President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday. According to the previews, it will be a scaled down version of last year’s. The President will talk about his great record on the economy but that there is much more work to do.
He’ll attack income inequality with small things like increasing the minimum wage. He’ll…
DATELINE: Cluessville, Jan 21 – In 2008 Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers distributed “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, a movie starring Brad Pitt. In it, the title character is born an old man who regresses in age for 84 years and dies an infant. This month, President Obama eluded to a similar Al Qaeda regression in an interview with the New Yorker Magazine. In referring to Al Qaeda the President said: “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is ifRead more…
We’re hearing it pretty regularly now. Obamacare is here to stay and there’s nothing we can do about it. So, get ready to pay for its colossal funding shortfall and learn to love living under the bus where you’ve been kicked. On Tuesday, speaking with less smugness, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) opined that, eventually, people will come to accept…
DATELINE: Fibberville, Jan 16 – In October 2012, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed the “fog of war” for the Administration’s spin-the-bottle explanation of the Benghazi attack. She described it as, “the confusion you get in any type of combat situation.” She went on to explain, “Remember, this was an attack that went on for hours. There had to be a lot of sorting out….Everyone said, here’s what we know, subject to change.” After the revelations this week about the origins of the attack,Read more…
Back in 2005, Congress was publicly shamed into withdrawing funding for a bridge construction project in Ketchikan, Alaska. Dubbed the “Bridge to Nowhere”, it would have connected the City’s populous with its island airport at a demure $320 million cost to taxpayers.
The stated purpose for the harbor overpass was to decrease the 15 to 30 minute ferry…
DATELINE: Stupidville, Jan 9 – New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, finds himself in the cross-fire today for an incident that occurred last September. Back then, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey closed three lanes of the George Washington Bridge for four days. The reason given was a traffic study. The Bridge is one of the most traveled in the Country. It connects New York City with New Jersey and carries an average of 300,000 vehicles each day. The lane closures causedRead more…
