Tampa Mom Shot to Death While Holding Baby
TAMPA, Fla. – Investigators say a mother of four was fatally shot in the chest by her boyfriend Tuesday as she held her 18-month old daughter in her arms. SaQuanda Simon died at the scene. The young girl was not hurt. Deputies say Simon’s other three children were all in the home at the time, [...]
Obama’s Speech Tonight
I wish President Obama would say to Congress: Members of Congress, I ask you to address our fiscal emergency. In 1964, President Johnson won a landslide victory — quite similar to mine. His election also brought liberals into Congress. The next year, they created the first government-run health care plan: Medicare. They meant well, but [...]
Panel: NASA is Underfunded for Mission
WASHINGTON – The U.S. manned space program cannot “continue in any meaningful way” unless the Obama administration ultimately adds $3 billion a year to NASA’s budget, according to a panel of space experts convened by the White House. The Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee released an executive summary Tuesday that presents the [...]
Renewable Energy Plan Causes Rift
AMBOY, Calif. – The morning heat hits triple digits as a whiptail lizard darts below a creosote bush near Route 66. Gazing across the desert valley, power company executives, environmentalists and federal land managers stand beneath a cloudless sky and argue over the landscape. PG&E project manager Alice Harron says she is “comfortable” with the [...]
A Close Shave
I was standing in the line at Publix yesterday (I almost wrote “The Publix”, which would have been a total throwback to my California days), and I looked at a package of 4 blades for the Gillette Fusion 5-bladed razor I own. The Package was $37. I am not making that up. Now, in fairness, [...]
‘Woodstock’ Masters the Mud, Misses the Music
Any film director tackling Woodstock, the epic 1969 rock music festival that changed popular culture for decades to come, must address the vast expanse of mud that defined this rain-drenched event as much as its budding rock gods musical soundtrack. Ang Lee embraces the mud head-on in “Taking Woodstock,” his lovingly crafted but uneven cinematic [...]
Did Hitler Want War?
On Sept. 1, 1939, 70 years ago, the German Army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, Britain declared war. Six years later, 50 million Christians and Jews had perished. Britain was broken and bankrupt, Germany a smoldering ruin. Europe had served as the site of the most murderous combat known to man, and civilians [...]
Clunker Legislation
The economic illiterates in Washington are so impressed with the “success” of Cash for Clunkers that they’re readying Cash for Clunker Appliances (http://tinyurl.com/kqfoe8). The ludicrous “stimulus” bill gave $300 million to the Department of Energy to provide rebates for 10 types of appliances that have been rated energy efficient. Before government extends Cash for Clunkers [...]
Hey, Conservatives, We’re Recovering
Believe it or not, sometimes good news on the economy can be bad news for stocks. It’s a distant point, but one worth considering in view of conservative pessimism over Obama’s plans to spend, tax, borrow and control the economy. I share these worries. But the U.S. is still a free-market economy, and it will [...]
More Cowbell… err, Obama
ABC News reports that Barack Obama has returned to Washington, only to step off the plane and “into his next domestic crisis.” He “planned to leave the details of health care reform to Congress, but today the White House says he’ll play a much stronger role.” The Associated Press says Obama is “backing away” from [...]
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