“You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for all Americans - as though anything government does is 'free' - or is unilaterally and unconstitutionally legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants, he comes back to the offices, pulls out the presidential BlackBerry, and gleefully follows along as the Right goes completely ape over these wild policy decisions.” KnowsWantDoeGovernmentPresidentCommunityDecisionMillionsPolicyCollegeOfficePresidentialImmigrantsApesNotableBlackberriesCommunity CollegeUndocumented Immigrants Author:John Podhoretz
“Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.” YearsNextImagineTaxesGainsIncreaseIncludingDelightBillionsWealthyInheritanceProposeNotableRaising TaxesCapital GainsInheritance Tax Author:John Podhoretz
“This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night's State of the Union address could be the first one in history deliberately designed solely to generate a Pavlovian rage response in members of the opposing party.” FirstsStatesNightCoursesChancePartyMembersUnionsResponseRagePassingPassingsAddressesNotableOpposingTuesdayTuesday Night Author:John Podhoretz
“I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?” NewsPressesSantaNotableBarbaraSanta Barbara Author:Michelle Malkin
“The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last week, in the wake of angry protests against the publication, vandals threw paint bombs and spray-painted graffiti on its offices.” LastsLeftFireWeekDemandOfficePoliceAngryWingsPaintNewspapersImmigrationBombsProtestIllegalNotablePublicationSprayLeft WingMilitantGraffitiIllegal ImmigrationPropagandistVandals Author:Michelle Malkin
“So, what exactly is the News-Press' unforgivable crime? Calling illegal aliens 'illegals' in a headline for a story about illegal aliens descending on California DMVs. A new law went into effect last Friday allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses without proof of lawful residence. The article featured interviews with ecstatic illegal aliens, including one who has been in the country illegally for '22 years.'” YearsHas BeensCountryStoriesLastsLawEffectsCrimeCallingNewsPressesIncludingProofAliensCaliforniaInterviewsIllegalDriversAllowingArticlesFridayLicenseNotableHeadlinesEcstaticDescendingResidenceUnforgivableIllegal AliensLicensesExactly Is Author:Michelle Malkin
“Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone XL pipeline. It has not yet been built but already is perhaps the most constructive infrastructure project since the Interstate Highway System. It has accomplished an astonishing trifecta” CreativitySeaProjectsBuiltFishesAccomplishedHighwaysInfrastructureMiraculousConstructiveAstonishingNotablePipelineMultiplicationKeystonesInterstateTrifecta Author:George Will
“It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism.” MadeRealityUnderstandingEconomicBarackNotableEnvironmentalismDescentThoughtfulness Author:George Will
“Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster.” MenMindSelfVirtueClearComfortableIntellectualEvidenceRegardCloudsDrivenComplexityThoughtfulConsiderationPresidencyPersonaNotableOystersKeystones Author:George Will
“This was a different form of French resistance in Paris on this day, all of these people coming together and sending out pictures like this to the world about the world we still want this to be, instead of the one that terrorists want, and that means all terrorists, the world where we live in constant fear.” PeopleWorldWantMeanStillsDifferentTogetherFormConstantTerroristResistanceParisThis DayNotableFear NotComing Together Author:Kimberley Strassel