Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) has re-introduced in the House HR 450, the Enumerated Powers Act, which would compel lawmakers to cite specific constitutional authority for all bills. This is not the first time he has introduced this bill. See here, here, and here for other discussion on it. It has no chance of passing through the Democrat dominated Congress, or even getting out of Democrat-controlled | Read More »
In response to a goofy comment imagining apocalypse from free market solutions to last fall’s economic SNAFU, I imagined what I would have done if I were Emperor of Ice Cream for a day last September. Introducing the Beaglescout Economic Plan to Permanently Restore American Greatness™ (until the socialists ruin it again with their caveman economics). THE PLAN No bailouts, no stimulus, no TARP. The | Read More »
Promoted by Jeff Pass it around! WHAT TAX DAY TEA PARTY – GULFPORT, MS WHERE Gulfport Sportsplex (Directions) 17200 16th St Gulfport, MS 39503 WHEN April 15, 2009 a little bit before 6PM Central Time. If they show up, TV Cameras from WLOX-TV will be there at 6PM so do not be late. Bring a smile, a handshake, a positive attitude and a chair. Don’t | Read More »
British Labour Party officials, working at party headquarters, on the clock, on and around January 13 this year, invented and chortled over the most vile and indefensible slurs, smears, and lies they could think of to launch against Conservative Party politicians in the weeks leading up to the elections this fall. They even sent their smears and plans around in email, and praised themselves on | Read More »
Rasmussen blares the reason why the Tea Party movement is important on its poll results. Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism Yes, that’s partly spin and partly obfuscation, but it’s also partly truthful (and lefty ignoramuses at HuffPo love it because it confirms their elitist, socialist illusions). I plan to de-spin it later, but for now let it stand. Folks, there’s good news. If | Read More »
This interruption to your regular programming is a Change Announcement from the Department of Truth. Please repeat the slogans of the reality based community after me. We Will Always Have Hope and Change. Happiness is Mandatory. Yes We Can. The Department of Truth would like to take this opportunity to kindly inform all members of the reality based community that down is a prohibited word. | Read More »
Erick Erickson wonders what will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. What will it take for Americans to rise up in righteous indignation at the rampant abuses of government? First, when codeine works perfectly to control coughs and colds, classify it as a dangerous drug on the same level as heroin because some people abuse it. When sudafed falls out of patent and | Read More »
Let’s play a guessing game. Last week I watched an interview on TV. The interviewer, working in a union shop, interviewed a pro-union leader, whose national operation is a non-union shop. The interviewer works for a for-profit company that pays lots of taxes. The interviewee works for a non-profit organization that doesn’t pay taxes. The interviewer gives 20% of his pre-tax income to charity. The | Read More »
From 2 Chronicles 10 we have the story of Rehoboam the son of Solomon. Now Solomon was a king so wise his name became a synonym for a wise king. But the wisdom he exemplified was not a godly wisdom, or one that inspired the productivity and ambition of his people, but more of an academic, philosophical, or even sorcerer’s wisdom. And so the wise | Read More »
Though the Venezuelan government expelled a Spanish diplomat for saying so, when Luis Herrero criticised the kaiser of Caracas and the extended polls on the question of removing term limits for Chavez and his stooges in the government. Herrero called Hugo Chavez a dictator, which is a little bit like calling a dandy a popinjay, and that was verboten in the “glorious” socialist workers’ “paradise” | Read More »
The founder of MicroSoft loosed a jar full of mosquitos in a talk at the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference (TED) today while talking about the death toll due to malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. Of course he thinks it’s a good idea to spend $10 per mosquito net in order to give people an imperfect barrier against mosquitos, instead of spending a few cents per | Read More »
Starting at 6 in the morning, James Carville grunts out “whazgoanawn” to Rahm Emanuel and George Stephanopoulos. A little later, Paul Begala joins the conversation. Through the morning, the four pals commence to hatching the conventional wisdom for the day. They decide on the spin they will encourage in the media, so as to best help out the new President. The Messiah, President Government, Lord | Read More »
Bill Ayers, Obama buddy and neighbor, likely Obama ghostwriter, co-founder of and bomb-maker for the terrorist Weatherman/Weathermen/Weather Underground and author of the charming (not!) revolutionary communist manifesto Prairie Fire, is writing again. He’s at Huffington Post with the rest of the high Q score reprobates, natcherly. In his first blog at HuffPo, Ayers talks about Obama and education reform. Most of the education reform portion | Read More »
President Obama made campaign promises that he’d severely restrict lobbying. Yesterday, on Wednesday, he signed an anti-lobbying ethics order to prevent executive branch appointees who leave from coming back to lobby any agency in the executive branch, and to prevent lobbyists to executive branch agencies from working for the administration for at least two years. Democracy 21 describes the rules for lobbyists joining the Obama | Read More »
January 19 – Guantanamo Bay Cuba by Peter Crouch & David Nugent (JKN) Top officials in the office of the President Elect have revealed that as soon as Barack Obama is sworn in as President of the US, Guantanamo Bay Detention Center will be closed and renovations will begin to transform the detention facility for notorious terrorist war criminals into a top echelon, exclusive resort | Read More »
The St. Petersburg Times put together a list of 510 campaign promises Obama made and promises to keep track of how he does with the list. As the paper reports, this list has more promises in it than the first term campaign promises from Clinton in 1992 and Bush in 2000 combined together. Bill Clinton made 204. George W. Bush made 177. Reverse Global Warming | Read More »
Tradition does not come from nothing. It distills the experience and wisdom of generation upon generation of human lives. The first man and woman lived their life in a natural way. They first behaved in instinctive ways and modified their behavior based on the results of their actions until they assembled a coherent way of living. Their children imitated their way of living, as children | Read More »
The indispensable Bill Roggio reports on the State of Jihad for 2008. Iraq smells like roses. The counterinsurgency doctrine written by Petraeus and implemented by Odierno succeeded in turning around a situation that seemed hopeless two years ago. Green Zone control was turned over to Iraq this week. Al Qaeda has been crushed. Muqtada al Sadr is still going to Ayatollah school in Iran, while | Read More »
The Smoking Gun has the letter from Norman Hsu’s lawyer, and Drudge announces it. Before becoming a key fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, Hsu co-hosted a 2005 California fundraiser for Obama’s political action committee and introduced the Illinois Democrat to Marc Gorenberg, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who later joined the Obama campaign’s national finance committee. Prosecutors allege that Hsu directed his investors to | Read More »
In 1979, J. Morgan Cunningham wrote a Signet paperback original titled Comfort Station. On the cover was a blurb from Donald E. Westlake, “I wish I had written this book!” The joke is that Westlake did write it under one of his many pseudonyms. Westlake left his manual typewriter for the last time on New Year’s Eve, 2008, at the age of 75. He died | Read More »
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