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My favorite part is the bag at the end. My only disappointment is they missed the opportunity to use the line, “Those jobs weren’t even on the table.”
Richard Stith has a fantastic short post over at Mirror of Justice, with the best single line about current abortion dialogue I have seen in some time: Reducing the numbers of those who need protection is no substitute for protecting those who need protection Mirror of Justice: on abortion reduction as common ground.
So we’re in a recession, at least, where one of the biggest problems is that people with money won’t lend it. Then the President stiff-arms secured creditors to pay off his union buddies, overturning basic law to do so. Who will lend money now, without seeking potentially high rewards with higher interest rates? Scott Grannis [...]
“If you don’t know who the mark is, you are the mark.” Good advice for any poker game. Sometimes you might think somebody else is the mark, but an elaborate ruse has been created to fool you. This mostly happens in movies, like The Sting. Other times your partner might double-cross you, and after you [...]
This is Witness. A commencement, however, is supposed to be a joyous day for the graduates and their families. It is not the right place, nor is a brief acceptance speech the right vehicle, for engagement with the very serious problems raised by Notre Dame’s decision—in disregard of the settled position of the U.S. bishops—to [...]
It’s been widely reported today that President Obama gave the Queen of England an iPod as a gift. There is no word, however, whether it came with the special case:
I’m a bit less scandalized than Andrew McCarthy at the following actions of the Obama/Eric Holder Justice Department: The Washington Post reports this morning that Holder has overruled OLC’s objective, well-reasoned, constitutionally-rooted opinion that the controversial D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is unconstitutional. OLC’s conclusion, if accepted by the Attorney General, as is [...]
Remember when our President gave the Prime Minister of Great Britain a cheap set of DVDs? At the time, some predicted that the gift would be even worse than was known, because the DVDs would turn out to be produced for the region the US is in, and would not play in UK DVD players. [...]
According to this Washington Post story, “President Obama’s apparent inability to block executive bonuses at insurance giant AIG has dealt a sharp blow to his young administration and is threatening to derail both public and congressional support for his ambitious political agenda.” I’ve previously thought that the drop in Obama’s poll numbers in the past [...]
The Chinese government had an interesting exchange with our President this week about US debt. John Hinderaker summarized it: Of course, what the Chinese are worried about is not that the United States government will default on its bonds. That obviously won’t happen. The Chinese concern, now being expressed openly for the first time, is [...]
