Oh SNAP

USDA uses Spanish soap operas to push food stamps among non-citizens, citizens Because the faster we can put non-English speaking people on the government dole the better?....

DoJ Bungles Voter IDs Again

I mean seriously, you need ID to get into the Department of Justice. Heck you needed ID to get in to see a speech by Idiot Holder about why Voter IDs are bad. But now there's this. DOJ Witness Can Fly to Washington, But Can’t Get Voter ID (Updated)

This is too much. The Justice Department actually called a witness in the Texas Voter ID trial today in Washington, D.C. The witness complained she couldn’t find the time to get her parents to drive her to get the free photo ID, but she obviously had time to fly to Washington, D.C., from Texas to testify at trial!

Nice try Sparkles.

Six Scary Charts from AEI

6 charts that show the Welfare State run amok

Minister Point Out Romney Not Evil

Black leader defends Mitt Romney

Another Reason Why I Hate Boomers

The Real Class Warfare is Baby Boomers Vs. Younger Americans Hey kids, Mom and Dad are screwing you.

Moody Clarifies The Problem With Public Employee Unions

Moody’s Triples Pension Debt Estimates Before you think what's the big deal, please remember that Public Employee unions are paid for by YOU the taxpayer. This debt is going to be shifted to tax payers unless quickly dealt with.

As we follow the evolving story of collapsing public pensions, one of the trickiest issues is the lack of reliable estimates of future returns on investment. Many of the biggest offenders among pensions assume returns of 8 percent or higher. These numbers may seem reasonable by historical standards, but they’re hopelessly optimistic today. Even plans that have revised their estimates downward still project returns far above what most analysts expect. If these estimates don’t come through, taxpayers will be left holding the bag, and either pension payouts will have to shrink or other services, including education and law enforcement, will have to. Unions have long claimed that these worries are mere alarmism, but now Wall Street is stepping in to say it, too: pension investment projections are far too high. A new estimate from Moody’s anticipates average pension returns of 5.5 percent rather than the traditional 7 or 8 percent investment projection. The result of this estimate is a tripling of national pension debt, from $766 billion to $2.2 trillion. This is a major increase, but many analysts believe that it is accurate, or at least more accurate than previous estimates

Kimberlin Wants To Be Left Alone

Then he shouldn't have attacked bloggers by the VERY dangerous SWAT-ting. Brett Kimberlin: ‘I Want to Be Left Alone’ Why Brad Friedman Matters In The Kimberlin Story The Kimberlin Story: The Short Version

Sex, Baby

Preglimony and Pro-Choice Rhetoric If we ask fathers to support a pregnancy, aren’t we admitting that the fetus is a child?

I don’t actually think it is in the interests of feminism or the pro-choice movement to cling so rigidly to outdated notions of “life.” It no longer helps our cause to try to argue that the fetus is not “life.” The reason for this, as people have noted, is that technological advances, like sonograms, where you can see feet on a fetus in the first trimester, have made those claims clearly and patently hollow to even ardently pro-choice people who have seen the black and white staticky fuzziness take shape into human form. How can we possibly claim that the moving creature, with feet and toes that we can see, is not “life”?

The author is trying to protect a pro-choice position while acknowledging that a pregnant woman has a life within her. But there is a deeper position here. Sex is seen as a purely pleasureable activity and any creation of life merely a biproduct. This demeans one of the most important activities in a human life to mere biology. Before the sacredness of sex was stripped away by the "Sexual Revolution", it was entered into either through marriage or in less reputable and secretive ways. Gratification required responsibility (or payment). You could get married by a JP but most of the time, you were married by a religious authority who wanted your marriage to be successful both with children and contentment. Then it was all the meaning was gone. Certainly a lot of freedoms were unleashed by the "sexual revolution" but so were a myriad of problems. Unwed mothers, easy divorce, sexual diseases, and on and on. We can not turn back the clock but perhaps simply encouraging modesty could be a start. Describing sex not simply as a biological function but as a joyful expression of God's love that is best shared with a soulmate/spouse/partner who accepts the responsibility and duty of caring for both you and your shared offspring. I'm the first one to admit sex is awesome. But with sex, comes babies. That should mean families, love, support, and grace. Not abortion.

US Feds Knew About LIBOR in 2007

Pay attention to this because it explains why regulators are no guarantee of good behavior. In 2007, New York Fed was told about problems with Libor

Barclays’ regulator in the United States is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which was run at the time by current Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. Diamond said that his bank had alerted the New York Fed to issues with Libor at least 12 times. After receiving initial reports in 2007, the New York Fed said, it made additional inquiries of Barclays about its Libor operations, and subsequently made suggestions for changes to British authorities. Geithner personally participated in several conversations with Barclays executives, according to his New York Fed calendar, later posted on the Web site of the New York Times. It wasn’t clear if these meetings focused on the Libor issues now coming to light.

Story of My Driving

Top Nine Passive-Aggressive Things to Say to Your Husband on a Road Trip

My beloved husband doesn't like to drive on highways. His beloved wife doesn't want to have to chock him one of these days....

Why This Test Was Important

And why we need to "harden" our infrastructure: The 50th anniversary of Starfish Prime: the nuke that shook the world

But the effects were far more than a simple light show. When the bomb detonated, those electrons underwent incredible acceleration. When that happens they create a brief but extremely powerful magnetic field. This is called an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. The strength of the pulse was so huge that it affected the flow of electricity on the Earth hundreds of kilometers away! In Hawaii it blew out hundreds of streetlights, and caused widespread telephone outages. Other effects included electrical surges on airplanes and radio blackouts. The EMP had been predicted by scientists, but the Starfish Prime pulse was far larger than expected. And there was another effect that hadn’t been predicted accurately. Many of the electrons from the blast didn’t fall down into the Earth’s atmosphere, but instead lingered in space for months, trapped by Earth’s magnetic field, creating an artificial radiation belt high above our planet’s surface.

That's Gotta Sting

Former Obama Donor Holds High Dollar Fundraiser for Romney with Former Obama Donors

Amnesty Pilot Program

Judicial Watch Sues DOJ for Records of Illegal Alien Amnesty Program

"Many citizens in the cities of Baltimore and Denver might be surprised to learn that they provided a “testing ground” for the Obama administration’s dangerous (and unlawful) policy of suspending the deportations of illegal aliens last year."

Judicial Watch is doing hero's work here!

Our Beautiful World

Orbiting the Earth Put together by an 18 year old is this marvelous video of the Earth. Gorgeous shots.