Category Archives: Current Affairs

Mayors Against Illegal Guns Pushes To Demand A Plan

Did you know that there was a group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns? While they certainly have push, and in some cases enacted, initiatives to go after illegal guns, most seemed to be aimed at putting restrictions on law abiding citizens, rather than going after the criminals who use guns to injure and kill. Because […]

House To Vote On Partial Sandy Relief Bill Friday

Most in the Legacy Media are referring to this as some sort of capitulation from John Boehner, instead of an understanding that the Senate porked up the Sandy bill (US News) Cowing to bipartisan pressure, House Speaker John Boehner is bringing to the House floor Friday a measure to help fund recovery efforts for Hurricane […]

Priorities: Obama Used Autopen To Sign “Fiscal Cliff” Legislations

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 […]

Obama: “I Will Not Negotiate Over Debt Ceiling”

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 […]

David Brooks: This Fiscal Cliff Deal Is Rather A Crapburger, Eh?

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 […]

112th Congress Set To Become Least Productive – I Fail To See The Problem

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 […]

Experts: Trained Police Officers Better Than Armed Guards In Schools

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 […]

AP: Obama Offers Same Craptastic Fiscal Cliff Deal

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 […]

Journal News Notes That Their Gun Permits Map Draws Criticism

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 […]

Shockingly, Benghazi Probe Finds Failures, But No One To Be Disciplined

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 […]

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