Year: 2011

Embattled NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday at the request of the board after a hidden-camera video was released showing a fellow executive criticizing Republicans…

South Carolina is considering a bill that would allow police to slap $150 tickets on motorists caught driving less than 10 mph over the limit…

(Via the Drudge Report) Just how the deficit is Bush’s fault? Because I’m just not gettin’ it….

(Via the Drudge Report) Michelle Bachmann is not backing off: The House Tea Party Caucus founder said, “I don’t take back my statement on gangster…

(Via Chaos Manor) Go read. Amazing, instructive and humbling. Thanks, you guys.

(Via the Drudge Report) It seems that the vaunted plug-in auto(semi-)mobiles are not doing so well in the marketplace–even with government incentives to help hold…

(Via the Drudge Report) If it doesn’t work the first thousand times you try it, try it again, but harder. That seems to be the…

House Republicans attempt to revive Real ID The next thing we know, the Stupid Party is going to bring up gay marriage again.

That there was ever any real question about this. Only in Moscow on the Catawba, I suppose. An employee at a Subway restaurant in northeast…

It seems their Attorney General may be one. In a showdown over the privacy rights of gun owners, the Illinois State Police are refusing to…

(Via the Drudge Report) Evidence outlined in a Pentagon contractor report suggests that financial subversion carried out by unknown parties, such as terrorists or hostile…

91 years old and died on a tractor working his farm. Somehow, I don’t think a man could ask for more than that.

No, I haven’t bought one, although I am interested. It’s just that GunsAmerica has reviewed it.

Or perhaps recycled toxic waste? Henry M. Paulson, Jr. Secretary of the Treasury Bronze Medal

Frank Buckles, the last surviving veteran of World War I, has died. Godspeed, sir.

Otherwise known as “The Nanny City-state by the Bay”, could a Coke sign get people so riled up. I have to wonder just how badly…

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis fired up Democrats at the party’s national winter meeting in Washington on Saturday, as the feisty former California congresswoman chastised Republican…

(Via the Drudge Report) …Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa believes he is in danger, and therefore needs a six-foot security wall erected around L.A.’s official mayoral residence…

I really, seriously do. And this would be the biggest fan triumph of all time–buying the rights to our Big Damn Show and getting it…

It seems the bottom-dwellers at Righthaven *spit* have decided to go after a local blogger in my AO. The unfortunate thing is that the pond…

I owe you guys a report on my trip to the Wilkesboro, NC gun show. Apologies for not doing it sooner, but my week went…

As I predicted, the House has approved an extension of the “Patriot” Act. This is my shocked face.

A Connecticut lawmaker wants to create the country’s first state registry for people convicted of gun crimes, a proposal he says will help police track…

(Via Say Uncle) An NC Bun Blog takes on the Noise and Disturber’s AC Snow, who has once again decided that something about guns is…

Customs and Border Protection officers clear 80 percent of all cargo before it enters the United States. Congress has mandated that they clear 100 percent…

And I’d appreciate it if ya’ll kept things together while I’m busy. Me, Son and Mountain Man (who really needs to attend to that blogging…

A government shutdown is on the table if Congress fails to reach an agreement on spending cuts, a freshman GOP congressman told Fox News on…

I have to admit, after some early back-pedaling by certain Tea Party backed elected officials, I was ready to write them off en masse. Current…

(Via Claire Wolfe) It burns! According to a document published by Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News, the Air Force legal office has issued a guidance…

But if you don’t like how your PS3 works, wouldn’t it be simpler to buy a different console?