Monthly Archives: March 2009

Modestly Proposed

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Gaius

Victor Davis Hanson has a proposal – a modest, little one. How about if all of the Congressional demagogues waxing outraged over American International Group do a simple thing: Give back ALL of the campaign contributions they got from AIG … Continue reading →

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Thuggishness

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Gaius

Let’s be clear here. Do I think American International Group has a public relations nightmare on its hands right now? Yes, I do. Do I think the traders who are getting huge bonuses at taxpayer expense deserve those bonuses? No … Continue reading →

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Got Tea?

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Gaius

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Confusion

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Gaius

Michael Goodwin has a devastating column out today. Devastating for the Obama administration, that is. Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained look on … Continue reading →

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HUGE Security Flaw In Windows Home Server

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Gaius

I have no idea if anyone else has blogged about this, I have not found anything out on the web with an admittedly brief search. But there appears to be a huge – and I mean huge - security hole in … Continue reading →

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Unforced Errors

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Gaius

The Telegraph is reporting that senior Obama aides have let it be known that team Obama has been making mistakes. Gee, ya think? A source close to Mr Obama’s top team telephoned this newspaper last week to say that White House … Continue reading →

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The Brokest Generation

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Gaius

Mark Steyn tries to warn the youth of this country that they are the ones getting stuck with the Obama administration’s tab. All these massive spending programs will, inevitably, have to be paid for out of their pockets. This is … Continue reading →

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That Stink Of Fear

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Gaius

Something has gone very, very wrong in the plotting planning of the Obama administration. Beginning Sunday, the White House will harness every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery to defend President Obama’s budget and portray Republicans as reflexively political, according … Continue reading →

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State Secrets

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Gaius

The loud left used to call the Bush administration, “The most secretive administration” in, well, forever. But Obama’s administration is, despite promising openness,  is being very secretive. The Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), part of President Barack Obama’s office, has denied … Continue reading →

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In Your Face Double-Speak

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Gaius

Calling it “Obama’s ‘Science’ Fiction“, Charles Krauthammer blasts Barack Obama’s self-congratulatory announcements on embryonic stem cell research and “science”. As always when Krauthammer takes a politician to the woodshed, it is unfailingly brutal. Obama’s address was morally unserious in the … Continue reading →

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Slip Sliding Away

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Gaius

Douglas Schoen and Scott Rasmussen, writing at the Wall Street Journal, look at Obama’s poll numbers and at the attitudes of Americans toward their government. The data should be giving pause to Obama and the Democrats in general. It is … Continue reading →

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Pelosi Holds The Line

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Gaius

Well, Her Imperial Highness Nancy Pelosi has unilaterally decreed that she has found one place where Congress will hold the line – and continue spending. On themselves, that is. She has cut off an attempt to stop automatic pay raises … Continue reading →

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Paging Alfred Hitchcock

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Gaius

Sorry, the image is not as good as I would like, but if you squint a bit you can see a number of dark dots in the tree branches. If you squint a bit more, you can see several blurred … Continue reading →

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The Handy-Dandy Obama Translator

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Gaius

Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal has discovered the Rosetta Stone with which to translate all that Obama has planned for the economy. Bottom line, if you have money, you won’t for long. One finds many charts in a … Continue reading →

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Thuggery Begins

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Gaius

Not content with an all-out assault on the right to a secret ballot, unions are now pulling out all the stops. Unions are demanding that free speech also be curtailed – if that speech is against their fundamentally undemocratic agenda. We … Continue reading →

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