“It is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as the result of opposition to a British mandate…”

…giving the East India Company a monopoly and imposing a nominal tax on all tea sold in America would have set out to create a government with the power to force people to buy tea in the first place –p. 42 So argues Federal Judge Roger Vinson who just ruled Obamacare unconstitutional. Read it.  Weep [...]

Shades of Jimmy

Headline says it all: Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt. Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as “the president who lost Iran,” which during his term went from being a major strategic ally of the United States to being the revolutionary Islamic Republic. Barack Obama will be [...]

What is love, or Why we have children

If you read anything today, make it this. Timpothy Dalrymple, Why we have children.  A taste: We have no choice but to give ourselves for our children, but we learn that in giving ourselves we receive our selves. In the frailty of this little form that called such an immense love out of me, this bundle [...]

A Friday treat: Michelle Malkin speaking on school choice

Sit back and relax–this is a long video.  Michelle Malkin begins at the 16:01 mark.  I wanted to attend, but we’ve all been sick and pjHusband has been working later than usual. Mabye I’ll get lucky and see her at the grocery store again… H/t to a dear friend J for the video. Related: Boehner set to [...]

“She’s 5 months old, and she eats breast milk. From my actual breast. Shocking, I know!”

So says Shannon Smith, a Canadian mom of three who was asked to stop nursing her infant in public.  Near tears, she made her purchases (I wouldn’t have!) overhearing the other shop girls make rude comments unknowing that she was the boob-in-public perp.  Then Smith went home and started a blog, Breast for the Weary, [...]

Who knew, eh? UPDATED.

Who knew the border fence–the one just cancelled by the Obami–actually worked? Mickey Kaus via Instapundit: Here’s news, if you define “news” as something unexpected: You know that expensive “virtual” border fence the Obama administration recently cancelled? It actually worked, acording to Janice Kephart of the Center for Immigration Studies. There were big problems with the prototype, [...]

Tell me again why any woman needs an abortion at 35 weeks?

If anyone dares say it’s to save the “life of the mother,” he’s lying. A 35 week infant is viable.   Via Michelle Malkin, more shady doctors come out of the woodwork following Kermit Gosnell’s arrest: Documents filed in Maryland suggest that Brigham and his staff frequently performed late-term abortions. A search of the Elkton clinic revealed [...]

Obama, education and the Head Start failure: why billions more will hit the drain

From Ben Stein’s column this morning: It was as if the Bodysnatchers had gotten hold of Mr. Obama and put a sixth grader’s brain in him. There were only a few glimpses of Obama the “intellectual” socialist on display tonight. Mostly, his speech sounded as if it could have been given by any 1958 Republican [...]

With friends like these

AP headline up at Yahoo News:  Obama and his imbalanced ledger Heh. The ledger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President Barack Obama urged more spending on one hand and a spending freeze on the other. Obama spoke ambitiously of putting money into roads, research, education, efficient cars, high-speed rail and [...]

Dean Koontz hasn’t written this horror story yet

Truth is stranger than fiction, y’all. Via Wesley J. Smith’s bioethics blog, Secondhand Smoke, Belgian doctors eye the “pool” of handicapped as a good source of high-quality organs: A group of Belgian doctors are harvesting “high quality” organs from patients who have been euthanased. This is not a secret project, but one which they described [...]