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The greatest issue facing America: a cruise-ship passengers’ bill of rights

Posted by: Phineas on March 18, 2013 at 5:40 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas And Chuck Schumer is on the case: Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the cruise ship industry to adopt a “bill of rights” to guarantee passengers certain protections while aboard their ships. The New York Democrat says Sunday he’ll be asking industry leaders to voluntarily adopt the guidelines which include guarantees that [...]

 

Demand a Plan! (To end celebrity hypocrisy)

Posted by: Phineas on December 31, 2012 at 4:24 pm » 7 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Actually, I don’t know if they’re hypocritical so much as clueless, but the result is the same: yet another deep, meaningful campaign in which a bunch of vapid airheads go in front of a camera and repeat slogans over and over, hoping to brainwash you into submission, like a bunch of zombies. This [...]

 

#DNC2012: Debbie Wasserman Switzerland has her own foreign investments to answer for

Posted by: ST on July 10, 2012 at 6:22 pm » 2 Comments

I love it: Disclosure forms reveal that Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of Congress from Florida, previously held funds with investments in Swiss banks, foreign drug companies, and the state bank of India. This revelation comes mere days after the Democratic chair attacked presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for holding [...]

 

Fast and Furious: Elijah Cummings throws the dead under the bus to protect Obama and Holder

Posted by: Phineas on April 30, 2012 at 1:43 pm » 14 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Last week I reported that the Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R – CA) House Oversight Committee was preparing contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Eric Holder for non-cooperation and defying subpoenas in the committee’s investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. Also known as “Gunwalker,” the administration’s supposed plan was to funnel guns [...]

 

Teachable Moment: @RepBobbyRush, other legislators, wear #Trayvon hoodies

Posted by: ST on March 28, 2012 at 7:51 pm » 31 Comments

No, this isn’t a nightmare. It’s reality – and it happened this morning (via): On the floor of the House this morning, Rep. Bobby Rush’s effort to call attention to the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin turned into a contest of wills between the Illinois Democrat and the presiding officer because Rush donned a hoodie while speaking. [...]

 

Photo of the Day: Sen. @PattyMurray lies on Senate floor about “no women on panel”

Posted by: ST on February 17, 2012 at 12:17 pm » 9 Comments

They say a picture speaks a thousand words … … but this picture speaks just a few short, sweet, and simple words to me: Senator Murray: You. are. a. liar. The photo, in case you can’t tell, shows the first panel at Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) hearing on religious freedoms, which are under attack by [...]

 

#Fauxtrage Alert: Liberal feminista politicos stage whiny “walkout” over “no women on panel”

Posted by: ST on February 16, 2012 at 6:25 pm » 8 Comments

Drama queens: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) slammed Republicans for holding a nearly all-male hearing Thursday about the White House’s birth-control mandate while Democratic women on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee staged a walk-out. While a second panel on the issue of the mandate and religious freedom included two women, both opposed [...]

 

Obama plagiarizes himself?

Posted by: Phineas on January 25, 2012 at 11:31 am » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas If you’re like me, you were too busy with urgent, pressing matters to watch the President’s State of the Union address last night. You know, things like alphabetizing your DVD collection, or playing Angry Birds. In fact, on Twitter last night I said that I wish presidents would go back to the [...]

 

Can we call them “Socialists” yet?

Posted by: Phineas on January 19, 2012 at 4:28 pm » 11 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Harking back to some of the worst excesses of the New Deal, six Democratic members of the House lead by Denis Kucinich (D-UFO) and all but one members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, have proposed an additional tax on oil companies to be levied when profits rise above “a reasonable level”: The [...]

 

An insult to the real Civil Rights Movement

Posted by: Phineas on November 21, 2011 at 2:55 pm » 8 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Democrats plan to make illegal immigration the next civil-rights crusade. Because foreigners breaking our laws to get into America are just like the US citizens who fought for the political rights guaranteed them as citizens. If I were the NAACP, I’d be teed-off that the accomplishments of my parents and grandparents were [...]