Category Archives: Current Affairs

NY Times Sued For Content Theft

Starting your day off with a bit of humor. This story is about a week old, but, still relevant GateHouse Media Inc. sued the Boston Globe’s parent company, claiming its new practice of grabbing headlines from GateHouse Web sites constitutes copyright infringement. In a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston, GateHouse asks […]

Those Wacky Muslims Show Liberal Style Tolerance In Nazareth

While even the worlds most famous athiest, Richard Dawkins, does a bit of Christmas celebration, some Muslims have to take a dip into Liberal World As Nazareth’s Christians prepare to celebrate Christmas, they are playing down the appearance of a confrontational Islamic banner that challenges a elemental Christian belief. Journalists visiting the city saw two […]

Retailers Taking The Christmas Out Of Christmas

Anyone surprised? And with the holiday that dare not speak its name almost upon us, nowhere is that phenomenon more noticeable, or more indefensible, than in the advertising sales circulars of the national retail chains that come by the dozen in newspapers, especially on Sundays. A review of those sales brochures from the day after […]

Global Warming Could End White Christmas’

Um, OK, sure, whatever you say The odds of a “white Christmas” in temperate parts of the northern hemisphere have diminished in the last century due to climate change and will likely decline further by 2100, climate and meteorology experts said. Did you ever notice (I’m typing in Jerry Seinfeld) that Climahysterics love to throw […]

ACLU Whining About Gov’t Charging Jihadi Involved In USS Cole Bombing

I ended up at ye olde ACLU’s webpage after reading this post at Hot Air regarding an “annoyance law” in Michigan, to see if ye olde ACLU would decry the law. Instead, I found GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba – In one of its final moves at the Guantánamo military commissions, the Bush administration referred charges in […]

Jerry Brown Says “Thwart The Will Of Californians”

So, the Democrat mantra is “count every vote! Direct Democracy!” But, doesn’t mean they actually will implement the will of the voters California Attorney General Jerry Brown changed course on the state’s new same-sex marriage ban Friday and urged the state Supreme Court to void Proposition 8. In a dramatic reversal, Brown filed a legal […]

Christmas Gift For Iraq Veteran

A special Christmas LA MARQUE (Texas) — David Trejo, 1, and his sister, Trinity, 3, got to open some of their Christmas gifts early. So did their parents, only they didn’t open gifts of a firetruck or a stuffed dog. Rather, they were given keys to a new house. Former U.S. Army Spc. Sergio Trejo […]

US Postal Service: Suck It, Santa Helpers!

OK, we had the good Christmas story earlier, now comes this @*&@Φ story For decades of Christmases, it had been a gratifying way to function as a substitute Santa Claus. Every holiday season, thousands of New Yorkers trooped to Manhattan’s main post office and sifted through heaps of dream-encased letters that children had scribbled to […]

Barry Picking AGW Climahysterics For Key Positions

Get ready to welcome crazy regulations and higher energy prices, folks: Advocates for Action on Global Warming Chosen as Obama’s Top Science Advisers President-elect Barack Obama has selected two of the nation’s most prominent scientific advocates for a vigorous response to climate change to serve in his administration’s top ranks, according to sources, sending the […]

Surrender Monkey Friday: Know What Caused Housing Issues? Lower Taxes

So much surrender to choose from. Bailout-palooza. Dems in a froth over a change in Barry’s Iraq 16 month pullout plan. Dems in a froth over Barry wanting to shift troops to Afghanistan. Dems in a froth over Barry’s political appointments. And so much more. Yet, here we have a quiet surrender, from the New […]

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