There's an excellent takedown of Michael Moore's latest bit of propaganda over at The New York Post. A sampling: Moore, at a Havana hospital, says he requested that his group receive exactly the same care as any Cuban who walked in—"and that’s exactly what they got." As comedy, this statement is on a par with […]
Rep. John Boehner has an op-ed in the Washington Examiner outlining the Democrats' bald-faced lies on earmark reform. Then came a decision by Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-WI, to not only make all earmarks secret, but to replace them in Democratic spending bills with multi-billion dollar slush funds – blank spots to be filled […]
Factcheck.org has a new analysis up of the so-called Fair Tax supported by the likes of talk show host Neal Boortz, GOP presidential hopefuls former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Reps. Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo. Let me preface this by saying that I'm not a big fan of the current tax system. What's really […]
Let me start with a hypothetical. Let's say that immediately after the San Diego Union-Tribune article revealing that Rep. Randy "Dirty Duke" Cunningham had made several hundred thousand dollars by selling his home to a defense contractor above market value -- and that contractor subsequently sold the home at a big loss -- that the […]
The House passed "lobbying reform" tonight. Chief among the reforms is a measure that requires lobbyists to disclose how much money they solicit from friends and business associates on behalf of a candidate. The so-called “bundling” bill was steeply resisted by pro-business Democrats and minority members who worried it would discourage lobbyists from helping to […]
The Boston Globe is reporting that the Bush administration asked for the requirement that illegal aliens pay back taxes for three of the past five years be removed from the latest immigration plan. A provision requiring payment of back taxes had been in the initial version of a bill proposed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, […]
But it's a little light on substance. I've just got finished reading the transcript [PDF format] of former Deputy Attorney General James Comey's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. I wanted to read the testimony myself because I was suspicious of a New York Times editorial's take on the issue. Needless to say that my […]
The Durham city manager, Patrick Baker, and Police Chief Steve Chalmers presented their "what went wrong" report to the Durham City Council. The city council apparently wasn't big on being thought of as a bunch of fools. Chalmers and Baker devoted much of their reports to explaining the widely criticized April 4 photo-identification procedure that […]
Democrats want the CIA to spend resources on global warming Richard Perle takes on George Tenet and the CIA Nancy Pelosi's buddy jails a human rights activist
The House of Representatives is debating a bill that would offer compensation to residents of Guam for the Japanese occupation of World War II. Let me make this clear: the United States House of Representatives is considering whether or not to pay Guamanians for what the Japanese did to them during World War II. What's […]