Nothing like wrapping up an Independence Day weekend with claims from a repeat criminal offender in Michigan that his Constitutional rights are being deprived because he is being denied access to porn in prison. Says it’s cruel and unusual punishment, or something. This from The Detroit News: Kyle Richards, 21, of Fraser filed the five-page […]
Is there anyone even remotely associated with the Obama Administration who hasn’t gone off the deep end of true public embarrassment? It’s like some kind of twisted game of six degrees of separation. In this case, it comes via former Obama chief of staff and recently made Chicago mob boss mayor Rham Emanuel. One of […]
If you need a translation, ask Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin. I’m sure he could help. Earlier this week, during a Congressional hearing on the DREAM Act, Durbin asked hundreds of illegal aliens who had packed the room to stand and be recognized. One of them, Durbin said, could very well become the country’s next […]
It wouldn’t seem to matter whether it comes up heads or tails, the taxpayers and commonsense lose either way. NPR, of all sources, has the details about the government’s latest adventures in fiscal folly: Unused dollar coins have been quietly piling up in Federal Reserve vaults in breathtaking numbers, thanks to a government program that […]
A headline in the editorial pages of the uptown paper says: EpiCentre officials are hurt by their own silence. The implication is direct: What has downtown Charlotte done now? One reads on and discovers the focus to be the recent arrest of Phillip Agnew at the EpiCentre. It turns out the editorial is a reprint […]
It may be months before Halloween, but there is a fiend hiding in plain sight just waiting to pounce on the uninformed American citizen. That fiend is dressed as an entitlement monster, and that monster is about to attack. Thanks to House Guest Frank Hill for providing some charts courtesy of the Congressional Budget Office. […]
We’d be remiss if we didn’t note with a genuine degree of sadness the death of former Wolfpack hoops star Lorenzo Charles. This from ESPN: RALEIGH, N.C. — Lorenzo Charles, the muscular forward whose last-second dunk gave underdog North Carolina State a stunning win in the 1983 national college championship game, was killed Monday when […]
Perhaps you’ve seen the sign: Drink Coffee – Do stupid things faster, with more enthusiasm. Reminds me of some politicians I know and pundits I read. Thomas Friedman, one of the partisan pundits who pretends a knowledge of economics, recently argued for more deficit spending to prime the economy. What would he consider the $1.3 […]
Exhibit A in support of the proposition that politics does indeed make for strange bedfellows: Reps. Ron Paul and Barney Frank are set to join forces to introduce a bill that would have marijuana laws be set at the state, not federal level. This from the L.A. Times: The goal of the bill, HR 2306, […]
Am I alone with this, or has anybody else noticed how doggedly persistent the mainstream media has been with its liberal use of the word ‘unexpected.’ We’ve had unexpected downturns in home sales; unexpected slumps in stocks; and unexpected dips in consumer confidence. Exactly what has been so unexpected about any of these events? I […]
