Daily Archives: April 6, 2011

Say, What’s The Deal With “Non-Essential” Government Employees?

This just begs an important question With budget talks between Republicans and Democrats far from resolution, official Washington braced on Tuesday for a replay of the Great Government Shutdowns of 1995 and 1996. For weeks, the Obama administration has been quietly examining the experience of the mid-1990s as a kind of shutdown survival guide. Now […]

Dumpster Diving Is Apparently An “Eco-Crime”

Today’s silliness Whether it’s a police sting on kids picking daffodils or a dumpster diver handcuffed for “stealing” frozen pizza from the trash, there seems to be a spate of law enforcement over-reaction going on for minor eco-“crimes”. The latest is a sorry tale of an operation involving eight officers and a helicopter to recover […]

Women’s Edition: If All You See…

…is an evil gas guzzling truck littering the landscape, you might be a warmist (click the more link)

If All You See…

…is an evil gas sucking truck, you might just be a Warmist

12 Year Old Charged With Hate Crime Against Muslim

Here’s one from a few days ago A 12-year-old Staten Island boy was marched out of school in handcuffs yesterday and slapped with felony hate-crime charges after allegedly bullying a Muslim classmate. Sources tell the Staten Island Advance that the boy, Osman Daramy, had repeatedly harassed and attacked the girl over the last two months, […]

Say, How’d Obama’s Libya Speech Work Out? #Fail

It went so poorly that even Talking Points Memo notices and discusses According to a Pew poll released Tuesday, 57% of Americans don’t think the U.S. has a clear plan in Libya, a seven-point rise since last week, and one that comes after President Obama addressed the country to lay out the nation’s involvement and […]

Obama To Philly And NY As Budget Battle Reigns

Remember this from Tuesday? President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on congressional leaders – especially Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) – to act like “grown-ups” and avert a government shutdown after they made no apparent progress in reaching a budget agreement at a White House meeting earlier in the day. Obama, in a surprise appearance at […]

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