Archive for November, 2011
Mitt Squirms When Pressured About Romney Care
In case you missed it, this is the Bret Baier interview with Romney that everyone’s been talking about. Bret asks Mitt about possible similarities between Obama Care and Romney Care, and oh, does Willard squirm. Check it out, check-it-outers: I’ll tell you two things I learned from this video. One: Romney was hoping the interview [...]
Senate Votes To Keep Indefinite Detention Provision In Military Bill
Earlier today the Senate voted to keep a provision in S.1253 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 which would give the President authority, using the military, to indefinitely detain suspected terror suspects. This includes not only oversees, but in the United States, to include American citizens. The provision’s sponsors are Arizona Republican Sen. [...]
Senate Approves Massive Electric Rate Hike for Illinois Residents
By R. Mitchell on Nov 29, 2011 in Politics
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Nov. 29, 2011 – Today’s Senate vote approving SB 678 promises to leave Illinoisans paying at least $286 million in annual costs for the next 30 years to pay for the Taylorville Energy Center, a power plant that Illinois doesn’t need. If passed by the House and signed by the Governor, this tremendous cost would devastate Illinois’ economy, destroying [...]
Dear Conservatives, Please Be Realistic About Immigration
The border, security, illegal immigration, and national defense all culminate into what is easily one of the most emotional topics we, as Americans, can discuss. Before we dive into the potentially offensive title of this post, I’d like to offer a little background on the evolution of my beliefs regarding illegal immigration. Even when I [...]
Alec Baldwin Has A Twitter Meltdown; Keder And SooperMexican Get Featured On The Five
Rumor has it that Alec Baldwin had a little bit of a Twitter meltdown last night. I missed out on it live, but I caught a little bit of it this morning on this website. (check it out; it’s pretty nutty) The Five, a show with five hosts that comes on at 5pm (get it?), [...]
Falling for the Tough Talk
In the times in which we live, an unfortunate fact of life is that we on the right must battle not only the Democrats, but their biased media as well. This phenomenon is quite discouraging on many different levels. One of the side effects of the media treatment is that most conservatives don’t speak with [...]
Was Herman Cain Ever A Viable Candidate?
Multiple sources, including Drudge, are reporting that Herman Cain is ‘reassessing’ his candidacy as allegations of yet another sexual indiscretion have emerged. On numerous blogs and in my Twitter timeline, I’ve seen an astounding number of people make the claim that these allegations are the only reason Cain may be dropping out. I wholeheartedly disagree: [...]
Tonight on the Dark Side with Kira Davis
By Kira Davis on Nov 29, 2011 in The Dark Side
Tonight, November 29, 2011 on the Dark Side with Kira Davis (hey, that’s me!) we’ll talk about the Richmond Tea Party’s suit against the city of Richmond Virginia for refund of fees paid for the same park Occupiers are currently camping in for free. We’ll talk to Gilbert Wilkerson, Richmond Tea Party Board member, about [...]
Pakistani Forces May Have Been Killed After Attacking U.S. Troops
The killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers by U.S. airstrikes may have been a defensive action. The facts have been slow to come out in the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers on Saturday, but new reports are surfacing that detail a different course of events than has been reported over the weekend. A senior Pakistani defense official [...]
Rejecting FairTax Part One: Why Not Tax Consumption?
By R. Mitchell on Nov 29, 2011 in Politics
In Part One, I’ll cover the dangers of taxing consumption as a major source of government revenue, both to the individual and to the economy. Part Two will cover the little-known problems in the FairTax proposal- the “fine print” FairTax advocates won’t tell you about (or don’t know themselves); I’ll also refute some of the inconsistencies and [...]
