The gang over at Bankrupting America took their camera’s to the Restoring Honor rally in D.C. today to test the attendees government spending IQ… The result are interesting. Before watching the video see if you can answer the following questions: Bush or Obama? This president spent a record-breaking $3 trillion in a single year. Bush […]
Archives for August 2010
Poll: American’s Don’t Much Like Congressional Republicans
Tom Jenson, writing on Public Policy Polling’s blog notes that Congressional Republicans aren’t terribly popular Americans… or even their own base: Our last national generic ballot poll found the Republicans ahead 45-42 despite the fact that Congressional Republicans had a 24/61 approval rating. Even among respondents who said they were going to vote Republican the […]
Paris Hilton Arrested for Cocaine Possesion in Las Vegas
It’s a slow news day and, well anyone who didn’t see this coming is moron… LAS VEGAS – Paris Hilton was arrested on the Las Vegas Strip late Friday after a police motorcycle officer smelled marijuana smoke wafting from a black Cadillac Escalade driven by her boyfriend, then found a small amount of cocaine in […]
CNBC: Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession
I be the first one to admit I’m a pessimist on the economy, but not even I’m this pessimistic: Positive gross domestic product readings and other mildly hopeful signs are masking an ugly truth: The US economy is in a 1930s-style Depression, Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg said Tuesday. Writing in his daily briefing to […]
Wings of Freedom 2010
The Wings of Freedom tour a living history display of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, and North American P-51 Mustang… The backbone of American air power in World War II is coming to Connecticut. Sixty years after their use over the skies of enemy territory, they embark on a new mission over […]
Union Representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents Unanimously Approves a “vote of no confidence” in ICE Leadership
The union representing rank and file Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has unanimously approved a “Vote of No Confidence” in the agency’s leadership. The statement released on June 25, 2010 accuse ICE Director John Morton, and Phyllis Coven, assistant director for the agency’s office of detention policy and planning of abandoning its core mission of […]
Nile Gardiner: The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime: extravagant and out of touch with the American people
I came across this column by Nile Gardiner the other day and I’ve been debating on whether to post it or not… I don’t begrudge the President or First Lady a vacation, I do think the optics of Michelle Obama’s extravagant vacation in Spain and the expense to taxpayers look horrible when most Americans are […]
Sorry I Asked…
Have you ever had of those days were everyone you meet wants to tell you their life story? This song from Australian country music singer Beccy Cole pretty well sums up my weekend: Sorry I asked, I really was only trying to be polite.
Pete Stark: The Federal Government can do most anything in this country
This video of Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) has been making the rounds… it’s extraordinary, the woman questioning Rep. Stark lays out one the clearest examples of the Constitutional issues surrounding health care reform I’ve seen and Rep. Stark simply has no answer for them saying: I think that there are very few constitutional limits that […]