Obama: But that’s not the superhero I promised to be!

Oh, the handwringing! From the LA Times:   If Ronald Reagan was [sic] the classic Teflon president, Barack Obama is made of Velcro. Through two terms, Reagan eluded much of the responsibility for recession and foreign policy scandal. In less than two years, Obama has become ensnared in blame. Cosmic irony, no?  That the President who blames his [...]

Ever so refreshing: What liberals really think of military service, as reflected by their actions

Know your enemy, right? Well, this administration makes it ever so easy, by telegraphing exactly what they think of those who serve. How so? By working to protect the voting rights of convicted felons before defending the right of military men and women overseas. From the Washington Times, H/T: Pundette Obama Justice Department outrages never [...]

Obamacare map: “It’s actually worse than this”

K-Lo asks: Do you trust your government to run this? In a word: no. And how could that be?  Texas Republican Rep. Kevin Brady says in a release that committee analysts actually couldn’t fit everything in: “This portrays only about one-third of the complexity of the final bill. S’wonderful. (How many days until 2 November?) [...]

Various and Sundry

Hope: The wave is about to hit the Democrats. The latest poll from Reuters-Ipsos: “Only 34 percent approved of Obama’s handling of the economy and jobs compared to 46 percent who deemed it unsatisfactory. This is a sharp decline from early 2009 shortly after he took office when over a half of those surveyed approved [...]

Why waste time on an organization that honors and promotes duty and honor?

Especially when you have none.  From CNS via Memeorandum: President Barack Obama, the honorary chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, will not speak in-person before the group on Wednesday at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, as part of the organization’s 100th anniversary celebration. However, the president is sending a videotaped message to the scouts for Wednesday, [...]

Ah, life must be rough to settle for a 2900$ hotel room. Thirty of ‘em.

The President’s that is.  He claims he’s not so far removed from the troubles of “average” Americans.  Via Gateway Pundit (via FoxNation) President Obama says he can relate to the plight of Americans striving in the struggling economy to pay bills while saving for their kids’ education. He says he and first lady Michelle Obama [...]

In all fairness to Colorado voters

of which I am now one, Tom Tancredo’s announcement today that he’ll run as a third-party candidate isn’t as much of a disaster as everyone says it is.  If you had to choose between a plagiarist or a jerk-with-his-hand-in-the-money-pot in the GOP primary–neither of whom will withdraw from the race despite both having massive ethical problems–then the [...]

Bootie Pop. Seriously. (In the WSJ of all places)

If “Booty Pop” panties are all the rage and the curvy Mad Men ladies are “something to be envied,” then maybe those of us on the not-so-stick-figure side will learn to appreciate our, um, naturally popped booties? Just a thought.

So maybe there is hope after all

Doug Powers at MM: Young voters slowly abandoning Hope & Change. He asks: Could it finally be sinking in who exactly is going to be paying for all this alleged “free” stuff? From the NY Post: WASHINGTON — Young voters who had been enthralled by Barack Obama’s “Yes, we can” message are now saying “Maybe [...]

I needed to be in bed an hour ago tab dump

Ross Douthat, The Roots of White Anxiety.  Color me shocked that the NYT printed this.  Last year, two Princeton sociologists, Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford, published a book-length study of admissions and affirmative action at eight highly selective colleges and universities. Unsurprisingly, they found that the admissions process seemed to favor black and Hispanic applicants, [...]