John Fund: The Obama-Pelosi Lame Duck Strategy – WSJ.com.
The rush to recess gives Democrats little time to pass any major laws. That’s why there have been signs in recent weeks that party leaders are planning an ambitious, lame-duck session to muscle through bills in December they don’t want to defend before November. [...]
You’d think that as many drilling rigs as BP and others have that they would have planned for something like we are experiencing right now. It’s insane to put something like that out into the ocean and not have a plan for when, not if, something goes wrong. Not only does it do possibly irreparable [...]
Oil tax increase would help pay to clean up spills.
Lawmakers want to increase the current 8-cent-a-barrel tax on oil to make sure there is enough money available to respond to oil spills. At least 6 million gallons of crude have spewed into the Gulf of Mexico since a drilling rig exploded April 20 [...]
FOXNews.com – Obama’s Thugocracy.
This past Sunday, in one of the most aggressive and offensive intimidation tactics to date, hundreds of members of the largest union – the SEIU – stormed the front yard of Bank of America deputy general counsel Greg Baer’s home. The angry mob had bullhorns, signs and even [...]
Ayn Rand on Objectivism:
My philosophy, Objectivism, holds that:
Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears.
Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man’s senses) is man’s only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to [...]
China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S. | Reuters.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.
Oh, but there’s no such thing as too much spending. What [...]
On the way home from work today I was listening to Foxnews on XM and Beck played a part of one of Obama’s speeches. He was talking about his desire and plan to fundamentally change America. Now I know what I think he means by that and I really don’t like losing more freedom, and [...]
Whether reality or not, is sure seems that I always get sick on Friday and feel like crap on the weekend. Same this week. I’ve gotten a bug from my kids (hand, foot, and mouth disease) earlier in the week that didn’t affect me nearly as badly is it did them, now I have a [...]
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet | Politics and Law – CNET News.
CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID! This administration and the Democrats [...]
Health care protests ‘clearly being orchestrated,’ senator says – CNN.com.
I’m sure that both sides orchestrate disruptions in town hall meetings and I have to agree that it does more harm than good. If you want to complain and boy do we have good reason to complain about this, do it in a respectful way. Respectful [...]