How important is education to those receiving it if they are unwilling to pay for it themselves? Accusing him of “going along with Tory plans to shove the cost of higher education onto students and their families,” Ms. Harman told Mr. Clegg that he was like a college freshman who meets “a dodgy bloke” during […]
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A tag team of mixed party lobbyists, most of whom worked at DHS at some point, pushed the new backscatter scanners used by the TSA through to legislation. The Washington Examiner explains: The degradations of passing through full-body scanners that provide naked pictures of you to Transportation Security Administration agents may not mean that the […]
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Newly voted-in Tea Party congressmen are moving for a ban on all earmarks. This is good idea for two reasons: 1) It will not allow congressmen to be bribed in to voting for bills they are opposed to. Earmarks have long been used to sway a particular person’s vote when he/she would otherwise not support […]
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The Washington Post on Obama’s disconnect from the average citizen in wake of the Democrats’ vast losses in Congress: As Democrats try to get back on their feet and adjust to the new reality of divided government, they say there are opportunities to be found in the next two years. Anxious, impatient, dissatisfied voters, they […]
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WaPo on the concern over whether anti-Washington politicians elect might be co-opted by politics in Washington, DC: But as the Republican revolutionaries of 1994 have demonstrated, there’s something about coming to Washington that alters even the purest of intentions. Many of the 73 GOP members of Congress who won office in that huge anti-Washington electoral […]
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The American Spectator on Obama’s reaction to the Democrats various losses in every form of government last night: The only difference now is that when [Obama] ignores Republican ideas, he’ll no longer be able to forge ahead and ram his agenda through Congress anyway. Ain’t that the truth. The potential gridlock is as good news […]
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The New York Times on the democratic response to last night’s smearing by republicans: The question that will dominate the conversation among Democrats in the days ahead is how it came to this, especially since Republicans offered little to voters beyond an emphatic rejection of the president’s policies. Some Democrats believe they fell victim to […]
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It’s comforting to know that while the TSA is fondling people who don’t want to be ogled by their security thugs, and rifling through our belongings under the guise of “security”, they’re busy protecting the privacy and identity of one of their screeners who was caught falsely claiming to have found cocaine in people’s luggage […]
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Myth: Obama has genuine concern for our civil liberties and privacy and vows to protect our Constitutional rights against government intrusion in the name of National Security™. A reminder: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlNXezxGZPo Reality: Bullshit! This week sees the introduction of an entirely different level of assfuckery as the TSA, under authority of Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland […]
Charles Lane of The Washington Post concerning Obama’s ideological stupidity and electric cars in America: Yet, like a rural voter clinging to his guns, the Obama administration brushes aside the experts because – well, who knows why? Perhaps subsidizing electric cars helps a Democratic administration make corporate welfare and tax breaks for the wealthy seem […]
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