The Washington State Supreme Court smacked down several governmental entities that sought to silence supporters of an initiative that would've repealed a hike in the state gas tax. The municipalities targeted several radio talk show hosts who used their air time to support the initiative and required them to file campaign finance documents classifying the […]
Talk about getting into the wrong business. More than 100 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority bus and train operators took home paychecks topping $100,000 in fiscal 2006 because of lush overtime earnings that have skewed Metro’s budget and sent pension costs spiraling out of control under a uniquely generous employee retirement plan. I definitely need […]
Today's New York Times editorial proclaims the government has "The Right to Ban Arms." The editorial is in response to a D.C. Circuit Appeals Court ruling that the District's blanket ban on handguns is a violation of the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. The editorial is the predictable guns are evil liberal tripe, but […]
Sen. Hillary Clinton has gotten caught sounding like a socialist/communist, most recently she told an audience that if elected president she would "take" the oil companies' profits and use them to fund alternative sources of energy. Not "tax" them, "take" them. California, under the leadership of a bunch of legislators with too much time and […]
Today's New York Times editorial page warns the New York City liberal faithful about that power-grabbing, facist, dictatorial Bush administration. A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the […]
The Hill newspaper reported yesterday that Capitol Hill police were ordered to retreat Saturday from some 300 anarchists who spraypainted graffiti on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. According to the sources, police officers were livid when they were told to fall back by U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief Phillip Morse and Deputy Chief Daniel […]
You don't have to read past the first sentence of this New York Times editorial to know that the rest is bunk. The tax system in the United States is supposed to mitigate inequality. A civics refresher course for the Times editors on the 16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect […]
Unfortunately, I have to use the label headline above so that you'll quickly know what this post is about. To be more accurate, it should read something along the lines of "Durham County D.A. scandal." There's a couple of reasons why the alleged rape scandal at Duke University interests me. First, I played Lacrosse in […]
There's a certain type of person who simply can't be trusted to wield any sort of power. You know the type -- they were the self-important, arrogant jackasses in your high school class who somehow managed to avoid having reality give them a good kick in the butt. Today's example is something that probably went […]