davidl on September 4th, 2009

Not content with raising taxes on yo8ur income and taxing your health,  the Obama administration want your body parts as well,  from James Taranto, Best of the Web

“Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information

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Eric Florack on August 8th, 2009

David Boaz has noticed a pattern… one we’ve mentioned here before.

Some people on the left can’t see any excuse for opposition to collectivism except racism. (Which is, of course, as Ayn Rand said, “the lowest, most crudely primitive

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2009

As goes Energy, so goes the country.
lenin

“The worse, the better,” Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed. What Lenin meant was that the worse social conditions became in Russia, the more likely he and the Bolsheviks could foment a

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Eric Florack on June 9th, 2009

Lee Cary over at American Thinker:

In a one sentence order, Justice Ginsburg left open the possibility that the SCOTUS may scotch the Chrysler-Fiat deal that gives 29 cents on the dollar to the Indiana Fund and other Chrysler

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Eric Florack on April 9th, 2009

Overheard someone just now asking why there’s never been any movie made about Whittaker Chambers.

It’s an interesting question, and the answers  would be very revealing of the state of play with socialism in this country even up to today.

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Eric Florack on February 10th, 2009

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama‘s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health

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Eric Florack on January 15th, 2009

What kind of man is going to be out next Attorney General? You tell me.
Video:

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Eric Florack on January 12th, 2009

I’ve been telling you all along that Obama will govern from the extreme left. Another example comes from the Washington Post, this morning:

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed

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Eric Florack on January 11th, 2009

A funny post happened over at the Opinion Forum:

Imagine reading this headline: “German People Vote Adolf Hitler Third Most Popular German Historical Figure.”

Can you really imagine that? The international condemnation against such an act would be immediate,

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2008

David Kope who writes with the Volokh boys, says this morning:

Earlier this year, Eric Holder–along with Janet Reno and several other former officials from the Clinton Department of Justice–co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller.

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2008

I note Saint Andrew the Incontinent, this morning:

“I do think that comparing Obama’s proposals for voluntary service to the forced labor marches in building the White Sea-Baltic canal by Stalin is absurd. But it is also deeply insulting

Continue reading about Sullivan’s True Colors; Has There Ever been Doubt About Them?

davidl on October 31st, 2008

I am selfish.  You are selfish.   All human beings are selfish.   Show mw a person who claims not to be selfish, and all you either a fool or a liar.

BO is campaigning on a promise to give some ninety-five

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davidl on October 29th, 2008

Ronald Reagan was purported to have said, I so much like to believe that he did, “That the nice thing having Alzheimer’s was getting to make new friends every day.”   In the spirit of Reagan, the nice thing about being

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Eric Florack on October 24th, 2008

From The London Times:

North Korea is clamping down on mobile phones and long distance telephone calls to prevent the spread of news about a worsening food crisis, according to the United Nations investigator on human rights for the isolated

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A little noted…. at least in the Dinosaur media… event took place on Saturday. The local Fox channel in LA noted it as a part of this article:

Palin was introduced by Shelly Mandell, president of the Los Angeles

Continue reading about The Tide is Turning: President of LA Chapter of NOW Backs Palin