Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin delivers the closing keynote address at the first-ever National Tea Party Convention, held in Nashville, TN. February 6, 2010: Related Third party is the wrong party for Tea Partiers – Mark Tapscott, Washington Examiner Nashville Shows Tea Party Is America’s Third Great Awakening – Glenn Reynolds, Washington Examiner Breitbart, Farah […]
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Unemployment Rate Drops to 9.7%
I was going to post this yesterday, but there was something about the numbers that just didn’t make sense to me so I decided to hold off until I could dig through the report. Anyway, the Associated Press got to use it’s favorite adverb, “unexpectedly“, again today: The job market is lurching toward improvement. It […]
Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown Asks to be Seated Immediately
From The Washington Times: Massachusetts Sen.-elect Scott Brown on Wednesday demanded to be seated immediately, saying that while he is scheduled to be sworn in Feb. 11, “there are a number of votes scheduled prior to that date.” In a letter from his lawyers to Gov. Deval Patrick and Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, […]
Thoughts on President Obama’s First State of the Union Address
Let me preface this by saying I didn’t watch the President’s speech last night. Frankly I’ve been been watching him for roughly two years now and I’m tired of his hollow rhetoric. I did read through the transcript this morning though… it reads more like campaign speech than a State of the Union address. Worse […]
Massachusetts Miracle: Scott Brown Wins!
I have to confess I haven’t paid close attention to the special election in Massachusetts to fill the senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy… Frankly, I didn’t think there was even the slightest chance that a Republican could win there, in fact republicans haven’t won Senate race in the Bay State since the 1970s! […]
The Body Scanner Scam
Edward Luttwak, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has a must read op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal… In short Mr. Luttwak lays way waste to the fallacy of body scanners in airport security screening: All males have a body cavity. Females have two body cavities. In prisons, these body […]
Train Wreck: Retail Sales Fall, Jobless Claims Rise, Foreclosures set Record and the Dollar Crisis
Whew, I can’t believe I got all that in headline! Anyone who has read this blog for any period of time knows I’m a pessimist on the economy, in short I don’t see any reason to be hopeful: Retail sales unexpectedly fell in December, leaving 2009 with the biggest yearly drop on record and highlighting […]
Scott Brown: It’s the People’s Seat
Damn right… It is the people’s seat… There a reason why the race to fill the senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts is apparently to close to call. This video clip from last night’s debate between Republican Scott Brown, Democrat Martha Coakley and Independent Joe Kennedy demonstrates it pretty clearly. It’s the […]
Harry Reid: Racist Idiot
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is under fire for remarks he made to reporters about then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008: Republicans called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to resign his leadership post over remarks he made in 2008 about then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, adding to the Nevada Democrat’s political troubles. Mr. Reid, who […]
Boston Herald: Democrats Would Stall Brown to Pass Health Care Reform
There’s and editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal titled “The 60th Senate Vote“. It details what’s at stake in the January 19, special election to fill the Senate seat formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy… in short, should Republican Scott Brown win he be the 41st Republican in the Senate and would deny Democrats […]
Video: Jack Cafferty Rips Obama on Failed Openness Pledge
Ouch: Don’t worry Jack, we will! Most open and ethical Congress in history… Heh!
Bloomberg: Geithner’s Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure
In a sane world Tim Geithner’s tax troubles would have kept him from being confirmed as Treasury Secretary. Unfortunately, we don’t live sane and those tax troubles pale in comparison to what we’re learning about the Geithner led Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s role in the AIG bailout: The Federal Reserve Bank of New […]
Video: America Rising An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians
Dodd, Dorgan to Retire; Won’t Seek Re-election
The 2010 mid-term elections are still months, but things aren’t looking good Democrats. Two long serving high profile Senators, Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota have announced that they won’t seek re-election: Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and a Democratic Party stalwart in the Senate, […]
Napolitano Backtracks; Now Says System Didn’t Work
Security of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is backtracking on remarks she made over the weekend regarding the attempted bombing of Northwest Airline flight 253: Napolitano, appearing Monday on NBC’s “Today Show,” explained comments she made Sunday regarding an incident in which a Nigerian man allegedly ignited an incendiary device aboard a U.S. jetliner on Christmas […]