The author and humorist has been quoted as saying: “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” Truer words were never spoken. “Everyday that I am here is going to be spent, debunking the MYTH, that this country’s in debt and we just can’t spend. Well […]
Via Ramesh Ponnuru, from The New York Times editorial page: “But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.” It’s a good thing lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize moronic editorial writers, we’d have to drastically expand federal prisons.
An oft-ignored bit of insanity in the health-care bill was the expansion in the use of IRS form 1099. For those of you who don’t know what it is, a 1099 has been used for as long as I can remember for businesses to report money paid to independent contractors. I got a 1099 from […]
When your main claim to fame is meaningless platitudes, you’re going to get caught occasionally.
I must confess that I haven’t spent enough time writing about the Journo-list and the downfall of Washington Post “conservative” blogger Dave Weigel and today’s Daily Caller article on an effort by members of the Journo-list in 2008 to brand conservatives interested in the controversy over President Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright as racists. […]
The worst thing about gerrymandering is that you get districts created that are weighted in such an incredibly partisan fashion that blithering idiots can be re-elected time and time again. This week’s evidence, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who by the way has a degree in political science from Yale. Yes, this woman sits on the […]
Nope, not me, Scott Nicholson, 24, of Grafton, Mass. After breakfast, his parents left for their jobs, and Scott Nicholson, alone in the house in this comfortable suburb west of Boston, went to his laptop in the living room. He had placed it on a small table that his mother had used for a vase […]
I'm trying out a subscription to Audible.com so I can listen to books on my iPod while I take my daily walks. The last time I listened to an audiobook it was actually a book on tape -- my college roommate and I listened to "The Fellowship of the Ring" on the ride back from […]
Scroll down and watch the video if you’ve been relying on the mainstream media to tell you about Rep. Bob “Who are YOU?” Etheridge’s little self-control problem. In the wake of the video of an unhinged old man attacking a couple young, well-dressed young men for asking a Democrat if he supported the Obama agenda, […]
Sen. Barbara “dumb as a bag of hammers” Boxer: Someone get that list of names and fire them too. For the record: Hoystory endorses Carly Fiorina for Senate.