Benghazi: Six Months for Us, Eternity for Them

This Explains Everything...

Barack Obama's Post Office claims to be immune from local traffic laws.

Next, he'll be floating around in defiance of the law of gravity.

You really, really can't make this stuff up.

What Obama Said

What I heard Mr. Obama explain today was classic

I have to destroy the Constitution in order to save it.

Does Mr. Obama Understand?

Does Mr. Obama understand that an actual default on our federal government debt would almost unarguably be an impeachable offense?

Payments on the government's debt are protected obligations, prescribed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. 

This has been and is currently understood to mean that the public debt has a priority over all other obligations of the government. If Mr. Obama, or his representatives in the executive branch, the branch of the government responsible with mundane tasks like issuing checks, actually paid anyone or anything prior to currently required debt payments, he would and should be impeached for a serious breach of his explicit constitutional duties.

The Most Heavily-armed Ofice Building in the Country?

This is likely the most heavily-armed office building in the U. S., with more than three armed guards for every office holder.

 

The 1,800 officers of the Capitol Police force are very heavily armed with Glock 22s, SIG 226/229s  and M4/AR-15 variants. They also have SWAT capabilities in their CERT unit.

Remember, the next time a Representative or Senator talks down your concern about protecting yourself or your loved ones from the crazies in the world, their perspective is a bit different from your own. They have their own armed guards watching out for them.

The Most Heavily-armed School in the Country?

Sidwell Friends school in Washington, DC is a private school affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It boasts a full-time security department of eleven.

In addition, on days when the Obama children are in attendance a presidential protection detail from the Secret Service is there as well.

All are heavily armed.

 

So, the next time that David Gregory of Meet the Press tells you that guns in school make no sense, remind yourself that he has chosen to send his children to this school rather than one the practices what he preaches.

The most heavily armed building in the country?

Is there any more heavily armed (and safer) civilian building in the country than this one? Here, aren't guns a big part of the solution?

The most heavily gunned building in New York City? Gracie Mansion or the home of Mayor Bloomfield?

This workplace has more armed guards than elected workers.

But it's somehow "crazy" to think our children deserve protection?

Fire Danger: Over

We had no rain for 82 consecutive days, some sort of modern record. The fire danger went right through the roof, which is a real concern living in a mountain forest.

Then, October brought ten inches of rain.

We're at 11 inches so far in November.

Now its time to start digging through our files looking for the plans for the ark...

UPDATE: December will add another ten inches. The ark is half done...

What She Said

Mary Matalin at NRO:

What happened? A political narcissistic sociopath leveraged fear and ignorance with a campaign marked by mendacity and malice rather than a mandate for resurgence and reform. Instead of using his high office to articulate a vision for our future, Obama used it as a vehicle for character assassination, replete with unrelenting and destructive distortion, derision, and division.

Mitt Romney distinguished himself and conservatism with a grounded, courageous, forward-thinking problem-solving reform agenda for a nation ready to renew and starved for leadership and maturity. He is a man of integrity and character, as is his whole family. And unlike in the 1996 and 2008 Republican campaigns, which — though led by men of great personal integrity — were marked by dead-end policy prescriptions, Romney/Ryan laid a durable philosophical and policy foundation for the next generation of conservative leadership.

Unfortunately and unfortuitously, forces of nature bookended the general election: Our convention was compromised by one weather disaster and our momentum stalled by another. Two human hurricanes also radically altered the political atmosphere: Bill Clinton’s unique windbaggery constituted a campaign updraft, while Chris Christie’s deplorable and gratuitous gas-baggery infused the campaign with a toxic political pollution.

Read it at Mendacity and Malice Won

Time For a Warm Smile

Turn up your speakers a bit, sit back and enjoy.

Coservatism is Calling... Please answer the phone

Introducing Our Next President

Don't worry, Obama has your back

Just like he had this fellow's back

Ambassador Chris Stevens, abandoned in Benghazi

As Obama promised, calls answered within 15 minutes. No one left behind.

In Appreciation of George McGovern

We met George McGovern in San Diego for lunch one day after his speech to an industry group. It was a very comfortable conversation with a man with whom we had no political agreement but much respect.

Bill Buckley regarded McGovern an honest sparring partner. Barry Goldwater described Senator McGovern as a gracious friend worthy of real admiration. 

This peaceful fellow, who dedicated his life to the avoidance of war, was a veteran. Initially trained as a fighter pilot, his combat missions in southern Europe were in B-17 bombers. Over the course of 35 combat missions, he earned both a DFC and Air Medal, and was very much a real war hero.

His politics, of course, were abysmally liberal, but argued with grace and conviction and honesty. He was not in the battle for power or self-aggrandizement, but to do right as he saw it.

After leaving political life, he and his wife opened a 150-bed inn in Connecticut, which failed. While he blamed the economy as the primary problem and mentioned his lack of experience, he also later wrote,

"I ... wish that during the years I was in public office I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better U.S. senator and a more understanding presidential contender."

In hindsight I've come to believe that the nation would have been better off electing this honest liberal President in 1972 rather than the crooked fellow for whom I voted.

George McGovern, RIP and to his family, regret for your loss… and ours.

When Did The President Know?

When did Obama know, really know for the first time, that he would lose the election?

I think it was the day after the second debate, when he knew he hadn't recovered what he lost in the first one. He knows he's out of gas, out of ideas, out of time.

His only realistic hope of winning is for a devastating attack on the U. S. by an unidentified aggressor.

That might allow him to keep the house and the airplane, the only part of the job he enjoys.

That's Odd: Obama Borrows $15 Million

The Obama campaign allegedly raised $181 million in the month of September but felt the need to borrow $15 million more from Bank of America.
That's odd.
 h/t: Free Beacon

WIth the Whole World Watching, Joe Biden

With the whole world watching the American elective process in action, Joe Biden decided to channel his inner Boris Yeltsin.

We once expected a certain decorum from our elected employees and those who aspire to the roll. Joe Biden is excused as the "crazy uncle" in Obama administration. While that may be true, he is an embarrassment to his employers and our process for selecting leaders.

He's also only the second most arrogant of those in leadership.

If You're Crazy About Biden, This One's For You!

It helps if you've had a drink.
Heck, it helps if you're and Irishman drunk on your end.




Thanks to Justin Folk, winner of the Power Line Prize.

The White House on Drugs?

If, as Bill Maher suspects, Barack Obama blew a million bucks of weed before his debate with Mitt Romney, Joe Biden's performance last night suggested an overnighter in a meth lab.

What is it with these two in the White House that they each raise concerns whether they're all there.

Perhaps it's a good thing that the U. S. has abdicated leadership of the free world if this is the best we can do...

Big Bird's Bucks

Did you know that the man who plays Big Bird on Sesame Street made $314,072 last year.
What portion of your taxes went into his pocket?