Archive for May, 2009
Nancy Pelosi is About to Learn that Lies Make A Poor Fallout Shelter
The Pelosi saga rolls on with yet another story about What Nancy Knew and When She Knew It. For those of you keeping track, this is now the fifth time she’s changed her story. So far, these are the stories she’s used: 1) I knew nothing about waterboarding. 2) I knew about waterboarding, but not [...]
To the Government, We’re All Kids
To heck with marijuana, folks, the FDA has its eyes on the real gateway drug. According to a letter from the FDA, General Mills’ advertising violates the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The agency claims that Cheerios can lower cholesterol within a certain amount of time while providing cancer-fighting and heart-healthy benefits makes Cheerios [...]
Who is Lacking an “Exit Strategy” Now?
Democrats do like their “exit strategies”, so it’s kind of surprising that they have no such strategy for the waterboarding scandal in which they’ve mired themselves. What surprises me most about this is that Nanci Pelosi, et alia, appear to have believed that they could simply hang the CIA out to dry without the agency [...]
When Government Dictates Business, Everyone Wins but You
When corporations and the government get together to figure out how they can all do stuff for you, you can rest assured that your best interests will not be discussed all that much. So it will be with government health care. If the coporativist bargain works out as they plan, both insurers and hospitals expect [...]
No, Senator Cornyn, I Don’t Want What You’re Smoking
I don’t know what premium bud John Cornyn smoked this morning, but he really should give it up. It makes him do some really dumb stuff like endorse Florida Governor Charlie Crist for the Senate. I am pleased today to endorse Governor Charlie Crist for the United States Senate. With his record of reform in [...]
Obama’s Job Stimulus Deception, Illustrated
You know those stories you’ve been hearing about the hundreds of thousands of jobs we’ve lost over the past few months? Well, you don’t know how lucky you are. The Obama administration’s fiscal stimulus plan will meet previous estimates to save 3.5 million U.S. jobs by the end of 2010, but the unemployment rate at [...]
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