By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 24th at 12:17 AM  | 

[image via TobyToons] Let’s start here: Three airports in the district of infamous fence-sitting and ultimately kowtowing Democrat Bart Stupak were awarded $726,409 in grants by the Obama Administration just two days before a vote on Obama and Pelosi’s government takeover of healthcare. Separate, and independent, source here. The math? Oh…well, Stupak got $726,409 big ones for his never-used airports in exchange for allowing Obama | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 23rd at 12:36 PM  | 

I waited, like a lot of folks, for the vote to come and go and allow the passage of time to ease my rage and angst along with the subsiding blood pressure spike. It was only a couple days ago, after all, that I wrote a piece admitting that I had already come to terms with the idea of health care reform becoming law. That | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 19th at 02:17 PM  | 

[image courtesy the NYT] The health care bill isn’t a foregone conclusion just yet, but I’ve come to terms with the likelihood of its passage. Greater minds than mine know whether any of it can be undone at some point in the future, but what remains in the aftermath of the debate is a newly educated populace. We owe Mr. Obama a debt of gratitude | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 18th at 02:06 AM  | 

All one need do is Google this man’s name and they would see for themselves just how terrible Erickson is…how dangerous he is to America…and just how much his very existence spells DOOM ™ for life as we know it. Quick-hide your women, shield your progeny…Erickson means to eat their livers and swallow their souls. So one would think, at least, were one so inclined | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 17th at 01:07 PM  | 

Ordinarily I might have just passed on to the next headline, shaking my head in amazement at today’s edition of elitist patronization from this NYT drivel, but I was frozen in place when I got to the part about originalists being racists and bible-toting torture-loving Confederacy-worshipping rubes. Once the author bridged this description of “Originalism” to the “Tea Party” movement, the conclusion was easily enough | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 15th at 09:39 AM  | 

So says the banner image at a new website called Liberty Central, at least. This new site is newsworthy, in part because of who its founder is…and because (though officially non-partisan in nature) it intends to support and encourage citizen activism. Founder Virginia Thomas (yes…Mrs. Clarence Thomas technically), is quoted in the LA Times thusly: I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 11th at 12:45 PM  | 

I’m genuinely conflicted about this news – “Education Panel Unveils Core K-12 Standards”: Long-standing fears that millions of U.S. students from elementary to high schools aren’t being adequately prepared for college or the workforce and that state standards vary too greatly have spurred a movement for a national core educational curriculum and the release Wednesday of draft standards for English language arts and math. The | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 9th at 02:44 PM  | 

It all started here this morning: The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters. I had to read that 3 times before it sank in…and then I did a little research. Guess what old Barack (I’ve never had a fishing rod in | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 5th at 01:03 PM  | 

CNN is reporting that the White House is considering a military trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. WOW! What an inspiration! Why didn’t we think of this before? [face in palm]: White House advisers are considering recommending alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be tried in a military court instead of a civilian one in New York City, a senior administration official told CNN on Friday. | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 4th at 07:41 PM  | 

It’s not always easy for me to tip my hat to the left. They, by and large, have acted as if they were so wrapped up in their status as “The Majority” that they had forgotten what their jobs were; represent their Constituents on issues that matter to them…in Washington DC. Most have lost their way since taking over, but there are signs that a | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 4th at 12:07 PM  | 

A full 73% of Americans polled a week ago have problems, to varying degrees, with the “we will pass healthcare at all costs” fool’s errand being run out of Washington these days. Obviously, our Political heroes don’t give a flip. Consider this your “are they out of their freaking minds?” lunch break open thread…

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  March 2nd at 05:53 PM  | 

“[F]or the first time since the Great Depression, Americans took more aid from the government than they paid in taxes” so sayeth the Washington Times: The so-called “Great Recession” has left Americans depending on the government dole like never before. Without record levels of welfare, unemployment and other government benefits as well as tax cuts last year, the income of U.S. households would have plunged | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 09:30 AM  | 

Celebrating the GOP aisle-jumpers that helped prop up Harry Reid’s stature in the Senate, the Washington Post announces that Reid’s jobs bill has advanced past the filibuster stage: Five Republicans, including new Sen. Scott P. Brown (Mass.), joined 57 Democrats in voting to break a filibuster of the jobs bill, after a suspenseful buildup in which members of both parties wondered whether Senate Majority Leader | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 02:20 PM  | 

Every time I think I’ve heard it all, I’m reminded how terribly naive I am by assuming such a preposterous notion: In the course of unveiling Obama’s new health reform proposal on a conference call with reporters this morning, White House advisers made it clearer than ever before: If the GOP filibusters health reform, Dems will move forward on their own and pass it via | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 01:35 PM  | 

It’s really that simple after all, and it pervades every aspect of the Obama worldview. Just ask Toyota . I’m a big movie buff, and a huge Fight Club fan, and this whole Toyota flap brings Tyler Durden gurgling back up in my memory like so much boiling fat and lye. Right now, Toyota must be thinking “I am Jack’s cold sweat”, and Obama-“I am | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 21st at 01:00 PM  | 

CAIR wants to make sure you know that Joe Stack’s suicide mission into the IRS building in Austin Texas is different in no way than any Muslim’s flight into martyrdom-it’s nothing more than a political statement, his and theirs- and is only noteworthy because of the violent nature with which it was expressed. Translation? Joe Stack is a terrorist…just like the Jihadists that CAIR seeks | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 20th at 10:06 AM  | 

[image via Vanity Fair fluff piece] On Friday 19 February, it was reported that President Obama was planning to: publish his healthcare plan as early as Sunday or Monday, combining features of the two Democratic bills passed by the Senate and House of Representatives, congressional aides and healthcare advocates said on Friday. Yet the very same day we’re told he wants to hear from Republicans | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 18th at 10:29 AM  | 

Have at it…

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 18th at 09:40 AM  | 

[note: I'm temporarily (for now) staying in New Hampshire and decided to nose around in her politics. This was my first issue. A long piece follows. If you're not interested in the 1200 words of minutiae on the legislative background you can stop at the bolded "below the fold" comment] New Hampshire lawmakers have voted down an attempt to repeal the law(s) granting same sex | Read More »

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  February 17th at 09:46 AM  | 

The Mount Vernon Statement has been released. I suggest that any among you who consider yourselves “Conservatives” should go there and read it. Sign it if you agree. If you are unfamiliar with the project, here is their “About” intro: In light of the challenges facing the country and the need for clarity in the age of Obama, The Mount Vernon Statement, modeled on the | Read More »