Mark Steyn Reveals Hillary Clinton Limo Incident That Shames NYT's Coverage of Rubio's Driving Record

Mocking the NY Times for all the attention they’ve given Marco Rubio’s driving record, Mark Steyn revealed something today from Hillary Clinton’s past that should put the NY Times to shame for focusing so much on Marco Rubio’s speeding tickets.

He explains how Clinton’s limo driver, back in 2001, in what he calls a ‘driving Miss Hillary’ situation, crashed through an airport security fence at 35mph with her in the back, injuring a police officer and only stopping because the police officer needed medical treatment.

Via: The Right Scoop

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FLASHBACK: IN THE LOUP: MAY 2001 A toast to the filibuster, R.I.P.

Editor's Note: Obamacare trudges on and Harry Reid has detonated the nuclear option. What better time for a drink? Pull up a bar stool and listen as the late Christopher Hitchens explains -- as he did in our May 2001 issue, using his favorite New York City establishment -- just the kind of place required to properly enjoy one. 

What does one seek in a place of refreshment? Or what qualities, once found, make one think of a bar as in some way one's own? I would list in no special order the following features. The place should be open early and late and in between. In line with this, it should be a setting of moods: a slow start in the mid-morning, a bit of a bulge around lunchtime, a languorous afternoon and then a gradual quickening of pace after 6 p.m., culminating in a commitment to some sort of late-night or after-dinner or post-theater crowd. (It's not absolutely necessary to experience all of these things in the same 24-hour cycle, but you should be able to say that you have experienced them all and can in some way count on them.)

Those who staff the place should by all means recognize a faithful patron, and pull the trick of pouring the favorite bracer as soon as he shuffles in, but they should also recognize those times when he wants to read, or write, or brood, or recuperate. There should be music--not a television--and the customer should be able to have some say in its nature, also its wattage.

The clientele should be various, but not atomized. One wants the certainty of a few familiar faces, but not too many of them or not except at predictable phases of the day. In other words, my true bar should have an element of cafe-society to it; a place for newspapers and espresso as well as cocktails and basic food, and a place where you could bring your mother, if you had a mother, for a light lunch as well as your mistress or male lover, if you had a mistress or male lover, for a late-ish nightcap.

Via: The American Spectator

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America cannot afford for Washington to continue its profligate spending

Over the last 12 years, the federal budget has doubled in size, from $1.9 trillion in 2001 to...

Leaders in Congress found a red line they would not cross in the budget deal just passed: a new Obama administration red line keeping the country mired in deficit spending.

Faced with the false choice of default on the nation's debt or unchecked spending (fueled by a blank check from taxpayers), congressional leaders chose to raise the debt ceiling and postpone tough decisions.

The deal irresponsibly creates an extend-and-pretend policy that ignores market reality, setting up the next conflicted debate in January when the deal ends. But American taxpayers cannot continue to cover profligate spending indefinitely.

This budget crisis is not a Democratic problem or a Republican problem, it is a math problem. The numbers do not add up.

Over the last 12 years, the federal budget has doubled in size, from $1.9 trillion in 2001 to $3.8 trillion this year.

Federal spending grew 71 percent faster than inflation over the last 20 years, according to the Heritage Foundation.

Even today, interest on the debt is the fifth-largest federal spending category, partially camouflaged by artificially low interest rates courtesy of the Federal Reserve Board.

The national debt rose by 55 percent during the Obama Administration so far, now fueled by a higher credit card limit from the vote.

Erskine Bowles, a co-chairman of the president's bipartisan Simpson-Bowles deficit-reduction commission, describes the growing interest on debt as one of the nation’s biggest challenges.

"We'll be spending over $1 trillion a year on interest by 2020. That's $1 trillion we can't spend to educate our kids or to replace our badly worn-out infrastructure," said Bowles.

This simplified analysis of Uncle Sam’s spending and take-home pay paints a picture of the out-of-control nature of America’s current budget.

Some argue that comparing the finances of ordinary Americans with the resources of Uncle Sam ignores the broader number of tools held by the government.

Via: Washington Examiner

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Obama Is Helping the Terrorists to Win

President who is against this nation, who supports the very enemies who attacked us, Fundamentally transformed – into something less sane, less safe, less free

Twelve years ago, on September 11, 2001, the United States of America suffered the worst single attack upon our homeland that had ever been made.  I’m sure that all of us remember that day when 19 radical Islamic fanatics murdered three thousand civilians, both Americans and guests in our country, and American military personnel while acting on the dictates of authentic Islam as it is drawn from the Qur’an and the Islamic traditions.

(And, no, let’s not delude ourselves that what motivated those terrorists was anything other than genuine, traditional, non-sanitized-for-Western-consumption Islam in its purest form.)  On that day, many Americans had their eyes opened to some stark realities about the world in which we live, while many others chose to bury their heads in the sand and blame America, blame capitalism, blame freedom for the attacks, instead of blaming the ideology of radical Islam.  In the years following the 9-11 attacks, even though we have rebuilt much of what was destroyed that day, the lingering effects of the New Division – between those on the Right who want to oppose the anti-Americanism of radical Islam and those on the Left who embrace it, as well as the radical Muslims as fellow-travelers – have not only remained, but become more pronounced. 

This became even more obvious in November of 2008, when America elected a Manchurian candidate who promised to “fundamentally transform” America.  In the years since, it has become apparent to anyone with their eyes open that Barack Hussein Obama is diametrically opposed to every ideal, every moral standard, every principle upon which the United States of America was founded and constituted.  In essence, he is fundamentally anti-American in every way.  He and those like him hate our nation – they hate the Christian basis of our laws and founding documents, they hate our freedom, they hate our prosperity.  His promise to “fundamentally transform” America was not idle – he has done and is doing it as we speak.  He is turning us into something that is not America, which is what he and the others on the Left intended all along.

Via: Canada Free Press

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