On this week's edition of "Fox News Watch," host Eric Burns closed the program with the bit of news that more Americans could identify the Three Stooges (leaving Curly Joe and Shemp out of the calculation) than could name the three branches of government. Fine. There's a good number of people in America who are […]
Last year, I wrote about the case of Judge Manuel Real of the Ninth Circuit who violated numerous laws in order to keep a woman living rent-free in a home for 3 years. The Judicial Council, which usually rules on cases of judicial misconduct, made the Congress look like a bunch of saints in comparison […]
If you own a Toyota Tundra pickup truck and get a recall notice, you might want to ignore it. This fall, Toyota will voluntarily recall nearly 160,000 Toyota Tundra pickups so that they can be made less safe for children riding in the front seat. No, that's not a mistake - at least not on […]
But a federal judge ruled today (surprise!) that Congressional Capitol Hill offices are not a safe haven for criminal activity. Hogan acknowledged the "unprecedented" nature of the case. But he said the lawmakers' "sweeping" theory of legislative privilege "would have the effect of converting every congressional office into a taxpayer-subsidized sanctuary for crime." A member […]
After today's Supreme Court ruling in the Hamdan case, I've decided to update Article II, Section II of the U.S. Constitution to what current Supreme Court jurisprudence has changed it to. Article II. - The Executive Branch Section 2 - Presidential power The president only has the power the Supreme Court chooses to give him, […]
This is sappy, and pretty ridiculous. Dressed in a brightly colored muumuu and sunflower hat, 100-year-old Maria Soledad Sarabia Lagareta held her cane in her left hand and raised her right hand as she took an oath to become a U.S. citizen in federal court yesterday. She's been in the United states far longer than […]
Because a lot of people in the media seem to have forgotten, and far too many Democrat partisans don't seem to care anymore, here's a brief reminder about what we're really talking about when there's a bunch of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the NSA's surveillance programs. I wanted to take a couple of […]
A Maine blogger is being sued by an advertising agency after he criticized the work the company was doing for the state's tourism board. Lance Dutson of mainewebreport.com is being sued for defamation, libel and copyright infringement after he, among other things, pointed out that the sample phone number the agency used in advertisements was […]
If you're interested you can find a 6-month-old estimation of what you're paying in gas taxes here. [PDF document] I'll spoil the surprise for Californians -- third-highest in the nation at 60 cents per gallon. Of course, as the price of gasoline goes up so does that number, because California charges sales tax on top […]
If there was any doubt that the mayor of New Orleans was an incompetent bureaucrat (and the governor of Louisiana wasn't much better) then this story should disabuse you. You see, Hurricane Katrina left thousands of useless, flooded cars throughout the city. Six months ago a Texas car-crushing company offered to remove all of these […]