Racist Reidcare

It is called disparate impact,  Lisa Richwine:

WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – In the rush to fund a U.S. healthcare overhaul, Botox injections to smooth wrinkles will not be taxed, but visiting a tanning salon will be.

Plastic

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• WHAT IS THE GOAL? EVEN HE DOESN’T KNOW: Byron York today says
  

  A lot of observers

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• THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE PRESS: Let’s get down to this one, right off. Both David and myself have commented on

How easy did these people think it was going to be when they decided to elect a man whose resume fits nicely on a postage stamp to the highest office in the land?

Racism?  No.  Incompetence with a capital “I.” 

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This is the Vacation Edition Not that I actually have one this year, (Thanks, Barry!) but I can dream, right?

• IT’S THE

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

Eric Holder

The reprobate who is attorney general,  Eric Holder has called for a national conversation on race.   Holder throws this piece of fat into the fire,  from the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder says he

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• RELEASE THE TAPES:  Moe Lane thinks they ought to release the police tapes made during

Professor Ann Althouse plays Sigmound Freud.   The professor  parses Barack Obama with a very fine toothed  comb and offers an interesting suggestion, Ann Althouse:

Obama’s use of the word is a little off. I think “jigger into” is unidiomatic

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• A Pretty Pathetic Presidential Picthing  Performance: Did you guys see this in Pittsburgh? Neither did I, but a freind did.  Joyner apparently noticed it

I’m more than a little annoyed at what I find in the LA Times Op-Ed section this morning.

The two cases were the latest skirmishes in the broader conservative war to reframe the way Americans view the issue of race.

Matthew Yglesias  is just a tad bit confused.

This seems very confused. Being a “reverse racist” can’t be similar to being a “racist,” it needs to be the reverse of being a racist. Limbaugh clearly just thinks Sotomayor is a

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• More Base!! To start with, today, we see a comment from Glenn

You just knew someone would do this eventually.

Washington Times:

Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance.

“Let’s be very

With a nod to WPGB’s Jim Quinn, I want to call to your attention, this monring to an article that appeared in National Review, yesterday, by  Hans A. von Spakovsky, called “A Leadership of Cowards?”

Here’s a bit