Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
George Will has made a very important point here about Democrat hubris. Sen. Susan Collins, as mushy a Republican as one could ever find, made a proposal that gives Democrats everything they want, including relieving them from the political embarrassment of the “medical device tax,” which even they dislike. Flush
Continue reading(I wrote this for Mr. Conservative, but it’s pure Bookworm in word and thought, so I’m republishing it here. Frankly, I’m spitting mad, because regular readers know exactly how much I love Fleet Week.) Sequester or not, there always seems to be money for the Obamas to live the lush
Continue readingDad works hard at a job that pays reasonably well and Mom runs the house. She’s an okay manager, but somewhat careless. On Dad’s salary, which includes a 4% raise every year, she provides all the basics, such as feeding, clothing, and educating their two children. Every year, without fail,
Continue readingI re-posted the image I put up earlier, because it’s a perfect companion-piece to this Charles C.W. Cooke article: We are now firmly ensconced in the brutal Age of the Sequester, and things in America are grave. The federal government, we learned on Wednesday, is so strapped for cash that
Continue readingIn the lead-up to the 2008 election, blogging was exciting because there was hope. Not the synthetic hope Obama was selling, but the real hope that both Hillary and Obama would lose, and that John McCain would be a half decent president. In the first two years of Obama’s administration,
Continue readingObama is demagoguing the sequester like mad. David Angelo provides a pleasant breath of common sense: Incidentally, to the extent Obama says that the sequester will result in federal prosecutors having to abandon cases, that may be a very good thing. The news lately has too many stories about federal
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