The Senate Finance Committee has voted 18 to 5 to approve the nomination of tax cheat Timothy Geithner as secretary of the Treasury, the New York Times reports. It…
President Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts agree with your humble narrator that the presidential oath of office matters. (See blog post from yesterday) During the inaugural ceremony…
At the Sundance Film Festival, protesters denounced founder Robert Redford, accusing him of being an enemy of the poor for opposing energy exploration, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. It’s…
Since nobody on Capitol Hill cares about the Constitution, this constitutes trivia. The musical interlude at the inauguration ceremony that extended for about six minutes after 12 Noon today, after Joe…
There are reports that Arthur Nadel, a hedge fund manager and philanthropist, disappeared with up to $350 million of his clients’ money. A blogger (Libertarian Republican) reports that Nadel…
Throwing shoes in the general direction of President George W. Bush of course. It’s no surprise that Code Pink people, communists, and other anti-American kooks were behind this tiresome…
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…
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…
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…
“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.