LEE RODGERSOBAMA MAY ALREADY KNOW HOW THE
SUPREMES VOTED ...
MORE BLACKS KILLING BLACKS ...
RON PAUL'S PROFLIGACY
MORE BLACKS KILLING BLACKS ...
RON PAUL'S PROFLIGACY
The Supreme Court has already voted on the Obamacare case. Now they will spend weeks -- or months -- agreeing upon the wording of both the decision and the dissenting view. But, as is pointed out by Hank, a reader of this column, it may be possible to determine the outcome well before the public announcement is made simply by noticing how Obama discusses his health plan. It is certainly possible -- even likely -- that one of his appointed liberals on the court will leak to him the outcome of the vote well before we get the official word. Probably he knows even now. Already his emphasis has shifted to, "It was all Mitt Romney's idea," which carries just enough weight to effectively disarm the likely Republican nominee on that issue in the forthcoming campaign.
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Mark Steyn (National Review Online) contemplates the power of just one Supreme Court justice ...
"Since the retirement of Sandra Day O’Connor, Swingin’ Anthony Kennedy has been the swingingest swinger on the Supreme Court, the big Numero Cinco on all those 5–4 white-knuckle nail-biting final scores. So naturally Court observers have been paying close attention to his interventions in the Obamacare oral arguments. So far he doesn’t sound terribly persuaded by the administration’s line.
"And yet, and yet . . . If you incline to the view that Obamacare is a transformative act, isn’t there something slightly pitiful about the fact that the liberties of over 300 million people hinge on the somewhat whimsical leanings of just one man?"
Yes.
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Wonder what Al Sharpton will have to say about this latest black-on-black shooting?
Gunmen fired a barrage of bullets at a crowd of mourners who were gathered Friday night at a North Miami-area funeral home, injuring 12 people and killing two, according to Miami-Dade police.
An argument among gang members sparked the shooting.
Witnesses said one of the two killed was shot in the chest.
The funeral was for Morvin Andre, 21, of North Miami, killed in a March 18 shooting, according to witnesses.
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Seven black teens have been arrested on suspicion that they committed a hate crime when they attacked a 15-year-old Hispanic boy while he was walking home from school.
The March 14 beating in Palmdale was captured on video and posted on YouTube, but has since been removed from the site. The video shows as many as 10 boys surrounding the victim and challenging him to a fight. The suspects then began hitting the teen while others watched.
After the victim fell to the ground, the assailants kicked him multiple times in the head and knocked out several teeth, requiring surgery.
Comment, Al? Jesse? Barack? ... I didn't think so ...
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Rich Lowry of National Review runs the numbers and puts the Trayvon MIller death into perspective ...
"According to a 2005 FBI report, blacks accounted for 13 percent of the population and 49 percent of all homicide victims. In 93 percent of the cases, the killer was black. Half of the victims were ages 17 to 29.
"That works out to 4,000 murders of young blacks in one year, overwhelmingly at the hands of other blacks. In the communities where these killings occur there is, to put it in (Jesse) Jackson’s inimitable terms, no justice and no peace.
"In America, the lives of young black people are cheap, unless they happen to fit the right agenda."
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Obama's "flexibility" message to Russia's Putin can be reduced to one word: Obsequiousness. In fact, that defines his entire foreign policy, if his incessant bungling and treachery can be dignified by the word "policy."
Future history books, if they aren't eviscerated by liberal "scholars," will place his picture alongside that of the contemptible Neville Chamberlain, who was quite willing to sell-out Britain to Adolf Hitler.
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Larry Kudlow of CNBC with an unclouded view of the reality Obama ignores ...
"Make no mistake about it: Fossil fuel is going to drive the American economy for decades to come. Green energy is not."
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Who's done the most wasteful, inefficient campaign spending? Major Garrett of National Journal checks out the numbers ...
"The (Ron) Paul math goes like this: According to his latest filing with the Federal Election Commission, Paul has spent $32,766,465. He's received 1,079,753 votes for a cost-per-vote total of $30.35. He's won 66 delegates for a cost-per-delegate total of $496,461."
Almost a half-million dollars per delegate!
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Sometimes the liberal media's lies and stupidity are so evident, it's laughable.
Obviously anticipating Obama's impending butt-kicking by the Supreme Court over his socialized medicine scam, many of his media stooges are now trying to peddle the argument that a loss would be a good thing for him, obviously overlooking the fact that polls consistently show that about two Americans out of three think his plan was awful.
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It's getting nastier and nastier between goofy Keith Olbermann and Al Gore's tin-can cable network, which has fired the Big Ego. One source close to the dispute tells Mediaite that Olbermann went through 8 different car services (he doesn’t drive), and complained to the network that some of the drivers “smelled,” and -- heaven forfend! -- actually “talked to him.”
Now that Olbermann's been fired by Gore's TV operation (talk about a marriage made in heaven!) look for the next loony lib to get the axe to be Soledad O'Brien, whose ratings on CNN are a train-wreck. Her liberal goofiness had a market in San Francisco, the world's largest outdoor lunatic asylum. But not in the real world.
There is a difference between ignorance (not having knowledge) and stupidity (not knowing how to use knowledge one has). Ms. O'Brien is one of many media liberals who possesses both traits.
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Now that it's out that Osama bin Laden lived in five different "safe houses" in Pakistan in the years after he fled Afghanistan, just how stupid would even a U.S. diplomat -- or president -- have to be not to know that the treacherous Pakistani government knew of his presence all along?
The first requirement for dealing with one's enemies is to identify them.
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More distressing news for the cruise industry. After 24 hours dead in the waters off the Philippines, the Azamara Quest, is now limping toward Malaysia for repairs. An engine-room fire had disabled the vessel. Azamara is the top-of-the-line brand in the group of cruise lines owned by Royal Caribbean. RCCL and Carnival own most of the world's major cruise lines.
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We should be used to it by now. Some Kentucky basketball fans overturned cars and set fires near the U.K. campus last night after the Wildcats beat Louisville in the Final Four. Unless I missed something in the team introductions, the closest hometown of any starting Kentucky player was in Indiana. Others came from New York, Chicago and Oregon.
Yessir, nothing like pride in those home-state kids!
But so it goes in the world of professional sports disguised as a college game.
And the Wildcats do run a beautiful alley-oop with Anthony Davis.
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Another shameful chapter in the saga of Ryan Leaf, the biggest flop in the history of the NFL draft.
Back in his Montana hometown, Great Falls, for a book-signing, he was arrested on charges of burglary, theft and criminal possession of drugs.
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Wise-up a friend who might be tilting leftward. Send that poor, confused person the link to this column. Or forward the entire column. Someday they'll thank you for it. Perhaps not immediately, however.
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Petty irritation department ...
Everyone has a perfect right to spell his/her name however they wish. If your name is Ann and you choose to spell it RTX, no one can say you're wrong. Nevertheless ...
If any SHAWN'S parents wanted to give him an Irish name, it might've been better if they'd spelled it the original way, SEAN.
Have a sip of Bushmills and consider it. (It goes great on cereal, also.)
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Lynne Cahill-Gomez, 53, of Hayward, Calif., may be a slow learner, but she does learn. She's also a fast driver. Within one hour, she was pulled over for speeding three times. The first time she was doing 103MPH ... the second time 105 ... but by the third time she'd slowed down to 76. See? She DOES learn.
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Please don't ask me to join a "social network" on the internet. Privacy is hard enough to maintain, as it is.
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Mr. Eason, obviously a dedicated feminist, forwards yet another example of a woman's view on why men are just no good. The lady writes ...
One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash his Sweatshirt. Seconds after he stepped into the laundry room, he shouted to me, 'What setting do I use on the washing machine?'
'It depends,' I replied. 'What does it say on your shirt?'
He yelled back, ' OHIO STATE !'
And they say blondes are dumb....
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My old friend Bob passes along some eye-opening stats that should be shown to children and grandchildren. The year is 1911 --- One hundred years ago. Here are some statistics from that year:
The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.
Fuel for a car was sold in drug stores only.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads in the entire nation.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The average US wage in 1910 was 22 cents per hour.
The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births took place at home.
Ninety percent of all Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION. Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard".
Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
The population of Las Vegas was 30.
Crossword puzzles, canned beer and iced tea hadn't been invented yet.
Pharmacists said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health!"
There were about 230 reported murders in the entire nation.
Consider two elements in that list. First, the average worker made between $200 and $400 a year. Secondly, there were only about 230 murders in the whole year. Show this to some deluded liberal who thinks poverty is at the root of crime and senseless killing.
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Conan O'Brien --
"Charlie Sheen says he cringes when he watches footage of his crazy rant from last year. He's moved on. He's now focusing on his career as a JetBlue pilot."
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Jimmy Kimmel --
"For the first time in history, Americans will watch more movies online than they will on physical media like DVDs. In 10 years people will be looking back on us renting movies at Blockbuster like we look back at people washing their clothes on a river rock."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."