January 3, 2013 – 8:11 am
Roughly since mid-November (NMP) Obama has been Cranking up the pressure on passing “fiscal cliff” legislation. He’s been excoriating Republicans. He made dire predictions. He came out to make statements and Blame Republicans. Of course, he himself created a situation whereby the deal was done after the last minute. Nor did he excoriate Harry Reid […]
January 2, 2013 – 7:05 am
Der Fuhrer has spoken (Slate) In a brief address Tuesday night, President Obama saluted the passage of a fiscal cliff deal that the White House had negotiated with the Senate. Then he fired a warning shot at Congressional Republicans, saying he won’t tolerate another down-to-the-wire battle over the debt ceiling this spring. “I will not […]
January 1, 2013 – 8:01 am
The NY Times’ resident “conservative” (who resembles a conservative about as much as Nancy Pelosi) offers up a nice summary of the fiscal cliff deal. Another Fiscal Flop After first expounding that the public debt as a percentage of gross domestic product went from around 38 percent in 1965 to 74% now, that it could […]
December 29, 2012 – 3:31 pm
The Huffington Post’s Amanda Merkel breathlessly reports As 2012 comes to a close, the 112th Congress is set to go down in American history as the most unproductive session since the 1940s. According to a Huffington Post review of all the bills that hit President Barack Obama’s desk this session, Obama has signed 219 bills […]
December 29, 2012 – 6:44 am
And better than squishy liberal teachers who would look at a gun in an emergency situation the same most of us look at a dead and decomposing mouse in the crawlspace. After starting out with a story about how a trained law enforcement officer shot and wounded an attacker at a school in California, we […]
December 28, 2012 – 6:39 pm
If you run around the news sites, you’ll see lots of stories of “optimism” regarding a fiscal cliff deal, which kinda is belied by the long faces (and Nancy Pelosi being unable to find her car) post meeting. Ah, but a barely publicized story comes from the AP via WRAL A person familiar with the […]
December 27, 2012 – 8:04 am
Gee, ya think? (Journal News) Thousands of people, many from outside Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, have taken to their computers and phones in rage after The Journal News posted an online database of local gun-permit holders. The database, legally obtained from the County Clerks’ Offices through a Freedom of Information Act request made after […]
December 19, 2012 – 8:53 am
Who could have seen this coming when no underling wants to indict their superiors? (The Hill) An independent review of the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi made public Tuesday night faults “systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels†of the State Department. The report by the Accountability Review Board […]
December 18, 2012 – 9:10 am
Why? Tim Scott refuses to toe the NAACP line (Daily Caller) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People isn’t too excited about the appointment of Rep. Tim Scott to South Carolina’s soon-to-be-vacated U.S. Senate seat. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced her appointment of the black Republican during a noon press conference in […]
December 17, 2012 – 9:15 am
Retiring Senator Joe Lieberman makes a few good points (The Hill) Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Sunday called for a “national commission on violence,†in the wake of Friday’s shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. “I’m always reluctant about commissions, but I really believe we ought to have a national commission on violence,†[…]
