Archive for January, 2011
Federal Judge in Florida Rules Individual Mandate is Unconstitutional
(NewsCore) - A Florida federal judge ruled Monday in a 26-state challenge to the national health care law that the provision requiring individuals to purchase health insurance by 2014 or suffer a penalty is unconstitutional, Fox News Channel reported.
Excerpt, see myfoxdetroit
Court Says Emanuel Is Not Eligible to Run for Chicago Mayor
CHICAGO – An Illinois appeals court threw former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel off the ballot for Chicago mayor Tuesday because he didn’t live in the city in the year before the election.
The decision cast doubt over Emanuel’s candidacy just a month before the election. He had been considered the front-runner […]
Keith Olbermann Fired?
Yes, it’s true. Now the 17 people who watch “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” will have to find another source for sputtering, unsubstantiated vitriol.
I’ve never been what you would call a “Keith Olbermann fan.” Does it show?
But cheer up, Olbermaniacs! You’ve still got Ol’ Thrill Leg for a full hour of guests […]
Scientist: Earth Could Have “New Sun” Within a Year
People love to hype 2012 as the end of the world. It’s BS, but hey, when it gets into the public consciousness, things stick.
Anywho, a scientist named Brad Carter is predicting that the star Betelgeuse is expected to go super-nova very soon. If this happens, the sky that we look at could […]
House Dems launch ‘Drive for 25′ to win back majority in 2012
House Democrats on Friday launched what they dubbed a “Drive for 25” to recapture the majority they lost last November.
The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.), unveiled the new slogan at the caucus’s annual retreat in Maryland. The phrase refers to the 25 seats the party needs […]
American Textbooks: Muslims Discovered America
“This is a very disturbing video about how our high school students are being brainwashed by Moslems in favor of Islam because our textbook publishers, school principals and teachers do not have the knowledge about Islam to know what is true and what is false. The textbooks are loaded with false […]
WikiLeaks lawyer vows to prosecute Palin if she goes to Australia
In a Facebook post in December, Sarah Palin wrote that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be “pursued with the same urgency as al-Qaida and Taliban leaders.” Robert Stary, an Australian lawyer for Assange, tells National Public Radio he’ll pursue a “private prosecution” of Palin if she ever sets foot on […]
Get It Straight: We Own China
My last article about the threat of China being overblown seems to have left out an important issue: debt. China owes about $1 trillion in US-issued debt. Scary, right? It should be scary . . . to China. Consider the following scenarios:
Scenario One: your business owes a bank a million dollars and […]
What The Heck Happened to the Anti-War Movement?
Remember those hoary days of raucous protest when anti-war protesters sent thousands of people into the streets sometimes with only a days notice? Now consider this: have you seen any of these giant protests since 2008 presidential election?
Yeah, no one else has, either. Do you wonder why that is? Well, it’s […]
Romney wins straw poll in NH as Tea Party candidate takes GOP chairmanship
Former Governor Mitt Romney this afternoon handily won a New Hampshire straw poll of the party faithful, demonstrating his strength in the crucial first-in-the-nation primary state.
The poll, conducted at the Republican State Committee meeting in Derry, had Romney at 35 percent. Trailing him were Representative Ron Paul (11 percent), former […]
Idaho, six other states to nullify ObamaCare
Idaho, the first state to sue the federal government over the health care overhaul, has announced plans to resort to an obscure 18th century legal remedy that recognizes a state’s right to nullify any federal law that the state has deemed unconstitutional.The doctrine, known as nullification, has its roots in […]
ACORN’s man takes over the Democratic Party’s war machine (Massive Voter Fraud in 2012)
A longtime ACORN operative is about to take over the reins of the Democratic National Committee as its executive director – just in time to begin initial preparations for President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
The activist in question is Patrick Gaspard. He currently holds the title of White House political affairs director, […]
Tea Party Activist Takes Over New Hampshire Republicans (Good News for Sarah Palin)
DERRY, N.H. — A rancorous fight to lead the New Hampshire Republican Party through next year’s presidential race ended Saturday with an upset victory by a conservative activist backed by members of the Tea Party and other grassroots groups.
Jack Kimball, a relative newcomer to party politics who ran for governor last […]
Democrats and Media are not Sarah Palin’s Biggest Problem
Okay, the dust has settled and even rank-and-file democrats know that Sarah Palin and others on the right had nothing to do with the massacre in Tucson on January 8, 2011. Yet we know the attacks on Palin won’t stop. We get that. Thank you media, for detailing for us how irrelevant […]
Princeton (Bill Zeller) Student Kills Self Over Rape as Child
(CBS) A bright, seemingly ambitious Princeton graduate student, Bill Zeller, was known for being a brilliant computer programmer, talented chef, devoted Red Sox fan, and loyal and caring friend, according to The Daily Princetonian. But little did his friends and colleagues know, Zeller carried a secret for most of his life […]
Jewish Group Wants Glenn Beck Dropped From Fox News
Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ), a charity that campaigns for social change, delivered a petition with 10,000 signatures to Fox News Thursday demanding that talk show host Glenn Beck get the pink slip. The petition drive began in November after Fox News aired a three-part Beck special on businessman and philanthropist […]
Arizona Shooting:Palin Calls Criticism ‘Blood Libel’
Sarah Palin, who had been silent for days, on Wednesday issued a forceful denunciation of her critics in a video statement that accused pundits and journalists of “blood libel” in their rush to blame heated political rhetoric for the shootings in Arizona.
“Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own,” she said […]
BREAKING: CBO Says Repealing ObamaCare Would Reduce Net Spending by $540 Billion
The Congressional Budget Office, in an email to Capitol Hill staffers obtained by the Spectator, has said that repealing the national health care law would reduce net spending by $540 billion in the ten year period from 2012 through 2021. That number represents the cost of the new provisions, minus Medicare cuts. Repealing the bill […]
End of Days in May? Believers enter final stretch (Harold Camping’s Prediction ends 5/21/2011)
RALEIGH, N.C. — If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she’ll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here.
Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio […]
Trump Says He Will Run for President
Billionaire Donald Trump is telling friends he has decided he will definitely run for president as a Republican.
Trump will make the announcement when his NBC show “The Apprentice” finishes the season in the spring, he is confiding. He has been soliciting recommendations on political advisers, focusing initially on the Iowa caucus […]