Posted by Deuce Geary on August 5th, 2009
I have intentionally stayed away from all the furor over this post on the Whitehouse.gov blog (my emphasis):
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on August 2nd, 2009
If you thought that cash-for-clunkers cash pool was exhausted by a bunch of folks trading in their gas-guzzling SUVs for hybrids, think again (my emphasis):
Bunnin GM Supercenter salesman Michael Angelo Olinyk hands over keys to Doug Steiger of Orange County for his new SUV, a 2009 GMC Acadia. Steiger traded his 1998 GMC truck under [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on May 30th, 2009
Government”reform” now means shutting people up. I told you months ago that you’d see restrictions on your speech. Did you believe me?
I am writing with an update on the President’s March 20, 2009 Memorandum on Ensuring Responsible Spending of Recovery Act Funds. Section 3 of the Memorandum . . . barred registered lobbyists from having [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on May 27th, 2009
I don’t understand why anyone thinks this is a good thing (emphasis mine):
North Carolina lawmakers are pushing to give Apple Inc. a multi-million dollar tax break should the company bring an East Coast computer server farm to the state — an estimated $1 billion investment, according to a state official with knowledge of the recruitment [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on March 9th, 2009
Wait a minute. ”One certifiable whack job”? In retrospect, that seems a little silly. The average for legislatures overall has to be that 30-40% of their memebrship are whack jobs. But I digress.
So anyway, Gateway Pundit has a post up saying that a bill proposed in the Connecticut legislature that would “put local laymen leadership [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on February 24th, 2009
I think President Obama deserves an “attaboy” for his Q & A with legislators yesterday as he closed out the “fiscal summit” held at the White House. What little blog coverage I’ve seen comes from lefties characterizing McCain’s challenge to new presidential helicopter costs as a sour grapes-style “cheap shot” or ridiculing Eric Cantor’s obsequiousness/civility [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on February 19th, 2009
I’ve got just one thing to say about this California budget fiasco:
I voted for McClintock.
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Posted by Deuce Geary on February 8th, 2009
Usually, I view warnings that we are headed for socialism, like this one at Confederate Yankee, as a little over the top. But Newsweek has given me reason to reconsider:
We remain a center-right nation in many ways—particularly culturally, and our instinct, once the crisis passes, will be to try to revert to a more free-market [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 7th, 2009
I really would be surprised if the porn industry has to worry too much about its bottom line . . . but guess who’s lining up at Hank Paulson’s bailout feeding trough:
Is the porn industry up next for a bailout? If porn titans Joe Francis and Larry Flynt have anything to do with it, it [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on December 17th, 2008
How else to explain a report in the Charlotte Observer that North Carolina is considering monitoring vehicle mileage of private citizens in order to tax them according to mileage and road use? The monitoring would be accomplished either through regular odometer readings or, more ambitiously, through GPS tracking:
With gas-tax revenues plummeting, the state of North [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 5th, 2008
Over at Ace’s and at his own site, Slublog recommended Steven den Beste’s commentary on the coming Obama presidency, which den Beste titles, “It’s not the end of the world.” Sure hope not. But there’s plenty of bad news in it, and I didn’t think anybody could be more pessimistic than me.
Here’s one overview, which [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on November 1st, 2008
From her interview on Dennis Prager’s radio show broadcast on October 27, 2008:
The bottom line that one can’t get away from . . . we are now about to elect a president, for the first time in our history, who believes, as he as indicated, that we are the moral inferior to most of the [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on August 20th, 2008
So I’m watching the gymnastics competition and I notice that there are numbers for “Difficulty” and “Execution” for each performance. And I gotta say, I get a little nervous when I see that word “execution” under the name of a Chinese athlete that had a slip-up. I mean, when that happens, I’m looking [...]
Posted by Deuce Geary on June 28th, 2008
Jonah Goldberg has a great piece over at National Review Online about how the Congress and the President (as an institution) have ceased making any attempt to determine the constitutionality of laws prior to enacting them, instead just writing anything they want and leaving it up to future litigation — and eventually the U.S. Supreme [...]
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