OUR effort in Iraq passed a major milestone today: Our troops are leaving the cities.
Advisers remain in place. Joint patrols will still occur. And our forces will wait nearby to respond to Iraqi calls for support. But the last of the bases and US-only outposts within Iraq’s urban centers will be vacated.
Archive for June, 2009
BYE-BYE, BABYLON - New York Post
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009House Passes Milestone Energy, Climate Change Bill
Friday, June 26th, 2009House Passes Milestone Energy, Climate Change Bill
Sorry to see this happen especailly considering the 8 republican defectors could have made the difference.
Fortunately it will probably not pass the Senate. Fingers Crossed.
Actress Farrah Fawcett Dead at 62 - Celebrity Gossip
Thursday, June 25th, 2009I was in to Farrah as much as a young kid could be. I am truly sad to see her go.
Pop Legend Michael Jackson Dead at 50
Thursday, June 25th, 2009I am of course sad to see Michael Jackson leave us. For me he will always be remembered more from what he was, not so much what he turned into. I prefer to remember the good times.
VA Medical System in Shambles, Veterans Groups Say - Political News - FOXNews.com
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Senate Ethics Committee
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009How is it that the people in charge of investigating ethics issues in the Senate are the Senators themselves? These are the idiots we want running health care, I think not.
Regardless of the outcome of an Ensign probe, however, we are concerned that — as blogger Paul Blumenthal has written on the Web site of another watchdog group, the Sunlight Foundation — the Senate Ethics Committee is “a black hole where investigations go to die.”
The committee never took action in the case of former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), despite abundant evidence that an oil contractor rebuilt his house and gave him other gifts never reported on his financial disclosure forms.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admits affair
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009CBO Grossly Underestimates Costs of Cap and Trade
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Last week, the Congressional Budget Office released their analysis of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill that had proponents of the bill claiming we could save the planet for just $175 per household. That was the figure CBO estimated cap and trade would cost households in 2020, which “includes the cost of restructuring the production and use of energy and of payments made to foreign entities under the program, but it does not include the economic benefits and other benefits of the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and the associated slowing of climate change.”
The trouble with the analysis is that costs are grossly underestimated. The trouble with legislation is that it will have virtually no impact on climate.
Everything has a Price
Monday, June 22nd, 2009To allow the government to have more control over our health care responsibilities and the trillions of dollars it will cost, is nothing in comparison to the Freedom and Liberty we will have to surrender.
Iran Revolutionary Guard Threatens Protesters - FOXNews.com
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Why Are Condoms Disliked by So Many Men? - ABC News
Saturday, June 20th, 2009Your tax dollars at work.
Khamenei tells Mousavi to toe the line over election or be cast out - Times Online
Friday, June 19th, 2009Khamenei tells Mousavi to toe the line over election or be cast out - Times Online
The moderate Iranian leader who says that he was robbed of victory in last week’s presidential election faces a fateful choice today: support the regime or be cast out.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, has told Mir Hossein Mousavi to stand beside him as he uses Friday prayers at Tehran University to call for national unity. An army of Basiji — Islamic volunteer militiamen — is also expected to be bussed in to support the Supreme Leader.
Prime example of Bizzaro Democracy.
Bush takes swipes at Obama policies - Washington Times
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Bush takes swipes at Obama policies - Washington Times
Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration’s interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector — not government — will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care.
“I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in,” the former president said to applause from members of a local business group. “You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.”
The castle is starting to crumble for the Bamster.
Riehl World View: Not Just Walpin - 3 IG Firings Being Questioned
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Riehl World View: Not Just Walpin - 3 IG Firings Being Questioned
Chicago Thug Politics brought to you by Obama.
Iran Braces for Mass Rally After Protest Deaths - FOXNews.com
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Hot Air: Dems retreating on healthcare
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009If this keeps up, we just might defeat this Health Care boondoggle after all.
Iran opposition leader calls for mass protests - Iran- msnbc.com
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009My Way News - Sen. Coburn questions 100 stimulus projects
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009My Way News - Sen. Coburn questions 100 stimulus projects
_Road signs costing $300 each, being placed at construction sites to alert motorists that the project is being paid for by the stimulus money. Transportation Department spokesman Jill Zuckman said each state decides whether to use stimulus money for signs, and the cost would vary in each state.
Russian Oil Magnate Launches $490 Million Luxury Yacht - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com
Monday, June 15th, 2009The Associated Press: $50M in stimulus will help fish farmers buy feed
Sunday, June 14th, 2009NASA Scrubs Saturday Morning Space Shuttle Launch - ABC News
Saturday, June 13th, 2009The Associated Press: Obama won’t rule out releasing detainees in US
Saturday, June 13th, 2009Digital TV: Coming Now to a Set Near You - ABC News
Friday, June 12th, 2009Obama ousts AmeriCorps’ IG who investigated friend - Yahoo! News
Friday, June 12th, 2009Obama welcomes bill to regulate tobacco - CNN.com
Friday, June 12th, 2009U.N. Security Council Approves Expanded North Korea Sanctions - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com
Friday, June 12th, 2009Soon I won’t have to worry about a thing
Thursday, June 11th, 2009The government is going to take care of it all.
