The Other McCain

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Democrats: ‘Civility’ Means It’s OK for Us to Start Calling Republicans Nazis Again

Disagree with them and you’re a brownshirt: In an extraordinary outburst on the House floor, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) invoked the Holocaust to attack Republicans on health care and compared rhetoric on the issue to the work of infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. “They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie […]

Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher Star in Pre-Marital Divorce Training Video

Here, see for yourself: The story is, evidently, a romantic comedy for the post-marriage generation: The calling card of “No Strings” is its cavalier attitude toward casual sex, and how members of the opposite sex have precious few boundaries talking about or engaging in the practice of making love. . . . “I think holding […]

Abortion Is Murder, and Sometimes We Are Brutally Reminded of That Fact

Even the Associated Press can’t ignore this story: A doctor who provided abortions for minorities, immigrants and poor women in a “house of horrors” clinic has been charged with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive . . . (Via Memeorandum.) UPDATE: John Hayward at […]

Rush Limbaugh on Zeitgeist

“If the movies you go see tell you that your government was behind the downing of the trade center and the Pentagon in 9/11 — as the movie Zeitgeist did, a documentary — if you were told by Michael Moore that all of this was done on purpose, if you’re told that the rich have […]

ObamaCare: Bad for Your Health

Sally Pipes in the New York Post: Repeal of ObamaCare can’t come soon enough — as several damaging provisions are set to take effect this year. For starters, it has effectively stopped the construction of physician-owned hospitals throughout the country. Section 6001 of the health-care law required physician-owned hospitals to obtain their Medicare certification by […]

‘Die, Navin R. Johnson!’

“The new phonebook’s here! The new phonebook’s here! . . . This is the kind of spontaneous publicity — your name in print — that makes people! Things are going to start happening to me now!” To explain the non sequitur: Steve Martin’s excitement over the “spontaneous publicity” of the new phonebook is how I […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 1.19.11

TOP NEWS Peace Corps Founder Sargent Shriver Dead At 95 Probably best known for marrying into the Kennedy clan, work with Special Olympics Senator Lieberman To Retire In 2012 Second Democratic senator to announce retirement PRC President Visits Amid Mounting Military Tension Rising concern in the Administration about PRC capabilities Ministers Quit Tunisian Unity Government […]

VIDEO: Herman Cain vs. Clinton, 1994

Watch this video in which the Godfather’s Pizza CEO discusses the economic impact of government health-care with Bill Clinton, and tell me if you can think of any Republican candidate better qualified to argue the case for repealing ObamaCare: You really ought to read this 1994 Newsweek article that highlights Cain’s key role in helping […]

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