preside over the final transformation of America from being the greatest and most self-reliant culture on earth, to just another country of whiners and wimps, who sit around looking to the government to solve their problems.

Awesome VP pick by McCain

Were I Palin, I'd first point out that balancing the budget of a working family with five kids gives her more experience than Obama in relating to families out there.

Palin runs a state; Obama runs his mouth.

This is Buffalo politics, in a nutshell:

Mesi is the only political candidate I know who has admitted to a serious brain injury before running for office. Some might call that a prerequisite.

Budd Bailey

God Help Us

Richard Danzig, who served as navy secretary under the former president Bill Clinton and is tipped to become national security adviser in an Obama White House, told a foreign policy conference in Washington... "Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security."

We can't win, so why try?

Life Is Good, So Why Do We Feel So Bad?

At a time when there exists a sense of crisis over the economy, fuel prices and many other issues, this reinforces the odd, two realities of life in the United States today: The way we are, and the way we think we are. The way we are could use some work, but overall, is pretty good. The way we think we are is terrible, horrible, awful. Possibly worse.

Life Is Good, So Why Do We Feel So Bad?

Sweetie?

What a condescending asshole.

Classic Coulter

Ann Coulter: Out of Context? Or Out of His Mind?

Obama said the Rev. Wright he heard defending himself on Monday was not the Rev. Wright he met 20 years ago. This is the political equivalent of the 'It's not you, it's me' speech. He might just as well have said, 'I love Rev. Wright. I'm just not in love with him anymore. Hey, can I have my CDs back?'

If it takes Obama 20 years to notice that his pastor is a traitorous, racist nut-job, it will probably take him his full term of office to realize that the U.S. has been invaded and subdued by al-Qaida. Let's just hope President Obama pays closer attention during national security briefings than he did during 20 years of the Rev. Wright's church services.

Classic Coulter. Just beautiful.