What Does the Federal Government Have In Common With Schlitz Beer?
Read Glenn Reynolds’s latest column in the Examiner to find out. The analogy is ingenious, but the subject is a serious one: our government’s loss of legitimacy in the eyes of voters. As Glenn writes, “when a great beer dies, it’s sad. But when a great nation dies, it’s tragic.”
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Joe Macaron: Assad Lost in Translation: It is the Iranian, Stupid
After a year of going back and forth in building up anticipation, Syrian President Bashar Assad almost borrowed Sarah Palin’s analogy of “thanks, but no thanks to that bridge to nowhere” in reaction to President Barack Obama administration’s tapping of a new ambassador.
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Portraying Petraeus
Much as I would love to be able to cite Gen. David Petraeus as favoring the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) and supporting gays serving openly in the military, I can’t; Petraeus did not go that far. (Not yet, anyway.)
However, he did allow that no significant problems occurred when other counties, including [...]
Voting Rights for Felons: "Race Neutral" = Race Biased
In an astonishment of paralogia and “dumbth,” a three-judge panel of (what else?) the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals has just ruled, 2-1, that felons should be allowed to vote, even while still in prison.
To add collectivist offense to insult (they went long past mere injury), their reasoning was so racially byzantine that it sounds [...]
Democrats, Taxes, and Zombies
In view of these looming tax increases and more, coming to you and me, just to name a few - courtesy of Obama and the Democrats, Andrew Klavan’s zombie analogy of how politicians suck the tax payers dry, seems all the more appropriate now:
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On the One-Yard Line?
Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod said today that supporters of Obamacare are “right on the one-yard line.” It is interesting that he said this less than 24 hours after Fresno State, in this season’s first college football bowl game, also was on the 1-yard line very late in the game. At that point, a [...]
