May 26, 2006 – 8:39 am
First Taxachussets, now Vermont: MONTPELIER, Vermont (Reuters) – Vermont’s governor signed a bill on Thursday that would make the state the second in the nation with near-universal health-care insurance by extending coverage to as much as 96 percent of its residents by 2010. The law comes a month after neighboring Massachusetts passed the nation’s first […]
May 17, 2006 – 10:24 am
Ya know, I love my ’97 Honda CRV. Runs like a dream. Still in fantastic condition. Completely paid for. Why bother getting a new car? Well, Honda is giving me an incentive: Profit-rich Honda Motor Co. announced plans Wednesday to build a new plant in the United States — its sixth in North America — […]
May 16, 2006 – 8:03 am
Now, I guess some on the Right are annoyed by W’s speech as being pandered to, to put it mildly. Some call it a token gesture. Quite frankly, after a long time of the Conservatives being ignored on this issue, I’m ready to be pandered to. And, at least it is a start. But what […]
May 15, 2006 – 2:07 pm
Who says there are issues in public schools? Â A high school teacher has apologized for asking students to write about who they would kill and how they would do it, and officials said he will likely keep his job. Â Michael Maxwell, who teaches industrial technology at Central High School, said his request that students in […]
March 28, 2006 – 8:03 am
If there was any doubt that many in the US Senate just do not understand the immigration debate, they proved it yesterday: Immigrant supporters claimed their first major victory since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks after a bipartisan group of senators approved legislation that would give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship. “I’d […]
March 2, 2006 – 7:36 pm
From the Party of No Responsibility, more moonbattery about Katrina: The video, obtained by The Associated Press, “confirms what we have suspected all along,” said Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, charging that Bush administration officials have “systematically misled the American people.” Yup, because I distinctly remember President Bush saying that a Category 5 […]
December 8, 2005 – 8:32 am
Boys (and girls) just want to have fun. Unfortunately for them, it ended up on TV SAN FRANCISCO — One police officer was suspended and about 20 others faced discipline after making videos parodying life on the force that used racist, sexist and homophobic stereotypes, city officials announced Wednesday. "This is a dark day, an […]
December 7, 2005 – 8:16 am
Sorry, folks, no funny white trash stuff today. Back in 1941, the United States, after years of isolation, after staying out of the war that was raging around the world, was attacked by the Empire of Japan, in an attempt to make sure that the USA could not fight in the Pacific. So, what happened […]
October 31, 2005 – 8:37 am
Via the Raleigh News and Observer: BALD HEAD ISLAND — In June 2003, on his family’s annual vacation to Bald Head Island, 6-year-old Howard Biggers IV fell out of a golf cart. At first, his family thought he got minor scrapes and bruises, but it quickly became apparent he had suffered a head injury. His […]
October 11, 2005 – 7:35 am
When I first heard this on Rush’s show while driving around Raleigh looking for lighbulbs yesterday (you wouldn’t believe how hard it was to find a certain type), I though it was a joke: New Jersey, the state with the most highways per square mile, may sell the best-known of them all — the 148-mile […]
