“Obama, the Uninterested President” by Dana Milbank
I know that most of you would never read Dana Milbank because he has been completely in the tank for Obama. I share your feelings about…
Read articleWhy I support Susan Stimpson for Lieutenant Governor
Much like Riley in his post endorsing Scott Lingamfelter, I do not claim to speak for Virginia Virtucon as a whole. I only speak for myself.…
Read articleLondon Meteorological Office caught upping the temperature data – again
“The Met” – as it is known – didn’t bother to warn anyone that is had “updated” their temperature data for their HADCRUT4 and CRUTEM4 data…
Read articleSanford wins special election to Congress
I am surprised at how the blogosphere seems to have missed the pertinent lesson of Mark Sanford’s return to Congress last night. Yes, it’s a highly…
Read articleData issues and errors spread from global warming alarmism to economics…and from left to right
Whenever I mention the statistical chicanery, data manipulation, and errors behind “global warming,” my friends on the left go into high dudgeon. They can’t fathom that such…
Read articleThe Prez’s budget: higher taxes and higher spending
You read that right: the president’s ten-year budget plan calls for higher spending over the next ten years. Patrick Brennan (Corner) provides the details on the…
Read articleHere we go again…..
Those who do not learn history (WaPo, h/t Corner)… The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people…
Read articleMarcott’s update to his global warming paper: never mind everything I said
Shaun Marcott – the latest fellow to claim he’s discovered “unprecedented” warming in recent years – made a stunning admission to Steve McIntyre over the weekend.…
Read articleAndrew Cuomo’s masquerade as a business-friendly Democrat comes to an end
Readers of this blog may have noticed my previous admiration for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. After this week, we can safely put the emphasis on…
Read articleSteve McIntyre sends another hockey stick alarmist to the penalty box
Steve McIntyre is the mathematician who destroyed Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph (which supposedly proved global warming) in the last decade. This year, he takes aim…
Read articleFOIA (the Climategate whistleblower) reveals what caring about the poor really means
Watts Up With That found in his inbox the password to a slew of Climategate emails, courtesy of the anonymous whistleblower (who took the pseudonym Mr.…
Read articleAnother busted hockey stick
The latest attempt by the global warming alarmists to make the Medieval Warming Period disappear came into the crosshairs of Watts Up With That – and…
Read articleAbout that sequester…
One of the amber-encased pieces of conventional wisdom regarding the sequester is that the Administration has no room to maneuver on what spending it can reduce.…
Read articleThe President, the deficit, and Keynesian theory
During last week’s scare session on the sequester, the president said something very revealing about himself (via Peter Kirsanow): Lay offs and pay cuts means (sic) that people…
Read articleAbout the “local” tax increases…
The tax increase fiasco continues to get worse with exposure…. Readers may recall Ken Cuccinelli’s somewhat confused statement on the bill. While he opposed the “massive…
Read articleThe tax revolt goes national
John Fund (National Review Online) has noticed the Virginia tax battle, and the title says it all: McDonnell Tarnishes His Legacy I particularly like his description…
Read articleTransportation tax hike passes House Finance Committee
It was not a good day for the taxpayer. The Governor’s tax hike won by a count of 14-8. Contrary to the assertions of the Washington Post, the…
Read articleThe Wall Street Journal and AFP weighs in on McDonnell’s transportation tax hike
The short version – they’re not happy: “Many states are grappling with road congestion and a scarcity of dollars for improvements. Let’s hope they aren’t tempted…
Read articleOn the Governor’s transportation tax increase
This afternoon, Governor Bob McDonnell proposed a transportation funding plan highlighted by the elimination of the gasoline tax. Despite that, the plan itself increases taxes overall – and is largely dependent on a federal tax hike bill that died in a House Committee last year.
Read articleMy reaction to the fiscal cliff debacle: the GOP caved, and will again
So while I was on vacation, the Republicans did what I expected them to do in the “fiscal cliff deal” – they caved. They did not…
Read articleDial B for Bonehead
So Plan B (Speaker Boehner’s latest plan to avoid the “fiscal cliff”) has won over Paul Ryan and Grover Norquist. I’m happy for them. I’m not…
Read articleAmong the slew of errors Republicans and conservatives made in the last election cycle, I made one of my own…
“When you violate principles, invariably, it leaps up and bites you” – Bill Parcells
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