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Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll reflects on GRATITUDE, INGRATITUDE and SHAME. She writes: As I may have said here before – sometimes I feel like in 10 years I’ve said EVERYTHING here before – Thanksgiving is at least tied with 4th of July for my favorite holiday. First of all, the menu is hard to beat – Turkey, Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Cornbread/Hot Sausage Stuffing, Gravy, Squash, Cranberries, Scalloped Corn, Biscuits, and Gravy. »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll is not short of ammo in MIT-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E! She blasts away: A few days ago my friend and colleague John Hinderaker covered the disgrace that MIT has become. Let me quote from his first paragraph and allude to several other of his quotes. I just want to add my spin and outrage lest my head explode: “Some of the worst anti-Semitic campus outbursts of recent weeks have been »
BBC, the Voice of Hamas
Britain’s BBC has been left-wing for as long a I can remember, and in recent decades, being left-wing means hating Israel. Every time there is a conflict in the Middle East, the BBC can be relied on to carry water for the Arabs and to denigrate Israelis. Within the last couple of days, the network reported–absurdly–that the IDF had entered Gaza’s main hospital, and was targeting medical teams and Arab »
Thoughts from the ammo line
If you need help separating HELPFUL STRATEGIES AND LESS HELPFUL, Ammo Grrrll has a few thoughts. She writes: The other night a few of our best friends in our Gated Geezerville sat down around a cozy firepit to eat, drink, laugh, and commiserate. It had been a tough summer for the three of us idiots who elected to stay in the aptly named Valley of the Stupid Sun for the »
Extra: Thoughts from the ammo line
In this extra edition Ammo Grrrll is thinking about FUNDRAISING SCAMS: Back when I used to do standup comedy for a living, I would sometimes end my routine by turning serious and asking people to “contribute to the Susan Vass Wildlife Fund.” I would point out that there would be collection buckets in the back as they left and then say, “Remember, if you don’t give, I can’t lead a »
Thoughts from the ammo line
We may be losing the United States, but we are gaining PHARMACEUTICAL NATION. Ammo Grrrll writes [Editor’s note: Ms. Grrrll, a special thanks for the laughs from the line this week]: Just within the space of my lifetime, we have seen the United States of America go from a mostly agrarian nation – a FARM NATION, if you will – to an urban nation and drug-dependent nation. Coincidence? You be »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll isn’t PACKING IT IN! She’s just recovering. She writes: My dear late Mother, child of the Depression, was always cheerful, but something of a Stoic. One of her more annoying little aphorisms when we kids whined about something was “I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes. Till I met a man who had no feet.” Oh, for Pete’s sake, Mama, not again with the guy »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll is all but singing CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE! She writes: The American Value System we treasure is crumbling before our eyes from a number of sea changes in the culture. Some of the changes were slow and sneaky. Lately, some are arriving like runaway trains. But one thing’s for sure – the country bears scant resemblance to the country most of us grew up in. Why? The most serious »
Thought for the day
From Gerard Baker’s Free Beacon review of Franklin Foer’s hymn to Joe Biden: The Biden of Mr. Foer’s depiction—imagination might be a more accurate description—is not the fumbling, mumbling, stumbling president we have all come to see on our screens these last two years nor the predictable Democratic party hack we have known throughout his more than half a century in national politics. The figure who emerges from the pages »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll has a thought: JUST SAY NO TO TAXPAYER FINANCED GROCERY STORES FOR NEIGHBORHOODS THAT DROVE OUT THEIR CORPORATE GROCERY STORES! She writes: It is fitting that this column will run on a Friday the 13th because the very idea of it is not only surreal, but kind of terrifying. Oh, before we begin, I have a new definition of “surreal”: I actually saw that some of the hefty »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Speaking demographically a la Paul Simon, Ammo Grrrll finds it TERRIBLY STRANGE TO BE 70! She writes: In 1968, when I was 22, Simon and Garfunkel released their fourth studio album, Bookends. It contains the beautiful, haunting song “Old Friends” with the lyric about the two old guys who “sit on the park bench like bookends.” Wait, what? At only 70? No pickleball, no swimming, no travel, no volunteering, no »
Remembering Pat Paulsen
I haven’t thought about the late comedian Pat Paulsen in a long time. He started running for president in 1968 and kept at it on a quadrennial basis, more or less like a comic version of Minnesota’s own boy wonder Harold Stassen (although Stassen himself became a punch line). See the history set forth in “Pat Paulsen for president!” The Library of Congress has even found a place in its »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Thinking through the case against New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, Ammo Grrrll has formulated PERFECTLY LOGICAL REASONS TO HAVE GOLD BARS AND HALF A MILLION IN CASH HIDDEN IN YOUR HOUSE! She writes: Do we have THE best “Parliament of Whores” (hat-tip the late, great P. J. O’Rourke) that money can buy, or what? Sure, some might see the words “Bob Menendez” and “New Jersey” and think there must be »
Brooks’s complaint
Having spent $78 on lunch at the Newark Airport, New York Times columnist David Brooks seized the opportunity to present himself as a man of the people in the Xeet below. Like Bill Clinton, he has felt their pain. Before he got burned in Newark, however, he apparently couldn’t understand the economic plight of Bidenomics. The X community has added a note that gives Brooks’s complaint a little “context.” This »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Speaking of Slow Joe Biden, Ammo Grrrll declares he is NOT EVEN CLOSE….She writes: Our shambling, rambling, pathologically lying, senile kleptocrat of an occupant of the White House (a/k/a The Big Guy), said a couple of weeks ago that Climate Change is scarier than nuclear war. No joke, man! I disagree, and I regret, not all that respectfully. And I submit my case as follows: THINGS THAT ARE SCARIER THAN »
(D., Lower Slobbovia)
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has unfettered John Fetterman. Undoing the Senate’s sumptuary code, Schumer disclosed that staff for the chamber’s Sergeant-at-Arms will no longer enforce a dress code on the Senate floor. Schumer left the neck of the Democratic Party unmentioned, but everyone understands that Fetterman is the inspiration for Schumer’s initiative. Now Fetterman can freely wander the Senate in his accustomed attire of hooded sweatshirt and shorts. Cartoonist »
Thoughts from the ammo line
Ammo Grrrll memorializes A DAY IN THE LIFE OF SUZANNE DENISE-OVITCH (With apologies and kudos to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn). She writes: First, a Chag Sameach – a Happy Rosh Hashanah – to all our Jewish readers. We Jews celebrate “New Year” twice and it’s awesome that we get TWO official chances a year to resolve to do better. Of course, we can resolve to do better any second of any day. »