
| Fox News | Wow: Nearly 70 percent of adoption credit claims were audited by IRS, report finds |
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| Gov. Perry | This: [Press Release] Statement by Gov. Rick Perry on Decision by the Boy Scouts of America |
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| NYT | Hmm: Huma Abedin Is an Unexpected Driving Force in Weiner’s Comeback |
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| KOMO | Awful: Cars, people sent tumbling into Skagit River as I-5 bridge collapses |
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| Politico | Media Watch: The Sharyl Attkisson approach |
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It’s sorta like the Sandra Fluke manufactured “controversy” over “access” to birth control mixing with the religious exemptions issue – except on a local scale, with narcissistic North Carolina “feminists” in the starring role(s). Via the Raleigh News and Observer: RALEIGH — A bill allowing private employers to refuse to cover contraception in their health insurance plans [...]
A red-faced, positively outraged!!!-at-the-GOP-for-daring-to-hold-this-admin-accountable Chris Matthews throws the perfect pitch, and Sharpton, of course, hits the race card out of the ball park (via Greg Hengler): You know how it is … The above card says it all. Conservatives must be silenced by any means necessary, according to the left. Need I say more?
Why? Because one type of terrorism was supposedly the ‘good, patriotic’ kind. Via Fox News: Bill Ayers, the 1960s radical who went on to become a college professor and associate of President Obama, said Saturday the bombings he helped the Weather Underground carry out to protest the Vietnam War bear no resemblance to the deadly [...]
**Posted by Phineas Because there is nothing the Evil Demon of Climate Change cannot do! So speaketh Representative Barbara Lee, Democrat of (I’m sorry to say) California (1) : Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to “transactional sex” [...]
Shaking my head (hat tip): (Reuters) – Washington state’s governor signed into law on Monday the final piece of a six-year effort to rewrite state laws using gender-neutral vocabulary, replacing terms such as “fisherman” and “freshman” with “fisher” and “first-year student.” Lawmakers have passed a series of bills since 2007 to root out gender bias from [...]
**Posted by Phineas Now that he’s retiring and doesn’t have to face the wrath of voters, Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) feels free to speak his mind: West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, one of the towering architects of Obamacare, on Tuesday openly criticized program managers for not moving quickly enough to build the system, warning that [...]
You seriously, SERIOUSLY cannot make this stuff up. “Feminists” and other assorted politically correct left wing nitwits have worked themselves up into an “outraged” lather over a (gasp!) some nice praise he gave to and about California AG Kamala Harris. Apparently the compliment was “sexist” because it included a comment about her … looks. First, [...]
**Posted by Phineas Isn’t this how we got into the current mess? The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused [...]
**Posted by Phineas Writing on the rolling global financial crisis, the Diplomad shakes his head at the foolishness reigning in the US today: The western world continues on a totally unnecessary suicidal path. What was once common sense is no more. Everywhere one looks, the insanity is evident: The refusal to deal with real issues and the [...]
**Posted by Phineas I just knew it would come to this: When California finishes tapping out the taxpayers in its state to pay for its nonsensical high speed rail, it will ask the taxpayers of other states to chip in, according to a new Government Accountability Office report requested by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). [...]