• Americans’ visceral anger about 9/11 may have receded somewhat into the background over the last 10 years, but it is still absolutely there. There’s no need, yet, to say “Never Forget.” We haven’t forgotten. Not even close. • Osama Bin Laden was very much the personal focal point of that visceral anger. I confess I was surprised by the… Read more »
Driving to work this morning, I wanted to hear my 9/11 anthem, so I put my iPhone on my patriotic playlist and listened to it. After that song ended, I let it shuffle through other songs on the list. The third or fourth one that came on was “Anchors Aweigh,” the Navy song. Given that Bin Laden was just killed… Read more »
About f***in’ time. We got him before the tenth anniversary of 9/11, thank goodness. I really hope there’s a Hell, if only so that evil motherf***er can burn in it. UPDATE: It’s official. Obama just announced it. Operation was authorized last week; Osama was killed in a firefight today. The U.S. soldiers in that firefight must never pay for their… Read more »
The president’s father, that is. 🙂 The long-form birth certificate: See also Obama’s correspondence with the Hawaii Department of Health regarding the release of the document, which required a waiver of the department’s usual policy. Some may ask what took Obama so long to request the long-form. I say, it takes time to pull of a good forgery, people! 😛… Read more »
I missed this when it came out on Saturday, but it’s a must-read: Reagan’s OMB director, David Stockman, eviscerates both the Obama and Ryan budget plans.
Haley Barbour won’t run for president. So… will Mitch Daniels? I hope so! Barbour and Daniels are close friends, and they share many of the same establishment, big-money type supporters, so the assumption has been that they wouldn’t both run. Well, the ball’s in your court, Mitch! As I’ve said before, Daniels articulates a lot of conservatism’s good ideas without… Read more »
Larry Sabato has unveiled his initial electoral map for 2012: The broad outlines of the projection should surprise no one, and the specifics don’t really matter too much at this early date. For instance, just going by my gut instinct, I might call Florida, Indiana and perhaps North Carolina “Leans R” instead of “Tossup” — but who cares? It’s way… Read more »
#PANIC!!: Federal borrowing is on pace to hit the legal limit on the national debt in less than a week. … As of the close of business Tuesday…the U.S. Treasury [had] the authority to borrow only an additional $25.635 billion before it hits the statutory debt limit. … [D]uring the first 821 days of Obama’s presidency the debt increased by… Read more »
It’s a few days old, but via Jim Kelly, I’ve just discovered David Frum’s article “Two Cheers for the Welfare State.” Frum, if you don’t know, is a former National Review editor and George W. Bush speechwriter, a one-time “true believer” in all things conservative, but who has become associated in recent years with the GOP’s centrist wing. Anyway, I… Read more »
Because clearly, actual terrorists, trying to slip through undetected, are routinely going to draw attention to themselves with “arrogant complaining about airport security.” Riiiiight. Why, it’s almost as if this agency of the federal government is trying to use its largely unchecked power of detention, arrest, and general intimidation to harass innocent citizens into silence, lest they dangerously threaten American… Read more »