Monthly Archives: July 2012

Cook Medical Scraps Expansion Plans Over ObamaCare Medical Tax

The Democrats who wrote, passed, and support the “American Care Act” probably thought that companies would just roll over and willingly pay a higher tax rate for their medical devices. Alas, the Real World has intruded on the Dem fantasies of collecting more tax money to spread around to their campaign contributors and voters (Fox […]

Democrats Slip Gun Control Into Cybersecurity Bill

I guess they found the time (h/t Gumball Brains) (The Hill) Democratic senators have offered an amendment to the cybersecurity bill that would limit the purchase of high capacity gun magazines for some consumers. Shortly after the Cybersecurity Act gained Senate approval to proceed to filing proposed amendments and a vote next week, Sen. Chuck […]

Joe Romm Decides To Skip Science On “Unprecedented” Greenland Melting

And decides to pick a fight with the NY Times’ Andrew Revkin, who took umbrage to the use of the word “unprecedented” when discussing the recent Greenland melting in much the same way I did the other day. Is Recent Greenland Ice Sheet Melting ‘Unprecedented’? Absolutely. Is It ‘Worrisome’? You Bet It Is. Joe really […]

If All You See…

…is a field that should be full of wind turbines, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is Steven Goddard, who says you too can be smarter than a NASA expert.

Hooray! GDP Up 1.5%

The numbers for the 2nd quarter GDP are out, and some are celebrating, since some expected 1.3% (some expected 1.5%, though), and got 1.5%. Um, a clue for those celebrating: 1.5% sucks. (Bloomberg) The U.S. economy expanded at a slower pace in the second quarter as a softening job market prompted Americans to curb spending. […]

Boehner Dares Obama To Make Gun Control Recommendations

A double shot from the Washington Post this morning, which says that House leaders open to gun law debate ….The comments echoed the sentiments of lawmakers and the president’s own aides, who said this week that Obama is unlikely to push for new gun legislation because of strong opposition in Congress. But House Speaker John […]

Liberal World: “You Didn’t Build That” And “It Worked” Are “Ambiguous”

It’s rather cute how the media continues to prostitute itself for Team Obama. Deluded and absurd would also be words we could use. Oh, look, here’s the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake: Context be damned: Obama’s ‘It worked’ quote should work for Republicans Context is dead. Long live context. For the second time in two weeks, […]

I Hope XXX Olympics Attendess Don’t Mind Stinky Bathrooms

Just to be clear, I’m getting a real kick out of typing “XXX Olympics”. Anyhow, as you would expect, the XXX Summer Olympic games are trying to be all sorts of “sustainable” and “green”. And here’s one of those measures (UK Guardian) Equally pressing given the gargantuan amount of human waste that the Games will […]

If All You See…

…is an awesome Gaia compliant bike which could make the seas stop rising, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with the anti-Obama picture of the day.

“New” Obama Ad: “It’s a scary time to be a woman”

Apparently, “it’s a scary time to be a woman” because Romney might want to reduce the amounts of abortions because some people are irresponsible when having sex The Washington Post’s Rachel Weiner calls this a new add, though I’ve seen it run a few times here in North Carolina. I even mentioned this in a […]

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