Quick Hitts

Found Here

Ahhhhhnold has been a pretty decent govinator, but a few days ago he stepped into the nanny role when he singed a bill that makes it illegal to sell prepared food that contains trans fat. Trans-fat is, of course, The Next Big Scary Thing That Will Kill Us All. And while warning people about it, [...]

A friend who sends me lots of blog fodder frequently sends e-mails with the title “The Messiah Lord Obama.” They are full of cartoons and stories about Holy Saviour status most of the media has bestowed on upon him. Today’s was the best one yet. And it came to pass, in the eighth year of [...]

In the last election the Democrats sent out guidelines on how to void military absentee votes before even opening them. Solders in the field often get their ballots after the election is over, or so close to the election date it was impossible for them to return the ballot in time. The Pentagon is quite [...]

The EPA isn’t satisfied with applying ridiculous, expensive regulation on the sectors they already infest. Now they want to regulate pretty much everything else. They just released a 564 page document that lays out their plan to get their claws into every sector of everything, all the time. (Note: The link loads a ridiculously large [...]

Keith John Sampson, a communication-studies senior at Purdue who supplements his income by working there as a janitor, was reading a history book (which is also in the school’s library) during a break. “Notre Dame vs. the Klan” details the story of how Notre Dame students physically attacked the KKK and literally ran them out [...]

Ask any number of police officers and government officials – a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand – to list what they fear the most. I guarantee that not a single one of them would list “A man covered in barbecue sauce.“