Month: May 2014
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Anti-War Republican Beats Back Bush Era Challenger
Congressman Walter Jones beat back a primary challenge from a former Bush aide who attacked him over his foreign policy views.
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Clay Aiken Hanging On By A Thread In North Carolina
In addition to the Senate race, there were primaries in a whole host of races in North Carolina yesterday, including the Democratic primary in the state’s Second Congressional District which happens to include American Idol star and North Carolina native Clay Aiken. Given the makeup of the district, whomever the Democrats put up here is pretty…
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CNN Poll: Do You Think Malaysian Air 370 Was Abducted By Aliens?
Just in case you thought CNN had given up on its obsessive coverage of missing Malyasian Air Flight 370, take a look at a question they actually included in a poll: After two months of breathless speculation on the whereabouts of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, CNN offered some polling data that might show just how much its…
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New Russian Law Requires Bloggers To Register With The Kremlin
Vladimir Putin wants to put the Internet genie back in the bottle.
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Benghazi Hearings Likely To Last Through 2016
South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy, who has been named to head the House Select Committee investigating the Benghazi attack said this morning that his inquiry could easily last into the 2016 campaign season: Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said the special committee he’ll lead on Benghazi could continue into the 2016 campaign, when Hillary Clinton might…
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International Space Station Now Broadcasts Streaming Video From Orbit
Thanks to the recent SpaceX mission to the International Space Station, you can now view streaming video of the Earth as the ISS passes over it: After being continuously inhabited for more than 13 years, it is finally possible to log into Ustream and watch the Earth spinning on its axis in glorious HD. This…
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Tillis Defeats Tea Party Challenger In North Carolina
As most analysts had expected, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis scored a victory in yesterday’s Republican primary to select the candidate who will take on Senator Kay Hagen in the fall, doing so with more than enough votes to avoid a runoff: WASHINGTON — In a boost for establishment Republicans and their hopes to…
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Obamacare Approval Numbers Unlikely To Improve
Looking at a recent polling on the Affordable Care Act, which showed the same generally negative numbers as polling has shown for three years now, The Fix argues that public opinion about the law is unlikely to improve: Asked for their No. 1 reason for disliking the law, 42 percent cited “too much government involvement.” This particular…
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China’s Plan For The Collapse Of North Korea
China sends a message to Kim Jong Un.
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“Scumbag Woodstock”
How’s that Libyan intervention working out? Here’s one evaluation, reported by Eli Lake at The Daily Beast: An American counter-terrorism official used a different metaphor to describe the situation. “Libya today plays host to members and associates of several AQ-allied groups, in some ways becoming a jihadist melting pot,” this official told The Daily Beast.…
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Monica Lewinsky Speaks
It’s a late 90’s flashback thanks to an article in Vanity Fair written by Monica Lewinsky: Monica Lewinsky is taking to the pages of Vanity Fair to address her affair with former President Bill Clinton, writing that she avoided the spotlight for fear of becoming an issue during Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign, but adding that the…
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The Tea Party’s Nebraska Battleground
A Tea Party battle in the Cornhusker State
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Virginia County Considers Banning People From Meeting In Their Own Homes
One Virginia county wants to regulate how many people you can have in your home for a visit.
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Once Again, U.S. Military Spending Dwarfs Russia, China
Even in an era of budget cuts, America’s military spending still outpaces the rest of the world: Despite falling spending, America’s military pre-eminence is vast. A budget of $600 billion for 2014, including $84 billion for “overseas contingency operations” such as Afghanistan, buys a weighty punch. Next year, when the Pentagon’s base budget is expected…
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Russia Outlaws Profanity
It is now illegal to use profanity in entertainment in Russia: (CNN) – Thinking about making a film? Better leave out the foul language if you want it to be seen in Russia. The same goes for plays. Even rock stars will need to leave their potty mouths at home. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off…
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Boko Haram Leader Vows to Sell Kidnapped Girls
Boko Haram is threatening to sell the 200-plus Nigerian girls it has kidnapped into slavery.
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Pennsylvania Union: Privatizing Liquor Sales Will Kill Children
Pennsylvania has some of the most idiotic and restrictive laws dealing with the sale of beer, wine, and hard liquor of any state in the nation. Unlike most states, you cannot buy beer and wine in grocery stores or convenience stores, for example. But it’s actually worse than that. You can buy wine and hard…
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Once Again, The Supreme Court Upholds Legislative Prayer
The Supreme Court has again ruled that prayers that open legislative sessions are not unconstitutional.
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George H.W. Bush Receives ‘Profile In Courage’ Award For Breaking ‘Read My Lips’ Pledge
An award for breaking a campaign promise.
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Supreme Court Denies Appeal In Yet Another Second Amendment Case
Continuing a pattern that has been evidence for some time now, the Supreme Court has declined to hear a case challenging New Jersey’s regulations on carrying handguns in public: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a case about whether the Second Amendment guarantees a right to carry guns in public for self-defense.…
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House Benghazi Committee: Fact-Finding Mission Or Partisan Witch Hunt?
Could the upcoming House Select Committee on Benghazi actually accomplish something useful?
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Citing Ukraine, Hagel Calls On NATO Allies To Contribute More To Defense
Speaking last week in Europe, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is calling on other members of NATO to meet the promises they made when it comes to defense funding: (Reuters) – Russia’s actions in Ukraine have shattered the myth of European security in the post-Cold War era and underscored the danger NATO allies have created by failing…
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Republicans Seem To Be Surging In Generic Ballot
Good news for Republicans.
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Rick Perry Talks Second Chances, Hinting At 2016
Rick Perry continues to hint at another Presidential run.
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New President in Panama
Via the BBC: Outsider Juan Carlos Varela wins Panama election Opposition leader Juan Carlos Varela has won the presidential election in Panama with almost 40% of the votes. Mr Varela, who is currently the vice-president, had distanced himself from outgoing President Ricardo Martinelli. I must confess, it is a bit odd to call the Vice…
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Joe Manchin Hints He Might Leave The Senate
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has been dropping a lot of hints lately that he’s thinking about leaving Washington, D.C. and returning to West Virginia: WASHINGTON — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said Sunday he’s keeping “all options open” on whether to seek the governor’s office in 2016 or remain in the Senate, where he has expressed…
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Marxists Discover Property Rights
A left wing publisher is using copyright laws in an effort to force a website to remove certain copies of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels from its database: The Marxist Internet Archive, a website devoted to radical writers and thinkers, recently received an email: It must take down hundreds of works by Karl…
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Feds May Allow More Tolls On Interstate Highways
Toll plazas coming to an Interstate near you?
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Joe Biden And Selina Meyer At The White House Correspondent’s Dinner
Mostly because I had nothing better to do, I stayed up last night and watched the “entertainment” portion of the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. While this show is hardly ever the highlight of the year in entertainment, it has had its amusing moments in the past. This year, there were very few of those moments.…
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Obama Lampoons Bundy and Media at Nerd Prom
President Obama continued a long tradition of being really charming and funny at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner: POLITICO has compiled their list of “Obama’s top 10 2014 White House Correspondents’ Dinner lines,” rendering each of them considerably less funny. 1. “These days, House Republicans are actually giving John Boehner a harder time than they’re…
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Congress Orders Thousands Of Reports It Never Reads
Bureaucracy at its finest.
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Faced With Lawsuits, General Motors Is Headed Back To Bankruptcy Court
General Motors is headed back to court.
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More on Moore
The line “don’t know much about history” comes to mind.
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Condoleeza Rice Backs Out As Rutgers Commencement Speaker After Protests
The right decision, or the triumph of mob rule?
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The Death Penalty Has Resulted In The Death Of Innocent People
Innocent men have been put to death on the orders of the state.
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Chief Justice Of Alabama’s Supreme Court Says First Amendment Only Protects Christians
Roy Moore, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama is no stranger to controversy. During his first term in office (Chief Justice is for some bizarre reason an elected position in Alabama), Moore became famous, or I suppose the better phrase is infamous, when he became the subject of a lawsuit primarily because…
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Congressman John Conyers Apparently Failed To Qualify For The Ballot
One of the longest serving Members of Congress finds himself likely excluded from the ballot and having to run as a write-in candidate if he wants to stay in office: Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) appears to not have enough signatures to get on the Aug. 5 Democratic primary ballot, Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett told…
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Is China Number One?
The USA’s 142-year streak as the world’s largest economy is ending.
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The Tea Party’s Candidate Selection Problem
From the beginning, the Tea Party has shown itself to be just plain bad at picking candidates. This year, they finally seem to be on the verge of paying for it in the GOP primaries
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The Simpsons Predicted Vladimir Putin
Vox’s Max Fisher reminds us that there’s at least one segment of America that saw this whole Vladimir Putin thing coming a long time ago: The rapidly worsening tension between the United States and Russia, not to mention Russia’s invasion and annexation of part of Ukraine, has got lots of people talking about a new…
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Unfortunately For Hillary Clinton, Benghazi Is Not Going Away
If Hillary Clinton runs for President, questions surrounding the Benghazi attack will continue to dog her.
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Mitch McConnell On Track To Beat Back Tea Party Challenge
The Tea Party challenge to Mitch McConnell has not exactly gone as planned.
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Illinois Governor Pat Quinn Is In Trouble
While I’ve made note of the several Republican Governors with tough re-election fights this year, one of the toughest re-election campaigns this year will be the one of Pat Quinn, the Democratic Governor of a state that has become very Democratic in recent years: The road to reelection for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) was…
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The Mugshots Explain It All
The Huffington Post passes along the story of a Utah woman who has plead guilty but mentally ill to charges related to an incident in which she convinced her husband to shoot their neighbor by convincing him that he had “telepathically raped” her. You can read the details in full here. But, really, those mugshots…
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Star Trek Meets Star Wars
What would happen if the USS Enterprise suddenly found itself in the Star Wars universe? It would probably go something like this: Update: H/T: Brian Fung