Sunday, June 08, 2014

YES! YES, Yes, yes! There goes Virginia Democrats’ state Senate majority.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The New Regressives.
In the spirit of changing words to reflect reality, I suggest that we call today’s liberals “regressives” — fundamentalists who are wedded to self-serving deductive doctrines that cannot sustain empirical scrutiny and exist mostly as fossilized theologies of the 1960s.
An apt term, indeed.
DEAR KITTEN: We interrupt this blog to bring you this cat video....


ATTENTION GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES: Even Elliot Rodger believed guns would have deterred him.
“WHAT HAPPENS when the world’s greatest spin doctor commits malpractice — on himself?”

I think it depends on just how stupid the average 'open-minded' low information voter really is, and on that point I'm not optimistic.
MALLARD FILLMORE on the VA hospitals -- and by implication the future of ObamaCare. Read the comments as well. The gist seems to me that the medical care is decent; gaining access to it is abysmal.
IN AN EARLIER POST I noted that Judge Jeanine Pirro called for President Obama to be impeached.

Here's that video.
THE LAW REQUIRES.... Unless you're the President, and then it only recommends.
THE STATE OF POLITICS, 2014: We're at (have passed?) the tipping point.


I'm reminded of The Marching Morons by Cyril Kornbluth.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS: Destination Unknown. Why am I not surprised?
NO. HE'S WITH VOX.COM: Does Matt Yglesias ever tire of being embarrassingly wrong about everything?

Liberalism is the state of feeling, not thinking.
POWERLINE: Ammo Grrrll has thoughts on dieting.
WASHINGTON DC COUNCIL mulling a 'virtue tax' on gyms and yoga studios.

Absolutely; let's discourage healthy lifestyles by taxing them just like we do booze, cigarettes, and sugary foods....
PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: (White) Male Privilege, June 6, 1944.


My post on the subject is here.
NO SHIT, SHERLOCK: [Credentialed] scientists say IPCC puts politics before science.
EAT YOUR HEART OUT, HARRY REID: First Nation official Lauds Koch engagement with Canadian tribe.

How dare those evil Koch brothers engage our voters! (It's Canada, Harry. They're not your voters. - Ed.)
OBAMA WILL WAIT until after the mid-term election to impose his vision of how we should live in little boxes made of ticky-tacky, only piled high in inner cities.
WHO REGULATES OBAMACARE? Why, the IRS, of course.

This is interesting. The Obama administration wants single-payer (i.e., government run) healthcare but knows it can't afford it, so for all practical purposes it's having the IRS rewrite the rules to prevent employers from sending their employees to the subsidized federal exchanges.