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Yowzah, I scored big bucks from the Ticketmaster class action lawsuit!
3 Dec 2011 8:23 pm Chris Wysocki

Today must be my lucky day. In my email was an Official Notice, from some lawyers I’d never heard of, announcing with great fanfare the favorable settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought on my behalf against Ticketmaster.
Apparently it’s a Real Thing, because it made the news.
Anyway, I’m entitled to some coupons! For a dollar and fifty cents each! Which I can use if I decide to buy more tickets from Ticketmaster sometime in the next 4 years.
I shouldn’t get too excited though, I think I bought 2 (or …

Hypocrisy: Left Wants SCOTUS Justice Thomas Recusal, Ignores Kagan’s Clear Conflicts
22 Nov 2011 12:59 pm Warner Todd Huston

This past weekend the Washington Post published a hit piece on the grand opening of a museum in Georgia dedicated to the birthplace of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The paper was desperate to make some grand conspiracy, some lawbreaking evil from the project. But whatever is going on with the museum, this story was just one more shot orchestrated by the left aimed at forcing Justice Thomas to recuse himself from the upcoming hearings on whether or not Obamacare is Constitutional. Of course, this is all a smoke …

Rancho Cordova Blast Fine Too Low to Assure Future Public Safety
15 Nov 2011 11:55 am Warner Todd Huston

In 2008 a pipeline operated by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded destroying several homes and killing 72-year-old Wilbert Paana. Since that time authorities have been attempting to determine what sort of fines PG&E should face for its negligence. Recently administrative law judge John Wong proposed that a fine of $38 million — and an end to the whole matter — would be enough. But is this enough to assure the protection and safety of California’s ratepayers?
To his credit, Judge Wong rejected an even lower proposal of a $26 million …

Death By Regulations: Has Obama Lost Senator Blanche Lincoln?
7 Nov 2011 12:50 pm Warner Todd Huston

Last year for the 2010 midterms Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln was in trouble with her reelection. Up until 2010 most felt her seat was a safe one but Democrat challengers pushed the sitting Senator to a runoff that she barely won. 55% of her constituents opposed her.
Lincoln welcomed the support of President Obama who cut an early ad for the Senator portraying her as a “populist crusader.” Still, Lincoln lost her her reelection bid to Republican John Boozman.
Obama may have come to Lincoln’s aide in 2010, but it doesn’t …

We Need Rules for Cyberwarfare Before a President Steals That Power, Too
19 Oct 2011 2:24 pm Warner Todd Huston

A recent New York Times article revealed that the Pentagon briefly considered engaging in cyberwarfare at the outset of the actions in Libya, but decided against it for a variety of reasons. This reminds us all that as a nation we really need to discuss the use of cyberwarfare. The first question asked must be: should a president be able to simply order such an attack on his own hook?
The Times noted that one of the concerns about the use of cyberwarfare is how it would be justified under the …

The Trap The Left Has Created For Itself With Occupy Wall Street
17 Oct 2011 3:36 am John Hawkins

The Occupy Wall Street protesters did have one brilliant idea that set them apart from most, but not all other protesters (Think Cindy Sheehan): They made it a “long term” protest.
After their first day of protesting, it looked like a failure. However, when people heard the protest was still going a couple of weeks later, it caught people’s attention and started picking up steam.
As the protests drew more attention, big name left-wingers and liberal politicians, including Barack Obama, began to associate themselves with the protest.
However, there’s a problem …

Regrets? They’ve Had a Few
7 Oct 2011 12:07 am Cal Thomas

It’s Supreme’s week in Washington and I don’t mean the Motown group once led by Diana Ross.
The Supreme Court is back in session and the nine justices will consider a number of polarizing and controversial issues, not the least of which will likely be the constitutionality of “Obamacare” and its mandate that every citizen purchase health insurance.
Just in time for their reconvening is a fascinating new book by Texas writer William T. Harper (for which I have supplied a blurb). It’s called “Second Thoughts: Presidential Regrets with their Supreme Court …

What Guns Were Made For: Homeowner in Philly Attacked By Mob
28 Sep 2011 12:57 pm Warner Todd Huston

A homeowner in Philly was attacked by a mob of racist black “youths” that broke into his home apparently looking to kill white people. This is exactly the situation that the Second Amendment was made for.
The Philly Inquirer reports that “dozens of youths” marauded into a sleepy Philly neighborhood to find white teens to beat up or kill reportedly because an African-American was attacked on a playground nearby.
Don’t you love how the newspaper reports the makeup of the crowd? It’s just “dozens of youths” instead of what it really …

Victory for Bloggers: Illinois Blog Wins Lawsuit
24 Sep 2011 3:01 pm Warner Todd Huston

In a good sign for blogger free speech, a lawsuit against a high profile conservative blog in Illinois has just been tossed out. A political contributor brought the lawsuit over a story about property tax reassessments and political contributions. This is a victory for free political speech as well as a victory for the status of blogs in the world of “journalism.”
I’ve been aware of this story for some time but the folks at Illinois Review, the blog in question, asked me to sort of keep it all quiet. There …

Obama’s Mounting Scandals
23 Sep 2011 12:12 pm Warner Todd Huston

The Heritage Foundation has a post giving a run down of some of the scandals mounting in the Obama administration… you know, the most ethical administration ever? Yeah. That one.
Most of them have to do with Obama’s penchant for crony capitalism. Like the good socialist he is, Obama wants to pick the winners and losers in the world of business so he shovels mounds of the taxpayer’s cash to the companies of pals and donors so that they will… well, apparently so that they will give him money back in …

EPA to Give Itself Powers to Preemptively Deny Natural Resource Development?
16 Sep 2011 12:20 pm Warner Todd Huston

Once again an Obama regulatory agency tries to give itself wild new powers, powers that would crush American energy and natural resource development, powers meant to quash the business sector.
A press release from Resourceful Earth News imparts a warning about the Environmental Protection Agency’s newest powergrab. A lfet-wing Democrat Senator is asking the EPA to accept the idea of taking upon itself the power to deny mining or development of other natural resources before any scientific studies or any permitting procedures even begin. This Senator wants the EPA to just …

Good News! You Have A New “Human Right!”
8 Aug 2011 8:58 am John Hawkins

With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to healthcare, you have to realize what that implies. It’s not an abstraction. I’m a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you’re going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses. (There is) an implied use of force. If I’m a physician in …

Documents: Obama Admin. Sold Guns to Sinaloa Cartel, Allowed Cocaine into U.S.
7 Aug 2011 7:00 am Jane Jamison

Cross-posted at UNCOVERAGE.net

R2P Or Not 2P
5 Aug 2011 12:52 pm Courtney Messerschmidt

Totally tweetable!
New Millennium’s doctrinairish Responsibility To Protect in statecraft moderne can sweetly be – uh – shrunk – to like 3 characters. Perfect for policy cats au courant and future to drop like a mind bomb in nearly any environ!
See, a new school concept of the state maintains that states have a primary Responsibility 2 Protect their own people from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity. An internat’l commitment by govs to prevent and react to crises wherever they may occur. Recog’d partially by UN as …

Freedom of Speech Wins: Baltimore Politician Drops Lawsuit Against Blogger
3 Aug 2011 12:03 pm Warner Todd Huston

Examiner blogger Adam Meister was doing what bloggers do, namely posting the info that “journalists” refuse to write about. In this case, back in March, Meister found that a Baltimore Councilwoman was living in a different district than she claimed she was living in. As a result, the politician tried to sue the blogger for his posts.
City Councilwoman Belinda Conaway filed a lawsuit demanding an idiotic $21 million in damages for Meister’s expose of her true primary residence. But this week Conaway abruptly dropped her suit against the blogger.
Through public …

MSM Media Politicize Norway Murders and Ignore the Truth About Islamic Threat
27 Jul 2011 7:15 pm Jane Jamison

The leftist media, led in America by the New York Times, are shamefully trying to gain political advantage from the Norwegian mass murders by blaming “the right” in general, and the anti-jihad blogger media in particular, for “inspiring” the mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.

Another Tale of Our Anti-Parent DCFS Establishment
26 Jul 2011 10:59 am Warner Todd Huston

It is a sad truth that from coast to coast our departments of children and family service (DCFS) agencies are in disarray. All too often they ill serve the children they are supposed to be helping and they almost always step on the rights of parents without much bothering to give a good reading of the situation before action is taken. The travails of 13-year-old Chloe Faulkner is another such story. Taken from her parents, isolated in a world of faceless bureaucrats, used as a cash cow for state aide, …

The $12,000 Can of 7UP
15 Jul 2011 1:32 pm Dave Blount

Canada offers a preview of the linguistic lunacy we will soon be in for in the USA. Luckily for us, it’s easier to find people who speak Spanish than French.
The Federal Court of Canada on Wednesday ordered Air Canada to pay $12,000 to Ottawa French-language rights crusader Michel Thibodeau in part because when he asked an English-speaking flight attendant for 7Up in May 12 of 2009, he got Sprite.
“The applicants’ language rights are clearly very important to them and the violation of their rights caused them a moral prejudice, pain …

Obama’s Labor Board Now Threatening the Dead
14 Jul 2011 1:42 pm Warner Todd Huston

Imagine the gall of Gordon L. Wray Jr. to die without first getting Obama’s permission! I mean, it takes a real yutz to die before The One waves his royal hand in forbearance, ya know? So, to punish the dead, Obama sent his National Labor Relations Board goosetepping to threaten the man… the, the dead man.
“Every week the NLRB publishes a summary of NLRB decisions,” LaborUnionReport

DSK “Rape” Scandal: Everyone is a Whore, Case Closed
2 Jul 2011 4:00 pm Jane Jamison

Cross-posted at UNCOVERAGE.net
My story yesterday about “following the buck” in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case still stands….and now we have more clues about everyone’s motivation. The conclusion is: Just about everyone involved in this DSK scandal, from beginning to end, is an amoral piece of crap.

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