Category: The Rise of the Nanny State
We’re Going to Need More Vito and Less Tom in the New Congress
Let’s face it, conservatives, Barack Obama and Harry Reid cleaned our clocks. We scored the biggest electoral win for any party since at least the end of World War II, a win so big that even the President was forced to remark on it. Our message — Washington is too damned big and too damned [...]
Will the Internet Balkanize? Not Anytime Soon, I Don’t Think.
If you’re looking for something to ponder this weekend, let me recommend this piece in the Economist about the Internet in the modern age to you (via Melissa Clouthier’s Twitter feed). The article looks at the challenges of keeping the internet open in the face of obvious threats to national security such as WikiLeaks, reassertion [...]
President Barack Obama: Truly a Uniter, Not A Divider
Leave it to Barack Obama to unite right, middle, and left in opposition to perhaps the only real political compromise he’s made during his administration. Today, the left almost literally exploded with rage at what they see as a scurrilous betrayal of perhaps the President’s most important campaign promise to them. Their anger wasn’t even [...]
Dear Anonymous TSA Agent: Get Stuffed
Here is my response to this anonymous TSA security mook who decided to lecture us on how we should act when we enter their little kingdoms. We’re sorry you have this job, but we didn’t actually force you to take it. We have no more sympathy for you than we do for the clerk at [...]
Boehner Drops the Debt Hammer: It’s a “Stand-Alone” Vote
I will never claim to be John Boehner’s biggest fan, but this move is sheer, ballsy political brilliance. For the first time in years, House lawmakers will soon have the chance to vote on a standalone measure to increase the federal debt limit next year under the new Republican majority — a vote that’s shaping [...]
Here Come the Restructureniks!
If the upper echelon inside the GOP really want to know why they still don’t have the adoration of the Tea Parties, who ought to be natural ideological allies with them, they have only to listen to Senator Judd Gregg. Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.), the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said that repealing [...]
Another Attack on Your Freedom to Work, Courtesy of A Democrat Union Tool
Are you one of the fortunates who lives in a “right to work” state — one of the 22 states where you may work without having to worry about your government taking money from your pocket and giving it to the Democratic Party labor unions? Well, if this Democratic member of Congress has his way, [...]
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