August 4, 2010 – 7:41 am
How popular is the health insurance mandate in Missouri? This popular Voters in Missouri overwhelmingly opposed requiring people to buy health insurance, in a largely symbolic slap at the Obama administration’s health overhaul. The referendum was the first chance for voters to express a view on the overhaul, although turnout in the state was low […]
July 31, 2010 – 10:31 am
I’m sure the Liberals approve Summer school for some Canadian girls means Pole 101. The class is being offered by B.C.’s Tantra Fitness, one of a small but growing number of pole-dancing studios quietly extending their services to underage girls. The Canadian company, which operates in Vancouver and Langley, has taught students age nine and […]
July 30, 2010 – 6:17 pm
Let’s see if one is credibly charged with …improper corporate-financed travel to the Caribbean; failing to report a half-million dollars in assets on a financial disclosure form; failing to pay taxes on income of $75,000 from a villa in the Dominican Republic; using his congressional letterhead to solicit donations for a school named for him; […]
July 28, 2010 – 11:48 am
Via Jammie Wearing Fool, comes this story of spying, hotness, smuggling, but, mostly hotness Looks like the Cold War is really heating up. A young Russian beautician faces federal felony charges in Texas for allegedly trying to smuggle night vision scopes to Moscow — just weeks after the feds broke up a massive Russian spy […]
July 27, 2010 – 9:30 am
Yes, just two days away from Arizona implementing its “controversial” illegal immigration law. There is some good news, as reported by Reuters on Sunday, though they put a wildly humorous liberal spin on it: Migrants sell up and flee Arizona ahead of crackdown A few paces up the street, her undocumented Mexican neighbour Wendi Villasenor […]
July 25, 2010 – 2:18 pm
Apparently, it’s Raaacist Weekend at the Times. So far, we have, among others, Race: Still Too Hot to Touch (Money paragraph: In many ways, Ms. Sherrod’s ordeal followed a depressingly familiar pattern in American life, in which anyone who even tries to talk about race risks public outrage and humiliation. They should substitute Conservative for […]
July 24, 2010 – 9:05 am
Obama actually had the correct posture early on in his presidency regarding North Korea, which was to ignore the provocations and histrionics of the country and Kim Jong Il. However, he learned that being president is hawd! work, especially between vacations and golf, and his policy started to be all over the place, to the […]
July 23, 2010 – 7:40 am
At least for this year Senate Democrats pulled the plug on climate legislation Thursday, pushing the issue off into an uncertain future ahead of midterm elections where President Barack Obama’s party is girding for a drubbing. Rather than a long-awaited measure capping greenhouse gases — or even a more limited bill directed only at electric […]
July 21, 2010 – 8:18 am
Once again, a media outlet builds a cute little strawman argument regarding the illegal immigration debate. They know they do not have a leg to stand on, and it would not be particularly popular, if they tried their real argument, namely, that they are in favor of saying “screw the law, we want new voters.” […]
July 20, 2010 – 9:11 am
So, one of the big stories from Monday was the racist remarks by USDA official Shirley Sherrod to the NAACP, highlighted by Big Government. And now A black USDA official in Georgia has resigned after publicly admitting she didn’t help a white man trying to save his farm to the “full force” of her power […]
