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CK speaks: Obama solidifies the Democrats as party of big government UPDATE: Obama video plus transcript

By Jim Vicevich / January 26, 2011 /

Worth the listen … not much commentary needed.

Bi-partisan commission on reducing the debt – draft report

By Steve McGough / November 10, 2010 /

With the federal legislative session not exactly in full swing, you have plenty of time to review President Obama’s bi-partisan commission’s “how to reduce the debt” draft report. Unfortunatley, I don’t have time to read much this evening, but I wanted to provide you a link to the PDF for your reading pleasure.

Here come the fun police!

By Dave in EH / March 9, 2010 /

ACORN: Who will be fired in Philadelphia? Housing, prostitution, fraud

By Steve McGough / October 21, 2009 /

Will Katherine Conway-Russell, office director at the Philadelphia ACORN office be fired? Will the main stream media post dozens of required retractions since they claimed James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles were kicked out of the ACORN office? Will Media Matters disown ACORN and post their own retractions? Update: More video added.

Expansion of federal government – mission creep

By Steve McGough / December 22, 2009 /

Familiar with the term mission creep? In business, a project starts with specified business requirements and after the project gets rolling, new requirements – or change orders – are added after the fact increasing costs and sometimes destroying the project. Nick Gillespie over at Reason TV talks mission creep in government projects.

Commuters to get state sponsored traffic information

By Steve McGough / August 18, 2008 /

Unbelievable waste of cash. I just turned on WVIT – the local NBC affiliate – and they reported Connecticut was planning to introduce the state-wide 511 system that I mentioned back in February. It appears that the state government – at a cost of $3 million – thinks that they can provide better traffic information…

The Nanny State Rules? – We Loose

By Steve McGough / March 9, 2008 / Comments Off on The Nanny State Rules? – We Loose

Walter Williams’ recent article, Liberty Versus Socialism, reminds us that government control of our personal lives leads to a loss of liberty. Read his full post. A fortnight ago, I wrote about Mississippi Legislature House Bill 282 that would have imposed fines or revoked licenses of food establishments that served obese people. Fortunately, the measure…

Obama’s Entitlements for Everyone

By Steve McGough / February 20, 2008 / Comments Off on Obama’s Entitlements for Everyone

Special thanks to Jim Vicevich for actually watching the full speech by Obama last night. I can’t even watch three minutes. Double thanks for sitting through it all again earlier today and editing down the message so we can get an idea of all the promises. This is certainly not something new. Both Democrats and…

Lampposts padded to protect pedestrians

By Steve McGough / May 12, 2009 /

You’d think it’s from The Onion, but this is posted on Yahoo’s UK and Ireland news site. Note: This is reposted from the original on March 7, 2008. Padding to protect pedestrians (Link) ITN – Tuesday, March 4 05:08 pm Padded lampposts are being trialled in a London street to protect inattentive pedestrians. A pilot…

Boehner Live Blogging Budget Debate – Good or Who Cares?

By Steve McGough / March 4, 2008 / Comments Off on Boehner Live Blogging Budget Debate – Good or Who Cares?

The House Republican leader – John Boehner from Ohio’s Eighth if you did not know – announced that tomorrow’s budget debate would be live-blogged during the session so people can be kept up-to-date. Maybe they will try the application that I want to use for my first session, coveritlive.com? Maybe I’ll take the day off…