Ramble for 7/13/11

Kirkwood, NY– I’m at the NY border just now, eating lunch and going through my email. I’m headed toward Albany and will be there in a couple hours. Cooler, today. A welcome change.

• McConnell, again: I said yesterday: Time

In order for Americans to get their jobs back, Barack Obama must lose his, from Shannon Travis:

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) – Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is getting more creative, and apparently more aggressive, in her

Brooklyn, NY– I’m at a store, waiting for an offload. I often forget how crowded it gets down here. All it takes is five minutes worth of driving here to remind me.

• Obama: The latest example of how socialism

Obama does AIPAC, from Jennifer Rubin Washington Post:

The problems in the speech include: 1) Obama made it clear the United States is willing to give away Israel’s bargaining position for nothing in return; 2) Obama never even

Dumbo dropping, from Ross Douthat, NY Times:

The President’s Credibility Gap

Addressing the nation Monday evening, President Obama suggested that the United States was in the process of reducing its military footprint in Libya, even as he explicitly rejected

L & O DOA, Deadline:

This one is a shocker. Veteran crime drama Law & Order will not get its shot at history after all. I hear that after long deliberations, NBC has decided to cancel the long-running

The Day Obama Care died. Barack Obama does not care about anybody except himself and he doesn’t hide it.

What pay gap? Christina Hoff Sommers, American:

The claim that American women as a group face systemic wage discrimination

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• COAL-MINE: We’ve all seen the news coming out of  the area around Montcoal, West Virginia.  As of this writing something

Ted Rall, State Journal-Register

MIAMI – We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama’s inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton