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White House adviser David Axelrod is going to try to start his own viral e-mail responding to attacks on Obamacare. It will include responses to eight “myths” about Obamacare, and since I know all of you come to IMAO as your primary news source, I obtained those myths and the White House’s response so you can see them here: MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT OBAMACARE MYTH: Obamacare will institute “death panels” to judge who should live and who should die. FACT: People deciding who will live and who will die will be single Obama-appointed bureaucrats, so no panels are involved.

Created or Saved I’ve been a bit skeptical on how Obama keeps saying he’s “created or saved” different numbers of jobs, but the media seems credulous so I guess “created or saved” is a perfectly fine formulation. Thus we might as well apply the phrase to lots of different things. * I decided not to be bloodthirsty against common nuisances today and created or saved three squirrels. * By not going to McDonalds, I created or saved two cheeseburgers and a large fry. * Deciding against serial killing, i created or saved upwards of 33 people (I’m very smart and...

If the CIA torture memos tell us anything, it’s that Americans still have a long way to go towards civility. When disenfranchised youths flew planes into buildings, it should have been a time of quiet introspection.Instead, Americans gave into baser emotions and demanded vengeance against our “attackers.” Since we had the barbaric Bush administration in charge, they gave into those demands and soon loosed the sadistic Cheney, who took a break from blasting his friends in the face with a shotgun to turn his violence on foreign minorities. Pretty soon our intelligence agencies had grabbed some random Arab terrorist masterminds...

In My World: O'Reilly Factor Transcript - Interview with Donald Rumsfeld Bill O'Reilly: Next up on the Factor is Secretary of the Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Donald Rumsfeld: Where the hell are you? What is this? O'Reilly: It's a satellite hook-up. Secretary. Rumsfeld: Then how am I supposed to strangle you if you enrage me? O'Reilly: (laughs) I guess you'll just have to come over here. Rumsfeld: I will. Start your questions! O'Reilly: So what is your opinion of how things are going in Iraq? Rumsfeld: Excellent. Our enemies are being slaughtered in mass numbers. O'Reilly: But there are many...