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There’s nothing quite like the holiday season in Washington! We’ve got Santas:The American Santa Claus and the jolly old elf: you decide to Menorahs:OK, so we were a day late for a proper Hanukkah celebration, butt we’ve been busy. And when it’s a “holiday menorah” the precise date is irrelevant.And in case you missed it last night, we lit the national Holiday tree:And nearly everyone was “happy, happy, happy”We had lots of guests, including Aretha Franklin who came as Humble Bumble from the Isle of Misfit Toys: And Mariah Carey, who came as… well, I’m not sure. Maybe a sack...

Polls indicating that Obamacare may be costing Democrats the youth vote sparked outrage from several sources. Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (Fla), Chair of the Democratic National Committee, characterized concerns over the price as “selfish and misguided.” “Those reacting negatively to insurance plans that double or triple their out-of-pocket costs for medical care are placing their own welfare ahead of society's,” she declared. “Maybe they think they're strong and healthy and don't need medication or therapy, but what about those who do?” The Congresswoman urged young people to “not try to substitute their thinking for that of the government's experts. These experts...

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MSNBC's Chris Matthews compared his interview with President Obama to Jesus Christ's return from the dead. “He came among us,” Matthews breathlessly exclaimed. “He shook my hand. He sat right next to me. He answered my questions. He restored my faith.” Matthews said he imagined that “this must be how the Apostles felt when they saw Jesus after the crucifixion and burial. I felt so privileged, so blessed to be so close to this awesomely great entity.” In order to set up Matthews' meeting with the awesome Barack Obama, American University bumped Ballet Petite’s final two dress rehearsals for “The...

WASHINGTON (WNB) - The House Science Committee heard testimony from prominent experts concerning the likelihood of the existence of alien lifeforms. The 90 minute hearing was in response to longstanding questions about the origin of several fellow members - Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, and (especially) Sheila Jackson Lee. The final consensus: Pelosi's twitching/blinking space alien mannerisms are likely the result of botox poisoning, or a bad acid trip coupled with an untreated STD suffered in the late 60s. Maxine Waters is a human, although severely retarded and possessing the intelligence of a ground squirrel. Sheila Jackson Lee is definitely a...

This was inspired by the #ObamasTwelveDaysOfChristmas hashtag game on Twitter. Special h/t to Jon McNaughton for the image used at #10. See more of his amazing art at jonmcnaughton.com.

Are you familiar with fan fiction (FF)? “Fiction written by fans about an extant fictional universe.” Often written when the fans don’t like the ending; for example, thousands of fans have re-written the ending of “Titanic,” some with very creative plot twists.In this animated FF version, Jack and Rose live on and on…as vampires.All of which may explain why people trash the genre: Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's...

Obama has already been dubbed “Our Lord and Savior.” Tingles Matthews just took it to the next level after his interview with The One.

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“Let me end by addressing the elephant in the room here, which is the seeming inability to get anything done in Washington these days.” Woo-hoo! I’m dying here! Did you catch that? The “elephant” in the room! Ha ha ha! The do-nothing “elephant” Congress. Kudos to the speechwriter who came up with that, you’ve got a standing job offer on the Daily Show.As I’m sure you’ve heard, Big Guy pivoted away from the continually unfolding disaster of Obamacare yesterday back to the economy which, by comparison, is doing much better.Donkey ears for the Prezzie making elephant jokesMaking the claim...

It's that time of year again. Like clockwork, Barry the Terrible has once again urged his faithful droogs to use the occasion of family holiday gatherings to aggressively promote his hard left agenda. If we want to hear a reverent holiday proclamation from this White House, we'll have to wait for Ramadan.

Last year a poll was conducted where more people thought Santa was a Democrat. I did a graphic for this back then in response to this, but I've updated it with a few new items to consider.In last year's post it was a real squeaker...but this year one side really runs away with it...

Fresh from His historic success in banishing fear of Iranian nuclear weapons, President Obama today announced a similar approach to banishing our concerns about crime in the United States.The Obama-Kerry plan to banish the threat of Iran's development of nuclear weaponry by not mentioning it -- thereby shielding her devoutly sensitive leaders from any embarassment that might result from learning that even they suspect it -- is working as intended. It harmonises beautifully with His new plan to banish our concerns about crime. Although multifaceted and multicultural, the plan can be summarized as follows: Those who commit crimes are sadly undermedicated and otherwise...

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Robert Redford and Oprah Winfrey recently became the latest in a long line of celebrities, Democrats and others who have publicly stated that those of us who oppose Obama’s policies do so only because he is black. I have ignored or denied this charge for five years. After careful self-reflection and honest soul searching, however, I now wish to confess and admit the truth: the reason, and the only reason, I oppose Obama’s policies is because he is black.

Watch for another really BIG speech from BIG Guy later today: “President Obama will discuss the twin challenges of growing income inequality and shrinking economic mobility and how they pose a fundamental threat to the American dream,” the White House said in a statement. *sigh* We’ve certainly nailed the “shrinking economic mobility” part. Butt regarding the “growing income inequality” - even I, equipped as I am with advanced refraction capabilities, grow weary of deflecting these spurious arguments. So today I’m going to let Charles Krauthammer do it for me:Just where, in the Book of Life, does it say that life...

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You’ve probably heard that our Healthcare.gov site has been significantly improved, and we’re working hard every day to re-vitamize it. In fact, things have been so re-vitamized that the Healthcare.gov team announced that it’s now “operating with private sector velocity and effectiveness.” That might be a just a bit of an exaggeration.  I don’t think Amazon, EBay or Overstock.com would still be in business if their “velocity and effectiveness” resulted in a system that: works 90% of the time when it’s not under maintenance, i.e. “it works when it works” doesn’t transmit your info when you make a purchase has an...

News that the US Supreme Court has decided to accept the case involving Hobby Lobby’s objection to being forced to fund abortions in the health insurance policies it provides for its employees failed to faze the Obama Administration. “The idea that individual conscience or religious beliefs can override the collective decisions of the American people is flawed thinking,” US Attorney General Eric Holder said. “We don’t allow pacifists to refrain from paying the costs of the wars their government chooses to fight. We don’t even allow them to refuse to personally participate in combat operations if we deem it necessary....

This is what I envision would be the true realization of "mission accomplished" on a fix.Screenshot is kind of misleading since it looks like this would be the whole shebang. 

Yes, people, we’re moving FORWARD! Again. This time with our Healthcare.gov website. That’s FORWARD. PERIOD. After a month-long hiatus, we gave ourselves an additional 11 hour timeout, just to be safe: “…two months after its roll out, and on the very day Mr. Obama’s signature legislative initiative was scheduled for reboot, his administration shut down the troubled Obamacare website for an 11-hour period…just hours before it was to be rebooted. And we are now pleased to report that "HealthCare.gov on December 1 is night and day from where it was on October 1," Healthcare.gov Oct.1 to Dec. 1: like night…and...

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett’s plan to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in his state was assailed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. “There is no need for this,” MALDEF attorney Nina Perales insisted. “The US Supreme Court has already ruled that federal law trumps state law on this issue.” Federal law merely requires that those registering to vote attest that they are citizens. They are not required to provide any documentary proof. “Mr. Bennett’s suspicion that people could falsely swear denigrates the integrity of every Latino,” Perales complained. “Not everyone...

The clip linked below is really something else- dimbulbs interviewed on the street, asking for their reaction to Martin Luther King's being hit by a car this morning in Washington, DC. I know we always say it, but it IS really hard to fathom such shocking stupidity... what exactly ARE they teaching kids in California high schools? And if unaware that MLK was killed 45 years ago by a gunshot in Memphis, do these people even KNOW who Reagan was? None noticed they had school off on MLK Day...? This one's somehow even worse than the 'Obama voter' clips of...

"In an effort to protect tourists from violent crime, the State Department has released the following map. They advise tourists to stay away from any county..." http://libertyfirewall.com/2013/11/29/government-releases-crime-map-for-the-us/

Concerned that “excessive opposition is impeding the Administration’s ability to govern the country,” the IRS has moved to tighten regulations on “right-leaning” political “education” organizations. “The notion that anyone can organize to speak out against government policy and still get the same exemptions from taxes that those working to help the government is wrong-headed,” said Mark Mazur, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. “People should all be pulling together to help propel the ship of state toward the attainment of the greater common good. Those rowing with us deserve preferential tax treatment. Those rowing against us do not. It’s as...

A lot of you were busy trying to sign up for Obamacare while Babs interviewed the Wons on 20/20. And while that was a better use of your time, I know you’ll want to see the frock that Lady M chose for our annual Bab-bul fest: Some people might have thought it dowdy, butt I say thank goodness for small favors: at least it had sleeves. Here’s how Huff Po -  people who know more about these things than we do – described it: Leave it up to Michelle Obama to take our favorite winter color combo -- navy blue and...

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Nefesh B'Nefesh brought over 150 participants together on Ben Yehuda Street for the first ever Jerusalem flash mob in honor of Hanukkah. Sound provided by David Shenkin. "Hanukkah Hey Ya!" by Eric Schwartz aka Smooth-E

It's that time of year again. Every year at DUmmie FUnnies we check in with the DUmmies to see how their Thanksgiving went. Usually it consists of a) non-traditional weirdness, b) confrontations with conservative relatives, c) conversions of conservative relatives, or d) all of the above. Let's see how it went this year. We begin with this THREAD, "How will you spend Thanksgiving?" and move on to others. So let us now go and spend Thanksgiving with the DUmmies, in Bolshevik Red, while the commentary of your humble guest correspondent, Charles Henrickson--who did the odd thing and actually went...

Like thousands of other Mall rats yesterday, the Wons joined a group huddled in tents on the National Mall, waiting for the country to open up: President Obama paid a visit Friday to a group of activists who have been fasting for weeks in the hopes of pressuring Congress to pass new immigration laws. The President and his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, visited the group on the National Mall to lend support for the cause. The "Fast for Families" protesters have given up all sustenance except water during their protest, which they hope will force lawmakers to take up...

So, much is being made of Obama referring to the Tea Party as "teabaggers."He even etched it in stone, aka White House stationary.While the term is certainly derogatory I had a comeback for this back in 2010 (see here), so I've never been offended for one simple reason (join me!)...

If you’re looking for a racist holiday to protest (and who isn’t?), I can’t think of one that fits the bill better than Thanksgiving. So given it’s roots in the  “mass murder, forced relocation, theft of land and other injustices” to Native Americans, I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that the holiday, with very little notice has seamlessly transformed itself into “Gray Thursday” before sliding headfirst into “Black Friday.” Accordingly, the doors of commerce were flung wide open a day earlier this year to welcome the manic shoppers who wished to get a jump on the next secular holiday, formerly...

Just as 9/11 was fundamentally transformed from a Day of Remembrance to a Day of Service,  the Wons are  pleased to announce that as of this year Thanksgiving has been fundamentally transformed as well. No longer just a simple day to give thanks to the Almighty for His bountiful graces, from now on it will be a day to acknowledge your almighty government for the same things.  In his Thanksgiving email missive, David Plouffe reminds us all to be grateful for the vast spread of food stamps   and Lady M reminds us of the value of government propaganda to...

I’m sure you got your email from Lady M: MOTUS -- Barack and I have so much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving, and that includes people like you who've been by our side, working for change right from the beginning. Because of your hard work, passion, and dedication, we have accomplished so much over this past year. We've continued to create jobs and rebuild our economy. We've cut carbon pollution so we can preserve our environment. We've witnessed historic victories for equality across the country, all the way to the Supreme Court. And soon, millions of Americans will finally...

Here's an assortment of favorite graphics I've collected and/or created over the years. Rather than put up with Obamabots propagandizing about Obamacare (see my "sort of" response here) just calmly (because they wont be) share these with them. :-)h/t iOwnTheWorld, The People's Cube, Aftermath, Conservative Guy, Billy's Custom Gun WorksHere's one I created earlier today

These days, a thing hasn't happened if it hasn't happened to the internet. If you don't read about a story online, does it exist? Here at RedState, we say absolutely not. So in order to make the first Thanksgiving more real, to bring it home for us all, we've compiled some screenshots that show HOW THE INTERNET WOULD HAVE COVERED THE FIRST THANKSGIVING A Compilation So Compelling You'll Swear You Were There

  Whether you like your bird long and lean, like Big Guy, or short and fat, like Chris Christie, Healthcare for the Holidays has a turkey for you! Just in time for the holidays: Organizing For Action (OFA) has sent their fellow Obots a handy tip sheet to help them discuss Obamacare with friends and family who are not Obots. President Barack Obama’s deputies at Organizing for Action are urging supporters to give an Obamacare pitch to their relatives during the most iconic of American family and religious events. “Take advantage of downtime after meals or between holiday activities to...

In the interest of transparency, Gov. Mark Dayton has released his tax returns for every year since 2009, back when he was just a candidate for the governor's office. He dropped his 2012 returns yesterday afternoon, and they reveal that last year was a prosperous one for our governor: Dayton took home his state salary of $116,125, as well as $92,381 from the family trust, and $130,291 in capital gains, for a total income of $343,234. That income puts Dayton among Minnesota's highest earners. Yet, according to his records, Dayton donated just $1,000 to charity in 2012.

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My dad emailed this to me. It's obviously a joke, but I really really REALLY think USPS should go for it!

Obama wants his acolytes to preach the virtues of Obamacare to family members over the holidays.Give these little paragons of truth and logic (ha ha ha) something to think about... Sometimes fancy Photoshops are totally unnecessary because reality illustrates it better. I don't know who did this to a turkey, but I'm 99.999999999999999% sure it was a liberal.

There’s an old saying: “when in doubt, do what you do best.” In Big Guy’s case, that means the fall back position will always be campaigning. Campaigning; with…“swag” So Barry used the occasion of his Left Coast personal appearance and fundraising tour to take to the soap box to push for comprehensive immigration reform. And to bash his enemies; no, silly, not the jihadists, the Republicans. And Obama left no doubt about who it was he blamed for the lack of progress on reforming the immigration system. "The only thing standing in our way right now is the unwillingness of...

No joke, he actually said this...How ridiculous is this?This ridiculous...(If you know your Star Trek then you'll know an emotionless android, above, when you see one)