Dan Calabrese

Wife of Bill Clinton stuns nation by announcing presidential bid of her own

This should tell you something. As I watched it, I thought at first it was a really long YouTube ad that you couldn't skip past, because there was no hint of Hillary in it. It's just all these people talking about what's going on in their lives. (Notice the hat tip to gay marriage by the recent convert Hillary?) She doesn't show up until near the very end, and don't think there's not a reason for that.

GOP releases 'Stop Hillary' video in advance of some announcement that's apparently coming

I'm not usually a fan of videos like this, and I can't say this inspires me to call it an exception to the rule. I get what they're trying to do. They're trying to create an atmosphere of negative noise so you can hang that air of negativity on a candidate. I guess I just don't like the technique as opposed to a substantive case. But that's me. What do you think?

Hillary in 2007: Hey, the president can't be making Iran policy without Congress

You might ask this question: Why would she say this in 2007 knowing full well that she'd be running for president the following year, and presumably expecting to have an excellent chance of being elected? Why start chipping away at popular support for the executive's powers when her goal and perhaps her expectation at the time would have been to acquire them for herself and use them to her heart's content?

The Cutting Room Floor: Because you know you want to look

Dan and Rob typically spend most days gabbing with each other.

House Republicans push federal agencies to disavow involvement in Operation Chokepoint

Sure, I think there's some value to Congress shining a light on Operation Chokepoint. Someone needs to. It's a shameless attempt by Eric Holder and the Obama Justice Department to harass legal companies out of business by pressuring banks via the FDIC not to provide any financial services to them.

You know it's funny, the White House and Iran don't agree on anything about the U.S./Iran 'agreement

Are the jokes writing themselves at this point? Because I don't want to pile on if it's entirely unnecessary. Even when the framework-for-an-agreement-for-a-set-of-principles-for-a-kind-of-sort-of-deal was announced last week, anyone could see that Iran could never be trusted to stick to the terms of the deal - and that the end result of that was not in any way what Obama and Kerry wanted people to think.

Obama: Hey, let's ban 'gay conversion therapy'

I'm going to get a bit spiritual here, so you might want to let Right Wing Watch know. Brian Tashman will want to get rolling on his usual conniption fit.

Memories Pizza announces its plans for that $842,000 you gave them

The owners of Memories Pizza would have been fully within their rights to keep every penny of the $842,000 donated to them by supporters through the astonishing GoFundMe campaign that followed the attacks on them by gay activists and their media allies.

Sigh: Another 'prayer breakfast,' another Obama shot at Christians

I guess the president still thinks we Christians are up on our high horse, because he couldn't pass up another opportunity to turn a "prayer breakfast" into a shot. And I'd argue this one was even worse because he didn't even try to explain what he meant.

Terrific: Russian hackers got into White House computer system in 2014

Gosh, maybe everyone in the Obama Administration should use homebrew servers. They might be more secure than the ones in the White House. They're not, of course, and that's of no comfort to anyone given what we're now hearing about a hacker attack last year on the White House's servers. Apparently the hackers were Russian and they had quite the look around:

Of course: Obama says he's eager to remove Cuba from list of states who sponsor terror

It fits his pattern beautifully. You approach a rogue regime, indicate you want to make friends with them, demand absolutely no conditions on their part, and proceed to bestow them with all kinds of rewards and concessions they did nothing to earn and as far as anyone can see, they didn't even ask for.

Obama on NPR: Sure, this Iran deal only delays the inevitable

You thought the nuclear deal with Iran was "historic" and would keep the Iranians from getting the bomb, right? OK, you didn't actually think that, but you thought the Obama Administration was at least willing to claim as much to put a happy face on such a horrendous pile of crap, didn't you? Turns out even Obama himself is now admitting the deal does no such thing. Even assuming Iran's complete cooperation with all the supposed terms, even assuming no cheating, even assuming they allow inspections when our side says they're warranted, even assuming no covert sites spinning centrifuges like crazy . . . and these are all very big assumptions, we're still looking at a nuclear Iran probably some time in the next decade.

Uh oh: Story of sailor rescued after 66 days at sea not holding up?

We know this for sure: 37-year-old Louis Jordan of South Carolina just spent a very unusual 66 days, and it culminated with a German ship picking off the top of his own capsized sailboat.

Hello from California, where we're enjoying Gov. Moonbeam's drought

My family and I are in Los Angeles this week for some meetings concerning a super-secret venture, which, dude . . . it's super-secret! (But it won't be for long.)

Biden to China: U.S. human rights talk is just politics, so 'you make your decisions, we'll make ours'

Exciting career opportunity for North Korean women: Join Bowl Cut Jr.'s 'Pleasure Squad'

On the one hand, I guess you have to give it to Seth Rogen and James Franco for nailing this in The Interview. The basketball court scene had the Pleasure Squad to a T. On the other hand, how much credit do they deserve for something so seemingly obvious, especially when you consider that it's basic sophomoric humor and they surely would have put it in whether they thought it was true or not?

Horrible: Obama and Kerry bow to Iran's nuclear ambitions in deal 'framework'

Surrender.

Indiana caves

Christian bakers, florists, photographers, etc. lose legal protections in 'clarification' of RFRA.

Owners of Indiana pizzeria who won't cater gay weddings in hiding, may close because of threats

Because we wouldn't want hate or intolerance.

About those extended Iran talks: Yep, still getting nowhere

Double overtime.