By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  March 12th at 07:00 AM  | 

New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling finally brought some common sense to this episode of “Let’s Make A Ban!”

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 18th at 02:45 PM  | 

In addition to the union stranding 150,000 kids, the ATU has taken to the airwaves with an ad trying to invoke fear in parents and, apparently, trying to get the public on its side. While the ad is professionally produced, for the union to infer in its ad that its drivers don’t have accidents is patently false.

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  July 31st at 08:00 AM  | 

Background Info: Bloomberg to New Mothers: You Really Should Be Breastfeeding, You Know – Katie Pavlich (Townhall.com). Don’t you all feel safer knowing that a politician is making your decisions for you?  He must be a modern day superman to be able to know so much about everyone’s well being.  Well, maybe just another Barney Fife, but with lots of money. Cross-posted: TobyToons.com

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  May 3rd at 01:30 AM  | 

CISPA’s proponents bent over backward to respond to reasonable complaints, but the extremists are still complaining. Anonymous and Mozilla (much of which is foreign, no?) are whining, but nobody ever points to any specific, offending verbiage of the bill. Am I the only one who reads tech bills before complaining about them? Even Democrats are having to start acknowledging Republican expertise in tech leadership, though. | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  April 12th at 01:00 AM  | 

I’m seeing some real panicked shouting online about CISPA, a new bill that some are calling “the new SOPA.” It’s absurd. The bill may not be perfect. It could have flaws. But the argument being hammered against CISPA again and again is that it may be used against copyright infringers who abuse networks. So? The only reason to oppose that is if you wish to | Read More »

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  January 13th at 11:00 AM  | 

It is a good thing that elected officials know so much about how to run our lives. First trans-fats, then salt, then sugary drinks, then Alcohol (well, almost). NY City Mayor Bloomberg may as well pick up the hatchet used by Carry Nation on her crusades in the 1920′s. For more information on the topic, see Caleb Howe’s article here: The Great Bloomberg Booze Backlash | Read More »

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 11th at 10:22 PM  | 

The Bloomberg-Washington Post debate was necessary in the same way a child dying or a puppy being run over are necessary in the chaotic misery of the orbit around the center of the galaxy we slowly endure. All remind us that life isn’t fair, there are terrible tragedies, and sometimes bad things happen to us. But we have endured. And if you haven’t thrown up | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 11th at 03:00 PM  | 

With a new debate coming, now’s a great time to check the latest national polling. Of course, individual states matter, but this early the national polling is critical for gauging how well the candidates will be able to stay in the race. To summarize, we’ve seen no changes since Herman Cain surged just ahead of Rick Perry. Mitt Romney still leads.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 5th at 11:00 AM  | 

To give you an idea of just how laughably bad this Bloomberg hit piece (short version: the Koch Brothers are icky small-government people who have this big corporation that doesn’t give money to causes that the authors like is a evil lobbying corporation and here’s a list of bad things that they’ve done, including selling stuff to IranIranIranIRANIRANIRAN) was: not only did the notoriously neoconservative* | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  April 20th at 11:00 AM  | 

What is President Barack Obama’s “debt failsafe” trigger? It is a means for liberals in Washington to increase taxes on you in the name of deficit reduction and avoids specific consent of the governed for these tax increases.  If a mechanism to automatically increase taxes is raised by the “Gang of Six,” a bipartisan group working to reduce the deficit, or the President’s bipartisan bicameral negotiating team on reducing | Read More »

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  December 17th at 09:30 AM  | 

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  October 9th at 07:00 PM  | 

The federal government is considering measures to pressure states to ban hands-free cell phone use by drivers.  This is an over reaction to the problem of distracted driving.   Bloomberg reports that officials of the U.S. Department of Transportation are working on a plan to ban all cell phone use by drivers of cars, including hands-free technology. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he believes motorists are distracted | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  July 29th at 10:00 AM  | 

The Senate is debating a bill today that includes bailouts for small business, TARP, Jr.  The debate between right and left on this legislation is a great example of the big government versus small government approach to economic growth.  H.R.5297, officially titled the “Small Business Jobs” bill, will spend another day on the Senate floor as the left pushes to retain the TARP bailout model for | Read More »

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  May 14th at 11:00 AM  | 

The Elena Kagan nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court is still in the early stages, but problems are emerging.  Meet and greets for Kagan completed Day 2 and more one-on-one meetings are expected in the days ahead.  Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Scott Brown (R-MA) sounded like supporters of Kagan after one-on-one meetings and had nice things to say about the nominee.  Maybe they don’t even know that Kagan | Read More »