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Archive for May, 2010

Once Again, Hawaii’s Governor Verifies That, Yes, Barack Obama Was Born In Hawaii

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 7th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

In a radio interview on Sunday, Hawaii’s Governor Linda Lingle once again verified that Barack Obama was in fact born in Hawaii:
You know, during the campaign of 2008, I was actually in the mainland campaigning for Sen. McCain. This issue kept coming up so much in the campaign, and again I think it’s one of [...]

Democratic Congressman Calls Anti-Obama Protesters “Threats To Our Internal Security”

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 7th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Dumbasses, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Forget al Qaeda or the Pakistani Taliban, Indiana Congressman Andre Carson has found what he thinks America’s biggest threat is:

KERRY PICKET (Wash. Times): Do you think the people outside are generally dangerous or no?
REP. CARSON: Oh absolutely. I worked in homeland security. I’m from intelligence, and I’ll tell you, one of the largest threats to [...]

Sarah Palin Once Again Falsely Asserts That America Was Founded As “Christian Nation”

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 7th, 2010. Filed under History, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin was on The O’Reilly Factor yesterday on the occasion of the National Day of Prayer where she once again repeated her assertion that America is a “Christian Nation” and that our laws should be based on the Bible:
Watch the latest video at FOXNews.com
Palin, however, views the evolution of America from a strictly Christian [...]

How Much Would It Cost To Deport Every Illegal Immigrant ? More Than We Can Afford

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 7th, 2010. Filed under Immigration, Individual Liberty, Politics

Preeti Aroon does the math:
If the United States deported all its illegal immigrants at once, how long would the bus convoy be?
a) 18 miles    b) 180 miles    c) 1,800 miles
Answer after the jump …
Answer:
C, 1,800. To deport the 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States en masse, it would take [...]

Report: Elena Kagan To Be Obama’s SCOTUS Nominee

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 7th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Supreme Court

At least according to Mike Allen’s Playbook:
- Look for President Obama to name his Supreme Court pick Monday, and look for it to be Solicitor General Elena Kagan, a former Harvard Law dean. The pick isn’t official, but top White House aides will be shocked if it’s otherwise. Kagan’s relative youth (50) is a huge [...]

Virgil Goode Can’t Decide Which Party He Belongs To, Or What Election He Might Enter

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 7th, 2010. Filed under Virginia, Virginia Politics

As I noted earlier this week, former Congressman Virgil Goode joined the Constitution Party over the weekend. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the story has made somewhat of a splash in Goode’s old Congressional District and he’s been interviewed about the move twice this week.
In one interview, Goode seemed to say that [...]

Your Mom’s A Neanderthal

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 7th, 2010. Filed under Evolution vs. ID, Science

Or, maybe your Dad:
With the help of a pinch of fossil bone dust, scientists have discovered that modern human beings interbred with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago, and that 1 to 4 percent of the genes carried by non-African people are traceable to the much-caricatured, beetle-browed cavemen.
The Neanderthal project, which took four years [...]

231,000 Private Sector Jobs Added In April

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 7th, 2010. Filed under Business, Credit Crisis, Economics

Signs of an economic turnaround ?
The American economy added an unexpected strong 290,000 jobs in April, while the unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent, the government said Friday.
Analysts had expected a gain of about 190,000 in the month.
With revisions on Friday, April was the fourth consecutive month that the economy added workers (a revised 230,000 [...]

Tories Take Plurality, But Britain Wakes Up To A Hung Parliament

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 7th, 2010. Filed under England, Foreign Affairs

Great Britain woke up this morning to the most uncertain post-election picture in thirty-six years:
LONDON — After one of the most passionately contested elections in decades, Britain faced the stalemate of a hung Parliament on Friday, with no party likely to command an outright majority despite significant gains by the opposition Conservatives and damaging losses [...]

Six Reasons To Get Rid Of The Capital Gains Tax

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 7th, 2010. Filed under General

Cato’s Dan Mitchell makes the case:

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