Category Archives: Current Affairs

Proposition 202 In Arizona Fails

On the plus side, relaxing rules on illegal immigration failed in Arizona PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — By rejecting Proposition 202, Arizonans sent a message that they will not be fooled by special interests into scrapping the state’s best instrument to fight illegal immigration. Arizona ballot initiative Prop 202 has been defeated, thus leaving in place the state’s […]

A Taxation Primer

Taxation has been coming up quite a bit this election season, as is, quite frankly, the norm. Now, in light of Obama’s taxation pledges to raise it on $250K and up (maybe, depends which speech we are listening to,) I wonder how that will work out, and, quite frankly, tax policy fascinates me, and has […]

War On Christmas Starts Early In Jolly Old England

Our liberal friends claim there is no war on Christmas. Uh huh. Anyhow, I find it interesting that the issue brings together Christians, Jews, and Muslims against the forces of secular progressivism Oxford city council confirmed the events in the city would be renamed ‘Winter Light Festival’ to make them more inclusive, provoking outrage among […]

ACORN’s Latest Hits: Another Whistleblower And More Obama Links

So, what is happening in the world of ACORN? ACORN knew of fraudulent voter registration forms, ex-employee of Project Vote says A former employee of an affiliate of ACORN testified Wednesday that the community group now in the national spotlight knew that most new voter registration forms it had gathered were fraudulent. “Forty percent was […]

Thomas Friedman: Oil Prices Killed The Soviet Union

File this one under delusion liberal/progressives dopes. Friedman is arguing that, if Obama wins, he will be able to negotiate with Iran with a bat, because of the low price of oil, leading to After all, it was the collapse of global oil prices in the early 1990s that brought down the Soviet Union. And […]

We?

Blogs For Victory asks “What’s this “we” stuff, Obama?” Obama on what “we” will need to do: …make no mistake: the change we need won’t come easy or without cost. We will all need to tighten our belts, we will all need to sacrifice and we will all need to pull our weight because now […]

Washington Post Takes On Barry’s Credit Card Donation Issues

Woah! How did this end up not only in one of the main U.S. papers, but, on page A2? Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations. Rather innocuous headline, but, the story basically says Obama is playing games which, as has been said across the right-o-sphere many, many times, are allowing him to rake in millions and millions […]

Plumber Joe’s Continuing Political Education

The media were incredibly interested in the BIG, MASSIVE story on Palin’s clothes. Will any of them pick up this story from the Columbas Dispatch? Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber  “State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for […]

RNC Has An ACORN Fraud Witness

From an RNC press release A former Washington-based ACORN employee will testify next week that the community-organizing group did “minimal to non-existent” checking to make sure voter registrations were authentic despite claims otherwise, the state Republican Party revealed in Commonwealth Court on Thursday. Anita Moncrief worked with Project Vote and ACORN in Washington from 2005 […]

Illegals Having A Tough Time Buying Homes

Just to start your day off on the wrong side of the temper. And, no, don’t bother emailing me asking for headache remedies. Mortgage Prospects Dim for Illegal Immigrants Jose Luis Hernandez rose from vegetable chopper to sous chef at an exclusive New York restaurant — and saved $100,000 along the way. Recently, the illegal […]

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