Archive for January, 2009
Senator Placeholder Declares His Own Coolness
You don’t know Senator Ted Kaufman, nor is it worth very much effort to try, unless you live in Delaware, then you should probably be a little bit ticked off. All most of us need to know about him is that he used to work as a high-ranking staffer for VP Joe Biden and has [...]
6th Century Primitives Killed by 14th-Century Disease
Get your forks and plates, folks, because this story is filled with all sorts of tasty irony. ANTI-TERROR bosses last night hailed their latest ally in the war on terror — the BLACK DEATH. At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages. [...]
“I Don’t Know” is No Answer.
The Timothy Geithner story has driven right through strange and is heading full-tilt toward Ridiculousville. Byron York has a report today at National Review Online that boggles my mind. Geithner was asked last week about why he didn’t pay any withholding tax for four years. His answer, basically, was “I don’t know”. What senators learned [...]
Why Hang with the Hippies on Inauguration Night?
If you’re a conservative, there’s not a lot of inaugural fun to be had out there. Seriously, who wants to drink from the same punch bowl of Kool Aid after the left’s been slobbering all over it? On the other hand, the women at Smart Girl Politics are gearing up for a whale of a [...]
President Sends Compean and Ramos Home
Beautiful. Thank you, Mr. President. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush, in one of his last official acts in office, commuted the prison sentences of two U.S. Border Patrol agents who were imprisoned for shooting an unarmed Mexican drug smuggler in the buttocks in a case that drew widespread attention. The agents, Ignacio Ramos [...]
Bush’s Economy and Pelosi’s Bad Choice
Here are a couple useful tidbits on the economy that you’ll find useful. First, the Wall Street Journal issues a corrective to the years of biased and/or ignorant MSM reporting to give a measured accounting of the economy Bush administration. In the end, he got one big thing right and one big thing wrong. The [...]
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