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Father Faces Jail Time Because 8-Year-Old Forgot to Board Church Bus

Ah, zero-tolerance zealotry at its finest. An Ohio man faces jail time because his 8-year-old son didn’t board a bus to church with his three siblings, as he usually does every Wednesday and Sunday. Apparently, there’s no such thing as a misunderstanding or a quickly-corrected parenting mishap these days. The father, Jeffrey Williamson, is charged […]

Vets Wait for Doctors While VA Spends $420M on Solar Panels

The VA might want to rethink its spending. While our vets are slowly dying and going without vital medical attention, the VA seems to think a $420M investment in solar panels is a great plan. More here: Veterans Administration hospitals have spent at least $420 million on solar panels and windmills while vets wait months […]

STOLEN ELECTION IN MISSISSIPPI? McDaniel Supporters Barred From Continuing To Review Voter Rolls AFTER Fraud Found

After the GOP establishment threw the race card and cajoled Democrats to come vote for incumbent Republican Thad Cochran in the Mississippi primary, now his opponent, Chris McDaniel, says he has found multiple districts where vote fraud occurred essentially stealing the election away from him. Jim Hoft has the details… The Chris McDaniel campaign identified […]

Harry Reid Doesn’t Want Dems To Take Tough Votes

It appears that he has serious concerns over losing his cushy spot as Majority Leaders (AP) A fear of voting has gripped Democratic leaders in the Senate, slowing the chamber’s modest productivity this election season to a near halt. With control of the Senate at risk in November, leaders are going to remarkable lengths to […]

Obama Weekly Address: Virtually Out Of Ideas

Barack Obama has a little over a year and a half left in his disastrous and failed presidency, and he is getting more and more whiny , above and beyond his normal whining. And his typical blamestorming and castigation. Here he goes again during the Weekly Address (video here) Hi, everybody. This week, I spent […]

The Jailbird Architect Of Obama’s Global Warming Plan

When President Obama announced an unprecedented effort by the EPA to strong-arm states into adopting cap-and-trade, he made the announcement not by focusing on the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but rather on the so-called co-benefits that closing coal plants will have on particulate matter, which is already tightly regulated. These purported co-benefits are […]

Facing Tough Odds, Gop Had A Good Night In Colorado

On Tuesday night, former Rep. Bob Beauprez beat a slate of Republicans, including, most notably, former presidential candidate Tom Tancredo. Mitt Romney and other hated/beloved GOP establishment types had endorsed Beauprez, who was clearly the most electable candidate available to face John Hickenlooper. More importantly, the state GOP did not want Tancredo’s tedious one-note campaign […]

Time To Do Less Not More

The current situation in Iraq is a modern tragedy. But in more practical terms it is a very stark illustration of the folly of central planning and the limits of state power in the face of entrenched traditions and proven history. Although the parallels aren’t perfect, the rapid dissolution of the puppet Iraqi state can […]

Celebrating Checks And Balances

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling against the president’s right to get around Congress by making recess appointments. This is frustrating to President Barack Obama at the moment and will undoubtedly aggravate some future Republican president. The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin wrote that this ruling will “make the government function less […]

Temptation Of Wishful Thinking On Iran

An estimated 50,000 Iranian exiles and supporters from Europe and North America are here to remind the world that no cooperation with the brutal, expansionist regime in Tehran can possibly advance Western interests. This annual gathering of MeK (People’s Mujahedin of Iran), an Iranian resistance group, was already scheduled. But it might have been called […]

Obstructionism Is Patriotic

Three cheers for right-wing obstructionism. Can we have more, please, and louder? This week’s unanimous Supreme Court ruling on President Obama’s illegal recess appointments is a double smackdown. First, it’s a rebuke against arrogant White House power-grabbers who thought they could act with absolute impunity and interminable immunity. Second, the ruling is a reproach of […]

Nearly 7 Million Americans Are Registered to Vote in Two or More States

Remember, voter fraud is a myth, or something: Some 6.9 million Americans are registered to vote in two or more states, according to a report obtained by Watchdog.org. “Our nation’s voter rolls are a mess,” says Catherine Engelbrecht, president of the election-watch group True The Vote. “Sensible approaches to roll maintenance are fought tooth and […]