Judge Judy: “I’m sending this tape to Congress”
She should hit them over the head with it via Patterico (Read the comments!)
Sometimes, all words fail except: The Only Easy Day was Yesterday
Yesterday… Yesterday, thirty plus United States military personnel were still alive. Today they are not; Coalition forces suffered the largest loss of life in a single incident since US forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001 when a transport helicopter crashed during a raid in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 US and seven Afghan special operations forces. The [...]
Obama: Sees US credit downgraded, goes to dinner…
Tomorrow, golfs. They always call Obama a historic President, today he breaks ground again; Standard & Poor’s announced Friday night that it has downgraded the United States credit rating for the first time, dealing a huge symbolic blow to the world’s economic superpower in what was a sharply worded critique of the American political system. [...]
US Marine, Arriving.
A video crossed my desk, put out by Congressman Darrell Issa’s office. It’s making the rounds on Facebook, and was covered very succinctly here about Border Patrol Agent and former Marine Brian Terry. Terry was killed in action at his post in the Arizona desert in December 2010 by some of the same weapons allowed [...]
Rick Santelli schools Ezra Klein about money not moving “Fairly”
Ezra Klein is one who’ll never understand the world beyond what some college professor told him once or twice. “The system, young Ezra, is inherently unfair. It’s up to you to see to it that money is forcibly taken from the evilll rich and the wealth is spread around equitably. Read Alinsky. Robin Hood. Misdirect. [...]
How the Recent Debt Ceiling Law Affects Gun Owners
Please check and see how your Representative and Senators voted, and make a point to speak to them during the summer recess.
Increasing Executive Power: Progressively Making Congress Irrelevant
Author’s Note: This article was originally drafted in mid-June, before the debt ceiling debacle even began to unfold. I have revised parts of the article to reflect events which have occurred in the interim, but I want to point out that the deal Congress just passed with respect to the debt ceiling is yet [...]
Obamanomics is in a intended tail spin
Obamanomics is in a Tail Spin Years ago when I was flight instructing. After the student had a few hours under his or her belt , we would put the aircraft into an intentional spin. After two or three turns and the spin got tighter we would show the student how to bring [...]
Nebraskans: Our Representatives in Congress Just Waived Their White Flags on the Constitution
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, all of Nebraska’s representatives in Congress sent up white flags of surrender… Flag 1: Upholding and defending the Constitution Flag 2: Ensuring federal spending will escalate another $2.5 trillion Note: Considering the margins by which “the debt deal” passed, if you’re not in Nebraska, at least some of [...]
China and Russia blast US for not taking Tea Party debt plan
Well, that’s what the headline should read. Russia last week, China this week; China, the largest foreign investor in U.S. government securities, joined Russia in criticizing American policy makers for failing to ensure borrowing is reined in after a stopgap deal to raise the nation’s debt limit. Note they were not impressed by the bi-partisanship, [...]