BIRDS OF AN IMPEACHMENT FEATHER: “Rep. Alcee Hastings, previously a federal judge, was removed from the bench in 1988 on corruption charges after more than 400 members of the House voted to impeach him. Though he was later elected to Congress, earlier this year Speaker Nancy Pelosi denied him the chairmanship of the intelligence […]
Posted on June 16th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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THE BRUTISH BOOR: “Professional poll-watcher and persistent president-slanderer Harry Reid, who also moonlights as Senate Majority Leader, is proving himself to be a menace and a brutish boor.” - Columnist David Limbaugh
THE SURRENDER CAUCUS
“The time for niceties has passed. The leaders of the Democratic party not only do not support the war effort, they […]
Posted on June 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Supporters of government regulation of the Internet are trying to “spin” a vote in the Maine Senate as a victory, but as NetCompetition.org chairman Scott Cleland explains, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it ain’t no gorilla…
Public interest groups supportive of net neutrality like Common Cause and The Maine Civil […]
Posted on June 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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“Uh, boss, I can’t come in today. I have a slight touch of Pac-Man Fever and the doctor says I should stay home for a few days.” Yes, such a ridiculously absurd call could be coming to a workplace near you some day if the American Medical Association (AMA) has its way.
According to […]
Posted on June 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Columnist John Hawkins has a big problem with Ron Paul, especially as a Republican presidential candidate. In his latest column, Hawkins lists nine reasons “why so many Republicans have a big problem with Ron Paul,” including the fact that Paul is a philosophical libertarian (gasp!) and chalked up the lowest “conservative” score of all […]
Posted on June 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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COULTERGEIST: “President Bush was so buoyed by the warm reception he was given in Albania that he immediately gave all 3 million Albanians American citizenship, provided they learn Spanish. The offer was withdrawn when Bush found out most Albanians haven’t broken any U.S. laws.” - Columnist Ann Coulter
JUMPING OFF THE IMMIGRATION CLIFF
“The president apparently […]
Posted on June 14th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows President Bush’s approval number at 29 percent, the lowest of his presidency. In addition, the same poll shows that two-thirds of Americans think the country is on the wrong track.
Does anyone think it’s just a coincidence that those numbers come out shortly after the president accused […]
Posted on June 13th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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PORK ON STEROIDS: “There is this thing known as an ‘earmark.’ . . . Otherwise known as ‘pork.’ The Library of Congress estimates that in appropriations bills for fiscal year 1994 there were about 4,126 earmarks. Ten years later that number had grown to 15,877. But that was when the GOP controlled […]
Posted on June 13th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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GENERAL ABANDONMENT: “There’s a rumor going around that Robert Gates is the Secretary of Defense. We’d like to request official confirmation, because based on recent evidence the man running the Pentagon is Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan. For that matter, is George W. Bush still President? We can’t help but wonder after the […]
Posted on June 12th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Nevada State Sen. Dina Titus (D-Las Vegas) has a letter-to-the-editor published in the Las Vegas Review Journal this morning complaining that a tax hike on diesel fuel…thereby resulting in higher prices for just about every commodity trucked into Nevada…didn’t pass in the 2007 Legislature. She didn’t earn the nickname “Dina Taxes” in last […]
Posted on June 10th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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