Archive for: February 2009

Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today called on House Democrats to hold a hearing on the surge in drug-related violence on the U.S.-Mexico border. The violence is attributed to Mexican drug cartels, fighting turf battles and competing …

Seriously, do the kindly folks at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s editorial board even know what the definition of the word logic is? In theirs headlined, “Hysteria fuels sales of guns and ammo,” the Sun-Sentinel takes Floridians to task for …

Monzer Al Kassar, a/k/a “Abu Munawar,” a/k/a “El Taous,” the leader of an international arms-trafficking ring, was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to be used to kill Americans …

The story, as it goes, is that Ludwig von Mises, who was the finance minister of Austria at a time of great financial crisis, was approached by the bureaucrats about the rampant inflation that was infecting society. They sought …

President Obama was quick to blame America’s economic circumstances, past, present, and, presumably, future, on his immediate predecessor.

Appearing briefly on Fox’s Glenn Beck show Feb 23, 2009, Dutch Freedom Party MP, Geert Wilders said “we should throw out every bit of hate crime legislation that is ever proposed.” Why would he say this and why should we …

Fox News Radio’s Alan Colmes should be proud of himself: He provided a platform for a terrorist and killer to spew his venom on television and radio. While Barack Obama’s friends and supporters in the news media downplay his …

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke made instant headline news by telling Congress that America’s gut-wrenching recession MAY end in 2009.

His words brought immediate relief to Wall Street investors and others worried about America’s dire economic circumstances, including President Obama who is …

It’s been widely reported that illegal aliens comprise upwards of 27 percent of the US prison and jail population. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection — two agencies within the Department of Homeland Security — claim in …

Sean Penn used the occasion of the 81st Academy Awards to express his dislike for free speech and contempt for those who disagree with him on the issue same sex marriage.

Once again CNN goes over the top in its gobsmacked praise of its Obammessiah. This time appropriating Ronald Reagan’s famous “morning in America” theme and assigning it to President Obama as a result of his not-the-state-of-the-union speech last night. …

One of the fixes that Democrats are insisting upon to save people’s homes is the idea of the “modified mortgage.” A modified loan is an offer to homeowners that have either become delinquent in payments or have become overwhelmed …

On October 26, 2001, President Bush signed into law H.R. 3162, the USA PATRIOT Act. The US Secret Service was mandated by the Act to establish a nationwide network of Electronic Crimes Task Forces (ECTFs).

I love vampire movies. I have even watched all the Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer TV series on DVD–twice. Perhaps it is no wonder that I see Obama and his policies through a vampirian lens.

There are people who have many misconceptions of Christianity. Some believe it is a heavy weight of do’s and don’ts piled upon one’s shoulders. Others believe that it’s an “if you sin, you’ll go to hell” doctrine.