Obamacare…

No Surprise here… just another pledge not honored

Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her [...]

Still Blaming The Man

MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) – A year after his historic election, President Barack Obama sought to remind Americans on Wednesday the biggest problems he is grappling with — from the economy to the war in Afghanistan — are the legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush.
With his approval ratings down from once-lofty levels and Tuesday’s Democratic [...]

Rush ‘Divisive’, Snoop Dogg OK for ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown

While NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was calling conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh too “divisive” to own a professional football team, rapper Snoop Dogg was appearing in television ads for ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown.”
I guess Goodell and other higher-ups within the league weren’t concerned with having a man possessing multiple felony charges against him including [...]

Stimulus dollars going to accused contractors

President Obama and members of Congress told federal agencies earlier this year to avoid awarding funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to contractors with troubled histories of work for the federal government.
But that isn’t happening at numerous agencies, a Washington Post analysis shows. So far, 33 federal departments and agencies have awarded more [...]

Racism is alive and well…

Suit claims East St. Louis passed up white police chief over race
“The suit against Mayor Alvin Parks, City Manager Robert Betts and the city itself does not identify Grimming by name or qualifications. But the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Thomas E. Kennedy III, said it was Grimming, and that Parks told his clients “the city wasn’t ready [...]

Gray Lady Down

NEW YORK Here are the top 25 newspapers in the country ranked by daily (Monday-Friday) circulation for the six months ending September 2009 from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The percent change compares the same six-month period ending September 2008.
Go here for more on this list by E&P Senior Editor Jennifer Saba, and here for [...]

Stimulus does have happy ending…

More than $2.3 million in federal economic stimulus grants have gone to eight Tampa Bay area cosmetology and massage schools to pay tuition for the hairdressers, masseuses and nail technicians of tomorrow. MORE