There’s been a fair bit of buzz about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s remarks about the need for deficit reduction during his testimony before Congress yesterday. Many commentators are interpreting Chairman Bernanke’s as bad news for Obamanomics and are arguing that deficit fears will force him to scale back his spending agenda. I disagree. I […]
Archives for 2009
Were Healthy Banks Forced Forced to Surrender Ownership Stakes to Government?
Were Healthy Banks Forced Forced to Surrender Ownership Stakes to Government? It’s question that needs to be answered… From reading this CNSNews.com piece it would seem at least a few “healthy” banks were forced into surrendering ownership stakes to the government: Last October, then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ordered nine banks that the Treasury Department described […]
First Impression: Windows 7
I installed the Windows 7 Release Candidate on a roughly 4 year old laptop yesterday primarily because I wanted to see how it would preform on older slower hardware. Windows 7 runs surprising well on on my old HP DV4155cl with a 1.6Ghz Pentium M processor and 2GBs or RAM… Overall my first impressions of […]
Tim Geithner is a Laughingstock in China, Too
Ouch, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner who has become pretty much a permanent punch line here is apparently a laughingstock in China too (emphasis mine): U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday reassured the Chinese government that its huge holdings of dollar assets are safe and reaffirmed his faith in a strong U.S. currency. A major […]
Breaking: Military Recruiter Murdered in Arkansas
A gunman opened fire on two soldiers outside an Army Recruiting center in Little Rock Arkansas earlier today. Both of the victims were taken to a nearby hospital, where one of them died a short time later: A gunman opened fire Monday at an army recruitment center in Little Rock, Ark., killing one army recruiter […]
George Tiller Murdered
George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the nation to perform late-term abortions, was shot and killed at his church in Wichita, Kansas on Sunday. Police have reportedly arrested Scott Roeder in connection with the crime. The person or persons who committed this heinous crime are nothing more than domestic terrorists… Nothing can justify […]
PRAVDA: American Decent into Marxism is Happening With Breath Taking Speed
I found this on Drudge this morning… It’s worth reading: It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. True, the situation has been well […]
UPI: Dismissed Palin Complaints Rack up Costs
All those frivolous ethics complaints filed against Alaska Governor Sarah Palin are starting to add up the UPI reports they’ve cost taxpayer nearly “a third of a million dollars.” JUNEAU, Alaska, May 28 (UPI) — The ethics complaints filed against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are running a tab of nearly “a third of a million […]
Righto-sphere Poll
Cassandra posted these questions from John Hawkins survey of rightwing bloggers at Villainous Company earlier and though I’d add my two cents. 1) Do you think the GOP will gain or lose seats in the House in 2010? They’ll pick up a handful of seats. 2) Do you think the GOP will gain or lose […]
Poll Question: Is the U.S. Economy Headed for a Recovery or a ‘Dead Cat Bounce’?
Ok folks, here’s the 64 trillion dollar question for you… [poll id=”14″] I’m leaning toward dead cat bounce for various reasons… In short all the money the Federal Reserve and the Federal Government are pumping into the economy will have a positive effect and we will see GDP rebound in the short term. In the […]
Rep. Joe Sestak to Chalenge Arlen Specter
TPM is reporting that Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) is privately telling supports that he intends to challenge newly minted Democratic incumbent Arlen Specter: “He intends to get in the race,” says Meg Infantino, the Congressman’s sister, who works at Sestak for Congress. “In the not too distant future, he will sit down with his wife […]
FEC Clears Palin, RNC on Campaign Clothes
Remember the media fueled brouhaha about Sarah Palin’s campaign wardrobe? Remember how the media and lefty bloggers gleefully reported that those purchases must have somehow been illegal? Umm, well they weren’t… The Federal Elections Commission has dismissed a complaint by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) saying the purchases were legal: The Republican […]
Democrats Considering a National Sales Tax?
It looks like the cats out of the bag… With the Federal Government now borrowing nearly 50 cents of every dollar spent it looks like the Obama Administration and Democrats in Congress are considering a national sales tax or “Value Added Tax” (VAT) to pay for their out of control spending: With budget deficits soaring […]
North Korea Abandons 1953 Armistice…
I’ve been expecting this: May 27 (Bloomberg) — North Korea threatened a military response to South Korean participation in a U.S.-led program to seize weapons of mass destruction, and said it will no longer abide by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. “The Korean People’s Army will not be bound to the Armistice […]
Memorial Day 2009
My Father passed away in January just a few days shy of his 87th birthday… He was World War Two veteran and like many of his peers he never talked much about his service or the things he’d seen. That all changed a few years ago when I gave him a copy of Band of […]