Archive for the Politics Category


Summer cometh!

I’ve lost 30lbs since Christmas, but it’s nowhere near enough to put me in shorts without frightening the local children. So I dug this excellent diet back out of mothballs. I was doing this last year until I realized I couldn’t afford healthy food (you may want to listen to this week’s Brass Balls Radio [...]

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Just like Haiti – or New Orleans

Crime and the sale of donated aid supplies are undermining the aid effort for Pakistan’s flood victims. When New Orleans flooded, we watched while people shot at relief workers and then screamed about FEMA trailers. They looted WalMart and used their emergency government debit cards to buy designer jeans. When Haiti shook and all was [...]

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Jerks 2010: That’s all We Need

“When the Senate takes up a jobs bill later this month or early in February, the debate will center on whether it really will create jobs and be worth plunging the government tens of billions of dollars further into debt. Republicans scoff at the “Jobs for Main Street Act” title that House Democrats put on [...]

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For Once, Common Sense Wins

by Art Lindsey III RICHMOND, Va. — A 90-year-old Medal of Honor recipient can keep his 21-foot flagpole in his front yard after a homeowner’s association dropped its request to remove it, a spokesman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said Tuesday. Thank goodness. It’s nice to know that some order of sanity can still [...]

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President Obama is Ready for His Close up, America

On Thursday, President Barack Obama stated that he will not make a decision on Afghan troop levels until after the Thanksgiving holiday. This development came at the end of President Obama’s eight-day Asia tour, where he took time to stop at Osan Air Force Base in South Korea. While there, he remarked to 1,500 troops, [...]

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Staying to Help