Paul Ryan Runs the Best Presidential Campaign Ad of 2012

Revealed: President Obama's REAL Tournament Bracket

Genius: Administration spending millions to train firefighters how to combat exploding Chevy Volts

Everything the Obama administration touches turns to crap: it has hollowed out the military, de-funded NASA, raided the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for purely political reasons, devastated the health care system, and wasted billions on crony green investments. Exhibit A: the disastrous Chevy Volt:

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10 Reasons Why Fisker May Be Worse Than Solyndra

...the only reasons Fisker has not superseded Solyndra on the disaster scale is because it has not declared bankruptcy yet and it has received a little less money (although it was "awarded" about the same amount). But with A123, it may turn out to be “two Solyndras for the price of one,” as Forbes described it.

Palin, Obama, Breitbart, The Press and Tingles

Sarah Palin on Breitbart (read the whole thing):

Barack Obama and I both served in political office in states with a serious corruption problem. Though there is a big difference between serving as the CEO of a city, then a state, and regulating domestic energy resources, and being a liberal Community Organizer, bear with me on the comparison. The difference between my record and Barack Obama’s is that I fought the corrupt political machine my entire career (and I have twenty years of scars to prove it) on the local, state, and national level. But Obama didn’t fight the corruption he encountered. He went along with it to advance his career. Graft, cronyism, and quid pro quo are the methods of the Chicago political machine from which he emerged.

You would think the media – those watchdogs of the public trust – would be interested in this. But they refused to vet Barack Obama. With tingles up their legs, they shielded him.

If the media had done their job of vetting him, we wouldn’t have been shocked that within days after Obama’s election, his close political associate Rod Blagojevich was caught trying to sell Obama’s vacant Senate seat.

If the media had done their job of vetting him, we wouldn’t be astonished to see all the billion dollar green energy kickbacks going to his campaign cronies as the nation heads towards bankruptcy.

If the media had done their job of vetting him, we wouldn’t be surprised that Obama brought these same Chicago “pay-to-play” practices to the White House.

This corruption was entirely predictable. But the mainstream media, who work under our Constitutional right of freedom of the press which our sons and daughters fight in war zones today to protect, dropped the ball and failed America by refusing to vet their chosen candidate.

So, as Breitbart declared in his last CPAC speech, we – the everyday patriotic citizens of the United States – will do the vetting the media refused to do.

This is a first step. Ultimately, Breitbart’s goal was to expose what he called the corrupt Democrat Media Complex. He wanted to break it up because he understood how the left uses its dominance of the mainstream media and pop culture to advance its objectives and marginalize its political foes.

Complex Societies Need Simple Laws

“If you have 10,000 regulations,” Winston Churchill said, “you destroy all respect for law.”


He was right. But Churchill never imagined a government that would add 10,000 year after year. That’s what we have in America. We have 160,000 pages of rules from the feds alone. States and localities have probably doubled that. We have so many rules that legal specialists can’t keep up. Criminal lawyers call the rules “incomprehensible.” They are. They are also “uncountable.” Congress has created so many criminal offenses that the American Bar Association says it would be futile to even attempt to estimate the total.


So what do the politicians and bureaucrats of the permanent government do? They pass more rules.

John Stossel. Read the whole thing.

ObamaCare - What's In It.

They had to pass it to see what was in it.

If you are old or plan to get old, be careful. You don’t want to be what the Nazis called a “useless eater” or one whose life is unworthy of life.

Dick Morris: Obama Will Lose 2012 in Landslide

It's a comment from August 2011 and not much has changed except that gas prices have skyrocketed.

Vetting the President and the Media

Michelle Malkin vs. Juan Williams defending the PBS candy coating of Obama.

The Vagina Diatribes

Ann Coulter: 

What with liberal women constantly talking about their vaginas suddenly pretending to be offended by the word "slut," and conservatives pretending to be as pussified as liberals about the nasty names they've been called, I never got an answer to the most pressing question about Sandra Fluke: Who are you again?

Was Fluke dragged out of obscurity after the women of America took a vote and chose her as our spokeswoman? Please, Sandra, we know how deeply private, publicity-shy and terribly busy with law school you are, but we need you to speak for us!

I don't think that happened. Rather, Fluke is the latest in a long line of my absolute favorite liberal typology: hysterical drama queens.

From Murphy Brown to the Jersey Girls, Cindy Sheehan, Joe Wilson and the New School's Jean Rohe, these fantasists inject themselves into a boiling-hot public debate and then claim victim status when anyone criticizes them.

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Michelle Obama thinks that the American people just don't understand her husband's policies and Sarah Palin isn't buying it.

Absolutely Devastating: Obama's Words Come Back To Haunt Him...Big Time

Dark Lord of the Stith Resigns

I have attempted to reach out and make a gripping argument to those who disagree, but the old, all-too-complacent top management insists these whippersnappers be released and that this assessment is dismissed as “pointless bickering.” Time and again, middle management proves itself as clumsy as it is stupid. Outside consultants are dismissed with a sneer, “we don’t need their kind.” Managers expect us to ignore delays in construction projects by sniveling that our presence is an “unexpected pleasure” and how honored they are by our presence. We can dispense with the pleasantries.

People who care only about making the same super-weapon, again and again, with more or less the exact same weakness and design flaw, will not sustain this Empire—or the fear of its people—for very much longer.

Even the Dark Side can't get good help these days.

Sex-starved fruit flies turn to drink

News you can use.

Home schooling: Why more black US families are trying it

Until recently, home schooling in the US was mostly practised by white families, but a growing number in the black community are now also turning their back on the public school system and educating their children at home. Why?

Maybe because blacks are getting the worst public schooling.

"There were lots of fights and people getting shot," says Sonya Barbee.

It's hard to focus on the lesson when you could be assaulted or shot at any time.  Black students fought to get into public schools only to find that once they got there they had been lied to.

According to a 2008 study by the Schott Foundation: "Over the last 25 years, the social, educational and economic outcomes for black males have been more systematically devastating than the outcomes for any other racial or ethnic group or gender."

Is this any surprise when schools are run for the benefit of Big Education?

Two soldiers shot dead in south-west France

Two soldiers have been killed and a third wounded by a gunman on a scooter who opened fire near a military base at Montauban in southern France.

Earlier reports said all three had died. Police said the soldiers were withdrawing cash, but theft did not appear to be the motive.

The attacker, wearing a helmet with a visor, sped off after opening fire.

Wonder who's doing this? Once is an isolated incidence, twice is a coincidence. If there's a third time there's a pattern.

The incident follows another shooting, on Sunday, when a 30-year-old soldier was shot dead by an assailant on a motorcycle in a residential area of Toulouse, 29 miles (46km) south of Montauban.

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

James Taranto, in Best of the Web in the WSJ notes that Lefties have stopped trying to deny their double standard. They are now defending it.

She Sleeps With the Fishes Yesterday we noted that Stanley Fish had justified liberal double standards--trying to destroy Rush Limbaugh for his "misogynistic remarks," while tolerating worse from Bill Maher--on the ground that liberals are "good guys" and conservatives are "bad guys." This prompted reader July Linett to write us with an interesting thought experiment:

Although you point out some of the problems with his argument, I think there is more to it. For example, there are two men with guns. Both kill an innocent child accidentally. One of the men is an anti-Semite known for torturing animals. The other is a guy we like. Is it fair then to give the guy we like a pass and instead only put the anti-Semite in jail for the crime of shooting the kid? Admittedly, calling someone names is a far cry from the above, but as I read Fish, that's just about what he's saying. To put the question more broadly, what if the left applied lower standards to its friends not just when it came to the etiquette of political debate but to all forms of wrongful behavior?

There was someone with whom we wanted to discuss this matter, but Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

Peter Wood on Critical Race Theory and Derrick Bell

The re-release of videos showing Barack Obama as a Harvard Law School student in 1991 speaking at a rally in support of professor Derrick Bell has so far occasioned little more than a yawn from academe. The late Professor Bell (1930-2011) is a reasonably well-known figure among those of us who follow racial controversies in higher education, but he is far from a household name. Moreover, there is a triple discount available on this purchase. The precipitating event was (a) long ago; (b) involved intemperate declarations by a student; and (c) requires taking seriously racial bombast by a black professor. These provide a neat package of reasons to put the matter aside as a pseudo-controversy.

That may, however, prove to be a mistaken judgment. Bell could come into sharper focus for the general public in the days ahead, and we don’t know yet how deep or durable his influence on Obama really was. At least at one point, the association worried some Obama supporters. Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree referring to the footage admits, “I hid this during the 2008 campaign,” but “I don’t care if they find it now.”

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Places to retire

You can retire to 'Phoenix', Arizona where...

1. You are willing to park 3 blocks away because you found shade.
2. You've experienced condensation on your hiney from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
3. You can drive for 4 hours in one direction and never leave town.
4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
5. You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door.
6. On every street corner, you can buy drugs or you can get in a gun fight with drug runners

OR. . .

You can retire to 'California' where . . .

1. You make over $250,000 and pay 70% of it in taxes
2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
3. You know how to eat an artichoke.
4. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.
5. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there.
6. The 5 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, Drought and Tax

OR. . .

You can retire to 'New York City' where . . .

1. You say "The City" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.
2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
3. You think Central Park is "nature."
4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
5. If you have a car, you've worn out the car horn.
6. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.

OR

You can retire to 'Wisconsin' where . . .

1. You only have four spices: Salt, Pepper, Ketchup, and Tabasco .
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3. You have more than one recipe for casserole.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction.
6. You believe Unions are God’s gift to man kind

OR. . .

You can retire to the 'Deep South' where. . .

1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2. "Y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural.
3. "He needed killin" is a valid defense.
4. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Ellen, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, Ina Dale, etc.
5. Everything is either "in yonder," "over yonder" or "out yonder." It's important to know the difference, too.
6. Church is where families go to seek God

OR. . .

You can retire to 'Colorado' where. . .

1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and so he stops at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.
5. You think Mountain High and Getting High are the same

OR. . .

You can retire to the 'Midwest' where. . .

1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!"

OR. . .

FINALLY you can retire to 'Florida' where. . .

1. You eat Dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even Houses and Cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the State.
5. Cars in front of you often appear to be driven by 'headless people'.
6. People still remember what it was like to be an American before it disappeared

Poor Sandra Fluke… She Wants You To Pay For Her $9/Month Birth Control As She Frolics in Spain & Pompeii

EBL alerted me to this

Poor Sandra Fluke… She Wants You To Pay For Her $9/Month Birth Control As She Frolics in Spain & Pompeii

Remember how paying for her own birth control was such a financial burden for female Georgetown law students that you could see the pain on their faces?

Just when you thought you’d seen everything.

Poor Sandra Fluke, the 30 year-old far left activist who wants you to pay for her $9 a month birth control, is dating a rich socialist.

They recently traveled to Spain and Italy together.

It was a lovely getaway for the women’s rights activist and her rich socialist boyfriend.

Don't know the Mutterperls? Here you go: Sandra Fluke’s Boyfriend, Adam “Cutie Pants” Mutterperl, And His Radical Socialist Family

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