Year: 2010

No Cancer in Hinkley, California: Activist Hollywood Wrong AGAIN!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Proving once again that Hollywood always gravitates to the wrong causes, Tim Cavanaugh of Reason.com reported on Dec. 14 that the California town made famous by Erin Brokovich — an activism that Hollywood embraced with a major motion picture starring Julia Roberts — has proven not to have lived up to all the anti-corporate fearmongering […]

 

The Senate Set To Vote on Pork Laden Spending Bill

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

From RedState: What do you call the Senate’s Omnibus Spending Bill? An Earmark Bonanza — An Earmark-A-Thon — The Earmark-bus. Clearly, this bill is an outrage to the taxpayer and conservative Senators. The Senate is about to vote on an Omnibus Spending Bill funding the federal government for the year. House and Senate appropriators crafted […]

 

Enviroweenies Today: ULP, Earthquakes, Childfree For Gaia

Posted on by William Teach

I was tempted to name the post AGW Stupidity Today, but, really, everyday is stupidity day in climate alarmist and enviroweenie world, starting with Treehugger: Urban Light Pollution Boosts Air Pollution Living in Manhattan, where on a good night you only see a couple stars in the sky and it’s never truly dark due to […]

 

FDA: Dec. 17, Countdown to a Death Panel for Breast Cancer Drug Avastin

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a few days the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to release its final decision on whether or not 17,000 women across the country will have the same access to the breast cancer drug Avastin that they now have. Several congressmen, thousands of doctors and patients, and many small government activists stand against […]

 

Dana Milbank Brings The Stupid – Kristi Noem Meets With *GASP* Lobbyists

Posted on by William Teach

On a day that features plenty of stupidity – you have the massive pork laden spending bill, Jon Bon Jovi appointed to a new presidential commission, and Milbank’s own paper failing to publish their own poll on Obamacare (which is lower than ever) – Milbank works hard to make the A list of stupidity Dear […]

 

Paying More Taxes Than Anyone Else On The Planet And Still Being Called “Greedy.”

Posted on by John Hawkins

Liberals loot the most successful people in our country, give their tax money away in exchange for votes, and then congratulate themselves for being so generous while they accuse the people they’ve robbed of being selfish. If liberals were left to their own devices, they would take this just as far as the Communists did […]

 

Joe Miller is Dead, Will Someone Tell Him To Lie Down?

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Will somebody tell Joe Miller to lie down already, is election effort is dead as a doornail? At this point in time, his continuing efforts to get a judge to side with him is as sad as Willie Mays’ feeble effort with the New York Mets in 1973, every time you see it you just […]

 

Challenging the notion that it’s beneficial to a society to have every citizen highly educated

Posted on by Bookworm

This is a somewhat random post, since I’m mushing an idea around in my mind, and would love to have your input. The start for this post is my upbringing. I was raised in a European household (although that household was located in America). Both my parents came from the educated class, but both were […]

 

Supreme Court Justice Breyer: Founders Were For Restricting Guns… Why Breyer is Wrong

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Fox News Sunday, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke of his dissenting decisions in the several Second Amendment cases that he heard as a Justice. He told host Chris Wallace that he thought that James Madison only included the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights as a sop to the states and Breyer […]

 

Punishing Moonbat Heresy I: The UN’s Defamation of Religions Resolution

Posted on by Dave Blount

A primary seat of power for the moonbat–Muslim alliance is the malignant United Nations, where any criticism of Islam is regarded as heresy. A new resolution will sanction punishment: Later this month, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on the nonbinding Defamation of Religions Resolution, which would give international sanction to the type of […]

 

Punishing Moonbat Heresy II: Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard

Posted on by Dave Blount

After Galileo Galilei was forced by the authoritarian establishment of his time to renounce his observation that the Earth revolves around the Sun, he’s said to have said, “And yet it moves.” The modern equivalent would be, “And yet homosexuality spreads AIDS.” The new archbishop of Brussels, Andre-Joseph Leonard, is being targeted by homosexualist groups, […]

 

Obama Using Regulatory Power to Force Card Check

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Congress has failed to pass Big Labor’s long sought after card check bill, the Orwellian named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The reason congress has not passed this destructive law is because the voters have repeatedly spoken by urging their representatives and senators to stand against it. The voice of the American people, though, does […]

 

(Video) Proof That British Students are Morons

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week thousands of coddled British students rioted because the British government decided that its children would have to… gasp… earn their own way through college. No longer would these petulant brats be given a free ride through higher education says the government. And these punks are not very happy about it. Well, one dimwitted […]

 

NY Times Shocked To Learn There Could Be Years Of Wrangling Over ObamaCare

Posted on by William Teach

Seriously, around eight months ago, who would have thought there would be legal challenges to legislation that the majority of Americans hated overall, and found constitutional issues in? The Times is shocked, shocked, I tell you! By contradicting two prior opinions, Monday’s court ruling in Virginia against the Obama health care law highlighted both the […]

 

Why I’ve Changed My Mind About The Obama/Republican Tax Compromise

Posted on by John Hawkins

Five days ago, I tentatively supported the The Obama/Republican Tax Compromise, In other words, the choice is to take this deal or let the Bush tax cuts expire in the middle of a recession, when we desperately need to stimulate the economy. On the merits, it’s far from a perfect deal, but it moves the […]

 

The Pigford Scandal: John Boyd and the Nat’l Black Farmers Association

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Abraxas of UNCOVERAGE.net continues her examination of the many characters and hypocrisies which comprise the Pigford v. Vilsack litigation.:  This huge fraud on the American taxpayer begs for legal review.:  We here at UNCOVERAGE.net have high hopes for the upcoming investigations by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and the House:  Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

 

10 Life Changing Books To Give This Christmas

Posted on by John Hawkins

It’s tough to find good Christmas gifts for some people. That’s because once you get to a certain age, if you don’t have fancy taste and have made a certain amount of money, you’ve probably already bought or been given most of the things you want. But, no matter how many things you may have, […]

 

The Honorary Mentions For The Best Quotes Of 2010

Posted on by John Hawkins

Last week, I ran the The 2nd Annual 40 Best Political Quotes Of 2010. There were a few outstanding quotes that didn’t quite make the cut, but were still good enough to see the light of day in the post. Here they are! Enjoy! At some point, some high-profile Arizona pol really should call the […]

 

Facebook Wrestles With Free Speech and Civility

Posted on by Donald Douglas

You think? The story’s at New York Times. Turns out that Mark Zuckerberg and Co. are developing a “hate and harassment team” … …charged with taking down content that is illegal or violates Facebook’s terms of service. That puts them on the front line of the debate over free speech on the Internet. Right. Free […]

 

Billionaire Oracle CEO Wants Cash-Strapped San Francisco to Pay for His America’s Cup Race

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Billionaire boys with very expensive toys want to come play in the San Francisco bay for the 2013 America’s Cup and they want the overstretched taxpayers of the city to pay for their games.

 

Science Proves That Liberals Are Easily Led Astray

Posted on by Dave Blount

We’ve always known that conservatives stay true to enduring values, whereas liberals are led this way and that as they chase the pernicious intellectual fads pushed by the malignant puppeteers who run the progressive media and academic establishments. Now science confirms it: In a new study, [University of Nebraska-Lincoln] researchers measured both liberals’ and conservatives’ […]

 

Muslim Congressman Advocates Economic Terrorism

Posted on by Dave Blount

The Muslim–moonbat alliance has an avatar in Keith Ellison, the leftist Nation of Islam alumnus Minneapolis sees fit to send to Congress. An interview with his fellow progressives at Minnesota Public Radio offers insight into our first Muslim Congresscritter’s mentality. Here’s why he doesn’t like the tax compromise Comrade Obama struck with Republicans: “I think […]