What’s the Big Deal? February 13, 2010
Okay, I’ve seen the Tim Tebow commercial during the Super Bowl and am asking myself, why did Focus on the Family pay millions to air it and why did Planned Parenthood care? Read More with Video>>
One View of TEOTWAWKI February 7, 2010
Updated February 9, 2010 The History Channel recently aired After Armageddon, a chilling dramatization of what could happen during a flu pandemic. The program focuses on a single fictional family living in Los Angles at the outbreak of the illness. Sprinkled into the drama are comments from experts. As the family makes decisions, some right and others very wrong, these authorities provide context and background. Read More with Video>>
Wasting Time and Possibly Lives January 31, 2010
Instead of solving real problems, our elected officials in Olympia are going to great lengths to craft legislation for segments of their core constituencies. There purpose is to pacify their base and ensure reelection. Now that our lawmakers would do that probably doesn’t surprise anyone reading this blog. If fact, if it were just run-of-the-mill political pandering I probably wouldn’t mention it, but two recently introduced bills, House Bill 2837 and Senate Bill 6452 would, if passed, cause the death of innocents. Read More >>
The Brown Revolution January 20, 2010
Yes, the voters rejected the GOP in 2006 and 2008. Sure, they wanted change when they elected Obama and gave him a Congress strongly under Democrat control. But, that didn’t mean that America wanted bigger government, higher taxes, nationalized healthcare and multi-billion dollar bailouts for everyone from auto companies to banks, insurance firms and finance companies.
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Former Cantwell Aide in Scuffle January 17, 2010
Michael Meehan, former aide to Senator Maria Cantwell, shoved a reporter from The Weekly Standard to the ground earlier this week. The incident happened on Tuesday, January 12th, outside a Capitol Hill fundraiser for the Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate, Martha Coakley.
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Some Things Never Change January 16, 2010
As the new year dawned the Associated Press showed their bias. On the morning of January 1st AP ran the story, Rush Limbaugh Says He’s Fine
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Global Warming Alarmism January 11, 2010
“There has been an unrelenting quarter century of one-sided indoctrination of the western world by the media and by various scientists and governments concerning a coming carbon dioxide (CO2) induced global warming disaster.”
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Heroin for Dummies January 9, 2010
Some days liberals make my job so easy and this is one of them. The liberals working for the New York City health department thought it would be a good idea to take money from hard working citizens and use it print 70,000 booklets detailing how heroin users can be safer addicts.
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Taxes to Fund Silliness January 7, 2010
Just yesterday, under the title A Legislative Waste of Time, I blogged that Washington State senators Rosa Franklin and Joe McDermott, among others, introduced Senate Bill 6249 a law that, if passed, would require state schools to refer to students at-risk as students “at-hope.” Immediately after filing that silly bill, they filed SJR 8219, an proposed amendment to the state constitution that would allow an income tax and Senate Bill 6250 that would institute the tax.
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A Legislative Waste of Time January 6, 2010
The Washington State legislature is only part time. Every year our elected representatives tell voters how heavy the workload is and how they need more time to solve the complex problems of the state. Of course, if we had a fulltime legislature it would necessitate increasing their salaries. What might our elected representatives do if they were passing laws all year long?
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Global Cooling? January 5, 2010
Updated January 7, 2010 Last year at this time, I was digging out from one of the whitest winters I’ve seen in western Washington State. That winter was the only time I have ever come close to exhausting my yearly supply of firewood. This year, thanks to a mild winter, the woodshed remains well stocked, but the majority of the country and much of the northern hemisphere has experienced a bitter cold winter.
What can we learn from all this cold weather? Is the world really getting warmer, as Al Gore continues to tell us, or is it headed into another mini-ice age?
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Simplistic Liberal Views January 2, 2010
An outspoken liberal in my local community, Chuck Haunreiter, accuses his neighbors of being blindly led by, among others, a local conservative radio host, John Panesko, and the local newspaper. It occurred to me that liberals often dismiss conservative ideas with the claim, “Oh, you’re just repeating what Rush Limbaugh said,” or in this case, John Panesko. To believe that the political right is a mindless mob led by a single entity is simplistic. This rather ad hominem retort allows the liberal to validate their feelings about an issue without dealing with the underlying ideas presented by the conservative.
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