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September 2011

"Happiness should be a top government priority, expert says"

Wait, I thought that proper food socialization and nutritional enforcement was the “top government priority.” Seriously. You government types need to pull your czars together and figure out some sort of centralized hierarchy. LAT: Someday in the not-too-distant future, the U.S. departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice and Labor could be joined be a new executive branch entity: The Department of Happiness. That’s right. There’s a growing movement

Daily Herman Cain factoid that few people yet know

Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather III was roundly panned by critics for its inexplicable absence of Herman Cain cameos. And Sofia Coppola’s performance. But mostly, no Herman Cain.

"Obama Administration Continued to Throw Money at Solyndra After Loan Default"

And why wouldn’t they? Isn’t that their entire economic policy in a nutshell?

"Newt Gingrich’s judicial reform idea: Abolish bad courts"

Of course the problem, as Matt Lewis points out, is that we’ve allowed the courts to assume a position above the Legislative and Executive branches, in effect allowing them to rule any attempt to rein them in as unconstitutional. But that’s not a problem with Gingrich’s idea so much as it is with the power we’ve allowed the the courts to accrue: what we have in this country is a

Some conservatives on Twitter OUTRAGED over Onion's Tweet Gag [updated and updated again]

My attempts to talk sense into a few of these stalwart watchdogs of media reportage have proven largely unsuccessful, as I’ve somehow been unable to press the point that being unfunny is not the same as being serious — that the former is not necessarily the inverse of the latter, because intent, naturally, must be factored into the interpretation. That is to say, bad satire (which, by the way, is

Garafalo: Sneaky, racist Tea Party Republicans hiding their racism by supporting Herman Cain

Not only that, but these conniving frauds are willing to vote for Cain to lead the entire nation — that is, to lead them, this being, as the TEA Party racists like to remind us, a representative republic — in order to hide their belief in the inferiority of a particular race. Whom they hate. The facts are the facts: One need look only to the vocal support by TEA

"Top Obama fundraisers at Energy Department included an overseer of stimulus billions"

How’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for ya’? Several of Barack Obama’s top campaign supporters went from soliciting political contributions to working from within the Energy Department as it showered billions in taxpayer-backed stimulus money on alternative energy firms, iWatch News and ABC News have learned. One of them was Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and investor in energy companies who raised at least $500,000 for Obama. He became

"And I would have been the bestest President ever, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids…"

Palin goes around the media and pokes once again at Obama, Scapegoater-in-Chief: When his all-too-common finger-pointing is directed at Republicans, President Obama’s search for a scapegoat is swallowed as merely the typical Beltway politics of our permanent political class. But pointing fingers at our allies when they are working to get their own financial house in order is counterproductive and can have a serious negative affect on our ability to

Scat Tracks

“You woke the bears! Why did you do that?” As nearly every poll shows, more than 70 percent of Americans believe we’re on the wrong track, and the number of people calling themselves conservative continues to grow, as does the number of moderates who say they lean to the right. According to Pew, the average voter places himself twice as far from Democrats as he does from Republicans. Moreover, notes

"Energy Department approves $737 million solar loan guarantee"

Hubris? After giving it much thought, I’ve decided that I don’t much want the federal government acting as my investment broker. Only problem is, I have to wait and least another year plus to fire it. Doesn’t seem like a workable relationship, frankly. At least, not where my interests are concerned.