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Offendedness is the new national pastime
“Offendedness” is the new national pastime
Forget about baseball, Americans have found their new favorite pastime: becoming offended at the drop of a hat and demanding futile, insincere apologies. Why have Americans forsaken the tradition of free thinking, rejected reason, and turned the basic acts of criticizing or lampooning public officials, individuals, or groups within our […]
PA Smoking Ban Highlights Need for Part Time, Citizen Legislature
Back in the 1950s entertainer Louis Prima did a song about his “confused Italian greyhound” that would bark at him instead of at strangers and howl until Prima took his own albums off the turntable and put Sam Butera records on.
The Pennsylvania General Assembly is starting to look more and more like Prima’s confused Italian […]
Dear Governor Crist
Across elementary schools nationwide, when the bell rings, kids tear out of the building like nobody’s business.
It’s so great to go home.
One particular afternoon, a couple of Florida kids wished the bell had never rung.
Moments before dismissal, the school administrator had come across a neighborhood mom distributing pictures of their dad to parents waiting for […]
US to Monitor All of Cyberspace?
For our security of course…
From the Wall Street Journal
Spychief Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America’s cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over surveillance law look like “a walk in the park,” McConnell tells The New Yorker in the issue set to hit newsstands Monday. “This is going […]
New Jersey Abolishes Death Penalty
Looks like NJ Dems were able to push it through using a fiscal responsibility argument.
From the WaPo:
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 — New Jersey lawmakers on Thursday became the first in the nation to abolish the death penalty since the Supreme Court restored it in 1976. Opponents of capital punishment hope the state’s action may prompt […]
Combating the “Unitary Executive” and Restoring Our Political System
“In politics, today is not yesterday, and forever does not exist.” These are the words of historian Geoffrey Perret, whose spring 2007 book lays out the blueprint for how our nation drifted from the path of being a diplomatic nation that avoided entanglements abroad and set an example of liberty for mankind to its present […]
Carol Shea-Porter Used Tax Dollars To Buy Voter File From NH Dems
Using Congressional Office Funds, Shea-Porter Purchased A List From The New Hampshire Democratic Party That The Party Profits From Selling
On May 1st, 2007, Carol Shea-Porter’s Congressional Office Paid $5,000 To The New Hampshire Democratic State Committee. (Second Quarter Statement of Disbursements of the House, 110th Congress, 1st Session)
According To The New Hampshire Democratic […]
Our Border Options
Where are we Heading??? Apparently the open borders to all Illegal Immigrants that Western Europe adopted is now coming back to Bite them. Belgium, Holland, France, Germany,England, Italy, Denmark, etc… are all experiencing many sorts of problems with Muslims and other Illegals whereas they are beginning to impose their LAWS to regulate how these Residents […]
Privacy Vs Security
Over at Donklephant Justin Gardner has had some rather interesting posts regarding privacy abuses under current US Anti-Terrorism laws. I’m practically Libertarian about privacy. Largely I think that stems from growing up in the middle of nowhere with so much privacy that we could have sun bathed naked on the front lawn and nobody […]
Bungling Politicians Cast Dull Shadow Over Summer Fun
This summer, while Americans were casually lounging at the beach and relaxing in the sun, the “boys of summer” have been hard at work, and in most cases, working against the national interest. And no, I’m not talking about major league ball players, I mean the real boys of summer—politicians, candidates, and legislators who know […]
Senator Craig Represents…
“Craig pleaded guilty in August to a charge of disorderly conduct following his arrest in a men’s room at the Minneapolis airport. He has since recanted his guilty plea, and said on Tuesday he did nothing wrong.” - Forbes
The GOP has called for his resignation, which is another blow to the troubled Republican party. Where […]
FISA and the Imperial Judiciary
From DeMediacratic Nation:
What if a data packet could be purposely sent through the U.S. networks? What if Joe Blow in California and Joe Dunno in New York were having a conversation via cell phone or some other wireless communication device? What if the recent legislation passed before the kids in DC went on summer recess […]
Michael Vick and Al Sharpton
So, it’s been a little while since Michael Vick was indicted on federal charges for dogfighting. Americas best friend Al Sharpton was in on this press release from PETA a few days ago. So where is he now? It seems to me he had a lot more energy going against the Duke players and […]
Cheney on the DC Madam List
Found this while browsing around some political blogs…
Just came in from Coffee at the Caribou Coffee at 16th and L in DC.
Ran into one of my old cronies.
DC Madam talk is all the conversation in DC.
Brace Yourself.
I was just told Dick Cheney, while CEO of Halliburton, used her services regularly, they are trying to spin […]
