Archive | July, 2011
Rebecca Black Releases Her Second Song: “My Moment”
Rebecca Black’s newest song My Moment is just as awful as her first one (entitled Friday). But hey, maybe she — like Sanjaya Malakar before her — can exploit the “God, this is awful but I can’t stop listening anyway” genre to her benefit. It’s like watching a train wreck: Awful but damned if you [...]
Flashback: Biden Supported Balanced Budget Amendment
18. July 2011
With President Barack Obama now threatening to veto any proposal to balance the budget, it’s helpful to look back on the record of his vice president, Joe Biden. Biden is, after all, supposed to be the wise and experienced part of the ticket. Verum Serum did a search of CSPAN’s archives and discovered that then-Senator [...]
Coburn Plan Raises Taxes, Guts Defense
18. July 2011
Yeah…no thanks. It seems Senator Tom Coburn jumped back into the debt ceiling debate in time to make an even dumber proposal than the one to simply raise the debt ceiling without cuts. He wants to reform entitlements somewhat…but he also wants to gut defense and end tax deductions for health coverage and home mortgages. [...]
Poll: Perry Beats Obama in North Carolina
18. July 2011
North Carolina is a state with a Democratic governor, Democratic senator, House delegation composed of a Democratic majority, and that voted for Barack Obama in 2008. So it’s a bit surprising that Texas Governor Rick Perry (R), who hasn’t even declared his candidacy yet, would beat Obama by three points if the election were held [...]
This Day in History: Ted Kennedy Kills Mary Jo Kopechne
18. July 2011
A reminder: On this day in 1969, a drunk Ted Kennedy drove his Oldsmobile Delmont 88 off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island and left his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, to drown. Kennedy managed to get himself out of the sinking vehicle but left Kopechne to die. She did. And he failed to seek help or [...]
Video: Medicaid Bureaucrats Help “Russian Drug Dealers” Break the Law
18. July 2011
Conservative investigative journalists strike again. James O’Keefe’s latest investigation has turned up Medicaid bureaucrats assisting men posing as Russian drug dealers in obtaining government benefits. The bureaucrats, rather than call law enforcement or simply deny assistance to the drug dealers, help the men break the law. The first video in the series shows government employees [...]
Welfare Spending Now Tops $1 Trillion Per Year
18. July 2011
Direct spending on welfare programs alone now tops $1 trillion per year — a stunning figure that goes quite some way to explain our nation’s $14 trillion debt. The federal government now categorizes no fewer than 30 million Americans as living in “poverty”. And yet the average “poverty-stricken” home enjoys air conditioning, cable television, at [...]
Gas Prices on the Rise: Tops $4 in Eight States
18. July 2011
Gas prices, which have hovered around the mid $3 range for a few weeks, are once again on the rise. The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded is now up to $3.67, but that price tops $4 in no fewer than eight states.
Obama Threatens to Veto Balanced Budget
18. July 2011
President Barack Obama has officially threatened to veto a House Republican proposal to require balanced budgets, CBS News and other news outlets report. The proposal, while requiring a fiscally-responsible balanced budget, would also provide Obama with one more debt increase — exactly what he wanted and what he has said is necessary to secure America’s [...]
Video: Top Liberal Economist Endorses Death Panels
18. July 2011
See, we have to kill grandma in order to save entitlements. Also, we’ll need to charge you more money for the honor. It’s Paul Krugman. New York Times columnist. Nobel Prize-winning economist. Obama supporter. Keynesian. Republican-hater. ObamaCare supporter. And self-described liberal. Republicans weren’t kidding or using scare tactics when they warned about death panels. They [...]
18. July 2011
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