Abel Maldonado, a Republican from Santa Maria, provided the deciding vote to pass the largest tax increase in California history earlier today. Once again, the Sacramento Bee's tax calculator is here. You can see for yourself that the $13 a week that you'll start seeing in your paycheck come June from the modest federal tax […]
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof was interviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian and made the following observation about what it's like to live under the enlightened leadership of the great Obama. DP: Are there any issues you would like to see Barack Obama's presidency focus on? NK: It's a tremendous relief to have smart, intellectually […]
I'm getting really sick and tired of the "create or save jobs" phrasing. It's meaningless, yet no one calls on it. The guy still thinks he's a senator. Was that a eight minute answer to a not so complicated question? You don't filibuster a press conference. Don't even bother raising your hands reporters, Obama's got […]
President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama went to a Washington, D.C. public school today that isn't good enough for their daughters and read a book. Curiously, at approximately the same time, 92-year-old Jewel Kitrel got a visit from the Arkansas National Guard a week after being cut off from the rest of the world. […]
The Republican Party yesterday elected it's first black chairman, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele. This prompted CNN's Wolf Blitzer to declare: "Take a look at the audience, though -- and I want to show our viewers a picture of the audience. Michael Steele, the first African-American leader of the RNC -- Leslie [Sanches, GOP […]
It looks like Al Franken may very well manage to steal Minnesota's Senate seat from Norm Coleman. I encourage you to check out this article by John Lott which has various visual aids -- the ballots themselves -- which demonstrate the depth of the thievery. For example, who gets this vote: You can see on […]
Rep. William "Cold Cash" Jefferson has been defeated in his re-election bid. The voters of Louisiana did what Jefferson's allies in the House would not -- police their own. Congratulations are also in order to Anh "Joseph" Cao who defeated Jefferson. Cao becomes the first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress.
Poking around Editor & Publisher for the previous post, I came across editor Greg Mitchell's latest column defending the early media narrative that Barack Obama was breaking new ground. The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) study asserting that Barack Obama actually raised most of his campaign money from "larger" not "small" donors has gained wide, often […]
I've pointed out before that "thinker" Deepak Chopra is a snake oil salesman. The Wall Street Journal's Dorothy Rabinowitz shows that Chopra knows global geopolitics as well as he knows basic physics. If the Mumbai terror assault seemed exceptional, and shocking in its targets, it was clear from the Thanksgiving Day reports that we weren't […]
Over the past week-plus there's been some candidly refreshing admissions regarding press bias -- but don't worry nothing substantive will come of them. First was this article by Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell, following up on her earlier article detailing the tilt in her own paper's presidential coverage: But some of the conservatives' complaints about […]