I was doing some entertaining over the long holiday weekend, so I never got a chance to do a blow-by-blow on the protests in Wisconsin. Here’s a quick rundown: First, an anecdote. Back in 1989, the National Education Association held its national convention during the summer in Washington, D.C. My father, a (comparatively) small-time teacher’s […]
A federal judge has given the Interior Department 30 days to fish or cut bait on issuing drilling permits.
As of this moment, it’s raining here in beautiful San Luis Obispo and we’re well over the rainfall we typically get for the year here. This is undoubtedly due to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. On a related note, there’s been a bit of a dust-up in the climate alarmist world since the publication of […]
There’s an interesting series of posts over at The Public Discourse on Lila Rose’s Live Action undercover stings of Planned Parenthood clinics in New York, New Jersey and Virginia. Professor Christopher O. Tollefson makes the case that Live Action was wrong because they deceived Planned Parenthood employees in that they weren’t actually keeping 13- and […]
During the Bush 43 administration The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto had a regular feature called “Homeless Rediscovery Watch” which featured a quote by Mark Helprin to the effect that if Bush was elected president that the media would suddenly re-discover the homeless population and use it as a club to bash GOP policies. It’s […]
Congratulations America, if there was any doubt that you’d elected pretty, fawning airheaded sycophant as president, then this morning’s release of his proposed fiscal 2012 budget should make it obvious. When the hand-picked Democrat chairman of your deficit reduction commission characterizes your budget as going “nowhere near where they will have to go to resolve […]
I was reading this article in today’s Washington Post, when this sentence jumped out at me: He laments the low rankings the District gets on surveys about quality of business environment, for example, and he hailed the U.S. Supreme Court's gutting of local gun control laws. The author could just have easily characterized the D.C. […]
President Obama admitted after his health care reform bill became law what was obvious to anyone with 1/8th of a brain: You can't increase benefits, expand coverage to 30 million people who don't currently have health insurance and simultaneously reduce costs. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Now comes […]
For the past week Live Action has been releasing video after video showing Planned Parenthood employees in New Jersey, New York and Virginia offering advice to a couple posing as sex traffickers of underage girls on how to keep their business running when their “employees” come down with sexually transmitted diseases or get pregnant. In […]
More proof that any idiot can get elected to Congress. The good news: It appears to be one of the quickest time from scandal to resignation in recorded history.