Remember a couple of weeks ago, when President Bush vetoed the extension of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the Democrats responded with a rebuttal to the Bush's weekly radio address by a 12-year-old who had benefitted from the program? Well, a poster over at the Free Republic message board did some due […]
It wasn't a big story outside some mentions on Fox News, journalism Web sites and various Colorado media, so it would've been easy to miss the brouhaha created by an "editorial" in the Colorado State University student newspaper which carried read "F*** Bush" in what was once known as "second coming" font size of about […]
I'd just like to echo the question asked by John Hinderaker over at Powerline: I never would have noticed, let alone cared, if Barack Obama had simply stopped wearing an American flag lapel pin. I'd never noticed that he was wearing one in the first place. But Obama chose to frame his decision to stop […]
GOP Sen. Larry Craig says that he's not going to resign his Senate seat after all in the wake of his guilty plea to playing footsie with a cop in a Minneapolis, Minn., airport bathroom. I was going to say that someone needs to stick a boot up Craig's butt to get him to quit […]
Guess the political affiliation! The Ohio State Highway Patrol confirms they are looking into an incident which occurred in Norwalk Tuesday. State Representative Matt Barrett was giving a lecture to the Senior Government Class at Norwalk High when he inserted a data memory stick into a computer and the projected image of a nude woman […]
Uncover a totalitarian. They're all for free speech ... except when they disagree with the content of the speech. Ignore, if you can, retired Gen. Wesley Clark's dishonesty regarding what radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was saying about phony soldiers, and instead focus on his desire to have Congress decide what can go over […]
In an article earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal, Northwestern University law professor Stephen Calabresi makes the point that those who disdain the legal principle of "originalism" when it comes to interpreting the Constitution in favor of "evolving standards of decency" are a bunch of hypocrites. For starters, the long-accepted rule for interpreting […]
Two San Diego court employees have sued the Superior Court -- and the court is going to lose. Two San Diego court employees are suing the Superior Court because they say they have been prohibited from holding a lunch hour Bible study in the courthouse. The federal civil rights suit claims court officials unfairly denied […]
National Review's Byron York has what is probably the most complete and concise account of the Media Matters-created pseudoscandal involving radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh and his disdain for phony soldiers. The next day, September 28, Limbaugh used his program to explain the “phony soldiers” remark at some length. As part of that explanation, […]
The Salt Lake Tribune had an interesting story about their rival editor's talk at a conservative policy meeting in that city over the weekend. Deseret Morning News editor Joe Cannon was one of the speakers at the GOP Council for National Policy meeting and agreed not to talk about what was said there. According to […]