Category Archives: Current Affairs

Asking The Rich To Pay For ObamaCare? Asking?

Apparently, NY Times writer David M. Herszenhorn just heard of this interesting proposition: taxing “the rich” to pay for health care. Among everything else they are supposed to pay for, of course. Maybe David just graduated from college, and was too busy partying to have heard of this, but, regardless, his first paragraph is a […]

Mother Jones Loses Mind Over Palin And Parental Consent

I’ve said many, many times that I tend to avoid the abortion debate, but, there are two things that get me riled up: later term abortions and parental notification/consent. In this case, we are discussing the magazine Mother Jones, a far, far left progressive site, and a combination of typical Palin Derangement Syndrome with hatred […]

AGW Today: Tracking The Richest And Jobs Killer

Despite the fact that the climate temperature has decreased by .74F since Gore release An Inconvenient Truth even though CO2 atmospheric concentrations continue  to rise, the True Believers think they have hit upon another fantastic scheme, controlling the rich To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing […]

Read The HealthCare Bill Before Voting!

One would think that a responsible elected official would read the legislation before voting for it, alas After Democratic promises to run the most open and transparent Congress in history, Republicans say they are stunned by the number of closed-off debates over legislation, including spending bills, and the lack of time to actually see, let […]

Why Good People Do Not Get Into National Politics

Will Rogers once said “We elect people to office that we wouldn’t invite over for dinner.” And H.L. Mencken put forth that “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” For the most part, people in national politics, and not just the politicians, but the handlers, the media, the policy wonks, etc, are […]

Obama Goes All Cricketty On North Korean Missile Launches

One thing we conservatives have always been is honest. We’ve said time and time again that we will go after politicians, our own and the Democrats, on policy. We went after Bush on some issues, such as Dubai Ports, illegal immigration, out of control spending, and Harriet Myers, among others. And, unlike the Left, we […]

Obama Stays With Bush Cybersecurity Plan, Left Quiets Out

Flashback a few years, and there would be howling outrage from those on the Left, screams that Boooooosh!!!! is shredding the Constitution, that he is spying on Americans, well, it would look something like this No one could scream like Sam Kinison. Surprisingly, none on the left are doing it when we flash forward to […]

All Of A Sudden, The Left “Loves” Christianity

Get a load of this claptrap Randy Brinson, a conservative political consultant in Alabama, has been fielding anxious calls for weeks from business interests across the South. Their concern is massive ad blitz on Christian and country-music stations across 10 states. The ads, funded by a left-leaning coalition, urge support for congressional legislation to curb […]

What Say To A $200 Rise In Your Power Bill?

Just remember what Obama said: Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. And, that is exactly what someone in the know thinks will happen Imagine your power bill going up by $200 a month. Progress Energy spokesman Mike Hughes said Thursday that it’s a possibility under President Barack […]

Nothing Shocking About This Coup

Over at the Miami Herald, an opinion piece on what happened in Honduras that Obama, Hillary, the United Nations, and the Organization of American States should read before making pronouncements The greatest tourist attraction in Central America has always been politics. Diplomats stop by every few years, take a couple of snapshots of what’s going […]

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