Jul 6, 2010 at 2:19 PM
In the news:
- "Controversial" opinions on your website? The TSA is going to block its employees from accessing your site on the agency's computers. Meanwhile, the feds are still stonewalling about the use of pornography on government computers by MMS and SEC employees while on the job. PS: you want to hear a controversial opinion- try the idea that we need naked scanners in airports to keep us safe.
- Justice Kennedy says he'll be hanging on until Obama's gone, allowing a Republican to appoint his successor.
- The clash between Obama and the Supreme Court.
Jul 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM
In the news:
- Legerdemain: Obama figured out how to lower unemployment rate even though people lost jobs and didn't get hired.
- Military Draft: They call for one on MSNBC of all places!
- Ed Morrissey takes a look at the dissenters in McDonald. Glenn Reynolds says he's so jaded that he's relieved it was only four.
- Self publishing: Want to self publish your own book? Here's someone who did and what they thought about it.
Jul 1, 2010 at 3:53 PM
In the news:
- Beyond Satire: Remember when Mr. Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for... well, for not being George W. Bush (too bad that his policies aren't any different). Well now the National Constitution Center in Washington has awarded Tony Blair the Liberty medal for his role in "bringing liberty to the people of the world." (For a list of reasons this is total "bollocks" as the English say, click here.)
- Gridlock: Congress goes home without extending long-term jobless benefits. Predictably the Washington Post groans and the L.A. Times complains, both under a thin pretense of serious journalism.
- Pleading the Second: Referring to the forced disarmament of blacks after Reconstruction, Justice Clarence Thomas argues that gun rights are civil rights.
- Rand Paul: The million dollar man. (YAL reports news and comments on issues and news, we do not endorse candidates for office.)
Jun 30, 2010 at 3:09 PM
In the news:
- Elena Kagan seems to think the government has the legitimate Constitutional power to require all Americans "to eat three fruits, and three vegetables a day." She says it's a dumb law, but implies that as a Justice we can count on her to uphold it as Constitutional under the Commerce Clause. See for yourself.
- Vapid and hollow: Writes Roger Simons at Politico, 'Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, who years ago called such hearings “a vapid and hollow charade,” helped ensure they were exactly that this week.'
- Transparency: Judge halts questioning on Obama in Blagojevich trial. What is Obama hiding from us?
Jun 24, 2010 at 2:08 PM
In the news:
- Shallow Al? Portland woman says Al Gore groped her and made unwanted sexual advances during a massage session in an Oregon hotel suite, calls him a giggling "crazed sex poodle." The woman alleges Mr. Gore forced her to drink Marnier, pinned her to a bed, and forcibly French kissed her. No charges have been filed because police say there is "not enough evidence."
- Harry Reid's son is running for governor in Nevada, but one thing is notably missing from Rory Reid's first campaign ad: his last name.
- Obstructionists: House panel blocks Republican measure "to direct Justice Deparment to release all documents pertaining to the White House's efforts to persuade Joe Sestak not to run for U.S. Senate." What happened to transparency? Rep. Issa (R) calls B.S. on White House crime coverup. Rahm Emmanuel: Expect "nothing more" from the White House on Sestak / Romanoff discussions.
Jun 23, 2010 at 2:25 PM
In the news:
- Stay out of our way! Federal goverment halts sand berm dredging in Louisiana, a technique that creates barriers to protect the coastline from oil.
- Why does this keep happening? Passengers forced to remain on a plane for hours as it waited on the tarmac in sweltering 100 degree tempertures because the generators broke and there was no air conditioning. There were babies on the plane. People were fainting.
- Elena Kagan at odds with Obama's promises of transparency (which isn't such a big deal, because so it Obama).
Jun 22, 2010 at 6:22 PM
In the news:
- Too soon? Road built with stimulus funds named "President Barack Obama Parkway."
- Fired? Gen. Stanley McChrystal summoned to Washington to explain anti-administration comments.
- Your taxes at work: U.S. funding of a massive protection racket in Afghanistan indirectly pays tens of millions of dollars to warloards, corrupt public officials, and even the Taliban itself.
- A Tale of Two Disasters: "Bush was blamed for local failures after Katrina. Obama got a free ride for weeks as federal failures mounted during the Gulf spill."
Jun 21, 2010 at 3:13 PM
In the news:
- I quit! 'Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is expected to leave his job later this year after growing tired of the "idealism" of Barack Obama's inner circle.'
- True statement- Washington Examiner's Senior Political Analyst says "Obama's thuggery is useless in fighting spill."
- "Change": Despite promising a new era in American politics, an era of real solutions to our problems instead of partisan agendas, President Obama appears to have appointed members to his gulf oil spill commission on the basis of their politics, not their engineering skill.
- Unassailable logic: Lieberman argues U.S. should have Internet "kill switch" because China has one. Here's a shovel, Joe. Keep digging.
Jun 18, 2010 at 11:41 AM
In the news:
- Kill switch: I have two questions for Democrats. 1) Are you embarrassed yet by your support for the present regime? 2) Would you want Sarah Palin to have a kill switch for the Internet? Remember if you give one to Obama, the next Republican to take office will have it too.
- Inexcusable: Melanie Williams finally reaches private settlement with police department, after an officer tackled her and put his foot on her neck back in 2005 for speeding to the hospital in a medical emergency. Melanie was seven months pregnant and bleeding profusely.
- Hands off, Feds! Coast Guard orders Louisiana's crude-vacuuming barges to stop.
Jun 10, 2010 at 12:20 PM
In the news:
- Ron Paul 2012? Jesse Benton says "there is a decent likelihood that he will" run for the Republicans' nomination in 2012. (Note: YAL does not endorse political candidates, only ideas.)
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