Author: TrogloPundit

Kerry: Three Big Oil Companies Likely to Back Climate Bill When Sens. John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman release their climate bill on Monday, they expect to have the backing of three of the five major oil companies, Mother Jones has learned. In a conference call with a coalition of progressive business leaders on […]

To avoid ruining anyone’s Friday afternoon, I’ll limit myself to the first two paragraphs of the “why can’t everyone be as mature as I am” whine-fest that is David Brooks’ latest. Those of you with weak stomachs: consider yourselves cautioned. It begins: In these columns I try to give voice to a philosophy you might […]

Americans must be protected, lest our feelings be hurt. Our tender, tender feelings, and our lightly-held core beliefs. Or, at least, you’d think that: A federal court in Wisconsin decided Thursday that the country’s National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional because it calls on citizens to take part in religious activity. U.S. District Court Judge […]

Via Instapundit, a bunch of lefties are making plans to discredit the Tea Parties by pretending to be people they aren’t. This is from CrashTheTeaParty.org: WHO WE ARE: A nationwide network of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who are all sick and tired of that loose affiliation of racists, homophobes, and morons; who constitute the fake […]

So lemme get this straight: President Obama signs several pieces of legislation that push the deficit into historically irresponsible territory; that put the U.S. on a fiscal par with Greece or, worse, California; that threaten our credit rating, and will restrict economic growth for generations to come… …not to mention that these same pieces of […]

Ed Rollins — former Reagan advisor — thinks maybe so, but I’m not so sure. He writes: Justice John Paul Stevens’ widely anticipated announcement Friday morning of his retirement after 35 years on the court, gives the president and his party another challenge going into the fall elections. Who the president nominates and how ferocious […]

Get off my lawn. A 70 year old Carnation, WA homeowner used his handgun to stop a violent home invader. Police say that the 70 year old man was in his home at about 6 AM when he heard someone lurking outside his home. The homeower reportedly went to the door to investigate, at which […]

Hat tip to Like a Wild Potato for that one. See Grandpa John’s for an artist’s rendering of Guam, post-population-boom. And, finally: Happy Easter, and This Week in Automotivators will return next week.

Bob Belvedere, in a post titled “Save The Environment, But Don’t Save Your Arse:” …amidst the group of SUVs, compact, mid-size, and luxury cars, was a Smart Car and it looked so fragile, small, and helpless when directly compared to all of the other vehicles, even the compacts. His point: those dinky little Smart Cars […]

That is the odd conclusion of Andrew Sabl, writing at “The Reality-Based Community.” Reality-based. As in: I just watched “Chipmunks: The Squeakual” with my two younger boys. It features talking, singing, dancing, remote-controlled-helicopter flying chipmunks, which means it’s only based on reality. Andrew starts off with his dismay at the phrase “individual mandate.” The phrase […]

Dumping retirees off their employer-provided health benefits? All part of the master plan! Via HotAir: ObamaCare threatens employer-provided drug benefits. …The health care overhaul will cost U.S. companies billions and make them more likely to drop prescription drug coverage for retirees because of a change in how the government subsidizes those benefits. …Figuring out what […]

Regular readers of all things Trog knew that I couldn’t see Lori’s new billboard without bringing this back out: (TrogloPundit loves his automotivators.)

…and then they pass it? Is that why it smells so bad? I was just getting to understand the whole “deem and pass” (or, if you must, “demon pass”) thing when the news broke: the Democrats have dumped “deem and pass” and will instead take an up-or-down vote on the bill… …um, which bill? The […]

Although I’m using the word “quotes” rather loosely. I was writing stuff down as fast as I could, but I can’t be completely sure I got every single preposition and conjunction. Dr. Tim Nerenz, of the Oldenburg Group, Inc. “I never thought I’d be living in a NASCAR Republic. A NASCAR Republic is when you’re […]

Do you believe in reincarnation? Do you want to avoid coming back in the next life as one of these? The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo. Better stop polluting Mother Earth, then. Because Goddess has a sense of humor, and if you spend […]

At least, as long as you don’t read too far past the first few paragraphs of this story, they’re wise. GENEVA — The result was emphatic: Swiss voters don’t think abused animals need to have their own lawyers. It’s a proposal that would never even come near a referendum in other countries… Interjection: depends on […]

You go, girl! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues to back a major overhaul of U.S. health care even if it threatens their political careers, a call to arms that underscores the issue’s massive role in this election year. Lawmakers sometimes must enact policies that, even if unpopular at the moment, will help the […]

Is the vast maze of U.S. law and regulation, and the intricately interwoven web of bureaucratic and departmental turf, and the insidiously spreading take-to-give addiction of our elected leaders an “imminent” threat to American liberty? Most of us say yes. The next question is: do enough of us think that? Or too many of us? […]

Via Insty and Moe Lane, if the unions can carry torches and pitchforks, can Tea Partiers start heating up the tar? Carrying pitchforks and torches a group of labor unions and health care groups marched down Church Street in Hartford Tuesday night to let the state’s largest business lobby know that they want health care […]

A couple of Utah state legislators want to give self-governance a try: We don’t believe that 535 members of Congress and the president can educate our children, provide health care, pave our roads and protect our environment as well as the nation’s 8,000 state legislators and tens of thousands of local officials. So please, let […]

Joseph Stack flew an airplane into an office building, killing himself and at least one other person, because of his years-old anger and frustration with the government, or so he wrote. So is it terrorism? Well, that depends. The act itself isn’t enough to make it terrorism. Otherwise, every violent act could be tagged that […]

Rasmussen: Only 21% Say U.S. Government Has Consent of the Governed: The founding document of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, states that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Today, however, just 21% of voters nationwide believe that the federal government enjoys the consent of the governed. A new […]

If Barack Obama wants a way to get back in the good with a majority of Americans, maybe he should aim the troops toward Tibet: Washington (CNN) — Nearly three-quarters of all Americans think Tibet should be an independent country, according to a new national poll. Or maybe not: However, the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey […]