Archive for the 'Bad Ideas' Category
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
I can’t say that I’m surprised. Once the Republicans won the House in the last election I knew Obama would try to do something to keep his pet-project alive. The administration also wants to a remarkably open-ended authority to transfer funds between accounts — a power that is sure to be resisted by the Appropriations [...]
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Once again, The Obamasiah© is talking down America to other countries by apologizing for something which deserves no apology whatsoever: The son of the U.S. Air Force pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb in the history of warfare says the Obama administration’s decision to send a U.S. delegation to a ceremony in Japan to [...]
By: Nick | Category Bad Ideas, Culture War, History, Military, World Opinion | 4 Comments »
Friday, October 9th, 2009
Maybe there is something in the water in Oslo: President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to build momentum behind his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. Obama said he was surprised and [...]
By: Nick | Category Bad Ideas, Politics, World Opinion | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 24th, 2009
A peer-reviewed study on the affect of humans on the global climate has shown that over 80% of climate changes over the ladder half of the 20th Century can be attributed to nature. Further, the study found that human activity has little affect on the climate. Three Australasian researchers have shown that natural forces are [...]
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
The Obama Administration, with the President out front and talking into every microphone he can find, is pushing two of the worst pieces of legislation ever conceived. I would have said “written,” but neither bill has been written yet; only promoted in the vaguest ways possible. Climate Change Bill: Obama worships at the feet of [...]
By: Nick | Category Bad Ideas, Environmental Wackos, Government, Health Stuff, Politics | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Click for source Well, for the second time in recent memory the Democrats are trying to foist government-run healthcare on the American public. When the Clintons tried, it died a horrible death in the press and in the Congress due to its prohibitive costs and attempts to ration healthcare to control costs. Now, the Obama [...]
By: Nick | Category Bad Ideas, Government, Health Stuff, Politics, taxes | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
In a move that only someone with a deep-seated hatred of the men and women who risk their lives to protect our rights could dream up, Obama wants to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of wounded veterans with service-related injuries. The leader of the nation’s largest veterans organization says he is [...]
By: Nick | Category Bad Ideas, Government, Health Stuff, Military, Politics | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Now that the Washington DC Democrats are pimping all the tax increases they can, the local Texas Democrats are following suit: State Rep. Rafael Anchia (D-Dallas) is proposing a seven cent per bag tax on those cheap plastic bags favored by grocery stores, pharmacies, and big box retailers. “This will incentivize people to move away [...]
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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 [...]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Sometimes greed is so obvious that it doesn’t need to be pointed out: Lead attorney Chuck Cooper said the private university turned its back on the players to protect the school’s image. “These young men want an acknowledgment that they were wronged by institutions and individuals that they trusted to treat them honestly,” Cooper said [...]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
In a move that has New Jersey’s murderers, rapists, and child molesters jumping for joy, Democrat Governor Jon Corzine has, with a stroke of his pen, abolished capital punishment in his state. The New Jersey Constitution gives the governor authority to “grant pardons and reprieves in all cases other than impeachment and treason.” New Jersey [...]
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