by the Night Writer There is a Monty Python-esque air to the current healthcare debate as I picture anyone actually reading the particulars of Obama-care striking themselves regularly in the forehead with the bill, ala the hooded monks in the opening of Scene 2 in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Of course, the rest of that [...]
by the Night Writer I wonder what the carbon footprint is of killing enough trees to print a 1200+ page report, distributed to Congress, that no one reads? Monday morning on Fox News Channel’s Fox and Friends, co-anchor Steve Doocy talked with Obama Administration Energy Czar Carol Browner (video): STEVE DOOCY: “[I] know the bill [...]
by the Night Writer Along with planning for our trip I’m also trying to get up to speed on the news and politics in Spain before we go over there. The New York Times maintains an on-line news page on the country that is a handy reference. Allow me to excerpt three of the top [...]
by the Night Writer I was eating my Pop Tarts and reading a story in the Strib this morning when a thought popped into my head about the similarity between a violent, capital crime and violence against capital. In the story a 17-year-old accused murderer has had charges against him dismissed because the witnesses are [...]
by the Night Writer David Foster at Chicago Boyz noted this disturbing news: Obama has nominated Cass Sunstein, who he knows from the University of Chicago, to be “regulatory czar.” Apparently, Sunstein has proposed that web sites be required to link to opposing opinions. He has argued that the Internet is anti-democratic because users can [...]
by the Minfidel …especialy when she’s being ironic. Eco-sailors rescued by oil tanker An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker. Raoul Surcouf, Richard Spink and skipper Ben Stoddart sent a mayday because they feared for their safety amid winds [...]
by the Minfidel Suppressed photo of Air Force One taking a shortcut en route to an Earth Day speech: Either that, or the President’s jet could be taking the long way around to Mexico to deliver Tamiflu and 100 Acorn Community Organizers to over-throw the drug cartels. HT: The Lumberjack (again). bookmark to:
by the Night Writer The Obama Administration has been saying over and over that 90 percent of the guns recovered from criminals in Mexico come from the U.S. Fox News has reported the actual total is 17 percent. According to an updated FactCheck.org report, however, they are both wrong by a significant margin. Both numbers [...]
by the Night Writer I thought I was pretty well-read, being a fan of history and having minored in poli-sci in college (though my profs were generally left-of-center and one was a flaming communist), but my wife forwarded me an essay the other day by someone I’d never heard of — and really should have: [...]
It struck me the other day that the modern Disney classic The Emperor’s New Groove, is a stunning forecast of the Obama administration, even though it was released at the dawning of the previous administration in 2000. Now, I don’t blog about politics too much because there are so many better bloggers out there with [...]
