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If I voted for a party that wanted to raise my taxes and spend even more money that the government doesn’t have; and if Joe Biden, our new Vice-President from that party described paying taxes as patriotic; and if that same party criticized a plumber for a $1,000 tax lien; and if it then turned [...]
“While I looked around, for my possibilities…. Look around Leaves are brown And the sky Is a hazy shade of winter.” After I dropped my daughters off at school this morning I started for the subway, hit shuffle on my iPhone, and while walking by St. John’s cemetary, the Bangles version of Hazy Shade of [...]
UPDATE: This might not be chargeable to Obama: The Obama White House on Monday backed away from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s support for increased federal funding of contraception in the $825-billion stimulus bill now under consideration by Congress. h/t Ace If so, my apologies to Obama and to Catholics for Obama. Let’s see how this [...]
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Not the Ramones, Kevin Hasssett on January 12: We are in the midst of a crisis caused by so many financial institutions borrowing too much money. Somehow, a critical mass of policy makers now believes that the correct response is for the U.S. government to borrow too much money. ****** This year may establish a [...]
This, from the baseball Crank, nicely sums up the events that served as the catalyst for me to abandon the Democratic Party in 2000. There are, to be sure, opportunities for ballot fraud and other shenanigans before and during an election, and the system has to provide some remedy for those, at least in provably [...]
The Anchoress has one of her amazing link-fests up. Just the sort of thing I would do if I had more energy on a Sunday afternoon. Here’s a sample: “This administration will not torture”: Unless we feel it’s prudent to. Any criticism from the left? :::I hear chirping::: “This administration will ban lobbyists”: Except when [...]
Catching up on some old news this weekend. In contrast to Obama dismantling the Mexico City policy so that tax dollars will be used to fund international abortions, Bush ended his terms positively. He declared January 18 to be Sanctity of Human Life Day. h/t: Not a Bad Farewell – Kathryn Jean Lopez – The [...]
In a post written just before BSG resumed, Jonathan Last at Galley Slaves managed to list what I think is a good list of 4 questions that the show needs to answer in its last episodes: 1 Where do the humans go? 2 What was the original Cylon plan? 3 Is there a reconciling between [...]
So, I haven’t yet watched the new episode from last night, “The Disquiet That Follows My Soul,” but this is based upon the prior two episodes in which the Colonial Fleet finds Earth, arrives, and then discovers that it was destroyed in a holocaust thousands of years ago. It is clear that Ronald D. Moore [...]
