What is it with you people in Minnesota?
An election is being stolen, a few votes at a time, right in front of your faces, and you aren’t raising hell in the streets?…
What you can do this week
So now that you’ve had some time to work on my first couple of suggestions, it’s time for another idea. This one is sort of…
Hardly a surprise
Bush caves, TARP funds get raided for a use that was never discussed during the legislative process, and the UAW gets its bailout. Of course,…
Oh look, more of the Chicago Mafia coming to Washington
A few weeks ago, many looked at the Big O’s appointments (most Clinton administration retreads) and said “It looks like 4 more years of the…
Is this “Change we can believe in”?
The U.S. Treasury may adopt a plan that would let a car czar or the Treasury secretary force General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC into…
Almost missed it
Today is Bill of Rights Day. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of…
The logic of the left
(Via the Drudge Report) It’s OK to laugh and point if you happen to run into Seth Borenstein, AP “writer”: Mother Nature, of course, is…
“…the U.S. should probably declare bankruptcy.”
Yeah, you know it’s going to be a warm and fuzzy day when you see a remark like that in the traditional press, even if…
Thomasville High School–NC 1AA Football Champions!
For the 4th time in 5 years. Way to go Bulldogs! Pictures of the game are here.
The way things used to be
Sure, it’s convenient to make one stop at Walmart and get everything from groceries to an oil change. But we’ve given up something special for…
Google News…news
(Via the Drudge Report) If Google News is one of your information sources, you might want to read this piece from The Register. Short version–the…
Uncommon valor
It seems that uncommon valor is quite common in one place–America’s military: By the end of the six-hour battle deep within the Shok Valley, Walton…
Defending her civil rights
(Via SayUncle) I’ve blogged before on Meleanie Hain, the Pennsylvania mother who had her concealed carry permit revoked because she open carried at a kid’s…
Our parents’ “dirty pictures”
(Via Days of Our Trailers) Bettie Page has died at 85. While her photos were pretty risque for their day, they’re considered pretty tame now.…
OK, time for politics
Time for some politics. I recommend to you “Team Obamavitch” by Mark Alexander. I suppose this is the reality of the “Change” we all were…
Ah, Christmas break!
Yes, the Freeholder is on an extended break for Christmas. Well, sort of a break. I have firewood to deal with, a metal carport/awning-thingee that…
This story will just warm your heart
Well, it’ll warm it if your a gunnie like me. If you’re someone like Diane Feinstein or Schmuck Schumer, you’ll probably have fluids and semi-solids…
Down the memory hole again
It seems that The Bringer of Change may have some memory impairment. Did he talk to Blagojevich or not? Days of our Trailers has your…
More of “Denial is not a river in Egypt”
A public school system attempts to deal with a problem in a marginally realistic way, and “Controversy Erupts Over School Proposal to Teach Kids to…
Christmas humor
(Via Timebomb 2000) Lest we allow the stress of the holiday season get to us, how about some humor? When four of Santa’s elves got…
Illinois politics full of corruption and crime?
Who’da thunk it? Our best hope is that someone involved (up to their eyebrows) in all this decides to sing for their freedom. If that…
Absolutely unsure how to categorize this one…
Is this a story about the increasing over-militarization of our police, government interference in our private lives/choices or an exercise in black helicopter belief? Let…
There is, however, hope
When voters in Louisiana, arguably one of the most corrupt states in the union, can vote out a Congressman caught with a freezer full of…
Ka-f’ing-Ching!
The Big O apparently believes his own propaganda. Schools, roads, broadband for everyone, sunshine and puppies (OK, you got me on the last two) are…
What an incredibly crappy non-apology
(Via The War on Guns) H-S Precision, the gun culture fools de jure, has issued a non-apology. What a bunch of spineless losers. Dear H-S,…
News for global warming fetishists
The Drudge Report is just full of global warming-related items today. Good thing, since my little area of the world has been experiencing lower than…