July 2010 Blog Posts (119)

So I got to thinking this week about immigration and the illegal aliens that keep coming in. I got into a discussion with a dear friend about the American Indians and how we Americans were illegal here as the American Indians were here first. That they were subjugated and forced onto reservations and not allowed to leave and live anywhere else at all. While…

I'm not prone to spreading conspiracy theories, but the recent story referenced in the post title does have a bit of .... shall we say ... schadenfreude. I must admit I cringed whenever the previous administration, esp. V.P. Cheney, consistently was linked to Halliburton in a sinister fashion. Whatever. There's a lot to be said for privatization of services that can be performed better and less expensively than government bureaucrats as Halliburton proved. But it was almost as easy as…

That journ-uh-list (and global warming believer) would be Gregg Easterbrook, blogging for Reuters, in a longer post that for the most part is an eulogy to the recently passed Stephen Schneider. As might be expected he remembers Schneider for qualities that were largely undetected by skeptics, and he blathers…

With a climate bill dead (until it's not again), Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson is grieving:

Once again, however, the administration applied the same backroom approach it took to health care reform. Instead of waging a public debate to pit the American people against the corporate polluters, Obama gave…

HT: togetrichisglorious.blogspot.com

Regardless of the ups and downs of the tax rates over the past half-century, this chart clearly shows…

Harry Reid announced yesterday that Senate Democrats -- for now -- have abandoned efforts to pass "comprehensive"(-ly destructive to the economy) cap-and-trade legislation, reports the Washington Post:

Democrats have not ruled out pushing for a…

So in light of the lawsuit against the new Arizona immigration bill I decided to post here the bill in full (something many protesters have not read) and let you see just what it really is all about:

Those who cried the loudest on the floor of the Senate these days -- right now -- are the very ones that voted to reduce this country's income with the biggest benefits going to the wealthiest Americans.

excerpted from Casey's Daily Dispatch

In Orwell’s 1984, it was the job of the Thought Police to ferret out miscreants whose thinking and actions ran contrary to the dictates of the all-controlling state.

While things haven’t quite degraded to that point yet, even a casual glance at the news confirms that we’re well on the way. The first,…

Groups like the Environmental Defense Fund and Center for Biological Diversity have warned that dispersants, especially Corexit, used on oil in the Gulf of Mexico are dangerously toxic to marine life. Then we have…

My husband and I got sucked into this nightmare. The program is a JOKE. Chase bank mass mailed modification…

Today the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's Constitutional Law Center announced they would, on behalf of Washington State taxpayers, sue Democrat Gov. Christine Gregoire because last year she issued an executive order implementing climate change measures that the Democrat-run state legislature had rejected.

“We…