April 28, 2009 – 11:36 am
The Hollywood Reporter: “For the first time since Barack Obama took office, a major broadcast network is refusing to grant the president’s request for primetime coverage. Fox has issued a statement saying it will air regular programming (Lie to Me) Wednesday night instead of Obama’s 100-day news conference.” So if you’re watching network TV at [...]
Obama Tortures 9/11 Victims
“. . . we need to adhere to the basic principle that new tax or entitlement policies should be paid for. . . Now, we must restore that sense of fiscal discipline . . . so that government acts the same way any responsible family does in setting its budget.” The guy who added $65 [...]
Taxpayer funded Robert Young/Riverside held a hearing Thursday asking legislators to place a nickel tax on every drink purchased in Illinois. Several area lawmakers or their representatives were expected to attend. They claim that this “nickel a drink” tax will raise $250 million to help reduce underage drinking and driving by funding more “treatment providers”, [...]
. . . or at least Mrs. Bobby Schilling has a blog. This is Christie Schilling’s description of the Moline TEA Party on April 15: “This week Bobby, Sam, Sophia, and i attended the TEA Party in Moline on Wednesday afternoon. In spite of the fact that everyone is very worried about what is going [...]
44 said he wasn’t going to criminalize polemics and he appears to be doing the Pontius wash just very disappointing I kind of like it when guys actually do what they run on —UMR
April 23, 2009 – 12:08 pm
The way the law is structured in Illinois concerning payraises for lawmakers, they get a 3% raise every year by default. They don’t have to vote for or against the raises, they get them automatically by doing nothing. And they are “doing nothing’ in more ways than one. With the revelation that the state has [...]
April 22, 2009 – 12:19 pm
The recently passed “stimulus” bill lists 249 Illinois transportation projects—far more than any other state. So what could account for this lopsided financial bonanza for our wonderful State O’ Illinois? Could it be that the POTUS is from Illinois? Could it be that the POTUS Chief of Staff is from Illinois? Could it be that [...]
April 22, 2009 – 11:12 am
Our wonderful POTUS is jetting off to Newton, Iowa today to praise Gaia and celebrate Earth Day. As with all these Obama permanent campaign appearances, the visit to Newton is fraught with symbolism. A few years ago the Maytag plant there shut down, leaving many jobless. In our plucky Midwestern way, the Newtonians picked themselves [...]
. . . on display at a recent statehouse news conference: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “I’ll be honest with you, I don’t drink much, but I do love to eat . . . I always thought that when you ordered pizza, it meant you got to eat the whole thing, not just a couple of slices. We had [...]
