While Politifact.com has determined that President Barack Obama has not really broken his promise not to raise taxes on the bottom 95 percent of by passing an increase in the cigarette tax, other liberals are convinced it's just a matter of time. Looking at the gap between revenues and costs for Obama's health care plans, […]
The big news over the weekend didn't make the major network newscasts. Instead, it was left to the blogs and less prominent news sources. For those unaware, bankruptcy lawyer Tom Lauria reported Friday that Auto czar Steve Rattner had threatened Chrysler investors who are not TARP recipients with the ire of the White House Press […]
It took less than a week for now-Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania to start sounding like his cohorts Sen. John Kerry and former Sen. John Edwards who once said that if you elected them to the White House, actor Christopher Reed would walk again. Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," the "crapweasel" had this […]
Let's start this discussion with a definition of terms. Acceptance: ac-cept-ance 2.favorable reception; approval; favor. Tolerance: tol-er-ance 1.a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry. 2.a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own. Acceptance […]
Former Chargers QB Jack Kemp died yesterday. Our prayers are with his family. UPDATE! The Wall Street Journal has an editorial and a combination of excerpts from various Op-Eds Kemp wrote for the paper over the years. Both are must-reading.
I've been bashing Politifact.com lately because I think it deserves it. I've been critical of South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham in the past, but he's right on this one: The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror. Now, he's off by a year -- it should be 2006. However, […]
Unlike 90 percent of bloggers and pundits who have spent the past couple of weeks expressing outrage at the "torture" memos, I actually took the time to read them. They're not exactly fun reading, so I understand why people would be reticent. However, if you're going to decry the "torture" that they approved, you should […]