National Journal: Not many issues can thwart the political momentum that carried Republicans to historic midterm gains only six months later—but Medicare is one of them. The GOP received a rude awakening last week that it’s no longer 2010 when its candidate in New York’s 26th District special election, Jane Corwin, suffered a humiliating defeat [...]
Posted by Mark Harvey, aka @Snooper1, at his website, The Snooper Report: I am sick and tired of the assholes in DC. They make me sick. And tired. What have they accomplished in the last 75+ years, besides not a damn thing? What portion(s) of the United States Constitution do they adhere to, besides not [...]
Notice, in the Daily Caller story below, the repeated calls to ignore this, for it all to go away. And we can imagine why: An FBI investigation will tell us whether or not Weiner posted the photos himself. I’m going to repeat what I said earlier: If the account has been hacked, Weiner should announce [...]
A little at the opening, and then the real shooting starts at 1:10 Miami Herald: Details on the shootings are still murky, but a Miami Beach detective tells the Miami Herald that the first shooting happened around 4 a.m. near 15th Street and Collins Ave.; the second erupted about an hour later near 13th Street [...]
PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. military veterans and those currently on active military duty are less likely to approve of President Obama’s job performance than are Americans of comparable ages who are not in the military. These results are based on an analysis of more than 238,000 interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking from [...]
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. ~Joseph Drake On Feb 24th 2008 two men in Class A Army uniforms knocked on my door.. my son David called me to tell me they were there, I had been shopping… [...]
Alternate headline: Time’s Joe Klein Gives Interview After Smoking Bowl Of Meth, Andrew Sullivan Lisps
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Washington Times: The U.S. Navy is sailing into politically correct waters, sometimes at a speed too fast for the Obama administration to keep up. Whether it is policies on gays and women, or naming ships after social activists, the Navy is charting a course that has some “old salts” worried. “It’s pretty dire,” said John [...]
Wall Street Journal: Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called national Internet that could, in effect, disconnect Iranian cyberspace from the rest of the world. The leadership in Iran sees the project as a way to end the fight for control of the Internet, according to observers of Iranian [...]
“He did not have a chance to do anything, hit the emergency button on his radio, or even to defend himself. That car pulled up and started blasting, just like that. So where we are right now is that it looks like an ambush,” Bexar County Deputy Chief Dale Bennett told the paper. Watch the [...]
Citing Japan’s nuclear crisis as a concern, Germany announces long-term plan to become the first major industrialized power to shut down its atomic energy program. Fox News: BERLIN – Germany on Monday announced plans to become the first major industrialized power to shut down all its nuclear plants, with a phase-out due to be wrapped [...]
New York Times: CATARINA, Tex. — Until last year, the 17-mile stretch of road between this forsaken South Texas village and the county seat of Carrizo Springs was a patchwork of derelict gasoline stations and rusting warehouses. Now the region is in the hottest new oil play in the country, with giant oil terminals and [...]
