I’ve got the video right here: Let’s cut through the bull, Ms. Prejean isn’t the first young woman, Christian or otherwise, who has foolishly sent naughty pictures or video to a boyfriend… and she won’t be the last. Quite honestly I don’t see anything hypocritical about a Christian sinning; one of the principle tenants of […]
House Passes Health Care Refore Bill
I meant to post this yesterday but it slipped through the cracks of what was another manic Monday. The House of Representatives passed Nancy Pelosi’s 1,990 page health care reform bill by a vote of 220 to 215 on Saturday night. The House of Representatives late Saturday night approved a historic bill to remake the […]
Happy Birthday, Marines!
Ladies and Gentlemen, please join me in a toast to the greatest fighting force the world has ever known… The United States Marine Corps. 234th years of unwavering fidelity to Country and Corps, Happy Birthday, Marines! Semper Fi!
AP: What Recovery?
The Associated press has been one of the President’s biggest cheerleaders but with unemployment now topping ten percent even they’re asking What recover? Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and warnings that […]
AMA May Withdraw Health Care Reform Endorsement
It looks like the American Medical Association’s Board of Trustees decision to endorse the House Health Care Reform bill is about to backfire. A significant chunk of the group is upset that the Trustee’s made the endorsement without the formal approval of the organization’s House of Delegates and is pushing a resolution that, if approved, […]
Robert Gibbs: Can You Imagine if, 5 Years Ago, People Had Protested With Hitler Pictures?
“I will continue to say what I’ve said before. You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning, and you hear it all the time. People — imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care reform to 9/11. Imagine just […]
Sgt. Kimberly Munley: Hero
The word hero gets tossed around a lot these day but Sgt. Kimberly Munley, the civilian police officer who ended the Fort Hood gunman’s violent rampage has certainly earned the title: The hero cop who ended the bloody rampage at Fort Hood by pumping four bullets into the crazed gunman even though she was wounded […]
Steny Hoyer: We Don’t Have the Votes… Yet.
From the Associated Press: House Democrats acknowledged they don’t yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system, and signaled they may push back the vote until Sunday or early next week. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters in a conference call Friday that the make-or-break vote on […]
Ouch: Unemployment Climbs to 10.2%
Ouch, unemployment climbed to a 26 year high in October as as more than 558,000 Americans lost their jobs in October: In another sign that workers are being left out of the budding economic recovery, the U.S. unemployment rate climbed to 10.2% in October, topping the 10% mark for the first time in 26 years. […]
Breaking: Fort Hood Gunman Alive, in Custody
From Fox News: A military doctor who reportedly feared an impending war deployment is in custody as the sole suspect in a shooting rampage at the Army’s Fort Hood that left 12 dead and 31 wounded, an Army official said Thursday night. The news that the suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was alive and in […]
Breaking: 12 Dead, 31 Wounded in Shooting at Fort Hood
From Reuters: Twelve people were killed and at least 31 were wounded when a soldier went on a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood U.S. Army base at Fort Hood Texas on Thursday, base commander Lieutenant-General Bob Cone said. Cone told reporters at the base that the gunman was killed in the attack at the […]
John Boehner: NY GOP Ignored Warnings From NRCC
I have slight different take on this story than Michelle Malkin and Dan Riehl do… It’s not that I disagree they both raise very valid points It’s just that think I there’s a larger issue here than the Beltway GOP racing to cover their, um, assets (emphasis mine): At a meeting of Washington conservatives this […]
Wait, I thought it was Republicans Who Are Divided and Hate Moderates???
Funny how the Associated Press waits until after the election to let this story out: Get on the health overhaul bandwagon, or don’t count on our help in your re-election. That’s the hardball message liberal groups are hurling at moderate Democratic senators in a battle that is dividing their party. Their demands: Support a bill […]
Election Day 2009: Results and Analysis
Whew what a night… I was up until about 1:00 a.m. this morning tracking results and scribbling down various thoughts on yesterday’s elections. First, I’m not sure how much we can or should read into the results one thing is clear from the exit polling though: the economy is the number one concern of voters. […]
Election Day: November 3, 2009
I wanted to post this earlier but I suffered a bout of “connectile dysfunction” this morning and this is the first chance I’ve had to post… Get out and Vote! Preferably for the conservative candidate of your choice, but I digress. The bulk of our attention has been focused on races New York, New Jersey […]