Breakfast Scramble (Friday)

Paving with elephant dung, Shelby Steele, Wall Street Journal:

How is it that Barack Obama could step into the presidency with an air of inevitability and then, in less than two years, find himself unwelcome at the campaign

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20005458-38.html

Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20005458-38.html

Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.

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For whom the bill tolls, Megan McArdle,  Atlantic:

The Health Care Reform Already Costs More Than We Thought It Would

There’s been a spate of bad news recently about the health care bill.

Henry Waxman canceled his War

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

Liberal is synonym for stupid.   Dim witted Senators want to wreck economy to solve imaginary problem:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new Senate bill aimed at battling global warming would impose new limits on carbon dioxide pollution from

Earth to WaPo, come in please. Tim Talley, Associated Press. “Clinic: New Okla. abortion law hard on patients.”    While Oklahoma abortion law may, or may not, be hard on patients, actually mothers, it is even harder on

Arizona to Dumbo: “Arizona immigration law: Are you listening, Mr. President?”

A brain is horrible thing to waste, from Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:

Today democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden, along with Democratic Senators Jay Rockefeller

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Geraghty’s Law, the deluxe collectors edition, Jim Geraghty, National Review:

BARACK OBAMA

A Long Post: The Complete List of Obama Statement Expiration Dates

By popular demand, a comprehensive list of expired Obama statements…

Holy Cow! MSNBC discovers the

Of course, the White House anticipates that the American people will learn to love this bill[Obama Care] so much that repeal will soon become politically impossible. In their view, seniors will learn to love the cuts to Medicare, small business

Bart even more Stup(id)ak than thought, from Fox News:

President Obama signed the Senate health care bill into law Tuesday. He did not sign the executive order on abortion negotiated with Michigan Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak in an

I count seventeen persons in the picture, fifteen criminals, one widow of a dead criminal, and one prop, to wit Macelas Owens.    The moron in chief kept repeating the health care reform was  need for the children.   Yet the only

Why the one hasn’t won yet, Jay Cost, RCP:

Last week, President Obama said again and again that the time for talk is over. Yet this week he’s going on the road to defend his new bill. This

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