RIP Robert Novak

The great Robert Novak has passed away from complications due to a brain tumor.  Rest in Peace.

 

Liberal members of Congress say that the health care bill is in doubt without the government-run option, and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius backtracked on her statement from Sunday about a public option not being essential.  She knows what the underside of the bus tastes like.

 

The AARP is losing members over their support for the Democrats' health care reform.

 

Tales from Socialized Medicine:  Thousands of surgeries may be cut by the government in Vancouver to make up for a budget shortfall, and a woman in formerly Great Britain gave birth on a sidewalk outside a hospital after being denied an ambulance.

 

The "pay czar" says that he can take back money that has already been paid to top executives.

 

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) fears that the FCC's diversity chief may try to use backdoor measures to bring back the Fairness Doctrine.  There's no backdoor involved; we already know that they will do it by using the ideas of local control and diversity of ownership.

 

A majority of American voters (55%) still blame Bush policies for the bad economy, but 39% blame Obama's policies.  The problem is that it goes back a lot farther than just Bush.

 

Only 6% of voters expect their taxes to be cut during the Obama administration.  They're the ones who still have their hope-and-change stickers on their cars and don't pay taxes as it is.

 

Some scientists are now trying to blame humans for global warming going back as far as 7,000 years ago, when humans were just starting to learn how to farm.

 

Now DNA evidence can allegedly be fabricated.  The lawyers and convicted criminals are drooling over this one.

 

A study indicates that 40% of Twitter messages are just "pointless babble."  Not so with my tweets.

 

When Warner Robins raised the Mayor's pay in 2007, it may have been done illegally.  As City Council minutes from that meeting indicate, the city attorney was absent from that meeting.

 

Warner Robins, unlike Houston County and the Houston County Board of Education, will be cutting taxes this year.  It's not much, but it's something.