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Daschle provides more tax fraud on the Obama Cabinet

January 31, 2009

Ready for more hope and change? Tom Daschle, Obama’s choice for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has apparently forgotten to pay $128,000 in taxes. Just another honest mistake, right? After all, this is the smoothest transition in the history of the nation, right? Right! I don’t know how anyone can claim with a straight face that […]

Democrats petition against Limbaugh in Fairness Doctrine preview

January 28, 2009

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has started an online petition against Rush Limbaugh to chastise him for comments he made last week about hoping for Obama’s failure. His words, as usual, were taken out of context – at the time, he was making the point that if it was Obama’s goal to institute socialist policies, […]

Stimulus package passes the House, 244-188

January 28, 2009

The massive stimulus package has just passed the vote in the House of Representatives. It’s extremely interesting to note that not one Republican voted for the bill, and 11 Democrats joined them in what is already being decried as a party line vote. Not that simple, no way. The nay voters did the right thing, as […]

Egyptian TV cleric gleeful over Holocaust footage

January 28, 2009

In a shocking video highlighted by Patterico from an original Hot Air post, a Muslim cleric on Egyptian TV goes on a ten-minute screed on the history of “oppression by Jews” culminating in Holocaust footage in which he gleefully revels in their humiliation. At one point, he says, referring to a weeping concentration camp prisoner, “Look […]

Challenger remembered 23 years later

January 28, 2009

Twenty-three years ago today, on January 28, 1986, the the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded less than two minutes after launch, killing all seven crew members. Andrea Shea King shares her own experience with the tragedy, and the Anchoress remembers too. As a space enthusiast since I was a boy, I’ve always had a soft spot […]

Obama gives his first formal interview to Al-Arabiya

January 27, 2009

Last night, President Barack Obama gave his first formal interview as President to the Arabic news network Al-Arabiya. The choice of the network doesn’t bother me that much, as President Bush gave several interviews to that network. However, to give your first interview as President to a foreign news organization does seem a bit odd to […]

Chia Obama

January 27, 2009

No, it’s not a joke. Wanna see your President’s likeness sprout greenery (in determined and happy poses)? Yes, you can. As an aside, who buys Chia Pets in general? Who finds them tactful gifts and wonderful adornments for the home? I’m serious, because I would probably rather send off for Sea Monkeys than see see […]

San Fran Nan: Contraception will stimulate the economy

January 26, 2009

With staggeringly bizarre logic, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went on with George Stephanopoulus to defend her inclusion of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars toward family planning services. Her reasoning : PELOSI: Well, the family-planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now, and part of what we […]

Washington Post: Obama already has terrorists rankled

January 26, 2009

Patterico has a thought-worthy take on the Washington Post article suggesting Obama has gotten under terrorists’ skins. Maybe someday, but in his short time in office, I sort of doubt that right now, especially considering his press secretary seems loathe to even use the phrase “war on terror.” I guess when you have to write […]

Kirsten Gillibrand the right choice for NY Senate

January 26, 2009

On Friday, New York Gov. David Paterson announced his pick for Hillary Clinton’s now-vacant Senate seat: conservative Dem Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand. She is considered one of the so-called Blue Dog Democrats who believe in fiscal conservatism, and the article notes she has a 100% rating from the NRA. She also voted against the recent bailout […]

Certified

January 26, 2009

For those who are inclined to care, today I passed my ASCP Board of Registry exam to officially become a Medical Technologist in Microbiology. If you’re not sure what that means, just know that I tell you what bug is making you sick, and how to kill it.

Worrisome executive moves in first days of the Obama presidency

January 22, 2009

I’m OK with the future lobbying ban and salary freeze for White House staff, but there were other actions the fledgling Obama Administration has already taken that worry me. First, and heads-up from The Anchoress on this, we have the little discussed reversal of the so-called “Mexico City Policy,” enacted by Ronald Reagan, upheld by Bush Sr., […]

Tax “mistakes” don’t stop Geithner clearing committee hurdle

January 22, 2009

Timothy Geithner made it through his Senate Financial Committee vote by a margin of 16-5. You surprisingly had Senators Orrin Hatch and John Cornyn praising his credentials and dismissing his failure to pay tens of thousands in taxes as a “mistake.” Yeah, OK, great credentials. Accomplished very little as NY Fed chief and helped engineer […]

The inauguration of Obama – a brief reflection

January 19, 2009

Tomorrow will see the inauguration of America’s 44th President, Barack Hussein Obama. Stepping back and taking off the partisan hat for a moment, I fully appreciate the historic nature of this event, the ascension of America’s first black President, made especially more poignant one day after the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Dr. […]

Justice served as Ramos and Compean are freed

January 19, 2009

As far as I’m concerned, there’s no controversy with these pardons. President Bush did the right thing today and commuted the sentences of Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. If you recall, Ramos and Compean were jailed for shooting a suspected drug smuggler in the buttocks, largely on that drug smuggler’s testimony, which he […]