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The going price of betrayal…

By Dave in EH / March 24, 2010 /

… has gone up a great deal.  Apparently, lying and double-crossing pays a great deal more than 30 pieces of silver. They say every man has his price.

The Fun Police: When the Party’s Over…

By Dave in EH / March 12, 2010 / Comments Off on The Fun Police: When the Party’s Over…

Apparently, reality is slowly settling in on the Beer Police in Philadelphia. For those coming late to the tale:

The Fun Police Strike Again!

By Dave in EH / March 11, 2010 /

The raids continue! What is going on in Pennsylvania?  It there a need to fill a major budget gap?  Are the police planning a major beer bash?  Has “Fast Eddie” Rendell decided to resurrect the Temperance Movement? “Pennsylvania State Police have staged another beer raid, confiscating about a dozen cases from a leading distributor in…

A Modest Proposal…

By Dave in EH / March 11, 2010 / Comments Off on A Modest Proposal…

…with apologies to Jonathan Swift and kudos to Patty-Pat Kozlowski. Satire, in this nation, is a dying genre — mainly because political life has become sufficiently surreal as to make satire and farce useless. Here, however, is one Philadelphian’s response to recent current event. 1. Sprinkle Tax: They’re jimmies – not sprinkles! How about a…

And Now, the Food Police…

By Dave in EH / March 10, 2010 /

Big Brother isn’t merely watching, he wants to control your diet. Bad enough that Philly and their “Beer Police,” now we have state of New York upping the ante, with legislators seeking to outlaw salt in restaurant food. “”No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in…

Green job? What green jobs?

By Dave in EH / March 10, 2010 / Comments Off on Green job? What green jobs?

Remember all those “green jobs” we were promised as a part of the Obama economic plan? Don’t you believe it. California is likely to see modest job losses in the near term from its aggressive climate change policy due to higher energy costs and other factors, the state’s independent Legislative Analyst’s Office said. Skip related…

Here come the fun police!

By Dave in EH / March 9, 2010 /

That was then, this is now

By Dave in EH / February 15, 2010 /

The more I listen to the Obama administration and the current Democratic legislature, the more I am convinced that this is the very real slogan of the Democratic party.

Poll: Fox is most trusted name in news

By Dave in EH / January 27, 2010 /

Apparently, it’s no longer just a slogan, but a supported hypothesis.

Harold Ford Jr. – Carpetbagger and flip-flopper

By Dave in EH / January 13, 2010 /

There’s always one thing about politicians from Tennessee that I’ve never quite understood. The bigger the stage they play to, the further to the left the go.