One would think that when a Democratic Senator speaks out about IRS-gate, he’d be covering his own tail. Max Baucus, however, has a newfound reputation for calling a spade a spade, so when he says there’s more and possibly worse revelations about the IRS coming, I tend to sit up and listen. Paul Bedard writes in the Washington Times: Senior Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, who | Read More »
Wow, ya think he might have had a bit of a problem following his own rules? CBSNews.com has the story: An Air Force officer was arrested for sexual assault. The remarkable thing is the accused man was the chief of the Air Force sexual assault prevention unit. The mug shot of Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski shows signs of struggle on his face. The police report | Read More »
…and, a lot of people are going to be disappointed… they’re not Arabs, though they’re likely Muslim, and likely not radical conservatives either. WCVB 5 in Boston (among others) reports: One suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed early Friday morning, while his brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, was being sought following the killing of an MIT Police officer and an | Read More »
Sometimes, you just need a hug from someone who you know loves you unconditionally… and is warm and fuzzy to boot! MSN reports: The Lutheran Church Charities’ K-9 Parish Comfort Dogs will be heading to Boston soon as well. The golden retrievers were brought to Newtown, Conn., to provide comfort to people of the community after the shootings. “Dogs are nonjudgmental. They are loving. They | Read More »
Well, I’ve finally found the text of the contentious Toomey-Manchin (or is it Manchin-Toomey?) Amendment. And, courtesy of the Library of Congress, here it is. Unfortunately, I am not a lawyer and may not have time today to reference this amendment with the bill (S. 649) as a whole, but I am hoping someone else out there is and can. As of this writing, there’s | Read More »
Remember these sixteen names when they run for office again. The sixteen Republicans who voted to proceed were Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), Susan Collins (Maine). Bob Corker (Tenn.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Dean Heller (Nev.), John Hoeven (N.D.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), John McCain (Ariz.), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and | Read More »
Checking the Fox News app on my Kindle, I see this shocking story of over a dozen people injured in an attack at a Texas college. Taking a page from the book of our New Leftist Overlords, I hereby issue the following demands so that our college students can be safe: Mandatory background checks before a knife can be purchased. Mandatory seven-day waiting period before | Read More »
Now this is something I never expected when I heard that former UK Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher had passed at the age of 87.
He may have been on the opposite side of the aisle, but he also served honorably in our Armed Forces, and for that, I salute him and mourn his passing. The Hill reports: Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the most senior member of the upper chamber, died Monday at the age of 88. According to his office, the senator’s final word was “Aloha.” Inouye was hospitalized | Read More »
This morning on Ricochet.com, member “~Paules” posted “An Open Letter To Liberals.” (Currently behind the Ricochet paywall.) With his kind permission, I am reposting it here. The statements are his, but I agree with 99.999% of it. Congratulations! You have voted your man another four years in the White House. If you want to poke your chest and crow “we won,” it won’t bother me | Read More »
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