Bookworm on Feb 07 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet Hillary told voters that, when the 3 a.m. phone call came and the White House answered that call, she would have better qualifications to deal with whatever emergency awaited the President: I don’t think even Hillary could have envisioned that Obama would ignore the call entirely: The White House left Ambassador Chris Stevens, Glen [...]
Bookworm on Feb 07 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Military, Second Amendment
Tweet A friend forwarded me this Facebook page: Perhaps, though, we should be grateful. You just know that Obama would have wanted to say something along the lines of Ron Paul’s execrable statement about living and dying by the sword. (And we know how stupid that is in this context.) Given half a moment and [...]
Bookworm on Feb 06 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Muslim violence
Tweet There’s been a lot of upset in the conservative blogosphere about Obama’s drone strike policy. The way the administration phrased it, as “legal,” “ethical,” and “wise,” got a lot of hackles up, especially when Michael Isikoff let slip how little oversight there is — including oversight over decisions to kill American citizens. A lot [...]
Bookworm on Feb 04 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Second Amendment
Tweet I posted my mildly amusing (very mildly amusing) Obama’s got a gun effort and invited readers to submit their own Obama’s Got a Gun meme posters. Here are five of them, and they’re great. From b.: From Dagwood: From Mike Devx: From Charles Martel: From Indigo Red: From Ritely:
Bookworm on Feb 04 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet I believe Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. I also believe that there’s something in or about that birth certificate that he doesn’t want to acknowledge. A reader who used to work in social services “back in the day,” has an interesting theory, and allowed me to reprint it here: I just read your [...]
Bookworm on Feb 02 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet Obama said that he shoots skeet all the time at Camp David. Conservatives laughed. Obama couldn’t let conservative deniers impugn his veracity, so he authorized the White House to release a photo purporting to show him shooting at some very low-flying skeet at Camp David this past August: There you have it: Obama was [...]
Bookworm on Feb 02 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet Here’s the caption I made for “Obama’s got a gun“: I know that all of you can do better than I can, so you should toddle over here, check out what other people have done, and make your own. Then, send me the link or image, and I’ll post it.
Bookworm on Jan 28 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet In my latest newsletter (which you can view here and subscribe to here) I asked whether Republicans will be the only unhappy people over the next four years. My starting point is that Republicans are deeply depressed right now, while Progressives are gloatingly triumphant. Their man won. Their agenda is the one he’ll enact. [...]
Bookworm on Jan 27 2013 | Filed under: Africa, Barack Obama
Tweet The Malians are thrilled, as they should be, and the French should be pretty darn proud themselves: Residents of Mali’s northern town of Gao, captured from sharia-observing Islamist rebels by French and Malian troops, danced in the streets to drums and music on Sunday as the French-led offensive also drove the rebels from Timbuktu. [...]
Bookworm on Jan 24 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet You undoubtedly saw this Drudge photoessay/headline: Looking at it, I kept thinking, “Gosh, that reminds me of something.” I finally figured out that it reminded me of a 1953 Isaac Asimov short story called “Flies.” Here’s a bare-bones plot summary from Wikipedia: A group of former college students meet at a reunion twenty years [...]
Bookworm on Jan 22 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
Tweet The Leftists in the media were orgasmic yesterday as they again anointed Barack Obama “the next Reagan.” Ace explains why this is a dream, not a reality: Obama has always considered himself the Anti-Reagan — he would not only undo the Reagan coalition and the Reagan era, but do what Reagan did but for [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet George Orwell, 1984: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Nancy Pelosi, on the unreasonableness of the democratic legislature process: But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy. Barack Obama, on the occasion of his 2nd inauguration: [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Open Threads
Tweet I’ve been running around like a headless chicken today, so I did not tune in to any part of the Obama inauguration. Did you?
Bookworm on Jan 18 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet During the 2008 primaries, Hillary argued that Obama wouldn’t be there to take that 3 a.m. phone call: Events have proven she was right. When the phone rang about Benghazi, Obama didn’t answer. Judging by White House silence regarding events in Algeria, Obama’s been ignoring a few phone calls too. Serious budget negotiations? Obama [...]
Bookworm on Jan 15 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Second Amendment
Tweet I don’t know what kind of airplay NRA ads get. Since the clicker never touches my hand (others in the household are more wedded to it than I), I haven’t seen a commercial in a good twenty-years. I do hope, though, that this particular commercial gets some serious play. People need to start remembering [...]
Bookworm on Jan 15 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet You all remember from the Bush-era how we were told repeatedly that Dick Cheney was George Bush’s brain. That notion arose when the Left couldn’t square Bush’s effectiveness as an executive (never mind his years of executive experience) with their certainty that he was, in fact, an idiot. They were so relieved when they [...]
Bookworm on Jan 10 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Constitution, Second Amendment
Tweet Years ago, during the Bush administration, Terry Gross, of NPR’s Fresh Air, interviewed a writer who was in an absolutely tizzy about Bush’s use of executive orders. Sadly, for the life of me, I can’t find that interview. What I also can’t find is any evidence that this author has again gone onto Terry [...]
Bookworm on Jan 09 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats
Tweet Barry Rubin is not a man prone to insult or exaggeration. That’s why it means something when he says this of Obama’s nominees to the State Department, Defense Department, and the CIA: They are all stupid people. Some friends said I shouldn’t write this because it is a subjective judgment and sounds mean-spirited. But [...]
Bookworm on Jan 09 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Constitution, Second Amendment
Tweet Today’s question: Can President Obama use an executive order to override the Constitution? Today’s answer, courtesy of Matt Drudge is “yes, he can, but it won’t be pretty.” (Click on image to enlarge.)
Bookworm on Jan 03 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics
Tweet When I was in junior high school, high school, and college, my American history classes always preached the same message: Franklin Roosevelt saved America by “priming the pump.” That is, he took money away from the rich, filtered it through the government, and then used the brain-power built into government to decide upon the [...]
Bookworm on Jan 02 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, Media matters, Republicans, Taxes
Tweet Today’s big story the new tax bill that Obama jetted off to Hawaii before signing, but that will soon (and inevitably) become the law of the land. I don’t see any surprises. I knew that we’d get hit hard and so we have. I gather that sequestration has now been averted, so that Obama [...]
Bookworm on Dec 30 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Libya, Second Amendment
Tweet My post title says President Obama has been tactless of late. That’s not true. He’s always been tactless. Remember him denigrating handicapped people on the Jay Leno show? Lately, though, the President has upped his game. Last week, shortly before the Sandy Hook shooting that saw myriad children die, Obama “jokingly” told Barbara Walters [...]
Bookworm on Dec 20 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, Europe, Muslim violence
Tweet According to the much sneered at, and much feared, Mayan Apocalypse, tomorrow marks the end of the world. I’m inclined to believe this is true. I don’t, however, expect the earth to explode into a giant ball of cosmic dust or some plague rivaling the Black Death. What I do see, however, is change [...]
Bookworm on Dec 17 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics
Tweet When conservative writers and thinkers come to San Francisco, it’s a good bet that they’re doing so under the aegis of Sally Pipes’ Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a conservative think tank rather surprisingly located in San Francisco. Sally’s specialty is free-market medical care, but PRI is concerned generally with free markets. Thanks to PRI, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 06 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Women
Tweet Obama’s Cairo speech first tipped me off to the fact that he’s probably a misogynist. He may have a couple of powerful women upon whom he relies (Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama), but his instinct is to avoid women and hide them away. The Cairo speech got my antenna up because I thought it [...]
|
Caped Crusader on A bittersweet day
Danny Lemieux on The Blue Angels are about to be grounded
Spartacus on Richard III’s death, because it paved the way for Henry VIII, was a pivotal moment in British and world history *UPDATED*
Earl on A bittersweet dayEarl on The Blue Angels are about to be grounded
jj on Richard III’s death, because it paved the way for Henry VIII, was a pivotal moment in British and world history *UPDATED*
Sgt. Mom on Richard III’s death, because it paved the way for Henry VIII, was a pivotal moment in British and world history *UPDATED*
