More violence from illegal immigrants in Arizona, from Arizona Republic:
A Pinal County Sheriff’s deputy was shot in the stomach Friday by an undocumented immigrant off Interstate 8, according sheriff’s officials.
Lt. Tami Villar told 12 News that
In the end, this unsustainable bill jeopardizes the very thing it was supposed to fix – our health care system. Somewhere along the way we forgot that health care reform is about doctors and patients, not the IRS and
Sometimes haplessness can provoke sympathy. But [Eric] Holder mixes ineptness with self-righteousness. Critics of his questionable choices, he says, “cower.” They lack “confidence in the American system of justice.”
But there is another possibility. Perhaps Holder’s critics — in Congress,
Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.
- NO MODERATION HERE: Jennifer Rubin of Commentary opines:
David Brooks says he’s out on the ledge, morose, and about to have
Dan Riehls the Left, Riehl World View:
Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife?
I’m not sure I quite understand this, given that cost is so important as a burden to taxpayers when it comes to health care.
What is the value of a diploma? It is not what the issuing institution, nor the recipient feel it is worth. Rather a diploma is worth as much as a prospective employer perceives it to be worth. So how much
The Gipper would approve. Business Insider:
A school superintendent in Rhode Island is trying to fix an abysmally bad school system.
Her plan calls for teachers at a local high school to work 25 minutes longer per day,
As we end the President’s first year in office, we still struggle with folks on the left complaining bitterly that those of us who share a conservative ilk are out to see Obama fail. Never mind the fact that all
Continue reading about Obama\’s State Of The Union Promise: Can He Cut Programs?
My new Pajamas Media editorial deals with what I’ve considered the biggest problem America faces just now in our War on terror… our return to the underlying attitude of the Democrats that brought us the “Gorelick Wall.”
The bottom line
Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.
- THROWING MARTHA COAKLEY A LIFE PRESERVER: At the Washington Examiner, Byron York looks at reports from Massachusetts and says:
Frantic over the
“Second you have, something we’ve never before seen, a Chicago machine in the White House. The ruthlessness, the willingness to bribe senators, the fundamental dishonesty of the system… This is a ruthless machine that doesn’t care what it says, it
Barack Obama is making history. He has achieved the greatest presidential communication failure since Jimmy Carter’s malaise speech.
Video:
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post:
Any government can through laxity let someone slip through the cracks. But a government that refuses
Not in my wildest dreams would I believe that a US official could be so stupid as to say something like this in the face of unrelenting facts.
And intriguing enough is that it happened on CNN, whose reporting tends
There’s a number of people last night heaping praise on Obama’s speech at Ft Hood yesterday. Predictably, Marc Armbinder is one of them:
Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they’ll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was
Continue reading about The Cold Light of the Day After the Speech
I actually like the headline James Joyner puts up at a bit better:
House Trades Freedom for Health Coverage, Senate’s Move
The House passed a trillion dollar bill that will force Americans to buy health insurance, force even small businesses