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The post-Inauguration freak show that descended on Washington was a far cry from the festival of flags and tri-corner hats of the Tea Party revolt by America’s normals. Instead of a Norman Rockwell painting about democracy come to life, it looked like the parking lot sale at the offices of Dr. Fred Skeeve, the Discount Gynecologist. Now, normal people would typically react with alarm and disgust at this kind of bizarre pageant, assuming they cared enough to pay attention to it. In the off chance they happened to encounter it while flipping channels, they would likely lunge for the remote...

Now that Donald Trump has been sworn in as America’s 45th president, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has hit the panic button.Pledging “resistance” to Mr. Trump, the ACLU is in a veritable tantrum over the results of the November election.  Their poster boy ought to be that sad anti-Trump protester who set himself on fire (and is recovering) last Tuesday outside Trump’s new D.C. hotel.  As part of its promotion of Saturday’s post-inaugural Women’s March for Abortion (okay, they didn’t call it that, but it’s the reality), the ACLU featured a downloadable poster of the Statue of Liberty...

Nobody cares one whit whether or not you consider Donald J. Trump your president. He is now the president of these United States of America. He won the election fair and square, by the rules — Electoral College and all — that everyone knew well in advance. I won’t say, “Get over it!” Because you don’t have to get over it if you don’t want to—it’s a free country. At least that’s the idea. By the way, for the last eight years, I have encountered post after post on Facebook from folks proclaiming that Barack H. Obama wasn’t their president....

RUSH: Hey, hey, calm down out there, folks. Everything’s cool, everything’s fine, no need to panic. The Drive-Bys are in panic. You gotta look at ’em as Wile E. Coyote. Gotta look at Trump and his team as the Road Runner. Wile E. Coyote still has no idea what’s happening. They’re trying to continue to destroy Trump in the age-old ways they’ve succeeded. It’s all backfiring on ’em. I’m gonna explain this as the program unfolds. Be cool. JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it’s Open Line Friday! RUSH: Don’t worry about it, Rachel, don’t worry about any...

The left is trying to come to grips with its utter rejection, and its response to Donald Trump will be to fall back on an endless series of freakoutrages – hyperbolic, unhinged, hack media-fueled spasms of faux moral panic every time he dares do anything. Appoint someone to a job? Freak out – it’s an outrage! Go to dinner? Freak out – it’s an outrage! Actually keep promises made to the voters? Freak out – it’s an outrage! But it isn’t going to work. Not anymore. Not with the form of the Destructor Hillary and the rest of super smart...

Obama’s Amazing AchievementsHis military intervention prompted some stunning reversals. By bombing Libya, President Obama has accomplished some things once thought absolutely impossible in America:(a) War-mongering liberals: Liberals are now chest-thumping about military “progress” in Libya. Even liberal television and radio commentators cite ingenious reasons why an optional, preemptive American intervention in an oil-producing Arab country, without prior congressional approval or majority public support — and at a time of soaring deficits — is well worth supporting, in a sort of “my president, right or wrong,” fashion. Apparently, liberal foreign policy is returning to the pre-Vietnam days of the hawkish “best...

<p>It was perhaps the FUnniest post-election photo of all time but who was the crying chick? Well, it turns out she is Victoria Parks and if you watch this VIDEO of her singing, you will agree (to paraphrase her dopey song) that Leftwing Loons Are Moonbats Too.</p>

Keith Olbermann’s recent transformation from a harsh but reasoned critic of the right, to a hyperbolic caricature of bluster was best exemplified by his recent run-down of Senator-elect Scott Brown. Many media critics noticed it, but most notable was Jon Stewart, who eviscerated his shtick Thursday night. Even Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher asked yesterday “Is Olbermann losing it?” So many of us were shocked by his response last night when he agreed with the critique, and even said “sorry.” Kudos! Video: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/olbermann-to-stewart-point-taken-i-have-been-a-little-over-the-top-lately/

The anti-war protest group that has been dogging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) can expect similar attention if he votes in favor of the Iraq supplemental bill that does not include timelines for withdrawal. “I think he’s been opposed to the war, and I would be disappointed if he voted to continue the war,” Code Pink spokeswoman Gael Murphy said. “If this is becoming rhetoric, yeah, he’s going to hear it from his constituents.” Murphy said if Obama votes in favor of the measure it will be a “contradiction” and the “height of...