via: cfif.org A fruit company and grocery chain have offered to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who says he was knocked unconscious when a lid exploded off a jar of fruit and hit him in the face. Darryl Alexander of Southfield, Michigan, claims a stubborn lid flew through the air and struck him [...]
Archive for January, 2011
18 Jan
Bear Slapped
via: cfif.org A California man sued a Montana Guide Service after he was “slapped by a bear.” Virgil Massey of Barstow, Calif., sued the Church Universal and Triumphant and Montana Guide Service in 6th District Court. Massey claims that while on a 2007 hunting trip on the religious group’s land, a guide left him on [...]
18 Jan
New Midwestern Governors Set Sights on Taming Public Employee Unions
via: cfif.org With federal stimulus money drying up and accounting gimmicks exhausted, several cash-strapped states are setting their sights on taming the most voracious budget animals: public employee unions. Notably, newly elected governors from the Rustbelt are stepping into the center ring. Armed with eight years as Milwaukee County executive where he successfully trimmed budgets [...]
18 Jan
Fifteen Lessons From 2010
via: cfif.org In life, there are good years and bad years. Then there are years like 2010, when the countdown to New Year’s feels like a parole hearing. 2011 is looking up, with a new batch of conservatives on Capitol Hill, a presidential contest that will soon get underway in earnest, and news that the [...]
17 Jan
We Need More Political Rhetoric, Not Less
via: americanthinker The Rodeo Clown Posse was led out of Tucson in a cloud of dust with a hay-burning frenzy by Arizona’s Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. Close in tow were hyper-boiling politicians and the usual lefty print and TV media cowboys such as Rep. James Clyburn, columnist Paul Krugman, TV antagonista Chris Matthews, and [...]
17 Jan
The Tucson Shooting: a Reminder to Arm Yourself
via: pajamasmedia When Jared Loughner opened fire in Tucson on January 8, six people were killed and fourteen injured. No matter where you were sitting, as the 24-hour news carried the details of the story, the world seemed almost to stop spinning. The raw evil of what Loughner had done was simply too great for decent, [...]
14 Jan
Now Among Us
“In all my 60 years of living in this once great nation, I’ve never seen so many Marxist, Maoist, Socialist, and Anti-American activists working in the White House, Congress, and the Judicial System. These are people who view the U.S. Constitution as a hindrance and a document that prevents the change they seek. These are [...]
