Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
UPDATE: Please cast a vote in the new CD Poll in the sidebar regarding voter ID laws. In a 6 – 3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the state of Indiana’s tough voter-identification law which requires voters to show a picture ID before casting their ballot: WASHINGTON — By a 6-3 vote in [...]
By: Nick | Category Courts, Law, Politics | 8 Comments »
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Well, the mood is getting mighty heavy in the comments, so let’s look at something funny to relieve the tensions. Bring on the animals! Personally, I think the dog is just mocking Time-Warner Cable due to their high prices, but I could be wrong. Says the bear, “I’ll be glad to leave if you’ll just [...]
By: Nick | Category Humor | Comments Off
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
This is the first in a series of posts which will explain my positions on various social and political issues. These posts will appear infrequently. There is, perhaps, no subject which ignites the passions quite like abortion. Regardless of which side of the debate you are on, chances are that you have held your opinion [...]
By: Nick | Category CD Positions, Courts, Culture War, Health Stuff | 74 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
If you’ve been paying any attention at all to the so-called “Religion of Peace” you should have seen this coming: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) could be replaced by “Mecca Time,” if a group of Muslim leaders get their way. At the conference, “Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice,” Muslim scientists and clerics [...]
By: Nick | Category Bad Ideas, Culture War, Religion | Comments Off
Friday, April 18th, 2008
Liberal journalists (wait a minute; I thought that there was no liberal bias in the press?) are upset with the moderators of the recent Democrat Debate because of the questions that the candidates were asked during the first hour. So upset, they’ve decided to write a letter: We, the undersigned, deplore the conduct of ABC’s [...]
By: Nick | Category 2008 Election, Journalism, Politics | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
While doing some under-the-hood work on my blog this evening, the WordPress Dashboard showed me that a Blog I’d never heard of before, Beginning To Wonder, had linked to me. Curious, I went on over to take a look. This is what I found: Nowhere is this destructive and childlike worldview on better display than [...]
By: Nick | Category Culture War, Politics | 14 Comments »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
I’ve put up a new CD Poll for your consideration: Do you believe that either Clinton or Obama truly cares about your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms? Please register your opinion in the sidebar. The results of the previous CD Poll looked like this: Does Barack Obama’s 20 year association with Pastor [...]
By: Nick | Category CD Polls | 8 Comments »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
The magazine Advertising Age has finally figured something out and is urging their readers to take heed: Men are not Idiots! The way the advertising industry portrays men has drawn increasing scrutiny in both the trade press and the mainstream media. Defenders of the status quo — in which men are depicted as irresponsible fathers [...]
By: Nick | Category Business, Culture War, Life | Comments Off
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa, in keeping with his illegal alien sanctuary policies, has warned Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to leave their well-established businesses out of any future immigration enforcement actions: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is asking federal officials to rethink their policy on workplace immigration crackdowns that involve established businesses and to focus on employers [...]
By: Nick | Category Immigration, Politics | Comments Off
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I learned today from a post over at Wizbang about a part of Senator Obama’s campaign platform that I had never heard of: He wants to allow the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to fill out your tax return for you. Think about that for a few seconds. It’s almost a good idea. This is what [...]
By: Nick | Category 2008 Election, Government, Politics | 5 Comments »
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Compared to the U.S., the monetary value of Mexico’s imports has to be close to nothing. Rather, Mexico is much better at exportation — namely its people. But that is another topic for another time. Today, I’d like for you to take a look at the following advertisement from the Swedish Vodka maker Absolut: Notice [...]
By: Nick | Category Business, Culture War, Jerks (Celebrities) | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The new version of WordPress has a lot of features built into it, and one of those features is the ability to use Gravatars. These are small pictures, or avatars, which are associated with your email address and will follow you around the web. Whenever you leave leave a comment on a blog that uses [...]
By: Nick | Category Blog Announcements, Blog Construction | 2 Comments »