February 5, 2010 – 9:44 pm
Hey, uh, folks out at the TEA Party in Nashville? You. Are. Not. Helping. They will proudly boast of how they have galvanised ordinary Americans against runaway government spending, but a dark underbelly of xenophobia has been exposed at the first national gathering of the Tea Party movement. Here in the vast Gaylord resort in […]
January 25, 2010 – 5:55 pm
If it’s yet another day ending with a “y,” it must be another day that Obama is planning on hosing private business President Barack Obama, criticized by campaign finance reform advocates for not living up to his repeated pledges to reduce the role of special interests in elections, plans an aggressive push-back to last week’s […]
January 22, 2010 – 8:13 am
If you haven’t heard about the SCOTUS decision, here’s a little recap Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. The 5-to-4 decision was a vindication, the majority said, of the […]
January 11, 2010 – 10:30 am
I usually avoid discussion of certain issues, such as gay marriage, because they are not really hot button issues with me. Furthermore, while, if pressed, I do not support gay marriage, I do support civil unions, and, this being America, where freedom should reign supreme, and, with a Classical Liberal doctrine of “if it doesn’t […]
January 1, 2010 – 7:59 am
The question is, is this something they will actually do, and, why are they doing it now? Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska’s political deal from the federal health care overhaul bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday. “We believe this […]
December 22, 2009 – 3:00 pm
Via The Jawa Report through Confederate Yankee, from The Weekly Standard, we learn (blockquote is from CY, subsection comes from TWS) The language of Section 3403 seems rather explicit: SUBSECTION.—It shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal […]
December 19, 2009 – 8:44 am
Just imagine the furor from the media, the Nutroots, and Democrats on the floor of the House if Grayson had an “R” after his name Not everyone thinks imitation is the best form of flattery. In fact, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando took such offense at a parody website aimed at unseating him that […]
November 17, 2009 – 10:00 am
This is the kind of thing that was bound to happen after the Sec. Of State started off the year by telling the Chinese government that human rights were second to economic survival. It’s also the the kind of thing a country can do when they hold a huge chunk of the U.S. debt in […]
November 9, 2009 – 5:57 pm
Blowing apart much of the media’s portrayal of Nidal Hasan as just an upset person whose actions had nothing to do with Islamic terrorism, ABC strangely tells the truth U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American […]
October 29, 2009 – 8:58 am
Food for thought #1 Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson issued his second apology in 12 months Tuesday and was told to stay away from the team while the NFL and the Chiefs complete their investigation into his use of a gay slur. As Johnson was releasing his apology, a national gay rights advocacy […]
