As I write this it's 1:35 a.m. and it's all over but the cryin'.  Sometime in the next eighteen hours will likely come the final...

Longtime readers of this blog know that I don't play the partisan game.  And I haven't bought into the "conservative/liberal...

A short while ago the members of the United States Senate voted 70 to 24 to pass the "Marketplace Fairness Act" : AKA "Intern...

Somebody educate me: how do people like Dianne Feinstein get elected to anything whatsoever? Feinstein shouldn't be trusted with city ...

As I intimated in my previous post, I arrived way late to witness the tempest surrounding Todd Akin at the apparent zenith of its wrath. Bu...

So it's coming out that a bunch of Republicans, including senators Orrin Hatch and Mitch McConnell, are expressing concern about Preside...

When the hell do the people of this country once again get representatives who know what "un-constitutional" means enough to not ...

That's it. I've had it. Throw the whole sorry lot of 'em out. ALL of them. Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. Show t...

There's not a town in West Virginia that doesn't already have a bridge or a horse trough named after him... so how are they going to...

Ya see, it's crap like this that makes me despise the Seventeenth Amendment and everything about it. The United States Senate is suppos...

Because of two items in the reconciliation bill - one of which having to do with Pell grants, which alone made people scratch their heads in...

Because I'm feeling extra cranky tonight (and have for the past 24 hours or so)... "Chutzpah" is a Yiddish word meaning "...

Michael D. Tanner of the Cato Institute has written an essay about the costs of Obamacare , which passed the House last night (and which I n...

Read about it here . How the hell is this going to make him any different than Ted Kennedy? "But Chris, he couldn't get elected in...

I don't live in Massachusetts so yesterday's special election that saw Scott Brown win the seat vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy ...

Old Order Mennonites - more popularly known as the Amish - will be exempted from being required to have health insurance if the so-called ...

Why should we believe that the representatives and senators who are most pushing "health care reform" are going to want to have t...

... it MIGHT not have enough votes to pass in the Senate . All the same, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it wound up clearing th...

That's gotta be a helluva big hopper that this bill was placed into. (It would be better for the entire country and our posterity if it ...

Awright, I'm prepared to go ahead and say it: the Obama Presidency is already a disaster. And this legislation is gonna be about as suc...