Monthly Archives: July 2011

TSA Abuses Cancer Survivor For Second Time

And, they apparently knew who they were patting down Thomas Sawyer, a 62-year-old bladder cancer survivor who made headlines last November after a pat-down left him covered in his own urine, has filed a new complaint with the Transportation Security Administration. Sawyer, who wears a urostomy bag that collects his urine through an opening in his abdomen, […]

Did Team Obama Pay The Washington Post For Fawning Coverage?

Apparently, they watched a different speech than the rest of us did. Here’s Charles Krauthammer on Obama’s Monday night repeat, via Gateway Pundit: Don Surber has some other quotes which lambaste President Snippy Pants. And So It Goes In Shreveport eviscerates (whoops, sorry, uncivil word) Obama’s class warfare scaremongering blamestorming 5 year old tantrum presser. […]

Oh, Good, Obama’s Going To Be On TV Yet Again: Obama Bingo Time!

What else is there to say that hasn’t already been said? In a fresh challenge to President Barack Obama, House Republicans unveiled reworked legislation Monday to avert a potentially devastating government default in barely a week — but along lines the White House has already rejected. Democrats countered quickly with an alternative that drew presidential […]

Yes, The ObamaCare Mandate Is Still Unconstitutional

And interesting line from the Constitution that I have yet to hear someone argue. The ObamaCare supporters and lawyers have argued that the it is either a tax or covered by the Commerce clause. We’ve already covered the bit about the idiocy of requiring someone to purchase something in order to make it commerce, along […]

If All You See…

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist It’s redheads week!

Latest AGW Meme: Nature Is Masking Man-Induced Warming

The True Believers trotted this one out a few weeks ago, saying that China’s pollution was masking what Mankind is doing. Apparently, they’ve decided that they are going to work this one to death Stratospheric Pollution Helps Slow Global Warming Despite significant pyrotechnics and air travel disruption last year, the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull simply didn’t […]

Shockingly, Obama Is Unable To Charm Businesses

I know, I know, it’s extremely strange, historic and unprecedented, if you will, that an administration that spends much of its time railing against and demonizing private enterprise would have a tough time charming the same The Obama administration’s push to mend its relationship with business has gone cold only six months into the effort. […]

NY Times Advocates Taxing Food Behavior

Here’s one from the Times’ Sunday Review by Mark Bittman, who “writes about food for the opinion section.” Wait, what? There’s a need to write opinion pieces about food? Only in extreme Liberal World. And that’s why we get Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables WHAT will it take to get Americans to change […]

Excitable Chucky Finally Gives Up All Pretense Of Being Anti-Jihad

Yeah, I’ve mostly ignored Charles Johnson for quite some time, as have most. Hell, even the ultra left wing cranks in the blogosphere do not bother with him. But, he’s whining about being lumped in with other bloggers in the screed of the Oslo killer, and we end up with I’ve had nothing to do […]

Michele Bachmann Rips Tim Pawlenty A New One

Well, besides the fact that she tends to poll much, much higher than he does. Anyhow, via the Politico In a statement just released from her presidential campaign, Michele Bachmann delivers a harsh counterattack on her former home-state governor, hitting back at his charge that she lacks the experience to be president and blaming Tim […]

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