Happy Hurricane Season

June 1 kicks off the Atlantic hurricane season, though the NOAA map shows no activity at this time.  I’m sure Ed Mahmoud abu al Kahoul is in fine spirits.  I can’t wait for the colorful maps to start showing up over at GCP. NOAA says 9-14 storms, yada, yada, yada, and the named storms will [...]

Dr. George Tiller Shot To Death

Update:  NP contributor yuls.source links to the identity of the murderer, Scott Roeder.  Here is an internet post by scott roeder Kansas City Missouri Scott RoederTue March 13, 2007, 20:26:48 PUT THIS MONSTER TILLER BEHIND BARS WHERE HE CAN’T MURDER ANY MORE OF OUR MOST INNOCENT UNBORN BABIES, WHO HAVE NO VOICE!!! WHERE ARE THE [...]

Top Ten Things to Know about Judge Sonia Sotomayor

1.)  She is Hispanic 2.)  She is a woman 3.)  She is Puerto Rican 4.)  She is a Latina 5.)  She has a compelling life story. 6.)  She is empathetic. 7.)  She is a Puerto Rican Hispanic woman. 8.)  She has an inspiring life story. 9.)  She is the first Latina to be nominated to [...]

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Friday Night Heads

This must be the place ….

Don’t Freak If You Get White Powder In The Mail

If you get an envelope in the mail containing white powder, chances are, it’s nothing to freak out about. According to local officials, the Bayer Aspirin Company will be deploying a nationwide mass mailing ad campaign that seems a little “misguided.” Between May 20 and May 29, the Aspirin Company will be sending out 178,000 [...]

Responsible governance

from organized exploitation, this ad from Mark Sanford, and analysis from Frank Lunz (who still looks suspiciously like Janet Napolitano).

No Democrat Left Behind

we are “committed to the vigorous prosecution of those who intimidate, threaten or coerce any one DEMOCRAT exercising his or her sacred right to vote.”

There. FTFY.

The Latino KKK?

Blogger Allahpundit draws a distinction between La Raza and MEChA in an attempt to discredit Tom Trancredo’s assertion that La Raza is “the Latino KKK” … link But, as the late Rep. Charlie Norwood noted in a Human Events article in 2006, Members of these radical, anti-American, racist organizations are frequently smoothly polished into public [...]

Sotomayor: same song, second verse (updated)

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Sonia Sotomayor, during a 2001 speech at the UC Berkeley School of Law, published in the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal. —– Judge [...]

Stop the Bailouts!

Question: “What would you do with $27.599?” h/t Right.org

Entergy rate hike request fails the smell test

Just a week after Entergy Mississippi requested a 10% hike in their “Fuel Adjustment” charge (on top of last summer’s hefty increase), TVA has announced their third straight quarterly “fuel adjustment” decrease. TVA says the decrease will bring their prices down to the lowest level in over a year. “With the reduction in July, we [...]

Memorial Day:A Day Of Honor And A National Moment Of Remembrance!

As I’ve gotten older, my appreciation for this day has grown immensely, as has my education of its history. Originally declared ‘Decoration Day,’ there is some dispute as to when it was first observed. Some say women’s groups in the South were decorating the graves of Confederate soldiers before the end of the War Between [...]

Friday Nite Foo

Cavuto: Congress has its head in a dark place

It’s one thing to be half-baked. But another to push spending that’s proven half-azz.

FDIC Friday

#35 so far this year … Midland States Bank, Effingham, Illinois, Assumes All of the Deposits of Strategic Capital Bank, Champaign , Illinois May 22, 2009

Mancow gets waterboarded

“It was way worse than I thought.” Radio personality Erich Mancow Muller and co-host Pat Cassidy gave their audience first-hand look at the controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding…. With Cassidy providing commentary, Fmr. Marine Sgt. Clayton South covered Mancow’s face and stated that the average duration is 14 seconds. The procedure was over in [...]

FDIC Friday on a Thursday

Well, the FDIC pulled a past one Thursday by moving on a Florida bank. It is the 34th banking insolvency of 2009. BankUnited Acquires the Banking Operations of BankUnited, FSB, Coral Gables, Florida May 21, 2009

Obama’s national security address

In what has been described by the news media as a “major speech” on National Security, President Obama began by getting the name of his own Secretary of Defense wrong, calling him “Wiliam” Gates. Oops But, then, the teleprompter came on, and the president was back on message. Using his amazing powers of hindsight, President [...]

R.O.P Terror Plot Thwarted

By MURRAY WEISS, ERIN CALABRESE and JENNIFER FERMINO May 21, 2009 in the NY Post: Four homegrown Muslim terrorists on a mission from hell were arrested last night as they planted what they thought were high-powered plastic explosives at two Bronx synagogues, authorities said. The men were also allegedly plotting to use a Stinger missile [...]

Presidential Criticism

“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely [...]

Small Car Safety Problems: It’s physics, stupid

Obama’s plan to put everyone in high-mileage vehicles by 2016 is much like any utopian dream. The goals are noble — saving the planet, reducing fuel consumption, yada, yada, yada… BUT, as with most  fantasies, it is the unintended consequences that come back to haunt us. In this case, it is the safety issue.  This [...]

Bill Clinton gropes Fran “The Nanny” Drescher

The old horny dawg is back to his old tricks. … if he ever stopped. from Hindustan Times: Former President Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. And he was caught on camera groping the actress! It seems that he likes to keep his fingers [...]

5/25/09: “This Changes Everything”

What all fits into a category named “everything?” Well, everything, obviously. Not something, most things, the majority of things, a lot of things, no, no, no. Everything. Under the banner of “This Changes Everything,” The History Channel is promoting a Global Event, complete with a countdown clock, which touts “the most important find in 44 [...]

Educator is NYC’s first swine-flu death

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York City school principal suffering from swine flu died on Sunday, becoming the city’s first death due to H1N1 flu, medical officials said. Mitchell Wiener, 55, died after being admitted to Flushing Hospital Medical Center several days ago with the H1N1 flu virus, said Dr. Andrew Rubin, a hospital [...]

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