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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Death Before Waterboarding Wednesday Edition Posted: 11 May 2011 03:10 AM PDT I honestly don’t know what moral frame of reference leads you to the conclusion that it’s worse to waterboard someone for a few minutes than it is to shoot them in the face but somehow the administration has boxed itself into exactly that corner. I pity the President’s poor national security adviser who had to try to explain the logic of the administration’s position to Chris Wallace and the rest of America on Fox News. It’s almost too painful to read, but you should read it anyhow. It’ll provide an interesting booked to this post by Lee Stranahan on the violent partisanship that’s taken over progressive politics lately. And now, links. I’m pretty sure there’s a newspaper out there who could use a good movie reviewer. That newspaper needs to pay Ace whatever it must to hire him and they should use this review of Thor to justify the paychecks. A couple weeks ago, I wrote about a labor relations class at the University of Missouri that taught a whole lot more than just the facts. Well, here’s a first-hand account what they were teaching, from someone who had to sit through it. Fact-checkers? What fact-checkers? How is it that every time some left-wing matches up against on Fox News, it ends with progressive humiliation? The immediate future of Obamacare is playing out right now in Massachusetts and it’s not pretty at all. Well, okay. It’s pretty if you consider long waiting lines and a doctor shortage acceptable. I think Thaddeus McCotter would make an interesting candidate for President. He’s a bit of a conservative darling and a frequent guest on the “Red Eye” show on Fox News. Then again, he was also very much in favor of the Big Three auto bailout and the massive union pension bailout, which should kill his candidacy for solid conservatives. Wait…there’s really going to be a The Expendables 2? And it’s going to feature Jean Claude van Damme as a villain? Oh sign me up right now!

Oil is The Newest Conscriptee in the President’s Strawman Army Posted: 10 May 2011 12:23 PM PDT Boy, our President just loves the false argument, doesn’t he? I suspect that some time in 2013, the next administration will announce it has discovered a new sub-basement in the White House in which it found row upon row of strawmen, lined up like the terra cotta soldiers of a Qin Emperor. Barack Obama runs them out so often, it’s like he has some sort of special launch system with a strawman sitting on standby like a Viper in the launch tube of a Battlestar. Here’s his latest favorite straw man, the one he has employed shamelessly whenever he talks about what’s passing these days for his national energy policy. President Obama called for the elimination of billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks Friday, while stressing that the United States can't drill its way out of high gas prices. "We can't just drill our way out of the problem," Obama said during an energy policy speech in Indiana Friday. "If we're serious about addressing our energy problems, we're going to have to do more than drill." Here’s the thing. No one — not even the most rapacious oil company blackguard — has said we can “drill our way out of the problem”. No one has even hinted that domestic drilling will bring down gas prices all by itself. His argument is a dishonest dodge, a ploy to divert us from the inescapable fact that domestic drilling is a vital component in both lowering gas prices and securing a measure of energy independence. Heck, George Bush knew that (and demonstrated it), but we all know he was just a chimpy-brained cowboy, right? Only a complete dolt or a rock-ribbed environmentalist luddite (but I repeat myself) could contend that we can get back to sub-$2 a gallon gas on electric cars and alternative energy sources. But that’s where our President is today. He’d rather slap a whopping tax increase on all of us, enrich his campaign contributors, and pander to the environmental lobby instead of so the serious and not all that difficult work it’d take to set us on the course to a stable and sure energy future. I suppose we should be thankful he didn’t follow his Democrat colleagues in to “suck it up” land but why should we settle? It’s well past time President Obama empied out his strawman basement and got serious about the problems of his nation.

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