Print Dan Riehl Follow Read Full Bio Ninth Circuit Defiant in Response to Senate Questions Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski offered up a largely empty defense of the 9th Circuit's plans for a plush million dollar "Maui Wowie" conference, in response to questions from Senators Sessions and Grassley. Much of the Circuits conference will be at the taxpayers' expense. 22 Jun 2012 Prosecutorial Overreach In ATM Gambling Case? Due to a glitch in data hand-off when Bank of America acquired LaSalle Bank, a Detroit man was able to take overdrafts totalling $1.5 million before Bank of America caught the problem just 17 days later. Worse, the man, Ronald Page, gambled it all away. 20 Jun 2012 Pentagon Soft-Pedals Report On China The Pentagon's 2012 annual report on China's military is geared more toward diplomacy than intelligence or threat assessment. The report is half the expected size and omits key elements required for an accurate assessment of Beijing's alarming military buildup. 14 Jun 2012 Lungs Found on LA Sidewalk Not Human Lungs found on a Compton sidewalk this weekend have been determined to not be those of a human, according to coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter. The are thought to be of animal origin, though nothing in the article rules out zombie lungs. 13 Jun 2012 Another Obama Boom-let Threatens To Go Bust The company was intended to be a "centerpiece" of Obama's $2 billion effort to force the birthing of a serious electronic car market, as opposed to allowing the private sector to develop one over time on its own due to market demand. Even if A123 produced a battery that didn't get bogged down in an expensive recall, the reality is, there is no large market for their product and predictions by Obama that it would exist by 2015 are now deemed "unattainable". 13 Jun 2012 Herman Cain Inaugurated To Replace "Talkmaster" Boortz Herman Cain may not have made it to Washington as President, but he will have an inauguration of sorts come January, "Herman Cain will return to radio full-time on Inauguration Day of 2013, replacing longtime conservative talk-radio host Neil Boortz." 5 Jun 2012 NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's Gambling Problem New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's move to legalize gambling in New York State may give rise to more stories like this one in the New York Times, "Gambling Group Gave $2 Million to a Cuomo Ally"; however, it's a complicated issue, made even more so by various special interests and the fact that gambling already exists in New York on a significant scale. 5 Jun 2012 Connecticut: $300,000 To Renovate Communist Party HQ Connecticut, awash in red ink, finds money to renovate the Connecticut Communist Party Headquarters. 1 Jun 2012 Warren on the Ropes: Pressure Mounts as Democrats Start to Bolt Under fire from one wing of the Massachusetts Democrat Party and a new group of over 150 Cherokee Indians for her apparently false claim to Indian heritage, Elizabeth Warren's incompetently executed rope-a-dope is now making her look like a political neophyte not yet ready for prime-time. 30 May 2012 Judge Not The 9th Circuit? A Billion Dollar Courthouse We Don't Need Through news reports and document requests, Breitbart News has confirmed that the new court house would create a situation where more court rooms than federal judges exists, as projections of the future number of federal judges who would preside there did not pan out. Some tout it as a jobs project, though when first set to go forward, a lack of contractor interest was at least one factor attributed to previous delays. Additionally, no one seems to have taken into account the loss, in productivity, or potential tax revenue, the idle land has already accrued - and the estimated cost for the project ballooned upwards to close to a billion dollars, before finally being scaled back. 25 May 2012 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
Ninth Circuit Defiant in Response to Senate Questions Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski offered up a largely empty defense of the 9th Circuit's plans for a plush million dollar "Maui Wowie" conference, in response to questions from Senators Sessions and Grassley. Much of the Circuits conference will be at the taxpayers' expense. 22 Jun 2012
Prosecutorial Overreach In ATM Gambling Case? Due to a glitch in data hand-off when Bank of America acquired LaSalle Bank, a Detroit man was able to take overdrafts totalling $1.5 million before Bank of America caught the problem just 17 days later. Worse, the man, Ronald Page, gambled it all away. 20 Jun 2012
Pentagon Soft-Pedals Report On China The Pentagon's 2012 annual report on China's military is geared more toward diplomacy than intelligence or threat assessment. The report is half the expected size and omits key elements required for an accurate assessment of Beijing's alarming military buildup. 14 Jun 2012
Lungs Found on LA Sidewalk Not Human Lungs found on a Compton sidewalk this weekend have been determined to not be those of a human, according to coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter. The are thought to be of animal origin, though nothing in the article rules out zombie lungs. 13 Jun 2012
Another Obama Boom-let Threatens To Go Bust The company was intended to be a "centerpiece" of Obama's $2 billion effort to force the birthing of a serious electronic car market, as opposed to allowing the private sector to develop one over time on its own due to market demand. Even if A123 produced a battery that didn't get bogged down in an expensive recall, the reality is, there is no large market for their product and predictions by Obama that it would exist by 2015 are now deemed "unattainable". 13 Jun 2012
Herman Cain Inaugurated To Replace "Talkmaster" Boortz Herman Cain may not have made it to Washington as President, but he will have an inauguration of sorts come January, "Herman Cain will return to radio full-time on Inauguration Day of 2013, replacing longtime conservative talk-radio host Neil Boortz." 5 Jun 2012
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's Gambling Problem New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's move to legalize gambling in New York State may give rise to more stories like this one in the New York Times, "Gambling Group Gave $2 Million to a Cuomo Ally"; however, it's a complicated issue, made even more so by various special interests and the fact that gambling already exists in New York on a significant scale. 5 Jun 2012
Connecticut: $300,000 To Renovate Communist Party HQ Connecticut, awash in red ink, finds money to renovate the Connecticut Communist Party Headquarters. 1 Jun 2012
Warren on the Ropes: Pressure Mounts as Democrats Start to Bolt Under fire from one wing of the Massachusetts Democrat Party and a new group of over 150 Cherokee Indians for her apparently false claim to Indian heritage, Elizabeth Warren's incompetently executed rope-a-dope is now making her look like a political neophyte not yet ready for prime-time. 30 May 2012
Judge Not The 9th Circuit? A Billion Dollar Courthouse We Don't Need Through news reports and document requests, Breitbart News has confirmed that the new court house would create a situation where more court rooms than federal judges exists, as projections of the future number of federal judges who would preside there did not pan out. Some tout it as a jobs project, though when first set to go forward, a lack of contractor interest was at least one factor attributed to previous delays. Additionally, no one seems to have taken into account the loss, in productivity, or potential tax revenue, the idle land has already accrued - and the estimated cost for the project ballooned upwards to close to a billion dollars, before finally being scaled back. 25 May 2012
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