The special prosecutor has now charged George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin and while it is going to be a fascinating legal and public relations adventure, I don’t know if we’ll ever know the truth. Many have spoken of justice for Trayvon, which is an admirable goal; but there must be some consideration […]
And that headline, unfortunately, should be taken quite literally. The Obama administration’s Department of Agriculture is shoveling out $5 million to build a “biogas anaerobic digester,” which is a fancy way of saying something that uses cow manure to help heat an ethanol plant. Pure BS, in other words; this from the Washington Examiner: Western […]
Corporate welfare isn’t just for banana republics the likes of which councilmembers routinely establish in the Queen City, doling out your hard-earned money to multi-million dollar corporations and making a mockery of any notion of a competitively level free market. The give-aways are endemic and, dare I say, widespread enough to envelope the considerable girth […]
Few Americans are old enough to remember the last time a sitting U.S. President – Franklin D. Roosevelt – publicly intimidated the Supreme Court over the outcome of a specific case under deliberation. Since FDR, Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush Dance Remix somehow all managed to make […]
The classic image of the Hollywood movie set features a gruff director — wearing a beret and chomping a cigar — bellowing, “Lights, camera, action!” The actors then perform their roles. In Sanford, Florida the director might shout, “Lights, camera, Sharpton!” Although Al Sharpton is a devout blowhard, let’s give the devil his due. Whenever […]
In a classy and emotional speech, delivered with the historic town of Gettysburg, PA, as a backdrop, Rick Santorum today announced he was suspending his presidential campaign. Santorum started his presser with an acknowledgement that the fragile health of his daughter, Bella, prompted him to reassess the status of his campaign and how continuing it […]
And we’re off to the races. The Obama Administration has always been about firsts rather than bests. We were told that we would have the first African-American president, or the first bi-racial president depending on the crowd to whom the speech was delivered. We got the first, insert name of visible minority here, secretary of […]
Washington is awash with brains. Here are Think Tanks galore. Here are entire departments of federal agencies given over to nothing but research and analysis of how to solve our national (and local, and world) problems. PhD’s from every college in the land, perhaps world, are more than happy to drop everything to advise Washington […]
“The Supreme Court can not strike down laws as unconstitutional!” So said President Obama this past Monday when asked about whether he thought the Supreme Court will overturn the Obama Health Care individual mandate. “Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law […]
Or maybe that should be a soiled Red State, because this doesn’t deal specifically in the traditional, color-coded political sense that you’re probably thinking. This red has to do with ratings, as in from the American Petroleum Institute, which maps out the states with the highest combined local, state and federal gasoline taxes. Guess who […]
