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From Fox News via the WaPo: “A member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee has told CNBC that the death of Osama Bin Laden was a direct result of enhanced interrogations.” ………………….. “…in 2007, that terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay military prison started giving up information about the key courier.” ………………. “Current and former […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye over the past week, whether or not I blogged about them. Click the link under each picture for a little more explanation, or just because it’s nice to give random bloggers some hits. Link: Weasel Zippers. It’s from love, Glenn. From love. And we shall dub it: […]

If it wasn’t for that little shindig across the pond, this would’ve been the story of the day: The Colt revolver, a historic remnant from the shoot-em-up days of the old West, is now Arizona’s official gun. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Thursday signed a bill into law that makes the Colt Single Action Army […]

** The left loves to demonize companies like Exxon for their profits, but they never demonize the burdensome tax on our gas, when it is much much more. Did you know that gas stations are not allowed by federal law to break down their price so you can see how much tax by gallon you […]

A royal wedding, and the long-awaited release of a document from Hawaii. The week certainly does finish up with a feeling of genuine accomplishment, doesn’t it? I say, not so fast. If there is any positive development for the civilized world this week, it is that a problem gnawing away at all of us, invisibly, […]

Once again, when gas prices get high, administrations go looking for “petrovillains.” Clinton did it, Bush did it, and now Obama is doing it. It’s a farce. They never find anything in their investigations except for the basic fact that gas and oil prices are determined by one thing, and one thing only-Supply and Demand. […]

You may have heard about the story in California where an Orange County Republican Central Committee member Marilyn Davenport, sent to fellow Republicans an image with a “Mom and Dad” chimp with a baby chimp that had Obama’s face photoshopped as his face, along with the words, “Now you know why there is no birth […]

Below is a video book review of Andrew Breitbart’s, “Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!” I really enjoyed reading it.

Not quite, but: The awarding of the air tanker contract to Boeing over European rival EADS has been making headlines lately, with the promise of thousands of jobs for U.S. workers and suppliers. There may be additional heartening employment news in the same sector, following a request by the U.S. Air Force to identify suppliers […]

From NRO: As you can see, the top-earning 1 percent of Americans (the 1.4 million returns making more than $380,000) paid 38 percent of federal personal income taxes while the Americans in the lower half of the income spectrum (or 70.0 million returns) paid 2.7 percent of the total. This chart also shows that roughly […]

Today is the first anniversary of the Gulf oil spill, and while the spill is totally cleaned up and major safety improvements are on the way to prevent a spill of this magnitude from ever happening again. But, weirdly, the Gulf is still suffering major setbacks. Unemployment rates have jumped. Gas prices have skyrocketed. Obama’s […]

The New Mexico state Democratic party has been freaking out over the last few weeks over New Mexico’s lieutenant Governor John Sanchez, who is competing with former Rep. Heather Wilson for the chance to compete for New Mexico’s open Senate seat in 2012. They’ve been peppering the internet with arguably hilarious ramblings, calling Sanchez New […]

On Monday Standard & Poor stunned everyone by rating the United State’s long term credit rating from stable to poor. Let’s break it down. From Keith Hennessey: Yesterday’s report by Standard & Poor’s on the U.S. government’s credit rating is driving headlines. You can learn a lot more from reading the primary source document than […]

Back in December, I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (“LACMA”) to see an exhibit entitled “Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915.” Historic European and American fashion has always been something of a hobby of mine, so I was excited when I first heard about the exhibit. I wasn’t disappointed. The […]

From Human Events: Time for an update on Obama’s war in Libya! The good news is, it might not be a quagmire much longer. The bad news is, that’s because Qaddafi is winning. As the AFP news service reports, “Regime forces bombarded rebels west of Ajdabiya on Sunday, forcing hundreds of residents and some fighters […]

If any of you are thinking of taking Donald Trump seriously, please let me say to you…Have you lost your mind?! Trump is nothing more than a self promoter, and he cares about as much about conservative values and principles as Tiger Woods cares about celibacy. Trump has never been conservative. He has never been […]

Y’know, whenever I get to working on this, I’m always a little surprised at the stories I didn’t blog about. Most of these are like that. Click the link under each picture for a little more info. Link: Reaganite Republican. Link: Walter Williams. Link: GOP 12. Link: Cubachi. Link: American Power. Link: Clayton Cramer. Link…oh, […]

No politics today this morning, folks. Just time to offer your prayers for those who were killed or injured on Saturday, and to their families A violent storm system slashed across central North Carolina on Saturday with apparent tornadoes touching down, causing multiple deaths and leaving a wide swath of property damage, downed trees, power […]

I was right. Anybody who watches the movie first without reading the book is making a dreadful, dreadful mistake. At least catch the Cliff’s Notes fer cryin’ out loud. As far as the people who read it, it seems everyone gets a different experience out of it. Whatever made an impression on you, and wasn’t […]

David Burge, whom you may know as Iowahawk, had something interesting to post at the Hello Kitty of Blogging which you may know as Facebook. Those who may have been distracted by tax day & all the associated festivities, may have lost track of the other meaningful bits of this particular time of year. It’s […]

Re-discovered blogger friend Terri takes the one hundred and eleventh Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) award. On the subject of “civil disobedience on a paper plate” (you have to skim through this New York Times article about San Francisco “food raves” to see what’s going on), she observes: Ahh the odd belief […]

I have admitted in the past when Obama gave a good speech. The speech after the murders in Arizona was one example. But, Obama’s speech from yesterday was clearly as bad as everyone said it was. Below, I reviewed a few of his statements in a short video. Enjoy!

The Government Accountability Office is basically charged with making sure that the government isn’t needlessly wasting a ton of money on things you and other taxpayers don’t care about. If you think that’s a deeply ironic and – above all – endless and useless task, you’d probably be right. If you’d question whether the government […]

Like, dude, one to get you, like, you know, going Ten years ago, Jamaica’s government-appointed National Commission on Ganja produced a report calling for marijuana decriminalization, which the Jamaican government, under pressure from the US, promptly forgot about. But now, the government of Prime Minister Bruce Golding has announced that it will again review those […]

I started blogging in 2004, right before the election, and was hooked.  After years of churning out legal briefs, it was an endless pleasure to write about politics, pop culture, education, social issues, national security, the media, and whatever else caught my attention.  It was wonderful, too, to develop a new writing style, one that […]

Had some thoughts continuing from the post previous. That’s okay, isn’t it? “The same subject, continued” appears I-don’t-know-how-many times in the titles of the Federalist Papers; that “Publius” dude had no problem continuing his thoughts from earlier. So it must not be a sign of arrogance, or if it is, that Publius guy must not […]

A lighter batch this week, even though it seemed like a helluva tempestuous seven days. Follow the links below each picture for more info, if you need it. Link: The Blogprof. Link: Cubachi. Link: Ann Althouse. Link: Jimmie Bise. And, just because: Which may have partially led to: Link: The TrogloPundit. Previously: This Week in […]

Megan McArdle: …every single voter who is benefitting from a government program right now not only wants to continue benefitting, but believes they have a moral right to do so. Word. On Thursday, I spent eight long hours at a public hearing. The subject: Wisconsin’s proposed state budget. The testimony fell into one or more […]