Senate Democrats have made the calculation that in exchange for Republican support on a ‘pathway to citizenship’ they’re basically willing to agree to almost any level of wasteful and in many cases needless spending on border security – moat, laser fence, 20 million border guards. But as Sen. Leahy says, it’s basically “a Christmas Wish List for Haliburton.”
Local Savannah TV News anchor comes to Paula Deen’s defense. You’ve got to see this. Watch after the jump … Read More
The highlight of Mitch McConnell’s event at AEI today was his encounter with Norm Ornstein, whom he described as a “good old-fashioned far-left guy” who has been “consistently wrong about everything.” The audience predictably ate it up.
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I must say. I love Paula Deen’s defense. It has the benefit of being both ridiculous and perhaps something her critics could actually agree about. According to the Wall Street Journal, “A representative for Paula Deen says that the 66-year-old celebrity chef used the “N-word” because she has roots in another era.” Or as you might translate this, ‘Look, she’s on the old side and pretty racist.’ Which sounds about right and sort of like the criticism rather than the defense. Read More
Michigan’s GOP-controlled Senate adjourned for the summer without passing the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare that Republican Gov. Rick Snyder had been pushing for. He’s furious and isn’t hiding it.
It’s similar to what happened in Arizona, where Gov. Jan Brewer ended up fighting her own party in the legislature to approve the expansion. Except Snyder has a legislative calendar working against him and perhaps less political clout. More here.
AP: “An Apple 1 from 1976, one of the first Apple computers ever built and forerunner of today’s MacBooks, IPads and IPhones, goes on the auction block at Christie’s next week. The bidding starts at $300,000 …”
Here’s what one looked like.
Our KKK guy in upstate New York with the big plans for a radiation death ray reportedly planned to aim it at Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Probably important to note, again, that the FBI had him in its web already and he had no access to a radiation source. But still!
Businessmen has private plane ready to spirit Edward Snowden from Hong Kong to Iceland.