A Fine Example of Unions

I noted this in passing before leaving for work this morning, on Fox News, in an article apparently originating on the Gannett wires. and I’ve since confirmed it with local sources down in Binghamton, New York :

A social

Billy makes a great point this morning:

I don’t know why people keep referring to what’s going on with energy as a “market” while it’s stepped on by government every mile of the way from the field to your tank,

Steve LeBlanc reports on the end of fifteen billion dollar hole in the gronnd.

BOSTON (AP) – When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in

Fox news is running what I’ll call the outrage of the week:

School officials say the Ocala 5th grader had brought a piece of steak for her lunch, and a four and a half inch steak knife with which to

I stated here several times over the years that the Democrat party has become the party of the rich.  So imagine the look on my face when Don Lambro, over The Washington Times this morning produces a study which says

A juicy tidbit from the weekend talking heads, Wolf Blitzer to Richard Armitage on his disclosure of Valerie Plame Wilson’s employer to Robert Novak:

ARMITAGE: They’re not words on which I disagree. I think it was extraordinarily foolish of me.

Captain Ed notes, , the Mukasey vote, yesterday:

The Senate Judiciary Panel reported Michael Mukasey’s nomination to the full Senate today, recommending confirmation by an 11-8 vote. Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein voted to support , as announced earlier,

Manu Raju at The Hill:

 Senate Republicans said Thursday they would invoke new ethics rules to block Democratic efforts to send to President Bush the first appropriations package of the 110th Congress.

Do you understand the impact of what’s being

I’ll expect the same outrage for Pelosi’s actions, if not more, that FEMA generated by staging a press conference.

The Hill is reporting that Speaker of the House Pelosi (D) is concerned that Republicans will use the Rangel’s “controversial new

Doctor Thomas Sowell points up something I’ve discussed here previously:

It is remarkable how many political “solutions” today are dealing with problems created by previous political “solutions.” Three examples that come to mind immediately are the housing -market crisis,

There has long been discussion about why Congress is generally speaking not the best place to be leaving secretive information, particularly when democrats are in charge.  This is a primary aim sample of why, from TPM:

This summer the

I rather doubt this needs any comment.

So that our readers will not be under informed on earthshaking events, I will pass along word from the United Nations that 2008 will be the international year of the potato.

No, really. at first, this kind of thing would

If this isn’t yet another example of what health care would be like is run by the government…

 WASHINGTON —(AP)  Who cares if they’re free? Residents in the nation’s capital say the condoms being handed out have a serious problem.

From WDIV:

John David R. Atchison, 53, an assistant U.S. attorney from the northern district of Florida, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Detroit Monday afternoon.

An undercover officer posed as a mother offering her child to Atchison for