At least no one can say that Congress isn’t hard at work trying to sort out the important issues in America. ESPN: Uniforms for U.S. Olympic athletes are American red, white and blue — but made in China. That has members of Congress fuming. Republicans and Democrats railed Thursday about the U.S. Olympic Committee’s decision […]
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Wound, meet salt.
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Reason on Obama’s actual fundraising versus his rhetoric against money in politics: Over the last few weeks, the Obama reelection team has sent multiple fundraising emails warning that the president will be outspent.”I will be outspent,” warns the subject line of two separate emails address from the president. Another email from an Obama campaign staffer […]
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Schools forcing students to cite a pledge of allegiance. To the school, the school district, and its teachers. “I pledge allegiance to Asher Holmes and the Marlboro Township School District and to the teachers who help us learn all that we need to know for the future. We promise to respect ourselves and others, to […]
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Old fashioned stupidity. Officials at Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin school district have ordered Jake Balthazor, 15, to stop wearing a rosary. Balthazor says he was wearing it to honor his grandmother, who is battling cancer. But school officials say rosaries are a gang symbol and school rules bar students from wearing “any apparel, jewelry, accessories, or matter […]
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Fucking Massholes. THE RESIDENTS of Middleborough, Mass., have had enough. In a state with a storied history of Puritan-inspired prohibitions, they voted 183-50 in a town meeting last Monday to approve a proposal that would, among other things, impose a $20 fine on public profanity, First Amendment be damned. Taxachussetts is, for me, quickly becoming […]
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Because without government sponsored code enforcement, we’d be just like Somalia. A Tulsa woman is suing the city’s code enforcement officers after she said they cut down her garden with no cause. Denise Morrison said she has more than 100 plant varieties in her front and back yards and all of them are edible and […]
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Teachers having an entire class punch another student as punishment for being a bully. A Texas teacher will lose her job after ordering more than 20 kindergartners to line up and hit a classmate accused of being a bully, a district spokesman said Friday. The teacher at a suburban San Antonio school is accused of […]
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Look over there! Leftism is using “science” to justify their policy positions. Again. Mr. Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology, was among those who publicly defended New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan to ban the sale of sugared soft drinks in cups larger than 16 ounces. And he did so using, of all […]
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Anyone who insists that we should look to Sweden as some sort of political model should be immediately mocked and dismissed from any further political conversations. A Swedish political party is taking a stand against upright urination. At a county council meeting Monday, the Left Party, or Vänsterpartiet, tabled a motion that would require office […]
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