You know, you would expect someone who’s supposed to be advising the President to have a little better precision of language than this: This morning on “This Week,” White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue service [...]
With the capture of the second bomber we are now in a position to be far more deliberate and thorough in moving the investigation forward. We know a lot more now than we did just 3 days ago but there’s more we need. There’s also some stuff we don’t need. This may sound premature but [...]
A letter that was sent to Senator Wicker (R-MS) tested positive for ricin, an extremely powerful poison. The alert was raised when the letter went through the off-site mail handling facility that checks each and every letter and package destined for Congress. A similar letter mailed to President Obama has been reported, as well. The [...]
Yesterday, April 15, 2013, on the 117th running of the Boston Marathon some person or persons currently unknown set and detonated 2 bombs long the final stretch of the race course. The first exploded literally at the finish line, the second roughly 1 block from the finish along the course on Boylston Street. At the [...]
The news this morning is that a group of 8 Senators has apparently hammered out a framework for immigration reform and the response to the presence of millions of illegal aliens already living here in the United States. A bipartisan group of eight senators plans to announce they have agreed on a set of principles [...]
(This is the third in a multipost series on the ongoing debate over civilian gun ownership. This topic was introduced here and further parts to this series will be linked at that introduction post.) While our mainstream media and the gun-banning side of this debate have done everything they can to avoid it, you cannot [...]
After all the run-up in the media about how Obama was going to just come out swinging and propose bold, new, sweeping actions that would directly address so-called “gun violence” today’s actual list is an anti-climactic, weak, and scattered demonstration of someone flailing ineffectually in order to be seen as “doing something.” And those that [...]
(Apologies if this seems late. I attempted to post this 2 days ago and had a snafu at HoodaThunk? so it had to be re-created.) In the wake of the shootings in Aurora, CO, many of the usual advocates for increased gun restrictions – and, let’s be honest, the outright ban on private ownership of [...]
As I was driving to work yesterday morning I listened to the early news reports about the Aurora, CO massacre. When I got to my desk I pulled out my phone and put a quick update on my Facebook wall saying: Just heard about the Aurora, CO shootings this morning. I know it’s tempting to [...]
A case involving texting behind the wheel and an injured motorcycling couple was decided by a New Jersey judge on Friday. Judge David Rand dismissed the claim made by the couple that a woman’s sending text messages to her boyfriend did not make made the woman liable for the crash that injure them. A woman [...]
