Who does Bill Bennett think he is, Bill Safire? He went on John King’s show yesterday and threw around a bunch of ten-dollar words but did not have the decency to wear a necktie, or even a collar. This pudgy slob who could not get seated for brunch at a decent restaurant is very disappointed that our president has not ordered an airlift to shower the Iranian people with phone cards and “duplication machines” to help with their revolution. [CNN]

We already knew that National Review Online editor and former secretary Kathryn Jean Lopez was proud of America when the Blagojevich scandal broke because (a) it was simple enough for her to understand and (b) it didn’t involve queers. In her column today, however, she offers even more trenchant insight regarding Blago’s conscience — why he didn’t have one, so to speak. Perhaps a childhood tragedy left him scarred? Perhaps “narcissistic personality disorder,” which is a medical disease? Perhaps lingering depression? Simple greed? Please. A writer of K-Lo’s caliber need not engage such ridiculous psychological dalliances. The point is that Blago is evil because he loves abortion, much like the Democrats. MORE »

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s crazy new plan to actually ensure health insurance for everybody in California will likely have all sorts of problems and certainly won’t ever satisfy everybody, but unless you’re a Mexican-hating multi-millionaire like Lou Dobbs, it’s hard to find something wrong with the idea of making basic medical care available to the self-employed and working poor.

Luckily for California, the state isn’t just home to communist hippies like the governor — it’s also home to Irvine’s beloved Ayn Rand Institute, which today attacked Arnold’s proposal as “a moral travesty.”

Read the objectivist objections to this latest GOP socialist attack on America’s values, after the jump.

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When your real-world leaders are revealed to be meth addicts, page fuckers, mistress chokers, wife beaters and bribe-taking money-laundering murderers, it’s good to know the cartoon duck in the paper will continue to set high standards for screaming about liberals not having morals. MORE »