Posted on April 30, 2009 by Binky
The recent spread of swine flu may be a good thing. Stubborn as Americans are, sometimes it takes an epidemic for us to realize how important good habits are. Like washing your hands properly. Like covering your mouth when you cough. These things used to be polite and [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2009 by Binky
The devil is loose in the details. Today, there is an opinion editorial in the Wall Street Journal by Georgetown University School of Law’s constitutional expert, Randy Barnett. Professor Barnett links the tea parties that took place all over the country last week to a need to wind back federal power. In [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by Binky
Today, folks who are mad-as-hell and not-going-to-take-it-anymore gathered in many places around the country for tea parties. Many of the protesters were anti-Obama, conservative, or libertarians who had been rallied together by the likes of Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform; former presidential candidate Alan Keyes (who filed a lawsuit challenging Obama’s [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2009 by Binky
They do remember how to walk, don’t they? Because the New York Times recently reported
In 1969, 40 percent of students in the United States walked to school; in 2001, the most recent year data was collected, 13 percent did, according to the federal government’s National Household Travel Survey.
Seems that all the parents [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2009 by Binky
Sleevegate. Up in Arms. The Upper Body Stimulus Plan.
Now, this is part of the Obama plan I can support!
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