Something going around Facebook right now really got me thinking: Entitlement? I PAID cash for Social Security insurance! Our benefits aren’t charity or a handout! Congressional benefits—premium federal health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days—now THAT’S welfare! And they have the nerve to call retirement an […]
Steve Benen explains: I especially loved the “Exclusive!” with the exclamation point, as if this were a rare, special occurrence. For those keeping score at home, as of this weekend, there will have been 47 Sundays since President Obama’s inauguration in January. With this 16th appearance on a Sunday morning talk show this week, John […]
Max Baucus, lap lizard for the insurance industry, has come up with his own plan: Just as auto coverage is now mandatory, so would a requirement that all Americans get health insurance. Penalties for failing to get insurance would start at $750 a year for individuals and $1,500 for families. Households making more than three […]
Wow! As a diabetic, I know the enormous costs associated with combating the disease, but when you look at the whole national picture, the amount is phenomenal: As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world’s most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. […]
Be afraid Republicans! Erick Erikson has launched “Operation Leper” to go after the McCain staffers who leaked stuff to the media about Palin. TBogg has all the great details, along with evidence of the power of Erickson. Welcome to a war our nation as a whole isn’t in. This is a war we can sit […]
There were these “lists” published over the past several years highlighting financial favors, or pork, that our tax dollars shouldn’t go to. This list even highlighted three times “objectionable” spending, including earmarks, for a small Alaskan town, which was requested by it;s mayor – Sarah Palin. The author of this list? John McCain.
Three different times I turned on MSNBC and those three times the story they were covering was Hillary Clinton’s new haircut. “Her hair is shorter and her part is on the right”. This is news? I’m not the only one who has noticed it either.
(HT John) Not once, not twice, but three times during his show last night, O’Reilly had different cutaways labeling Foley as a Democrat last night. Even worse? This happened during two different segments. Is FOX sinking to a new low to try and swing votes? We report – you decide. Wait. Perhaps we report and […]
First off here is the story– Two men were airlifted to University Hospital after they were burned in a restaurant fire. The blaze broke out at Steak Thyme Subs on the 8100 block of Princeton-Glendale Road shortly before 9 p.m. According to a report in the Hamilton Journal News, the restaurant has been vandalized three […]
There are still a few on the right (mainly in the administration) who would want to make you think that Iraq has calmed down and is going well again. Well this sure doesn’t have that same song and dance: Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week’s bombing of a Shiite shrine have […]