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Ted Cruz, our favorite civil “bully”

Posted on May 8, 2013 | Comments Off on Ted Cruz, our favorite civil “bully”

Imagine old sour-puss and nasty Harry Reid calling someone else a schoolyard bully. Ah, well, little men with little minds, etc. Our newest (and some would say our very best) Texas senator got him back nicely:

“As I noted yesterday, the Senate is not a schoolyard. Setting aside the irony of calling someone a bully and then shouting them down when they attempt to respond, today I wish simply to commend my friend from Nevada for his candor.”

Touche, Harry, though it probably went over your head.

Via Hot Air.

Here’s some of what got Harry’s goat:

“What we do know leads to the inescapable impression that before, during, and after the Benghazi attacks, there was confusion and paralysis at the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House.”

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The Hildabeast: author of the Benghazi coverup

Posted on May 7, 2013 | Comments Off on The Hildabeast: author of the Benghazi coverup

President Pinocchio just went along for the ride, since it suited his purposes, too. Indeed, so far the evidence shows that it was Hillary’s coverup from beginning to end. Remember her incredible remark to inquisitive Republican senators:  “What difference does it make?”

If she was a Republican, it would make all the difference. She’d be finished in politics. The Democrat media would see to that, like they did with Nixon, and nobody died in his coverup of a third-rate burglary. Much less an ambassador.

But, of course, the Hildabeast is covered six ways from Sunday by the alphabet media, all of the major newspapers, and her faithless husband Slick Willie and his cronies. They badly want a second shot at the big bucks that come with the presidency in our increasingly dictatorial and corrupt federal government.

And, as Instapundit reminds us, the filmmaker Hillary and Barry chose to be their fall guy, the author of that Islamic video no one ever saw, is still in jail.

UPDATE: She even lied at the ambassador’s funeral service. How craven can you get?

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Typhoid Mary in San Francisco

Posted on May 6, 2013 | Comments Off on Typhoid Mary in San Francisco

Typhoid fever is not a modern disease, except in developing countries with sanitation problems, particularly Africa. Now it’s come to San Francisco, via a new Typhoid Mary (or Matthew) who infected an unknown number of cafe patrons for five days starting on April 16. The original Mary was a cook.

Historically, typhoid fever has stricken armies whose commanders have lost control of their sanitation, a detail I used to dramatic effect in my Viet Nam war novel The Butterfly Rose. The bacterial disease is transmitted by food and water contaminated by the feces of a victim and can be fatal if patients don’t take all of their antibiotic even after they feel better. There’ve been vaccines to protect against it since World War II but, of course, vaccination is controversial among the enlightened of places like San Francisco.

Via Instapundit

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The women of the NRA

Posted on May 4, 2013 | Comments Off on The women of the NRA

It should go without saying that gun-grabber Barry’s alleged concern for women doesn’t extend to all of them. Pro-lifers, for instance. Tea Partiers and Republicans. Worst of all, maybe, are the women of the National Rifle Association, whatever their politics beyond guns. Lawdy Miss Clawdy.

Indeed, there are more NRA women all the time. Check out the latest videos by the nation’s oldest civil rights group on the female face of the NRA. They don’t all carry pink Glocks but not a one of them is waiting for Barry and his federal buds to come protect them.

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Rule 5: Amanda Thatcher

Posted on May 3, 2013 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Amanda Thatcher

The late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s granddaughter, Amanda, is from Highland Park in Dallas. So at least Texas sent a delegation (Amanda and her brother Michael, a graduate of Texas A&M) to the funeral. While our no-class president didn’t bother. Just as well. I’d rather look at Amanda. Wouldn’t you?

Via Phase Line Birnam Wood.

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LBJ on a donkey

Posted on May 2, 2013 | Comments Off on LBJ on a donkey

When I came back to Texas in 1978, I wasn’t surprised to find that most of the inhabitants were natives. Born here. Never lived anywhere else. Didn’t want to, either.

Things had changed a lot since my very youthful sojourn in Dallas and they have continued to, but, really, not fundamentally. Unless you look through Erica Grieder’s historical lens:

“Think about Texas’s historical baseline compared to that of the United States; project a mental image of the Jazz Age in New York and then contemplate the fact that around that time LBJ was riding to school on a donkey. And things are improving in Texas, more or less across the board.”

The population certainly has ballooned since LBJ’s donkey days in the Hill Country town of Johnson City (named for his ranching grandfather) and, for that matter, since 1978. The traffic in most Texas cities (including onetime [1978] buccolic Austin) is horrendous. And what used to be the pretty rural stretch of highway between Austin and Waco is now pretty much wall-to-wall commerce, including some unsightly junkyards.

Howsomever, Texas still is a nice place to live, work and play. And, as Greider, who formerly covered Gov. Rick Perry for The Economist and now writes for Texas Monthly, shows in her new book the Texas haters could learn a thing or two from us. Not that we can expect them to, of course. Some things are just too much to hope for. But no big whoop. It’s their loss.

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National Firearms Registry

Posted on May 1, 2013 | Comments Off on National Firearms Registry

Class warrior Barry and Slow Joe, his idiot sidekick,  swear they haven’t given up on gun control and especially not on their favorite part: the Universal Background Check.

“It cannot work without a National Firearms Registry. As discussed, this database legislation would follow UBC passage to ensure its ‘viability.’ It is designed to disarm all of America, the good citizens who ensure Rule of Law.”

It’s not just the defacto gun registration we already have, it IS gun registration, only with an innocent name. Typical politics: corrupt and hollow-hearted.

President Pinocchio and Slow Joe know it. So does the NRA. And, after you watch the video at the “as discussed” link above, so will you.

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