Chris Muir.
A reminder. Greatness and humility. The pigeons are fans. That cannon's lookin' at you kid. Lafayette Park.
This is the most incisive piece I have read on the subject. James V. DeLong, Pajamas Media:The frenetic hostility to Sarah Palin, even by many on the Republican side, is unnerving, because her qualifications to be president are objectively better than those of almost [...]
Dan Proft, GOP candidate for Illinois governor: SEIU: No Shame and No GiveFollowing last Tuesday’s election, the last thing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wanted to do was allow Members of Congress to go home and talk to their constituents about the $2.6 trillion health care bill she was marshaling through Congress. The centerpiece of Pelosi’s trap and pressure [...]
The bill went to the full House on a 16-10 [...]
The Illinois crime rate fell 0.3 percent in 2008, with reports of arson showing the biggest decrease -- by nearly 10 percent [...]
I thought I was done for the night but this:The President of the United States Said That? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
President Obama, in his pitch to Democrats on the Hill today (from the New York Times):
Mr. Obama, during his private pep [...]
Illinois GOP Chairman: Pelosi's Government-Run Health Care Experiment Is Wrong For Illinois
Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady issued the following statement today on the passage of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats’ government-run health care experiment:
"Today is a disappointing day for'" [...]
Watch: [...]
No, we're not talking the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Telegraph: Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001. Previous post: Behold our president' [...]
Melissa Bean -- Yes. The Politico.
Astronomy pix of the day. A crater nearly half the diameter of its moon.
Republican challenger in the 9th Congressional District Joel Pollak, video message to Chicago TeaParty. Call Dem Jan Schakowsky today! The Bench.All of those twentysomethings who voted for Barack Obama last year are about to experience the change they haven't been waiting for: the return of income tax bracket creep. Buried in Nancy' [...]
The killer chart. Huge job losses, millions losing current coverage, $730 BILLION in new taxes, CBO estimate (certainly low) $3 Trillion over 10 Years, jailtime for non-compliance, rationing care, slush funds. Debate on C-Span now. GOP twitter updates here. NRO updates [...]
While the bill will slash Medicare funding, it will also direct billions of dollars' [...]
Am listening to the Illinois GOP candidates for governor debate on WLS radio--and looking at these recipes. The Pioneer Woman Cooks! (Maybe tomorrow:) [...]
Via the Instapundit:
EXPLOSIVE: Ft. Hood suspect reportedly shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’. (Via The BlogProf). On NPR I heard — I can’t find the story on their website yet — that he had given a presentation on the Koran at a professional conference where he claimed that unbelievers [...]
And the people overran the wall. Remembering the fall of the Berlin wall.
In the Pelosi bill. Jill Stanek round-up. The Ellsworth amendment is a phony fig leaf, an attempt to placate pro-lifers, but it merely masks the federal funding of abortion. The Catholic Bishops remain opposed to it. [...]
Conservative Brand statement for CBS2Chicago.
Video: [...]
God Bless Fort Hood. [...]
At 6:30 p.m. Read John Kass. Watch it streaming on Illinois Review (which covered a partial debate last night.) Details on debate watching parties around the state here. [...]
Restraining Order Issued On Abortion Law. CBS2Chicago. Tribune.
Let's see...name-calling. teabaggers (sexual slurs, how sexist) moron, wingnut.
Taking refuge in emails. From my great friend of the blog Alex. It's the season. (And I'm originally from Wisconsin.) FW: How To Spot A guy from Wisconsin, With A DUI ConvictionThere aren't a thousand words that could replace this picture. [...]
The Syrian foreign minister, Walid Moallem, soared to Baghdad Bob levels of hilarity by trying to deny the reality of what the Israelis discovered.
“Unfortunately there are official pirates disrupting the movement of goods between Iran and Syria,” he told [...]
Speaking of a civil war, it is helpful to recall that the Republican Party was founded in opposition to "those twin relics of barbarism -- Polygamy, and Slavery." (How judgmental; how extreme!) True to its heritage, the Republican Party now stands as the bulwark against the Democratic Party's totalizing [...]
He's treating them like Republicans now. (No more Travels with Barry I guess.)Yuval Levin, NRO: Isn’t it a little strange to argue that the NY-23 result should take the wind of N.J. and Va. out of Republican sails? It seems to me that that result makes exactly the same point as the two governor’s races: A Republican running [...]
Including one from the Chicago area. Mmm, mmm, mmm. (Does this cross the line of separation of the church of The One and The State? He is our Dear Leader) Big Hollywood. [...]
More freedom or more government. Side by side comparison of the bills' heft. The GOP alternative.Wolf Blitzer, the CNN interviewer for the cable network's session with Axelrod, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, speaks of how many people have told him since last year's election [...]
Bean is TOAST!!! 
Mike Pence just made the most moving speech.
Election Results So Bad Obama's Senior Adviser Went On Fox News. 
Conservative GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio stings Crist on the stimulus. 
