Browsing the Archive
July 2009
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Peggy Noonan on ObamaCare
by Maynard on July 25, 2009Peggy Noonan is an author and columnist, and once was a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan. I can’t say I always agree with her, but she’s thoughtful and, in my opinion, basically on the right side of things. Her current editorial, appearing in the Wall Street Journal, is “Common Sense May Sink ObamaCare”. There are several facets to the healthcare debate. Noonan succinctly gets to the heart of the economic and social angles. (There’s also the practical and moral note that government health care is in fact government health rationing, which is what makes it death care for those lacking adequate political pull and bureaucratic skills…and I don’t know about you, but I (Maynard) am sadly lacking in those areas.) On...
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Frenzied Media Displaces Stupid Police
by Pat_S on July 24, 2009A post by Pat President Obama did a walk-in during the White House press briefing this afternoon. Earlier today the Cambridge police asked for an apology from the President for his now infamous castigation of the officers arresting Prof. Gates as acting stupidly. The President’s subsequent statement is in no way an apology. He regrets his words left an unfortunate mistaken impression. He says he should have calibrated his words differently. Then he scolds everyone else for over reacting. Was it not over reacting for the President to make a one-sided conclusion without having the facts? He starts by admitting he contributed to ratcheting up the incident and ends by claiming the attention to the issue speaks to historical African-American...
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Tammy’s Travel Schedule
by Tammy on July 24, 2009Just a heads up– Daily Tammy Radio is a “Best Of” today as I’m on my way to the airport as we speak for my flight to New York. I will be doing both Tammy Radio Weekend and next week’s Daily Tammy Radio from the Big Apple all next week. As a result of the Best Of today, here also won’t be a podcast for today of the show, but we will be streaming and broadcasting to our heart’s content with the Weekend show tomorrow, 12-2p pt (3-5p ET). Thanks everyone, and I’ll be blogging and Tweeting again as soon as I can. In the meantime, Pat S., Maynard and all of you will keep the Tammy Blog warm and...
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Urkel Regrets One Part of His Gates Comments
by Tammy on July 24, 2009The part where we’re ‘distracted and obsessed’ by them. Or should I say bitter and clingy and rightwing extreme-ish? Not the part, of course, that was an insult to every police officer in the country. Not the part where he sent a message that there should be a separate and unequal application of the law to people of color. And certainly not the part where he did his best to intervene in a local law enforcement matter. Because that, of course, would be unethical and a sort of thuggery. Obama regrets comments — sort of At a gaggle with about 20 reporters at the White House Friday morning, Robert Gibbs said the president might not have made … his comments...
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Obama: Get Me to the Church Some Time
by Pat_S on July 24, 2009A post by Pat He already rescued the economy and knows how to reform health care in the next few minutes but there’s one problem Obama so far cannot solve. How to get to church. First he was busy transitioning, had to get the kids settled in and all that. He’s been looking for a “church home” but can’t figure out how to get a President to a congregation without being disruptive. I think the solution is somewhere between going out for ice cream and going to New York on a date. Other presidents managed to solve it. In the meantime there’s the chaplain at Camp David and Obama’s sacred blackberry. His director for faith initiatives sends him a devotional...
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The Hurt Locker
by Maynard on July 23, 2009Wow, someone finally did an Iraq war film that’s not an anti-war film! That’s not to say it’s a pro-war film; rather it’s a film about people at war. But it’s a good film. If you’ve been sitting out treasonous garbage, here’s the one you waited for. Watching the movie, I was riveted. Afterwards, I had second thoughts. How realistic is this? It’s a fictional story, and I’m sure many liberties were taken. The drama was contrived, and some sequences were not quite logical. But these are quibbles. The film works. The focus is on a team that neutralizes bombs and booby traps. Watching from the safety of the theater, you feel very close to the action. A report comes,...
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Senate’s Most Confirmed Bachelor to Support Sotomayor
by Tammy on July 23, 2009Lindsey “‘I’ve got plenty of sins that I’m not going to share with anyone else” Grahamnesty, Juan McCain’s partner in open-borders liberalism, now supports Sotomayor. And the GOP wonders why it’s dead. GOP Sen. Graham to support Sotomayor Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor breaking with his party’s conservative leaders. The South Carolinian had hinted during Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings that he might back President Barack Obama’s first high court nominee. His announcement brings the total number of Republicans publicly backing her to five.
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What Exactly is Obama Hiding?
by Tammy on July 22, 2009Chronicling B. Hussein Obama’s War on America From the last week: Obama refuses to release a congressionally mandated key economic report, delays the Gitmo report by six months, and fought releasing details of a meeting with health care executives until he was sued, then only partially cooperated. Look, if you really believe you’re doing something that’s beneficial for the country and is the right thing to do, why do you keep secret details of meetings with health care executives? Of course, if what you’re doing has nothing to do with making health care more efficient, affordable and beneficial, then perhaps you’d prefer to do things in hiding. After lawsuit, Obama opens a bit of info on meetings with health care...