Category Archives: Current Affairs

Trayvon Martin Killing Takes A Political Turn

There’s no other way to characterize this story (Miami Herald) The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the FBI will investigate the killing of Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer, the department announced late Monday. The announcement coincided with a statement from Florida Gov. Rick Scott asking the Florida […]

Shocker: State Government Pretty Darned Corrupt

And you’ll be surprised at which state was ranked #1 (Fox News) State governments lack transparency and accountability to citizens, and remain at high risk for corruption, according to a new study of all 50 statehouses. Not a single state received an A in the State Integrity Investigation ranking, a product of the Center for […]

Reauthorization Of Violence Against Women Act To Create Partisan Fight

Who could possibly be against the VAWA? Well, when it was first passed in 1994, the American Civil Liberties Union was, saying “that the increased penalties were rash, the increased pretrial detention was “repugnant” to the US Constitution, the mandatory HIV testing of those only charged but not convicted is an infringement of a citizen’s […]

Media Works Hard To Protect Obama On Gas Prices

The 90% liberal/Democrat media is sure to do all in its power to protect (NMP) Obama regarding the rising gas prices, which have been high for the majority of Obama’s time in office, and that protection is starting at the Washington Post, which forgets that its cost of doing business is going up and profits […]

HHS Ruler With Unfettered Power Tells Us Why ObamaCare Is Grrrrrr-reat!

I wonder if Kathleen Sebelius has considered that she won’t always be the head of Health and Human Services, and that a Republican President could put a Republican in place who will have the same unfettered power to change everything up. Anyhow, she pens an op-ed for the Politico, telling us why the legislation that […]

Washington Post Writer Who Lied About Rush Gives B*tchy Apology

In case you missed it, the WP’s Alexandra Petri wrote on the 7th Advertisers learned something about Rush Limbaugh’s demographic this week. “Here we thought lots of pleasant, upstanding people were listening to and enjoying the rational things Rush had to say,” dozens of companies said. “Apparently not.” It turns out that people who really, […]

Sandra Fluke Is Simply The Latest Excuse For Liberals To Get Conservatives Off The Airwaves

If Sandra Fluke thinks her far left comrades really care about her, perhaps she should ask Cindy Sheehan about her own 15 minutes of Liberal fame. Once Cindy became old news and inconvenient, she was unceremoniously dumped by the hard left. The Left is simply using Fluke as a means to attempt to get Rush […]

Our Long National Nightmare Is Over: Rush Apologizes Over Slut Comment

Whew! (Rush Limbaugh) For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week.  In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke. I think it is absolutely absurd that during these […]

Dharun Ravi Could Face At Least 10 Years For Thought Crimes

You’ve probably heard about the issue with Dharun Ravi: he was the Rutgers U. student who used a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, having homosexual sex. Clementi later disappeared, then was found to have committed suicide. Ravi’s trial has started (Seattle PI) Early witnesses testified that Ravi expressed discomfort about having a […]

Taxing Millionaires Popular: Cutting Government Spending More Popular

You know what would solve this? A flat tax, where everyone pays the same percentage. It’s that whole “equal protection under the law” thingy (Washington Post) Sixty-five percent of the people in the AP-GfK poll favor Obama’s plan to require people making $1 million or more pay taxes equal to at least 30 percent of […]

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