Obama's In the House
President Obama is about to address the House of Representatives about health care reform; you can watch live over the web at this page on C-SPAN. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Yesterday, 3:49pm
Reports: Deem and Pass is dead; keep the no-mentum going
Well, well, well. Breaking news all over that the Dems have now abandoned Demon Pass.
WaPo alert:
House Democratic leaders say they will take a separate vote on the Senate health care bill, rejecting an earlier, much-criticized strategy that would have permitted them to “deem” the measure passed without an explicit vote.
The Hill tweets: “Our Roxana Tiron [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Yesterday, 2:26pm
Frank Zappa Marvel Comics Ad, 1968
One of the reasons I’m visiting family this week is to determine the value of a trove of 1960s era comic books that my mom kept in a sealed wooden crate for more than 40 years. My brother and I have been amazed at the almost new condition of a lot of the books. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Yesterday, 1:55pm
Reports: An executive order to pay off pro-life Democrats?
Resist the temptation. Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Yesterday, 12:38pm
The list of proposed amendments to Demcare; Update: GOP Rep. Barton: “This process corrupts and prostitutes the system;” Update: Chaos at House Rules Committee
Scroll for updates…1:13pm Eastern. DEMOCRAT Rep. Dennis Cardoza opposes deem-and-pass tactics…”I don’t believe it’s smart of us to pass a bill this momentous with a deemed rule.”
These amendments to the Demcare behemoth were posted on the House Rules Committee website last night at 9:23pm Eastern. The committee meets at 10am this morning. GOP Rep. Pete [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Yesterday, 8:53am
Day of defiance: Nationwide protests as Slaughter House rushes through Demcare
WOW: View of Kill the Bill rally from the Speaker’s Lobby, via Rep. Patrick McHenry
A symbolic pitchfork raised at the noon hour Capitol Hill Code Red rally today, via Keder
Noon hour crowd shot of the swelling protest on Capitol Hill, via Christinakb
Another crowd shot via Maryland Patriot
More photos at Instapundit, who shares an e-mail from [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Yesterday, 8:31am
Video: Louis Armstrong Death Metal
An instant YouTube classic — Louis Armstrong sings “What a Wonderful Word,” Slipknot-style. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Yesterday, 12:07am
In defense of the Freedom Alliance and Sean Hannity
I had the honor of speaking at one of Oliver North’s Freedom Alliance events in 2002 about immigration and national security. While there, I met Shannon Spann, the widow of American hero Johnny “Mike” Spann — the 32-year-old CIA officer and former Marine Corps artillery specialist who was the first American killed in action during [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 19, 11:20pm
AMA Endorses Health Care Reform Bill
The American Medical Association is now officially endorsing President Obama’s health care legislation: AMA Supports House Passage of Health System Reform. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 19, 2:05pm
Video: Jon Stewart As Glenn Beck's Evil Twin
Comedy Central is sure getting some mileage out of Glenn Beck’s increasingly loony shows. Let’s face it — Beck is a comedy goldmine. We should get on our knees and give thanks to Fox News for bringing him into our living rooms, America. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 19, 1:43pm
Video: Colbert Investigates 'Social Justice'
Stephen Colbert investigates Glenn Beck’s peculiar aversion to churches that preach “social justice,” and interviews Jesuit priest Father James Martin (who gets off the best line). Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 19, 1:23pm
Cave-in Watch
Ohio Democrats Charlie Wilson and John Boccieri have caved.
Nevada Democrat Dina Titus is a yes.
Six pro-life Democrats led by West Virginia Democrat Rep. Nick Rahall are getting ready to sell out for a chump promise.
Fox News asks: One down, one to go?
On the no side: Mass. Democrat Rep. Stephen Lynch.
NY Democrat Michael Arcurri is [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 19, 12:28pm
Taxpayer march on Washington: Saturday high noon
Yesterday, I told you about the Tea Party protest scheduled for high noon at the Capitol tomorrow. More groups are joining in.
Update: I’m told the rally will be on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Take note.
GOP congressional leaders, activists, and actor Jon Voight are scheduled to speak:
WASHINGTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — An unprecedented [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 19, 9:19am
The Deem-o-crats’ towering deception
“When statistics are not based on strictly accurate calculations, they mislead instead of guide. The mind easily lets itself be taken in by the false appearance of exactitude which statistics retain even in their mistakes, and confidently adopts errors clothed in the forms of mathematical truth.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, volume 1, [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 19, 9:13am
Darwish, Pipes, & Sultan Joint Statement
A person calling himself Muhammad Rahuma announced on the Free Copts (Al-Aqbat Al-Ahrar) website (click here) that the three of us will be addressing a conference he will hold in Washington on May 1 on the subject of converting Muslims to Christianity. Read more...
Daniel Pipes Columns, Mar 19, 1:00am
Pope Benedict's German Diocese Ignored Abuse Warnings
Every day seems to bring ever more horrifying new revelations about the German Catholic school child abuse scandal. Today we learned that the German archdiocese headed by Josef Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) ignored a psychiatrist’s repeated warnings about a priest accused of molesting children, and simply let the priest continue preying on young boys for many years: German Diocese Ignored Abuse Warnings, Doctor Says. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 18, 11:52pm
GOP fights again: Cantor introduces privileged resolution challenging Slaughter Solution; Dems move to table the motion, 232-181
GOP Rep. Eric Cantor is on the House floor right now introducing a privileged resolution challenging the Slaughter Solution and condemning deem-and-pass. The clerk is now reading it into the record. Democrat House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer moves to table the motion. Boos break out on the House floor. Recorded vote underway. Stand by…
Here is [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 18, 5:27pm
Video: Democrat Rep. Perriello admits, “If you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing”
A congressional thief makes a true confession. Watch Democrat Rep. Tom Perriello of Virginia rat out his profession. Put it on a bumper sticker. If we don’t tie their hands, they will keep stealing — from us, from our kids, from our grandkids. And so on. And so on. And so on. (Via Welborn Freedom [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 18, 3:37pm
Speed-readers unite! House Rules Committee finally releases Wreckonciliation bill; Hoyer announces weekend schedule
Full speed ahead. Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 18, 2:18pm
The House vote on the Slaughter Solution: Update: Constitution-butchers prevail, 222-203; Roll call vote added; Calling out Dems Altmire, Lynch
Deem-o-crats. Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 18, 1:56pm
Pamela Geller Goes Nuts Over 'Census Stalkers'
Newsmax columnist and wingnut blogger Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller is losing her marbles today over being contacted by census workers, calling them “Census Stalkers.” Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 18, 12:43pm
Take the Town Halls to Washington; Update: Obama postpones Asia trip to June
If you can make it to D.C. this Saturday, there’s a Tea Party effort to “Take the Town Halls to Washington:”
More info here.
Bring a Constitution Butchers sign! (Get yours here.)
Photoshop exclusive: Big Fur Hat at iowntheworld.com and Applecross Media
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Update: Just announced…White House press secretary Gibbs says Obama is postponing Asia trip to June.
Now is the [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 18, 12:40pm
CBO: Covering the Backsides of Obamacare-pushers?; Update: House Ds conjure up $940 billion price tag; GOP united in opposition; Dems “giddy;” Pelosi: “I love numbers. They’re so precise.”
Scroll for updates…9:54am Eastern…Boehner vows to do “everything we can to make sure this bill never, ever passes.”…Democrat whip James Clyburn announces the majority is “giddy” over the $940 billion price tag…
The CBO scoring of the House Demcare bill that the American people have not seen will be released this morning.
The poor number-crunchers have been [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 18, 9:13am
Hawaii is Fed Up With the Birthers
Hawaiian public service officials are normally the most laid-back public service officials in the country; to get on their last nerves you really have to work at it. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 18, 1:42am
If there were a Nobel Prize for Gaffetastic-ity…
Ed Morrissey has done a terrific job at Hot Air chronicling President Obama’s malapropisms, blunders, fantasy math, and history-flubbing with his “Obamateurisms” series. It’s a gaffe-a-minute with the supposedly silver-tongued emir of eloquence.
If there were a Nobel Prize for Gaffetastic-ity, Obama would be a deserving recipient (for once).
Now comes this bizarro statement from tonight’s interview [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 18, 12:25am
Landmark Legal Foundation to Slaughter House butchers: Not without a fight; Update: The states’ revolt
Photoshop exclusive: Big Fur Hat at iowntheworld.com and Applecross Media
(Get your Constitution Butchers poster here.)
Not without a fight, Deem-o-crats:
Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 17, 5:29pm
Wednesday Afternoon Metheny
Here’s a midday music break with the Pat Metheny Group, from a 1992 performance at Japan’s “Live Under the Sky” music festival. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 17, 4:30pm
Holder: 'Reading Miranda Rights to a Corpse'
Attorney General Eric Holder is turning into quite a rambunctious cowboy: If bin Laden is found, he’ll be killed, Holder says. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 17, 2:00pm
In response to amnesty stooge Dick Armey
I have wonderful, grass-roots friends at Freedomworks.
Dick Armey is not one of them.
He’s a clueless promoter of bailout-happy, big government Republican Sen. John McCain. And Armey’s a blowhard-y Beltway dinosaur who can’t resist shooting off his mouth and alienating the Tea Party base while criticizing other conservatives of alienation. At the National Press Club [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 17, 1:43pm
Obama, Pelosi on a money-grubbing mission
Demcare is not a done deal. They haven’t even released the House version to the public yet, but plan to ram it through on Saturday. Those pesky little details aren’t getting in the way of what’s really important, though. Within 30 minutes of each other, two money-grubbing solicitations in President Obama and Nancy Pelosi’s names [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 17, 12:48pm
The 11 Senate Republicans who voted for the $17 billion Porkulus II jobs bill
The tax breaks and projected jobs in the Senate jobs bill are illusory. The $17 billion package circumvents pay-go rules. But no matter. The Senate passed the Porkulus II today by 68-29 — with support from 11 Republicans.
Here’s the roll call vote:
The Republicans who sided with the endless spending-spree Democrats:
Alexander
Bond
Scott Brown
Burr
Cochran
Collins
Inhofe
LeMieux
Murkowski
Snowe
Voinovich
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GOP Sen. Gregg wondered on [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 17, 11:48am
The Krazy Kucinich Kickback Contest
Krazy Denny Kucinich (D-Outer Space) basked in the spotlight this morning upon announcing his switch from “no” to “yes” on Demcare. He still doesn’t think it goes far enough and says he didn’t like the process, but he’s signing on, anyway. Selling out his progressive principles is worth the 15 minutes of fame.
Plus, ooh, [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 17, 10:44am
The slaughter on the southern border
My column this morning looks at the continuing chaos on our southern border. Displaying her fabulous sense of timing, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano chose to announce amid all the bloodshed that she’s scrapping the doomed Fence to Nowhere project.
The system is not working.
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The slaughter on the southern border
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
At a joint press [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 17, 10:18am
The Worst Crisis in 35 Years?
On the surface, that the Obama administration decided one fine day to pick a fight with the government of Israel looks like an unmitigated disaster for the Jewish state. What could be worse than its most important ally provoking the worst crisis Read more...
Daniel Pipes Columns, Mar 17, 1:00am
Hitchens: The Great Catholic Cover-Up
The investigations into child abuse in Germany’s Catholic schools are continuing to widen, now getting close to Pope Benedict himself, as his brother Georg Ratzinger has been implicated in covering up the systemic child abuse (with the now well-known Catholic Church practice of moving priests around to different parishes) — and he is also accused of physically battering children himself. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 17, 12:50am
Doing the health care anecdote-vetting the Left won’t do
Here is Larry Scary O’Donnell — who can usually be seen frothing at the mouth with bulging neck veins as he melts down on MSNBC — sloooowly reading a teleprompter as he chastises me, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck for “attacking” 11-year-old Marcelas Owens. Nice to see your Valium working, Larry:
As usual, he gets basic [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 16, 11:27pm
What are Pelosi and the House Democrat women up to now?
The gender card is the first and last refuge of House Scoundrel Nancy Pelosi.
She’s played it since Day One of her reign of error. She wielded it last week when she surrounded herself with kiddie human shields. And it appears she may be plotting it to use it in the Demcare end game.
Via Roll [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 16, 10:55pm
Wreckonciliation Tweet of the Day
From @johnthune2012, a perfect summation of the last year in the Age of Obama/Pelosi/Reid:
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As noted below in comments by Dan, our Texas blogger friend Kathleen McKinley said it first last week: “We’ve Moved From Passing Bills Without Reading Them to Passing Bills Without Voting On Them.” Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 16, 4:47pm
Tuesday Afternoon Music: Bruce Hornsby, 'In The Low Country'
Here’s Bruce Hornsby with an excellent solo version of “In the Low Country,” from his latest album Levitate. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 16, 4:24pm
Onion: New Initiative by US Bigots
The Onion reports on an initiative among the nation’s bigots to develop new state of the art slurs to keep pace with rising numbers of multi-racial births. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 16, 3:03pm
Get the cameras into the House Rules Committee hearing room
Open the door. Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 16, 2:27pm
Clinton Pledges 'Unshakeable Bond' with Israel
Hillary Clinton dialed down the diplomatic confrontation with Israel this morning, pledging that the US has “an unshakeable bond” with Israel, and dismissing suggestions that the relationship between the US and Israel was at its worst point in decades. Read more...
Little Green Footballs, Mar 16, 1:36pm
House Republicans to force vote on Pelosi’s Slaughter House solution; Update: Democrat condemns “deem and pass”
Deem this. Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 16, 11:23am
When you’ve lost MSM newspaper editorial boards…
Pull the plug! Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 16, 10:25am
CAIR Attacks the Foreign Policy Research Institute
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is up to its usual assault on the discussion of Islam. Its Philadelphia chapter is holding a press conference on March 17 at which it plans "to announce the launch of a nationwide campaign to challenge anti-Islam Read more...
Daniel Pipes Columns, Mar 16, 10:00am
Making their voices heard: Protesting Demcare on Capitol Hill
They only had a few days to mobilize, but bus loads of Tea Party protesters from across the country have descended on Washington today to make their voices heard on the Demcare cramdown.
Time: March 16, 2010 from 9am to 6pm
Location: Cannon House Office Building
Street: Independence Avenue SE and New Jersey SE
City/Town: Washington, DC
More info.
As of [...] Read more...
Michelle Malkin, Mar 16, 9:58am
America's Shiny New Palestinian Militia
"The stupidest program the U.S. government has ever undertaken" – last year that's what I called American efforts to improve the Palestinian Authority (PA) military force. Slightly hyperbolic, yes, but the description fits because those efforts enhance Read more...
Daniel Pipes Columns, Mar 16, 5:13am