Archive for March 2015
Gowdy subpoenas Hillary’s State Department emails
(Reuters) – Congress has subpoenaed the emails of “close to a dozen” people who worked in the State Department for Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, the chairman of the U.S. House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks said on Thursday. Representative Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Benghazi Select Committee, told Reuters these…
Read MoreThe Face of Crony Capitalism
Meet John Catsimatidis the billionaire friend of the Clintons who is trying to force a biofuels mandate on New York. If people won’t buy your product because they don’t want it, you have to get your cronies in the government to force them to buy it. Of course, the government cronies don’t do your bidding…
Read MoreObama’s Nowruz Message to the Iranian People
Obama either doesn’t know or doesn’t care that Iran’s Mullahs have endorsed an EMP attack on the United States and that the Fatwa against nuclear arms to which he refers is a hoax. He speaks to the Iranian people as if they were a free people with the right to voice their opinion on anything…
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There is wisdom in admitting one’s ignorance
“All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include themselves among the ignorant, as well as the wisest.” — Friedrich Hayek Hayek knew something all to many people either don’t know or refuse to acknowledge. A free market is…
Read More30-year old female teacher gets 15 years for sex w/student
USA Today: Judge Sends Strong Message With Teacher’s Sentence. Oakland County, Michigan teacher Kathryn Ronk, who taught Spanish at a Catholic high school, had sex on several occasions with her 15-year old male student. Adjacent to Wayne County (Detroit), Oakland County is among the ten highest income counties in the United States. Finding there is…
Read MoreEconomics lesson: How to know what is a resource with value and what is trash
I’m no liberal and neither is Mrs. TeeJaw. But we recycle. We conservatives do not like to be wasteful, after all. If something we would otherwise throw into the trash can be recycled into something useful, then by all means we should recycle it. This should not be a political issue, right? It is an…
Read MoreNetanyahu Wins in Israel; Sorry Obama
Obama sent his crack political team to Israel to defeat Bibi Netanyahu in yesterday’s election. Polling data leading up to the election didn’t look good for Netanyahu. Obama’s team was busing Arabs to the polls to vote against Netanyahu’s Likud party. [You see, in Israel, unlike other countries in the Middle East, Arabs are not…
Read MoreSean Duffy, Republican rising star
If only more Republicans would go after the weasels the way Wisconsin representative Sean Duffy turns Treasury Secretary Jack Lew into quivering jelly when he is asked about whether he knew Hillary Clinton was using a private email account to conduct official government business back in 2009-2010 when he was a deputy Secretary of State…
Read MoreAlexander Hamilton on Natural Rights and Human Nature
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” Hamilton, as most of the founding fathers,…
Read MoreInconvenient truth of the day
Boston has now had it’s greatest seasonal snowfall on record. We are told this is due to human-caused climate change. But we remember being told that global warming would result in less snow. We also know that Washington DC has had along-term decline in snowfall. The Climatistas are continually plagued by inconvenient truths of this…
Read MoreQuote of the past, on the likelihood we will soon run out of fossil fuel
“Already the output of gas has begun to wane.” — U.S. Presidential Commission, opining in 1922 that we would soon run out of natural gas. Later President Jimmy Carter announced on television in 1977 that “we could use up all the proven reserves of oil in the entire world by the end of the next decade.”…
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