MarketWatch, giving some advice on Obamacare: 1. “You might want to avoid signing up on Day One.” …it’s an open question whether people will be able to, frankly. I hear stuff about the ...
Politicker, responding to Republican NYC candidate Joe Lhota responding and riffing off the news that Democratic NYC candidate Bill de Blasio was a proud apologist and advocate for those filthy m...
https://moelane.com/2013/09/24/quote-of-the-day-it-really-got-out-of-hand-fast-edition/
Megan’s showing some dislike for free trade* in this Bloomberg piece; but it was this that stood out for me. A disability check is a poor substitute for a job, from both the recipient and the t...
The rest of the interview is pap, of course – truth be told, I barely skimmed it – but this is 100% correct: …getting rid of the earmarks, the little special interest spending legislation, ...
Took em long enough: Facing what AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka called a “crisis” of membership, officials took the dramatic step at their annual convention of adopting a resolution that invite...
I’ve had this exact same reaction as Tycho. People occasionally compliment me on my writing: they will say something like, “I like your writing,” which is constructed in such a way that I c...
https://moelane.com/2013/09/11/quote-of-the-day-i-dunno-we-just-do-it-edition/
Check this out: Barack Obama talking about how people see him with regard to his use of the military. And I think that I have a well-deserved reputation for taking very seriously and soberly the ...
https://moelane.com/2013/09/07/quote-of-the-day-no-barackobama-you-do-not-edition/
Alternate title: Quote of the Day, SOMEBODY In The Executive Branch Is Going To Get Fired For This One edition. And yes, that was a direct quote: One U.S. official who has been briefed on the opt...
https://moelane.com/2013/08/28/quote-of-the-day-just-muscular-enough-not-to-get-mocked-edition/
BBC, 1988: Thousands of people are reported to have been killed and many others injured in a poison gas attack on a Kurdish city in northern Iraq. Up to 20 aircraft, said to include Iraqi Migs an...
Yup, pretty much. A funny thing happened to the Republican Party on the way to the next election. Conservatives have started expecting Republicans to actually do the conservative things they say ...
2012 burned just a few too many people just a bit too badly. Byron York: …the party fully intends to change its debate structure. The reason goes beyond Republicans’ belief that holding 20-pl...
https://moelane.com/2013/08/20/qotd-take-these-changes-in-rnc-debate-policy-seriously-edition/
Bob McManus provides us with a scorecard: For the record, former Rep. Weiner is the cyber-flashing liar, while former Gov. Spitzer is the whore-mongering semi-psychopath who was responsible for t...
https://moelane.com/2013/07/09/qotd-eliot-spitzer-anthony-weiner/
Really? REALLY? Few could have foreseen this White House struggling so much after Obama’s convincing 332-206 electoral vote victory over Mitt Romney last November. Well. I guess that I’m ...
John Hayward over at RedState, in the process of reviewing WITH EXTREME SPOILERS the latest episode of Game of Thrones, makes this point about how the universe does not care about how unfair life...
https://moelane.com/2013/06/04/qotd-you-win-or-you-die-edition/
Jim Geraghty: There’s some anecdotal evidence that a significant chunk of the Left’s rank-and-file started tuning out shortly after Obama’s second term began, and they’re not re-engaging....
C.S. Lewis: We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, the Enemy permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once...
Lamar!* Major news outlets in recent days have reported that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is raising money from the private sector—including from hea...
Cynical, but more or less correct: The hundred pages of Benghazi e-mails released this week tell us almost nothing about how four Americans came to die so tragically in that Libyan city. But they...
https://moelane.com/2013/05/19/qotd-barack-obama-hillary-clinton-benghazi/
I mean, really: the situation in Chester Arthur’s day apparently had its points. Henry Adams, the disillusioned sage of the era, famously described the political life of the country after the C...
https://moelane.com/2013/05/18/qotd-this-actually-doesnt-sound-too-bad-compared-to-today-edition/
(H/T Instapundit) This editorial had me …well, shrugging and conceding that there was a possibility… until this point: And just in case Benghazi does end up costing Clinton the White House, ...
https://moelane.com/2013/05/10/qotd-hillary-clinton-benghazi/
Penny Arcade: Robert had Lasik done awhile ago, so long ago now that he has to wear glasses again, which is apparently a thing that happens. He would occasionally wear glasses anyway, for their...
https://moelane.com/2013/05/01/qotd-horror-is-where-you-find-it-edition/
Pejman Yousefzadeh, stating something that’s obvious in retrospect: If Bismarck, Metternich, Castlereagh and/or Palmerston were alive and on the Internet, I imagine that they would tell us to o...
https://moelane.com/2013/04/26/qotd-the-mind-boggles-at-their-possible-avatars-edition/
Brendan O’Neill, writing for the UK Telegraph: Whenever a bomb goes off in America or Britain, some liberals’ first reaction is to wonder whether stupid white people will go crazy and attack ...
From the Free Beacon comes this time-delayed, epic slam: A GOP Senate aide told the Free Beacon Hagan’s decision to jump out early in support of Manchin-Toomey was “a testament to her skills...
What you are about to read is not understatement. It is what understatement will become after the Singularity. Marsha McCartney, president of the Texas Chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent...