ICE wants everyone who signed an agreement to participate in the 287(g) program to sign onto a new agreement. The Department of Homeland Security is requiring counties that participate in its illegal-immigration enforcement program to agree to a new focus on violent criminals. The agency is telling counties, including Prince William and Loudoun, to sign [...]
Via Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit, we have this link to autobloggreen where a report is shown where GM could build 70,000 Chevy Volts per year. Reynolds asks, “Can they sell that many?” At $40,000 per? I doubt it.
My wife called this evening after heading out to the store and told me to look outside and toward the east. There was an incredibly brilliant rainbow arcing completely across my entire view of the sky, from horizon to horizon. This pic just doesn’t do it justice.
Uh-oh: The outrage over the release of the bomber and mass murderer responsible for killing 270 innocent people grew overnight as a key Libyan political figure claimed that the release came as part of a commercial deal. Seif al-Islam, the son of Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi, met Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi at the airport and [...]
The Obama administration estimated that the 10-year cumulative deficit would be around $7 trillion. Today, they tell us they’re going to release an update to that showing it’s going to be $9 trillion. The $2 trillion revision, first reported by Reuters, stems from new data that showed the downturn was more severe than previously known, [...]
When I was out in Ohio a few weeks ago my father-in-law and I discussed the “Cash for Clunkers” program and he already knew what wouldn’t be reported in the news for several days: dealers weren’t getting paid as they were promised. In his part of northern Ohio there aren’t a huge number of dealers [...]
Still better than Congress but Obama’s numbers are sliding down a pretty steep slope: President Barack Obama’s popularity has plummeted to a record low, with just 45 percent of voters now approving of his performance, according to the latest Zogby International poll. Asked whether they approve or disapprove of the president’s job performance, just 45.3 [...]
The gall of the man… If President Obama has his way, you’ll soon be hearing about his health care package when you go to your church or synagogue to pray. Thousands of religious leaders got a call from on high Wednesday when Obama reached out to Jewish and Christian clergy, urging them to push health [...]
I’m told by our hosting firm that there will be system maintenance tonight starting at midnight, mountain time. (That’s 02:00 here on the east coast.) They estimate it will take about 30 minutes during which you might have trouble accessing the site.
Good news. U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday. The increase is due mainly to falling death rates in almost all the leading causes of death. The average life expectancy for babies born in 2007 is nearly three months greater than for children [...]
