Category Archives: Current Affairs

Gays Push For More Military Rights

Remember when we were told that all GLBT’s wanted was to serve openly? Yeah, looks more like there were some ulterior motives With the official end of the U.S. military’s ban two weeks away, gay-rights activists are pressing the Pentagon for more than just the right to serve openly. (Snip) In addition, the Servicemembers Legal […]

Angry Man Shows Up To Give Tired, Recycled Speech

Did I watch the speech? No. I went to the gym. Did I listen to it on my MP3 player with a radio or read the captions on the TV? No. Like the really boring “Interview with the Vampire” and horrible “Terminator: Salvation”, I felt no need to read or watch Obama’s speech. I’ve seen […]

Obama Featured In Pro-Palestinian State Ad

Kinda funny when those “blue meat” speeches come back and bite you on the posterior, eh, Mr. Obama? President Barack Obama is the unlikely star of a new Palestinian media campaign. Part of a speech Obama gave in 2010 to the United Nations General Assembly is featured in an ad aimed to rally support for […]

Shocker: Green Energy Will Kill Jobs And Income Levels

As we approach the time of Obama’s wishy washy jobs whine, we can surely assume that it will include lots of bloviating for more green jobs. And yet another study shows that the government push for these kills real jobs The UK’s headlong rush into renewable energy –one ignored by the rest of the world […]

Big Mean Ole Conservatives Hit DOJ For Trying To Stop AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Somehow, the DOJ suit against the AT&T/T-Mobile merger deal became about Conservatives The Obama administration is under attack as anti-business and anti-jobs – and it gave its critics more fuel for the fire Wednesday. Obama’s Justice Department announced Wednesday morning that it’s going to court to block AT&T’s efforts to buy T-Mobile. Minutes later, FCC […]

Hurricane Irene Wrapup: Alarmists, Kooks, And Data, Oh My!

In the wake of Hurricane Irene (and in advance and during), the Cult Of Gore really attempted to push their dying religion through Irene. And here we have another, as Warmist Katie Fehrenbacher pushes the same failed doctrine Looks like the global rise in extreme weather events (cough, Irene) hasn’t been enough to make Americans […]

Irene Makes Second Landfall In Little Egg Inlet, NJ

And, yeah, this kind of straight news is important to me, since my parents live just to the north of Little Egg Inlet Hurricane Irene continues to barrel north Sunday leaving millions without power in what President Barack Obama said would be “a long 72 hours” for the East Coast. The storm picked up speed […]

Obama Discusses Hurricane Irene

Obama’s statement on Irene THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. I want to say a few words about Hurricane Irene, urge Americans to take it seriously, and provide an overview of our ongoing federal preparations for what’s likely to be an extremely dangerous and costly storm. I’ve just convened a conference call with senior members of […]

Good News, Eastern NC: You’re Concealed Carry Permits Are Temporarily Invalid

I’d totally forgotten about this one. Fortunately, Confederate Yankee didn’t Thanks to a brain-dead state law foisted upon us by a Democratic state legislature (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.7), every time the governor—in this instance, Democrat Beverly Perdue—declares a state of emergency, it is illegal from that moment onward to carry a concealed weapon until […]

Obama’s BP Slush Fund Only Pays Out $5 Billion So Far

And, you aren’t going to believe where it has gone BP Plc paid more than $5 billion to 204,434 claimants in the past year from a fund created to compensate victims of its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the worst in U.S. waters. The Gulf Coast Claims Facility, which draws on $20 billion set […]

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