April 28, 2010 – 3:38 pm
Ted Kennedy must be spinning in his Bourbon soaked grave after all those years of stalling it After nine years of regulatory review, the federal government gave the green light Wednesday to the nation’s first offshore wind farm, a highly contested project off the coast of Cape Cod. The approval of the 130-turbine farm gives […]
April 28, 2010 – 9:30 am
Remember this? “I can make a firm pledge,” he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” He repeatedly vowed […]
April 28, 2010 – 7:34 am
Essentially, they have taken the happy out of Happy Meals, and parents out of parenting No toy for you, Junior. Not if you live in unincorporated Santa Clara County, where the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban restaurants from giving away toys with children’s meals that exceed set levels of calories, fat, salt and […]
April 27, 2010 – 7:28 pm
Oh, wait, they haven’t solved any of the problems, such as high unemployment, massive deficits, increasing health costs, threats of Islamic terrorism, etc and so on? Goodness! This must be super mega duper important, though: Congress weighs risks, benefits of killer whale and dolphin shows A SeaWorld curator told Congress today that the theme park’s […]
April 27, 2010 – 2:16 pm
Can you imagine if these were TEA Partiers? It would be splashed all over the news. But, hey, since they are eco-nuts, not much to see, move along A routine traffic-stop in Switzerland has allegedly thwarted eco-terrorists from blowing up the site of the £55million nano-technology HQ of IBM in Europe. The three members – […]
April 27, 2010 – 9:30 am
Yeah, I know, I haven’t done much on globull warming as of late, but, hey, illegal immigration is one of my core political sub-issues below Conservatism. And I do love fixing headlines, especially ones that yammer on about “migrants,” then write this With Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigrants looming, Guatemalan Samuel Roldan is swapping the […]
April 27, 2010 – 8:31 am
You do have to give Obama high chutzpah marks for pulling this stunt, though Seeking to show he is serious about reining in soaring budget deficits, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will kick off the work of a panel he created to try to solve the nation’s fiscal woes. Obama has given the independent, 18-member […]
April 26, 2010 – 5:37 pm
Just another incentive for doctors to get out of the profession Doctors who accept speaking fees, five-star meals and other compensation from pharmaceutical or medical device companies will soon see their names -– and the value of the gifts they accept -– revealed on the Web, under a new federal law that follows several states […]
