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Fiscal cliff? Well that last one might have the post office stumped. A failure to reach a compromise this year just might have big implications for the struggling United States Postal Service. It's possible that the nearly $20 billion in savings could be part of a fiscal...
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A view of another side of the vehicle featured yesterday, photographed by Jon in Georgia. I finally was able to focus on one of the stickers, and it's quite correct. And says a lot about how we let it all go so wrong. ...
Just flashed across the screens was that the final vote on the tax portion of so-called Plan B had been cancelled tonight because John Boehner did not have enough votes. What a mess. You don't go there unless you are certain you can get there. Plan C, The...
In the days after I reported here on the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, the gun control debate has raged. The first gun control argument was leveled, quite literally, before the deceased children and adults were even removed from the school. Indeed, in laying the groundwork...
Can you blame him? From NBC news (h/t Hot Air): Newark Mayor Cory Booker says he will not challenge New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in next year's gubernatorial race and will instead explore a run for U.S. Senate in 2014. Booker, in a video posted to his YouTube page...
A follow up to Hopeless in Rhode Island. Boston talk radio host Michael Graham writes, DON’T Run, Scott, Don’t Run! Actually, I have no problem with Scott Brown running in the special election we all expect to have in a few months after John Kerry becomes Secretary...
John Robitaille is the type of moderate Republican we constantly are told is needed to win over centrist Democrats and independents. But it's not true in Rhode Island and many other blue states. There are not enough centrist Democrats or independents willing to consider moderate Republicans in...
This is a follow up to my post, I would never be so insulting as to accuse the NY Times of tokenism, regarding the demeaning accusation by University of Pennsylvania Political Science Professor Adolf L. Reed Jr. calling Tim Scott and other Republicans who are...
I agree with this assessment by Erick Erickson: Republicans in Congress intend to vote today on Plan B, John Boehner’s fall back plan on the fiscal cliff. The President says he will veto it. In other words, the Republicans are going to go on record that they will...
The first American killed in the Afghan war, on November 25, 2001. I’ve told his story before (also here), but it is worth remembering every year. As we just finished Hanukkah and approach Christmas, we also remember the others featured previously at Legal Insurrection, Jonathan Daniel Porto, U.S....
I'm overwhelmed. I can't zero in on any one bumper sticker. It worked. From Jon, taken at the Perimeter Mall in Atlanta/Dunwoody, Georgia, with images of the other sides of the vehicle to follow: Here is a mini-van tesselated with bumper stickers. Methinks these stickers may be serving a functional...
You've heard about Erik Loomis, the University of Rhode Island assistant professor of history who launched an almost psychotic, foul-mouthed Twitter tirade against the NRA, accusing it of being a terrorist organization, of complicity in and criminal culpability for murder, and a host of other invectives...
The New York Times today ran a demeaning Op-Ed about Tim Scott, the Republican Congressman from South Carolina who was just appointed to the seat being vacated by Jim DeMint. The Op-Ed was written by U. Penn. Political Science Professor Adolf L. Reed Jr., The Puzzle of Black...
Obama held a press conference today about gun legislation, but almost all of the press questions were about the "fiscal cliff." Obama's responses were truly amazing, a spiking-of-the-football approach in which he pocketed Boehner's concession on tax rates for those making over $1 million, then moved...
The president has just promised to submit gun-control legislation (though not a budget) to Congress in a matter of weeks. So now is a good time to point out that our national debate over a citizens’ ownership of guns wouldn’t be necessary—nor would the kinds...
