Remember a year ago when Scotland released the Lockerbie bomber who took down Pan Am Flight 103, killing 270 people back in 1988? The reason given was that he supposedly only had three months to live. Well, as the Wall Street Journal notes this afternoon, twelve months later and this barbarian is still alive and kicking and living the sweet life in Tripoli, Libya. I’m surprised Obama hasn’t invited him to the White House for a beer summit yet.

Democrats certainly do have their priorities. As The Hill reported this morning, “Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw lawmakers’ summer plans into chaos Wednesday, announcing the House will interrupt its six-week recess and return to Washington next week to act on Medicaid and education funding for states.” Nothing like a bailout to bring the D’s back to DC.

Any bets on whether or not Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters “beat the rap”? My guess is that even if found guilty of each and every one of the ethics charges brought against them, unless they are also convicted in a court of law and sentenced to prison…their dumbass voters will re-elect them. And maybe even if they ARE sent to the pokey.

The post office announced on Thursday that it lost $3.5 billion in just the third quarter of this year alone. $3.5 BILLION! When will the idiots in Washington who run our government recognize that ever since Al Gore invented the Internet, we no longer need six-days-a-week mail service and a post office in every town….and that privatizing snail-mail delivery is an idea whose time has come?

The Associated Press reports that Google and Verizon “are close to finalizing a proposal for so-called ‘network neutrality’ rules, which would dictate how broadband providers treat Internet traffic flowing over their lines.” While “net neutrality” sounds innocent enough and sounds warm-and-fuzzy, what it really means is government regulation of the Internet. As Josh Silver put it today on the liberal Huffington Post, this marks “the end of the Internet as we know it.” Al Gore must be rolling over on his massage table.

Whatsamatta with Woodhouse? – Part II

Here’s the second installment in what I’m now expecting to be a series of posts about the one Democrat state senator, Joyce Woodhouse of Henderson, who is most likely and the most deserving of getting her butt canned by voters on November 2nd.
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Has anyone seen the Republican Party in Nevada? Anyone? Maybe we better print up some milk cartons.

If a Democrat proposes a $1.5 BILLION tax hike in the light of day, would Nevada Republicans notice? Apparently not….as indicated by the sound of silence from the GOP after Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford revealed yesterday to the Las Vegas Sun his proposal to shoot Nevada’s economy with a lethal injection of higher taxes next year.

This incompetence is beyond pitiful. It’s shameful.

But cheer up, Republicans. I understand there’ll be a conservative country concert in Henderson this weekend! And I’m told there might even be another poker party in our future very soon. And hey, after all, isn’t the fact that Harry Reid lives in the Ritz Carleton in Washington, DC, more important to burp out ad nauseum in press releases than, you know, opposing a Democrat-proposed $1.5 billion tax hike?

And some people wonder why I went back to being an independent after the primary?

The far-left loons over at MoveOn.org have called for a boycott of Target retail stores because Target has dared to exercise its newly achieved right to participate in the electoral process by spending “over $150,000 in the Minnesota Governor’s race backing state Rep. Tom Emmer, a far-right Republican who supports Arizona’s draconian immigration law (and) wants to abolish the minimum wage.

Which means only one thing: I’m shopping at Target this week!

Rep. Michele Bachmann writes that “The first hurdle on the path to a legal-process repeal of Obamacare was cleared Monday. A federal judge allowed the Commonwealth of Virginia to proceed with a challenge to the government’s requirement that individuals must buy health insurance. This decision directly bypassed a dismissal request by President Obama’s Justice Department.” Small victory…but definitely a good start.

Meanwhile, Chris Jacobs of the Republican Policy Committee notes that “Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure (on Tuesday) designed to block the introduction of an individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Upwards of 70 percent of voters approved the measure, which passed by a margin of more than 2 to 1.” And Democrats still think they can ride ObamaCare to victory in November?

Our friend, former congressman and anti-ILLEGAL immigration champion Tom Tancredo has really upset the apple cart in Colorado’s gubernatorial race by entering it as a third-party (Constitution) candidate. Rasmussen Reports reports today that 43% of “Likely Voters” are going with Democrat John Hickenlooper, with GOP contender Scott McInnis picking up 25% and Tancredo getting 24%.

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“Democrats act as if the right to run across the border when you’re 8 1/2 months pregnant, give birth in a U.S. hospital and then immediately start collecting welfare was exactly what our forebears had in mind, a sacred constitutional right, as old as the 14th Amendment itself.” – columnist Ann Coulter

“President Obama’s job approval numbers fell to a new low Tuesday as the White House struggles to convince voters it is leading the economy out of recession.” – The Hill, 8/4/10

“(T)he concern on the part of tea partiers that the government is not responsive to the interests and values of the majority is a valid one. Whether the bank and auto industry bailouts, the huge economic stimulus package and the health care bill are good policies or bad — and will help the economy or hurt it — they are not favored by the majority of Americans. And the things that people most care about — the creation of new jobs and vigorous economic growth — are lacking. Even more important are the ways the bills were fashioned. There is a saying in Washington that one should never see the ways laws and sausages are made. Well, many people are choking on them. . . .” – liberal scholar Amitai Etzioni (Hat tip: Political Diary)

“Nearly every bill passed by the Congress in the last four years has had a pro-union component. Everything the Democrats do is a favor to the unions.” – Mark Mix of the National Right to Work Committee (Hat tip: Political Diary)

• The worm has turned. “For the first since President Obama took office, voters see his policies as equally to blame with those of President George W. Bush for the country’s current economic problems,” reports Rasmussen Reports today on a new national telephone survey that “finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters now think Obama’s policies are to blame for the continuing bad economy, up three points from last month. Forty-seven percent (47%) say the recession that began under Bush is at fault.”
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I’m the government and I just want to keep helping. That’s the sales message coming from Democrats such as Nevada state Sen. Joyce Woodhouse (D-Henderson) up and down the ballot this election cycle. And voters/taxpayers would be insane to keep buying the snake oil.
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Without mentioning any names, consider this a teachable moment for you candidates out there.
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Voice of America is reporting that “Coalition officials in Afghanistan say they intercepted a message from Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, ordering his followers to never surrender and kill any civilians suspected of helping the coalition forces.”

Does anyone else remember about nine years ago when a Predator had Mullah Omar’s car in its sights but the request to shoot a Hellfire missile up his tailpipe was denied by military lawyers who were afraid some civilians might be killed or injured, violating the rules of engagement? How many innocent civilians do you think have been killed and will be killed because of that asinine decision?
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Adding salt to an open wound, Gov. Jim Gibbons announced today the appointment of Donna Ruthe – the chief antagonist against Guinn’s son, Jeff, in a nasty lawsuit – to the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners on the exact same day former Gov. Kenny Guinn was being buried in his hometown of Exeter, CA. Real class, Governor.

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My apologies for being gone so long. Between the Right Online conservative blogger conference in Las Vegas last weekend and losing my friend Kenny Guinn last Thursday, time just wasn’t on my side. But let’s hop right back in the saddle again, shall we?
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