Archive | March, 2010
2,000 House Staffers Making Six-Figure Salaries
Even as 9.7% of the American workforce can’t find employment and an even larger percentage are underemployed, nearly 2,000 staffers in the House of Representatives are pulling down six-figure salaries on the taxpayer dime. Nearly 2,000 House of Representative staffers pulled down six-figure salaries in 2009, including 43 staffers who earned the maximum $172,500 — [...]
Uh Oh: South Korean Naval Ship Torpedoed by North Korea?
26. March 2010
There is a troubling incident unfolding off the western coast of North Korea, where a South Korean naval ship with around 100 crew members aboard is reportedly sinking after a possible torpedo attack. None of which particularly qualifies as particularly “good” news: A South Korean navy ship with about 100 personnel on board is sinking [...]
Common Sense, Priorities, and Military Spending
26. March 2010
Articles like this, documenting the military having to scrape together resources and improvise, worry me: How do you squeeze two Marine Expeditionary Brigades onto 33 amphibious ships when in reality they require 38? Are the 38 amphibious ships required for the level of national defense deemed necessary by military leaders? If so, then you spend [...]
Turkey Opposes Additional Sanctions Against Iran
26. March 2010
Turkey has become a bigger and bigger pain in the ass recently, which is one of the reasons why my opposition to Congress officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide has dwindled to near non-existent. Jim Geraghty recently expressed a similar sentiment: I haven’t quite changed my mind, but I think I feel less strongly about this [...]
Russian Bombers Violating Foreign Airspace Again
26. March 2010
Russian bombers capable of dropping nuclear weapons violated British airspace on March 10th, flying over Scotland and eventually being intercepted by UK Royal Air Force Tornado jets. It’s a scene classically reminiscent of Cold War days or a Tom Clancy novel from the same: two weeks ago, Royal Air Force Tornados shadowed a pair of [...]
Baucus: ObamaCare Will Help Solve Unequal Income Problem
25. March 2010
Just the latest evidence that government-run health care is less about providing health care and more about handing over control of the people to Washington. Which means, of course, controlling how much they can earn. Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), enter stage left: Too often, much of late, the last couple three years the mal-distribution of [...]
Obama Admin To Order Lenders To Cut Mortgage Payments
25. March 2010
I shit you not. The executive branch of the federal government is going order private companies to cut the amount of money they’re charging to borrow money. Order. Because apparently we’re a socialist country now. The Obama administration plans to overhaul how it’s tackling the foreclosure crisis, in part by requiring lenders to temporarily slash [...]
Cuba’s Three Health Care Systems
25. March 2010
Today seems like the perfect day to return to this excellent article by Jay Nordlinger examining the health care system of Cuba. Or, rather, the three health care systems of Cuba. Apologists like Michael Moore have created an illusion of free and first-class health care for everyone under the Communist regime. Left-wing politicians here in [...]
Charming: Netanyahu Feels “Humilitated” By Obama
25. March 2010
Is this more of that patented “smart power” we were told about? Staunch allies humiliated even as we make overtures of peace with state-sponsors of terrorism pursuing nuclear weapons? I’m actually physically sickened by this. And I’m physically sickened by very little in politics. For a head of state to visit the White House and [...]
Tea Party To Fraud Scott Ashjian: Get Lost
25. March 2010
Scott Ashjian is a Democratic plant candidate attempting to split the right-leaning vote in half, which would permit Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) to get re-elected. Such a strategy is nothing new in politics. But the Tea Party has a message for the guy purporting to represent their values: Get lost. You see, Ashjian started a [...]
26. March 2010
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