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Friday, November 20, 2009

Obama Redisributes Drew Brees Pass To Kid Who Didn’t Even Try To Catch The Ball

It’s not a public service message.  It’s a metaphor per a Hot Air commenter who says: “Brees is … throwing the ball (a paycheck, a job, whatever) to the kid…...

Liberal Tolerance: San Francisco Booksellers Not Selling Palin’s Book

They’re claiming that they’re not carrying it because their customers don’t want it, but c’mon.  Nobody in San Francisco wants a tell-all book about the McCain-Palin campaign?  Not one liberal…...

Wow: Hoeven Leads Dorgan In Possible Senate Match Up 55% To 36%

Last night I posted about Byron Dorgan, facing a possible challenge from popular North Dakota Governor John Hoeven, having a health care problem.  Today comes news of a poll illustrating…...

On Headline News: Todd Palin Is A “Bum” For Being A Stay-At-Home Dad

For what it’s worth, Todd Palin has won the 2,000 mile Iron Dog snowmobile race four times.  He also, before Sarah’s rise to national prominence, worked as an oil production…...

Great Britain Sending Inspectors Into People’s Homes To Make Sure They’re Safe For Children

I wonder how the children of Great Britain ever survived before they had government bureaucrats inspecting their homes for safety. Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access…...

Post Office Loses $3.8 Billion, Owes The Taxpayers $10.2 Billion

Brought to you by the same people who want to make your health care more efficient for you: The quasi-government agency announced this week that it lost $3.8 billion in…...

Senator Inhofe To Barbara Boxer: Get A Life

After her shenanigans holding committee meetings all by herself to cram cap and trade legislation through, Senator Boxer richly deserves this:  ...

Remember: A Vote To More The Health Care Bill Forward Is A Vote For Government Health Care

Over the weekend the Democrats will be forcing a vote to begin debate of the health care bill in the Senate.  This is a procedural vote, and if they get…...

Under The Bus: Democrat Says It Was Holder’s Decision To Put Terrorists On Trial In New York

The decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian court in New York is not sitting well with the public at large.  But from the very moment…...

Hacked Emails Show Climate Scientists Manipulating Data To Support Global Warming Theories

And not just manipulating data, but also plotting with one another to keep data inconvenient for their global warming alarmism crusade out of the publics’ hands. The University of East…...

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Senator Byron Dorgan Has A Health Care Bill Problem

An interesting analysis from Peter Robinson, who notes that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs 60 votes to pass the health care bill but may have a difficult time finding…...

Ouch: Obama Has 51% Disapproval Among Independents, Opposition To Health Care Bill At Record High

Don’t expect Obama’s to be hitting the campaign trail very often in support of his fellow Democrats in next year’s election season. President Obama’s approval rating has hit a new…...

After His Party Tripled The Deficit, Earl Pomeroy Wants To Keep Paying People To Use Biodiesel

Sure.  Why not.  We’ve got money to burn, right? Legislation has recently been introduced in the House of Representatives that will extend the current biodiesel tax credit from it’s current…...

Federal Government Looking To Get More Involved With Your Internet Connection

The excuse they’re using is that not all Americans have sufficient access to broadband internet.  That’s the “crisis” they’ve manufactured so that they can solve it by expanding government power…...

Obama To Fox News: Accounting Is An “Inexact Science”

I’ll be sure to use that one the next time I get audited.     President Obama brushed off criticism over his administration’s inaccurate reporting on job creation Wednesday, telling…...

Anti-Abortion Language In Senate Health Care Bill Is A “Bookkeeping Gimmick”

So says Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska: Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska said in a Thursday conference call that Harry Reid’s abortion language in the Senate health care bill was…...

Democrats Add $200 Billion In Deficits To The Health Care Bill

They passed the “doc fix” bill takes cuts in payments to doctors out of the House health care bill.  Previously the Democrats were using these cuts to hide the deficit…...

The Scariest Animated National Unemployment Map You’ll See All Day

This map (first posted by Whistler over in the forum) shows rising unemployment rates, by county, from 2007 to September of this year. It’s scary stuff. What’s particularly interesting is…...

Fred Thompson: The War In Afghanistan Is Lost

I gotta admit, I disagree with Fred on this one: “It really doesn’t matter how President Obama divides the Afghan baby, how he splits the difference between McChrystal and Biden.…...

Cost Per Job Of The Top Ten Stimulus Projects: $1,181,155 Per Job

Here’s a list of the top ten biggest “stimulus” spending projects by dollar amount and the amount each of those jobs created has cost us. # Savannah River Nuclear Solutions,…...

Another Obama Administration Member Caught With Tax Problems

What is it with these liberals and not paying their taxes?   President Barack Obama’s choice for a top job in the Treasury Department did not disclose all of her…...

Geithner Wants Banks That Got Government Bailouts To Increase Lending

Dow Jones News is reporting this morning: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday called on banks that received government aid during the financial crisis to boost lending, saying limited…...

Democrat Response To The Minot Tea Party: Ed Schafer Is A Hypocrite?

Why, exactly is he a hypocrite?  Because while he was Governor and Secretary of Agriculture he, uh, got his health care through his employer.  The government. Oh, and the Governor…...

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Lindsey Graham To Eric Holder: What Happens If Khalid Sheik Mohammed Wasn’t Mirandized?

It’s kind of sad that Eric Holder has to be told during a Congressional hearing, after already choosing to put one of the most notorious terrorists in history in trial…...

Sarah Palin Gives Oprah Winfrey Her Best Ratings In Two Years

Like it or not, this woman is a star: Oprah Winfrey’s interview with former vp candidate Sarah Palin scored the talk show host her highest rating in two years. Monday’s…...

Obama Administration Backpeddling On Mammogram Pronouncement

After taking office, Obama established a task force to study how to health care more efficient, and thus cheaper, for we Americans.  On Monday I posted on one of the…...

Government Only Wasted $98 Billion In Improper Payments Last Year

An increase of $26 billion from the year before.  But here’s the thing: The rate of improper pay outs stayed the same.  It’s just that we spent so much more…...

Democrat Wants To Pass A Bill Banning Complaining

Well, that’s one solution I guess.  Don’t solve the problems.  Just tell the people complaining about them to shut up already. Sure, the economy sucks. Unemployment is at least 10.2%…...

CNN Poll: 61% Of Americans Oppose Tax-Funded Abortion, 63% Oppose Most Or All Abortions

Bad news for Democrats who are thinking they’ll just rip the pro-life amendment that was key to the health care bill’s passing in the House out of the bill.  …...

Byron Dorgan’s Brilliant Plan For Creating More Jobs: More Government Spending

The national debt just clicked past $12 trillion and even Obama is making noises about deficit reduction (not by cutting spending but by taking more of your money, naturally).  But…...

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