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From NewsReal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! In 1989, the offices of my neighborhood newspaper were firebombed by a terrorist. Molotov cocktails ignited a blaze that gutted the first floor of the building, incinerated furniture, and left computers and telephones all but vaporized. A short time later, […]
Hey, Holder is just following the lead of His Imperial Majesty, Barack Obama Attorney General Eric Holder today criticized U.S. lawmakers for preventing the administration from being able to move the suspects from Guantanamo to the U.S. for a civilian trial. Holder said he stood by the administration’s original decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed […]
In addition to the general purpose of giving federal bureaucrats more control over the life and death of every American, ObamaCare also advances more specific objectives — such as spreading the wealth around from taxpayers to the unions and crony capitalists who finance Obama’s campaigns: Facing questions from both parties in the Congress, the Obama […]
As liberals took unseemly pleasure in reminding us after 9/11, we supported the Islamic militants who went on to wage a terror war against us when they were fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. But back in the 1980s, we didn’t know these people were our mortal enemies. Now even the State Department knows it. […]
On Friday, as many as 20 United Nations staffers were killed in Afghanistan. Reuters reported it this way (emphasis added): (Reuters) – Afghan protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by an obscure U.S. pastor killed up to 20 U.N. staff, beheading two foreigners, when they over-ran a compound in a normally peaceful northern city on Friday in the worst ever attack […]
A few weeks ago AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka used the Civil Rights movement as a comparison for his union work. He wanted his audience to imagine that unionism is somehow just like the struggles for equality under the law that African Americans sought in the middle of last century. This is a disgusting attempt by […]
There is nothing worse than some self-interested politician acting as if his partisan political agenda makes him serving his country just like our brave soldiers at war. But here we have it from Indiana’s 69th District Democrat Dave Cheatham, one of the Hoosier State Reps that ran off to Illinois to avoid doing his job […]
While everyone has been focusing on the Nazi signs being carried by “teachers” in Wisconsin, Indiana’s fleebaggers have finally come home and the state’s legislature has gotten down to business. The result has been some great conservative victories for school choice and pro-choice legislation. Hoosier Access has the finer points and details, but I’ll give […]
Oh, and they are apparently given poor information to change their minds and become followers of Gore A LACK of “credible information” is one of the main reasons that 40 per cent of Australians do not believe that humans have a role in global warming, according to the head of the federal government’s Climate Commission, […]
Truly one of the funniest, or, is that “most absurd?”, headlines of the day, via the Politico’s Glenn Thrush: Now Libya steps on President Obama’s message President Barack Obama’s decision to intervene in Libya has presented him with a whole new set of political problems with members of both parties. But its most worrisome effect […]
On the one hand, our new allies in Libya are, how can I put this delicately, a wee bit inexperienced. Bernwi, the exterminator, said his father practically ordered him to the front. He bought a Kalashnikov and found a military uniform abandoned by one of Kadafi’s militiamen. He had never owned a gun or fatigues. […]
From Newsreal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! This is utterly revolting: U.S. lawmakers said Sunday they would consider a request by AfghanPresident Hamid Karzai to formally condemn a Florida pastor’s decisionto burn the Koran, after the act triggered deadly riots in Afghanistan. Note that once again it is being said that one act […]
* We’d be a lot better off if most people in DC learned to love 3 little words, “Not our problem.” * If both sides are criticizing you, it may mean you’re doing twice as much wrong, not splitting the difference to be right * Just because there are bad guys on one side doesn’t […]
Have you noticed that BOTH PARTIES say they want to reduce the deficit, but all the discussions inevitably center on REPUBLICAN plans? We also get quotes like this one from Chris Van Hollen, “It seems to be the same old, same old,” said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the Budget […]
You have a First Amendment RIGHT to burn a Koran, just as you have a First Amendment Right to burn a Bible, a Torah, or a Bhagavad Gita. However, I wouldn’t recommend burning any of those books simply because it’s needlessly offensive to people of other faiths. Still, there’s only one religion that has followers […]
If you’re not with us, you’re against us! That’s the “new tone” coming from union leaders in Wisconsin. In case you missed it, AFSCME has taken to sending letters to local businesses, containing a thinly veiled threat of boycott if those businesses don’t place a pro-union sign in their windows. Mister Pterodactyl linked the story […]
Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged about them or not. Click the link underneath each if you need a little more explanation. First, one I should have used last week: That’s from our Wisconsin Rules the World collection. Grandpa Steve mocked one up for me: Emphasis on “mocked.” […]
It’s the kind of inside baseball political battle that cures most people’s insomnia — the decennial redrawing of NJ’s legislative districts. But the stakes couldn’t be higher because shifting some lines on a map can have far-reaching consequences for the future of our state. Who’s in, and who’s not; which towns are sliced and diced, […]
You asked for it, you got it. Open thread, discuss whatever you folks want. Flame wars are just fine!
Well, obviously the answer to the question is “no,” since this Grist article by Clark Williams-Derry never even names him once Great Scott, how did I miss this? Late last month, the EPA released a draft greenhouse gas inventory, showing that net climate warming emissions from the U.S. fell by a whopping 15 percent from […]
AT&T’s recent announcement that it will buy wireless provider T-Mobile is yet another potentially crippling blow to the free market. In the exploding world of wireless, crony capitalism is helping to destroy competition. And it’s all been facilitated by horrific policies set down by the FCC and Congress, who have benefited mightily over the decades […]
I don’t know which is funnier. A prominent NJ Democrat caught red-handed exploiting a loophole he’s pushing to eliminate, or… Public employee unions aiming their ire and indignation at the Democratic Party hands that feed them because of it. State’s largest police union calls for Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo to resign The state’s largest […]
I think I’ve written about Pot once before my last post, and I got pretty much the same reaction. As you can see in the comments of my last post, a lot of people have been affected by pot. I want to make clear that I don’t endorse pot use in any way except for […]
Fortunately, the answer finally ends up being “no, they don’t.” I say fortunately, because if the answer was “yes,” all of us deniers Realists would run out and eat spicy food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and you know where that would lead. Q: Dear Umbra, The other day I was sitting on the couch […]
The NY Times call these “deadly protests.” Sounds more like a riot to me Violent protests over the burning of a Koran in Florida flared for a second straight day, with young men rampaging through the streets of this southern capital, flying Taliban flags and wielding sticks. Eight people were killed and 61 injured in […]
Having looked into its appalling dismissal of the open and shut case of voter intimidation against New Black Panther activists, the Justice Department has cleared itself of any wrongdoing. Despite appearances, the situation has nothing to do with the DOJ’s policy of never prosecuting civil rights cases if the defendant is Caucasian. It’s official: The […]
We may have an explanation for Comrade Obama’s inscrutable behavior in Libya. There’s no need to envision a complex, SPECTRE-esque international conspiracy of the sort Glenn Beck is often on the verge of revealing, when our foreign policy is better explained by a single word: incompetence. As NATO takes over control of airstrikes in Libya, […]
Government union members of AFSCME Council 24 are circulating letters to local businesses in southeast Wisconsin threatening them that if they don’t come to immediate and vocal support of government unions the businesses will be targeted for attack. The union says it won’t be satisfied with statements of neutrality, either. An AFSCME spokesman told the […]
Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi has gone back to her order to stop Gov. Scott Walker’s union bill and rewritten it in an effort to assist unions and Democrats (including her Democratic Operative son) continue to ride the gravy train at the expense of the taxpayers. Sumi, whose entire family seems to be up […]
The other day I had lunch with a friend whose father is in stage four of stomach cancer. He is going through Chemo and she can’t get him to eat. I had just had a conversation about this with my son regarding California’s medical marijuana laws. I asked her if she thought pot would help […]