Random Round-Up 04-08

My husband's article in The Washington Times - EPA's ginormous power grab

And his article in Investor's Business Daily - God Bless The People Of Coal Country

RealClearPolitics Poll Averages

Health Care's History of Fiscal Folly. Expanding health coverage busted state budgets. Will it bust the federal budget too?

What's Barbara Boxer Scared Of? I hope it's Mickey Kaus.

National Backlash Against Public Pensions

Union Thuggery and Theatrics: When is Enough Enough Already?


As National Bargaining for 100,000 Union Members at Kaiser Permanente Begins... SEIU-UHW Members Tell Kaiser: Keep Your Hands Off Our Healthcare Benefits

Want to Understand Lack of Public School Teacher ‘Accountability?’ Look to How Their Union’s Union Operates

PJTV Video - A Crisis Of Consent: Rep. Thaddeus McCotter On A Government Gone Wrong

Ultra-Rich Leftists Want to Atone for their Guilt by Paying Higher Taxes…And They Want to Impose their Neurotic Views on the Rest of Us

Henry Waxman is confused and afraid

When Liberals Attack: Leftist Union Protester Attacks Tea Partier at Fort Lauderdale Townhall Meeting


HCR: Pelosi tells the simple-minded American people not to worry our pretty little heads about it

Alderman Edward Burke: Top Machine Boss of Obama’s Chicago-Part 1




Obama’s Increased Use of Death From the Skies, Where’s the Anti-War Left?

It Ain't Over

The US News & World Report article, titled How To Tell When The Recession Is Really Over, lists five things that have to change before the recession will be over as far as the ordinary American is concerned.

1) Banks need to lend more
2) Incomes need to rise
3) Housing needs to stabilize
4) Cofidence needs to rebound
5) Jobs need to return

Everything boils down to jobs, jobs, jobs. What is the likelihood that this administration or this Congress will take their thumbs out of that place the sun don't shine and take the currect (non-meddling) actiopns to stimulate the economy?

Hint - it's not bailouts or other throw-taxpayers'-money-at-the-problem solutions.

Big New Lizard

Riddle me this, how come when we read the science news, they are reporting a new species being discovered every other week but when we read the "environmental" news, they report mass die-offs? I smell agenda!

Meanwhile, this is a rare large species discovery that's kinda creepy/cool - a six foot, tree-climbing lizard. Giant lizard discovered in the Philippines

Daily Round-Up 04-07

My husband and mining songs - Re: Mining Songs AND Must-Read on the Mine Disaster

Some Good News Today. The Center for Individual Rights is filing a lawsuit today, challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

African-American Republicans face long odds for seats in Congress

John Stossel - What Am I?


GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR

Erick Erickson: The Left’s Newest Target for Silencing AND True Confessions from America's Census Workers

The Real Problem with Immigration... and the Real Solution

Please Dear Lord let this be true - Immigration Reform Dead AND Obama Can't Handle Immigration Reform. Or the truth for that matter.

VodkaPundit - What, Me Worry? AND Obama Is Weakening America

Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document

VDH - Thoughts on Allies Gone By

I dunno but 18 for voting, marriage, and military but not for drinking doesn't really make sense.



FIGHTING CORRUPTION

TEA Party Express in Madison

Black Tea

From Clarance Thomas - Punishment and Personhood

Un-Civil War. Astroturf "Organizing for America" vs. Organic TEA Party. I know what I'm choosing.

PJTV Video (The Hicks File) - Race-Baiters Take Aim At The Tea Party... And Miss.

Independents rally to the Tea Party

Like Sen. Inhofe, Sen. Coburn is a good man - Coburn threatens to block all spending bills in Senate that aren't 'paid for'

Culture for Freedom Nice website

What Can 23 States Gain from Offshore Drilling?

God Bless Him (Even if he is French) NYC Tourist Who Vanished After Saving Toddler's Life Comes Forward. Julien Duret of Lyon, France, plucked 2-year-old Bridget Sheridan out of the water after she fell off a gangplank into the East River in New York City.

Junk Science 04-07

Top climate scientist’s exoneration won’t be the last word

For First Time, Energy Trumps Hippies
White House Sleight of Hand on Oil Drilling

EPA Green Police Mount Energy Assault

After Taking Ten Steps Back on Domestic Oil Production, President Obama Now Takes One Small Step Forward



McDonnell withdraws from wind energy coalition

NY Health Commissioner Is All About the Benjamins

Side Effects: New Tanning Tax Burns Business Owners

Well when your entire scientific basis is built on sand... House liberals shift climate change tactics, will not draw 'lines in the sand'

A good thing - U.S. Natural Gas Reserves May Have Doubled, Secretary Chu Says

EU Satellite to Check Climate Change Impact On Ice I see the headline now "Ice Melts in Summer!!!"

Daily Round-Up 04-07

My husband and mining songs - Re: Mining Songs AND Must-Read on the Mine Disaster



Some Good News Today. The Center for Individual Rights is filing a lawsuit today, challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.



African-American Republicans face long odds for seats in Congress

John Stossel - What Am I?


GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR

Erick Erickson: The Left’s Newest Target for Silencing AND True Confessions from America's Census Workers

The Real Problem with Immigration... and the Real Solution

Please Dear Lord let this be true - Immigration Reform Dead



VodkaPundit - What, Me Worry? AND Obama Is Weakening America



Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document

VDH - Thoughts on Allies Gone By





FIGHTING CORRUPTION

TEA Party Express in Madison

Black Tea

PJTV Video (The Hicks File) - Race Baiters Take Aim at Tea Party.... And Miss



From Clarance Thomas - Punishment and Personhood

Un-Civil War. Astroturf "Organizing for America" vs. Organic TEA Party. I know what I'm choosing.

Independents rally to the Tea Party



Like Sen. Inhofe, Sen. Coburn is a good man - Coburn threatens to block all spending bills in Senate that aren't 'paid for'

Culture for Freedom Nice website

What Can 23 States Gain from Offshore Drilling?



God Bless Him (Even if he is French) NYC Tourist Who Vanished After Saving Toddler's Life Comes Forward. Julien Duret of Lyon, France, plucked 2-year-old Bridget Sheridan out of the water after she fell off a gangplank into the East River in New York City.

Media Bias 04-07

Tax Day Tea Party 2010: Freedom Rings in Cincinnati

FBI Informant on Weather Underground Furious at NY Times Comparison to Tea Party If the left fails to engage in "moral relevancy" then their sins are exposed. So, of course, the NYT must compare peaceful TEA Party protesters to the despicable and murderous Weather Underground. Otherwise their hypocrisy is exposed.



Barr Wades Into Catholic Church Abuse Scandal. Wow, she actuallys says, " I am starting to think that any parent who takes their kids to Catholic churches from now on should lose custody." Classy.

PJTV Video (Klavan) - We Report, You Obey: The MSM's Dirty Tea Party Fetish



Unprompted Huffington attack on Giuliani fails epically

Smashing the Left’s Stereotypes about Tea Partiers. Interviews with three activists who don't fit the media's narrative on membership in the tea party movement.



Tea Partiers Are ... Nice? That's UnPossible!



Is Frank Rich the Only Non-Racist Left in America?

PJTV Video (Sonja Schmidt) - Press We Can Believe In: Hoping for a Change in the White House? Sonya Delivers

The liberal media have it out for the Catholic Church

ACORN/Big Union/Leftie Groups 04-07

Unions Hurt States

Unions pay themselves first, rank-and-file second (and less)



This is a textbook case on how Unions have evolved from friend of the worker to a succubus draining the economy of life. California's $500-billion pension time bomb. The staggering amount of unfunded debt stands to crowd out funding for many popular programs. Reform will take something sadly lacking in the Legislature: political courage. AND Half Trillion Gap in California Pensions Found

Bad teachers find support in teachers unions

How Not to Lay Off Teachers. New York’s seniority-based system lets too many good young teachers get away.

New Planned Parenthood Strategy: Skyping Abortions

Backlash Against Big Labor: If It's Happening in New Jersey ...

More Racial Scare-Tactics

In Economic Woes 04-07

VATs suck because they hide the taxation by embedding the tax into the sales price. My husband's friends always complain that they "pay extra" at the cashier when the sales tax is added on. We explain that our sales taxes range from 5% to 9% depending on location where the EU (hidden) VAT (aka sales tax) is 17% and they still pay income tax too. VAT should be fought tooth and nail here in the states. The only way I'd ever tolerate a VAT is if the tax rate was set and could not be raised without a 2/3 majority vote in both houses AND if the Federal Income Tax was permanently abolished. Permanently. How America might get a VAT of its own And Obama Economic Adviser Says U.S. Should Consider 'Value Added Tax'

Heritage Employment Report: March Jobs Report Springs Forward



Teens Face Jobless Crisis

We Call That Ignorance



IRS Launches New Global Program to Target ‘High Wealth Individuals' Sadly this does not effect me. More sadly it will negatively impact the US economy.

Obama's Capital Gain Hypocrisy



This is a textbook case on how Unions have evolved from friend of the worker to a succubus draining the economy of life. California's $500-billion pension time bomb. The staggering amount of unfunded debt stands to crowd out funding for many popular programs. Reform will take something sadly lacking in the Legislature: political courage. AND Half Trillion Gap in California Pensions Found

Moody's Cuts LA Credit Rating, Warns of More Downgrades

L.A. mayor calls for temporary shutdowns of some agencies



How Much Taxation Is Enough?

Why Don't Pro-Tax Taxpayers Pay More Taxes?

Let's Outlaw YOUR Business Next. First they came for the student loan providers, and I did nothing ...



Inflation worries AND Inflation Is Already Roaring Back

Federal Ownership of US Debt Grows.

GOP Still Waiting to See Real Financial Reform

The Invention of Pop Economics. Joseph Stiglitz should win a second Nobel Prize, this time for fiction.

What Can 23 States Gain from Offshore Drilling?



IRA Charitable Rollovers: A Question of Timing

Side Effects: New Tanning Tax Burns Business Owners

Out of Control

Yes We Can ... Walk Away from Bad Mortgages: Roger Lowenstein Blames the Banks

Bernanke: Housing, Jobs Biggest Economic Hurdles. Ya think?

Bank Secrets and Size



The Dodd Bill: Bailouts Forever. The Lehman Brothers liquidation shows that bankruptcy works fine. The FDIC has no experience with such large institutions.

Saving States from Themselves

Bad Politicians Bad 04-07

Obama OK's Targeted Assassination of Awlaki, a U.S. Citizen AND Assassinating Awlaki Wait. Foreign terrorists have the right to trial in American courts but an American terrorist can be assassinated? I think this sort of thinking explains why Obama never allowed his school transcripts to be released.

He is a corrupt scumbag who needs to go - Critics Blast Holder for Stalling Voting Rights Probe

RealClearPolitics Poll Averages

BWAHAHAHA - Congressional Job Approval

Better Pay Attention Dems - Direction of Country

Election 2010 Polls



Top House Dem: Latinos view Obama with 'suspicion'

Why the Democratic Party Clings to Racism

As I've said repeatedly, I wanted Ken Blackwell for RNC Chairman badly enough I called RNC headquarters to put my two cents in, but did they listen to me? Noooo. Fear and loathing in the RNC

But don't call it bribery - Specter claims Reid deal for Judiciary chair



Please Dear Lord, let him unseat her! Can This Blogger Unseat Barbara Boxer? A blogger triumphing over that sorry sack of human waster would be lovely. She was once rude to my husband you know. AND Boxer's luck runs out for this year's Senate run

Speaking of politicians who should be voted out of office - 'Riot Is the Voice of the Unheard' Tea-party foe Maxine Waters once made excuses for real political violence. Hypocrite and moron, it's a lovely combination.

Rangel to get another primary challenger

Watchdog eyes abuse of congressional travel expenses

PJTV Video (Trifecta) - 17: The Number of Minutes it Took Obama to Answer Whether or Not We're Taxed Too Much

Frankly anyone with real world work experience would be better than any of these jokers - Republican candidates moving from the boardroom to the campaign trail in '10

Leahy Refuses to Delay Hearing for Controversial Judicial Nominee. Democrats refused Wednesday to delay the confirmation hearing for one of President Obama's most controversial judicial nominees a day after Republicans slammed the candidate for failing to initially disclose more than 100 of his speeches, publications and other background materials. This is yet another clear indication that the democrats are both terrified and well-aware that they will most likely be voted out of office in November and must cram as much as they can before they lose their jobs. If they concentrated on representing their constituents rather than representing their own personal careers, their careers might last longer.



The “Social Justice” Fallacy? Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

Hannity's Right: Obama Is a Socialist

Exploiting the crisis



Speaking of exploiting a crisis, this is rotten - Mining disaster for political advantage

Dem Strategists Have It Wrong

Nice. In Pennsylvania, Obama underwater, Toomey leads



A school-choice advocate adds some needed interest to the Democratic primary

Wake-Up folks - How Technology Changed American Politics in the Internet Age

Obamacare 04-07

Five More States Join Obamacare Challenge Fight The Power! AND Florida says challenge to healthcare reform widens



Top 10 Disasters of Obamacare

President Obama Taunts the American People



A Call to Arms for Doctors...And Patients



Why the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Is Unprecedented and Unconstitutional



PJTV Video - Newt Gingrich, Part 1: The Angry Left, the Health Police and a Government-Dominated Economy
Is the Individual Mandate ‘Severable’ from the Rest of ObamaCare? A round-up of different legal views from lawyers and scholars regarding the constitutionality of mandates in the bill and other issues that impact the legal case against ObamaCare.

The other individual mandate



Sorting Fact From Fiction On 'Doc Fix'



A call for "death panels"? In Medicine, the Power of No

Thus the nanny-statism begins - No Fat Kids



Senator Coburn Was Right to Worry

As you may recall, the Senate recently rejected an amendment Dr. Coburn offered to the reconciliation bill that would have prevented sex offenders, child molesters and rapists from obtaining taxpayer-funded erectile dysfunction drugs through the new health care law. Opponents argued Dr. Coburn’s amendment was “not serious” even though there have been hundreds of cases of sex offenders receiving these drugs through Medicaid as this piece on MSNBC demonstrated.

Health care overhaul spawns mass confusion for public

Some Dems get earful back home for health reform legislation

Obama says we’ll learn to love it. Or else!