Randy "Duke" Cunningham was sentenced to 100 months in prison at federal court in downtown San Diego Friday afternoon. At the very least, felony convictions appear to be good for the waistline.
Randy "Duke" Cunningham was sentenced to 100 months in prison at federal court in downtown San Diego Friday afternoon. At the very least, felony convictions appear to be good for the waistline.
A high school geography teacher in Colorado is in deep water, and rightfully so, for going on a left-wing political rant in a 10th grade geography class. Michelle Malkin has a ton of links and a transcript here. A couple of things I'd like to note on this issue: My high school history teacher was […]
Sanity prevailed Tuesday night and the La Mesa City Council retracted the threatening letter that they had sent to resident Chris Tanner after he had the audacity to suggest the council might be in the pockets of developers. (You can find my previous posts on this subject here and here.) At last night's meeting, several […]
During Wednesday's hearing on the Texas redistricting plan, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a visit, as the Washington Post's Dana Milbank put it, to the "land of nod." If I were arguing the case before the court today, I'd be angry that a Justice who is supposed to decide the case can't be bothered to […]
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today on the Tom DeLay-orchestrated Texas redistricting plan that gave Republicans a majority of congressional seats in that state for the first time in decades. Democrats and their liberal allies are, predictably, crying foul because the new plan effectively ensured Republican control of the House for the […]
Monday's New York Times has an interesting op-ed piece by MIT political science professor Barry Posen. Normally I would find Posen's analysis pretty astute and convincing, however I can't come to that conclusion in this case. As for aggression, the fear is that Iran could rely on a diffuse threat of nuclear escalation to deter […]
It wasn't uncommon back in the '70s and '80s for there to be pro-life Democrats -- Ted Kennedy was one, Dick Gephardt was another. However, as the parties polarized on the issue with Democrats becoming dominated by pro-choicers and Republicans by pro-lifers, politicians who wanted to further their careers found themselves re-evaluating their deeply held […]
The Washington Post reports today that the Red Cross isn't as good a steward with your donations as they should be. The American Red Cross paid consultants more than $500,000 in the past three years to pitch its name in Hollywood, recruit stars for its "Celebrity Cabinet" and brand its chief executive as the face […]
The New York Times does its readers a public service by pointing out that the Canadian health-care system -- often lauded by single-payer advocates here in the U.S. as a solution to the high prices of the American system -- is collapsing. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 23 — The Cambie Surgery Center, Canada's most prominent […]
News came Friday that it appears that La Mesa councilmembers will not go forward with their threatened (loser of a) lawsuit against resident Chris Tanner. Score one for free speech. On the other hand, it appears that the politicians in Washington state want to outlaw politics -- seriously. A story from Saturday's Olympian reveals that […]