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The Slaughter Solution and Other Acts of Desperation

By Roger Kimball on Roger's Rules | March 12th, 2010

Is it “end-game” time in the debate over what to do with American health care? The other day, some industrious blogger — it might have been the Drudge Report — posted an amusing list of headlines from the past year or so, each announcing that, at long last, we’d reached the “end game” in the [...]

Going Viral: Drudge Report edition

By Roger Kimball on Roger's Rules | March 10th, 2010

Uh oh: Some people in the U.S. House are getting ideas. Between March 1 and March 8 alone there were 244,347 people exposed. Meanwhile, at the Senate  during that same period, the number was 149,967: that’s the number of times that The Drudge Report was accessed by people from the domain senate.gov that week.  [...]

Hold the champagne?

By Roger Kimball on Roger's Rules | March 7th, 2010

A few hours ago, I reported the good news that Adam Gadahn, the American-born cconvert to Islam, al-Qaeda, and terrorism, had been apprehended in Pakistan only hours after releasing another video in which he called upon “every honest and vigilant Muslim” to take up the terrorist cause of al-Qaeda and start murdering infidels wherever they [...]

One less “honest and vigilant Muslim” on the loose

By Roger Kimball on Roger's Rules | March 7th, 2010

Adam Gadahn, né Adam Pearlman, a.k.a. “Azzam the American” is the 31-year-old Oregon native who converted to Islam and is now a “senior operative, cultural interpreter, spokesman and media advisor” for al-Qaeda. Since 2004, he’s been on the FBI’s “most wanted” list and is the first American in half a century to be charged with [...]

Who says the Obama administration isn’t transparent?

By Roger Kimball on Roger's Rules | March 5th, 2010

Partisanship is one thing, but what about truth? Regular readers know I have had my criticisms of the Obama administration. There’s a lot that it’s doing that I do not like. But I am getting sick and tired of people complaining that this administration isn’t transparent in its dealing with the American people. Nancy Pelosi [...]

Another point of light: Welcome Repubclic!

By Roger Kimball on Roger's Rules | March 5th, 2010

No, it’s not a typo. Repubclic is a new web site that anyone interested in

nurturing individual liberty
promoting fiscal responsibility
curbing the drift rush toward statism
putting the “service” back in “public service”
getting the government off your back
lowering taxes
attending to America’s national security

will want to make part of their daily internet rounds.
Unveiled about 15 minutes ago, Repubclic “was [...]

The Al Gore Comedy Hour

By Roger Kimball on Roger's Rules | February 28th, 2010

Admit it: you can’t think of Al Gore any more without tittering, can you? Even some Apple shareholders are disgusted with the former VP turned eco-nut moneybags. He’s become “a laughing stock,” declaimed one disgusted shareholder, and no wonder.
True, Al Gore has positively cleaned up by exploiting the business opportunities that have come his [...]

Capitulation, Danish style

By Roger Kimball on Roger's Rules | February 26th, 2010

The Danes have had a glorious record defending free speech for centuries, so it was no surprise that they closed ranks and got behind Jyllands-Posten, the distinguished Danish newspaper, when, in 2005,  it published 12 caricatures of the world’s best known pedophile after Roman Polanski.  Everybody knows what happened then: partisans of the religion of [...]

What Ronald Reagan has to say about today’s “bipartisan” circus on health care

By Roger Kimball on Roger's Rules | February 25th, 2010

Gentlemen, start your teleprompters.
The nation readies itself for the spectacle of Obama’s special exercise in showmanship and partisan bi-partisanship, offering Republicans and the American people once last chance to sign on to the Democratic plan to take health care out of the hands of us plebs and hand it over to a caring, sharing government.
Any [...]

“The President’s Plan”: All you need to know

By Roger Kimball on Roger's Rules | February 24th, 2010

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal carried a blistering editorial about President Obama’s 11-page effort to combine elements of the House and Senate bills to “reform” — read, reduce to a government-run satrapy — American health care. Entitled “ObamaCare at Ramming Speed,” the editorial cites chapter and verse to show how the “the President’s plan”  “manages to [...]

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