What the Heck Was the $862 Billion For, Then?

It’s not like they haven’t tried this before. Back when the president and his party was scrambling to pass the failed $862 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, if you asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the so-called “stimulus” bill was about four things: jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs, and without it, 500 million Americans were [...]

On Obama’s Iraq Speech

Well, that was an election year speech if I’ve ever heard one.

Born Yesterday? Here’s a Glimpse of Your Future.

A new policy paper released by House Republicans late yesterday should create quite a stir among those Americans already concerned about whether or not they will be able to leave their children with a better standard of living than they themselves enjoyed.  I don’t know about you, but I’m barely scraping by.  I worry daily [...]

The Man Who Would Dethrone a Queen: An Interview with John Dennis, Congressional Candidate, CA-8

Culturally speaking, the city of San Francisco has long been synonymous with unrestrained liberal values, or what might be better describes as an appalling lack of American ones. In many ways, the Haight-Ashbury section of the city was the epicenter for the counter-cultural revolution of the late 1960’s, and in a very real sense many [...]

Birthday Wishes for Speaker Pelosi

Dear Speaker Pelosi, It is near impossible to find a “Happy Birthday to the Woman Who Ruined My Country” greeting card in the local drugstore, so this letter will have to do.  I hope you don’t mind. You know, Madame Speaker, it’s a good thing that Hallmark’s “Animosity” section is so threadbare, because this letter [...]

What the Healthcare is Going On?!?

Okay, as much as I want to share a bunch of comments about what’s been going on in Washington, D.C. as I’ve been gallivanting around the Charleston, SC area looking for a job that doesn’t entail bussing tables with a $150,000 education, we need to get something out of the way first in deference to [...]

Venal, Vapid and Vacuous

In its traditional “Week in Review” form, Pravda on the Hudson (the newspaper formerly known as The New York Times) reported last Sunday on the performance by White House Political Guru David Axelrod on ABC’s This Week regarding the healthcare “reform” bill now oozing through the halls of Congress. The once-respected tabloid first paid, of [...]

Surprised? No. Outraged? Yes.

Are we really surprised anymore? That’s the question I keep coming back to, as it becomes more and more and more apparent–not that it wasn’t already abundantly clear–that the Democratic Party leadership is prepared to pay any price and bend any rule and destroy any career necessary to bring about whatever procedural nightmare will equate [...]

Taking the Country Down the Rabbit Hole, Too

If this is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s idea of “draining the swamp,” it’s a good thing she wasn’t put in charge of cleaning up after Hurricane Katrina.  New Orleans residents would still be getting around in rowboats and floating home the spoils of the occasional “beer run.” So far, in the past two weeks alone, [...]

Putting the Cart Before the Farce

Nancy Pelosi’s Official Site: Pelosi Remarks at the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties Earlier today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a speech to the Legislative Conference for the National Association of Counties. I cannot say that the entire speech is worthy of Assigned Reading–we all know what she’s going to say, anyway–but [...]

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