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Archive for February, 2010

Abandon Your Cars Now ! Snowpocalypse Approaches !

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 4th, 2010. Filed under Virginia, Washington DC, Weather

The weather is the D.C. area is about to get interesting:
A major, high-impact winter storm is very likely to strike the metro region with heavy snow Friday and Saturday. This storm has the potential to be as strong as the “Snowpocalypse” storm of Dec. 19-20 earlier in the season. The one difference is that the [...]

Obama Takes A Stab At The Birthers

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 4th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

At today’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama had some fun at the expense of the birthers:
Mr. Obama spoke openly about how he has been sustained during his first year in office by faith and prayer. He does not frequently attend Sunday church services, but often speaks with a small circle of pastors, who provide spiritual [...]

Congress Increases Debt Limit To $ 14,294,000,000,000

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 4th, 2010. Filed under Credit Crisis, Economics, Politics

Well, this was inevitable:
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday voted to allow the government to go $1.9 trillion deeper in debt – or about $6,000 more for every U.S. resident.
The measure, approved 217-212, would raise the cap on federal borrowing to $14.3 trillion. That’s enough to keep Congress from having to vote again before the [...]

Democrats Seeking To Gut The First Amendment

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 4th, 2010. Filed under Freedom of Speech, Individual Liberty, Supreme Court, U.S. Constitution

In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, several Democrats on Capitol Hill are advocating a Constitutional Amendment:
Democrats in Congress want to amend the U.S. Constitution to say free speech does not extend to corporations in response to the Supreme Court’s decision allowing freer corporate spending in political campaigns.
On Tuesday, Rep. John Conyers, [...]

Agence France-Presse Gets Debt Ceiling Story Wrong

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 4th, 2010. Filed under Economics, Media

Several conservative blogs have linked to this Agence France-Presse story about the U.S. debt limit this morning
WASHINGTON — The US debt is on track to hit a congressionally proposed debt ceiling of 14.3 trillion dollars by the end of February, the Treasury said Wednesday, a day ahead of a key vote to raise it to [...]

Joe Biden Reviews Avatar

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 4th, 2010. Filed under Joe Biden, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

This would be hilarious but for the fact that this man is one heartbeat away from having his finger on the button of America’s nuclear arsenal:

U.S. Government: Whoops We Missed 800,000 Laid Off Workers

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 4th, 2010. Filed under Credit Crisis, Economics

Tomorrow, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will announce that job losses over the past year were 800,000 people higher than originally reported:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — As bad as the government’s jobs readings numbers have been during the Great Recession, we’ll soon find out the real situation likely was worse.
Job losses during the recession may have [...]

Two Supreme Court Vacancies Possible This Summer

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 4th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Supreme Court

Well, this could certainly make the run-up to the 2010 Elections interesting:
Lawyers for President Obama have been working behind the scenes to prepare for the possibility of one, and maybe two Supreme Court vacancies this spring.
Court watchers believe two of the more liberal members of the court, justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, [...]

The Next Terrorist Threat

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 4th, 2010. Filed under Homeland Security, War On Terror

Exploding breast implants:
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (KABC) — A new terror threat in the skies: al-Qaeda may be planning suicide attacks on airliners with bombs hidden inside the human body that would be invisible to airport scanners.
According to British intelligence sources, the move to surgically implanted devices comes as more and more airports have introduced body [...]

Quote Of The Day

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010. Filed under Blogging, Quote Of The Day

The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man’s mind.  He can imagine and even esteem, in his way, certain false forms of liberty–for example, the right to choose between two political mountebanks, and to yell for the [...]

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