From the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. So, we lost 36,000 more jobs in February, but the unemployment rate is unchanged? I suppose that’s better than what they said in January when 20,000 additional jobs had been lost but the unemployment | Read More »
Allahpundit Ed Morrissey: As Andy Levy said on Twitter a little while ago, the most surprising part of the Washington Post scoop isn’t the decision to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed into the military commission system. It’s that the White House didn’t wait until Friday night to leak it to the press… The opening of the WaPo piece Allah links to contains the heart the story | Read More »
The treatment of retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) by the left is nothing if not remarkable. It’s not remarkable for its intellectual honesty, but remarkable for its complete lack of intellect and seriousness. We’re being told that Bunning is holding up extending $10 billion in unemployment benefits for those who have been out of work for some time. The $10 billion the Democrats want us | Read More »
“It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.” – Al Gore, 2/27/10 Promoted from the diaries by Caleb. I noticed that “attacks” line right away too. You know, I hate it, absolutely hate it, when | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by Caleb. Very interesting. The “Boston Tea Party” was one of the catalysts that led to America’s breakaway from Great Britain. How ironic is this: “British Tea Party Movement to launch on Saturday“. Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, who has frequently been on Fox News and talk radio, is encouraging people to go to Brighton for the event. He lays out the | Read More »
UPDATE: It was Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) who introduced the bill, not Rep. Sylvester Reyes (D-TX) as mentioned in the post. Read the rest of Ed Lasky’s piece to see how despicable the “Honorable” Mr. McDermott truly is. We’ll see how far this goes. Per Byron York, Congressional Democrats tried to slip in a manager’s amendment called the “Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Interrogations Prohibition Act | Read More »
We’ve been hearing for awhile from the statists (Obama, Holder, Brennan, and the other miserable cretins in the administration) about how eeeevil and rotten those nasty ol’ military tribunals were. We were told that we needed to show the world how wonderful our criminal justice system was when dealing with terrorists. It was how we could close Gitmo because, as we’ve been told, holding terrorists | Read More »
With phoenix-like resilience, Democratic attempts to resurrect Obamacare have begun again in earnest yesterday as Teh Won unveiled a hybrid of the House and Senate versions that passed last year. We know it has everything to do with control of the people as opposed to the Orwellian spin that Obamacare has to do with health care. Later on yesterday, I saw this on the ABC | Read More »
Yes and No. It’s besides the point; I’m just glad I have a reason to use the picture. And what a reason: (CNN) — Iran may be working on secretly developing a nuclear warhead for a missile, the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday in a draft report.
Like many Democrats, statists, and leftists, our illustrious Constitution expert law professor of a President believes the U.S. Constitution is a “living” document. In theory, this allows the 223-year old Constitution to change with the times; in practice, it undermines the Constitution as it renders as meaningless the words within it. Yesterday, Teh Won had this to say on the 1-year anniversary of Porkulus: So | Read More »
Earlier today, I had a post on the extremely biased (pro-Democrat and pro-statist, naturally) “news” article by Dan Eggen at the Washington Post about a WaPo-ABC News poll showing Americans of all political persuasions being against the recent Citizens United v. FEC ruling that pretty much trashed the 1st Amendment violation known as McCain-Feingold. In the post, there was nothing showing the questions that were | Read More »
Dan Eggen at the Washington Post wrote a completely pro-Democrat and pro-statist piece called “Poll: Large majority opposes Supreme Court’s decision on campaign financing,” a report on a Washington Post-ABC News poll regarding the recent Citizens United v. FEC ruling, disguising it as a news article. It is claimed that as many as 85% of Democrats, 81% of independents, and, shockingly, 76% of Republicans oppose | Read More »
I’m finally getting around to review the Tea Party “Contract from America“. I think it’s good that people who aren’t professional activists or party leaders are getting involved. But I’m wondering how realistic this “Contract” is. So let us look at the items and see what is in there.
Our “illustrious” Vice President, Joe Biden (he who is afflicted with both hoof-in-mouth disease and has no functioning brain), said that America’s fight in Iraq wasn’t worth the “horrible price” while attempting to have the Obama administration take full credit for its success. I’m assuming Winston Smith, from within the Ministry of Truth, was feeding Biden these lines. There is no sense rebutting Smith Biden’s | Read More »
Phil Jones of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit, the guy who has been one of the leaders of the alarmism of the anthropogenic global warming crowd and in the forefront of the Climategate scandal, talked to the BBC recently about his problems, including sloppy record keeping. Now comes word that Jones can’t reconcile some of the claims, including the famous “hockey stick graph” meant | Read More »
If you’re prescribed blood pressure medication, take it now before watching. As Ace points out, there is math in the video. Don’t let it worry you and stay with it. In fact, the math is what sets the point made in the video in complete context. Before you see it, remember who is in charge of the Treasury. Remember who had been previously in charge | Read More »
…moron. Or, more accurately, morons. Cassy Fiano makes this very pertinent point: Let’s recap the current economic state of our country. Our deficit has been quadrupled in one year. The unemployment rate is in double digit territory, the highest its been since 1982. We’ve lost 16,000 jobs a day since the stimulus package was passed. The public debt is around $11 trillion. Teh Won has | Read More »
What do you think would happen if there was an ACLU-type group in Venezuela after reading this: A state-run power company is urging its employees to seek divine intervention to help Venezuela resolve severe electricity shortages that prompted President Hugo Chavez to declare an energy emergency. Edelca, one of the country’s state power companies, called on its workers to attend a prayer meeting this week | Read More »
First it was Attorney General Eric Holder. Now it’s White House Counterterrorism Chief and Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan on NBC’s “Meet the Press”. Brennan said he briefed four Congressional Republicans: “None of those individuals raised any concerns with me, at that point,” Brennan said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “They didn’t say, ‘Is he going into military custody? Is he going to be Mirandized?’ | Read More »
Matt Yglesias screeches about the conservative uproar over the Undiebomber unconstitutionally given rights by Attorney General Eric Holder, trying to say that the terrorist is the same type of criminal as any other that goes through the civilian criminal justice system. The problem is that he utterly refuses, like so many leftists, to consider that he is absolutely wrong. Yglesias falls into the pattern leftists | Read More »
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