Cap-and-trade will increase food prices
Dec 31, 2009 Opinion
The cap-and-trade bill that passed the House and is still pending in the Senate will increase food prices by 4.5 percent by 2050 by encouraging landowners to re-forest 59 million acres of farmland by that time. SecAg Tom Vilsack knows it and now wants to hide that inconvenient truth.
Star Trek is Liberal Propaganda!
Dec 31, 2009 Opinion
This could easily also be a dumbass quote of the day, but since I already have several of those saved up we’ll give it its own title. From a post by Mike Potemra at National Review Online:
Liberals Wake Up: Obama’s Health Care Plan Stinks
Dec 31, 2009 Opinion
As the Left and Right discover what’s in that legislation, there may in fact be a broad consensus building over the need to just start over. There has got to be something that makes more sense than this
President Obama: It’s Time To Fire the TSA
Dec 31, 2009 Opinion
A reasonable response to the TSA’s weak attempts to respond to the latest failed terrorist attack involving a plane – that it only punishes the public further while failing to provide any actual safety.
America, Make This Resolution. Move Your Money:Video huffpo
Dec 31, 2009 Politics
The idea is simple: If enough people who have money in the big four banks move it into smaller, more local, more traditional community banks, then collectively we, the people, will have taken a big step toward re-rigging the financial system so it becomes again the productive, stable engine for growth it’s meant to be. It’s neither Left nor right.
Rove Divorces, Twitter Delights
Dec 31, 2009 Politics
When Karl Rove announced this morning that he and wife Darby had divorced last week after 24 years of marriage, a family spokesperson asked for the family’s privacy to be respected. In a development that surprises no one, Twitter users did not oblige.
Conservatives Attack Obama for Upholding Constitution
Dec 31, 2009 Politics
The Wall Street Journal, Pat Buchanan and others are already condemning the Obama administration for treating Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a civilian criminal rather than an illegal warrior to whom we can presumably do whatever we please. Do they forget that Richard Reid is away at SuperMax? It’s not good enough for the Underpants bomber, too?
Decade’s Top 10 Political Lines
Dec 31, 2009 Politics
From “I actually voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it,” to “I can see Russia from my house,” here are the ten most memorable political lines/statements/quotes of the decade, which shaped or cemented perceptions, were repeated endlessly, and impacted American politics.
Fox: Real Presidents Don’t Say "Allegedly" About Terrorists
Dec 31, 2009 Politics
Fox News today found a new reason to criticize President Obama’s speech on the attempted bombing of Flight 253: His use of the word “allegedly” to describe the suspected terrorist’s actions was “Harvard Law School talking, that’s not commander-in-chief talking.”
Hatch admits GOP ’standard practice’ was to run up deficit
Dec 31, 2009 Politics
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow believes she has found the smoking gun proving Republicans’ hypocrisy on health care and the budget deficit: an admission by Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch that, during the Bush administration, “it was standard practice not to pay for things.”