Sunday, February 03, 2013

DON'T START A SMALL BUSINESS; start a big one instead.
IF THIS is the cheapest ObamaCare health plan available, I'd hate to see what the more expensive plans cost.

If I owned a company like AFLAC, I'd be aggressively marketing cash benefit indemnity policies for hospitalization, critical care, etc. for families unable or unwilling to pay the $20K plus for ObamaCare.
THOUGHTS ON “Assault Weapons” and “Magazine Limits” from an actual gun expert.
TIME FOR YOU to address violence in black communities, Mr. Obama.
IT'S THE GOVERNMENT, STUPID! Top concerns of small business. Every one of the contractors who helped me with my recent home renovation told me the exact same thing.
TWITPICS. My favorite is David Burges: "Be vewwy vewwy quiet, I'm hunting Wepubwicans." Almost as good: "A lame duck shooting a clay pigeon."

Read the rest.
OUT OF AMMO: "I couldn’t shoot because, with the exception of 100 rounds of 22LR and the loaded 9 mm magazines that I keep at home for purposes of self-defense, I was out out of ammo."

I'm seeing the same thing in Virginia. At the gun range I go to, on my last visit there was very little 9mm ammo available, and .22LR purchases were limited to one box. On the phone with my son in Georgia, the same is true there: 9mm and .22LR unavailable, and only limited amounts of .380, .40, and .45 caliber bullets.

For the forseeable future, every time I go to the range, I'll be stocking up whenever I can.
OBAMACARE'S threat to labor unions:
[For] UNITE HERE Health, the insurance plan for 260,000 service-sector union workers ... it is beginning to look like more and more employers will either cut back coverage or drop it altogether as the administration's new health care mandates make those private insurance plans uneconomical.
But, but ... "If you like your health plan, you can keep it."
FISCAL NIGHTMARE: All those 'amnestied' illegals will be eligible for Obamacare. Nothing like compounding one problem with another.
KEYSTONE XL pipeline decision delayed another few months. Like,er, ...48?
GUESS WHICH giant special interest is really polluting Alaska. It's not the oil companies.
OBAMA SEES HIS SHADOW: 4 More Years of Gloom. Best part:
At least Obama’s top economic adviser, Alan Krueger, had some sound advice. “Today’s report is a reminder of the importance of the need,” he wrote, “to avoid self-inflicted wounds to the economy.” Too bad Obama didn’t heed that before he imposed ObamaCare, unleashed his army of regulators, added more than $1 trillion in new taxes, and piled on $5 trillion in added debt.
I'd rather have Punxutawney Phil for president. He didn't see his shadow.
SAVE MONEY ON HEALTHCARE: become an uninsured American. Starting next year, I probably will.
NEWT GINGRICH: Gun Debate About More Than ‘Assault Weapons’. His observations:
Do mass shooters “need” high capacity magazines, or rifles with certain cosmetic styling, in order to commit their crimes? Of course not.

[W]e shouldn’t pass laws that punish law-abiding citizens, fail to deter or prevent crime, and do nothing to make us safer.

[M]aybe the left will get around to asking why so many people are shooting each other in Chicago and Los Angeles, rather than obsessing over which particular guns they’re using to do it.
Well said.
PRINCIPLES, NOT PROGRAMS: how Republicans can win the gun control debate.
GUN CONTROL. Mental health restrictions on gun purchasers -- who decides?
SURPRISED? Fewer dollars and fewer babies threaten social programs.
ARMY SHOULD FIRE author of report on 'conservative terrorism'. Conservative terrorism? Here's an interesting factoid from the article:
[T]he overwhelming majority of domestic terrorist attacks in America have been “extreme left-wing” in their ideological origins (364) followed closely by single-issue groups whose ideologies were classified as “other” (337).

By comparison, “extreme right-wing” groups accounted for far fewer (58) attacks.
I wonder if the Army's Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) will issue a report on liberal terrorism.
CHASING ICE: 'Manhattan-sized' fragment calves from Greenland glacier:

TAR, FEATHERS: High-school freshman suspended for having a picture of a gun.

This is what happens when we grant a modicum of authority to hypersensitive twits who are utterly bereft of any common sense.
JUSTIFYING ABORTION: "I'm the boss." If that's the case, isn't it also sufficient reason to justify infanticide? Or at least abandonment?
BEST LAYOFF LETTER EVER:


From my email.

KEN CUCCINELLI ON REGULATION: "I’m ... not going to die from a bad haircut, so why is it to so critical to have a licensing process?” Cuccinelli -- with luck -- will be the next Governor of Virginia.
PAUL GREENBERG on the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense: Actions Speak Louder.
ROTTEN TO THE CORE: reader feedback.

My earlier post is here.
GUN CONTROL fails the rationality test.