This week's big dummies are Rick Wagoner, Robert Nardelli and Alan Mulally, the CEOs of GM, Chrysler and Ford respectively. They earn this award for being too stupid to realize that it might look bad if you flew to Washington in a private, luxury jet, to beg for money from the taxpayers. It's no wonder […]
The CIA inspector general released a report today showing that the agency was reckless in how it managed a drug-interdiction program with the government of Peru. The CIA repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department in their investigations of the 2001 shoot-down of a Peruvian plane carrying U.S. missionaries, according to findings of an internal […]
Far too many Obama supporters see him as some sort of saint. This causes them to say some really ridiculous things. Former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, who famously tossed his credibility in the dustbin to ally himself with the Democrats had this to say about Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman Al-Zawahiri's missive on the president-elect: […]
Ted Stevens has lost his Senate seat. If the self-important, pompous jerk had thought more of his principles or his party, he would've retired and let a Republican win a seat that only a convicted felon could lose. Now Alaska, a solid Republican state, has a Democrat representing it for the next six years. Stevens, […]
Rep. Barney Frank's understanding of what "viable" means is a little tenuous. A Key Democrat says a House auto industry bailout would require that U.S. automakers immediately repay $25 billion in government loans next year if they can't show they're financially viable. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who is drafting the plan, said it would forbid […]
Michael Lewis, author of Liars Poker, has an article in the latest issue of Portfolio that is an excellent explanation of the whole mortgage meltdown mess. This is a must-read for anyone interested in how we got where we are today. I think, if asked, Lewis could come up with a list of people who […]
The truth is, you could probably find some McCain voters who are equally ignorant as these people. Of course, the mainstream media would jump all over this if McCain voters were the ones to made to look like fools -- especially when they named Fox News as their source. Don't expect NPR, PBS or The […]
Here are some stories that have been cluttering up my Firefox browser tabs and might interest you: What's the matter with Kansas? Some Obamatons are already pushing for a federal holiday for their revered leader. Gazillionaire Warren Buffett wants the Estate Tax raised and the rich to pay more in federal taxes -- then why […]
Steve McIntyre has made a name for himself by exposing faulty math and dishonest statistical analysis with regard to anthropogenic global warming. He was the guy who exposed the infamous Mann "hockey stick" fraud that disappeared the medieval warm period and falsely claimed to prove that the Earth's temperature is hotter today than at any […]
Corrupt GOP Congressman Rick Renzi is attempting to hide behind the Constitution's speech and debate clause -- federal prosecutors are having none of it. Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to deny retiring U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi's bid to have corruption charges against him dismissed on constitutional grounds. Renzi's lawyers last month alleged that FBI […]