L.A. Mayor tries to live like Obama, ends up broke

- by - May 23, 2013 - 18:27 America/New_York - Be first to Comment!

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will leave office in June reportedly without a place to live or a car of his own to drive.

In order to maintain his current lifestyle, which includes frequent cross-country travel, a mayoral mansion at the taxpayer-supported Getty House, an Los Angeles Police Department security detail for his personal SUV, courtside seats to Lakers games, and several other perks, associates estimate Villaraigosa’s next gig would need to pay about $750,000 a year.

Twitchy: Safe names for your 501c(4)

- by - May 18, 2013 - 21:32 America/New_York - 8 Comments

IRS trouble with your Tea Party Patriots 501c(4)? Try one of these, such as ‘Downtrodden Peasants for Income Equality’.

Benghazi Backfires on Republicans (says lib website)

- by - May 18, 2013 - 00:33 America/New_York - 2 Comments

In case you were wondering what the liberal ideologues are saying about Benghazi-gate

Minnesota unveils new $1B Vikings Stadium

- by - May 14, 2013 - 19:19 America/New_York - 2 Comments

Pop quiz: guess the political party in power in Minnesota. Remember, the stadium will cost one billion dollars.

Mothers of the five living US presidents

- by - May 12, 2013 - 18:13 America/New_York - 5 Comments

In celebration of Mother’s Day, here is a compilation of photos of the mothers of our five living presidents.

What the NAACP can learn from George Zimmerman

- by - May 9, 2013 - 09:44 America/New_York - 1 Comment

Written by Zimmerman’s brother, this relates some actions George took on behalf of a black man, over a year prior to the Trayvon Martin incident.

Thanks to our media, Americans oblivious to crime trends

- by - May 7, 2013 - 23:34 America/New_York - Be first to Comment!

Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it’s up, says study.

In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in half. Other gun crimes fell even more sharply, paralleling a broader drop in violent crimes committed with or without guns. Violent crime dropped steeply during the 1990s and has fallen less dramatically since the turn of the millennium.

Despite the remarkable drop in gun crime, only 12% of Americans surveyed said gun crime had declined compared with two decades ago, according to Pew, which surveyed more than 900 adults this spring. Twenty-six percent said it had stayed the same, and 56% thought it had increased.

Drug find means hikers may be charged for search

- by - May 3, 2013 - 21:27 America/New_York - Be first to Comment!

So that young couple that got lost for a few days about a month ago in Southern California? Yeah, they went out there to get high on meth. Probably why they couldn’t find the car, hallucinated and ate dirt. Probably.

Chicago Law Prof on Obama: “The Professors Hated Him”

- by - May 2, 2013 - 14:05 America/New_York - 9 Comments

The highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law spoke out on Barack Obama saying, “Professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings.”

Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn’t even considered. A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach.

The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).

Drone Shield, a $70 drone detection system

- by - May 1, 2013 - 22:12 America/New_York - Be first to Comment!

The Drone Shield would combine a Raspberry Pi, a signal processor, a microphone, and analysis software to scan for specific audio signatures and compare them against what known drones sound like. The database of signatures would be open source, so new ones would be added.

Why liberals should love the Second Amendment

- by - May 1, 2013 - 22:12 America/New_York - 1 Comment

From – wait for it – the Daily Kos, published July 2010. I just discovered I had bookmarked this; it is a surprisingly well-written defense of the 2nd Amendment – addressed to liberals.

Guess that ‘Ground Zero’ Mosque was pretty close to ground zero

- by - April 26, 2013 - 20:52 America/New_York - 1 Comment

A 5-foot-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered wedged between a mosque site and another building near the World Trade Center.

The piece of equipment was discovered Wednesday by surveyors inspecting the lower Manhattan site of a planned Islamic community center, at 51 Park Place.