Pelosi Wants to Criminalize Policy Differences
A disturbing report came out from Bill Sammon of FoxNews. He reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to prosecute Bush administration officials for war crimes. This is the kind…
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Green Nutter Says World Will End in 4 Years Unless Obama Acts
Although scientific data show the earth hasn’t warmed since the 1990s, James Hansen, America’s leading global warming alarmist after Al Gore, says incoming U.S. president Barack Obama has only…
Nonprofit Bailout included in Stimulus Package
Left-of-center nonprofits are getting the bailout they wanted from the U.S. government, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reports. The news comes a month after Independent Sector president Diana Aviv…
Wisdom from Ron Paul
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) nails it in a piece on RealClearPolitics today: We are at an economic dead-end and those in power are in denial. The truth is our…
TARP Unconstitutional: FreedomWorks
The FreedomWorks Foundation is planning to sue over the Mother of All Bailouts, arguing it is unconstitutional. It’s a debate worth having but given that since the 1930s the…
Senator Roland Burris
Democrat Roland Burris, appointed to the U.S. Senate by the venal Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, was sworn in (apparently) less than one hour ago. His official Senate web…
An End to Earmarks?
“Congressman LaHood’s staff called me, saying, ‘We know your roads are in bad condition. What can we do?’ said LuAnn Johnson, executive director of the Oak Ridge Cemetary in Springfield.
Hypocrisy on Geithner
We keep hearing again and again and again from the media that Timothy Geithner, President-elect Obama’s choice as Treasury secretary, made an honest mistake in failing to pay employment taxes.
Patrick McGoohan, RIP
“I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.” –No. 6, a character in “The Prisoner” played by Patrick McGoohan,…
Food-Insecure?
At the lovefest that was Sen. Hillary Clinton’s nomination hearing for the post of U.S. secretary of state today, Richard Lugar, a Republican from Indiana, lamented that “nearly 1 billion people…