Category Archives: Current Affairs

Cool! Now There Is A Balloon Boy Game

It’s pretty darn stupid, but, hey you get to puke out of the balloon! Of course, Balloon Boys parents are playing their own game, one which they will lose.

Uh Oh. Another Big Media Outlet Wonders About AGW And Consensus

Yet another domino has fallen. On Wednesday, the U.K. Mail Online, part of the Daily Mail, was in full wondering mode. After a recitation of some seriously cold weather in the US and Austria, in an article they entitle Whatever happened to global warming? How freezing temperatures are starting to shatter climate change theory, they write […]

World Stunned As Obama Wins Peace Prize

Not to steal any thunder from the earlier posts by John and Jay (this is being cross-posted to my site, Stop The ACLU, and Right Wing News), but, I just couldn’t let this article go to waste That’s the screenshot from the front page of the UK Times Online Barack Obama today sensationally won the […]

Barry Cuts Off Aid To Iran Human Rights Watchdog

Change! Hope! Well, lot’s of change, but, none of it is actually hopeful. Except for Ahmadinejad and the Mad Mullahs of Iran For the past five years, researchers in a modest office overlooking the New Haven green have carefully documented cases of assassination and torture of democracy activists in Iran. With more than $3 million […]

The CIA Should Be Combating Terrorists, Not Spying On Sea Lions

I’ve mentioned before that the CIA has opened a Center On Climate Change and National Security. Surprisingly, some people have a problem with this There’s been a lot said lately about the national-security implications of climate change, in the form of water shortages, mass migration, and unstable governments. But in the view of at least […]

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Demonizing Private Insurance Companies

Over the past few months, we have heard and read about Democrat leaders doing their typical “hey, let’s insult, demean, damage, and demonize yet another private entity” in regards to the health insurance industry. They tell us that the private health insurance companies should be more like the selfless government run Medicare. Yeah, about that […]

The Stimulus Is A Failure: Guess Whose Fault It Is?

We said “Don’t pass the Generational Theft Act. It is laden with pork, most of it doesn’t actually kick in until, surprisingly, an election year, and it is basically a decades long wish list of Democrat wants, among others. We can’t back something that is going to mortgage the future of America’s children and grandchildren.” […]

Oops! BoA Suspends All Committments To ACORN

Poor ACORN, they just can’t catch a break Already facing the loss of federal government funding, the community-organizing group Acorn also has run afoul of one of its big corporate partners, Bank of America Corp. In response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, a spokesman for the banking company said it has “suspended current […]

Good Thing Money Was Allocated To Fight Fires Out West, Right?

Good thing Sheriff Joe is keep an eye on the happenings in Tombstone Nearly $3 million in stimulus money targeted for fighting wildfires is being spent to restore public parks and watersheds in the nation’s capital, which has no national forests. The Forest Service has directed that $2.8 million in “Wildland Fire Management” funds, approved […]

Barack To Keep Bush Detention Policy. Wait, What?

Let’s see. After non-stop whining from Barack on the campaign trail, which, of course, he is still on despite winning last November, about the Bush/Rove/Cheney jihadi detention policies, what has Barry done? If you guessed “voted present,” give yourself a late afternoon shot of Tequila The Obama administration has decided not to seek new legislation […]

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