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As if one $1.4 trillion budget deficit weren’t enough
November 6, 2009This is right out of Atlas Shrugged
October 24, 2009The federal government is now going to start dictating compensation of private-sector bankers, regardless of whether they took taxpayer money or not. This is really getting surreal. It’s like I’m reading portions of Atlas Shrugged right there in the news every day. Folks, nowhere does the U.S. Constitution come even close to giving the federal [...]
When transparency isn’t transparency
October 24, 2009President Obama isn’t holding true on his promise of a transparent administration. But that’s no surprise, because Obama means the opposite of what he says.
The White House has told Congress it will reject calls for many of President Obama’s policy czars to testify before Congress – a decision senators said goes against the president’s promises of [...]
The pay czar strikes again
October 23, 2009Even though the federal government has not one shred of constitutional authority to set the pay of any private sector earner, that hasn’t stopped the Obama administration from sticking its nose into places it absolutely does not belong.
The Treasury Department is expected in the next few days to order companies that received huge government bailouts [...]
And then they came for the blogs
October 23, 2009The FCC is trying to take the incremental first step in regulating the Internet. This would be just the start.
The rule would prevent operators from discriminating against any legal content a third party wants to deliver to consumers on their networks, though it allows for “reasonable” network management to unclog congestion, clear viruses and spam, and [...]
National Lampoon’s Willie Herenton Vacation
October 7, 2009Former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton really is the gift that keeps on taking. You won’t find too many people more used and abused than the Memphis taxpayers. Poor schmucks.
Between 2004 and 2009, the city paid Herenton $131,194 for unused vacation days, according to records obtained by The Commercial Appeal. Over the same period, McGee made [...]
Doing the job the Obamas won’t do
October 7, 2009In the wake of his completely unnecessary trip to Copenhagen, President Obama has ordered federal agencies to cut their emissions.
Obama orders federal government to cut emissions – Yahoo! News
It’s about darn time
September 17, 2009House votes to deny all federal funds for ACORN – Yahoo! News
Well, when don’t the taxpayers face heavy losses?
September 10, 2009It appears that most of the public money that was used to bail out the union at Obama Motors will not be repaid. That’s $23,000,000,000 down the rat hole.
Taxpayers face losses on a significant portion of the $81 billion in government aid provided to the auto industry, an oversight panel said in a report to [...]
Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “Who are the people in your neighborhood?”
September 1, 2009The United States Constitution mandates that the federal government conduct an enumeration every ten years for the purpose of determining congressional apportionment. The U.S. House of Representatives consists of 435 seats, and the decennial census determines how those seats are divided among the states.
The first U.S. census was conducted in 1790. We’ve had one every ten years [...]
The government shouldn’t tell a woman what to do with her body
August 30, 2009But the Obama administration apparently has no problem telling males what to do with their bodies.
But Dr. Peter Kilmarx, chief of epidemiology for the division of HIV/AIDS prevention at the CDC, told the Times that any step that could stop the spread of HIV must be given “serious consideration.”
“We have a significant HIV epidemic in [...]
Using kids as informants
August 28, 2009Here’s one I’ve never heard of before. The Census Bureau is going to use school kids to do their job for them.
The government has launched Census in Schools, an all-out campaign targeting superintendents, principals, teachers, students and, indirectly, parents, as schools open across the nation this month and next. The message: The Census is coming [...]
Nothing they do surprises me anymore
August 28, 2009The lengths to which leftists will go do deny individual Americans their liberty no longer amazes me. Leftists are leftists. They are who they are. They simply have to be defeated.
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector [...]
ACORN at your door
August 27, 2009Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is all over the coming 2010 census, and is rightly indignant that ACORN is going to be a partner in gathering information on you and me.
From the get-go, the Obama administration sought to use the census for partisan gain. First, Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel — a former leader of [...]
This is the same government that wants to run YOUR health care
August 26, 2009Stimulus Checks Mistakenly Sent to 1,700 Inmates, Federal Agency Says – Political News – FOXNews.com
Problems for FDR’s cornerstone program continue to mount
August 24, 2009If given the option today of a) opting out of Social Security and forfeiting everything I’ve paid in the last 22 years or, b) continuing down the doomed road of Social Security, I’d choose the former in a nanosecond. You can keep what I’ve paid already. From this point on, I’ll keep that 6.2% of [...]
The high cost of hope and change
August 23, 2009Barack Obama promised hope and change. He didn’t promise that it would be cheap. With all the new spending he has proposed — and this doesn’t even factor in the cost of ObamaCare — the latest 10-year budget projections pile on an additional $9 trillion of debt. In other words, it took the United States [...]
And they want to run our health care
August 21, 2009The much-beleaguered cash-for-clunkers program is about to wind down, but not before giving us a glimpse into a future under ObamaCare.
But it has also created problems for dealers, many of whom have yet to be repaid for the clunker deals they have made. Under the program, dealers take rebates of $3,500 or $4,500 off the [...]
Cookies
August 16, 2009Once again, the right-to-privacy crowd is silent on an issue that involves the government possibly collecting personal data by using cookies on computers that are logged onto dot-gov websites. But we can’t wiretap suspected terrorists.
The Barack Obama administration has announced plans to lift a government ban on tracking visitors to government websites, and potentially, collect [...]
Certifiably insane
August 15, 2009My friend Brad, who serves as the pro bono Memphis liaison for Right Minded, sent me the video linkto an interview between Joe Birch of WMC-TV 5 and former Memphis mayor Willie Herenton, or, I should say Dr. Willie Herenton. He has a PhD. Joe Birch doesn’t, and Herenton let him know it. Herenton was the mayor of Memphis [...]
