The Wall Street Journal provides a concise summary of Rep. Charlie Rangel's tax issues. And by "issues" I mean tax-cheating ways. And by "tax-cheating ways" I mean if you or I did the same we'd be bunking with Randy "Duke" Cunningham in the federal pen.
Apparently they are going to meet for beer. May I suggest that in honor of the august professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. that they drink this brew.
On Friday, Instapundit Glenn Reynolds linked to this blog post from the Asheville Tea Party organization revealing that the Asheville Citizen-Times reporter covering local health care issues was also speaking at rallies in support of Democratic health care reform efforts while at the same time taking pictures for the paper. But it's not just reporter/activist […]
As part of my continuing unemployment experience, I am churning through the books on my bookshelf in anticipation of downsizing my library. Late last week I finally wrapped up Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods.” I had previously read Gaiman’s “Stardust” and “Neverwhere,” both of which were very good. Gaiman’s “Stardust” is substantively different than the movie […]
For a guy who has a reputation in the media of being such a smooth talker, President Obama sure suffers from more than his share of foot-in-mouth incidents. I don’t want to get too deep into the trees of the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates kerfuffle (see Patterico for some of the best analysis), but […]
I don’t know how else to describe this report from Military.com. The former military captain says it was in the early 1990s, that he watched his then commander wrestle with giving up his 12-year-old daughter who was mentally ill. The commander, he says, initially resisted, but after mounting pressure from his military superiors, he gave […]
Looking at that infamous chart below got me thinking about the proposed new Office of Minority Health and the inevitable rationing that would occur under a government health plan dedicated to keeping costs down. Looking at the issue from a benign standpoint, maybe the office would operate in such a way as to make sure […]
It looks like the forces of democracy are standing strong and wannabe strongman Manuel Zelaya will not be allowed to return to Honduras as president. It would be nice if the Obama administration would take this opportunity to reconsider its decision to side with the likes of Raul Castro, Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez, but […]
House Democrats have taken the unusual step of barring their GOP counterparts from sending out informative mailers to their constituents with this chart outlining the Democrats’ healthcare plan. [Click picture for full-size PDF document] I get these mailers from time to time and I must confess I usually spend a grand total of 60 seconds […]