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WaPo/ABC Poll: Obama Lying About Benghazi, IRS Targeting ‘Inappropriate,’ Media Still Distrusted
  23 May 2013     3:30 pm      Warner Todd Huston

A new poll conducted jointly by The Washington Post and ABC News revealed some interesting trends. Among other findings, more Americans feel that Obama and his administration are lying about Benghazi, a majority feel that the IRS acted inappropriately by targeting conservative groups, and the media is still distrusted with a majority feeling that the Justice Department’s seizure of the AP’s phone records was justified. Despite all this disapproval, Obama’s approval rating is still just over 50 percent positive.

An important metric in the ABC/WashPost poll was the question of whether …

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Texas and Beer: Not As Great a Combination As You Think It Would Be
  7 Mar 2013     12:39 pm      Unicorn Jones

Everyone loves Texas. In fact, if there was a state in the union that most people who didn’t even live there would consider themselves a fan of, it would probably be Texas. It’s everything that’s great about America: wide open frontier, simple people who live off the land, a cowboy attitude and the potential to legally own an entire arsenal of weaponry.
Which is why it’s surprising that Texas lawmakers are looking to – potentially – infringe on another, corresponding God-given American right: the right to cheap, regulation free beer.
“Anti-competitive” — …

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Nevada Looks To Protect You From The Evils Of Walking And Texting
  16 Feb 2013     7:31 am      William Teach

Just another law to protect you from you
(KTVN) Using your cell phone without a hands free device while driving has been illegal in Nevada for more than a year.
Assembly Bill 123 could take the law one step further.
If passed, the bill would make it illegal for pedestrians to read, browse the Internet, or text on wireless devices, if they’re crossing any state road, even in residential areas.
If approved, violators would get a warning for their first offense. A second offense comes with a $100 fine, and a third would be …

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The Autopsy Of A Business: Death By Government Regulation
  30 Nov 2012     10:04 am      John Hawkins

Even though the economy is still in the toilet and California’s economy is worse than most, the Obama administration cut the throat of a business that has survived a hundred years and produced 40% of Cali’s Oysters with all the emotion of a farmer killing a chicken.
Kevin Lunny’s struggle to keep his family’s oyster farm running in Point Reyes National Seashore appears to be over, closing out an era of oysterman plying the park’s pristine waters and ushering in the nation’s newest ocean wilderness.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement Thursday …

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