Australia’s second most populous state is getting ready to crack down on foul language. Sad to say, but I’d be stone-effing broke within a day. This from the Australian Broadcasting Corp: The Victorian Government plans to introduce laws this week that will give police permanent power to issue on-the-spot fines to people who swear. Under […]
Last month marked a disturbing milestone for former Queen City darling Wachovia, when a so-called “deferred prosecution” of the ex-banking titan expired for its role in laundering billions of dollars for murderous Mexican drug cartels. What, you didn’t hear about it the first time around? Here’s a fresh reminder from the Guardian U.K.’s Observer – […]
And it sounds like he intends to keep both burners at full boil until he gets some answers about where all the money went from emergency loans that the Fed was pushing out like Pez candy. This from Fox Business: The chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve demanded Tuesday that the […]
One has to appreciate the hypocrisy of the Obama White House. They ignore the Constitution and any laws previously established, yet work to have new laws written as if we must follow their laws and not laws written by others. A perfect example is the current debate on the national debt. Written law, long established […]
Concerns over midnight border crossings are getting turned upside down, in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that compels the state of California to reduce its prison population by upward of 30,000 inmates. California officials haven’t made any decisions on how they’ll comply with the requirements, but because a goodly portion of the state’s […]
Because our legislators apparently don’t have any other pressing matters, they’ve decided to go after tanning parlors and the under-age tanners that infiltrate them. This from WRAL: A bill pending in the General Assembly would require anyone under 18 to get a physician’s prescription to use a tanning booth. State law now allows youths age […]
Leave it to the stalwarts of objective, nonpartisan journalism over at the Associated Press to elevate, quite literally, Barack Obama to true deity status. The One, you see, can heal. The One is “the healer-in-chief.” I guess when he’s not busy playing ping-pong and quaffing Irish brew for photo opps. Emphasis added: Obama going to […]
As cases of disconcerting irony go, this one’s a doozie. Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the State of California must release roughly 33,000 inmates to alleviate overcrowding in its prisons, comes a report that California prison officials have mistakenly let loose a horde of violent offenders. This from the L.A. Times: […]
As Big Ben winds down the second round of so-called quantitative easing, MarketWatch’s Brett Arends takes an objective look at what dumping $600 billion of phantom currency into the market has accomplished: Turns out the program has created maybe 700,000 full-time jobs — at a cost of around $850,000 each. House prices are lower than […]
What happens when a federal agency, in this case the National Labor Relations Board, throws it weight around in a blatant attempt to block a private business from doing business? Tyranny happens. That’s the take from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who doesn’t pull any punches with his assessment of the government hatchet job and general […]
