politics

Hey, wait…

by Tam May 17, 2012 View from the Porch

At a news conference this morning, Sens. Schumer and Bob Casey, D-Pa., will unveil the “Ex-PATRIOT” – “Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy” – ActI remember this part. It was in that ponderous novel by that shrill Russian chick, right?Man, if Obama was serious about a green energy program that would actually [...]

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Griping.

by Tam May 17, 2012 View from the Porch

I was promised a segment on flesh-eating bacteria on the Today show this morning, and so far all I’ve got is dead Kennedys and Cannes.Also, some legal analyst (snort!) talking about how John Edwards is such a noble and selfless dude for sparing his daughter being called to the witness stand, as though suddenly, after [...]

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Zero

by USCitizen May 16, 2012 Traction Control

Obama’s budget garnered zero votes (99-0) in the Senate, following the zero votes (414-0) it received in the House back in March. The last time the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a budget was 2009. h/t Say Anything Zero. You just can’t get less than that.

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QotD: …And Then You Win Edition

by Tam May 14, 2012 View from the Porch

Sebastian’s trying his hand at a wine-making project using Welch’s white grape juice concentrate as a starter. The irony comes, of course, from the fact that Dr. Welch was an ardent Prohibitionist.What the body politic did to prohibitionists is a wonderful lesson for our cause. To the extent there even are prohibitionists these days, they [...]

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…and put this deck chair over there.

by Tam May 11, 2012 View from the Porch

I was going to make some comment about what a master stroke of electioneering it was for Obama to use his bully pulpit to get the GOP to pull its teeth out of his economic Achilles’ heel and go chasing off after the gay marriage issue, but then I realized it didn’t really take any [...]

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Obama vs Texas Inmate? Close Call: 59% – 41%

by USCitizen May 9, 2012 Traction Control

This Texas Department of Corrections inmate came within 19% of the votes needed to knock Dear Leader Barry-Barack Hussien Soetoro Obama-llama off the West Virginia ticket in the Presidential DemocRAT party primary! Sorry, what’s that? That is that not his true legal name? Well, then I’ll use the official Birth Certificate version … What’s that? [...]

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QotD: Partisan Warfare Edition

by Tam May 9, 2012 View from the Porch

Because it’s my blog and I can have as many quotes of the day as I want to so there!, here’s Roomie on Lugar’s concession speech:[H]e’s also said the victorious Richard Mourdock has embraced a partisan attitude that makes it difficult to get things done.That was the point, Senator. See, the more Congress “gets things [...]

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Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na!

by Tam May 9, 2012 View from the Porch

It is my pleasure to report that Dick Lugar, six-term US Senator from the state of Indiana, former mayor of Indianapolis, a sort of anti-Cincinnatus who has not held a real job… nay, has been a hog at the public trough …since the year before I was born, is going to need to move his [...]

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Mourdock Wins Indiana. Bye, Bye Luger.

by USCitizen May 8, 2012 Traction Control

I hear the NRA didn’t like you as well as the Obama administration liked its “favorite Republican”. Good luck, Richard! Bye, bye, Dick. Good job, Tea Party!

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QotD: Primary Colors Are Black & Blue Edition

by Tam May 8, 2012 View from the Porch

Roberta X on Election ’12:Boy, wouldn’t it be great if once — just once! — somebody made it through the primaries about whom you could say something more positive than “Well, he’s better than a severe beating.”

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Obama’s Julia Re-Mixed

by USCitizen May 7, 2012 Traction Control

At The Foundry: A Better Life for Julia Saul Alinsky was right – mockery of is one of the most powerful weapons against one’s political opponents. If there must be mockery, let the mockery begin here!  

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“Screwed”

by USCitizen May 7, 2012 Traction Control

According to Dick Morris, “Barrack Obama is planning a secret move, over the next six months, to give away American sovereignty.“ Video: Obama Gives Away Our Rights in Space and at Sea Dick Morris’ New Book Screwed comes out tomorrow.  

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Tab Clearing…

by Tam May 7, 2012 View from the Porch

Everybody wants to save Bengal tigers and pandas and nobody wants to save the anopheles mosquito or the shortheaded hagfish.JayG has photos from blogmeet.The real life of Julia.

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Primary sources…

by Tam May 7, 2012 View from the Porch

If you are a Hoosier going to vote in tomorrow’s primaries, Roomie has a link to a place where you can find out who will be on your ballot.While everybody is yammering about who gets the White House, the smart voter will be looking at elections that actually matter to them, and that they have [...]

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How about that? Obama’s Composite Girlfriend matches Bill Ayers’ real one

by USCitizen May 5, 2012 Traction Control

What are the odds of that happening? Looks like we’ve been bamboozled. h/t Ace and Jack Cashill  

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It’s Almost Like They’re Trying To Hide Something

by Murdoc May 4, 2012 Gun Pundit

Darrell Issa Threatens to Find Eric Holder in Contempt Over ‘Fast and Furious’ House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) released a staff memo today arguing the House should hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, saying the Department of Justice has… …This is a summary only. Visit GunPundit for the [...]

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The Department of Justice’s Contempt Against the American People

by USCitizen May 3, 2012 Traction Control

  Darrel Issa releases document that explains issues for Committee Members to consider in making a decision about holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his Department’s refusal to provide subpoenaed documents.  

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Alert the Ministry of Irony.

by Tam May 3, 2012 View from the Porch

A couple days ago, Stephen King cranked off another one of those “Tax me more!” diatribes that squizillionaires are turning out these days, apparently in hopes of not being confused with those other evil rich guys so please keep reading my books/listening to my songs/going to my movies/buying my stuff America. These get on my [...]

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Phrasing!

by Tam May 3, 2012 View from the Porch

The link at CNN said simply “Obama vows to ‘finish the job’”.With visions of the U.S. economy hemorrhaging gouts of blood as it crawls grimly forward on its hands and knees and Barry stepping up behind it, rolling up his shirtsleeve as he contemplatively hefts a framing hammer, I clicked the link.Turns out it was [...]

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The Obama Administration’s Disregard of the Constitution and Rule of Law

by USCitizen May 1, 2012 Traction Control

CHAIRMAN’S REPORT U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 112TH CONGRESS COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY APRIL 30, 2012 Conclusion: Promises Broken Just over three years ago, as the Obama Administration was entering office on a cloud of hope and change, Attorney General Holder testified at his Senate confirmation hearing that the Attorney General is the guardian of the [...]

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Thank You Seal Team 6

by USCitizen April 30, 2012 Traction Control

 

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QotD: Gentlemen’s Blood Edition

by Tam April 30, 2012 View from the Porch

From Roger, The Real King Of France:I will argue that this toxic atmosphere was far better than the “comity” we now suffer. No law passed without a fight is far preferable to the nanny state. If the Bladensburg dueling grounds were still active, a whole generation would today have no clue about the names Pat Leahy, [...]

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Oceania still at war with Eastasia.

by Tam April 30, 2012 View from the Porch

Despite the end of the “War on Terror”, I still have friends in Afghanistan, I still got Porn-O-Scanned at the airport, and little kids still get scared by the monsters in Scooby Doo reruns.Leon Panetta (who, in some kind of bizarre game of political checkers, inexplicably wound up as my Secretary of Defense,) came out [...]

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To Do List

by USCitizen April 28, 2012 Traction Control

Seen at Ol’ Broad’s place. Buy ‘em here

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My guy triangulates. Yours is a weathervane.

by Tam April 27, 2012 View from the Porch

The last time I came out to New Hamster was in 2010, and the timing of the trip caused me to have to go down to the City-County Building and vote early, since I would be on the road on election day. This time around I had to go down and vote early because I [...]

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Free Market America: "If I Wanted America to Fail"

by Dustin April 24, 2012 Dustin's Gun Blog

By Free Market America.

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“If I Wanted America To Fail …”

by USCitizen April 23, 2012 Traction Control

“… I wouldn’t change a thing.” Let’s change some things.

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Overheard in the Hallway:

by Tam April 23, 2012 View from the Porch

Me: “The reason I’m more worried about tornadoes than FEMA death camps is because the government can’t afford to pay the union labor to build the death camps.”RX: “It’s a sad day when a government is too broke to exterminate its own people.”It’s a good thing the government can’t use illegals; they’d build death camps [...]

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The heart of the matter…

by Tam April 23, 2012 View from the Porch

So, two hot-button topics that are sure to get a rise out of a wookie-suiter like me are torture and internal passport checks… er, I mean, “enhanced interrogation techniques” and “intermodal antiterrorist checkpoints”. As Joel sums it up: But I grew up indoctrinated with the notion that there are two main “tells” for a police [...]

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Bank of America drops Gun Company’s Account

by USCitizen April 21, 2012 Traction Control

From Texas Fred: Bank of America to gun company: Find another bank. Traction Control asks our 80 million gun owners to tell Bank of America to “find 80 million other customers elsewhere“. It seems that the bailed out and now apparently subservient Bank of America is being asked to pay for the monies lent from [...]

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Can I see your license for that keyboard?

by Tam April 20, 2012 View from the Porch

Arizona reporter Kellie Mejdrich writes that she obtained an Arizona CCW permit over her lunch break and it only cost her a c-note, despite the fact that she had never handled a firearm before in her life. (I should point out that she’s saying this as though it’s a bad thing.)She points out that now [...]

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Ace asks. “Is This Something?” Yes, Yes It Is.

by USCitizen April 18, 2012 Traction Control

h/t AoSHQ

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Jan folds.

by Tam April 18, 2012 View from the Porch

Arizona’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer, who dismayed Democrats by never meeting a gun law she didn’t like, finally met a gun law she didn’t like.She vetoed a measure that would have allowed Arizonans to pack their heaters in publicly-owned buildings, such as city halls and libraries, on the grounds that the only way the bill [...]

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Signs, Mom Counting to 3, and Caning by Celery at the NRA Annual Meeting

by Tom April 17, 2012 My Gun Culture

“Oh, signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs Blocking up the scenery, breaking my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?” While the 5 Man Electrical Band was nowhere to be found, the city of St. Louis took the message to heart – and even hired James Earl Jones to make new audio [...]

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No, really?

by Tam April 17, 2012 View from the Porch

Just in case you were deaf, illiterate, and in a coma for the last couple of months, a Chicago lawyer and a Minneapolis law prof writing for CNN would like you to know that the “Trayvon Martin case [is] also about guns.”Gosh, thanks, guys. I’m not sure I would have picked up on that from [...]

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