Archives: 2009 February

Enough with the death by a thousand cuts. Can we just take away everyone’s right to free speech, eliminate individualism - make everyone a ward of the state, and turn the country into the Soviet Union and be done with it already?
“It’s all about diversity in media,” the Spectator quoted a House energy committee staff [...]

Begs the same tired old question that I’m already sick of asking.
Can you imagine the freak show if this had been W’s chief of staff?
Emanuel is a multimillionaire, but lived for the last five years for free in the tony Capitol Hill townhouse owned by De Lauro and her husband, Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg.
During that [...]

Q. Without violating that pesky Constitutional right to bear arms, how can a government legally disempower its people?
A. Rather than take away their guns directly, just make it too expensive to legally own them. How about a mandatory $1 Million insurance policy?
From the bill:
Provides that any person who owns a firearm in this State shall [...]

Did I wake up in an alternate universe? Someone at UCLA is not only admitting the U.S. has an enemy that needs found, but they are treating him like an animal.

I really try to be tolerant of other people’s religious and spiritual views provided their views don’t motivate them to strap bomb belts on children, but…
Citizens Commission on Human Rights” (CCHR), a high-level Scientologist claims that Osama bin Laden’s “Number Two,” Ayman al-Zawahiri, is a Psychiatrist and it is him who persuaded Osama Bin Laden [...]

I’ve seen where dogs can be trained to sniff out skin cancer. Who knows, maybe there’s something to this.

“He would climb into bed and take his paw and drag it down my left side — he was adamant there was something there,” he said.
“And it was right where the cancer was.”
Adams, who has suffered from [...]

I guess politicians are so used to dodging questions and hearing other people dodge questions they might miss it the first time.
After saying he never raised funds for Blagojevich, Burris admitted to reporters Monday night that he did in fact try to raise funds after a solicitation request was made by the former governor’s brother, [...]

What’s that called when a company or organization solicits your email address for one thing, then uses it to solicit you for something else?
Uhhh… Anyway. I’m sure most of Obama’s sheep…err…supporters still don’t believe the Great Shepard can do anything wrong…not with their money or their email address. 
The Obama presidential campaign’s list of supporters and [...]

Looks like Trump is participating in the recession. On the bright side, at least people aren’t gambling as much…outside of Washington anyway.
Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., real estate tycoon Donald Trump’s casino group, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday morning, court documents show.
The petition listed less than $50 million in assets and nearly $500 million in [...]

Not good
The government agreed to implement Islamic law and suspend a military offensive across a large swath of northwest Pakistan on Monday in concessions aimed at pacifying a spreading Taliban insurgency there.
I guess they don’t teach history in Pakistan.