Eli Lehrer of the Heartland Institute accuses US Attorney General Eric Holder of dragging his feet on implementing reforms that would protect vulnerable prisoners from rape.
It’s no news that Nancy Pelosi is dumb as a box of rocks. But her notion that unemployment insurance payments are a great way to create jobs is so incandescently ignorant, it’s stunning that a person so stupid could ever become a leader of any kind. By her logic, we could achieve full employment by laying everybody [...]
From SFGate: San Francisco moved a step closer Tuesday to becoming the first city in the nation to require that retailers post in their stores notices on the level of radiation emitted by the cell phones they offer. But as California environmentalists know, the best defense against brain cancer from cell phones is a tinfoil [...]
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been delisted today by the NYSE. They will probably be listed on the “pink sheets,” the part of the over-the-counter market reserved for the hopelessly speculative penny stocks. Make no mistake about it: Chris Dodd and Barney Frank and their fellow-travelers in the Democratic Party, to their shame, caused this to [...]
Labor unrest at Honda plants in China. In the workers’ paradise. Who would have thought that people would be tired of working for a few dollars an hour? The United States under Reagan took the Soviet Union down economically by engaging in an arms race that the Soviets couldn’t sustain. Now, the weak dollar policy [...]
First it was the leaking oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, to which the President of the United States was obviously much slower in responding than the presumably evil Bush 43 was in responding to Katrina. Now comes the crisis of the deadly IDF response to the phony humanitarian mission to Hamas, which forces the President to [...]
With respect to the rumor that he offered Rep. Joe Sestak a job if he would drop out of his race for reelection (an illegal quid pro quo), President Obama said that “I can assure the public that nothing improper took place.” To a former community organizer, propriety is a somewhat higher calling than legality. [...]
From the Christian Science Monitor: In 1995, a brash assistant law professor at the University of Chicago decided to blow the whistle on a broken Supreme Court confirmation process. She complained that rather than triggering a public discussion of the cases and controversies facing the high court, Senate confirmation hearings had become a “vapid and [...]
My unemployed semi-permanent houseguest/partner opened a Bank of America checking account at the beginning of the year. Since then, he has racked up over $300 in overdraft fees. He closed the account today. The unbelievable part is, he never wrote a check on the account! If you use the ATM card and you don’t have [...]