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It seems that lots of people are making lists of words that they hope will not be used again. Never one to miss an opportunity to go with the flow, here’s my list of terms that I hope will never be seen again. “War on women.” It takes chutzpa for a political party that includes pornographer Larry Flynt, Anthony (see my selfie) Weiner, Bill (Better put some ice on that) Clinton, Bob (filthy) Filner and Teddy (Mary Jo Kopechne is unavailable to comment) Kennedy. It seems you can make millions exposing women’s vaginas, grope, rape and drown women, but object...

Kerry Dougherty thinks you are a terminal disease. She was quoting Larry Saboto, but she apparently agrees. Here’s Kerry on the major candidates. One candidate was dishonest. The other hated women. It's a wonder anyone went to the polls. "These two candidates are among the worst I've ever seen," declared the University of Virginia's Larry Sabato during an election eve appearance on Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show." "Virginians have a choice between a far-right-wing Tea Party social conservative and a Democrat who's been guilty of sleazy business deals and questionable fundraising," Sabato sighed. "I've never seen unfavorable ratings this high...

The entire ObamaCare debacle is really the product of the MSM (Main Stream Media.) They sold the public the fable that there was a health care crisis that need solving. They created the narrative that uninsured people don't get health care. They told their audience that people who opposed ObamaCare wanted poor people to die. They convinced their readers that the government really was capable of managing the health care of 300+ million people. They used their megaphone to convince their viewers that Republicans were waging a war on women, that Paul Ryan wanted to push their grandmothers off a...

Let’s talk about the Republican split. I was going to call it a “Civil War” but that would be an exaggeration. There is a very deep fissure in the Republican ranks. There are any number of ways it can be described, but one of the best descriptions I have read of the "establishment" Republican Party is that it's the “Not-Democrat Party.” By that I mean that the Republicans are the party you vote for when you don’t want the Democrats to win. The Democrats have become firmly ideological. When Michelle Obama spoke about her husband wishing to fundamentally transform America,...

<p>AFP - France's mainstream political parties were Monday scratching their heads over what to do about a surge by the Front National (FN) after a breakthrough by-election win for the far-right party.</p> <p>The ruling Socialist party and the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), the party of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, face humiliating reverses in municipal and European elections next year if the FN can sustain its current standing in the eyes of an electorate thoroughly fed-up with record unemployment, rising taxes and a perceived increase in crime and insecurity.</p>

<p>A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare’s federally-sponsored insurance exchange is crashing. Healthcare.gov forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information before you can start shopping. This, in turn, creates a massive traffic bottleneck, as the government verifies your information and decides whether or not you’re eligible for subsidies. HHS bureaucrats knew this would make the website run more slowly. But they were more afraid that letting people see the underlying cost of Obamacare’s insurance plans would scare people away.</p>

The MSM and the conservative media are treating the scandal very differently. To read about the story in the MSM, the Pentagon had no choice about withholding payment of the death benefit from the grieving families and denying them a plane ride to Dover AFB to meet the bodies of the soldiers killed in battle. It seems that some unknown entity we'll call "Mr. Government Closer" found a rule that said that death benefits can't be paid, but that the Pentagon can keep the military golf course open so that President Obama can play. Of course nobody told Obama anything,...

Obama finds something he's good at, does it time after time. Let's imagine that America is invaded by aliens. They vaporise Congress and melt down the Statue of Liberty. What does Obama do? He hits the campaign trail. "It's time for the Martians to pack their bags and leave the USA!" he tells screaming crowds at a university event in Boulder, Colorado. "I won't negotiate, or retaliate – I'm just gonna stand here and wait until they go away!" Barbra Streisand sings the national anthem; Kal Pen tells a gag about flying a UFO while stoned. "Thank you Mr President...

For reasons that go beyond reason and into the area of psychosis, the MSM still refuses to face the fact that the Obama administration is a lie from beginning to end. They willingly suspended disbelief when Obama told them that he would run, is running, has run, the most transparent administration is history. And even when they admit to each other that he’s in charge of the “most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered” they still remain enthralled. Via Hot Air “A memo went out from the chief of staff a year ago to White House employees and the intelligence...

Please call CBS 1-212-975-4321and find out if they stand behind their comment. I did. Joe, who answered my call at CBS said that they got their information from the IPPC report which said the if the earth had no water the temperatures here would be the boiling point of water. The fact that oceans cover 71% of the earth and contain 97% of the earths' water had no affect on CBS. I'm not kidding. This is CBS.

Bud Norman notes that the Left has gotten increasingly hateful, from the President on down to the shock troops in the trenches of academia and politics. At the very highest levels of the Democratic party the president routinely tells audiences that his opposition is motivated by the desire to cause the poor and sick to suffer while making the environment uninhabitable, and it invariably gets a big hand from the hand-picked crowds of true believers. With such mean rhetoric coming from the leaders, it’s not surprising that the followers would start hoping for the death of sons and daughters.... Senate...

The deluded fools who actually believe in man–made global warming got some bad news recently; Obama says he’s going to fix it. The man who promised us shovel-ready jobs, and joked when it didn't work, is going to change the earth's climate. This is the same man who ... o Promised that his first act as President was to close Guantanamo o Focused like a laser beam on creating jobs, causing millions to flee the labor market o Promised to fix the economy and presided over the worst recovery in the last hundred years o Employed “smart diplomacy” to transform...

The Supreme Court’s decision that removes Federal Government’s power to micromanage the voting patterns in some states, but not in others, was the subject of front page news locally. The ruling was denounced by every Democrat quoted. Louise Lucas, a state legislator and Democrat stalwart first said she was dumbstruck, but then changed her mind. "I was heartbroken," said Lucas "This is the worst thing I've ever seen out of the Supreme Court. It's unconscionable." This commentary was repeated in various ways in the entire front page “newsatorial” in the Virginian Pilot. It’s as if the Supreme court had overturned...

Hitler uses the Obama excuse: "I don't blame people for being outraged. I'm outraged too. I learned about this holocaust from the news reports, just like the rest of you." One of the comments by C Stanley on the Althouse blog made this darkly humorous comment in the headline. Remember, there are no written orders from Hitler ordering the extermination of the Jews. Perhaps his supporters just assumed that's what he wanted done and went ahead on their own, like the IRS underlings in Cincinnati. Could it be that Hitler has been wrongly accused all this time? That he would...

The religious bigots at the Virginian Pilot have run editorials, news stories and carefully selected letters to the editors to smear E.W. Jackson, a Black minister who won the Republican nomination for Lieutenant governor of Virginia. Why so much hatred for a Black man? The answer is simple religious bigotry combined with the political bête noir of the Left: a Black conservative. Black conservatives are vilified as a matter of course because they represent the runaway slave to the slave masters of the Democrat Party. In the 21st Century they don’t send the dogs out after them anymore; instead they...

Have you ever gotten a parking ticket or been stopped for speeding? I have. The thought of simply ignoring it never occurred to me. It appears that about three-quarters of the people in Virginia just rip them up. According to the AP, Nearly half the fines and fees levied by Virginia courts went unpaid over the past five years, according to a state audit. And for traffic cases, it was much, much worse. District courts assessed more than 80 percent of the total fines and costs because that's where traffic cases go. The collection rate for the traffic court was...

In an open letter to UC President Susan Herbst, self-described feminist student Carolyn Luby wrote that the redesigned team logo will intimidate women and empower rape culture. Not realizing that she was being over-the-top ridiculous, and claiming that she was threatened with rape, she went to he campus police and was told by a UConn police officer to keep a low profile and wear a hat. We get an insight into what Luby views as rape by this comment: Luby, who openly shared her experience as a survivor of rape and sexual assault at Take Back The Night, an event...

Diana Temple-Raston in NPR’s All ThingsConsidered blames the Boston Marathon bombing on Right Wingers celebrating Hitler’s birthday. Transcript: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED APRIL 17th. Diana Temple-Raston provides insight into the Boston investigation. This thinking as we’re reporting is that this is a domestic extremist attack. And officials are leaning that way largely because of the timing of the attack. April is a big month for anti-government and right wing individuals. There’s the Columbine anniversary. There’s Hitler’s birthday. There’s the Oklahoma City bombing. The assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. So according to NPR we Right Wingers were having a...

Ron Fournier seems to be speaking for them when he says that the bombing at the Boston Marathon was worse than 9/11. Think about that for a moment. 9/11 saw 3000 people murdered. In Boston 3 people died and about 170 were injured. So why does Fournier think the Boston marathon bombing was worse? Because it disturbed our “pursuit of happiness.” Here is Rush Limbaugh’s reaction: His theory in this two-page piece is, it's scarier to kill people "pursuing happiness" such as running a marathon than killing Wall Street employees. It's all evil! Don't misunderstand, folks, it's all evil. But...

No, we're not talking about abortionisty/murderer Kermit Gosnell this time. We’re talking about the Democrats who are using parents of murdered children as props as they do nothing to prevent mad killers from killing again. The ultimate goal is to take guns away from American citizens, but they’ll take any baby steps they can. They really don’t care if their actions will not stop the next mass shooting of children by some crazed lunatic. And I’m using that term deliberately, because the people who commit the mass horrors that we have seen have been madmen, literally. Ann Coulter points out...