TEABAGGER?

Or patriot?

You make the call.

FAUX NEWS

Journalists raise funds for troubled Fort Hood shooter.

Journalists across the nation, moved by the plight of a troubled Muslim psychiatrist whose "understandable emotional turmoil" broke out in gunfire last week at Fort Hood, Texas, will hold a major fundraising event in the coming weeks in honor of the accused shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

It's not hard to imagine this being a real news story.

DUMB QUESTION

Did fear of being ‘crucified’ over free speech hinder the Hasan probe?

Do bears sh*t in the woods?

LOOT AND PLUNDER

The Vikings could take lessons from the current Congress ....

IT'S VETERANS DAY

Fly the flag.

From around the neighborhood on Veterans Day.

A POST-ELECTION THOUGHT

Why the 2008 Presidential election reminds me of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Peggy Noonan on White House adviser David Axelrod arguing that Virginia gubenatorial candidate Creigh Deeds should have embraced President Obama: “My goodness, throw the drowning man an anvil.”

Miss Noonan has a way with words. Read the whole thing.

EXCUSES, EXCUSES

And I thought the liberals were adept at reading between the lines ... turns out they’re more adept at making excuses.

Anna Quindlen of Newsweek offers excuses for why Obama can, but hasn’t.

My personal favorite Quindlen-ism: “[I]f you're confused about the public option, just ask yourself this question: would you like to be eligible for Medicare at 40 rather than 65?” Quindlen’s only 57; in only 8 more years, she’ll know the answer isn’t just no, but “Hell, no.”

Link via National Review Online.

OBAMACARE

What to expect.



We can only hope that the Senate is smarter than the House has been.

RINSE, WASH, REPEAT

Mike Baker:

When it comes to Afghanistan, we’re screwed. It’s just that no one’s being honest yet about the screw job.

Yep.

AN INESCAPABLE TRUTH

On healthcare: “Insurance is not part of the solution; it’s part of the problem.”

With a minor quibble that what we have in the U.S. isn’t health insurance, it’s prepaid health care, Landsburg is right. If only Congress would have paid attention ....

By the way, The Big Questions is a very interesting web site. Highly recommended.

THE NEW AGE OF AQUARIUS

”When the Moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace shall guide the planets, and love will steer the stars. This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.”

”I hope I am wrong ... and that human nature really has magically changed in the era of Obama. So close your eyes, listen to the Messiah’s voice, and repeat: “Debts will be forgiven by creditors; inflation will not follow from massive borrowing; breakthroughs in solar and wind will power our cars and heat our homes; enemies will admire our compassion and join us to achieve world peace; and terrorists are either misunderstood or provoked needlessly by our bellicosity that alone stands in the way of peace.”

Believe all that and you can lay back and enjoy the Age of Obama.

And the cycle repeats.

POLITICAL PUNCH

“We’re 2-0 against Palin,” according to a senior administration official. Strikes me as more like 1-0 since only the NY-23 House race was discussed.

But, umm, didn’t Palin also endorse Christie in New Jersey and McDonnell in Virginia? For Governors? Seems more like 1-3 to me.

OBAMA’S COATTAILS

Why am I reminded of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

Peggy Noonan on White House adviser David Axelrod arguing that Virginia gubenatorial candidate Creigh Deeds should have embraced President Obama: “My goodness, throw the drowning man an anvil.”

Miss Noonan has a way with words. Read the whole thing.

BEST OF CLASS

Sarah Palin may have been one of the most qualified members of a presidential ticket in a decade.

The frenetic hostility to Sarah Palin, even by many on the Republican side, is unnerving, because her qualifications to be president are objectively better than those of almost anyone who has been on the national ticket over the past decade.

Read it all.

KILL THE BILL

There was (is) a “kill the (healthcare) bill” rally at the Capitol steps today, originally called by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN, 6th District), and sanctioned by House Republicans. Estimates of attendance are as high as 10,000.



Gateway Pundit has details and updates.

THE PUBLIC OPTION EXPLAINED

Scott Ott explains how the public option will work.

PALIN POWER

First Sarah Palin endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava in the NY district 23 Congressional race; then she endorsed Republicans Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie for the Virginia and New Jersey governorships respectively.

This morning it looks like a “two-fer” and possibly a “three-fer” for Mrs. Palin.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Sic transit gloria mundi -

Tuesday is usually worse.

DISMANTLING AMERICA

Thomas Sowell:

Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year-- each bill more than a thousand pages long-- too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question-- and the biggest question for this generation.

Wake up and read the whole thing.

Via Instapundit.

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