There may be nothing more to it than an especially industrious group of illegal immigrants from Mexico, but some of the details -- and the timing -- give this story a more ominous cast. SAN DIEGO – A boat that may have been used to smuggle people into the United States washed ashore in La […]
Social Security is a government-run Ponzi scheme. It depends on an ever-increasing number of workers to pay the retirement benefits of an ever-increasing number retirees. Like a Ponzi scheme, it works at first, but then the math starts to work against it. We'll reach that point in 2017 or thereabouts, when the amount of money […]
You'd think that whole First Amendment thing about freedom of speech and the press and the whole "shall make no law abridging" the aforementioned would've gotten into the political class sometime in the past 200+ years. You can cut them a little slack however, after the Supreme Court upheld McCain-Feingold's restrictions on politcal ads by […]
You'd think they would've learned it in high school civics, but the people who are sent to the Senate for confirmation to staff the executive branch are people who are expected to follow the directives of the President, not the priorities of Senators of an opposing party. Today, former Rep. Jim Nussle was confirmed 69-24 […]
Sometimes karma takes awhile to catch up with you. However, when it does, you better hope it doesn't crack three of your ribs. (via Powerline which has video) If he didn't believe in karma before, Piers Morgan must surely do now. The ex-newspaper editor, now a columnist for The Mail on Sunday's Live magazine, took […]
At least the guy survived, but it isn't exactly the picture Michael Moore painted now is it?
Let me preface this by saying that I'll completely trust North Korea when Kim Jong Il is pushing up daisies. However, news today out of the six-party talks in Geneva is encouraging. North Korea agreed Sunday to account for and disable its atomic programs by the end of the year, offering its first timeline for […]
I mentioned last week that at least 25 newspapers, including the Washington Post had declined to publish Berkeley Breathed's "Opus" cartoon these last two Sundays because of its "questionable content." The content in question being the mocking of "radical Islam." With last week's comic there was a slim possibility that some papers bowed out because […]
Congressional Quarterly has done a service to those interested in keeping our elected officials accountable and pointing out the corrupting nature of earmarks. The House’s most outspoken critics of what they say is unnecessary military spending would secure nearly half a billion dollars in the defense appropriations bill for programs in their districts the Pentagon […]
For most of their first eight months in charge on Capitol Hill, the Democrats passed bill after resolution after bill demanding something close to an immediate retreat from Iraq. They did this knowing that President Bush would veto the bills and that he had enough Republican support to sustain those vetoes. The maneuvers were empty, […]