Because, really, do you believe this is anything new? California city officials typically spare police officers even modest reductions in the pay and pension packages that are a main source of local budget problems, even when the other alternatives are cuts in public services or even municipal bankruptcy. The common explanation is politicians are afraid of the cop unions’ political muscle come election time. That is true, but disturbing behavior
September 9, 2012
Public Employee Unions — why thuggery in Costa Mesa, CA, matters to you [Darleen Click]
September 9, 2012
“The truth is increasingly irrelevant” [Darleen Click]
NRO’s Andrew McCarthy gets it You cannot cede the campus and the culture to the progressive, post-American Left for two generations and expect a different outcome. So even if Obama is the second coming of Jimmy Carter — and he has actually been much more effective, and therefore much worse — it is unreasonable to expect a Reagan-style landslide, and would be even if we had Reagan. The people coming
September 9, 2012
Free speech — no brainer [Darleen Click]
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo enjoys stumping for same-sex marriage. Emmett C. Burns, Jr. is a Maryland Democrat legislator who decided to write the Ravens owner to try and get Ayanbadejo to Shut up* *Side note, CNN plays “name that party” with Burns. Heh. Burns was wrong. If Burns wants to publicly respond to Ayanbadejo in a speech or in a column to debate the particulars of same-sex marriage, that’s
September 8, 2012
“Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive on life support” [Darleen Click]
Oh, SNAP President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors. That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he is probably going to have to bail GM out again. The company is once again losing market share, and it seems unable to develop products that are truly competitive in the U.S. market. Right now, the federal government owns 500,000,000 shares of GM, or about 26% of the
September 8, 2012
Saturday college football open thread [Darleen Click]
USC has dropped to #2 in the rankings to Alabama (The Crimson Tide wiping out Michigan last week). In the other football news, my grandsons had their first soccer game of the season earlier today. It brought back all the memories of all the days I spent attending sports games for my daughters (swimming, track & soccer). The boys will be starting musical instruments later this fall so I’ll have
September 8, 2012
“Obama, EPA actions make cap-and-trade more likely”
And? Why do Republicans hate clean air and clean water? The Hill: President Obama’s use of executive authority and his Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) interpretation of existing laws might have laid the groundwork for renewed cap-and-trade efforts, political experts said Wednesday. The courts have approved many of the EPA’s pollution regulations, giving Obama license to propose new rules, former EPA Administrator Carol Browner said during a Politico-hosted panel discussion at
September 7, 2012
“Bracken: When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence”
Grist for the discussion mill. Brought to you by the Devil. With a hat tip to Blake. Be sure to read through the comments, as well. Then bring the discussion here, if you so choose.
September 7, 2012
The Debbie Disaster
Okay, fine. So she’s a lying, weaselly, offensive little scumbag. Stipulated. But let’s be sure not to hold her reprehensible character against that dear Mr Tinkles, the kindly poodle who sleeps curled up atop the DNC chair’s scalp and who has never, to my knowledge, told the kinds of lies that Wasserman Schultz tells so routinely and effortlessly. Dogs can’t help who their masters are.