Sick As A Dog

Is Anarchy the Next In Thing?
Instapundit linked to a piece by Richard Fernandez called “The Crusade of the Innocents.” It’s all about Anarchists. You know, those useful idiots who can’t make a name for themselves, so they suck off the fruits of others while trying to make sure the gravy train never ends. They have no goals, other than the next score. They’re hearts are filled with jealousy and rage. I have to say, I’m with Moe Lane, these people are not innocents. I happen to be related...

QuickBooks Onlines Clock is Mercilessly Mocking Me!
Oh, the joys of running a Small Business. I do the books for Mr. LC’s home remodeling company. I went from using QuickBooks on my computer to QuickBooks online so I can access QB from anywhere; or if we need help with the bookkeeping, using the online version will make it a lot easier. Except when it doesn’t! I’m bound and determined to bring the books up to date, since it is the first of the year and we have to remain compliant with Uncle Sam and pay what they say we owe. Ev...

Statists Have To Be Cruel To Be Kind
She'll hit you over the head with that gavel, but really, it's for your own good. Remember the song “Cruel to Be Kind” by Nick Lowe? It ought to be the progressive theme song. It seems that everything they do, every policy they enact, involves being cruel to one to be kind to another. I do my best to understand dear But you still mystify and i want to know why I pick myself up off the ground To have you knock me back down again and again And when i ask you to explain well y...

Presidents Living on the Edge on Vacations
Vacations are a time for people and presidents to unwind, relax and if you're President Obama play some golf and snorkel in Hawaii. But, there's at least one activity President Obama won't be doing - body surfing at Sandy Beach. It's famous for huge waves and massive undertow and even if the president was photographed body surfing in 2008 before taking office, he hasn't been back. We talked to a couple of locals who explained the treacherous waters at Sandy Beach. Make sure to check out the full...

Obamas End Hawaii Vacation at the Beach
(Wall Street Journal) - President Barack Obama and his family were trying to soak it all in Monday, spending the better part of their final day in Hawaii at Pyramid Rock Beach on Marine Corps Base Hawaii. If the final day of a Vacation defines how it will be remembered, the Obamas will be packing memories of teal-colored water, soft breezes and plenty of sunshine, The Wall Street Journal reported. Their Vacation is a far cry from their year-ago trip to picturesque Oahu, when the attempted bombin...

The lightening round
Yes she can, all five Candidates agreed during the lightening round of questioning at the RNC chairman debate. During this round, Candidates were asked quick fire questions with little time to explain answers. As the questions went on, some of the Candidates became more candid with their responses. Saul Anuzis said that the one thing he agreed with that Obama did was go on Vacation. Maria Cino , Michael Steele , and Reince Priebus said none. Wagner's response came to claps and laughs. "I may su...

All work and no play
Presidentin' is hard You may recall my recent post about Obama’s work habits: The president’s “biggest regret” was that because of economic turmoil, “He had to spend almost every waking hour in Washington working on solving that crisis,” senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “And what he missed sorely was engagement with the American People. Byron York: But it turns out Obama has already

Obamas Hit the Beach on Final Vacation Day
Yahoo! Buzz President Barack Obama and his family are trying to soak it all in, spending the better part of their final day in Hawaii at Pyramid Rock Beach on Marine Corps Base Hawaii. If the final day of a Vacation defines how it will be remembered, the Obamas will be packing memories of teal-colored water, soft breezes and plenty of sunshine. Their Vacation is a far cry from their year-ago trip to picturesque Oahu, when the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day shattered...

Obama takes family out for final vacation treat
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama took his family and friends for a final Vacation treat before heading back to Washington. After an afternoon at the beach, the Obama party stopped at Island Snow for shave ice, a Hawaiian snow cone. First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Malia and Sasha, and about a dozen friends joined the president for one of the rare public stops of his nearly two-week vacation. Island Snow is a favorite local stop for the first family; Obama took his daughters there...

Happy New Year 2011!
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Obamas Emerge From Vacation Seclusion For Shave Ice Outing (PHOTOS)
The big news out of Hawaii since the Obamas arrived is that there really hasn't been any. Michelle, Sasha and Malia flew over on Saturday, December 18th while the president wrapped up business in Washington. Bo did a quick detour in quarantine at the airport. And other than a few public outings, many of which weren't photographed--to the Marine Corps Base on Christmas Day, church, shave ice for the president and his daughters, snorkeling and a whole lot of golf--the first family has been layi...

RNC faces $20 million debt in 2011
The next chairman of the Republican National Committee will face a money-raising challenge of historic proportions. The unreleased official Budget of the RNC reveals that the Republican party's national governing body and premier fund-raising apparatus begins the 2011-2012 Presidential Election cycle more than $20 million in the hole. "A record for any year in the past 30 years," RNC chairman Candidate and former Deputy U.S. Transportation Secretary Maria Cino told The Washington Times The budge...

Afghan Report 2010
<![CDATA[Afghan Report 2010 by Colonel Douglas Macgregor at The Washington Times. BLUF: "It's too soon to tell, but reductions in defense spending may demonstrate that it's far less expensive to protect the United States from Islamist Terrorism as well as the criminality Flooding in from Mexico and Latin America by controlling our borders and Immigration. We must, however, stop wasting American blood and treasure on misguided Military interventions designed to drag Muslim Arabs and Afghans throu... </p>

RNC sees deep red for 2012 budget
The next chairman of the Republican National Committee will face a money-raising challenge of historic proportions. The unreleased official Budget of the RNC reveals that the Republican Party's national governing body and premier Fundraising apparatus begins the 2011-12 Presidential Election cycle more than $20 million in the hole. "A record for any year in the past 30 years," Maria Cino, a Candidate for the RNC chairmanship and a former deputy transportation secretary, told The Washington Times...

Early fireworks likely in the new Congress
Posted by Paul at 9:30 PM The 112th Congress will convene on Wednesday and, as the Washington Times observes, it won't be long before the Fireworks begin. In February, Congress will either pass a massive spending bill or see the fedearl government shut down. And in March, Congress will either raise the Debt ceiling or see the government go into default. Actually, it may not be quite as stark as that. Congress can perhaps buy time by passing temporary extensions of the Budget and a higher Debt c...

Wash. Times Responds To DADT Repeal With Unhinged Anti-Gay Rhetoric
Wash. Times Responds To DADT Repeal With Anti-Gay Rhetoric Kuhner: DADT Repeal "An Act Of National Suicide." In a December 30 op-ed, Jeffrey Kuhner called the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell "an act of national suicide " : Mr. Obama - again with GOP help - succeeded in getting "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) repealed, enabling Homosexuals to serve openly in the Military. This is one of the most revolutionary and damaging acts ever done to a core American institution. It will decimate the great...

Coming spike in gas prices
Image via Wikipedia Washington Times: Oil and Gasoline prices have risen to their highest levels in two years, and analysts say prices could shoot up dramatically this year as the thirst for fuel grows in the U.S. and around the world. The former head of Shell Oil has warned that Gas Prices could hit $5 a gallon by 2012 because of fast-growing demand in emerging countries such as China and India, where more and more people are buying cars, combined with restraints on drilling in the U.S. in th...

Clooney continues push for Sudan peace
Hollywood actor George Clooney brought his star power to the political theater of the Sunday talks shows to continue his efforts to stop the violence in Sudan. "We want to let potential perpetrators of Genocide and other War Crimes know that we're watching, the world is watching," Mr. Clooney said on ABC's "This Week." Mr. Clooney made his plea as south Sudan is set for a Referendum next month on whether to secede from north Sudan. The actor's Not on Our Watch group is helping Google, ...

Graham: Romney leads possible 2012 GOP candidates
Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, said Sunday he thinks Mitt Romney is the party's leading potential Presidential Candidate for 2012. "He's got his problems, but so does everybody else," Mr. Graham said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Mr. Romney, a former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential Candidate, is among the most conservative of potential GOP candidates. However, as Governor he signed into law a Public Health care plan, and he recently drew criticism for opposing...

Excrescence Of The Day
Maybe it is the memory of June 2009 that remains with me, but this simple sentence in the Washington Times (regardless of the broader argument) turned my stomach: The Iranians have not shown the will to unseat the regime. How many neocons have lost their lives on the streets of their own capital and been tortured in the cells of their own government? ...

Kaine: No serious primary challenger for Obama in 2012
Tim Kaine, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Sunday he doesn't expect President Obama will face a serious primary challenger in 2012. "It's very unlikely," he said on CNN's "State of the Union. "You'll always get a fringe Candidate, but the likelihood of a serious candidate is virtually nil." Mr. Kaine said the president and fellow Democrats must continue to do the job Americans elected them to do to win next year. "We feel very good going into the 2012 cycle," he said. Mr. Kai...

Midrats: The Authors
A pre-recorded best of with three of the authors we interviewed this year; James S. Robbins, Senior Editorial Writer for Foreign Affairs at the Washington Times on his book, This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive. David Sears' book on Navy Air in the Korean War with, Such Men as These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea. United States Naval Academy Professor Bruce Fleming's new book on one part of the culture battle, Bridging the Military-Civilian Divide: ...

Gas bag Bill OReilly to Mary Katharine Ham: as a conservative, youre ok with people dying
Gas bag Bill O’Reilly to Mary Katharine Ham: ‘as a conservative, you’re ok with people dying” It’s a new year for the gas bag Bill O’Reilly, but it’s the same arrogant, snotty, attacking of Conservatives and sucking up to progressive Liberal Democrats.  The start of the show debuted some new music, after O’Reilly’s two week Vacation. The first interview was with Congressman Peter King of New York, a Republican. O’Reilly was his usual arrogan

A Daley for the Obama White House?
Former Clinton Commerce Secretary William Daley – a scion of Chicago’s powerful political dynasty — is being considered for a top slot in the Obama Administration, perhaps White House Chief of Staff, according to two people familiar with the situation. But the sources emphasized that Daley, 62, hasn’t been offered any particular administration post – and may, in fact, not be asked to come on board. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 White House pr...

Pelosi, Obama Hawaiian vacations end, but taxpayers left with the bill
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN – Nancy Pelosi’s final days as Speaker of the House were spent at the exotic Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka’upulehu in Kona on the island of Hawaii. Escorted throughout her trip by a mini security Motorcade that included Secret Service and Hawaii County Police officers, Pelosi was seen at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Kailua-Kona, where she received Communion. Parishioners greeted her warmly, Hawaii Reporter was told. Two police SUVs w...