Category: Michael Shannon

Participants Revolt Against The Derecho Project

By Michael R Shannon on Jul 13, 2012 in Cap and Trade, Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Self-sufficiency

It’s unfortunate The Derecho Project — the largest urban global warming mitigation experiment in history — has proven to be an abject failure. Really a shame, too since the project’s design was almost perfect. The sample was composed of liberal environmentalists in Maryland, D.C. and Arlington who should have been eager to personally have a [...]

Refresh My Memory; Is Justice Kennedy the Wobbly One?

By Michael R Shannon on Jul 05, 2012 in 2012 Election News, Conservative Philosophy, Health Care Reform, Humor/Satire, Legislation, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics

Last Thursday dawned bright and clear. It was shaping up to be a great day for conservatives. More than one observer — waiting for the Obamacare decision outside the Supreme Court — noticed aircraft coming in low on the horizon. Everyone assumed it was ICE drones searching for illegal aliens deserving of amnesty and a [...]

Please, Don’t Let Another Congressional Staffer Go to Bed Hungry

By Michael R Shannon on Jul 03, 2012 in Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon, Opinion

In some corners of elite opinion working on Capital Hill means one is laboring in the political equivalent of Wal–Mart. Hill workers have their pity while toiling in a crowded ideologyshop for chump change. Yet, just like Wal–Mart, each time an election or retirement causes a new Congressional store to open the line of applicants [...]

All Massachusetts People Look Alike to Me

By Michael R Shannon on Jun 29, 2012 in 2012 Election News, featured opinion, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics

When I first read that Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (D–Noblesse Oblige) had been recruited to play the opponent during practice presidential debates, I considered it an inspired choice. There is a slight problem with respective ages for the two candidates, but otherwise everything else is perfect. One pretentious, cliché–ridden windbag impersonating another is excellent practice [...]

South of the Border, Down Washington Way

By Michael R Shannon on Jun 25, 2012 in featured opinion, Health Care Reform, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics

Here’s an outrage: sleazy government officials approach a major business interest and want to enter into “negotiations.” The officials casually mention, “You’ve got a nice little business here. It would be a shame if something happened to it.” Both sides know the business needs permits to operate, current regulations could be changed or delayed and [...]

Hell to the Redskins

By Michael R Shannon on Jun 22, 2012 in featured opinion, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics

When compared to the $498 million fleecing Minnesota taxpayers just endured, the $6.4 million Virginia taxpayers will be spending — thanks to Republican Governor Bob McDonnell — on improvements to the Redskins’ training facilities looks like small potatoes. Regardless of size, both the Vikings’ new stadium and the Redskins “deal” feature the same credulous acceptance [...]

Wisconsin Police: Volunteering for Defeat

By Michael R Shannon on Jun 18, 2012 in Michael Shannon, Politics, Public Sector Unions

There has been much discussion of winners, losers and the effect on public employee unions elsewhere in the US after the failure to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. But there has been little comment on one group of unionized workers that were unaffected by public employee union reform, yet joined the losing side anyway. And [...]

Do You Hear a Droning Sound?

By Michael R Shannon on Jun 15, 2012 in featured opinion, Michael Shannon, Opinion

When Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell casually mentioned during a radio interview that he supported the use of “military–style” drones by law enforcement it sparked an immediate uproar, but not from the usual suspects. One would assume the ACLU would be filing a lawsuit claiming a drone–born invasion of “privacy.” (Although after legalizing almost all the [...]

Unelected, Unaccountable Boards Like Spending Your Money

By Michael R Shannon on Jun 08, 2012 in 2012 Election News, Conservative Philosophy, Michael Shannon, Politics

It’s been a rough few weeks for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority that manages airports in the Washington, DC area and coordinates board member travel to luxury destinations. MWAA is the unelected and unaccountable board former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (Obama’s choice to head the Democrat National Committee and current candidate for the US Senate) [...]

Democrats Undermining Defense for Over 200 Years

By Michael R Shannon on Jun 01, 2012 in Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics, Support the Troops

Stephen Budiansky — author of Perilous Fight: America’s Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812–1815 — has written an excellent book that inadvertently reveals Democrat politicians — in feverish pursuit of imaginary utopias — have been busy undermining our national defense for the past 200 years. It began with Thomas Jefferson, whose fantasy [...]

Nine out of ten journalists say, “Guilty!”

By Michael R Shannon on May 25, 2012 in In The News, Michael Shannon, Opinion

Good news for Neighborhood Watch celebrity, George Zimmerman. The Associated Press reports that in 23 years only 2,000 people have been exonerated after being wrongly convicted of a serious felony. Each year there are nearly one million felony convictions, over 10,000 times more than the 90 innocent defendants wrongly convicted. The findings are particularly encouraging [...]

Clogged traffic arteries are genetic

By Michael R Shannon on May 11, 2012 in Michael Shannon, Opinion

Police in Prince William County, VA just released a list of the most dangerous intersections and I discovered that on a single trip to Chantilly I managed to drive through the most dangerous intersection in Manassas, the most hazardous in Manassas Park and the third most threatening in the rest of the county. This is [...]

Obama’s end zone dance

By Michael R Shannon on May 04, 2012 in Michael Shannon, Opinion

It’s not often I agree with Sen. John McCain (R–Ego), but his description of Obama’s Osama commercial is apt. “No one disputes that the president deserves credit for ordering the raid, but to politicize it in this way is the height of hypocrisy,” McCain said. “This is the same president who said, after bin Laden was dead, [...]

Smile, you’re on vaginal camera

By Michael R Shannon on Mar 01, 2012 in Michael Shannon

Virginia Senate Democrats are still complaining about their loss of power after last year’s election resulted in a 20 to 20 tie. This gave control to Republicans since Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling casts the tie–breaking vote. Even in their reduced circumstances, Democrats can take solace in the fact a vote of the people forced them [...]