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As some of you may know, the Las Vegas Review Journal and a few other papers with Stephens media have been working with a company called Righthaven to build a new business model based on intimidation of bloggers.  Here’s the way it works.  You notice something in a newspaper and quote a portion of it on your blog — not the whole thing, but well within the limits of fair use.  The Review-Journal and Righthaven scour the intertubes looking for that paragraph you quoted, and sue you for copyright violation in Nevada.  Now you, lowly blogger, have the choice of either paying up a settlement or having to hire a lawyer and go to Nevada for trial.  Even though you know that the case is BS, you are screwed — you are either going to lose a few thousand in the settlement or a few thousand in trial.

This is what the mainstream media has lowered itself to.

Clayton Cramer is a victim of this. He and Rantburg can use any donations you can spare to help them with their legal fight.  In the meantime, Cramer has posted a Firefox add-on that will automatically stop you from going to one of these predatory news organizations. No sense in giving them money voluntarily by means of clicking to them.

H/T Instapundit

Pathetic.

It’s unfortunate that the Greek Orthodox want to celebrate peace instead of glorifying in Islamic victory.  Remember, to the liberals, the only good causes are those which emphasize American defeat.

What a disaster.

Well, first the Dems want to kill women with cancer, and now they are targeting men.  Obamacare — if you kill enough people fast enough, we can just *maybe* afford the bureauratic regulatory overhead!

What a disaster.

It’s cheaper that way, after all. It’s amusing. The infamous Al Grayson, you may remember, said “The Republican health care plan: don’t get sick… The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick … This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan.”

Well, he was almost right. He only got the party wrong. For the first time in the history of the FDA, Obama and the Democrats are having the FDA remove a wonderful, efficacious drug from approval simply because they want sick patients to die quickly and cheaply.

What was that about death panels?  Welcome to the New Order.

What a disaster.

This is pretty amazing.  I don’t know if I have ever heard of it in the history of the federal government.  The Obama Administration is touting the effects of Obamacare using a report that the very actuaries that are supposed to vet it have disavowed.  Here’s what the actuaries wrote:

“(T)he financial projections shown in this report for Medicare do not represent a reasonable expectation for actual program operations in either the short range…or the long range…I encourage readers to review the ‘illustrative alternative’ projections that are based on more sustainable assumptions for physician and other Medicare price updates.

Oh. My. God.

Here’s what the Obama Administration says about the report:

“The Affordable Care Act has dramatically improved projected Medicare finances. Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund is now expected to remain solvent until 2029, 12 years longer than was projected last year, which is a record increase from one report to the next. In addition, the 75-year financial shortfall for HI has been reduced to 0.66 percent of taxable payroll from 3.88 percent of taxable payroll in last year’s report, and the projected costs for the Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) program over the next 75 years, expressed as a share of GDP, are down 23 percent relative to the projections in the 2009 report Nearly all of these improvements in projected Medicare finances are due to the Affordable Care Act President Obama signed into law in March.”

They don’t even pretend to care about the truth any more.

What a disaster.

H/T Cold Fury

Death panels?  Of course not.  How *silly* of us.

Prepare to die if you get sick, because proven treatments will not be made available to you.

What a disaster.

Heh.

This pretty much tells the tale.

H/T Instapundit.

My memorial to Dad.

Fathers get a bad rap these days.  On TV they are all bumblers and in the liberal mind they are irrelevant.  Tommy has two mommies, and doesn’t need a Dad.  Down with the “patriarchial” society!  And down with patriarchs.

But the world needs fathers.  Men who are men.  Men who are providers, protectors, leaders, and teachers.  Men who show boys how to be men.  Men who know what honor is.  Men who teach us about obligation.  Men who teach us about fighting for what is important, and how to tell what is important.  Men who do what needs to be done.   Society doesn’t value those things as much as it used to, and it’s a poorer place for it.  But *my* father was one of those men.  And I am richer for it.

Typical.

What a disaster.