Archive for January, 2011
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Snowy Saturday Edition
The Capital Weather gurus say that we’re likely to get a little bit of snow today, so I don’t imagine I’ll do a ton of driving around (as I had originally planned to do). It’s not that I can’t drive in snow, though it’s a pain to do so, but that folks around here freak [...]
Why Hitler Dog and Joe the Plumber Can Relate
This is one of the more amusing, and interesting, stories I’ve come across in a few weeks. During World War II, a Finnish pharmaceutical wholesaler named Tor Borg owned a dog named Jackie. Jackie was better known to Borg’s wife as Hitler because Jackie could do an interesting trick. When Borg said the command “Hitler”, [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Fun-Seeking Friday Edition
It’s been a truly long week and I, for one, am glad the weekend is here. I don’t have anything more pithy to add, except that I hope you find some fun over the next couple of days. And now, links! The cost to repeal Obamacare is entirely predicated on the scoring done by the [...]
When It Comes to CBO Reports, Trust but Verify
It’s not secret that the first big target on the new Republican majority’s hit list is Obamacare. The Democrats who passed it have already begun their defense in the form of a report from the Congressional Budget Office that says an Obamacare repeal will add $145 billion dollars to the deficit over the next eight [...]
What Do You Know? Nancy Pelosi Was A Historic Speaker!
This seems like the perfect punctuation mark to close out the reign of the hands-wodn worst Speaker of the House in our nation’s history. With 19 Democrats withholding support from Nancy Pelosi for House speaker on Wednesday, it represented the largest defection from a party’s speaker nominee in nearly a century. The resistance in the Democratic [...]
Thanks to The Constitution, The Progressives of Vanity Fair Have Suddenly Discovered Fiscal Discipline
This story in Vanity Fair absolutely flabbergasted me when it popped up in my RSS feed this morning. If progressives have developed such an aversion to the United States Constitution that they will unashamedly argue that reading it in the House today will cost too much money, they have utterly surrendered the issue entirely. At [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Liberation Thursday Edition
The day of our delivery (as opposed to the day of The Delivery) has arrived. The new crop of Republican winners have arrived in Washington and the essential battles have already been joined. Some Democrats are looking for a graceful way to ditch Obamacare and save their professional hides while the MSM has assumed its [...]
Nothing Says Leadership Like A Token Hot Dog on the Run
I’ve often wondered what the essential quality of leadership is. You might think that a true leader would choose to celebrate a big victory with by spending an hour or so with his most dedicated followers, but you’d be very wrong. Sharing yourself with the little people is for suckers. According to California public sector [...]
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