Year: 2010

BankruptingAmerica.org finished their “Year in Wasteful Spending” series today with entries #3 through #1. Links to the whole series: #1-3 #4-6 #7-9 #10-12 #13-15 My favorite is #5: Welfare isn’t what it used to be. $69 million of California’s welfare dollars were accessed through the state-issued debit cards outside of the state. Where was the […]

…smokers! Jamestown unearths 400-year-old pipes for patrons RICHMOND, Va. — Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who’s who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of tobacco to North America’s first permanent English settlement. Naturally, the rabidly right-wing Associated Press ignores this evidence of […]

In July of this year, leftist Feminists were openly, and proudly, rooting for an abortion to be portrayed on prime-time television. And in April of this year, leftist Feminists like Jessica Valenti of Feministing were grossly bemoaning the fact that Mtv’s show, 16 and Pregnant, did not portray any teenage girls having abortions. They wanted […]

Just sharing something I found when writing my earlier post, “Sady Doyle Cheers Penis Amputation in Sweden!” Here’s a 1994 flashback from the New York Times, “Mrs. Bobbitt is Symbol of Feminist Resistance“: To the Editor: Like most of the American mass media, you have framed the Lorena L. Bobbitt affair as an issue of […]

If you have been reading me long, you know my favorite post to repost is the one where I quote Arthur C. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University, who published “Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism.” In this book/study, Brooks found that: — Although liberal families’ incomes average 6 percent higher than […]

It was dangerous. Now it isn’t. Thanks, science, for clearing that up. Saccharin was first listed as a hazardous waste in 1980 after studies in rats showed the sweetener caused higher rates of bladder cancer. The EPA subsequently determined it to be a “potential human carcinogen”. Yet two decades later, the National Toxicology Program and […]

Hey, now that’s some change! At Daily Caller: Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, estimates that there will be 1.8 million foreclosed homes in the United States this year, and that the numbers will be even higher in 2011. Moody’s estimates that foreclosures should peak next year at 2.1 million, Zandi said. A spike […]

Good stuff. When you tell a liberal the truth they recoil in disbelief. Seriously. Just watch Kirsten Powers and her disbelief in this interview when the bomb is dropped about 6:00 in. She’s so flustered when she finds out the truth that President Bush vetoed the 2008 bill with the end-of-life provision in it and […]

Read Nick Gillespie’s essay, “The #1 Game-Changer of 2010: Wikileaks By a Landslide.” The key point is that unlike the umpteen other purported “game-changing” news stories, WikiLeaks is genuinely new. And Gillespie argues the frequently heard point that WikiLeaks’ impact goes far beyond one individual, such as Julian Assange. Beside that though is to what […]

Nothing like coordinated anarchists to say anarchy ROME — A loosely linked movement of European anarchists who want to bring down state and financial institutions is becoming more violent and coordinated after decades out of the spotlight, and may be responding to social tensions spawned by the continent’s financial crisis, security experts say. Italian police […]

See, “Progressives and the Julian Assange Rape Allegations.” Via American Power. RELATED: At The Other McCain, “Julian Assange, Libertarian ‘Reactionary’?” PLUS: At WSJ, “Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers.” Also, at CNN, “Jessica Yellin’s response to last night’s Assange discussion,” and Wired, “Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs” (via Memeorandum).