Thanks to the election being over, I can finally go back to reading Digg!

Yes, my candidate lost. Yes, I fully expected that. No, I just couldn't vote for either of the socialists 99% of you did, but if yours is the one who won, could you politely ask him to keep his damned hands off my wallet and my freedom?

If spending bills have to originate in the House, why would the Senate start the largest spending bill aside from the budget itself that I've ever heard of ( Read more... )

OK, everyone knew he didn't have an automatic vote from me (no one does), and that part of his politics and mine aren't the same. I never new Obama thought I was beautiful though.

In this article Obama's quoted as saying that Cubs fans are beautiful. I'm not sure he's met us though. I know he's not met ME. After all, he then states that I'm ( Read more... )

Spelling mistakes aren't limited to Vice PresidentsWe all remember Dan Quayle taking heat for wanting an "E" with his potato (amongst other things), but who ordered the extra "M" in to-morrow? Obviously, this isn't a candidate spelling something directly, so it's not quite as severe, but it's still all kinds of dumb. At least 'potatoe' is ( Read more... )

We need this, to stay competitive on the global stage for technology.

read more | digg storyThe above is the Digg posting... you can guess how much I like the whole idea though, and I can't resist further comment (though I have exactly one comment in the Digg comments already ( Read more... )

The Citizens Against Government Waste have released their Pig Book for 2007. As they say, "The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW's annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget." It's an interesting read.

The Pig Book

So I'm reading "Free to Chose: A Personal Statement" by Milton and Rose Friedman. It's dated, I know, but it's not hard to look at the world from the perspective of 1979 or so for me. I was but a lad, but somehow it's still clear. That aside, I found one quote to be one of those "the more things change, the more they stay the same" sort of ( Read more... )

I've seen this before, but it resurfaced where I could see it today, so I'm sharing it today. I'd direct link the site where I found it, but well, I'm not much given to supporting the Populist Party and their aims for direct democracy. I leave such nonsense to the New England. In any event, I got this reprint from www.populistamerica.com should ( Read more... )

Congress is just bad. Why is that do you ask? First, there's this whole idea that somehow the Democratic Party politicians are somehow more ethical than the Republican Party politicians they replaced. Now we have Republicans saying that Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) is not completely on the up and up based on her relationship with the Del Monte ( Read more... )

Ronald Reagan, if he can see the world at all from his ethereal rest, can't be happy. First, the party he gave new life to abandons the principles he espoused. Then, they do it long enough to get kicked out of control of both the House and Senate. To top it all off, Daniel Ortega (yes, the Sandanista one - damned Commies) has been elected ( Read more... )