Where Were You When the Republic Died?

Matt Patterson "The Republicans? Assuming the GOP can take back both houses of Congress and the White House in the next couple of elections (by no means a sure thing), can you name one gigantic entitlement enacted by liberals that Republicans have successfully repealed? Or even made serious effort to repeal? Ever? Anyone? "

GAME OVER ... LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

Neal Boortz "Taxes, of course, go up immediately."...."Businesses will hunker down even more than they have been."...."As health insurance premiums rise - as people start clogging doctors offices - as the quality of care gradually declines - there will be more and more cries from the dumb masses for the government to "do something." "

Sharpton: “Americans Overwhelmingly Voted For Socialism When They Elected Obama” (Video)

Gateway Pundit "This is another example that every once in a while, a democrat forgets his talking points and speaks the truth. Barack Obama explained it this way last night– “This is what Change looks like.” "

The Stupak Mystery

Slate "Here's what I suspect. As of yesterday, the White House was willing to promise Stupak an open-ended ban on abortion funding in the exchanges. But today, either because of blowback from pro-choicers* in Congress or because Stupak lost some leverage as the health reform bill acquired more votes, it was not. So a basically meaningless executive order was issued to help Stupak save face. Just a guess, but I bet I'm right." And here: AWESOME: Anti-Abortion Susan B. Anthony List Group Will No Longer Honor Stupak With Their 'Defender Of Life Award' On Wednesday "The anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List group announced tonight they will strip Rep. Bart Stupak of the "Defender of Life" award that he's received several times."

Krauthammer: ObamaCare 'Will Be the Law of the Land as of Tonight and We're Going to be a Different Country'

Video from Weasel Zippers

Silver Linings

PowerlineBlog "With Stupak's collapse, passage of the Democrats' government medicine bill is assured. This is a dark day in American history; one of the darkest. But there are many reasons for optimism. Here are a few:"...

20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms

Investors.com "Of course, the overhaul is supposed to provide us with security. But it will result in skyrocketing insurance costs and physicians leaving the field in droves, making it harder to afford and find medical care. We may be about to live Benjamin Franklin’s adage, “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.” The sections described below are taken from HR 3590 as agreed to by the Senate and from the reconciliation bill as displayed by the Rules Committee."

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Canadian University Provost Wants to Send Me to Jail… For a Speech I Haven’t Given Yet

Ann Coulter "I was hoping for a fruit basket, not a threat to prosecute:" Click on this link to see a screen shot of the email Ms. Coulter received.

Happy Dependence Day! Updated

Mark Steyn, NRO "Well, it seems to be in the bag now. I try to be a sunny the-glass-is-one-sixteenth-full kinda guy, but it's hard to overestimate the magnitude of what the Democrats have accomplished. Whatever is in the bill is an intermediate stage: As the graph posted earlier shows, the governmentalization of health care will accelerate, private insurers will no longer be free to be "insurers" in any meaningful sense of that term (ie, evaluators of risk), and once that's clear we'll be on the fast track to Obama's desired destination of single payer as a fait accomplis." Paul: Stupak's Deal ‘Unconstitutional Outrage’ and this: Pence to Stupak: You traded 30 years of pro-life law for a promise from the most pro-abortion president in history

Iran is training the Taliban; Obama grovels

Rick Moran "Not that it matters much to Obama. He's still seeking that elusive "outreach" that has made him a laughingstock from Damascus to Tehran. His latest foray into this useless diplomacy is a message to the Iranian people on the occasion of the holiday Nowruz where he begs the mullahs to open a dialogue with him."

Liberals Getting a Taste of How ‘Balance’ Feels:

Amity Shlaes "At its most devilishly aggressive -- and whatever lines it inserts about church, state, hip-hop or the Alamo -- the board will not restore true balance. It will merely manage to make the curriculum a little less skewed to the left."

Hundreds of Israelis Protest “Obama Infitada” in Gush Etzion

Gateway Pundit "Protesters at Gush Etzion told reporters, 'Obama is an enemy of the state of Israel… The American people are on our side. They oppose what Obama is doing… We are telling the Prime Minister to ‘Crush the Obama Infitada.’ ”