Taking a page from the Vilma Leake campaign playbook, House Democrats up for reelection are increasingly dodging voters, scuttling public appearances, and keeping tightly guarded wraps on their events calendars. This from POLITICO: But a year after tea party protesters disrupted their town hall meetings — and with control of the House hanging in the […]
From the Rep. John Spratt (D-SC) campaign school of thought, Washington Post ultra-left columnist Eugene Robinson picks up on the growing meme liberals are already using to rationalize what many expect and polls indicate could be a tsunami of brutal losses for Democrats in November: It’s the voters’ fault; the public simply being too ignorant, […]
More than half of a million – that’s how many illegal aliens the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) says it has released, who are now fugitives: 506,232 as of Sept. 5, to be precise, according to this report from CNSNews: Fugitive illegal aliens are individuals who were apprehended ICE for being in the United […]
This seems logical and consistent, given that the same age bracket is fair game for the military – where they, um, you know, kind of use firearms. From the NRA’s news release yesterday: Fairfax, Va. — The NRA is challenging federal laws that prohibit law-abiding Americans eighteen through twenty years of age from legally purchasing a […]
The Rev. Jesse Jackson recently became the latest high-profile figure to receive a hearty Detroit welcome to the Motor City, and it came with an ironic twist. This from The Michigan View: Add Jesse Jackson’s ride to prominent vehicles being stripped in Detroit. Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing’s GMC Yukon was hijacked […]
[Robert Hartford, a local member of CAUTION, submitted this paper to PunditHouse. Some intriguing points. Enjoy.] © 2010 by Robert Hartford (Presented at: The Atlas Society / Free Minds 2010 Summer Seminar, July 3) Reprint/ posting permission granted provided this work is published in its entirety. Introduction Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United […]
The so-called Summer of Recovery continues to depress. The latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the national unemployment rate increased to 9.6% for August, up from July’s 9.5%, while the economy shed another 54,000 jobs. Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (-54,000) in August, and the unemployment rate was about unchanged at 9.6 […]
Um, about that whole climate change thing and how mankind is doomed to early extinction? Nevermind. Sorry about the confusion; totally our bad. This from the UK Express: THE world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices. A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel […]
RINO, that is. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski last night conceded that state’s Republican Party primary election to Tea Party-backed, Sarah Palin-endorsed challenger Joe Miller, who moves on to face Democrat Scott McAdams in November’s general election. The Anchorage Daily News runs down how it unfolded last night in the Land of the Midnight Sun: “We […]
In an effort to weed out the corruption that has plagued it for years, the Mexican government has fired nearly one-tenth of its federal police force – about 3,200 crooked cops – this year, according to this report from The L.A. Times: The cleanup is to take place nationwide and began with the federal police, […]
