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 […]
House Ethics Committee Outlines Charges Against. Rep. Rangel
The House Committee on Standards of Official Contact today released a detailed Statement Alleged Violation which charges Congressmen Charles Rangel (D- NY) 13 violations of House rules: A public trial into ethics charges against New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel began today. Lawmakers cast the proceedings as a necessary exercise to regain the public’s trust […]
Titanic II???
Dude WTF? This has to be a joke right? Not even Hollywood would stoop so low as to make a sequel to Titanic, right? Apparently not… From Metro: So don’t be surprised that the promotional trailer for Titanic 2 has become the laughing stock of the film industry. You might be thinking: Why did they […]
Oliver Stone: Anti-Semitic Crackpot
Lets not mince words here: Oliver Stone is and anti-Semitic crackpot… There’s simply no other way to explain this: Director Oliver Stone belittled the Holocaust during a shocking interview with the Sunday Times today, claiming that America’s focus on the Jewish massacre was a product of the “Jewish domination of the media.”The director also defended […]
House Ethics Commitee Charges Charlie Rangel With Violating House Rules
It’s taken two years of investigations, but the House Committee on Standards of Official Contact has finally charged Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) with multiple ethics violations: House ethics investigators have accused the once-powerful Rep. Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) of breaking a series of congressional rules. Mr. Rangel will have the opportunity to defend himself at […]
“…Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor”
Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr., the father of talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, delivered this address on the singers of the Declaration of Independence a number times during his life, it’s worth reading and remembering that the men who singed the Declaration of Independence truly did pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to each other […]
Ouch: Jay Leno Embarrasses the American Educational System
I probably shouldn’t post this today, it’s pretty depressing… Ouch, I’m not sure what this bit from the Tonight Show really says about the American educational system, but it’s painfully embarrassing. There’s simply no excuse for an American citizen not knowing basic American history, the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Federalist Papers, The Anti-Federalist […]
God Bless the USA
Happy Birthday America!