The White House Is Right, Bob Woodward Will Probably ‘Regret This’ | Mediaite

The White House Is Right, Bob Woodward Will Probably ‘Regret This’ | Mediaite: "When they came for Fox, they did not stand up because they did not work for Fox. The media’s lot is now well and truly cast with the administration – their fates are linked. Whatever his contribution to journalism, Bob Woodward will soon find that no single reporter is irreplaceable."

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Opinion: Republicans need to go negative - Keith Koffler - POLITICO.com

Opinion: Republicans need to go negative - Keith Koffler - POLITICO.com: "Reagan today is viewed as kind of an avuncular figure who meant well, even if some disagreed with him.

What even Republicans forget is that before rising to the presidency, Reagan was often portrayed and perceived as a lunatic right wing ideologue who said mean things and might get us into a war."

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Politico wonders: Has Obama’s media strategy made government more powerful? « Hot Air

Politico wonders: Has Obama’s media strategy made government more powerful? « Hot Air: "Perhaps we need a Republican President at all times so that the press can act like the independent watchdog that it believes itself to be, rather than the lapdog that it has become under a Democratic President."

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Hey Kids: Tonight You're Young, Tomorrow You're Unemployed - Reason.com

Hey Kids: Tonight You're Young, Tomorrow You're Unemployed - Reason.com: "Today’s youth is being turned out into a world where they face an unemployment rate of 13 percent – five points higher than the overall figure – and in which they will be forced for the first time to buy health insurance plans they may not want or need to subsidize the premiums of older Americans. It’s a feature, not a bug, of Obamacare that premiums for those under 30 will increase by as much as 50 percent while those over 60 will pay 10 percent less. If the economists Carmen Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart, and Kenneth Rogoff are correct in their “debt overhang” theory, the massive levels of sustained debt the U.S. has racked up over the past decade may substantially reduce economic growth by something like 24 percent over the next twenty years or more."

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Of course: Former EPA chief “Richard Windsor” had some buddies « Hot Air

Of course: Former EPA chief “Richard Windsor” had some buddies « Hot Air: "So, it turns out that multiple officials within the Obama administration may have been using ‘unofficial’ e-mail accounts to try to fly their controversial agenda beneath the radar of public notice and hide the agency’s pervasive “we do what we want, the costs be damned” attitude? Meh. Just a day in the life of the Obama administration, a.k.a., The Most Transparent Administration, Evah."

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Video: How 3-D printers will make magazine-capacity limits obsolete « Hot Air

Video: How 3-D printers will make magazine-capacity limits obsolete « Hot Air: "Attempting to revive the 1994 assault-weapons ban ignores the lack of impact it had on gun violence, a point made repeatedly since its 2004 expiration and the subsequent annual decline in overall gun deaths and the small percentage of those related to rifles of any kind. It’s politically and statistically obsolete — and now it’s close to being technologically obsolete, too.  Perhaps government should focus on the criminals and the crime rather than on the legal possessors of firearms in the future."

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CO Democrat: Even if you feel like you might get raped, you may not, so no guns for you « Hot Air

CO Democrat: Even if you feel like you might get raped, you may not, so no guns for you « Hot Air: "Downplaying the threat of rape? Check. Questioning the ability of grown, sentient women to perceive that threat? Check. A man in a position of power presuming to know what’s best for women he knows nothing about? Check. Limiting women’s choices by law in potentially life-threatening situations? Check. Six months ago, this was known as the frightful patriarchy. Now, it’s just another member of the Party of Women doing his part for the good work of gun control."

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George Will: The State of the Union farce - The Washington Post

George Will: The State of the Union farce - The Washington Post: "State of the Union addresses are now integral to the apotheosis of the presidency. If government is going to be omniprovident, modern presidents are going to be omnipresent, and politics is going to be infantile."

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Woodward: Senate Dems calling WH to ask if Hagel is withdrawing « Hot Air

Woodward: Senate Dems calling WH to ask if Hagel is withdrawing « Hot Air: "Usually, the Senate doesn’t insist on finding the best person for the job; they want to give the President as much room as possible to appoint people who will follow his policies.  They still want someone who is qualified for the job, and Hagel’s confirmation hearing performance makes a mockery of that claim.  Senate Democrats must be wondering whether the White House will insist on embarrassing them by forcing them to support Hagel — and so far, the answer to that fundamental question is still an emphatic yes."

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Germany and Spain are backing off on the green-energy subsidies « Hot Air

Germany and Spain are backing off on the green-energy subsidies « Hot Air: "Spanish renewable-energy companies are highly perturbed, of course, that the government is “backing away from previous promises that it would ensure them a reasonable return on their investments,” but… shouldn’t the fact that the government has to ensure even just a reasonable return on their investments have raised some gigantic siren-accompanied red flags in the first place?"

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Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com

Opinion: Paul Krugman economics: Deny, deny, deny! - Joe Scarborough - POLITICO.com: "Unfortunately for the self-consumed professor, his latest lurch left has created an entirely new collection of critics that are a far cry from the right-wing straw men that he usually sets up to knock down. Instead, Krugman’s extreme view that Washington should ignore long-term debt until the bottom falls out of entitlements now places him at odds with liberal Keynesians as well as conservative Republicans."

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Paul Krugman is wrong - but don't take my word for it - POLITICO.com

Paul Krugman is wrong - but don't take my word for it - POLITICO.com: "The debt crisis is real and waiting another decade to fix it is not an option. Anyone who suggests it is operates well outside the mainstream of where serious economists reside."

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Illegal immigration. Is it a crime or not? « Hot Air

Illegal immigration. Is it a crime or not? « Hot Air: "As things stand now, crossing the border without the proper authorization and paperwork is a crime. Beyond that, continuing to stay here without said credentials is also a crime. If you do this, you are committing a crime each and every day that you are here. But for some reason, we seem to be reaching the point where we’re fine with treating this as more of a game of Red Rover Red Rover."

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Environmentalists suing the Interior Department over… solar zones « Hot Air

Environmentalists suing the Interior Department over… solar zones « Hot Air: "The Obama administration may have been hasty and careless about fully anticipating the unintended consequences of their political agenda in their eagerness to show off their total awesomeness, say what?"

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Jon Stewart Grills Susan Rice on Benghazi After Slamming John McCain for Once Doing Same

Jon Stewart Grills Susan Rice on Benghazi After Slamming John McCain for Once Doing Same: "It still begs the question why Stewart mercilessly attacked Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham just a short time ago for questioning Rice's statements on the Benghazi attacks.
The answer is simple. At the time, Rice was a serious candidate to become the next Secretary of State, and Stewart felt compelled to defend President Barack Obama's choice over actually considering what Rice knew during the Benghazi affair and, better yet, why she peddled an obviously false line regarding the events of that day."

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“Morning Joe” panel: Second look at instituting a public-service draft for young Americans? « Hot Air

“Morning Joe” panel: Second look at instituting a public-service draft for young Americans? « Hot Air: "But if you’re a high-school senior who’s thinking about premed or whatever, good news — you might get to spend two years jackhammering bridges as part of some sort of stimulus plan before getting on to that. For all the heat our side produces about infringements on liberty from gun control, the casualness with which the idea of forced youth labor for the greater good is kicked around here strikes me as much creepier."

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‘The Pilgrims Were Illegal Aliens’: Megyn Kelly Panel Takes On ‘Brainwashy’ Diversity Training | Mediaite

‘The Pilgrims Were Illegal Aliens’: Megyn Kelly Panel Takes On ‘Brainwashy’ Diversity Training | Mediaite: "“What’s disturbing about it obviously is the mentality that’s being taught — repeat after me, please chant after me, this kind of Orwellion group think — you have to push the idea that certain races are more racist than others.”"

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Science News Prime February 11, 2013: People

Science News Prime February 11, 2013: People: "The study also revealed something counterintuitive: The people most knowledgeable about science and who had the best grasp of math and numbers, were the ones least concerned about climate change."

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Best of the Web Today: Critical Condition - WSJ.com

Best of the Web Today: Critical Condition - WSJ.com: "Kapur's argument amounts to the following: Democrats passed a law that had and still has insufficient public support (points 1 and 4), that cannot achieve its goals without unconstitutional means (point 2), that did not allocate the necessary resources to accomplish its objectives (point 3), and that lacks and still lacks even minimal support across the political aisle (all four points.)"

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James Bovard: Perform Criminal Background Checks at Your Peril - WSJ.com

James Bovard: Perform Criminal Background Checks at Your Peril - WSJ.com: "Most businesses perform criminal background checks on job applicants, but the EEOC guidance frowns on such checks and creates new legal tripwires that could spark federal lawsuits. One EEOC commissioner who opposed the new policy, Constance Barker, warned in April that "the only real impact the new Guidance will have will be to scare business owners from ever conducting criminal background checks. . . . The Guidance tells them that they are taking a tremendous risk if they do.""

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Sequester looking pretty inevitable « Hot Air

Sequester looking pretty inevitable « Hot Air: "Ahem.  Is this the same body that hasn’t produced a single normal-order budget since 2009, despite being required by law to do so?  What exactly have they done with “dignity” on Capitol Hill during that time?  They shouldn’t get paid at all if they can’t even bother to budget, one of their core responsibilities. There may be many things wrong with the sequester as it is currently constituted, but the insult to Congressional dignity is pretty far down the priority list."

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Toward a Black Jesse James - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic

Toward a Black Jesse James - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic: "I don't really know how anyone, with any sort of coherence, adopts Christopher Dorner as a symbol in the fight against police brutality, given how he brutalized those two human beings. I cannot understand, except to say that sometimes our own anger, our pain, becomes so blinding that we fail to see the pain of others. This is the seed of inhumanity, and inhumanity is the seed of the very police brutality which we all deplore."

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The Potential Pitfalls of Universal Pre-K - The Daily Beast

The Potential Pitfalls of Universal Pre-K - The Daily Beast: "A study released by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development found that the "more time children spent in child care from birth to age four-and-a-half... the less likely [they were] to get along with others, as more assertive, as disobedient, and as aggressive.""

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Do voters agree with Dems’ “we don’t have a spending problem” talking point? « Hot Air

Do voters agree with Dems’ “we don’t have a spending problem” talking point? « Hot Air: "Opposition to another round of stimulus runs two-to-one, according to the poll. This could be because 73 percent of voters polled say cutting government spending would be more likely to help strengthen the nation’s economy — as opposed to just 15 percent who believe increasing spending would do the trick."

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Michael Gerson: State of the Union exposes Obama’s ideological fatigue - The Washington Post

Michael Gerson: State of the Union exposes Obama’s ideological fatigue - The Washington Post: "“Obama appears to have decided,” says Galston, “that there is no possibility of resolving the larger fiscal issues on terms that he and his party would find acceptable.”"

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Video: And now an important message from Mike Bloomberg about styrofoam « Hot Air

Video: And now an important message from Mike Bloomberg about styrofoam « Hot Air: "City officials claim banning styrofoam will save New York millions in recycling costs; coincidentally, it’ll cost small business millions to replace it with alternate materials."

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States’ next major ObamaCare challenge: Marketing campaigns « Hot Air

States’ next major ObamaCare challenge: Marketing campaigns « Hot Air: "Meaning that is could very well be bad news bears when a bunch of Americans start figuring out that simply paying the penalty tax can be cheaper than actually purchasing a plan — and the government knows it."

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Senate Democrat: "I Want to Disagree With Those Who Say We Have a Spending Problem" - Guy Benson

Senate Democrat: "I Want to Disagree With Those Who Say We Have a Spending Problem" - Guy Benson: "Straight-up denying the country's plainly obvious, two-by-four-across-the-face spending problem is now an official Democrat Party talking point.  Your pro-science, reality-based, "Party of Ideas," at work, America. "

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Should Missouri Raise Its Minimum Wage?

Should Missouri Raise Its Minimum Wage?: "Mandating higher wages for low-wage workers in high-income families, such as teenagers from well off families working a summer job, does nothing to help poor and low-income families. Indeed, if the job losses from a higher minimum wage are borne by minimum wage workers in poor, low-income families, minimum wages can have unintended harmful distributional effects — possibly increasing the number of poor or low-income families. Reflecting these issues, research fails to establish that higher minimum wages help poor or low-income families."

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Report: Hagel Said State Department Controlled by Israel | Washington Free Beacon

Report: Hagel Said State Department Controlled by Israel | Washington Free Beacon: "Hagel said the U.S. Department of State was an adjunct of the Israeli foreign minister’s office, according to a contemporaneous report of the event."

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Obama’s 'bipartisan' State of the Union paints Republicans as anti-science, job-hating Neanderthals – Telegraph Blogs

Obama’s 'bipartisan' State of the Union paints Republicans as anti-science, job-hating Neanderthals – Telegraph Blogs: "As one wit pointed out on Twitter, the driest drinking game in the world would be to knock back a shot every time Obama mentions the Constitution."

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Obamanomics on parade: Hey, how about a minimum-wage hike to help the middle class? « Hot Air

Obamanomics on parade: Hey, how about a minimum-wage hike to help the middle class? « Hot Air: "Out of what magical hiding place is all of this extra money for minimum wage hikes supposed to come from? From the greedy, hoard-happy CEOs yucking it up over the little people? Wrong-o: This proposed minimum wage increase would make itself felt in the rest of the economy in any of several ways, mostly via higher prices and fewer jobs."

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WSJ: Millions fraudulently claimed eligibility for federal phone subsidies « Hot Air

WSJ: Millions fraudulently claimed eligibility for federal phone subsidies « Hot Air: "Steel yourselves, because this egregious revelation may very well shock you: A well-meaning but perhaps overly ambitious federal assistance program that offers a taxpayer-subsidized benefit and does not have rigorous eligibility requirements, was fraudulently taken advantage of by millions of people. (I’ll pause here a moment to let you recover.)"

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Pelosi: It’s really a false argument to say we have a spending problem « Hot Air

Pelosi: It’s really a false argument to say we have a spending problem « Hot Air: "Just let that sink in for a moment. We’ve had “plenty of spending cuts,” and we don’t have a spending problem — “we have a budget deficit problem.” …Yeah, all of those ‘plentiful’ spending cuts are probably the reason we’re on track to add $7 trillion more to our debt in just ten years."

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Ron Paul Wants RonPaul.com So Badly That He’s Asking The UN For Help | Mediaite

Ron Paul Wants RonPaul.com So Badly That He’s Asking The UN For Help | Mediaite: "Paul’s attempt to disenfranchise his most loyal supporters would be disturbing enough. But what really puts his actions over the top is that he’s reaching out to the United Nations for help, an organization he has spent much of his political career demonizing as a foreign body dead-set on taking away Americans’ freedoms."

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Witness's fake eyeball pops out; mistrial declared - CNN.com

Witness's fake eyeball pops out; mistrial declared - CNN.com: ""I've been a prosecutor for 26 years and I've never seen anything like that happen. It was unusual; it was shocking," said Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Mark Gilson, who is prosecuting Mathew Brunelli, 23, charged with aggravated assault, for allegedly stabbing John Huttick in the eye during a bar fight in August 2011."

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THE VIRTUAL INAUGURAL 2013 - YouTube

THE VIRTUAL INAUGURAL 2013 - YouTube:

Amazing.

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DoJ lawsuit against S&P even sillier than first thought « Hot Air

DoJ lawsuit against S&P even sillier than first thought « Hot Air: "So far, though, it’s just the Obama administration pursuing the rather laughable claim that S&P’s ratings would have made any difference to Citi and BofA on their own products.  Combine that up with the fact that this is the only ratings agency that the DoJ has pursued after the financial collapse in 2008, and it’s the most significant one that downgraded US credit while Obama has been President, and the actual raison d’être seems pretty clear."

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Reason: Establishment media getting even more establishmenty on Obama, drones « Hot Air

Reason: Establishment media getting even more establishmenty on Obama, drones « Hot Air: "The establishment media used to remind us of that need for checks on power and due process when a Republican was President.  Maybe we should have a Republican as President all the time so that the media can actually do its job."

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Senate Democrats, Obama still have no ideas on sequester replacement … after 18 months « Hot Air

Senate Democrats, Obama still have no ideas on sequester replacement … after 18 months « Hot Air: "Unbelievable.  After 18 months, the Democrats had no Plan B for the sequester, assuming that Republicans would be desperate to stop it themselves and would willingly go back into fiscal-cliff mode to deal with Obama and Harry Reid directly.  Instead, the decision to insist on normal order and require Democrats to produce a bill has exposed them as entirely unready to govern in both the Senate and the White House."

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Panetta: Obama never called back to check on Benghazi « Hot Air

Panetta: Obama never called back to check on Benghazi « Hot Air: "We didn’t get to this yesterday, but it’s definitely worth watching — especially for the skill shown by Lindsey Graham in his examination of Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey.  The headline takeaway will be what is remembered most: the revelation that Barack Obama never bothered to keep in touch with his chair of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of Defense after being informed that an American consulate was under attack from terrorists."

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New HHS “family penalty” rule leaves spouses, children unprotected « Hot Air

New HHS “family penalty” rule leaves spouses, children unprotected « Hot Air: "At issue is the question of whether to subsidize additional insurance for workers who can afford their employer-based health care coverage for themselves, but not for their families.  Not doing so forces either the worker or employer to pay more of the premium; doing so would explode the subsidy cost for ObamaCare, which has already gone up nearly 40% from original estimates before the first subsidy dollar has been spent.  HHS decided against expanding the subsidy even further, but that has real-world implications that won’t make ObamaCare supporters happy."

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Dem senators: Legalized illegal immigrants will have to wait around 10 years to apply for a green card « Hot Air

Dem senators: Legalized illegal immigrants will have to wait around 10 years to apply for a green card « Hot Air: "Translation: Democrats don’t have a lot of leeway with immigration special-interest groups to make the “substantial period of time” much more substantial than 10 years. Which is ironic, because the group they’re ostensibly fighting for here — illegals — might very well accept Rubio’s longer time frame for citizenship in exchange for the right to work legally in America immediately. That’s been Raul Labrador’s point all along: Most illegals he’s encountered as an immigration lawyer don’t care about becoming citizens, he claims, they care about jobs. Democrats, of course, care about the opposite; they’re willing to supply cheap labor to business even if it depresses wages for U.S. citizens in the expectation that they’ll net millions more Latino votes a decade or so from now."

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Charles Krauthammer: Call Obama’s sequester bluff - The Washington Post

Charles Krauthammer: Call Obama’s sequester bluff - The Washington Post: "The country needs tax reform. But first it needs to rein in out-of-control spending. To succeed in doing that, Republicans must remain united under one demand: cuts with no taxes — or we will let the sequester go into effect."

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If You Hated 'Assault Weapons,' You'll Hate 'Assault Magazines' Even More - Hit & Run : Reason.com

If You Hated 'Assault Weapons,' You'll Hate 'Assault Magazines' Even More - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "To no one's surprise, the task force's recommendations look a lot like the president's, which look a lot like the measures that gun control activists have been pushing for decades."

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America held hostage to a rhetorical tic? « The Greenroom

America held hostage to a rhetorical tic? « The Greenroom: "A Smart Politics content analysis of the Public Papers of the Presidents finds that Barack Obama has used the word “hostage” as a metaphor more than any other president in U.S. history, and has spoken of figurative hostages vis-à-vis actual hostages at a rate 11 times higher than his predecessors."

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So God Made A Liberal... - YouTube

So God Made A Liberal... - YouTube:

Hilarious.

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School district bullies steal kids’ lunch money « Hot Air

School district bullies steal kids’ lunch money « Hot Air: "The oversight committee members are convinced the problems they found are only a small sample of a systemic failure. But at least the lawns look nice."

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Oh, good: ObamaCare may help raise supermarket prices, too « Hot Air

Oh, good: ObamaCare may help raise supermarket prices, too « Hot Air: "Salad and hot food bars in grocery shops, sandwiches at convenience stores, and every type of muffin at the local bakery: The regulation would require that all of these businesses undergo the extensive process of breaking down the nutrition facts of their many items. Sounds great in theory, except that doing so ain’t free — and the costs of the regulation are going to be paid for by you and me."

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“How can you not define that as a person?” « The Greenroom

“How can you not define that as a person?” « The Greenroom: "The Live Action story notes that Colorado Democrats and their allies at Planned Parenthood recently blocked an abortion-neutral bill that would have made fetal homicide a crime — thus denying legal rights to even wanted unborn children.  The pro-abortion lobby and their legislative allies cannot abide any laws that recognize the humanity of these children because that might surrender an inch or two in the abortion debate.  Remember, though, conservatives are the zealots on these issues."

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