What do you want, readers? Dr. J. was having lunch the other day with Mr. Morden. He asked, so Dr. J. answered: Dr. J. wants a Superman movie with someone other than Lex Luthor or General Zod as the villain … Continue reading →
Dr. J. saw this over at IMAO. They poached it from the original source, Hope n’ Change Cartoons.* Don’t have too many Harvey Wallbangers at the Leaping Peacock… By the way, Dr. J. learned how to do transplant-grade nephrectomies back … Continue reading →
As you repeatedly hear, the President is sick and tired of people politicizing everything to make him look bad. On the Fast and Furious Scandal: The Department of Justice orders gun dealers in the Southwest to sell weapons to obviously … Continue reading →
President Starr was equally fetching with his goatee. Gentle Readers, Dr. J. took GorT’s time machine for a spin, and not only went back in time, but shifted a lane or two over to the left to a mirror universe … Continue reading →
At last we now know what happened on September 11, 2012, in Benghazi. Press secretary Jay Carney explained it like this, if we put his statements in chronological order. A demonstration gathered outside the embassy, that quickly became a terror … Continue reading →
So the Obama Administration campaigned on and self-proclaimed the following (still posted on WhiteHouse.gov): My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system … Continue reading →
In April 1980, President Carter had reached a point he could no longer tolerate—52 Americans were still being held hostage in Tehran, Iran. He ordered a rescue mission. Contrary to popular right-wing culture, Carter did not do this as an … Continue reading →
The following quote is pretty much the consensus of anybody who knows anything about the Benghazi scandal: We are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Obama administration, and the cause is Benghazi. One cannot underestimate the severity of … Continue reading →
Look at poll numbers for pretty much conceivable policy position of the President, and the approval numbers are embarrassing. No one likes his foreign policy, Obamacare, employment outlook, immigration stance, position on gun control, or a couple dozen other things. … Continue reading →
After more than four full years in office, the Obama administration is still acting like amateurs. Perhaps a more accurate tag would be the Obama Pathetic Hour. This time, it’s Syria. Watching his State Department deal with a problem is … Continue reading →
With nerd-glasses like those, how could he not fix the defect? Pierre ‘Pete’ DuPont IV, Dr. J.’s favorite 1988 presidential hopeful (sorry Poppy), reminds us why a simpler tax code is a better tax code in his WSJ column today: The … Continue reading →
Imagine the surprise at the Washington Post when they conducted a poll with equally fawning ABC News and discovered that President Obama is tied with or slipping below George W. Bush on a variety of factors. Bush is up on … Continue reading →
Would you like a side of deductions with that? Gentle Readers, President Obama filed his tax returns. When you calculate his rate ‘Dr. J.’ style, that is Total Tax/Total Income, it comes to 16.2% compared against Dr. J.’s 22.3%. Now … Continue reading →
Dr. J. was reflecting on the approach that President Obama’s been taking with the public in his second term rather than his first term. During the first term, and on some issues in the second term, he reminds Dr. J. … Continue reading →
Let them eat ice cream! The President’s intransigence with regard to making the sequester budget cuts* as painful as possible for John Q. Publick when he has existing latitude to target so called cuts, and a House that wishes to … Continue reading →
Remember all the blame that was placed on Wall Street and the nefarious banks who preyed on people with low credit scores for the economic collapse that we have been struggling to overcome? Maybe some of you even remember the … Continue reading →
At least he thinks he’s funny. Apparently President Obama declared April “National Financial Capability Month.” Dr. J. is not amused. With manageable deficits, this sort of thing is funny. As we are approaching a tipping point, this shows that he … Continue reading →
Pete DuPont, Dr. J.’s favorite 1988 presidential hopeful reflects on President Obama’s conflict between anti-military idealism and reality in yesterday’s column on ‘Peace through Strength.’ Go read it here. Dr. J.
Continue reading →Dr. J.’s office is the arched window on the left… New Atlantis Ivory Tower Medical Center, like many academic medical centers across the nation is tightening its belt and doing everything possible to reduce overhead as it delivers world-class medical … Continue reading →
The Czar sent a note over to the mighty Borepatch the other day, as this sort of thing is more up his alley. That is, one of Borepatch’s many areas of study is how the two dominant political parties have … Continue reading →
Lost in the excitement of Rand Paul’s extremist violent overthrow of the Senate the other day was The Dinner, as it is now known. Okay, okay—the Czar is aware that a lot of Tea Party Twitt’rhetoric is ripping into this … Continue reading →
I become more and more convinced each day that the Obama Administration is combination of people who are in way over their heads and people who have tremendous disrespect for large segments of the population based on politics, lifestyle, and … Continue reading →
President Obama is blaming the Republicans for the sequester despite the fact that he’s campaigned while Rome burns, acting like an outsider running against Washington rather than being its chief executive officer when frankly it was all his idea in … Continue reading →
While Dr. J. was applying some Force Lightning™ to a patient in the basement of the Castle he missed this tweet by Friend of the Gormogon Freddoso: Jedi mind-meld?— David Freddoso (@freddoso) March 1, 2013 Followed by: “Jedi Mind Meld.”— … Continue reading →
The Last Judgement by Gislebertus. Note, no sequestration anywhere on the tympanum… …and I feel fine. Dr. J. was reflecting on the sequester this morning. The sequester does not even result in real spending cuts, but like everything called a … Continue reading →
GorT made his predictions back in September and while not 100% accurate, I still believe that sequestration is a real possibility. There is growing sentiment that it might not be such a bad thing. The Federal government grew, sequestration just … Continue reading →
Probably not well. History likes to divide presidential analysis into two camps, at least in the Czar’s experience. Sometimes history immediately dumps on the guy: Carter, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan, for example, generally were excoriated while they were still sliding … Continue reading →
Dr. J. loves this interactive graph from the UK Guardian. The authors created a graph analyzing the reading level of the State of the Union report (or speech) since our nation’s founding using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test. The dots are … Continue reading →
Here are two thoughts GorT had last night between talking with his kids about the Pope, watching parts of the State of the Union and watching all of Senator Rubio’s (R-FL) response. 1. Liberals, in general, see and are voicing … Continue reading →
Would North Korea be public about its nuclear test if Mitt Romney had been president today? This seems a fair question. Another question: would they be conducting a nuclear test at all? This one is probably yes, given that the … Continue reading →
Operative BG writes in from his adventures in the 8th dimension regarding Dr. J.’s coverage of Dr. Carson’s speech: Esteemed Dr. J. – If you speak truth to power and nobody reports it, is it still spoken? My reaction to … Continue reading →
If you merely read a transcript of Dr. Carson’s conservative revival speech, you will have missed a critical nuance. The President was sitting one person over from Dr. Carson as the good Doctor lambasted the entire liberal progressive philosophy operating … Continue reading →
Welcome to the Terrordome! Gentle Readers, Yesterday Dr. J. almost ran off the road in his Imperial Shuttle when he heard excerpts from Dr. Ben Carson’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. For those not in the know, Dr. Carson … Continue reading →
Even a liberal-friendly polling organization like Pew is announcing that 53% of Americans think the federal government is threatening our freedom. And yet 51% of us voted for the guy taking them away. Anywhere from two-thirds to three-quarters of Americans … Continue reading →
Very alert and long-time follower mastermind EC writes in: Okay: This is much ado about nothing, but four points: 1. President Obama is depicted firing an over and under shotgun. Why is there a wisp of smoke about 8″ back … Continue reading →
See? The President is too macho and tough! Like Reagan! Even though we were told that there were no pictures of the President shooting, suddenly someone comes up with one in the same amount of time it would take to … Continue reading →
I can’t believe I fell for the old, lie-on-TV-and-I’ll-give-you-a cabinet-post-trick! Remember when Susan Rice did the Sunday Morning Talk Show Circuit™ last September blaming the Benghazi massacre on you-tube video? Remember how folks believed that she was doing this as … Continue reading →
Make no mistake, Dr. J. knows Catholic Doctrine regarding contraception as well as he understands the Quaker Peace Testimony. Gentle Readers, Errant Catholic HHS Secretary and Useful Idiot Kathy Sebelius put forward so-called accommodations in the HHS mandate today in … Continue reading →
RKB writes into the Czar with an appropriately supplicating tone: Oh great and dreadful Czar, She isn’t using a pump shotgun, which tells the Czar she knows about shooting clays. Bet she knows the President lied about his experiences based … Continue reading →
A bipartisan group of eight senators—including some conservative Wunderkinder—has met and put together a large bill for immigration reform. Rumors are that both Democrats and Republicans understand the immigration system is broken and could be easily fixed with some common … Continue reading →
The ‘R’ is for rich guy! Dr. J. forgot to mention the most obvious example of economic slut-shaming from 2012. Governor Mitt Romney, who was pilloried for his success by the media, the Obama campaign, (ed. Oxford comma) and their … Continue reading →
First, let us be perfectly in sync: the entire idea of women serving in active combat roles is a distraction, pure and simple, by the Obama administration. Second, like most of these awesome, super-cool ideas by the Obama administration, this … Continue reading →
Well, a lot of our mailbags have been filling up with gun talk, but not because any of us wanted to go there, but because once again the Left dragged us there so they can replay another failed lecture on … Continue reading →
History will vindicate my memory.—James Buchanan The worst president ever.—History The suggested gun rights legislation should be of enormous interest to political bird watchers like yourselves. Perhaps you don’t own or even care about firearms; even so, what’s happening now … Continue reading →
For those of you who read our site here, but do not follow us on Twitter, you might be wondering what our reactions to the ObamaScare report were. “No, no, Jimmy!” Relax—it’s a Photoshop, Mr. President. Briefly: a tremendous waste … Continue reading →
Even doctors have guns, ah reckon. When Dr. J. was finishing up medical school at New Atlantis Ivory Tower School of Medicine and moving on to a tony Ivy League academic medical center in the Northeast in the late 1990s, … Continue reading →
It’s A TRAP! Dr. J. has spoken before about President Obama being emboldened after his narrow election victory. He got his Republican sanctioned tax-hike without spending cuts and he is looking to continue with his Progressive agenda, by hook or … Continue reading →
We’ve seen a number of charts and graphs that describe the recovery – how slow it is growing, its impacts, etc. I’m a big fan of interesting visualizations of data (insert gratuitous plug for Edward Tufte’s books and seminars here … Continue reading →
Maybe if it was platinum… The next big fight between the House of Representatives and the Senate-White-House-Media-&-Low-Information-Voter-Entitlement-Complex (aka the SWHMLIVEC) will be over the debt ceiling. The tack that the SWHMLIVEC will take is that the debt ceiling and spending … Continue reading →
Dr. J.’s Work Wife II has something to say about your lisinopril. Dr. J.’s Work Wife II forwarded this NYT editorial to him last week and this was the first opportunity he has had to comment on it. When one gets … Continue reading →
Hmm…still standing… civilization was Rick-Rolled on a cosmic scale: Well played Mayans, well played! We’ll pay you back with some old blankets we have lying around… Dr. J.
Continue reading →After getting the Earth around the Sun thing wrong, the Vatican’s science advisors have raised their game and could run LAPS around Obama’s science advisors. Dr. J. got into an email row with one of his childhood chum, Diogenes, who … Continue reading →
Apparently, the President is keeping in campaign mode and taking to social media this afternoon at 2pm ET to answer questions about “extending the middle class tax cuts”. The White House will be using the #My2K hashtag which the Atlantic … Continue reading →
Sigh. How to begin? Does the general public not see what is going on with the “fiscal cliff” and the various posturing going on? The GOP has acknowledged that they are open for negotiations that would include additional tax-based revenue*. … Continue reading →
Jonathan Haidt, that is… Last year, Dr. J. jetted up to Washington D.C. to drink a pitcher of Guinness with GorT, and while he was there, he decided to attend a meeting of the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research … Continue reading →
The Czar is still so irate and humorless with the electorate that he is still willing to yield the floor. Today’s essay has once again been contributed by long-time minion Island Dweller. Dread and awful Czar:Being a life member of … Continue reading →
The sun still rises in the east… Well, if we’re all going to be hostages of the welfare state, much like in ancient Rome, we can enjoy the bread and circuses. A hot topic that has yet to be posted upon … Continue reading →
I’m pretty sure this isn’t how the Romneys and Ryans were planning on celebrating… h/t National Review Online Dr. J.
Continue reading →Our newest minister of fanmail, the one and only Island Dweller carved the following missive on the Spice-stuffed carcass of a Harkonnen: Sir: I wish I could share your opinions about what happened last night, but I can’t get the … Continue reading →
Four more years…of the same old crap. Fox News just called Ohio for President Obama, and with it, the 2012 campaign. What we saw tonight was an incumbent President re-elected, albeit with less support from the electorate. Furthermore, it appears … Continue reading →
Michelle Robinson Obama tweets: Dr. J. can imagine: $22T in debt 8% Unemployment in perpetuity A Vulnerable Security Posture The People’s Republic of Moon & Mars $4 Gasoline Higher Electric Bills Doctor’s Office Lines Longer Than Gas Lines Religious Charities … Continue reading →
Photo by John Hart – State Journal Mrs. Dr. J. was disturbed by President Obama’s suggestion over the weekend that voting is the best revenge. “Against who? Against what?” she asked. “He’s the President? What kind of revenge is he … Continue reading →
According to Milton:Lucifer was the most beautiful of God’s Angels Dr. J. made it to mass this weekend after an unusually spotty (2 for 4) record in October (Dr. J. isn’t perfect and God is infinite in his forgiveness). His … Continue reading →
Operative ScottyO (currently researching evil sharks with laser beams) writes in regarding my previous post: Your Gleaming Techiness, One thing to add to your statement about the largest federal budget and debt: and, there is no budget! There is simply … Continue reading →
A friend on Facebook posted a link and comment on how people shouldn’t forget that Obama is the “smallest government spender” when it comes to the federal government. After debunking it with a few facts, the post was removed. Interesting. … Continue reading →
First-time writer, presumably long-time reader RStJ writes in with a disturbing notion: Good evening! I read the post with the mail from MC this evening, and also caught up and read the other posts about Benghazi. I have heard another … Continue reading →
Apparently there are still some investigative journalists out there. The Benghazi attack will not go away – and nor should it. The basic question that people should be asking is – given the mounting evidence that the Obama Administration completely … Continue reading →
…and I’ll show you yourself. So says Mrs. Dr. J.’s mother, anyway. The Washington Times writes today of President Obama’s latest endorsements, from Vladimir Putin, Raul Castro, and the ever so charming Hugo (don’t call me Cesar) Chavez. Let’s review … Continue reading →
It has been a while since GorT took a shot at the whole Stimulus funding and Joe Biden’s favorite “number” on the internet: recovery.gov. The ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) requires the Chairperson of the Council of … Continue reading →
In the event Obamaphone’s aren’t enough, Obamapuppies are next! Yesterday, our local Gannett owned liberal rag, the Tennessean has endorsed a candidate for President, and it is none other than Mitt Romney. While the editors still manage to get in … Continue reading →
JAB writes in from the double-wide. Your Czarness: I apologize for my lack of correspondence lately, but have things ever been hopping at the Double-wide! And I mean that in a good way, not that I’ve been on the lam … Continue reading →
GorT was only able to watch a bit of the debate last night – soccer practices and homework help dominated the evening. However, I did see the portion of the debate when Kerry Ladka asked the question about who in … Continue reading →
GorT read the Czar’s post below and almost immediately disagreed with it. After re-reading it and then reading Ace of Spades’ thoughts on it (with which GorT agrees strongly), I’m not sure I 100% disagree but I do believe the … Continue reading →
Although the MSM has been covering it, and making it an upper-importance story, you still might have missed that yesterday Secretary of State Clinton took full responsibility for the failure of security at the Benghazi safe house. Not Egypt or … Continue reading →
We’re all familiar with how the Obama Administration blames everyone else and hasn’t really stepped up and taken responsibility. This is the differentiation that should be made and it’s a hard one in the political realm to do because it … Continue reading →
Well, curiosities abound. The Obama campaign seems to have an internal bit of chaos going on. Inside reports (which may have been deliberately leaked to the press) indicate that the President was a tad…oblivious, perhaps?…to the debate fallout. Basically, the … Continue reading →
From Virtualmedic.files.wordpress.com Dr. J. loved The Czar’s list of #Obamafail excuses regarding the debate. That being said, in theory, AlGore of Manbearpig fame may have been on to something regarding altitude sickness and our first African-American President.* Sickle cell anemia … Continue reading →
Well, even the far-left Pew Research has concluded that Mitt Romney won the debate with change to spare. Did we read correctly that undecided voters are leaning toward Romney 72-16 based on the debate? Worse news for the Obama campaign: … Continue reading →
GorT is a big fan of soccer and one of the issues with the sport is “flopping”. That is, to intentionally fake an injury in order to attempt to draw a card or penalty against the other team. When you … Continue reading →
I was thinking about including this point in my earlier post regarding the debate but hesitated…now that the Czar made a reference to it and given that I’ve heard more than one democrat-supporter use it on TV today, I figure … Continue reading →
The Czar summarized the debate in a most excellent fashion so I’ll leave that for you to read. However, I wanted to comment on watching the debate. GorT was finishing soccer practice, so he walked in 5 minutes into the … Continue reading →
Our readers are smart and probably don’t need the following lesson in connecting the dots but for those stumbling upon our site or just curious as to what is really happening out there versus what the media is spoon feeding … Continue reading →
Sure, we hear all the polling numbers that Obama’s got this election in the bag – particularly in the swing states. And we can point at the various debunking of those polls – whether it be biased, inaccurate political affiliation … Continue reading →
This is one of the e-cards available on President Obama’s campaign site: This probably includes to cost of a smoke afterwards. $18,000?!?! That’s a whole lot of birth control. So let’s break it down. Let’s assume that the young lady … Continue reading →
Mr. Philippe Reines, who evidently has no idea how to manage himself, let alone the media. No, you didn’t elect him. The news about the Libyan attack keeps getting worse. The Czar was particularly troubled at an emerging story that … Continue reading →
The other day, the Czar opined a bit on the poll numbers seem stagnant. Other media outlets are similarly realizing that the poll numbers might not have much to do with what either Obama or Romney are saying. Other outlets … Continue reading →
Borrowed without permission from Grey Ops. Dr. J. can’t stand lawyers, other than ‘Puter and perhaps one or two others here in New Atlantis. That is probably one of the reasons he doesn’t like President Obama. He sometimes lies when … Continue reading →
The Great Merlin writes thusly: Dr. J., Here’s something that confuses me (well, technically, yet another entry on a long list of things, but let’s not go there, shall we?). In all of the discussions about Obamacare/ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP/SCHIP, … Continue reading →
Both liberals and conservatives need to get over themselves with the events of September 11, 2012, and focus on what actually happened. Not surprisingly, each needs to get over something different; even less surprisingly, the Czar has plenty of advice … Continue reading →
The President cannot claim any real superiority in foreign policy; as recent events show, foreign crises are irritating things that seem to serve no other purpose than to interrupt his fund raising. What the heck are Libya and Egypt thinking? … Continue reading →
President Obama delivered a rousing speech last night, pointing out how the GOP ticket doesn’t have any plans or the plans are rehashes of what he says caused the issues. However, he failed to really outline any plan of his … Continue reading →
It is Dr. J.’s understanding that she has ringside seats to watch liberty dietonight. Let’s see if she provides some thunderous applause. Washington Post Columnist George Will writes today: Four years ago, Barack Obama was America’s Rorschach test, upon whom … Continue reading →
GorT and Mrs. GorT watched a bit of the DNC coverage. We tuned into Fox News who carried the three speeches (O’Malley, Julian Castro, and Michelle Obama) and movie in totality. Clearly O’Malley and Castro are trying to punch their … Continue reading →
Democrats begin their convention, and it might be worth watching just to see what Bill Clinton does during his speech. He has already threatened to wreck the convention if he didn’t get his way—and on his list of demands is … Continue reading →
The President. Sigh. Well, today, in response to scores of millions out of work and suffering, the President released his favorite beer recipes. Millions of Americans will now be back to work, you’ll see. And understanding the heartbreaking loss of … Continue reading →
Flame on! The Democrats are not going to be able to run on their record. Many are running away from Obamacare. The economy is not getting any better, and one can make the case that it is probably going to be … Continue reading →
…or at least while New Orleans sinks. I have the TOZT-7 and I’m coming to get you Mandy! Governor Jindal could not be reached for comment. He’s still on hold with the White House… Dr. J.
Continue reading →Amy Payne over at the Heritage Foundation penned a post today that breaks down how well the President’s “plan” has worked. According to the latest Obama campaign ad featuring former President Bill Clinton, President Obama’s plan is working and needs … Continue reading →
