Category Archives: Politics

Wasn’t Obama Against Outside PAC’s Influence?

He said he was against lobbyists, and against PACs. Remember his ad, where he said “I’m Barack Obama, and I don’t take money from oil companies or lobbyists, and I won’t let them block change any more”? And this In a statement today, Obama spokesman Bill Burton, reiterated that Obama doesn’t take PAC money or […]

McCain Camp Goes For Jugular

A press release from Camp McCain via The Corner Please see comment from me on Barack Obama’s new ad supposedly running in Georgia: Barack Obama’s ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail. “However, if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable […]

Stephanie Tubbs Jones Has Passed Away

I just received a text message alert that Rep. Stephaine Tubbs Jones has passed away at the age of 58, after being on life support. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has the story. My condolences to her family and friends. Quick update: Now CNN, where the texts come from, is retracting that she has passed on.

Camp McCain: The Left Loves Those Smears They Throw

It’s good to see the McCain campaign fighting against the biased media and against the most radical elements of the Left (which is, of course, the Democrat base nowadays), something we on the Right begged Dubya to do. Michael Goldfarb at John McCain 2008: Smears The Left Can Fight For In the least credible and […]

Fairness Doctrine To Extend To The Internet?

Such is reported by the Business and Media Institute There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and “government dictating content […]

Pelosi Surrendering On Drilling?

That is what The Hill is reporting as a possibility House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday night dropped her staunch opposition to a vote on offshore oil drilling in the House. Republicans, reacting to high gas prices, have demanded a vote on additional oil exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf, where drilling is currently blocked […]

Barry: Sure, We Can Have Limited Offshore Drilling. Peons

Change you find blowing in the breeze (cBS News) In a sudden and major shift, Democrat Barack Obama said he would be willing to support limited additional offshore oil drilling if that would help promote alternative energy sources, a proposal he has repeatedly blasted rival John McCain for supporting. If this was about McCain, the […]

Attacks On Sarah Palin Start, Question The Timing

Now, this couldn’t have anything to do with Palin being a rising start in the GOP, not to mention that many Conservatives would be very pleased if she was picked to be McCain’s VP, could it? When Sarah Palin was elected governor as a Republican outsider in 2006, she didn’t just take on an incumbent […]

Barney To Introduce Marijuana Decriminalization Bill. Update: Now With Reparations

I found this at the DU, which points towards Drug Policy Alliance Network, however, I could not find what looks like a legit press release at that site, but did find it at Frank’s congressional site Wednesday: Press Conference with Rep. Barney Frank to Announce Introduction of First Marijuana Decriminalization Bill in Congress in Decades […]

Will Nance And Harry Ever Allow A Vote On Energy?

Will they ever submit to the will of the People who want to drill, which is a majority?  Washington, Jul 24 – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today criticized Democratic leaders for bringing yet another bill to the House floor that will not produce any new American energy to help lower gas prices. The […]

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