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Let’s Not Break Out the Horn of Shame for Scott Brown Yet

Jimmie | February 23, 2010 | Comments (1)

I am sure much will be made of Scott Brown’s vote for the Democratic vote buying jobs bill but I don’t see a need to get all riled up about it just yet. Despite his resounding victory, Brown is in a pickle. No matter how much he’s become a conservative darling for being the “41st [...]

Enjoy The Commercial, America. You’re Paying For It.

Jimmie | February 7, 2010 | Comments (2)

Here you go, faithful readers. Here is the ad that your government paid $2.5 million to air during the Super Bowl. That figure, of course, doesn’t include the tens of dollars paid for the D-List actors or the failed comedians who came up with the theme. Almost immediately after it aired, the Census Bureau took [...]

Another Obama Scandal, this Time at The NEA (Also, Was the Walpin Firing Related?)

Jimmie | September 21, 2009 | Comments (3)

Did the Obama administration use the National Endowment for the Arts to try to gin up some support for health care and cap and trade in a recent conference call? It surely looks like it. And if that’s the case, then the NEA appears to have violated the Hatch Act that prohibits government employees from [...]

Not Civil War, But Maybe Ross Perot

Jimmie | August 23, 2009 | Comments (3)

Thanks to a tip from Carol of No Sheeples Here, I read this interview with actor and conservative political voice Jon Voight. Voight is concerned that the President and his various left-wing flying monkeys are stirring up a civil war in America. “There’s a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil [...]

Obama Stars in New Movie: For a Trillion Dollars More

Jimmie | August 21, 2009 | Comments (3)

Okay, so the good news is that the Obama administration’s estimate of the 10-year deficit was wrong. The bad news is that they were wrong and low. Two trillion dollars low. The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to approximately $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior [...]

An Inconvenient Car Leads to Inconvenient Lives

Jimmie | August 21, 2009 | Comments (2)

This video (via Instapundit) makes me inexplicably sad. Some chucklehead, who should never be allowed to drive anything powered by more than a lawn mower engine, traded in a Chevrolet Corvette in order to buy one of the government-approved cars under the Cash for Clunkers program. Ordinarily, some car lover with a sense of history [...]

Well, That’s Kind of the Point of Cap and Trade, Isn’t It?

Jimmie | August 17, 2009 | Comments (1)

I’m fairly sure this is not a bug, but a feature. The House-passed climate change bill, if enacted, would expand the federal government so much that it would take billions of dollars and thousands of new employees to implement. Now-obscure federal agencies such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [...]

The Health Care Debate, Starring James Brolin as the Democratic Party

Jimmie | August 5, 2009 | Comments (4)

When did the Democratic Party start acting like the drunk, abusive father (usually played by James Brolin or that actor from “Wings”) in a Lifetime Channel movie? All I’ve heard for the past couple days from folks with a “D” behind their name is how we’ve gotten too big for our britches and that we [...]