Tag Archive 'federal'

American Hunters and Shooters Association endorses Obama

Posted by Moonage on 07 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race, 527's

An article today pointed to the fact that not all National Rifle Association members are against Obama.  Heck, Obama even has the support of the American Hunters and Shooters Association.  Hey, since it has the words “hunter” and “shooter” in its title, it’s got to be about guys who like to shoot things with guns, [...]

The politics of the energy crisis

Posted by Moonage on 05 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Energy Policy, Political Correctness

The jam we’re in right now was put in place thirty years ago.  In that time, we’ve gone from being an energy exporter to an energy junkie.  It really doesn’t matter where we get our hit, so long as we don’t have to accept any responsibility for it.  For instance:

Oil - The Democrats absolutely refuse [...]

Budget deficit drops, again

Posted by Moonage on 12 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Fed Policy, The Media

Seems the federal budget deficit dropped.  Again.  Seems all of a sudden hardly anyone really seems to care.  Wasn’t that an issue last fall?  Didn’t people totally ignore the numbers of a shrinking deficit and decide to buy the rhetoric that the budget was out of control?  Why did they do that?  Now, what’s getting [...]

Nancy Pelosi Condemns Rangel for dissing Mississippi

Posted by Moonage on 10 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Shock and Awe

The Democrats haven’t even officially taken over the government yet, but they are already tossing out anything Republican as fast as they can.  Along with that, I guess we can totally dismiss Bush’s "conservative compassionism":
Its not just committees our influence within the House Democratic caucus will grow enormously, Mr. Rangel said in an interview.
To [...]

ACLU endorses the Patriot Act?

Posted by Moonage on 30 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: National Politics

Well, not exactly.  But they did drop a lawsuit against it citing "improvements to the law".  Here’s the ONLY part that was changed that appease the ACLU:
The lawsuit, filed in July 2003 on behalf of the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, Mich., and five other nonprofit groups, was the first legal challenge to Section [...]

Rewarding Stupidity

Posted by Moonage on 30 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Political Correctness

I really can’t believe this one:
A federal jury awarded $24.2 million to two men who were severely burned by electrical wires when they trespassed onto railroad property and climbed atop a rail car.

OK, you’ve got these very large vehicles that travel very, very, fast.  You’ve got these bare wires that connect to these very large [...]