Yearly Archives: 2012
Reach
The January unemployment rate reached its lowest level in 3 years. Meanwhile, gas prices have reached their highest level for this time of year.
And Gallup says unemployment will be back to 9% for February.
Machine Politics
None of us is free until the lowliest contraceptive is free. Or something like that. Senator Patty Murray explains why the lack of a free lunch, contraceptive-wise, amounts to a Republican attack on women.
Speaking of free lunch, no doubt you’ve heard about the HHS Bureaucrat who made a North Carolina 4 year old eat chicken nuggets instead of the healthy turkey sandwich, banana, and apple juice the child’s mother had packed. Except it may not be completely true. Which is unfortunate, because I got up at 4 a.m. to draw this. It turns out a teacher may have served up the nuggets. Here’s the Carolina Journal with the full corrected story. I think.
The Natural
Santorum seems comfortably conversant with conservative ideas. Mitt, not so much.
Infallible
Backing away from his birth control encyclical, Obama now says that Catholic institutions don’t have to offer free contraception, their insurance companies do. Paul Ryan calls that an “accounting trick”.
For his next trick the president released a budget on Monday that Ryan says “ignores the drivers of our debt, bringing America perilously close to a European-style crisis”.
The American Catholic
Catholics don’t want the president telling them to ignore church teaching, they can do it on their own.
More Powerful Than a Locomotive
The president has begrudgingly consented to bazillions of dollars in Super Pac money to help him keep his job. This isn’t to be confused with the Super Committee, which remains in exile.
On the bright side, Supreme Court justices may attend future State of Union speeches without fear of tongue lashing.
