September 10, 2007
The code has been freed

If you're interested in global warming and are familiar with shell scripts and Fortran, you can now access the code written by NASA's James Hansen on the taxpayers' dime. Hansen continues to come across as a horse's behind as he reluctantly released data that we paid for. Because the programs include a variety of languages […]

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September 5, 2007
Lessons not learned

You'd think that whole First Amendment thing about freedom of speech and the press and the whole "shall make no law abridging" the aforementioned would've gotten into the political class sometime in the past 200+ years. You can cut them a little slack however, after the Supreme Court upheld McCain-Feingold's restrictions on politcal ads by […]

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August 9, 2007
Pork scorecard

The Club for Growth has posted an interesting pork scorecard. Certain Republicans (and one Democrat) would do well to promote its findings. Sixteen congressmen scored a perfect 100%, voting for all 50 anti-pork amendments. They are all Republicans. The average Republican score was 43%. The average Democratic score was 2%. The average score for appropriators […]

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July 10, 2007
Point and laugh

The Politico has an inside baseball story about ethics/earmark reform in the Senate. Those of you who follow Porkbusters and those issues will find the story interesting because it appears that the Democrat-led Senate is trying to outsource its rules to the House. However, today we point and laugh at Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate […]

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July 7, 2007
Curious

A couple of months back, the city of Vista (located just north of San Diego) passed an ordinance requiring people who hire day laborers to register with the city. The ACLU has filed suit before over the ordinance alleging, oddly, that requiring registration infringes on free speech and equal protection rights. Which raises the question: […]

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July 4, 2007
Happy Fourth!

Have a safe and enjoyable 4th.

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July 1, 2007
Trusting Feinstein

You may recall the allegations that surfaced earlier this year regarding California senior Sen. Dianne Feinstein and charges that she may have used her position on a Senate subcommittee to benefit contractors in which her husband had a financial interest. (The Sunlight Foundation mounted a defense of Feinstein at the time noting that the senator […]

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June 29, 2007
How they spend your money

CNN has been putting their summer interns to good use. This week, the interns' assignment was to contact all 100 U.S. Senators and ask for a list of their earmark requests. It should come as no surprise that all those politicians promising a more open government are full of sh hot air. Only six senators […]

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June 29, 2007
Solution still needed

The Senate's second attempt at comprehensive immigration reform died a particularly devastating death Thursday as Senators, seeing that the measure wouldn't reach the 60-vote threshold, abandoned the ship like illegal aliens running out of a Swift meat-packing plant. Something needs to be done about the millions of illegal immigrants in the United States -- but […]

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June 25, 2007
Paying their own way

There's good foreign aid and there's bad foreign aid. Helping prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa: Good. Giving one red cent to the neanderthal thugs sitting on the Middle East's largest proven oil reserves: Bad. The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to prohibit any aid to Saudi Arabia as lawmakers accused the […]

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