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VIDEO: Obama Sermonizes About This Silly Distraction From His Incompetence

Professor Glenn Reynolds: The White House may think it’s sprung a trap, but I think they waited too long. By now — as the polls from earlier this week showing how many independents thought Obama wasn’t born here, and which probably prompted the release decision, indicate — the damage is done. UPDATE: We now have […]

WATERLOO FOR BIRTHERS: Obama Releases Long-Form Birth Certificate

UPDATE 12:10 p.m.: VIDEO: Obama Sermonizes About This Silly Distraction From His Incompetence * * * * * PREVIOUSLY (9:15 a.m. ET): The White House this morning released Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate, which is now available online as a PDF. UPDATE: CNN reports: The White House released President Obama’s original birth certificate Wednesday. The […]

‘Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin’

Obama sees the writing on the wall (click to enlarge): Photoshop by Aaron — based on Belshazzar’s Feast by Rembrandt — and if you don’t get the Bible reference, it’s from Daniel 5: “Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting.”

Cokie Roberts Must Be Telepathic

by Smitty (via Right Wing Video) After there is a liberation of talk shows, there needs to be a rule: sweeping, idiotic generalizations must be met with a pie in the face. Sure, these intellectual shortcuts are easy to throw out there, we can all flail ourselves. But let’s work to cut it out. I’m […]

‘Main Street Fairness Act’: Dick Durbin’s $23 Billion Internet Sales Tax Scheme

Patrick Ishmael at Hot Air explains how Illinois imposed a job-killing Internet sales tax on businesses in that state. Now, Illinois Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin is proposing to turn this bad idea into national policy as the “Main Street Fairness Act.” Kelly William Cobb at Americans for Tax Reform says that Durbin’s job-killer is “not just […]

Question To Domestic Patriots: What Are You Doing About The Administration’s DISCLOSE Proposal?

by Smitty PowerLine notes von Spakovsky at PJM reporting: the Obama administration is circulating the draft of an executive order for comments from several government agencies. Titled “Disclosure of Political Spending By Government Contractors,” it represents the Obama administration’s attempt to implement by executive fiat portions of the DISCLOSE Act as to federal contractors.  On […]

The Futility of Class Warfare Rhetoric

Graphic: RushLimbaugh.com via Hot Air Pundit Demonizing the rich may work as politics for Democrats, but the problem is that it fails as policy. One could argue that Americans are undertaxed in general, and that some kind of across-the-board rate increase (or closing of loopholes) is therefore necessary for the purpose of enhancing federal revenue […]

One Can Admire Norquist’s Sadism, But We’re Still Beating Around The Bush

by Smitty To raise the debt ceiling, or not? National Review has a bunch of opinions from the wise guys. I can imagine Sprinklerman listening to Norquist: My preference would be to keep the administration on a short leash and extend the debt limit by only a small amount and for a short period of […]

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