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Vice President Joe Biden has famously said that paying taxes is patriotic. Yesterday was tax day and Biden went out of his way to make sure that he maximized his "patriotism" by minimizing his charity. The White House on Wednesday also released the tax return for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his wife, […]

While campaigning Barack Obama vowed that he wouldn't subordinate science to politics like President George W. Bush had. He was lying. Barack Obama too ignores the science when it conflicts with his policy goals, as David Freddoso has noted: But before this ceremony even took place, Obama’s administration had already begun cutting corners on its […]

The excreble Al Sharpton on Somali pirates:     Voluntary Coast Guard? And the Democrats take this man seriously.

A colleague turned me on to AngryJournalist.com last weekend because there was a post and some responses touting the "fact" that copy editors were unnecessary -- reporters could just read each other's copy and that would be sufficient. This earned hearty guffaws from my colleague -- who was amused that the ace reporter had used […]

UPDATE! This post has been updated Many of you will recall the report put out a few years ago by the Bush administration's Department of Homeland Security warning of the rise of left-wing extremism. The report singled out universities for their subversive "peace studies" programs (and the affiliated gender/minority "studies" programs) and groups like Code […]

The new first dog (FDOTUS) has a blog. Could have been worse, I suppose. These past few days I've been hanging out with three other Porties, names of Sunny, Splash and Cappy, owned by a big fat Irishman called Senator Ted Kennedy. I mean - Splash? I may be a dog but I know my […]

A week ago when I mentioned that the new dean of the Episcopal Divinity School had given a "sermon" lauding abortion as a "blessing" I was informed by a pro-choice commenter from an Ivy League school that "No one likes abortions, not even the women who decide to have them." I was confused because I […]

Earlier this month President Barack Obama signed a law raising the cigarette tax 62 cents a pack, bringing the total federal tax to $1.01. The additional income (assuming that the increased costs don't result in decreased consumption and less net income) will be used to fund the State Children's Health Insurance Program for the poor, […]

You're probably asking yourself what the heck is dendroclimatology? Well, it's the study of tree rings to determine past climate. It's one of the key tools that the AGW alarmists use to show that it was cooler way back then than it is now -- and it's all our fault. You might have learned back […]

What's the stereotype? Today's stereotype is: Whiney liberal feminist (but I repeat myself, repeatedly): COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says it's lonely being the only woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. The 76-year-old Ginsburg told law students at Ohio State University that she misses her former colleague, Sandra Day O'Connor, who retired […]