Category Archives: Current Affairs

Why, Yes, Atheists Have An Issue With The World Trade Center Cross

And, because it annoys them, they have to attempt to ruin it for everyone else (just to be clear, not all atheists should be blamed, just the group American Atheists) An atheist group has filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent a cross made out of World Trade Center steel beams from going on display at […]

TSA Abuses Cancer Survivor For Second Time

And, they apparently knew who they were patting down Thomas Sawyer, a 62-year-old bladder cancer survivor who made headlines last November after a pat-down left him covered in his own urine, has filed a new complaint with the Transportation Security Administration. Sawyer, who wears a urostomy bag that collects his urine through an opening in his abdomen, […]

NY Times Blames The Deficit On……..

….if the first thought that came to mind was “enormous and reckless spending by Obama and the Democrats,” well, sorry, nope, uh uh, you have to go back to the B and T words With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth […]

Norway Killer Was Obviously A “Right Wing Extremist”

Anyone think the AP would term the guy an Islamic extremist or left wing extremist if he was? The 32-year-old suspected of massacring at least 80 young people at a summer camp and setting off a bomb in downtown Oslo that killed at least seven is a mystery to investigators: a right-winger with anti-Muslim views […]

NY Times: Hey, Obama Should Violate The Constitution And Raise The Debt Ceiling

Well, as to the first part, op-ed contributors Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule state that it would be perfectly Constitutional, and offer an extremely dubious rationale PRESIDENT OBAMA should announce that he will raise the debt ceiling unilaterally if he cannot reach a deal with Congress. Constitutionally, he would be on solid ground. Politically, […]

Are You Up For Some Spenditol?

Been seeing this one on Fox News a few times today, both as a commercial and as a news blurb, from the Concerned Women for America, which both Ed Morrissey and Jim Geraghty love, as do I. Of course, if there is some grand deal that the Republicans sign on to that raises taxes and […]

Gang Of Six Raw Offer: As Bad As You Thought It Would Be

Shocked? When both National Review and The Politico hate it……… Starting with National Review But now, along comes the Gang of Six plan, and some Republicans are apparently intrigued by it. They shouldn’t be. It’s a terrible, terrible plan. It will hand the president a huge strategic victory and deliver nothing that the GOP should […]

Attacks Against Bachmann Are Sexist And May Violate Several Laws

The Boston Herald notices the sexism inherent in the treatment of Bachman and Palin GOP mega-stars U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin — both top Republicans who buck the status quo — have been unfairly mocked and broadsided with loaded, gender-biased questions, prominent women from both parties told the Herald yesterday. “You have two […]

Oh, Noes, GOP Has Not Backup Debt Plan As Issue Turns “Scary”

It’s so terrible There’s a narrative gaining traction in Washington as a debt crisis looms: House Republican hard-liners might soften their stance once they’ve gotten a vote on their Cut, Cap and Balance proposal. But if that’s the case, the conservatives aren’t in on the plan. Well, that’s pretty much it for a story by […]

GOP Shifts To The Hard Right On Debt Talks (?)

So says the Politico in a wonder article that could have been written by the DNC or the uber politicized White Democrat House Turning right with a vengeance, Republicans will bring to the House floor Tuesday a newly revised debt-ceiling bill that is remarkable for its total absence of compromise at this late date, two […]

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