Category Archives: Current Affairs

Here Come The Tax Hikes

Soak the rich and trickle it down to the middle class and poor. Jake Tapper digs in to the Porkulus bill, and gives us these wonderful new taxes 1) On people making more than $250,000. $338 billion – Bush tax cuts expire $179 billlion – eliminate itemized deduction $118 billion – capital gains tax hike […]

Cedar Rapids Tea Party, Minus That Polluting Tea

Call tea a pollutant down South, that would be a butt woopin’ A Cedar Rapids group will do a symbolic tea dumping into the Cedar River on Saturday because state officials won’t let them use the real thing. An anti-tax group wanted to pitch in real tea like the Bostonian revolutionaries opposed to England’s tea […]

Oh, Good. US To Give $900 Million To The Folks Who Start The Wars

And all this follow on the heels of the Obama admin. throwing Israel under the bus at the Durban II “anti-racism” conference The United States plans to pledge more than $900 million to help rebuild Gaza after Israel’s invasion and strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, a U.S. official said on Monday. The money will be […]

Apparently, It Is Dumb To Ask For Physical Proof Regarding Obama

After eight years of the Left accusing Bush of everything that they don’t blame on anthropogenic global warming, and sometimes they blame both, with little to no proof, lefties, still riding high on hopeNchange, and probably the fumes from their black velvet Obama paintings, just do not like it when anyone asks for simple proof […]

Nancy and Barry’s Promises In The Dark

It’s been a short walk from Nancy Pelosi’s claim of the most ethical and honest Congress ever, as well as Obama’s promise to run a transparent government, to this President Barack Obama has proclaimed his administration will be more open than the previous administration. However, his counterparts in the House and the Senate aren’t following suit. […]

Obama’s Big Day: Pulling Back On Afghanistan And Increasing Power

Hmmm, how many times during the HopeyChangey campaign (which is still going strong at barackobama.com) did we hear something similar to this? As President, I would deploy at least two additional brigades to Afghanistan to re-enforce our counter-terrorism operations and support NATO’s efforts against the Taliban. Now we get PRESIDENT Barack Obama has demanded that […]

Was Obama Reaching Out To Al Qaeda Pre-Election?

A big story in the Washington Times today, in which Powerline and Jammie Wearing Fool catch something disturbing According to GeostrategyDirect.com, a newsletter published by The Washington Times’ ace national security reporter Bill Gertz, “Diplomatic sources said Barack Obama has engaged several Arab intermediaries to relay messages to and from al Qaeda in the months […]

Get Ready For The National AGW Teach-In!

No. Seriously. Really. I’m not kidding (though I wish I was) We stand at a unique moment in human history. The window for action on global warming is measured in months, not years. Decisions that we make—or fail to make—in 2009 will have profound impacts not only for our children and grandchildren, but for every […]

How’s It Going Down At The Border?

Well, the answer to that is, there are more problems than illegals: Border Proves No Obstacle for Mexican Cartels Drug smugglers parked a car transport trailer against the Mexican side of the border one day in December, dropped a ramp over the security fence, and drove two pickup trucks filled with marijuana onto Arizona soil. […]

AGW Today: What’s The Punch Line?

From the world of AGW, Even left now laughing at global warming So-called “global warming” has shrunk from problem to punch line. And now, Leftists are laughing, too. It’s hard not to chuckle at the idea of Earth boiling in a carbon cauldron when the news won’t cooperate: Nearly four inches of snow blanketed the […]

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