The War on Terror turns towards two insurgencies on the Arabian Peninsula.
Jon Rowe Gives Insight on the Founders in Grabar vs Swindle Marijuana Debate
December 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
My friend Jon Rowe, a libertarian blogger and college professor, has written a thoughtful post responding to my debate with Mary Grabar on marijuana legalization, conservatism, and the counterculture.
Over the years I’ve found Jon’s blogging on the founding to be tremendously erudite and engaging. If you haven’t been following his writing then you really should.
Here’s [...]
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Sunrise votes nudge health care bill forward Tues. – AP
December 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Two down, one to go. President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul cleared its second 60-vote test in the Senate early Tuesday morning — moving it a step closer to passage by Christmas. Senate Democrats remained united behind their compromise bill, over steadfast Republican opposition. The motion, to shut off debate and move to a vote [...]
Franken the Clown Turns Senate Into a Circus
December 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Retirement age broadcaster retires; Media Matters takes credit
December 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Eric Burns, the president of Media Matters, tells the New York Observer that the George Soros Steno Pool has “had some incredible successes this year.”
Acknowledging that “it’s been a difficult fund-raising environment,” Burns tells the Observer that Media Matters “raised roughly $10 million in 2009. The haul was less than the organization’s peak numbers in [...]
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Obama Has Just Made the Country a Lot Less Safe: Moving Gitmo Terrorists to Illinois
December 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In one of his dumbest acts as President, Barack Obama will be taking some of the most hardened terror suspects being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transferring them to the currently abandoned Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois.
As Amy Goodman describes it on Democracy Now!:
The Obama administration has confirmed plans for the eventual transfer of [...]
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Developing countries boycott UN climate talks – AP
December 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
hina, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Monday, bringing negotiations to a halt with their demand that rich countries discuss much deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions. Representatives from developing countries – a bloc of 135 nations – said they refused to participate in any formal working groups at the [...]
Pot Calls Kettle Black: Jon Stewart’s Intolerance for Democracy
December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Stewart condemns the Swiss, not Sharia, for being intolerant.
“Architecture may be my favorite thing about religion,” said Jon Stewart on the Daily Show last Thursday. Stewart’s humor and feigned naïveté aside, minarets do not serve as mere architectural flair; they are political symbols of supremacy which, as Stewart admits, would change the Swiss landscape, [...]
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