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iPad & iHealthcare: How Arrogance Invites Letdown
by The Banter-er on February 5

What do the iPad and healthcare reform have in common?  More than you would think. Watching last week’s iPad keynote address from Steve Jobs left me with an inescapable sense of deja vu.  What I was hearing and feeling was eerily similar to how I’ve felt while following the healthcare debate raging in Washington D.C. and throughout the country.  Both issues are seemingly unrelated; one is a consumer product developed under the leadership of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and the other, overarching... Read more...

Rep. Clyburn Talks His Way Out of Common Sense
by The Banter-er on February 1

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), House Majority Whip, made a classic liberal Freudian slip when talking about his approach to fixing the economy: We’re not going to save our way out of this recession.  We’ve got to spend our way out of this recession… While it’s true that spending is essential to a recovering economy, mounting deficits have a disproportionately negative affect on whatever stimulation investment dollars create.  Smart investors will look at how leveraged a company... Read more...

Jihad Warm-mongering
by The Banter-er on January 30

Osama Bin Laden’s recent denouncing of global warming perfectly illustrates how radicals will use any effective propaganda to justify their desired result. Bin Laden knows that pacifist lefties will latch right on to his latest anti-industrialized rhetoric and use it as proof that United States and other Western nations bring Islamic animosity upon themselves.  In fact, he has consistently used liberal talking points to gain sympathizers and fulfill his ultimate desire to kill infidels.  I’m... Read more...

State of Disunion
by The Banter-er on January 28

Editor’s note: After his first State of the Union address last night, Obama released the following speech he wrote to discuss the state of the disunion his agenda has created in America.  We have obtained a copy and are happy to share it with BanterNation: I was going to call a joint session of Everyday Banter readers to give this State of Disunion speech live, but due to a recent spending freeze, I am forced to relay the State of Disunion via digital ink.  In order to provide a more visual... Read more...

For Americans, the “Beer Goggles” are off
by The Banter-er on January 26

Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory was so dismayed by the historic Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts, that he compares the experience with being date raped, complete with the sting of regret and the pain of violation.  The haunting detail of his commentary would suggest that McGrory himself has an intimate knowledge of such affairs; only the question of which end of the seduction he found himself on remains a mystery. While McGrory accuses the majority of Massachusetts voters of being loose... Read more...

Obama: Funnier than Parody
by The Banter-er on January 25

For a really smart guy, Obama sure looks stupid in this picture from a speech given to a 6th grade class: I don’t understand why after a year on the job Obama hasn’t memorized the following phrases he regularly reads off his teleprompters: “Let me make myself clear.  This isn’t about me.  I will fix the economy by taking drastic measures that we cannot delay any further.  The time for talk is over.  Because of the flack George Bush, I inherited an absurd budget deficit... Read more...