Posted on January 13, 2013 by ChrisA

Piers Morgan to Ben Shapiro: Here’s your little book.

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Posted on January 13, 2013 by ChrisA

Bob Costas phone home.

NBC Sports, home to gun-control advocate Bob Costas, is sticking with its commitment to be a sponsor of the largest U.S. gun trade show next week, a month after a school shooting in Connecticut killed 20 children.

NBC Sports Network will remain the 2013 SHOT Show New Product Center Sponsor, said Greg Hughes, a spokesman for the channel. Costas, one of NBC’s marquee broadcasters, criticized gun laws weeks before the Connecticut shooting, after the murder-suicide of a Kansas City Chiefs football player.

In reality, I suspect “Home” is much more a cheerleader for Costas than sponsoring the gun show.

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Government Cheese

Posted on January 12, 2013 by ChrisA

Michelle Malkin: From New York to New Mexico and across the dependent plains, welfare recipients are getting sauced on the public dime. Drunk, besotted, bombed. But while politicians pay lip service to cutting government waste, fraud and abuse, they’re doing very little in practice to stop the EBT party excesses. Where’s the compassion for taxpayers?

We’re talking the EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) program that replaces food stamps and government assistance checks.

Examples of abuse of the government cheese from Michelle…

If the idea was to eliminate the embarrassment of life on the dole, the social justice crowd succeeded phenomenally. Last weekend, the New York Post blew the lid off scammers who brazenly swiped their EBT cards “inside Hank’s Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx.” Out: Cash for clunkers. In: Cash for drunkards!

My home state of Colorado has seen similar abuse. Last year, local TV station 9NEWS reported that more than $40,000 was withdrawn from ATMs in metro-area liquor stores despite prohibitions against such spending. Colorado EBT users also splurged at Denver’s Elitch Gardens amusement park, Disneyland, Universal Studios in Los Angeles and on the Las Vegas strip.

Michelle concludes:

Excuse-makers for the welfare-takers emphasize that both eligibility fraud and EBT card trafficking fraud are minuscule. But a bottle here, a case there, a pole dance here, a lap dance there, and soon it all starts to add up. With food stamp rolls exploding under both Republican and Democratic administrations while enforcement resources shrink nationwide, EBT has taken on a whole new meaning: Exploitation of Broke Taxpayers. Shame.

 
Now for some Government Cheese…

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Taxes, oh my

Posted on January 12, 2013 by ChrisA

It’s for a good cause, stop your whining: Millions noticing paychecks lighter today, due to payroll tax hike

More payroll tax whining.

Aded: Payroll Tax Hike Sparks Shock, Outrage

Either way, says Washington Post writer Neil Irwin, “that sound you hear is the collective ‘What the…’ [workers] have emitted upon looking at their pay stub.”

In 2013, Americans will experience an estimated $125 billion drop in household incomes from this one tax hike alone.

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Posted on January 12, 2013 by ChrisA

Ann Althouse: DC attorney general confirms law is for little people.

Ann remarks…

Why is the law important? If Gregory clearly violated the law, but there is no interest to be served in prosecuting him, doesn’t that prove that the law is not important? If the precise thing that he did — which is clearly what is defined as a crime — raises no interest in prosecution, how can we be satisfied by letting this one nice famous man go? Rewrite the law so that it only covers the activity that the government believes deserves prosecution, so there is equal justice under the law.

Seems simple enough, simply rewrite it so that it doesn’t apply to liberal journalists. No big deal? I feel certain liberal journalists would see no problem with such an exception.

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Posted on January 11, 2013 by ChrisA

Such an “animal” exists? Mark Tapscott: Confessions of a gun-loving journalist

Yes, and I’m sure there are many more. I wonder if there are any in the 24 square miles surrounded by reality? If so, they most likely work outside of fantasy land or they are a blogger.

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Posted on January 11, 2013 by ChrisA

Yeehaw: Florida’s ‘Python Challenge’ draws adrenaline junkies, eco-warriors

Of course, PETA has to weigh in, shouldn’t be long until an outraged Boulderite follows suit.

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Wow, a hint of common sense at the Federal Reserve

Posted on January 11, 2013 by ChrisA

Fed hawks worry about threat of inflation

Only one’s a voting member and I feel fairly sure it will be quite a while until the worry becomes contagious.

 Two top Federal Reserve policymakers expressed discomfort on Thursday with the U.S. central bank’s easy monetary policy, in comments suggesting Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke may face more dissent this year.

One can only hope.

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Posted on January 10, 2013 by ChrisA

Stoopid question: Ryan asks if Obama will meet deadline to submit a budget request this year

“Given the critical importance of addressing our nation’s fiscal problems, I am  writing to ask whether the President will submit his budget request this year on  or before February 4 as required by law,” Ryan wrote in a letter to Acting  Budget Director Jeff Zients. “If the Administration does not plan to meet the  statutory deadline, when do you anticipate the request being made?”

Pathetic. If the Republican’s pulled a stunt like this, the MSM would have the rope hung with the noose tied.

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“Our goal is to get to 5 million members before this debate is over”

Posted on January 10, 2013 by ChrisA

Of course we’re talking the NRA. I’m not a member but I did determine how much a membership costs ($35).

Here’s the NRA’s membership sign up page. My Dad jointed the NRA after President Kennedy was assisinated and I’m strongly considering joining now.

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Greens, better get busy…

Posted on January 10, 2013 by ChrisA

Walter Russell Meade reports that America’s oil imports are reaching new lows.

Our increasing energy independence has a lot to do with the new drilling technologies changing the domestic oil production landscape. Because of new extraction techniques like fracking and horizontal drilling, the International Energy Agency now believes that the U.S. will become the world’s largest oil producer by the end of the decade, perhaps even cutting net imports down to zero.

C’mon get busy. The United States wouldn’t want to come close to energy independence would it?

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Obamacare avoidance for small business

Posted on January 9, 2013 by ChrisA

The tip of the iceberg, Nebraska Wendy’s franchisee slashes worker hours to sidestep ObamaCare

A Nebraska Wendy’s franchise is slashing employee hours so the owners do not  have to pay for health benefits for their workers under ObamaCare’s  requirements.

WOWT reports about 100 workers in non-management positions at 11 Omaha-area  Wendy’s will have their hours cut to 28 a week.

Back in the day, I always looked forward to the opportunity for overtime and the increased pay that goes with it. That opportunity is disappearing thanks to Obamacare.

Of course, that’s nothing another law can’t fix.

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Drudge

Posted on January 9, 2013 by ChrisA

First they come for your guns...

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Posted on January 9, 2013 by ChrisA

Marc A. Thiessen: If the GOP wants a path out of the political wilderness, they should start acting more like the current occupant of the Oval Office.

Republicans should start acting like Obama

Amen.

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Taxes: Obama voters, that means you

Posted on January 9, 2013 by ChrisA

Obama Voters Furious About Tax Hikes

Reading this article my first thought is what a bunch of spoiled, whining brats. Yea, and I’m leaving out the ‘F’ word.

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Posted on January 8, 2013 by ChrisA

Glenn Reynolds on rebuilding after disasters and the moral hazard of federal dollars: ‘When “disaster relief” is part of your lifestyle, it’s quit being a form of insurance, and turned into just a subsidy.’

And Progressives ask, “What’s wrong with that?”

To which I turn to a recent John Stossel column: More Government where he details an interview with Representitive Ron Paul:

Paul said, “We handled floods and disasters for 204 years before we had FEMA, and states and volunteers and local communities did quite well.”

Paul’s congressional district is on the Gulf Coast, so he knows what he’s talking about.

“What we should have is real insurance,” he said.

Real insurance means private companies make bets about floods with their own money. But America has little of that.

I know this first-hand. I built a beach house because government encouraged me to take the risk. Private insurance companies wouldn’t insure most of us who built on the edges of oceans, and those that did charged high prices. “Too high,” said Congress, “so government must insure everyone!” They said they’d price it so taxpayers wouldn’t lose — but as usual, they were wrong. Even before Sandy, federal flood insurance was $18 billion in the red.

And worse, cheap insurance encouraged more people to build on the beach. This is an absurd subsidy that should immediately be abolished. 

Indeed, indeed. But yet, the Progressives ask, “What’s wrong with that?”. I guess when you consider printing a $1 trillion dollar platinum coin, nothing’s wrong with that.

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Posted on January 8, 2013 by ChrisA

Michael Ramirez: The coming avalanche of debt, entitlements and Obamacare.

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Boulderites: Sign the Mint the Coin petition

Posted on January 8, 2013 by ChrisA

Direct the United States Mint to make a single platinum trillion dollar coin!

Help “kick the can down the road”.

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Posted on January 8, 2013 by ChrisA

Historian Arthur Herman: Experience teaches that those who believe in free markets are right. The  November election and the budget deal, however, show that the other side is  winning, and winning big.

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Posted on January 8, 2013 by ChrisA

Paul Krugman: Be Ready To Mint That Coin

Be afraid, be very afraid. If there isn’t some unintended consequence that comes out of such tomfoolery, then the government and/or Ben Bernacke should simply drop money from helicoptors and we can forget about working and the day to day struggles of being “the common man”.

Hell, just declare life a paradise and be done with it. Idiocy, pure and simple.

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