Right Side of the Rainbow

Democrats: You know who's not so keen on abortion? We're not, that's who

2009-11-13T23:15:47Z

According to Eleanor Clift, one in four House Democrats identifies as “strongly pro-life:”

“We have won the battle for women on right-to-choose in the courts,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Chris Van Holland told Newsweek. “We’ve never won this in Congress. It’s a mistake to say that now Democrats are in charge, it’s different. If we ever had a vote up or down on Roe v. Wade, my best guess is that it might be defeated.”

"It's impossible, really, to caricature this White House"

2009-11-13T18:30:42Z

Baseball Crank on the asininity of the Obama Administration’s decision to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial in Manhattan:

I know I have spoken and written many rough things about Obama, but as Michael Moore would say, most New Yorkers voted for the man — why is he doing this to us?

Gitmo detainees: You know what's worse since Obama became president? Our living conditions, that's what

2009-11-10T04:45:39Z

Abdul Rahman Shalabi, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, says that he’s sad, that he has a runny nose, and that he’s subjected to “provocations” and “daily humiliations.”

Media: You know what's dead? The public option, that's what

2009-11-09T23:15:47Z

Don’t be mislead by Saturday’s vote. The Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times both report that the public option is dead.

Meanwhile, even some liberals wonder why the Democrats are mucking about with health care “reform” while the nation is hemorrhaging jobs.

"If the government can't run a flu program, can we trust it to run America's entire health care system?"

2009-11-06T14:30:09Z

Paul http://www.rightrainbow.com

Why the drug war can't be won

2009-11-05T23:15:35Z

For drug lords, return on investment is phenomenal: “With less than a $500,000 initial investment, traffickers can make more than $120 million on the open market.”

"Any one of us can reduce medical costs by refusing to pay them"

2009-11-03T23:30:08Z

Thomas Sowell notes the difference between reducing costs and simply shifting them around: “… when someone with a gift for rhetoric tells us that the government can reduce the costs without consequences, we are ready to believe in such political miracles.”

Question: How many rounds of ammunition have Americans purchased in the last year?

2009-11-03T23:15:44Z

Answer: 12 billion.

In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves.

Democrats are running scared

2009-11-02T14:30:04Z

When Democrats are in danger of losing a state as blue as New Jersey, you know they’re in trouble.

Is New Jersey about to elect a Republican governor?

2009-10-30T22:15:02Z

The incumbent rule says that an incumbent gets roughly the same percentage of the vote in an election that he got in pre-election polls.

So, if this poll is right, the incumbent rule would predict the defeat of Jon Corzine, New Jersey’s incumbent Democratic governor.

The poll may be flawed, of course, and the incumbent rule doesn’t always hold. Still, you have to like the GOP’s chances.

Sex toys, Viagra and a cemetery

2009-10-29T22:15:00Z

Let the record show that Republicans in South Carolina are having their share of surreptitious sex.

By the way, I can see why someone would keep Viagra on hand “just in case.” But in what case do you keep a stripper in a graveyard on hand?

How would the government enforce an insurance mandate?

2009-10-29T18:00:36Z

Even many conservative legal scholars think the Supreme Court would uphold an individual insurance mandate as an exercise of Congress’ power under the Commerce Clause. But the court might cast a disapproving eye on the methods necessary to enforce such a mandate: “[Enforcement] would require a degree of intrusiveness and bureaucracy that some will find unpalatable.”

Nancy Pelosi proves George Orwell was right

2009-10-27T01:20:07Z

No, no, it’s not a tax increase, baby. It’s the elimination of a tax decrease!

Too much, too soon: Supreme Court unlikely to side with advocates of gay marriage

2009-10-27T01:00:12Z

If a federal lawsuit seeking same-sex marriage rights reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, expect the advocates of gay marriage to lose, perhaps lopsidedly. When asked how many votes gay marriage would attract from the court’s nine members, one law professor told the New York Times, “I have trouble getting to one.”

Harry Reid, dunderhead

2009-10-22T19:30:42Z

Republicans are lucky. The leader of their opposition in the Senate is a buffoon.

Not only is Harry Reid mathematically illiterate — he seems not to know that Democrats hold 60 Senate seats, enough to cutoff a filibuster — he’s also ignorant of rudimentary political tactics, like not calling for a vote until you’re assured of victory.

So on a key test vote, he comes up 13 short in a body his party controls, and then tries to cover his ass by blaming the nation’s doctors for not performing a better whip count!

Liberal blogger Charles Lemons wonders how the Democrats are getting outwitted. It ain’t hard, dude. In fact, all the GOP has to do is lie back while Harry Reid does the work.