The environmental nut-jobs have taken their brand of stupidity to new and previously unimagined heights. Check this out:

Lost in the images of aircraft dropping giant red plumes of retardant on a Colorado wildfire this week is the fact that the practice may not be legal under federal environmental laws.

A federal judge in July declared that ( Read more... )

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Decatur, AL - James O'Keefe made a name for himself with clandestine videos of ACORN staff members assisting what they believed to be a pimp. O'Keefe led the ACORN staffers to believe he wanted to set up a brothel and staff it with underage girls brought in from overseas. Most of the ACORN staff in several locations were only too happy to assist.
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Today I caught a sound bite from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (Twit-RI), comparing reading the 2000+ page health care bill to a 13 year old girl blowing through a Harry Potter novel. That's an interesting take on it.

For the sake of argument, let's have a look at the difference.

A Harry Potter book runs in sequence, is cohesive and makes sense. ( Read more... )

Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) has an interesting idea to get universal health insurance coverage in the United States. He proposes fines on people that do not have health insurance. Read it for yourself.

The fines would be the stick to enforce a proposed requirement that all Americans get health insurance, much as auto coverage is now mandatory. The ( Read more... )

St. Louis, MO - Under the heading of "stupidity knows no bounds" we have a Fox Business Channel web site story about how Wells Fargo is suing itself in a foreclosure matter.

No, really. I'm serious. Read on…

As holder of the first, Wells Fargo is suing all other lien holders, including the holder of the second, which is itself.

"The ( Read more... )

Normally I don't cross post from other blogs. But this needs to be seen by as many people as possible.

From Jim's Blog:

So there I was watching the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives talk about how this stimulus bill must be signed, because if we don’t do something quick, 500 million Americans will loose their jobs ( Read more... )

The left is very stressed right now. The stimulus package that came out of the house might not get an easy ride through the US Senate. In order to apply pressure to Senators that might not be on board with all this pork barrel spending the $800+ Billion economic stimulus package, a large coalition of liberal advocacy groups including Americans ( Read more... )

There are a few that do not seem to get the "Joe the Plumber" media storm, so I'll try to explain it here.

In this now infamous exchange Sen. Obama explains his tax ideas to Joe the Plumber. He talks in glowing terms about how he will take extra money from those making over a certain amount of money for the good of those less fortunate. Then, ( Read more... )