Finding Favor

Block Heads
“There is a very dangerous Islamist regime allied to Al Qaeda in control of the north of that country,” Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday. “It was threatening the south of that country and we should support the action that the French have taken.”

“So we were first out of the blocks, as it were, to say to the French, ‘We’ll help you, we’ll work with you and we’ll share what intelligence we have with you and try to help you with what you are doing,’” Mr. Cameron told the BBC in a radio interview. (NYT, 1/14/2013)

In response to the decision by France to send troops to fight Islamic extremists in Mali (along with British offers of support), anti-war protesters in the U.S. demonstrated in front of the French and British embassies. Protesters included Code Pink, Sean Penn, Michael Moore and that Garafalo chick. 

Just kidding!


Peppy
A year later, speaking at a pep rally for House Democrats shortly before they voted to pass what he called "one of the biggest deficit reduction measures in history," Mr. Obama said that "Everybody who's looked at it says that every single good idea to bend the cost curve and start actually reducing health-care costs are in this bill." (WSJ, 1/13/2013)

We compared the average premiums in states that already have ObamaCare-like provisions in their laws and found that consumers in New Jersey, New York and Vermont already pay well over twice what citizens in many other states pay. (Merrill Matthews and Mark E. Litow, WSJ, 1/13/2013)

Obama lied, people paid.


Involved
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) released a statement Sunday responding to recent bribery allegations made by a Utah businessman who claims he arranged a deal to pay off the senator.

“Senator Reid has no knowledge or involvement regarding Mr. Johnson’s case,” the Senator’s office said in a statement. “These unsubstantiated allegations implying Senator Reid’s involvement are nothing more than innuendo and simply not true.” (Freebeacon.com, 1/14/2013)

Reid's office also said: "The Senator now realizes what it is like to be on the other side of a groundless slur and he personally apologizes to Mitt Romney." 

Just kidding!


Packing
School districts in Pennsylvania, Alabama, New Jersey, and Rhode Island have hired armed officers in the weeks since the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., the Free Beacon has found.

Additionally, schools in Florida, Tennessee, Arizona, and New York are in the process of hiring armed officers or recommending they be placed in schools. (Freebeacon.com, 1/14/2013)

At last, some common sense on school safety.