John on August 28, 2010
Liberals have been having a laugh over the idea of a Ground Zero exclusion zone. Matt Yglesias even came up with a helpful map (I’d borrow it but I don’t think he likes me very much). The idea was echoed by Mayor Bloomberg, who said: The question will then become how big should the no-mosque zone around the World Trade Center be? On one level, you have to admit the [...]
Morgen on June 8, 2010
Absolutely nothing, other than the fact that they were the most interesting links I saw today. Ahhh… Ughhh…
Morgen on April 27, 2010
This might even be better than the original… All the more so because it appears this is a genuine India-Pakistan border closing ceremony. (H/T Ace)
Morgen on March 13, 2010
I’m not a huge fan of Carly Fiorina (I’m pulling for Chuck Devore), but her ad team sure knows how to generate attention. Her latest ad focused on Senator Ma’am is even more bizarre than the “demon sheep” ad…take a look.
Morgen on January 11, 2010
Update: (1/12): So Politico reports this morning that these photos came to light because they were posted “late Monday night” on the Facebook page of a D.C. hairstylist. Are you kidding me? No Politico, these pictures came to light because I found and posted them here on Monday morning. And then I posted a teaser with 3 of the best pictures on Big Government. They were linked by Perfunction, Instapundit [...]
Morgen on January 5, 2010
Ronald Kessler with NewsMax broke the story yesterday that there was a third gate crasher at the White House state dinner in late November honoring the Prime Minister from India. The Washington Post today identified the intruder as a Washington D.C. “party promoter” named Carlos Allen, and further reported that the White House has been aware of the additional security breach since mid-December. Apparently, Allen was able to bypass security [...]
Morgen on December 28, 2009
“Putting Americans to work doing the work that America needs done“… 10. A $427,824 research grant to design better video games for senior citizens based on their unique “game-play needs”. 9. Funding of a Dartmouth College study involving “sexual arousal in anesthetized female rats” ($9,870). 8. Funding of a $168,300 SBA loan to the Escape Massage parlor in Midlothian, VA. 7. Funding a $447,492 Univ. of North Carolina study on the development and use [...]
Morgen on October 24, 2009
File this in the “only in California” department. The California Secretary of State today granted approval to begin collecting signatures to the proponents of a ballot measure which would ban divorce in California . Here is the official summary of the measure from the California Attorney General: ELIMINATES THE LAW ALLOWING MARRIED COUPLES TO DIVORCE. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Changes the California Constitution to eliminate the ability of married couples to get divorced in [...]
John on August 17, 2009
Nah! Not really. Just the opposite actually. Writing at The Corner, Victor Davis Hanson points out just how Dylan’s story compares to another recent police incident we’ve all heard about: 68-year-old Bob Dylan, in rolling-stone fashion, was innocently walking alone in a Long Branch, N.J., neighborhood recently. A 20-something police officer thought this was odd, and pulled over to question the suspect. No ID. Support was called in. Neither of [...]
Morgen on June 16, 2009
With the influx of traffic today from the coverage of VS on the Fox Glenn Beck show, I thought it might be worthwhile to highlight some of our past work here on VS. And I also seem to be tapped out of new story ideas at the moment…and John is traveling. (BTW, if you are looking for our Public Plan Deception video – it’s here.) I’ve been working with John [...]
John on May 25, 2009
No, I’m not kidding: SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education. The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change. Described as the Good Club by one [...]
Morgen on April 24, 2009
If you haven’t heard the Rush Limbaugh/Paul Shanklin parody, it’s good for some laughs…enjoy!
Scott on April 23, 2009
Remember the slap-stick absurdity of watching the National Lampoon vacation movies (Vacation, European Vacation, Christmas Vacation)? There was just enough absurdity (some say stupidity) to give you a few really good laughs, and just enough “realism” to make you empathize with Clark Griswold and his family in their various predicaments. In Christmas Vacation, Clark Griswold wants his family to have the best Christmas ever. The financially over-extended Clark is depending [...]
John on September 18, 2008
From the SF Chronicle: It turns out that San Francisco wasn’t shielding just juvenile illegal immigrants from deportation if they committed crimes – City Hall officials have discovered that there are 372 convicted adult felons on probation in the city who weren’t reported to the feds… Officers with the city Probation Department are supposed to include defendants’ immigration status in their pre-sentencing reports to judges. But “that policy wasn’t being [...]
John on November 11, 2007
That’s a big stash: It’s being called the largest marijuana bust ever at the Calexico port of entry. Federal agents say they seized nearly nine tons of pot inside a shipment of flat-panel television sets. Drug dogs alerted border patrol agents to the tractor-trailer Friday afternoon. Inside they found over 1,000 packages of pot along with the TVs. Ironically, police were tipped off when all the TVs displayed a colorful [...]
John on October 30, 2007
Update: HotAir notes this story on the new Victoria’s Secret dress up doll for kids. You can’t start ‘em too early I guess. [End update] The Washington Post has a good piece on the current trend in Halloween costumes for girls. The author recounts the battles mothers across America are having with 10 and 11 year old daughters over sleazy costumes: Gabby eyed the Sexy Super Girl but decided against [...]
John on October 25, 2007
After this post, a blogger in Anacostia tried to convince me things weren’t so bad. Then today I saw this: Turkessa Branch, 30, and her 4-year-old son Darias were found shot to death in a second-floor apartment in the Anacostia Gardens apartment complex, which is located in the 3600 block of Ely Place. “It was an execution-style murder,” Ward 7 Councilwoman Yvette Alexander said. Executing a 4 year old?! That’s [...]
John on October 23, 2007
My father and step-mother used to live on Capitol Hill, right across the river from Anacostia. Their immediate neighbors were nice people, but living so close to a high crime neighborhood (Anacostia) comes at a price. While living there they had their car stolen once and broken into on another occasion. All of that came to mind as I read this story about a cop living in Anacostia: Hampton is [...]
John on October 23, 2007
An excellent piece in the SanFran Examiner: The national furor over a controversial decision to hand out birth control pills to 11- and 12-year-old girls in Maine without their parents’ consent has hopefully sent a message to other school systems around the country: Don’t even think about it. Not only is this an outrageous violation of parental rights, it’s bad education policy. Apologists for the values-free, they’re-gonna-do-it-anyway approach to sex [...]
John on October 19, 2007
Here’s the video story from local TV station KGET. Here’s the related print version: There’s confusion over who is supposed to be watching sex offenders in our state. The state said it released 550 rapists and molesters from parole over the last several months and not a single one is being monitored. They’re put in prison and sometimes paroled, and according to voters who passed Jessica’s Law last year, if [...]
