Democrats are very creative and innovative: ‘As state leaders hunt for politically palatable solutions to the swelling budget shortfall, some Democrats are proposing unorthodox ways to generate cash. Strip clubs, six-packs, grocery bags and iTunes downloads are all in their sights as alternatives to broad income or sales tax hikes. So are gas guzzlers and yachts — and a tax loophole for criminals.’ (more…)

Months ago we started publishing posts, critical of America’s economy. Immediately some readers accused us of overdoing it. There were some minor issues, but the economy was still quite healthy, and so forth. One problem for these individuals: George W. Bush disagrees with them. (more…)

‘The Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter identification law on Monday, concluding in a splintered decision that the challengers failed to prove that the law’s photo ID requirement placed an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote,’ the New York Times reports. Six of the Justice voted to uphold the law, three voted against it. (more…)

Quite innocent examples, no? I can understand it that some people argue that teachers should behave on the Internet, but these examples aren’t exactly good examples of ‘wrongful behavior’ from a teacher. If one of them would make a porn movie and put it online, OK, but these examples are meant in a humorous way, mostly.

The New York Times looks at the economic plans / proposals of the three leading candidates (John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton). The conclusion: ‘The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates differ strikingly in their approaches to taxes and spending, but their fiscal plans have at least one thing in common: each could significantly swell the budget deficit and increase the national debt by trillions of dollars, according to tax and budget experts.’ (more…)

That he doesn’t care as much about civil right as he cares about getting media attention.’Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to “close this city down” to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends.’ (more…)

When I first read the news that the United States government has called on its officials to stop referring to Islamic terrorists as “Jihadists” or “mujahedeen,” I thought to myself “that’s silly. Is this political correctness in action or what?” But after I had read the entire article at the AP, my opinion had changed dramatically: (more…)

Recently recovered e-mails have given many people - especially Democrats - the impression that the chief mental health official of the Veterans Affairs Department, Dr. Ira Katz, tried to ‘conceal the number of suicides by veterans. An e-mail message from Katz disclosed this week as part of a lawsuit that went to trial in San Francisco starts with “Shh!” and claims 12,000 veterans a year attempt suicide while under department treatment.’ (more…)

Senator John McCain ‘took direct aim at the Bush administration on Thursday as he stood in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, the area hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and declared the handling of the disaster “terrible and disgraceful” and pledged that it would never happen again,’ the New York Times reports. (more…)

In an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, US Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia said that Democrats who are still angry about the 2000 SC decision that basically handed the presidency to George W. Bush (instead to Al Gore) should “get over it.” (more…)

Bad news for anti-illegal immigration folks: ‘The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted “virtual fence” on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings.’ (more…)

Senator John McCain says that he opposes a bill (in the Senate) that would force companies to pay women the same amount of money they pay men (for the same work). The reason? Such a law would lead to more lawsuits. And no, I’m not making this up. (more…)

Finally good news from the economical front: ‘Boeing Co., the world’s second biggest commercial airplane manufacturer, said Wednesday that it earned $1.2 billion in the first quarter, a 38 percent increase from a year ago as its backlog of orders grew to a new record high.’ (more…)

The Washington Post reports that ‘[f]or the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is falling for a significant number of American women.’ ‘ In nearly 1,000 counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation’s women,’ the article goes on to say, ‘life expectancy is now shorter than it was in the early 1980s, according to a study published today.’ (more…)

Tom Tancredo could benefit from some “how to treat the Pope” classes. When the Pope visited the US, Tancredo wore a shirt which said “America is Full” and said that his (the pope’s) “immigration comments may have less to do with spreading the gospel than they do about recruiting new members of the church.” (more…)

He’s the most unpopular president in over 70 years. At this moment, only 28% of the American people approve of the job he is doing, against 69% who disapprove. That’s the highest negative rating in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll. (more…)

Whatever you plan on doing in the summer vacation, please don’t go to Chicago: “A violent and deadly weekend continues in Chicago. At least 12 people have been shot, two of them killed, since Saturday morning. Two others were stabbed in a home invasion. This comes after at least 20 people were shot, four of them killed, from Friday night through early Saturday.” (more…)

Claudia’s recent interview with an ex-member of the FLDS group in Texas renews my longstanding concern about what can happen when religious freedom is subordinated to societal prejudices about what is “normal”. Certainly, the sexual abuse of children is a legitimate matter for law enforcement and the FLDS group provides more than sufficient cause for an investigation. But our standard for that investigation should remain focused on the acts of individuals rather than an attempt to punish all members of an entire religious group based on assumptions of group guilt, as demanded by the state of Texas and Mr. Zettig. And we should certainly be careful about doing anything so sweeping based in any part on the testimony of those who claim to be former members of that group, as such information is often unreliable. (more…)

Two of the chief Democratic windbags in the United States Senate took to the floor this morning, with their charts and graphs, and decried how essentially the republic as we know it is in jeopardy because of an unprecedented amount of Republican filibusters,” Duane Patterson writes for TownHall. (more…)

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who wrote a book about beating cancer, has said that the cancer he had beaten once is back again. He said in a statement that he is “diagnosed with an early recurrence of Hodgkin’s disease.” Hodgkin’s disease is a cancer of the lymph system. (more…)