Buy a Soldier a Cup of Coffee?
I never ask anyone to contribute to anything I’m not willing to do myself, so I got my wallet out earlier tonight to buy a cup of coffee for some…...
Friday, November 20, 2009
Despite Massive First Print, Palin’s Publisher Printing Another 1 Million Copies Of Her Book
Wow: NEW YORK — “Going Rogue” is going big. Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Sarah Palin’s memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a…...
North Dakota Attorney Generals Tells Indian Supporters Of Sioux Nickname To Shut Up And Be Offended
I don’t write much about the on-going controversy over the University of North Dakota “Fighting Sioux” nickname, but this article has me shaking my head at the irony. BISMARCK, N.D.…...
Stop The Presses: Chris Matthews Criticizes Obama, Says He’s Just Too Darn Smart
Yeah. That’s Obama’s problem. He needs to dumb it down a little bit. Every once in a while you see some wacky story put out by the state media in…...
University of California Raises Tuition 32%...
...students protest, occupying buildings. Just a couple of months ago, we noted that Barack Obama compared his health care proposals to the current relationship between public and private colleges. They…...
Bombproof Wallpaper
No, not for your computer! Best Of What’s New 2009: Bombproof Wallpaper Test from PopSci.com on Vimeo. No word on how it reacts to real bombs like Jim Carrey’s Christmas…...
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:
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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…...
Shocker: Canad Inn’s Guests Don’t Pay the City Hotel Tax
The Grand Forks Alerus Center Financial Disaster on the Prairie We all know that the Alerus Gang was desperate to get the Canad Inn folks to build next to the…...
Board of Higher Education Rules That State Money Will Be Used To Pay For NDSU Overruns
The NDSU President’s House debacle continues. You remember that the state legislature set a limit on the new palace for the NDSU President at one million dollars. That wans’t good…...
The World Is Not Enough
Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the grand damme of far left tax and spend liberalism, reportedly sees no reason why her authority to wage war on business in general and the world…...
SF Gate’s Morford: Hey, You Know What’s Really Evil? Cruise Ships. Yep. Cruise Ships
You know, whether you detest the writer and his myopic, shrieking, hair-on-fire liberal view of the world or not, you have to read an article that starts off like this:…...
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.…...
Grand Forks Herald Reporter Gleeful That the Alerus Center Made a Profit One Month In a Row
The Grand Forks Alerus Center Financial Disaster on the Prairie Of course that’s counting the hospitality tax as operating revenue and ignoring interest and depreciation costs. Somebody needs to teach…...
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