One of the liberal criticisms of some realpolitik during the Cold War was the United States’ support of some pretty nasty strongmen and their regimes under the logic that we needed them on our side against the Soviets and they may be bastards, but they were “our bastards.” Similar logic seems to be becoming the […]
Here’s the new tone from the left at last weekend’s rally against the “evil” Koch brothers sponsored by those champions of responsible speech: Code Pink, Common Cause, Greenpeace, etc. The left is always blaming Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and anyone else who’s conservative and has a talk radio show of “inciting hatred” and […]
The Congressional Budget Office released its 10-year budget outlook last week. For 2011, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that if current laws remain unchanged, the federal budget will show a deficit of close to $1.5 trillion, or 9.8 percent of GDP. The deficits in CBO's baseline projections drop markedly over the next few years […]
Rep. Tom McClintock got Chief Medicare Actuary Rick Foster to answer a couple true-false questions: And the transcript: McCLINTOCK: “True or false: The two principle promises that were made in support of Obamacare were one, that it would hold costs down. True or false?” FOSTER: “I would say false, more so than true.” McCLINTOCK: “The […]
Refresh and scroll down for updates. (All times Pacific) 6:10 p.m.: This would go faster if they didn’t stand up and clap so much. Here’s the remarks as prepared. Obama’s not out of touch. He remembered that we just had an election. 6:21 p.m.: I don’t really buy this: China became home to the world’s […]
The Washington Post is reporting that President Obama “has decided not to endorse his deficit commission's recommendation to raise the retirement age, and otherwise reduce Social Security benefits, in Tuesday's State of the Union address, cheering liberals and drawing a stark line between the White House and key Republicans in Congress. “ This would be […]
In an effort to defend the indefensible Obamacare law, the Department of Health and Human Services came out with a report claiming that if Obamacare were repealed, 129 million Americans “could be denied affordable coverage.” Think about that number for a minute. There are approximately 311 million Americans. Those over the age of 65 are […]
I can’t believe I missed this: “We’ve had some incidents where TSA authorities think that congresspeople should be treated like everybody else,” [Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.] said. “Well, the fact of the matter is, we are held to a higher standard in so many other areas, and I think we need to take a hard […]
A reader forwarded me the link to this Village Voice article defending New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. I encourage you to check it out. It’s hilarious in how it elides all the substantive arguments against Krugman’s knee-jerk, fact-free attempt to blame the Tucson shooting on the political right. The author, Roy Edroso, quotes the […]
Eric Fuller is a Democrat and was one of the victims of last weekend’s Tucson shooting. He quickly became a hero to the left when he gave an interview to liberal talk show “Democracy Now!” blaming Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Sharron Angle for the shooting. The next day, Fuller was at a town hall […]