Paul Krugman, Cynthia Tucker, and the unemployment benefits debate, Pt. III
The AJC’s Cynthia Tucker blogged today about a testy exchange we had last summer on ABC’s “This Week” regarding government unemployment benefits and the effect that endless extensions have on reducing the incentive to seek a job. Once again, she mistakes standard economic arguments for moral judgments: “Does the right really believe the unemployed are [...]

Obama’s war on fishing?!?!?!
Longtime readers know I love to fish and have been at war with the anti-fishing nuts at PETA for years. JWF flags a story today from ESPN about Obama regulatory maneuvers that look to limit fishing access: The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from [...]

From naked shower fights to…back wax…and a Capitol Hill gropefest…now, interns…and… “tickle fights”…ugh…x-ray tumors, oh dear…
Scroll for more gross-out updates… Okay, this week is grossing me out. Can we hit the reset button? We’ve gone from crapweasel Eric Massa’s claims about naked shower summits with Rahm Emanuel to a Florida GOP Senate spat over…back wax. Really. FOX NEWS’ VAN SUSTEREN: And sort of a punch back which occurred previously is that you have said [...]

My race is “American”
Mark Krikorian is fighting back against Census form race politics and urging you to do the same: Fully one-quarter of the space on this year’s form is taken up with questions of race and ethnicity, which are clearly illegitimate and none of the government’s business (despite the New York Times’ assurances to the contrary on today’s [...]

Will Stupak be bought on Demcare?
Conflicting signs on pro-life Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak’s stance on Obamacare negotiations: Plus: At a town hall meeting last night, he told constituents that the briber-in-chief had invited him to the president’s box to watch a Russian opera performance. Stupak said he turned down the invite. Minus: He told an AP reporter in between meetings yesterday [...]

Video flashbacks: Eric Massa attacks Rush Limbaugh, embraces Eliot Spitzer
He is not a useful idiot. He's just an idiot.

Weapon of Massa distraction: Cold showers and hot conspiracies
Don’t trust Democrat Rep. Eric Massa any further than you can throw him. He’s been a progressive zealot and political opportunist his entire career. He’s claimed conspiracy before, is intimately bonded with the nutroots, and climbed the political ladder with backing from the odious, anti-war-hoaxer-embracing Gen. Wesley Clark. What Massa dismissively calls his “salty old sailor” [...]

The slacker mandate revisited
One of the biggest applause lines from President Obama’s latest “the time for talk is over” talk-talk-talk today on Demcare at Arcadia University came when he peddled the slacker health care plan to adoring college students. Cradle-to-grave entitlement culture gone wild. I reported on this slacker mandate last December. A refresher course: Nanny State Gone Wild: Defining dependency [...]

Thank you, Keep America Safe
If not for the vigilant work of Keep America Safe, the corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder’s national security stone wall on DOJ’s terror lawyers would still be standing. Asking politely, in respectful tones with bowed heads and stooped spines, did not get the DOJ to cough up the names. It took relentless pressure and synergistic conservative media [...]

Chart of the morning: Guess who’s paying the Cover Tim Geithner’s A** “Bank Tax?” Y-o-u.
In January, I deconstructed the White House “Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee” fakery for you: 1. The bank tax will inevitably be passed on to consumers and the White House has no way of stopping them from doing the dumping. 2. The tax won’t apply to non-banks, black holes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or the bailed-out auto [...]

Make your voice heard: Counter-protest the Obamacare Road Show; St. Louis Oba-Kabuki event is closed-door, invitation-only
This is it, Tea Party people. This is the week for your on-the-ground mobilization to help drive a final nail into the Obamacare coffin. The perpetual campaigner-in-chief will be in Philadelphia today and St. Louis on Wednesday to rally his troops/stage props on a taxpayer-funded road show. He said “make your voice heard” last week. Make sure [...]

Sunday night open thread
Spent the weekend totally unplugged with family and friends. How about you? Feel free to talk Oscars, Adam Gadahn, and gearing up for the week ahead in comments/e-mail. Bonus video via Gateway Pundit: Steven Colbert: Michelle Malkin Is Made From 100% Snakeskin.

Lindsey Grahamnesty rides again
What a busy little “bipartisan” bee Lindsey Grahamnesty has been lately. He’s holding hands with John Kerry to push carbon caps and unrepentant global warming cultism. He’s collaborating with the White House to close down Gitmo. And he’s schmoozing with Chuckie Schumer on another illegal alien amnesty campaign — an effort that has been in the works for [...]

How do you spell “tone-deaf?”; Update: Obama joins the cheerleading squad
H-A-R-R-Y-R-E-I-D. “Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good.” *** Commenter jsr: “With any luck November 3 we will be able to say: ‘Today is a big day in America. Over 300 congressmen lost their jobs today, which is really good.’” *** Update: Obama says “Woo-hoo, too!” President Barack Obama boasted [...]

The Obama way: Bluster, bully, bribe
My syndicated column looks at the White House bribe-a-thon. On a related business-as-usual note: Campaign Donors Working On Policy At The White House. On another business-as-usual note: Cashing out of the Obama administration. *** The Obama Way: Bluster, bully, bribe by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 The White House took great offense this week when conservatives suggested President Obama might [...]