Don Surber has the complete video of Tuesday's Senate session -- all 30 seconds of it. (The pregame talk makes the total length 46 seconds.) Of course, Democrats are doing this so that President Bush can't make any recess appointments. I hope Republicans remember this sort of stunt when Democrats next hold the White House […]
The Senate last night confirmed former judge Michael Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general. A divided Senate narrowly confirmed former federal judge Michael B. Mukasey last night as the 81st attorney general, giving the nominee the lowest level of congressional support of any Justice Department leader in the past half-century. The 53 to […]
When Democrats took over the House of Representatives last year, they promised change. One of the changes they promised is known as "paygo." What it means in layman's terms is that every tax cut (haha!) or spending increase has to be offset by spending cuts or tax increases. In theory, this means there would be […]
USA Today has a good article on the farm bill currently making its way through Congress. Remember, whenever you hear about the farm bill it's you who's getting the shaft. Rep. Marion Berry, D-Ark., says the system works well. He and his family's farming interests received almost $2.4 million in federal payments from 1995-2005, records […]
It's probably the most oft-quoted thing that President Jack Kennedy ever said: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." And it's something that you'd think that the diplomats at Foggy Bottom would have taken to heart long ago, but you'd be wrong. "Incoming is coming […]
It looks like President George W. Bush is probably going to have to recess appoint Judge Michael Mukasey to be attorney general. Democrats, and some Republicans, are demanding that Mukasey state for the record that the interrogation technique known as waterboarding is illegal. “I am urging him that he needs to come forward. If he […]
I finally got around to finishing Gregory Boyd's "The Myth of a Christian Nation" the other day, and whatever you may think of his theology (e.g. that God is not omniscient) the book is well worth a read. While I disagree with quite a bit of Boyd's political analysis, he does offer some words of […]
If you're at all interested in global warming, or long for the good old days of programming in Fortran (who knew I would've been better off learning Fortran than Pascal in high school?) then you should check out some of the analysis going on over at Climate Audit. Steve McIntyre and friends are trying to […]
I mentioned this story a month ago, and justice was finally done for Richard Paey yesterday as he finally received a full pardon. A victim in the war on drugs, Richard Paey was just wheeled out of prison by a guard, a free man for the first time in 3 ½ years thanks to an […]
Earlier this summer, several people died when a heavily trafficked bridge in Minnesota suddenly collapsed in the middle of the afternoon commute. It didn't take long for certain politicians with more outrage than propriety demand that we spend more money on infrastructure, especially bridges. We were lectured that we didn't really care about the danger […]