#dent

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#administration #darkness #dawn #democracy #emanated

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#amazed #barack #hear #i #i am

Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the 'Jersey Shore' cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union's leader than he can disown his own id. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#barack obama #cast #gaga #hairspray #his

For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#care #children #entitlement #health #health care

Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#crisis #dent #early #earning #economic

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#been #equality #evidently #great #greater

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#been #concentration #greatest #inside #los

In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#country #first #go #president #prison

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#also #am #ask #confident #family

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#developing #embraces #europe #extension #finds