What do St. Patrick’s Day and government spending have in common? Well, until we had anything to say about it, not much. As our friend Seamus eagerly displays, years of overspending have left us drunk with debt. And just as
Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
There’s a ton of unrest in the world and world markets are jittery. So, having just finished off the arduous task of filling out his NCAA brackets, who would begrudge the President a little R and R. From Forbes: President
While President Obama obsesses over his NCAA brackets, the world anxiously waits to see if Japan can avert a nuclear catastrophe.
From Politico: Meredith Shiner reports from the Hill that the House Rules committee will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday at 3 p.m. on H.R. 1076, the measure “to prohibit funding of National Public Radio and the use of Federal funds
From The Denver Post: After spirited debate Monday, Denver’s City Council voted 10-3 to tentatively approve a 6.6 percent raise for the next sitting council and every other elected official — an increase to be delayed for half of their
Beware today, the Ides of March.
From the Associated Press: Two years into its pledge to improve government transparency, the Obama administration took action on fewer requests for federal records from citizens, journalists, companies and others last year even as significantly more people asked for information.
This past weekend, a member of the Breitbart family reached an achievement we’d all like to acknowledge and applaud. Julia Pollak, wife of our very own Joel Pollak, graduated from U.S. Navy Boot Camp and was awarded the Navy Club
WikiLeaks has promised to being releasing today a swath of emails and other internal documents from Bank of America. Count us as very interested if this comes about.
From Politico: The first round is over. Republican Gov. Scott Walker delivered a crushing defeat to government employee unions in their fight over labor rights in Wisconsin. But the passage of a law stripping away collective bargaining rights for public-sector
Today is the twice-yearly ritual where the government screws with our clocks. I’ve lost track, are we “springing forward” to the real time or is this some pixie-dust time and we will ‘fall back’ to the real time later this
Unimaginable.
Just the thing to do in a recession. From Radio 620AM: That’s a nice business you got there. Pity if anything were to happen to it if, say, you didn’t toe the line and denounce Governor Walker like we’re asking
From Politico: The Republican’s top voice on tech and telecom issues says National Public Radio will suffer a “consequence” on Capitol Hill if “there’s this attitude inside the organization that would appear to be as partisan as what’s come out.”
From the Associated Press: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has officially taken away nearly all collective bargaining rights from the vast majority of the state’s public employees. Walker signed the bill to do so privately Friday morning. He planned an afternoon
Things aren’t looking good for NPR. And, we say that as big fans of NPR.
From Josiah Cantrall, BG’s man-on-the-scene in Madison: Capitol is in an uproar! A man sported a sign, “burn Walker”. Complete with a drawing of Gov. Walker withering in flames of fire. Protesters recognized me from my Fox News appearances. One
Project Veritas: On Tuesday, Project Veritas released Part 1 of its investigation of National Public Radio. The investigation, in which Project Veritas investigators posed as members of a fictional group founded by “members of the Muslim Brotherhood,” was widely reported
From the Associated Press: Wisconsin lawmakers voted Thursday to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from the state’s public workers, ending a heated standoff over labor rights and delivering a key victory to Republicans who have targeted unions in efforts
From Badger 14 blog: According to a report on the Althouse blog this morning, it appears that Cory Mason, a Democrat member of the Assembly (or a member of his staff) is Wisconsin’s Benedict Arnold — the person who last
From BG’s man-on-the-scene, Josiah Cantrall: They secured the building, Assembly is in session. They moved to limit debate to two hours. Everything should be over by 4 pm. You saw the death threats correct? Alberta Darling and Glenn Grothman’s were
In today’s The Wall Street Journal: The unions say they are ready to accept concessions, yet their actions speak louder than words. Over the past three weeks, local unions across the state have pursued contracts without new pension or health-insurance
From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Demonstrators were carried out of the Assembly by police Thursday as Gov. Scott Walker’s administration again closed and then reopened the building to the public. About 11:30 a.m., the statehouse was opened after police cleared the
From 620AM Radio in Wisconsin: Since the MSM appears intent on downplaying the growing intimidation and escalating threats of violence around the union power issue, I am reprinting verbatim an email that was sent to Republican senators. The email was
