via: gatewaypundit The House will vote on the cap-and-tax bill today. It is the largest tax in American history. The state-run media is pushing hard for the junk science legislation to pass the House today. Today is the planned vote on cap-and-trade, H.R. 2454. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called a vote on this massive boondoggle [...]
Archive for June, 2009
26 Jun
This Week’s ‘Alpha Jackass’ Award
“Why would [a government plan] drive private insurance out of business? If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care; if they tell us that they’re offering a good deal, then why is it that the government, which they say can’t run anything, suddenly is going to drive them out of [...]
26 Jun
But the Polls Say . . .
“You just don’t get it, do you, America?” But Polls Say People Want Government Health Care… The Leftmedia were in overdrive this week backing up their man Barack Obama on the issue of government health care. Before ABC even had the chance to broadcast a prime-time infomercial from the White House, The New York Times [...]
26 Jun
AWESOME!… Iranian Protesters Produce Their Own “Beat It”
via: Heritage Revolution Wear: Purse, mask, veil, rocks– “Beat It!” Via YFrog The protesters have courage. Courage and preparation. (This photo was emailed from Iran)
25 Jun
Obama’s ‘Peace for Our Time’
“If a nation expects to be ignorant — and free — in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” –Thomas Jefferson On 30 September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain addressed his countrymen in regard to the Munich Agreement, which assured Adolf Hitler that Britain would “wink and nod” [...]
25 Jun
Reasonable Commentarties
“The president, having started a fire by recklessly releasing memos describing interrogation tactics, and then having poured gasoline on the flames by reversing himself on the banana-republic notion of investigating his political rivals, cannot douse the resulting inferno simply by saying, Oh, never mind. The president is reeling because he sees his legislative agenda going [...]
25 Jun
The CIA’s Aquatic Sports Program and Obama’s Real Agenda
Leon Panetta was certainly not appointed Director of Central Intelligence because of any related professional qualifications for the post. However, as the former White House Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, Panetta has the political gravitas to run interference for the Obama regime, to best ensure that nobody will depart the Agency reservation with anything [...]
25 Jun
Robert’s Rules
“Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.” –Benjamin Franklin Major Robert Rogers Anyone familiar with the procedures for deliberative assemblies will recognize “Robert’s Rules of Order,” a manual authored by a 19th-century Army officer and adopted as the standard for official proceedings. Of course, a discussion of parliamentary procedure would [...]
25 Jun
PBS Wages War on Pro-Lifers
via: cultureandmediainstitute We’re the domestic terrorists? By L. Brent Bozell Media Research Center June 25, 2009 The Public Broadcasting Service recently announced it will not allow new religious programming on their taxpayer-subsidized airwaves. The handful of stations that have shown a Catholic Mass or Mormon devotions will be allowed to continue, but the other 300-plus [...]
25 Jun
Obama to Iran: Let Them Eat Ice Cream
via: humanevents by Ann Coulter On Iran, President Obama is worse than Hamlet. He’s Colin Powell, waiting to see who wins before picking a side. Last week, massive protests roiled Iran in response to an apparently fraudulent presidential election, in which nutcase Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner within two hours of the polls closing. [...]