November 28th, 2013
Expect slow blogging the rest of the week while I’m giving thanks by stuffing my face, so here’s Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Thanksgiving address.
“It’s people, not government, who create wealth and provide growth.”
Quite a contrast with current occupant of the White House…
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November 27th, 2013
I’m guessing a lot of people will be traveling or furiously cleaning their house today, so here’s a small pre-Thanksgiving LinkSwarm for the distracted:
Dear America: In case you didn’t notice in the ObamaCare meltdown, the economy is still screwed.
Current estimate for people losing their employer health insurance thanks to ObamaCare: 80 million.
Abbott Labs CEO: ObamaCare provides “clear incentives for companies to drop their health care plans and move people onto the exchanges.”
Noted right-wing white supremacists Al Sharpton and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter say the Knockout Game is real. (Hat tip Jammie Wearing Fool.
Israel is not the only country upset over Obama and Kerry’s Iranian cave-in; the Saudis are pissed, too.
The pro-Amnesty lobby thinks they can punish politicians for agreeing with the will of American voters. Fuzzy, feel-good “immigration reform” polls well right up until voters realize what they’ll actually get is illegal alien amnesty.
Leander ISD is bankrupting its children.
Tags: Border Controls, Crime, Foreign Policy, Illegal Aliens, Iran, Jihad, ObamaCare, Saudi Arabia
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November 26th, 2013
The Venezuelan Parliament just passed an “enabling law” to give Socialist President Nicolas Maduro dictatorial powers.
Gee, you know what other Socialist President had his country pass an “Enabling Law” to give him dictatorial powers?
Go ahead.
Guess.
Maduro’s opponents? Not happy.
Earlier this month, Maduro sent the army to seize electronics store and force them to sell goods below cost, i.e. at the laughable “official exchange rate” of 6.3 bolivars per dollar rather than the real black market rate, which is some eight times higher. (They even tried to get Twitter to block unofficial exchange rates.) And Maduro is looking to loot more stores ahead of the December 8 elections. Given that Hugo Chavez has been hollowing out the country since 1999, I’m not even sure it’s possible for the opposition to win a large enough victory to escape the margin of voter fraud anymore.
Inflation is running at 54%. Oil prices are at 16 month lows, and the country’s oil production has been declining for a while. That, and the crazy Socialist looting, have sent Venezuela bond prices into a tailspin and sent their interest rates to an all-time high. Crime is also high, with Caracas being the murder capital of the world (yes, even worse than Chicago).
Maybe that’s why Goldman Sachs has a scheme to help Venezuela swap gold for dollars.
It’s almost as if Maduro read Atlas Shrugged and saw it as a blueprint rather than a cautionary tale. Imagine Greece, if hyperinflation was just getting started and they didn’t have German taxpayers to bail them out.
You can decree imaginary exchange rates the same way you can decree that π be set to exactly 3, and the reality will ignore and punish your delusion. Watch inflation skyrocket and business collapse as sellers are unable to buy goods and unwilling to sell at a loss, guaranteeing that a far-from rich country is about to get a whole lot poorer.
The only question now is whether Venezuela’s economic collapse will bee Argentina bad, or Weimar Germany bad.
Tags: Crime, Economics, hyperinflation, Nicolas Maduro, oil industry, socialism, Venezuela
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November 25th, 2013
This was supposed to go up Friday, but Stuff and Things interfered once again.
Obama’s “deal” with Iran drops sanctions and lets them enrich uranium to their heart’s content. I guess Obama needs the Iran agreement as a disastrous fake achievement to distract from ObamaCare, his last disastrous fake achievement. I haven’t read all the details, so I can’t tell if it’s Madeleine Albright bad, or Neville Chamberlain bad, but it doesn’t appear to address Iran’s continued support of Assad, Hezbollah, or their other terrorist activities. Still to be decided: whether Obama personally plants the knife in Benjamin Netanyahu’s back, or has aide do it. (If Hillary Clinton wanted to put distance between herself and the Obama Administration, now would be a great time to denounce the Iran deal.)
Mother forced into Medicaid. “There was just one option—at the very affordable monthly rate of zero. The exchange had determined that my mother was not eligible to choose to pay for a plan, and so she was slated immediately for Medicaid.”
The real rationale behind ObamaCare was the redistribution of wealth. “The redistribution of wealth has always been a central feature of [ObamaCare].”
“Insurance is complex to buy”? Really, Mr. President? I’m pretty sure Forest Gump could have figured that out in less than 3 years…
The real reason behind Obama’s laughable deal with Iran is to shore up his shrinking liberal base, the only group that still supports him after the ObamaCare debacle.
John Bolton calls the deal “abject surrender”.
End result of the Iran deal? “War has now become a much more likely prospect.”
Given all that, Harry Reid nuking the Senate’s filibuster gets pushed further down the Stack of Perfidy. What it tells us is that Democrats believe they’re going to lose the Senate. “They think it’s very likely that they will lose their Senate majority in 2014. They are essentially writing off the last two years of Obama’s presidency, which means getting as much done as possible right now. They are going to spend the next year packing as many liberal justices and appointees onto the courts and various bureaucracies as they can.”
Democratic Rep mugged in DC. Does this mean she’ll turn Republican? (Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
16 things people couldn’t believe about America until moving here. (Hat tip: Michael Totten.)
I wonder how John Carter feels about being labeled part of “the House’s own pro-amnesty gang”?
Related: How Amnesty dies: Part 1, Part 2.
Syrian Kurds declare autonomy.
Crystal Mangum, the central accuser in the Duke Lacrosse “rape” case (which wasn’t) has been convicted of murder. Somehow I managed to miss Nancy Grace’s wall-to-wall coverage of her trial…
Tags: amnesty, Benjamin Netanyahu, Border Controls, Crime, Crystal Mangum, filibuster, Harry Reid, Iran, John Bolton, John Carter, Kurds, Michael Totten, Neville Chamberlain, ObamaCare, socialism, Syria
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November 21st, 2013
California rejects Obama’s ObamaCare “fix” of extending non-compliant policies:
Also includes Charles Krauthammer (yet again) bringng the smackdown. “It was a fraud and a sham from the very beginning.”
Tags: California, Charles Krauthammer, ObamaCare, video
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November 20th, 2013
We interrupt our continuing series on the failures of ObamaCare to bring you a dollop of gun- and crime-related news:
It takes a special kind of super-genius to threaten to shoot gun-rights activists.
Though that does give me a chance to bring up the Recall Hudak Too campaign, to recall another gun-grabbing Colorado state senator.
San Francisco magazine ban challanged in court. (Hat tip: Alphecca.)
Requiring liability insurance for gun owners appears to be dead for now.
World’s first 3D printed metal gun. And they’re in Austin!
Meet Monticello, NY Mayor Gordon Jenkins. He’s a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. He’s also been arrested for DWI and hitting a cop. Funny how so many people in favor of “gun control” can’t seem to practice self-control.
Another dead goblin.
Speaking of dead goblins: Armed homeowner gets the drop on intruder by pretending to be deaf and blind. Only problem with the story is that some details don’t match up: “The intruder lowered his weapon for a moment — long enough for Carlson to grab his own loaded Glock 9mm handgun.” Then: “‘I’ve never had my revolver out of my pocket in 50-some odd years,’ Carlson said by phone Friday evening.” To the best of my knowledge, Glock doesn’t make any revolvers, much less a 9mm. (There are 9mm revolvers, but they’re not particularly common.) Possibly the owner was speaking with colloquial inaccuracy, or was misquoted.
In Pierce County, Washington, an armed homeowner killed an intruder who drove his car through a metal gate, then broke into his house. Not exactly the perfect stealthy crime…
“Drunk Florida Man Tries to Use Taco as ID After His Car Catches Fire.”
Uh…noted without comment:
Tags: Austin, Crime, Guns, self-defense, video
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November 19th, 2013
I actually forgot to add a bunch of ObamaCare links to yesterday’s LinkSwarm, so here they are along with some of newer vintage. Every day, the disaster get’s worse for Democrats (and the nation). It’s like a Hindenburg that never stops exploding.
More now think Obama bungled ObamaCare (63%) than now think Bush bungled Iraq (44%), or even at the Iraq war’s nadir of unpopularity (57%)
Why ObamaCare is on life-support.
How unpopular is #ObamaCare? Try “Fugitive Slave Act in Boston in 1858” unpopular.
Speaking of unpopular, Obama’s ratings are off the chart bad. (Hat tip: Moe Lane.)
It took Obama to turn the American public libertarian. “Majority in U.S. Say Healthcare Not Gov’t Responsibility”.
Ace explains the difference between the Upton and Landrieu bills.
D.C. insurance commissioner fired 24 hours after questioning ObamaCare “fix.” (Also via Ace.)
The New Republic develops a case of the vapors over ObamaCare dooming big government.
Does Obama’s latest “ObamaCare means what I say it means” open him up for a Supreme Court challenge?
Number of successful #ObamaCare enrollees in NC: 1. Wait, they haven’t paid yet. 0.
Not even Obama is saying the ObamaCare website will be fixed by the December 1st deadline. Now it will be “improved”. I guess they’re changing the clip-art…
Tags: Colorado Recall, Crime, Democrats, Guns, LinkSwarm, Mary Landrieu, ObamaCare
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November 18th, 2013
Some links to start your week with, ObamaCare still looming as topic one:
Chao before Congress: ObamaCare is hunky dory! Chao in internal memo the day before: we are so farked!
Over four million Americans have their policies cancelled thanks to ObamaCare.
Less than 50,000 sign up for ObamaCare.
One of the Democratic Senators running as hard as she can away from ObamaCare is Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu. Too bad she already embraced 100% accountability for it.
Race-baiting provided a shield that allowed Obama to fail.
And remember that calling Obama’s critics racist was a deliberate strategy by MSM members wanting to boost and protect Obama.
Don’t expect Obama to bounce back.
So is Politico actually covering the dysfunction within the Obama cabinet, or are they trying to shield a favorite from the stink of failure engulfing same?
A look back at Communist genocide in Ukraine.
Fitch gives Chicago bonds three steps, yes they gave them a three step cut toward the floor.
Michael Totten: “The case for walking away from Egypt and dusting our hands off is sound.”
Antisemitism getting worse in Europe says notorious Zionist shill, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
Islamists in Nigeria doing what they do best: murder children.
Sex crime investigator arrested for sex crime with a minor. That’s really cutting out the middleman…
How the holy hell can Amtrack lose one BILLION dollars on food service? You could feed Ethiopia on that!
Dwight has an EarthQuest update.
Julian Castro to force streetcars down the throats of San Antonians despite votes against them.
Another super-genus criminal. Just click the link and look at the pics.
Tags: Communism, Crime, Democrats, EarthQuest, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Guns, Jihad, LinkSwarm, Mary Landrieu, Media Watch, Nigeria, ObamaCare, Texas
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November 15th, 2013
James O’Keefe is exposing the “ObamaCare Navigators” the same way he exposed ACORN. Indeed, I strongly suspect they;’re the same people.
And both those videos were filmed in Texas.
Once again, both the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party seem remarkably comfortable aiding and abetting the willful defrauding of the American taxpayer. Just as they were for the Pigford scandal:
It’s obvious that more than just ObamaCare needs to be repealed…
Tags: fraud, James O'Keefe, ObamaCare, Pigford, video, Welfare State
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November 14th, 2013
I keep trying to cover other things, and ObamaCare keeps being such a wondrous disaster for Democrats (and the nation) that I keep getting more than enough links of interest to keep throwingthem up here.
You need to read this Jonah Goldberg piece on the schadenfreude of watching ObamaCare fail all the way through. It’s one of those “I can’t start quoting or I’ll have to quote all of it” pieces.
The 17 Lies of Obama’s ObamaCare address.
“Obama’s Health Care Press Conference Gets Trashed In The Media.” (Via Ace of SpadesHQ.) When you’ve lost the media…
Also via Ace: “Obamacare plans will cost MORE ‘in many cases’ even with government subsidies, officials admit for the first time.”
This is wondrous on a number of levels:
When you’ve lost Howard Dean…
House Dems “about to go crazy” over how badly they’re getting beaten up on ObamaCare.
So why are the blocking Republican attempts to fix the problem? Don’t answer that: They don’t want to fix the problem. Forcing people with insurance to pay for those who don’t isn’t a bug to them, it’s a feature. They just don’t want to get blamed for it.
ObamaCare is splitting an American political party, but it’s not Republicans.
Remember how the shutdown was going to destroy Republican chances for all time? Yeah, not so much.
Ted Cruz on Fox News:
Obama’s promise that if you liked your health care, you could keep it “was willfully, knowingly false.”
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