ENDORSE A TEA PARTY CANDIDATE . . .
And lose your job:"Maria Conchita Alonso starred in a campaign ad for Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of San Bernardino County, a Tea Party favorite who is seeking the Republican nomination."
The actress was fired from a "Spanish-language version of "The Vagina Monologues," scheduled to run in San Francisco next month. Only in California can such worlds collide . . .
OBAMA POLL NUMBERS CRATER BECAUSE OF RACISM
Or so the President would have us believe:"There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president," Obama said in the article by David Remnick, appearing in the magazine's Jan. 27 edition."
It's not because his policies are economically ruinous, threaten our most basic freedoms. When all else fails, play the race card and hope it works.
FIGHTING THE GOVERNMENT NANNIES
Professor Don
Boudreaux has a "public service announcement"
for
the nation, and the nagging government nannies who have decided to ban,
bar, regulate and destroy the things that make life better. In this
case, it's
a rallying cry against the federal ban on incandescent light bulbs:"As a service to the public, I encourage all Americans to save their eyesight, to protect their freedom, and to strike a blow against cronyism masked by self-righteous and officious 'environmentalism,' by stocking up ASAP on incandescent light bulbs and rejecting the dull and idiotic alternatives."
And for good measure, check out this video to get a glimpse of the nanny state future.
OBAMACARE'S DISASTER DEADLINE
The ongoing saga over
healthcare.gov, the website (allegedly) designed to help Americans buy health insurance under Obamacare could reach fresh new heights of absurdity:"If the ObamaCare contractor brought on last week to fix the back-end of the HealthCare.gov portal doesn't finish the build-out by mid-March the healthcare law will be jeopardized, according to a procurement document posted on a federal website.
It says insurers could be bankrupt and the entire healthcare industry threatened if the build out is not completed."
Insurers are already panicked that House Republicans will strip their bailout provision from Obamacare, which would force them, rather than taxpayers, to absorb the full cost of the insurance scheme's failure.
OR, WE COULD JUST DROP DEAD AND SAVE MONEY
Former New York
Times editor Bill Keller has a solution for all the problems facing
health care in America today: if you're sick, don't fight back against
your
illness. Just die already . . ."Among doctors here, there is a growing appreciation of palliative care that favors the quality of the remaining life rather than endless "heroic measures" that may or may not prolong life but assure the final days are clamorous, tense and painful. (And they often leave survivors bankrupt.) What Britain and other countries know, and my country is learning, is that every cancer need not be Verdun, a war of attrition waged regardless of the cost or the casualties. It seemed to me, and still does, that there is something enviable about going gently. One intriguing lung cancer study even suggests that patients given early palliative care instead of the most aggressive chemotherapy not only have a better quality of life, they actually live a bit longer."
OBAMA'S "NOTHING BURGER"
The President gave a
speech last week promising to reform the National Security Agency. How did it go? Rather poorly. Legal scholar Jonathan Turley wrote:" . . . as expected there is precious little in terms of real change. For civil libertarians, it is a nothing burger served hot and with a sympathetic smile. It is much of the same."
That harsh assessment did not deter Sen. Diane Feinstein, who appeared on "Meet the Press" to say:
"I think a lot of the privacy people perhaps don't understand that we still occupy the role of the Great Satan," she said. "New bombs are being devised, new terrorists are emerging, new groups - uh, actually, a new level of viciousness, and I think we need to be prepared. I think we need to do it in a way that respects people's privacy rights."
No word on what Feinstein thinks of the possibility that the NSA is spying on her and the other members of Congress.
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