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Although Supreme Court solons have been known to argue one way in public and decide the other, unless Anthony Kennedy does another flip-flop it appears Obamacare is on its way to a well-deserved grave.
So what does the failed Obama have left as a campaign issue? Maybe provoke a race-riot?
Mittens has the Republican nomination sewn up, but he'd better be very, very careful about how he handles his own reaction to the court decision, however it comes down. His association with the whole stupid idea is his single largest vulnerability in the November election. And if he wins, a Republican Congress needs to keep him on a very short leash. His RINO instincts are not to be trusted.
If the Democrats and other assorted suckers hadn't placed a wild-eyed leftist with blatant anti-American instincts in the White House, Romney wouldn't stand a chance.
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This whole Obamacare exercise before the Supreme Court is a major object lesson in why the power to nominate justices is so important. Presidents come and go. Supreme Court justices come and stay.
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The Cong. Bobby Rush, racial activist and one-time Black Panther from Chicago who was removed from the floor of the House for wearing a "hoodie." a rules violation, has this distinction on his political record:
In the 2000 Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives he -- Rush -- was challenged by State Senator Barack Obama. During the primary, Rush said: "Barack Obama went to Harvard and became an educated fool. Barack is a person who read about the civil-rights protests and thinks he knows all about it."
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Liberals are gleefully pointing to polls that show Obama beating Romney in swing states like Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania. This is another example of the ancient adage, "Polls are like a string bikini. What they reveal is interesting ... but what they conceal is vital."
These are polls taken while the Republican candidates are still fighting for the nomination, with all the attacks and counter-attacks that contest demands.
What REALLY matters is what happens when the voters have the choice of ONE Republican versus the failed Obama experiment.
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Newt's lost his money-man. Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas gambling tycoon who's bankrolled the doomed campaign, admits it's a lost cause.
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The crazies in the Obama administration now are outlawing new coal-burning electric power-plants. They're opposed to nukes, too. Time to hitch that bicycle to a generator and start pedaling!
How did such a bunch of lunatics get so empowered? In a sane nation, they'd be looking at jail time.
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The Trayvon Martin shooting is belatedly bringing forth reminders of the black and liberal hysteria over the charges against Duke University lacrosse players that they had abused a black stripper. Even faculty members signed onto a lynch-mob mentality toward them.
Then, slowly, evidence trickled out about the "victim" and eventually her entire story was discredited. The liberals and race-mongers were left with egg on their faces. But did that case, along with the fake Tawana Brawley rape story, in which Al Sharpton played a disgraceful role, deter the race-baiters? Not a bit. Their tiny minds are set in stone, their great obsession built on an image of black victimization. And no matter how much a society bends to them, their hate and envy will never be satisfied. All the shakedowns they've successfully perpetrated do not and cannot satisfy the Jesse Jacksons of the world.
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In the name of Trayvon ...
Miami Beach police report a Walgreen store ransacked and ripped-off by pro-Trayvon demonstrators wearing "hoodies."
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Burt Prelutsky evaluates Obama's racial-solidarity intrusion into the Trayvon Martin case ...
"Just in terms of public relations, wouldn’t it have been a good idea for Obama to have spoken a few well-chosen words after the 13-year-old white kid, Allen Coon, in Kansas City, was recently doused in gasoline and set on fire while the two black teenagers hollered, 'You get what you deserve, white boy!'”?
"Isn‘t it odd that neither (Al) Sharpton nor (Jesse) Jackson thought it was worth their time to fly off to Kansas City and admonish the black community to shape up, and to urge the KCPD to arrest those young sadists and send them away for a long stretch? Instead, we had Al Sharpton leading a demonstration, during which he said, and I quote, 'Don’t talk to us like we stupid. Don’t talk to us like we ignit.' He garnered loud cheers from a crowd of black Floridians, who clearly speak his language, even if nobody else does. He went on to say, 'We love our children like you love yours.' Well, not exactly, Reverend Al. Not when three out of four black babies are born to unmarried women."
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Spike Lee, the movie director regarded by the Hollywood left as a "genius" for his hate-whitey output, mistakenly gave out the address of a Florida couple in their 70's as the address of the "white-Latino" shooter in the Martin case. They've had to leave their home under a barrage of hate-mail. Uh, anything to say, Mr. President?
Now Mr. Lee may have to answer to the besieged couple's lawyer.
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The world also awaits comment from Barack Obama regarding the Tulsa, Oklahoma, case in which 20-year-old Tyrone Woodfork has been arrested in the rape of an 85-year-old woman who was beaten to death as her 90-year-old husband was beaten and shot in the face with a pellet gun. The husband is in serious condition in a local hospital, suffering from a broken jaw, broken ribs and severe bleeding.
The names of the victims are Bob and (the late) Nancy Strait. Listen for their names the next time the race-monger in the White House makes a public statement.
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From black columnist Mychal Massie ...
"The coming months of political life are not going to be pleasant for Obama. Possessed by a self-perceived palatine (definition: "possessing royal privileges") mindset, that in his mind places him above criticism, how long before he cracks in public? Can America risk a man with a documented track record of lying and misrepresenting truth as a basic way of life?"
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The London Daily Mail exhumes Brack Obama's argument against Hillary Clinton's health-plan proposal in the 2008 campaign. It's especially interesting since Obamacare demands the so-called "individual mandate" that would force Americans to buy health insurance ...
"During the 2008 campaign, Obama argued strenuously against the individual mandate. In a debate in South Carolina, he said: 'A mandate means that in some fashion, everybody will be forced to buy health insurance. ... But I believe the problem is not that folks are trying to avoid getting health care. The problem is they can't afford it. And that's why my plan emphasizes lowering costs.'"
"In February 2008, he said that you could no more solve the issue of the uninsured with an individual mandate than you could cure homelessness by ordering people to buy a home."
That's our president: Lies of convenience as a way of political life.
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Obama and his stooges continue to tell glowing lies about the "improving" economy, but reality punches a hole in the falsehoods. Sales of durable goods -- things like household appliances, for example -- continued to decline in February ... another indicator of a sick economy not really getting any better.
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How can the government-contrived unemployment rate really be down when the number of employed people has shrunk to the lowest level in decades? Historical wisdom: "Figures lie ... and liars figure."
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The latest piece of Obama silliness, his proposed budget, has been defeated in the House, 414-0. Right. Not even one Democrat voted for it. The media have been noticeably quiet about it.
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Another electric-car scam is on the verge of collapse. The Boston Herald reports that a battery outfit called 123 Systems of Waltham, Mass., is losing millions and just laid off a hundred employees. Your stake in this failure? The company got $249 million in "stimulus" funds. Coincidentally, just before that gift, the company CEO gave $16,900 to Democrat pols including Sen. Ed-the-Marxist Markey of Massachusetts.
The fact that Massachusetts voters repeatedly elect people like Markey, Barney Frank and endless Kennedys only adds to Republican suspicions of Romney, their ex-governor. And Senator Scott Brown hasn't turned out to be such a jewel, either, although some Republican hysterics were touting him as presidential fodder immediately after his win.
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How dumb are California Democrats? They elected and re-elected 50 politicians, both state and national, whose campaign funds were swindled out of $7 million by their campaign treasurer. The theft has apparently been going on for years. What kind of fools empower such politicians to handle the public's money when they can't even handle the fruits of their own money-grubbing?
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Russia's longtime newspaper voice of the Communist Party, Pravda, has endorsed Barack Obama for re-election. Are we stunned, shocked and amazed?
Pravda also condemns Romney. Could he ask for a better endorsement?
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Unsurprisingly, Florida's charismatic Senator Marco Rubio endorses Romney ... says he doesn't want the VP slot ... but -- would he turn it down? Ahhh ...
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Is it premature to label the entire MSNBC stable of performers a bunch of crazed communists? Not that I'd support silencing them; that's a liberal tactic. I come from the premise that the more exposure they get, the more even their small (read the ratings) clique of viewers is likely to figure out that, collectively, they're nuts.
We can include in that coterie the hideous Andrea Mitchell, who appears primarily on MSNBC's parent, NBC. In a report from Cuba, she calls that communist country's health care system "highly regarded." In the same report a Cuban doctor gives a reality clue when he says of the status of patients, "You sometimes have to change your own bed sheets."
Post-script: Can CNN be far behind MSNBC, as wretched ratings foretell its further fall into disrepute? Both cable operations exemplify a roomful of liberals engaged in mutual masturbation.
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What has the leftist crusade against Rush Limbaugh accomplished? Essentially nothing.
Most of the "sponsors" who dropped out were nothing more than ad-buyers of spot announcements on local stations, not his core of national sponsors. Station losses: two small-market operations of teakettle power. The liberal BS barrage has likely increased his ratings. As the ancient showbiz axiom goes, "It doesn't matter what they say, as long as they get the name right."
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It's wedding bells for the seventh time for rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, who has taken unto himself a bride at age 76. He married his caregiver, who used to be married to his cousin.
Jerry Lee was once a guest on my long-ago TV show, which featured a couple of adorable teenage twins who did the commercial lead-ins. Ol' Jerry Lee seemed to be under the influence of ... something ... when he arrived and during the live show had to be re-directed several times by stagehands when he followed an impulse to get his hands on them. It was memorable TV.
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The cruise industry, perhaps even more than most of the travel industry, is feeling the strain of the Obama economy. My own mailbox and e-mail are filled every day with discount offers from all the cruise lines. One of the most deceptive come-ons is the "onboard credit"; money that can only be spent aboard the ship, which usually goes for drinks.
Consider the economics. The biggest chunk of the cost of alcoholic beverages goes to taxes. The cruise lines, operating as they do in international waters, buy their booze tax-free. Which means the ten-dollar drink you buy with your onboard credit has maybe thirty cents worth of liquor in it.
I recently saw the most modestly-priced champagne on a major cruise line selling for $29 a bottle -- and they get it tax-free. My local supermarket sells it for $5 a bottle. Three dollars when it's on sale.
I love cruises as vacations, but the far better discount is on the up-front dollar price of the cruise, itself.
Another cruise tip: Most lines no longer allow you to bring alcoholic beverages onboard. You can, to some degree, beat the system by ordering "gift" bottles of wine or booze for yourself, in advance. Still overpriced, but not nearly as much as buying drinks individually once you're aboard. Sitting on your balcony, sucking up a beverage; not bad.
You're welcome.
Further footnote: I notice in a cruise-industry newsletter that one of the seagoing monster ships will be relocating to Madrid. Interesting, considering that the Spanish capitol is hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean. Man those oars!
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They found a hundred-year-old lightbulb buried in a time capsule in Ohio that was buried a hundred years ago. It still works. Care to get a bet down (on behalf of your great-grandchildren) that our new EPA-mandated "green" lightbulbs will perform so well?
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It's a good thing for baseball that the legendary Dodger franchise appears to be on the road to revival after a chaotic period. Magic Johnson is a good front-man for the new ownership, but the serious money behind it is from the Guggenheim investment operation, which is private and huge. Ancestors have names on such landmarks as New York's Guggenheim Museum of Art. And one of my life insurance policies.
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Jay Leno (offered here in honor of Obama's deep friendship with Jon Corzine, who's possibly going to face charges of stealing $2 billion of investor money in the MF bankruptcy debacle) --
"Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon? -- A fund raiser."
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From reader Michael --
While attending a Marriage Weekend, Frank and his wife Ann listened to the instructor declare, It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other.
He then addressed the men. " Can you name and describe your wife's favorite flower?"
Frank leaned over, touched Ann’s arm gently, and whispered, "Gold Medal-All-Purpose, Isn't it?
And thus began Frank's life of celibacy.
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."