By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  July 23rd at 07:01 PM  | 

Holding Mr. Obama accountable for his promises is all well and good, but it must be coupled with “We told you so!”

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 03:53 PM  | 

To pay for the expansion of health insurance to young, healthy people (including illegal aliens), Congress is going to cut Medicare. That means they are going to cut funding of health care for the elderly in order to pay for insurance for people who don’t need it. As TMR’s Knight of the Mind pointed out earlier today, President Obama’s plan for cutting medical cost hinges | Read More »

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  July 21st at 02:19 PM  | 

Early in his term, President Obama stressed shared sacrifice as a means to correct the various problems with which he said we were beset. He has shied away lately from that terminology. Why is that? Perhaps it is because having called for it incorrectly, and then been stung with his own blatant hypocrisy, he now also incorrectly reckons it politically damaging to call for sacrifice | Read More »

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  July 11th at 09:00 AM  | 

One of the liberal Special Words is inclusion.  A Special Word covers a lot of ground with a few syllables, glossing several unstated assertions to make the argument containing it difficult to defeat.  Other Special Words are consensus, justice, and oppression.  Honorable mentions go to the phrases “doing the right thing” and “giving back”. In the case of inclusion, I’ve noticed that liberals are fond | Read More »

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  May 27th at 06:45 PM  | 

We must oppose Sotomayor, because she is a weak addition to the Supreme Court. While in a partisan strategic sense it is quite possible that having an inferior mind installed as the next Justice is a net positive, that may not be what is best for the country.

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  March 5th at 01:06 PM  | 

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited Barack Obama in the White House.  If that sounds like the opening line of a really funny joke, I have to apologize.  I got nothin’. But via Ace we have: Mr Brown’s gifts included an ornamental desk pen holder made from the oak timbers of Victorian anti-slaver HMS Gannet, once named HMS President. Mr Obama was so delighted he | Read More »

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  February 20th at 05:00 PM  | 

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs lashed out in an ad hominem attack at Rick Santelli.  He’s the CNBC correspondent who spoke passionately about the injustice inherent in the Obama mortgage bailout plan. My, what thin skins these Obamians have.  I’m sure we’ll soon learn all about Mr. Santelli, and how he once took three slices of a pizza, when he only paid his buddies | Read More »

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  November 17th at 05:30 PM  | 

Do I really need to explain why? The former Big Three are hemorrhaging cash, which an outside *deux ex machina* infusion will not stop. They’ll have a larger debt load. Strings attached to the bailout will include limits on executive compensation and government mandates to produce smaller, more efficient (or at least “greener”) cars. -more-

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  November 1st at 01:49 PM  | 

Barack Obama’s statement that the McCain campaign has tried to make a virtue of selfishness is a personal insult to every American, a twisting of fact and reason, and without hyperbole a threat to democracy itself. (Cross-posted at the Academy)

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  August 22nd at 11:22 AM  | 

Rush Limbaugh is all excited that Hillary wasn’t even vetted for VP (he says, according the AP). But the All-seeing MahaRushi missed one: they didn’t have to vet her specifically. They’ve been doing opposition research on her for months! With Obama tanking in the polls, he will either pick Hillary as his running mate, or he will not be elected.

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  August 1st at 10:55 AM  | 

The Surge didn’t work, say the Democrats. The Anbar Awakening was happening before the Surge. They’re so off-base that calling them wrong ought to embarrass wrongness. The Surge was a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for victory in Iraq. The sufficient condition — making Al Qaeda uncool — just would not have happened had we not followed through on our commitment to free Iraq from | Read More »