CAIR complained to wordpress.com about an Islam bashing website hosted on their service and WordPress removed the site: he Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced today that an anti-Muslim Internet hate site that contained a number of threats of violence targeting mosques, including the comment “I want [Muslim] blood on my hands,” has been taken […]

I’m sure many have seen this chart before, showing communism being more popular than Congress: But is it as bad as we think? Apparently so. NPR as a lengthy article up examining just how bad Congress really is, and the conclusion is really, really bad. This quote should show you just how bad: “There were […]

TPM has gathered a list of Republican members of Congress raising the possibility that John Boehner could see his short time as Speaker of the House come to an end in 2012: “He’s (Boehner) got a big problem when he comes back,” one anonymous congressman claimed. “He may have a hard time keeping his Speakership […]

Just got this from a CNN breaking news email: A person hired to collect names to get Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on the ballot for the Virginia primary turned in fraudulent signatures, Gingrich says. “We hired somebody who turned in false signatures. We turned in 11,100 — we needed 10,000 — 1,500 of them […]

A couple of weeks ago I did a post on Newt being called into Congress in 2003 to persuade lobby members of the House GOP to support the Medicare prescription drug benefit. Now some Republican members who were there are saying that he did lobby the Congress: Gingrich, who is running for president, has said […]

A bunch of new laws will be surfacing around the nation in 2012, but one really has me steamed: California also became the first state in the nation to require a prescription for obtaining any drug containing dextromethorphan, an ingredient found in many popular over-the-counter cough suppressants, including Robitussin, NyQuil and Dimetapp. The law was […]

Like I said in my previous post, get ready for another debt limit fight. Right on queue Matt Drudge has this up: But what if Drudge wasn’t some partisan hack? Even better, what if Drudge was operating from the left? Then we would maybe see a headline like this: Yeah – that looks a lot […]

We just got over one of these, but here it comes again: The White House plans to ask Congress for an increase in the debt limit before the end of the week, according to a senior Treasury Department official. The debt limit is projected to fall within $100 billion of the current cap by December […]

We are one week from the Iowa caucuses and things don’t look good for the GOP: If I were running the Iowa Republican Party, I would be seeking to vastly increase the turnout at the Jan. 3 caucuses. After all, those who turn out can be recruited to help in future Iowa Republican campaigns. I […]

This just caught my eye: Sears Holdings Corp. plans to close between 100 and 120 Sears and Kmart stores after poor sales during the holidays, the most crucial time of year for retailers. The closings are the latest and most visible in a long series of moves to try to fix a retailer that has […]