January 28, 2012 – 8:53 am
Any time an administration wants to release bad news, they do it on a Friday night. How bad are these DOJ emails? I’m sure Darrell Issa will have some pointed questions for Eric Holder on Monday (NPR) For the first time, the Justice Department has made public a series of sensitive messages that passed to […]
January 20, 2012 – 8:03 am
In a bit of serendipity, the day after the big Internet protest against SOPA and PIPA the FBI acts on the powers already granted under the law to shut down a massive file sharing site (NY Times) In what the federal authorities on Thursday called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the […]
January 15, 2012 – 8:37 am
Saturday, the White House responded to two petitions asking that SOPA and PIPA be killed as legislation Right now, Congress is debating a few pieces of legislation concerning the very real issue of online piracy, including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the PROTECT IP Act, and the Online Protection and Digital ENforcement Act (OPEN). […]
January 14, 2012 – 9:35 am
Well, all are heavily liberal other than one (Washington Times) Eleven states and the District of Columbia are siding with the Obama administration in the legal battle over the constitutionality of the new health care law, as more than half the states prepare to challenge the law before the Supreme Court. Attorneys general in California, […]
January 10, 2012 – 9:32 am
Who profits from the electric car subsidies? This should make the Occupiers unhappy, but, since they support Obama and the Democrats overwhelmingly, they will barely make a peep (Fox News) Once again, going green has taxpayers seeing red. This time however, billions in federal subsidies for electric vehicles are going those who need them the […]
January 8, 2012 – 4:26 pm
Mother Nature Network has an interesting, and whiny, article up about the Chevy Albatross, er, Volt, which boils down to The problem Kelly and the others have with the Volt is that it has Barack Obama’s fingerprints all over it. That’s a reason graphics like the one at left are all over the blogosphere. If […]
January 5, 2012 – 8:08 am
Let’s not forget, part-time Senator Barack Obama said of recess appointments “‘It’s the wrong thing to do” and a recess appointee is ‘damaged goods… we will have less credibility.’ Except, Congress isn’t actually in recess (The Hill) Obama infuriated Republicans Wednesday by announcing the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to be the first director of […]
January 2, 2012 – 8:03 am
Hey, they just wanted to make some mayhem and assault the symbol of the new year (USA Today) Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested on New Year’s Eve as they tore down barricades surrounding New York City’s Zuccotti Park, the former home of their encampment that was dismantled several weeks ago. About 500 […]
January 1, 2012 – 3:29 pm
If you haven’t read Mark Steyn’s book “After America: Get Ready For Armageddon”, you’re missing one of the scariest books ever written. And Steyn continues to attempt to beat Stephen King as the king of horror with his article entitled “Happy New Year?” Ring out the new, ring in the old. No, hang on, that […]
December 29, 2011 – 8:05 am
The current US Attorney General is probably the last person who should be discussing illegal guns, er, undocumented boom sticks, but, then, Fast and Furious seemed to be more about creating a situation to implement more gun controls on legal owners (Politico) The number of officers killed in the line of duty jumped 13 percent […]