The British Don’t Want Higher Taxes In The Name Of Saving The Planet
I’m not very surprised. Setting aside all the alarmism about global warming, I think we can all agree that we want to live in a clean environment. None of us…...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals
According to a new study which attributes the happiness to conservatives being able to “rationalize” things like inequality. Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints…...
Shocker: Most Americans Saving Rebate Checks, Or Using It To Pay Down Debt
The folks in the media are trying to play off the rebates as little more than a fart in the dismal wind of a recession (a recession that’s yet to…...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Canadians Sending Women With High-Risk Pregnancies To American Hospitals
Due to shortages in availability in the national Canadian health care system. More than 100 Canadian women with high-risk pregnancies have been sent to United States hospitals over the past…...
Monday, May 05, 2008
Farmer Fined, Has Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars In Product Seized, For Dealing Raw Milk To Neighbors
Government knows best: A Pennsylvania farmer has been fined $4,000 for dealing in raw milk in violation of the state’s bureaucracy that demands he hold a permit in order to…...
On Farm Subsidies San Francisco Liberals Side With…George Bush?
They must be ice skating in hell right now. It is the rarest of moments: President Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are on a collision course over a giant…...
Evil Wal-Mart Doing What The Government Can’t Do
Slashing prices on prescription drugs and thus making health care significantly less expensive for citizens around the country. BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s biggest retailer, said Monday…...
Thursday, May 01, 2008
No Global Warming For The Last Decade And None Projected For The Next Decade
David Harsanyi wonders if we’re allowed to be skeptical yet. ...
New Jersey Lawmakers Want To Make Fast Food A “Sin”
And then attach a “sin tax” to that sinful eating. The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now…...
Hillary: I Wouldn’t Let Gas Prices Get So High
Rank pandering: KOKOMO, Indiana (CNN) – Hillary Clinton is defending her proposal to eliminate the gas tax this summer, as rival Barack Obama and some economists continued to criticize it…...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Subsidies For The Rich, But No Tax Cuts?
Interesting quote from Rep. Ron Kind (R - WI): “What I find ironic with members of my own party is that they are quick to criticize President Bush’s tax cuts…...
Saturday, April 26, 2008
So When Is The NFL Going To Get Sued For Some Affirmative Action?
Because there sure seems to be some out-of-racial-proportion hiring going on during draft day. ...
Crime Wave Continues In Chicago, Mayor Daley Blames Gun Companies
Because we all know criminals wouldn’t commit crimes in Chicago if they didn’t have guns. CHICAGO (AP) — Police planned to increase patrols and put SWAT officers and specialized units…...
Male Stripper In Britain Prosecuted For Carrying Night Stick
Because a billy club is an “offensive weapon.” Three judges have ruled that a male stripper who dresses as a policeman can use a real truncheon in his act. Stuart…...
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Democrats Already Lowering Expectations On Health Care Reform
Interesting... Congressional Democrats are backing away from healthcare reform promises made by their two presidential candidates, saying that even if their party controls the White House and Congress, sweeping change…...
Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dogs Are Banned
Not in Damascus, Tehran, Pyongyang or any of the other cities living under the oppression of brutal dictatorships but rather in Los Angeles. That’s right, people living in one of…...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Republican Congressman Wants To Ban Sale Of Playboy At Military Stores
This is sure to result in a rather heated debate: Concerned that the military is selling pornography in exchange stores in spite of a ban, one lawmaker has introduced a…...
Monday, April 21, 2008
The Daily Oink: Government-Funded White Water Rafting Trips Edition
Your daily dose of government waste news, courtesy of The Oink Report. Chicago aquarium “sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in net assets” received $1.8 million in earmarks from…...
Shocker: Increased Social Welfare Spending Leads To Less Motivation For The Poor To Find Jobs
They’re calling it the “why bother” economy in Great Britain. We, as Americans, should be learning from their mistakes but I have a sneaking suspicion that American liberals will just…...
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Democrat: Iraq War Spending Is Slowing Down The Economy
Somebody get this guy a dunce cap. WASHINGTON - The growing cost to the United States of fighting the war in Iraq “is not only linked to our economic skid,…...
New York Now Charging Sales Tax On Internet Purchases
They claim that the new tax “levels the playing field” for in-state retailers who complained that the lack of a tax on internet purchases put them at an unfair disadvantage.…...
Fatties Feel Discriminated Against, Want Government-Issued Protected Class Status
What a joke: Led by Tatiana Andreyeva, a postdoctoral research associate at Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, a team of researchers questioned 1,100 subjects, aged 35 to…...
Friday, April 11, 2008
California Democrat Wants To Raise Beer Tax 1,500%
And what will the proceeds of this massive tax hike go to? Why, services for the children and the poor, of course! ...
Nature Is Not Bountiful
A smack down of high-profile greenie Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in the form of a letter to the New York Times, by prolific letter-to-the-editor author and economist Don Boudreaux: Robert…...
Barack Obama Encourages Personal Responsibility
For once, I actually agree with Obama: “Parents if you don’t parent, we can’t improve our schools,” he said. “You’ve got to parent. You’ve got to turn off the television…...
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Bush Blasts Democrats For Axing Colombian Trade Deal
I guess nixing free trade deals with our friendly allies is how Democrats are going to raise America’s standing in the world. You know, the standing the Democrats accuse Bush…...
Only Small Minority Of Americans Want Socialized Medicine
According to this poll from Rasmussen: Twenty-nine percent (29%) of American adults favor a national health insurance program overseen by the Federal Government. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found…...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Obama Supporter Ticketed For Calling Black Kids In A Tree “Monkeys”
Personally, I’m not so much upset about the “monkey” comment (seems like an innocent enough term to use for little kids climbing in trees whatever their racial background) as I…...
National Taxpayer’s Union Rankings: House Republicans May Heave Learned Lessons, Senate Not So Much
An interesting excerpt from an NTU press release announcing their latest congressional rankings: (Alexandria, Va.)—The multi-year decline of lawmakers’ pro-taxpayers scores under Republican control of the House of Representatives and…...
Monday, April 07, 2008
The Daily Oink: King Of Pork Edition
Your daily dose of government waste-related news courtesy of The Oink Report: Veterans Affairs employees last year racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in government credit-card bills at casino…...
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