Archive | December, 2010
Democrats Won’t Be Charged for Buying Votes With Food
Sanctioned vote buying. U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson announced Tuesday he will not file charges over allegations of vote-buying due to early voting rallies during the 2010 election. Combined with an earlier decision by South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley not to file charges, this means no one will face criminal sanction for the politically volatile [...]
And the Time Person of the Year is…
15. December 2010
Mark Zuckerberg, creator of social networking giant Facebook. Time says: For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year. They could have [...]
Where the 2012 Candidates Stand on the Tax Deal
15. December 2010
Obviously we can’t tell exactly what the 2012 Republican primary field will look like, but we have a pretty good idea. For the Tax Deal Tim Pawlenty Bobby Jindal Paul Ryan Newt Gingrich Mike Huckabee John Thune John Bolton Against the Tax Deal Mitt Romney Sarah Palin Mike Pence Unknown Mitch Daniels Haley Barbour Gary [...]
Congressional Job Approval Hits All-Time Low
15. December 2010
Just 13% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 83% say they disapprove of the Democratic-led Congress. It’s the worst showing for Congress since Gallup began polling Congressional job approval more than three decades ago. No surprise. Despite the November electoral results, Congress has continued to tax-and-spend the United States further into [...]
Obama Now Appointing Rock Stars to Commissions
15. December 2010
The Hollywood president delivers a Hollywood appointment. Actor. Poet. Musician. Performer. Rocker Jon Bon Jovi can now add one more title to his impressive resume: White House appointee. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama signed an executive order establishing the White House Council for Community Solutions, and Bon Jovi appears as one of the individuals appointed [...]
Republicans Gain Supermajority in Texas House
14. December 2010
The Republican Party now holds enough seats in the Texas House of Representatives to conduct business without a single Democrat present. That’s because enough Democratic lawmakers have defected to provide the GOP with 101 seats out of 150 seats total. The latest such defection was Aaron Pena, a longtime Democrat who represents a Hispanic district [...]
Boehner: Obama Should Veto Omnibus If He’s Serious About Earmarks
14. December 2010
You’ll recall that the Obama Administration framed the Senate Republican vote to ban earmarks as Republicans coming around to Obama’s position. Fair enough. But if that’s the case, incoming Speaker John Boehner figures, shouldn’t Obama veto the earmark-laden, pork-stuffed, big-spending omnibus bill being pushed by Democrats? If President Obama is truly serious about ending earmarks, [...]
Omnibus Spending Bill Costs $1.1 Trillion, Funding for ObamaCare
14. December 2010
Republicans better hold the line against this monstrosity. If they’re not willing to vote against a $1.1 trillion, pork-laden, ObamaCare-funding bill, exactly what are they willing to vote against? And no, this isn’t about continuing the functions of government. You could do that with a short-term, significantly less expensive version. The government doesn’t need to [...]
Top NY State Senate Democrat Indicted on Embezzlement Charges
14. December 2010
New York State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada has been indicted on embezzlement charges. The six-count indictment accuses Espada and his son of embezzling more than a half-million dollars from a Bronx-based nonprofit health care network they had operated. Both men were charged with five counts of embezzling money from the nonprofit, the Soundview HealthCare [...]
Marine General: DADT Repeal Could Result in More Injuries
14. December 2010
It’s not as crazy as it sounds at first. His argument is that more injuries could result due to distraction resulting from the controversial repeal and sudden discoveries about people’s sexuality. Oh, and it’s not just any general, either. It’s the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. “When your life hangs on the line,” [...]
15. December 2010
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