One more reason (besides all the obvious ones) to hope we don't enter into a war anytime soon -- we won't be prepared to fight it because the yahoos who run the Army seem determined to wreck the institution:
One more reason (besides all the obvious ones) to hope we don't enter into a war anytime soon -- we won't be prepared to fight it because the yahoos who run the Army seem determined to wreck the institution:
The back yard of Hermine Rickets and her husband, Tom Carroll, doesn't get enough sunlight, so for the past 17 years, they've grown a vegetable garden in the front yard. Then along comes a new zoning ordinance:
Syndicated columnist Cal Thoms on state Sen. David Long's idea of state-driven efforts to tame a reluctant federal government:
The Christian Science Monitor on why people should be forced to buy insurance they neither want nor need:
This is kind of a pointless exercise:
For Mitt Romney, the 2012 election was held about a year too early.
Romney would hold a slight lead on President Obama if the 2012 election were replayed today, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Our love affair with the automobile seems to be cooling a little, and some people are freaking out:
A little bit of journalistic hyperbole here:
A Cheney family feud erupted on Facebook after Liz Cheney reiterated her opposition to same-sex marriage in an interview with "Fox News Sunday" -- despite her sister Mary Cheney, who is gay, having recently married her longtime partner.
A politician who probably achieved more honesty than he was really trying for:
South Carolina Democratic congressman James Clyburn was forthright in laying out the motivation behind Obamacare: “If we were to look at what we were attempting to do with the Affordable Health Care Act [sic], you will know that what we’re trying to do is change a values system in our country.”
Speaking of delusions, The New York times (naturally) gives a forum to Marshall "scholar" James McAuley to spread a particularly vile one:
It's hard for me to understand this:
Some things will never die — and John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories appear to be among them.
In the new book, "The Battle Over Marriage: Gay Rights Activism Through the Media," Leigh Moscowitz chronicles the brilliant public relations campaign that completely turned around public attitudes in slightly less than 25 years. The gay community won hearts and minds by a strategy of convincing Americans that "we're just like you." But while winning the gay marriage debate, she says, the gay community lost something, too:
Hey, President Obama said it, not me:
Wow. I've seen some embarrassing retractions before and even had to make a painful one myself (taking back our endorsement of Bill Clinton), but this one from the folks at Patriot-News in Pennsulvania is a doozy:
Thanks for the analogy, Joe. Letting it die exactly like gun control seems like a pretty good idea:
Vice President Joe Biden’s message to immigration reform advocates: Don’t let your issue die like gun control did.
I'm still guilty of beating a dead horse or two, but there is at least one I've walked away from:
Is Obama's "administrative fix" to Obamacare even legal?
Charles Krauthammer gets the award for Conservative Wishful Thinker of the Day:
Look, what we have as you mentioned in the opening, we have not just Obamacare unraveling, not just the Obama administration unraveling, not just the Democratic majority in the Senate [unraveling] — but we could be looking at the collapse of American liberalism.
I find myself in agreement with a Washington Post editorial:
Watching the Colts game Sunday was such a painful experience that I couldn't post about immediately. Now that time has dimmed the memory and I can almost get back to an "oh, well, it's only a game" mentality, I can finally say what I think happened (if the opinion of a mere fan counts for anything).
I suppose some zealous constitutional nuts will object to this on civil liberties grounds:
