Airline loses dog
Sounds awful, doesn’t it?: Ramano says that Delta Airlines lost his dog on a flight from Los Angeles to Tampa on Oct. 31. More than a week later, his dog is still missing, and he is stuck in Tampa waiting … Continue reading →
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Obamnasty
When Obama announces his new amnesty plan, I propose it should be given the name “Obamanasty.” Here are some details, according to leaks: The plan calls for expanding deferred action for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children … Continue reading →
The thorn in Gruber’s side
I wondered who had found those videos of Gruber, and someone has covered that story, too. It’s a great one: Rich Weinstein is not a reporter. He does not have a blog. Until this week, the fortysomething’s five-year old Twitter … Continue reading →
Revisiting the second debate: Crowley and Obama vs. Romney
Commenter “Daniel in Brookline” writes about that seminal second debate of 2012, where Candy Crowley intervened to back up Obama’s claim that he had called the Benghazi attack “terrorism” in his Rose Garden speech the day after the attack had … Continue reading →
Sessions on the Republican Senate’s immigration plans
If Jeff Sessions has anything to say about it, the Republicans will not be caving on this: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com More from Sessions here. One of the problems with Obama’s plans over the next two years, and … Continue reading →
The US and China: wishin’ and hopin’
The US and China have signed an emissions agreement that, as far as I can tell, is a lot of hot air. It’s about what each would really like to do—actually, what they’d like their successors to do: Today, the … Continue reading →
Veterans Day, Armistice Day
Yes, indeed, I am that old—old enough to just barely remember when Veterans Day was called Armistice Day. The change in names occurred in 1954, when I was very small, in order to accommodate World War II and its veterans. … Continue reading →
A look at Valerie Jarrett
From a lengthy article by Noam Scheiber in The New Republic: While aboard Air Force One at the end of the 2012 campaign, Jarrett turned to Obama and told him, “Mr. President, I don’t understand how you’re not getting eighty-five … Continue reading →
Jonathan Gruber, man of the people, explains the passage of Obamacare
The way I see it, this video of Jonathan Gruber merely exposes the so-called Obamacare architect admitting what everybody who’s been paying any real attention already knew: the intentional duplicity with which the law was passed on the part of … Continue reading →
Guccifer, the hacker
This is a disturbing and yet somehow entertaining article about Guccifer, the Romanian email hacker who’s in jail for hacking into the email accounts of the rich and famous. Why did he do it? His motive doesn’t seem to have … Continue reading →
What was that again about gay marriage and religious freedom?
Ah, yes: The Giffords, who own the bucolic Liberty Ridge Farm in upstate New York, were ordered to pay a total of $13,000 ”” a $10,000 fine to the state and another $1,500 to each member of a lesbian couple … Continue reading →
Ebola treatment: this is so inside the box it’s outside the box
Could an older technique yield an effective ebola treatment? And will researchers take the suggestion and try to develop it, instead of a more conventional vaccine?: The proposal builds on the use of “convalescent serum,” or survivors’ blood, which has … Continue reading →