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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Pediatricians Quizzing Parents About Gun Ownership

Because they think it’s their business, of course. Personally I’m all for public education about gun safety (though I’m not a fan of gun locks myself), but I’m not real…...

Monday, July 07, 2008

Toddlers Saying “Yuk” To Foreign Foods Is Racist In Great Britain

Does anyone actually believe that toddlers are capable of racism? ...

Sunday, July 06, 2008

British Government To Begin Crackdown On Food Waste

It’s the equivalent of the government telling you to clean your plate because there are starving people in Africa. The Government is to launch a campaign to stamp out Britain’s…...

Friday, July 04, 2008

Senator John Warner: Reduce Speed Limits To Save Gas

It’s the 1970’s all over again! WASHINGTON (AP) — An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and…...

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

California Has A Against Cutting In Line At Restaurants

No joke: Does a nation that already has more citizens in jail per capita than China really need a law against cutting in line? ...

Most Americans Think Free Trade Is Bad

Of course, just because the whimsical opinion of the masses right now is that free trade is bad for our economy doesn’t mean it’s true. According to the CNN/Opinion Research…...

Monday, June 30, 2008

Liberal Quandry: Is Bottled Water A Healthy, Trendy Accessory Or A Threat To The Environment?

I have to admit, when bottled water first started to hit retail store refrigerators across the country I wasn’t buying it.  Why would people fork out good money for something…...

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Shocker: Economic Stimulus Checks Increase Personal Spending

If checks from the government stimulate the economy like this, maybe the government should send everyone a check every month? NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)—Personal income surged in May as the government’s…...

Saturday, June 28, 2008

If We Elect Obama Do We Still Need Affirmative Action?

Electing Obama may end up issuing a death-blow to one particularly heinous liberal article of faith: That minorities cannot succeed unless they are given government-mandated special treatment. WASHINGTON - Barack…...

Monday, June 23, 2008

Don’t Talk to Cops

Here’s a great, if long video of a law professor giving his reasons why a person should never, ever talk to the cops.  These video’s are 30 minutes apiece but…...

Climate Change Scientist: Put Oil Executives On Trial For Spreading Doubt About Global Warming

Not just any climate scientist either, but rather the climate scientist.  The guy who who first “sounded the alarm” about global warming before Congress twenty years ago. Good grief... James…...

Obama Facing Criticism Of His Proposed Iran Diplomacy From…Europe

Yes.  Europe of all places. And here you thought the international community was already in the bag for Obama. European officials are increasingly concerned that Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign pledge…...

Friday, June 20, 2008

Global Warming Rates Higher On List Of Liberal Priorities Than Helping The Poor

Noah Pollack: ...it’s very interesting to observe the contradictions among liberals between their desire for progressive taxation and their advocacy for higher gasoline taxes. Demand for gasoline, in economics jargon,…...

Congress Thinking Their Ban Of Incadescent Light Bulbs Might Have Been Unconstitutional

I guess none of them could find the part of the Constitution which gave the federal government the authority to tell us what kind of light bulbs we can and…...

Sunday, June 15, 2008

New York Health Official: High Taxes Help Smokers Quit

This is so wrong for two reasons. First, government taxation is for raising revenue.  Not for manipulating behavior.  We put ourselves on a slippery slope toward totalitarianism each time we…...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Democrats Kill Bill To Allow Off-Shore Drilling For Oil In Committee

Just like they killed an attempt to open up Colorado oil shale deposits to exploration and production. The Democrats tell us that they care about high gas prices and want…...

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Government Housing Programs Helped Create Subprime Loan Problem

Because the federal government was requiring that some lenders make loans to people who couldn’t afford them. In 2004, as regulators warned that subprime lenders were saddling borrowers with mortgages…...

Monday, June 09, 2008

Right To Work States Do Better Economically Than Forced Unionization States

An inconvenient truth for union thugs: ...

Man Kills 7, Wounds 11 In Knife Rampage

This is where Japan’s dangerous knife culture has led them. TOKYO — Screaming as he randomly stabbed shoppers with a hunting knife, a man killed seven people and injured 11…...

Friday, June 06, 2008

Forget Gun Control, Europeans Are Now Looking At Knife Control

Next thing you know they won’t be letting people use forks either. ...

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Video Shows Bystanders Ignoring Hit-And-Run Victim

Well, not so much ignoring the victim as standing, gawking and generally doing nothing to help. HARTFORD, Conn. - A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a…...

Friday, May 23, 2008

Raising Taxes Is Not The Solution To Run-Away Government Spending

James Pethokoukis asks a good question: How does Barack Obama want to make Social Security solvent? By raising taxes—specifically by removing the wage cap on Social Security taxes. No talk…...

Are Subsidized Sports Stadiums Really Worth It To The Taxpayers?

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Barack Obama’s SUV Hypocrisy

Obama on American energy usage: We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then…...

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Ohio City Will Put You In Jail If You Don’t Mow Your Lawn

For me, you have to stretch the definition of “criminal” pretty far to include someone who is perhaps a bit lazy with yard work. ...

Monday, May 19, 2008

Some Citizens Are More Equal Than Other Citizens

Cops are refusing to pay traffic camera fines in Maryland. Among the thousands of drivers who have been issued $40 fines after being nabbed by Montgomery County’s new speed cameras…...

Your Households Bill For Entitlements: $500,000

While liberals wring their hands in worry over Iraq war spending an analysis finds that the bill for each and every American household for entitlements like Medicare and Social Security…...

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Other People’s Money And The End Of The Republic

(via Red Planet Cartoons) ...

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Chicago City Council Decides It Won’t Be Telling Citizens What To Eat After All

At least when it comes to foie gras.  Now if we could just get LA to start letting people eat hot dogs wrapped in bacon. CHICAGO - Dining on foie…...

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Philadelphia’s Public WiFi Experiment Ends In Failure

It fails almost two years to the day that the service was originally announced. EarthLink, which once pinned its future on municipal networks such as Philadelphia’s following rapid declines in…...

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