What Happened to Global Warming?

In 2009 about 40% of all income tax revenues will go towards paying interest on the debt.  No debt is actually being paid off.

 

Limiting lawsuits could save the federal government $41 billion over the next decade, and Congress wouldn't have to spend a dime to do it.  Here's a preview of the so-called individual mandate, courtesy of RomneyCare in Massachusetts.

 

A preview of ObamaCare, courtesy of formerly Great Britain, with a woman who was taken off of her medications and a feeding tube after being told she had only a few days to live.  After her daughter intervened, she was put back on her medications and she's still alive nine months later.  An Iraqi war veteran, also in formerly Great Britain, has died after being given a lung transplant from a smoker who had cancer.

 

Members of Congress won't read the health care bill, but even if they tried they wouldn't know what it meant.  Some Senators are making sure that their states are exempt from the most expensive provisions of the bill.  As they rush to pass this monstrosity, remember that the so-called benefits won't kick in for three years.

 

A majority of voters would prefer middle-class tax cuts to spending more money to reform health care.

 

As the BBC asks what happened to global warming, a playoff baseball game in Denver was snowed out on Saturday, record low temperatures hit Montana, and cold threatens potatoes in Idaho.  That's not enough for ABC's Charlie Gibson, who says that global warming is helping the Taliban, or for Sen. Lindsey Graham (RINO-SC), who signed on to the cap-and-tax bill in the Senate.

 

The Obama administration is going to destabilize Pakistan just so they can hand contracts off from American companies to local Pakistani companies.

 

North Korea launched more missiles over the weekend, and Iran laughed at the idea that the United States might do something to stop them from getting nuclear weapons.  How's that Nobel Peace Prize working out?

 

Even Hugo Chavez says that Obama didn't do anything to deserve the Nobel Prize.  Here are some of the people who were passed up so the Norwegian liberals could reward Obama for not being George Bush.  The Nobel Committee is still defending their choice.  Obama, despite his efforts to remake the American economy in the European mold, did not win the Nobel Prize in economics.

 

Israel says that they will attack Iran if there are not sanctions in place by Christmas.

 

The real threat from swine flu is the media and government-fueled panic.

 

The Wall Street Journal explains why the tax credit to create jobs not only won't work, but is also bad policy.

 

Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio was being too effective at cracking down on criminal aliens, so the White House took away his immigration policing powers.  Congress decided to strip 300 miles worth of border fencing from a spending bill.  They're preparing for amnesty.

 

President Obama promised that he would end "don't ask, don't tell."

 

The United States Constitution made the bestseller list this week.

 

The Interior Secretary wants to spend $96 million to move a bunch of horses.

 

Law enforcement officials in North Carolina seized 929 gallons of white liquor last week.  What a waste.

 

A store in Detroit was caught selling Viagra, alcohol, and pornography to food stamp recipients.

 

Johnny Isakson is still pushing his tax credit for first-time homebuyers.

 

Houston and Peach Counties are seeking federal "stimulus" dollars to continue to pay exorbitant administrative salaries.

 

Rep. Jim Marshall had a town hall meeting in Dublin on Saturday, and the parasites showed up to beg for your money.

 

Georgia's largest teacher group is suing the state for cutting the salary supplement to teachers who have been National Board Certified.

 

The Macon Telegraph may have been five days behind me, but they finally got to the news on what would happen to votes for Donald Walker.

 

A lawyer's opinion says that the 2007 raise in the mayor's salary was illegal.

 

Two Warner Robins city employees are on administrative leave after breaking into the Mayor's office.