Sunday Morning News – Happy Easter!

Good morning Conflucians!! And Happy Easter!! Today is the most important religious holiday to Christians. May they and everyone find peace and bliss in their lives. The picture above is not really about Easter, but Easter Island looks pretty cool. On to some news. It looks like Justice Stevens will be retiring pretty soon: Stevens, [...]

Paul Rosenberg: The latest access blogger to go racist

Just kidding, Paul.  We know you’re not a racist, even if you don’t think that Barack Obama derives his (so-called) formidable political skills from the unavoidable fact that he is the first black president evah!  For us, it was never a matter of race, which is why we held our candidates to a higher standard.  [...]

Saturday Morning Musings on Corporate Control and Internet Freedom

Good Morning Conflucians!! It’s so nice to wake up to sun pouring in my windows after the horrible rains of the past couple of weeks. I guess I should consider myself fortunate that all I had to deal with was some water in the basement. And since my ex-husband liked to buy every kind of [...]

A History Lesson

“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.” – Winston Churchill “Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it again next year.” – Beulah Limekiller, History Teacher, Elmore Blight Junior High There’s a whole lotta misinformation about the Big Dawg floating around the progressive blogosphere these days. [...]

Friday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians! TGIF! I guess state-run media got together with the President and decided to try to distract us with some cutsie, lightweight news this morning: Obama: “I Can Go to My Right, but I Prefer My Left” President Obama hit the basketball court and talked politics with CBS “Early Show” co-anchor Harry Smith [...]

Things that make you go “hmmm…”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Ottawa this week for the G8 Summit, and she had something to say about abortion rights (in Canada). “I’m not going to speak for what Canada decides, but I will say that I’ve worked in this area for many years,” Clinton told reporters. “And if we’re talking about [...]

Pretzel Logic

BTD does a awesome take-down of Boo-hoo-man: Booman just can not accept that he is endorsing triangulation. So he invents a new definition – triangulation is NOT what Barack Obama does, even though it is exactly like triangulation: I am going to posit that triangulation is a pejorative. It is a political act that is [...]

Thursday, Reading the News (Oh, me, oh my!)

The shocking lack of news continues.  I’m starting to think someone’s hiding something :: Barack Obama eases offshore oil drilling ban The White House says drilling will be allowed off Virginia and considered off much of the rest of the Atlantic coast. The plans would overturn moratoriums on exploration put in place in the 1980s. [...]

Eliminating waste, fraud and abuse

La Cebolla News: In an effort to reduce wasteful spending and eliminate non-vital federal services, the U.S. government announced plans this week to cut its long-standing senator program, a move it says will help save more than $300 billion each year. According to officials, the decision to cut the national legislative body was reached during [...]