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This is rich. Sebelius asks for investigation of flawed website Recognizing that deeper problems may lurk behind the botched rollout of the health care website, President Barack Obama’s top health official Wednesday called for an investigation into management and contracting decisions. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a blog post early Wednesday…

One million applicants for 62,000 jobs? It happened to McDonalds in 2011. After sifting through about one million applications, McDonald’s hired more than 60,000 workers nationwide, and over 1,000 in Chicagoland, in conjunction with its National Hiring Day earlier this month. That is about 16 applications for each job. Which makes the next story very…

Drug Prohibition is now officially a joke. Woman’s Christian Temperance Union targeting pot. State Rep. Diane Russell, who supports legalizing marijuana, said city voters approved the ordinance for the same reason Prohibition was ultimately overturned. Outlawing alcohol and marijuana didn’t stop consumption or substance abuse, she said; instead, it led to a black market with…

That last post (about what to call the government-created health care fiasco) made me realize the genuinely difficult nature of the rhetorical problem the left faces right now. The country is stuck with a hugely unpopular program, and naturally, the left would like to deny or minimize it, and their natural response would be to come…

I had put up some Dire Straits in my post Money For Nothing (about the Federal Reserve) and commenter Kathy brought up the subject of anti-war songs. I brought up the fact that you want as high a proportion of psychopaths as you can get in front line troops because they will be less affected…

Here is a snip of a little conversation I was having at Zero Hedge. Isolationism became very popular in America in the 1920 to December 1941 era. We got a temporary cure on 7 December 1941. It looks like the medicine has worn off and we will be getting another dose.

Money for Nothing is screening in select theaters or you can buy a DVD. Reason Magazine did an interview. Video below. At the Washington Post: Filmmaker bet on financial crisis, used profit to make documentary about Federal Reserve. And what would a Money for Nothing post be without a little Dire Straits? And a political…

Has the term Obamacare suddenly become the racist equivalent of the N-word? MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry suggested the term “Obamacare” and the N-word are interchangeable, claiming both were “conceived by a group of wealthy white men who needed to . . . render [a black man] inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments.” Is that…

From ex-SKF blog. Team Obama Changes Course, Appears to Accept China Air Defense Zone, Says Foreign Policy Magazine Japan looks so solidly under the bus now, even as the ruling coalition of Liberal Democratic Party and Komei Party (plus Your Party and probably Japan Restoration Party) pushes the passage of the State Secrecy Protection Law…

Wonderful news. KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed on a cooperation pact with Iran on Sunday, an Afghan official said, while continuing to resist signing a long-term security agreement with the United States. Add in Congress fuming over U.S. purchase of Russian helicopters for Afghanistan. And then there is the Russia – Iran…

“I” war is information warfare. Propaganda. According to this video by Russia Today (RT), the US is losing. Well it is not just information warfare that the US is losing. Our pResident is losing allies. But that is another story. I’d say that on the home front this is very good news. In terms of…

Re: The Pledge about 6 minutes in. I pledge to the Constitution. “I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America and to the Republic which it creates, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

What happened on December 7, 1941 was one of the defining events of at least two generations as well as the modern age. Today, a lot of young people don’t even know what happened. It’s nice to see that people on Facebook are remembering. I found this: And this: And some great links here to…

President ∅bama’s job approval is in free fall among those the Democrat Party depends on to win elections. The president’s job approval averaged 41 percent last month, down 12 percentage points from his 53 percent approval last December. During that same time period, support for Obama among Hispanics dropped 23 percentage points — from 75…

A comment found at A Miracle Drug Cured Ed Levitt of Stage IV Lung Cancer. Then the FDA Withdrew it From the Market: When I worked in a pharmaceutical co, our division’s flagship drug was a treatment for Hunter Syndrome, which dooms kids to die around the age of 15. Given our treatment, the kids…

Wretchard at Belmont Club is taking a look at the lies of ∅bama. McCarthy’s observation is interesting because it suggests the existence of a “legend”, a term is used to describe a synthetic identity which replaces an actual biography. It is not about occasional, isolated falsehood but about a comprehensive alternative reality. But like all…

From an article by a prison guard titled “7 Horrifying Things You Didn’t Want to Know about Prison“: You probably assume that prison is ordered a little like Dante’s hell and inmates wind up on different “levels” based on the severity of their crime. Nope! If you make it into a federal prison for a…

Women, the backbone of the Democrat coalition are unhappy with 0bamaCare. Democrats should be far more worried about white women who do not have a higher education. The numbers are astounding: In the latest Kaiser poll, 50 percent have a “very unfavorable” view of the law—9 points higher than in October. An additional 13 percent…

But It doesn’t violate policy. John Hamilton, an associate professor of criminal justice administration at Park University and a retired Major with the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department, told the news station that the officers’ threats may not be illegal, though they’re inappropriate and it’s possible they violate department policy. He also pointed to the…