Club Pro

Unlikely headline of the year: Tiger drives into a tree, but his wife wields the club.

Disagrees

Just because everyone disagrees doesn't mean that everyone is wrong.

Missing Stimulus

Here's a teaser from the Chicago Tribune:

State got billions. Where are the jobs?
The federal government poured more than $6 billion into Illinois in stimulus cash, but the number of jobs created is a bit hazy.

Let's round up and say the Land of Lincoln is home to 13 million people. That means there was enough "stimulus" spending to send a check for $461 to every man, woman, and child. That means my family is eligible for about $2,300. Miy check must have been lost in the mail. But wait-this was about creating jobs, right?

Funny, I never got one of those, either.

Turkey

Maybe if the Democrats call their increasingly unpopular, 2,000-page health care "reform" bill the biggest Thanksgiving turkey ever, people will change their minds about it.

Or not.

Cribs

In the largest such action to date, the feds are recalling 2 million baby cribs, calling them unsafe. I have just one question: Why don't they ever test the things before they get on the market?

Elmer

As Team Obama grinds forward toward an eventual Afghanistan decision, prominent Democrats are fretting about the cost of the war and saying the administration must specify where the money to continue the fight is to come from.

So when it comes to national security, this bunch has finally found that old-time, fiscally conservative religion? A bunch of budgetary Elmer Gantrys, more likely.

The Poor

Many people went against their better judgment and voted for Barack Obama because of "the poor." Congratulations, we now have a lot more poor among us.

Refuse

What if the Democrats passed health care "reform" and the people just refused to go along? If our elected representatives refuse to listen to us, why should we listen to them?

Commercials

Why do radio announcers say "Welcome back" after a commercial break? It wasn't the listener who left.

Playing Politics

I'm still trying to figure out what the advantage is to moving the Gitmo terrorists to a federal prison in Illinois. If conditions are going to be just as before, there's no need to move them, and the enemy will still use their treatment as a recruiting tool (according to the administration). If their treatment is to be different, and the terrorists are allowed to mix with and recruit other federal prisoners, it's even worse. Besides all this, to a certain degree, moving them here makes law-abiding citizens at least theoretically less safe.

When will Democrats ever stop playing politics with our national security?

Rats

Now the "experts" are saying women don't need mammograms until age 50, rather than 40, which has been the standard. I smell a health care "reform" rat.

After you, Michelle.

Life After Death: The Atheist Delusion

In this provocative essay, Dinesh D'Souza argues that the atheist critique of life after death is actually irrational. He takes on Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and more to say their arguments lack evidence.

Just Asking

A couple of questions for our president, based on his Asia tour so far:

1. If the free flow of ideas and information is good for the Chinese, does this mean you are going to stop picking on Fox News back here in America?

2. Would you please stop doing that deep-bow thing for foreign royalty?

UnBearable

Maybe the punishment for the Gitmo detainees should be having to watch a Bears game. Or would that be a violation of the Geneva Conventions?

A Crime

The Obama administration is apparently going to provide the Guantanamo terrorists crminal trials in civilian courts in New York. Is the president really that blind? Doesn't he know that this whole approach-treating terrorism as a crime rather than as an act of war-was buried in the rubble of the World Trade Center?

No Idea

Let's see: The Fort Hood shooter criticized U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as an attack on Islam, shouted "God is great!" in Arabic while committing the massacre, attended the same mosque as some of the 9/11 terrorists, and tried dozens of times to contact terrorist elements overseas.

I'm with our Nobel-Prize-winner-in-chief. I have no idea why he did it.

Lying

Presiident Obama labeled as liars anyone who said health care "reform" would cover abortion. Yet in the House it took a special amendment to take abortion out, an amendmment pro-choice liberals say has to go if they are to support the legislation.

So who was lying?

Pig

Innoculating the health care "reform" bill against abortion is like putting lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig, and it will gobble up money and freedom like a hog in slop. Such a measure is better than keeping abortion in, but it's still a bad bill and should be voted down in the Senate.

Wrong Cure

With the official jobless rate above 10 percent for the first time in a generation (and functional unemployment at 17.5 percent), the Democrats' response is to continue to push their health care "reform." I wonder if "non-sequitur disease" will be covered under Obamacare?

Religion of Peace

The terror attack on Fort Hood by a Muslim extremist was characterized as a "tragedy" by our president, who urged us not to jump to conclusions. While we wait for Mr. Obama to figure this out, I have one question: Just how aggressive will this administration be in interrogating the perp, if the guy lives? Waterboarding, anyone? Okay, three questions: Just how much of a role did political correctness have in putting this man in position to commit this act of terror?

Blowing Their Cover

One administration "blows the cover" of a CIA agent and the media go nuts. Another does the same (actually, in a much more sensitive case), and the oldline media are silent. Care to guess which case involved the Bush administration, and which involves the Obama administration? "State controlled media" indeed! You called it, Rush.

Jersey

Barack Obama says he has to take his time with the Afghanistan decision, which indeed is too important to rush. I'm sure he's getting a lot of time to think in between New Jersey campaign stops.

Priorities

So, let me see if I have this right. Our president will go to Copenhagen for an Olympics bid, but he won't go to Germany for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall? That says something, doesn't it?

Sick

As the Democrats move ahead on a budget-busting health care "reform" plan no one wants but them, they apparently have left themselves the option to keep their own plum plan while taking away the choices of others. Kind of makes you sick, doesn't it? Why do they do it? Two reasons: Because they want control, and because they can.