03.16.10

To normal people this looks like abject failure; to FHers, it’s the totalitarian plan, unfolding right on cue

Posted in Economics, Employment numbers at 6:13 pm by Administrator

Geithner, Romer and Orszag tell the House Apropriations Committee that unemployment most likely won’t go below the current 9.7 percent for the rest of the year.

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A brief glossary of BN-isms

Posted in BN community at 4:36 pm by Administrator

As evidenced by some new participants in the comment threads, readership is up here at BN.  Welcome, everybody.

To facilitate your orientation to the BN view, herewith are definitions for some terms we’ve coined over the years:

TCM – Barack Obama.  The Chicago Marxist.  Also sometimes known as The Aquarian Totalitarian, or The Most Equal Comrade.

FHers - Freedom-Haters.  By far the largest faction within the Democratic party.  Their natural inclination in considering any issue is to curtail individual liberty and expand the scope of the state.

Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome - the illusion suffered by way too many Republicans that beyond the differences in core philospophy, FHers are just nice, reasonable folks and that there are many areas in which one can work with them in a bipartisam fashion.  John McCain is the ultimate Reasonable Gentleman, and that’s why he got his clock cleaned in 08.

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TCM wants America to appear weak and unexceptional – today’s edition

Posted in American exceptionalism, American military at 4:22 pm by Administrator

Were you aware the FHer regime has a policy of not flying the flag over our military’s humanitarian mission in Haiti?

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Why the EPA should be dismantled . . . this afternoon

Posted in Environment policy at 4:16 pm by Administrator

. . . and why the New York Times editorial staff ought to be heavily sedated and ushered into padded cells.

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Sip their tea and munch their cookies, but give ‘em both barrels

Posted in Congress, Human freedom, health care at 3:20 pm by Administrator

Big-wig Constitution-hater Chris Van Hollen is distributing a memo to his colleagues telling them to make nicey-nice with the the liberty lovers descending on D.C. today.

It’s probably safe to eat their little niblets.  They wouldn’t be so brazen as to off you in the foyer of the Cannon Building.  But just remember what their endgame is.  In the chilling words of San Fran Nan: 

“Kick open that door, and there will be other legislation to follow,” she said. “We’ll take the country in a new direction.”

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What started with the FHers’ attempt to make us think a few particular problems with the cost of health care necessitated a socialist transformation is now a Constitutional crisis

Posted in Corruption in Congress, Law, Socialism, health care at 1:50 pm by Administrator

If the Slaughter solution, which is unconstitutional, is the means used to pass FHer-care, it’s not really law and something we have to comply with, is it?

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As Hayek said, the worst will wind up on top

Posted in Financial markets, Government bureaucracy, Government spending at 1:01 pm by Administrator

Ed Fuelner at Townhall says that the government’s zeal to respond with regulation to any financial crisis proves that Congress does two things well: 1.) nothing, and 2.) overreact.  He points out that Sarbanes-Oxley, enacted in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom collapses, wound up costing, like all government programs (think Medicare and Social Security) vastly more than originally envisioned, and harmed smaller businesses’ access to credit.  We’re about to do the same thing with Chris Dodd’s panel or council or whatever that will sit in judgement of investment banks that don’t meet government standards of performance.  Just who is going to sit on these panels?  The reason I ask is that the FHer record for choosing people to fill such seats of wisdom is not encouraging.  Think Andy Stern and deficit reduction.

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03.15.10

Paul Ryan hurls a thunderbolt

Posted in Congress, health care at 11:15 pm by Administrator

Beyond fabulous.  Is it too early to start a support group advocating him for the oval office?

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So what do they reflect? The will of the pomegranates?

Posted in Barack Obama, Congress, Diciness of Western civilization's survival prospects, Human freedom, health care at 10:39 pm by Administrator

TCM says never mind polls, do the will of the people.

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Not wise to pile on after the apology

Posted in Hillary Clinton, Israel, State Department cluelessness at 6:47 pm by Administrator

John Podhoretz at Commentary has the best take I’ve seen on the current juncture in the Biden trip-settlement-building announcement-Biden-condemnation-Netanyahu apology for the timing-Hillary screaming into the phone unfolding of events.

The timing of this was badly handled by Israel’s coalition government.  Surely the responsible party sees in hindsight that it makes going ahead with the construction – which will happen and is a good thing, since we’re talking about an area inside Jerusalem – all the more fraught with US FHer histrionics.

And Roger Simon at Pajamas Media weighs in with the full set of factors that could make American Jews rethink – in the near future and big-time – their decades-long fealty to the Democrat party.

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What the hell do student loans have to do with health care?

Posted in Congress, Corruption in Congress, health care at 6:32 pm by Administrator

Nothing, unless you’re a desperate, frantic totalitarian socialist America-hater.

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We could be doing this instead of handing our country over to tyrants

Posted in Congress, Free-market Economics, health care at 1:50 pm by Administrator

Rep. Paul Ryan R-WI in the Washington Post on what actual health care reform would look like, with a link to his Road Map website.

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You wind up working for evil

Posted in Law, Law dhimmitude, Terrorism, World War III at 1:24 pm by Administrator

In a supremely important WSJ column, Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn look squarely at the moral rot that inevitably ensues when American attorneys defend Gitmo-detained enemies.

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03.14.10

They couldn’t be this evil, could they?

Posted in Corruption in Congress, Law, Public opinion, Socialism, health care at 10:13 pm by Administrator

Would the Freedom-Haters really use the Slaughter Rule?

We’re in what’s known as a Constitutional crisis.

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The numbers come out the way they do for a reason

Posted in Culture, Financial markets, Housing at 4:42 pm by Administrator

Jack Cashill at The American Thinker offers a thought-provoking take on why the financial meltdown occurred.  His opening line:

“Had the culture celebrated marriage and the government rewarded it, there would have been no subprime crisis, and all other tax-eating pathologies would have been contained.”

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Why electing Scott Brown to the Senate was a great thing to do

Posted in Congress, Employment numbers, Journalism, health care at 2:12 pm by Administrator

 . . . and why the state-run Associated Press is worthless as a sources for actual news.

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03.13.10

As we approach the endgame for socialist health care . . .

Posted in Congress, Socialism, health care at 9:55 pm by Administrator

. . . Chris Van Hollen and Louise Slaughter are vying for he status of most evil and Constitution-shredding Freedom-Hater of  all.

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Wonder what’s up

Posted in Israel at 1:59 am by Administrator

Israel announces a 48-hour seal-off of the West Bank.

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03.12.10

The blade that finally severs the last human-being Dems from the Freedom-Haters . . .

Posted in Congress, Unborn people, health care at 9:52 pm by Administrator

 . . . may be the issue of whether one is cool with the extermination of fetal Americans.

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03.11.10

NASA’s climate data was even more compromised than East Anglia’s

Posted in Corruption of the scientific world, Environment policy at 6:34 pm by Administrator

 . . . and everybody knew it

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