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“Come and Bake It!”

You may or may not be aware of the federal law that requires that food sold to the public must be produced in a certified commercial kitchen. Naturally home bakers and those who run those roadside stands were upset. That is how we got the Texas Cottage Food Bill, “a change in health department regulations […]

Oh, Noes! Sarah Palin “A No-Show For Fans!”

Breathlessly reported by MSDNC Palin a no-show for fans at Civil War battlefield GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania – Sarah Palin has found a new way to keep her political faithful guessing. Palin was a no-show for several hundred supporters, celebrity-watchers and media who turned out in hopes of seeing her at the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg […]

Investors Shift Focus To Jobs, “Stubborn Unemployment”

Gee, if only the administration would shift their focus to jobs…..well, not really, because the Democrat policies on jobs and the economy have so far been a disaster. Anyhow The economy and jobs will be front and center this week — whether investors like it or not. The agenda is heavy on economic reports and […]

Obama Finally Makes It to Joplin

It was thoughtful of the Moonbat Messiah to only take a week to get around to visiting the devastation in Joplin. No doubt he would have made it sooner, if not for the many important meetings in Europe that detained him — like with Jedward, for example. But couldn’t he have refrained from disrespectfully chomping […]

Religious Freedom Lives to See Another Memorial Day in Houston

Excellent news on Memorial Day: VA bureauweenies have dropped demands that ministers keep references to Christianity out of their prayers. Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Hindrichs told federal District Judge Lynn Hughes that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will not demand that Memorial Day prayers at Houston National Cemetery Monday be as non-denominational as possible. […]

Germany Announces Plans To Lead The Way Back To Third World Squalor

And they seem extremely excited about wanting to heavily reduce their available power and have nothing to replace it with Germany’s coalition government agreed early Monday to shut down all the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022, the environment minister said, making it the first major industrialized nation in the last quarter century to announce […]

Memorial Day Pinup

As we sit back on Memorial Day, gathering with friends, firing up the grill, let’s remember the sacrifice of all those members of the US military to provide us with this freedom. And when the wind in the tree-tops roared, The soldier asked from the deep dark grave: “Did the banner flutter then?” “Not so, […]

Global Warming News From The Brits

CHURCHVILLE, VA–My colleague Bennie Peiser, of Britain’s Global Warming Policy Foundation, offers some of his latest man-made global warming news: The Sunday Times noted on May 22 that the UK government has agreed to cut its greenhouse emissions 50 percent by 2027. As a result, “Tata Steel last week announced it was cutting 1,500 jobs […]

Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin

I’ve often heard people use the expression “he saw the handwriting on the wall.” I wonder, though, how many know that it originates in the Book of Daniel, which is a part of the Old Testament. I’m reasonably sure that most of my readers are familiar with the story of Daniel, but for those who […]

The blogger “transparency” crackup

It’s another big moment in blogger “transparency” upon us now. :  The general rule is that the person who hasn’t “disclosed” enough to meet some preposterous concept of transparency is the person who the writer is jealous of, or worse. : The current dart board is Tech Crunch. I saw this coming, now didn’t I? : I […]

This Week in Automotivators, May 23-29

Just a few stories from the past week, some of which I blogged about, and some of which I didn’t. Click the link under each picture if you’re not sure what the hell I’m talking about. Link: Liberal Values. Link: Scared Monkeys. Link: No Sheeples Here. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: From On High. Link: All American […]

“McCain: Palin Can Beat Obama”

The Hill reports on Mac’s remarks, without comment, to get their lefty commenters all riled up and it works beautifully. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has said he thinks Sarah Palin could defeat President Obama in next year’s presidential election, but he’s far from certain that she will actually jump into the race. The GOP’s standard-bearer […]

Union Contracts More Important Than Patients For Union Drivers

Priorities. Union guys have priorities, you know? For instance, in New Jersey earlier this year a bunch of union drivers for the Communications Workers of America (CWA) decided that it was more important to have a “sick-out” and strand sick elderly people, preventing them getting to their life-saving medical treatment than do their jobs. State […]

Politico: “Sarah Palin Goes Behind Enemy Lines”

Yes, that is the exact headline, and what follows is an interesting article Starting Sunday, Sarah Palin enters enemy territory. The bus tour that stands to return her to the 2012 spotlight is taking her to the part of the country that’s the least friendly to her – the northeastern U.S. The headline and the […]

An Interview With Todd Rokita, Indiana’s Fourth District

-By Warner Todd Huston Interview with freshman Representative Todd Rokita of Indiana’s Fourth Congressional District (Rep.-Elect at time of interview). Being here in Chicago right adjacent to Rokita’s turf, I was already familiar with his work as Indiana’s Secretary of State and so when the RP team offered me an interview with him, I jumped […]

Romney Supports Ethanol Subsidies

Should we start or end with a face palm?From Real Clear Politics On his first trip back to the nation’s first voting state as a soon-to-be declared presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney reaffirmed his support for federal ethanol subsidies — an always important campaign issue in Iowa that figures to take on an […]

Never Saw This Coming: Goals Shift In Libya Kinetic Operation

I don’t think anyone saw this coming at all. It should be a complete and utter shock to everyone out there, right? President Obama has subtly shifted Washington’s public explanation of its goals in Libya, declaring now that he wants to assure the Libyan people are “finally free of 40 years of tyranny” at the […]