September 2009
3 posts
Lies and More Lies →
President Obama spoke to the Congress and the country about health care in a speech Wednesday night. The full text of the speech is available here. I have not witnessed previously any…
Van Jones, Obama Green Jobs Czar out →
The Wall Street Journal is reporting early this morning, that Van Jones, White House advisor for ‘green jobs’ has resigned. Jones and the White House had come under pressure when it was…
UK NHS Adopts Patient Murder Protocol →
An extraordinarily alarming story in the UK Daily Telegraph describes the adoption by Britain’s National Health Service of a protocol to end the life of patients considered terminal by…
August 2009
1 post
Roanoke Times Anti-Cuccinelli Screed →
Dan Case, metro columnist for the Roanoke Times, has an anti-concealed carry permit screed up this morning attacking Attorney General candidate Ken Cuccinelli for his work on the…
Cash for Clunkers Clunks Out →
Bloomberg News reports Thursday evening that six days into the Cash for Clunkers program, established in the Iraq and Afghanistan War funding bill, the program is being closed because all…
Economy Mending? →
The Money section of USA Today’s Thursday print edition was headlined, Reports show economy mending. Obama sees ‘beginning of the end of the recession’. I do not know what story USA Today’s editors…
July 2009
8 posts
A district in Michigan's idiot has been found in... →
With a hat tip to Netrightnation, we consider the curious statement of Representative John Conyers (D-MI) on exercising the duties of congressman. Mr. Conyers avers: “What good is…
Health Care Fantasyland →
Tamara Dietrich, a local columnist for the Newport News Daily Press is among the latest uninformed and uninforming media types to consider the current proposals in Congress to reform…
Clinton's Curious Chat →
Hillary Clinton delivered a 30 minute chat in Washington today, billed by the State Department she heads as a major foreign policy address according to the Washington Post, and riddled…
Does Obama Read What TOTUS Tells Him? →
John Stossel on his John Stossel’s Take blog notes that President Obama declaimed the following to a rapt audience in Ghana:“No business wants to invest in a place where the government…
Obama and Afghanistan: Making the Vietnam error? →
A Strafor article today (Strategic Calculus and the Afghan War) refreshes our understanding of the current military efforts in Afghanistan. Afghanistan by itself is of little or no…
DC Metro Crash Update →
In the beginning there was the very public utterances that the June 22 DC Metro crash was the result of underspending on urban mass transit, failure to fund new rail cars, and the lack of a…
June 2009
11 posts
Obama on Tyrants →
Reuters reports today on political events in Honduras where the Armed Forces sent President Zelaya into exile at the direction of the Supreme Court. Zelaya who was limited to a single four…
House Votes to Return U.S. to Pre-industrial... →
The House of Representatives voted late this afternoon to return per capita energy consumption to the same level as 1875 by 2050. This pre-industrial level of carbon consumption is expected…
DC Metro Crash: Not old trains but failed signals →
In a rush to demand more tax dollars for transit systems, federal officials and lobbyists were quick to blame the supposed aging rail cars for the June 22, 2009 crash that killed 9 and…
I Stand With Obama →
Much as it may surprise my friends and readers, today I can honestly stand with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. I join them in uninviting all Iranian diplomats from…
Obama on Deeds, Interpreted →
President Obama, unsurprisingly, would like Virginians to support Creigh Deeds in his race for Governor of Virginia. One may, of course, take President Obama’s words in this instance the…
Real Pork →
Emporia Virginia- The Virginia Pork Festival. In contrast to the Porkulus and other bloated self indulgent federal expenditure, Emporia has on offer today a true taste of American, the Virginia Pork…
Obama turns U.S. against Israel →
Stratfor, the commercial global intelligence outfit has a remarkable article today analyzing the Obama administration’s change in policy and relationship with Israel especially with…
NK solution - The Goreacle →
The New York Times News Blog - The Lede noted on Saturday that the Obama Administration might send either Bill Richardson or Al Gore to North Korea for negotiations resolving the current…
Obamacare Promoted, Olmert treated in U.S. →
President Obama’s radio/youtube address Saturday was the initiation of a public relations campaign to promote a health system overhaul the New York Times reported in its Saturday…
Twitter Up on Twikini →
I purchased an AT&T LG Incite (Windows Mobile 6.1)primarily to use Twitter. I follow about 675 twitter accounts. I tried the Windows Mobile SMS application. Keeping up with the my share of…
Obamacare Warning: NHS In_Action →
Demanding health care legislation this year or never, President Obama continues to press for Democrat designed national health care plan, the AP reports. The President told supporters that…
May 2009
16 posts
Too Many Supreme Court Catholics? →
The Law Blog of the Wall Street Journal offered comments today on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotamayor to the Supreme Court. Highligted are the comments of Professor Doug Kmiec (shown…
#3wordslibshate →
Sometimes Twitter is just awesome. An idea surfaces, is picked up and ripples out in real time across the nation. Tonight’s idea is #3wordslibshate. Hundreds of responses. Got twitter? Add your own….
Memorial Day or Veteran's Day. Does Obama know the... →
Based on the Washington Post’s coverage of President 0bama’s radio address today, it is difficult to know if the commander in chief knows why Memorial Day exists at all. The salient points…
AFP Health Care Forum: The disaster cometh →
Americans for Prosperity held a forum in Colonial Williamsburg this afternoon to consider the possible outcomes if President Obama’s healthcare is adopted and implicated. AFP is taking…
Communing with Heroes →
I communed with heroes today. The ones I visited with were, as typical heroes, reticent to reveal the details of their actions. The details were available, but only by diligent searching and…
Murtha, Pelosi: Unfit for Duty →
Representative John Murtha (D-PA12) (shown in accompanying msnbc photo), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee panel that oversees the CIA budget, admitted today that he does not…
(In)Justice to refer Bush Lawyers to Bar →
In our May 5th post (Justice to refer Bush Lawyers to Bar),we reported that the Justice Department was considering referring three Bush Administration attorney’s to their respective state bar for…
H.R. 45 Firearm Owner Registration Bill →
On January 6, 2009 Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL)(shown in the accompanying AP photo staining the Illinois state seal with other Illinois luminaries, former Governor and indictee Rob…
Senator Jim Webb: Torturer? →
Jim Hoeft at Bearing Drift was up early with a post on Senator Jim Webb’s (D-VA)appearance on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Jim notes:
Of course, I was mildly amused by…
Pontius Obama →
President Obama, speaking at the White House, said today that he would seek to block the release of dozens of photographs depicting alleged abuse of detainees by U.S. soldiers, arguing that…
FCC Copp's Fool's Errand →
Addressing the ‘Diversity Advisory Committee’ of the Federal Communications Commission, acting FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps urged the panel to quickly “make a real and lasting…
Bernanke Between the Lines →
“Because the U.S. economy is strong,” the dollar will stay strong according to U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (shown in the accompanying Mises.org illustration) in a report …
Virginia Health Care Records Hijacked →
Fox News is reporting that a data hijacker is demanding a $10 million ransom for 8.3 million patient records and 35 million prescription records claimed stolen from the Virginia…
Kaine Seeks Unicorn, Holy Grail, End of Poverty →
Virginia’s lame duck Governor and chair of the Democratic National Committee, Tim Kaine, announced the establishment of a poverty reduction task force at a gathering in Richmond today…
Justice to refer Bush Lawyers to Bar? →
The Associated Press reports this evening that three Bush administration attorney’s may be referred for professional sanction for their role in rendering opinions about terror suspect…
Tax Reform Obama Style →
Standing with admitted tax cheat Tim Geithner, (photo from Voice of America) President Obama announced proposals to increase U.S. tax revenues from the foreign operations of multilateral…
April 2009
17 posts
Bipartisan Budget Achieved →
Harry Pelosi, House Majority Leader remarked during the last election campaign: “Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the…
Sebelius Confirmation, Swine Flu Cure →
Abortion promoter and self-admitted tax cheat Kathleen Sebelius was confirmed by the Senate to be Secretary of Health and Human Services late Tuesday afternoon on a 65 to 31 vote mostly along…
Racism Conference Success? →
With Iran’s president Mahjmoud Ahmadinejab as the key note speaker, the World Racism conference has again thankfully come to an end. The Associated Press reports that Navanethem Pillay, the…
Obama to facilitate detainee ridicule →
The Obama administration is planning to release “dozens of photographs depicting alleged abuse by U.S. personnel during the Bush administration of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan,” …
Hillary's Pakistani Chickens Coming Home to Roost →
During testimony about the current situation in Pakistan to the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the country’s fragile…
Truth taking backseat to ideology in climate... →
An AP story Tuesday evening is headlined Science taking backseat to cost in climate change. The article reveals that Congress may consider the cost of proposed legislation to reduce…
Obama and U.N. Racism →
In an earlier post we noted with disdain President Obama’s decision to have the United States join the U.N. Human Rights Council despite its history of acting against human rights and its…
Larry Summers - Deranged or Dissimulating →
Larry Summers (shown in this World Economic Forum photo), White House economic advisor appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday and was interviewed by David Gregory. According to Politico,…
Obama, Castro, Chavez - All of these things just... →
AFP news service is reporting Friday evening that President Obama and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have “cordially shaken hands as they met for the first time at a Summit of the…
Tea Party Richmond →
Cold, wet weather did not deter more than 4,000 tea party participants from expressing their dissent with bailouts, bloated debt, and unconstitutional bilge posing as law. The…
Tea Party Newport News →
A mid-day Tea Party held at Newport News City Center was one destination for your humble correspondent on April 15. Accompanied by family members, it was a great pleasure to join…