when the rule named after you isn't what you want: Warren Buffett backs out of Obama's Buffett Rule on CNBC. ...
From David Dayen at Firedoglake: We’ll hear this was necessary because of Awlaki’s operational role, and his part played in the Fort Hood massacre and the Christmas Day bombing attempt. In reality, many experts saw Awlaki as a public figurehead, a man who could speak in...
As Instapundit said, it's Brownshirts vs. Browncoats, as a University of Wisconsin professor displays a poster of an unapproved rebellious figure. 'Firefly' and Anti-Fascism Posters Get Professor Threatened with Criminal Charges on University of Wisconsin Campus MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 26, 2011—A professor has been censored twice, reported to...
Zombie (via NiceDeb) reports that some in the Berkeley LGBT community were offended that the bake sale did not target them (Of course, they wouldn't be getting preferences under the proposed legislation anyway, so it would be quite odd if anything about the bake sale...
Seen on a GMC Yukon XL, from reader Danelle, who commented: And El Paso is a Blue County! It's a little fuzzy, but there are some good ones: ...
The government should have just taken over the banking sector, so we could avoid things like this, The End Of Free Checking? On Sat., Oct. 1, new regulations from the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul go into effect on debit cards. Specifically, they impose price controls on “interchange...
This could not wait for a bumper sticker post, and anyway, no bumper stickers were involved, Anti-Obama sign in Uptown neighborhood draws controversy (h/t reader Leland): NEW ORLEANS -- There are several political signs attracting all kinds of attention in one Uptown neighborhood. On Wednesday, crowds gathered at the...
Another excellent conservative blog is lost. I've read and linked to the Blog Prof pretty much since I started Legal Insurrection. In fact, we started our blogs around the same time, and we even picked a similar Blogger template and color scheme (for those of you...
Chavez is on his deathbed. (But, of course, the state is in denial.) I don't care much at all for Francis Fukuyama, but his 2006 write-up on Chávez's ascent in WaPo was pretty good. Or, at least, clear: Latin America has indeed witnessed a turn to this...
Fox News Reports: An Iranian pastor who has refused to renounce his Christian faith faces execution as early as Wednesday after his sentence was upheld by an Iranian court. Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who maintains he has never been a Muslim as an adult, has Islamic ancestry and...
During a United Nations General Assembly summit on non-communicable diseases -- a discussion that included diet and eating habits -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said “governments at all levels must make healthy solutions the default social option." Bloomberg is a fascist, but we've known...
The Obama administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the 11th Circuit case which found the Obamacare mandate to be unconstitutional. There is no absolute right to appeal to the Supreme Court in this case; the Court decides which cases it will take. Dahlia...
More from the Clear Brook, Virginia van featured yesterday, from frequent commenter DINORightMarie: ...
What's doing? Palin's appearance on Greta last night certainly leaves the impression she's not running, and the reasons she articulated may very well be what she is thinking, not just cover talk: If someone doesn't deeply want it, they should not run. Chris Christie (regardless of his...
From Caroline Glick, in a must read post: It's my prayer for coming year that US Jewish community will act with the majority of their fellow Americans to defend Israel. What's most stunning is that such a prayer even is needed. Update: I should have pointed out that...
No one could have seen this coming. Via The Telegraph: Diplomatic efforts are under way to revive six-nation talks on the North's nuclear disarmament. South Korea and the United States have held preparatory discussions with the North since July. But Peter Hughes said senior officials there had told...
At a recent Obama campaign event masquerading as a town hall, an ex-Google executive begged Obama to raise his taxes, to which Obama responded with an Elizabeth Warren-like argument: It turns out the guy was a plant by a group called the Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength,...
