THE CENTRIST (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Mary Young of the Reading Eagle has been reading over Gov. Rendell's 2008-09 General Fund Budget and has come to the conclusion that state spending is a shell game. "I think this year's budget is an increase of about $1 billion, or 3.7 percent, over last year," Young writes. "I can't be sure because my budget book from last year didn't come with an interpreter." Young later concludes that the state...
The Right Perspective Podcast Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Paul Alexander, formerly part of the "Batchelor and Alexander" show on WABC Radio in New York, talks about the Karl Rove, US Presidential election, and why he, a life-long Democrat and Hillary Clinton supporter, is going to vote for John McCain. Plus, the real Barack Obama… the media manipulation of Obama’s world tour… the Talk Radio Battle Royal Challenge is put forward… your phone calls at 718.761.9996...
The Navel of the Internet (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Press reports on the FCC’s vote on the Vuze/Free Press petitions against Comcast suggest a peculiar outcome, where FCC orders Comcast to stop managing BitTorrent and to also tell the FCC how and when it manages BitTorrent: The FCC would require Comcast to stop slowing or blocking access to certain online applications, mostly video file-sharing services [...]
Arok's Daily Thoughts (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
6:30am Mountain As I was coming out of the shower room this morning, I heard a very strange roaring noise. Not an animal as I would have expected at any of the other parks, but more a gas fire type noise. I looked up and there was a hot air balloon floating overhead. It was cool for the first one. Then about six more came across. They were very low and woke pretty much everyone up. Including my wife...
Arok's Daily Thoughts (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
7:30am Mountain Sitting at a Starbucks. Turns out Casper has the only one I've ever been to that does not have wi-fi. Oh well. Looks like the Super 8 across the street has free wi-fi, I'll try to use that to at least get the blog posts up. I wouldn't recommend Fort Casper Campground. You get a strange feeling when they close the bathrooms overnight due to "repeated incidences of vandalism." The space...
THE CENTRIST (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The United States could boost ethanol use tremendously if Congress lifted tariffs against Brazilian sugar-based ethanol exports, but the Democrats are blocking the move. Once again, the motto of the Democratic Party is, "Do As I Say, Not As I Do." Ethanol Should Be Fully Integrated in International Trade, According to Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association
Mensa Barbie Welcomes You (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
-Posted by D. Worth (US) | for- M. Barbay (France) Space.com article discusses the geomorphological similarities and (of course) what SOME Scientists claim must certainly be "environmental dis-similarities" of the two planets... Read. Image Credit: NASA How Mars and Alaska Are Alike: Their comparisons were based on older photographs of Mars, but the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance...
Badger Blogger (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
If you are reading this via BlogNetNews.com, please be advised that this is being done against my expressed wishes I had no idea that John McCain’s wife Cindy was such an accomplished and hands on humanitarian. She has always been such a private person, and that privacy has probably actually hurt her image, but now we [...]
Joe's Dartblog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Mike Adams, a columnist for Townhall writes on the kind of "rights" that Barack Obama always seems to talk about, what he calls the right to unlimited rights . Not everything any person likes is necessarily a basic, fundamental, human, or constitutional right. I believe that I have a right to demand that you show me a copy of the U.S. Constitution every time you demand a new right. And if you cannot...
The Right Perspective Podcast Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The Communist-ANC’s dreaded Expropriation Bill, which would allow for the Bantu Regime to conduct an all-out land grab of property, including white farms, has garnered an usual coalition of opposition, ranging from the liberal-leaning Democratic Alliance, to the conservative Freedom Front Plus, as well as interests such as the Boervolk and the African Christian Democratic Party. Last week’s savage...
Badger Blogger (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
If you are reading this via BlogNetNews.com, please be advised that this is being done against my expressed wishes Most of you know that I have been working with the Wisconsin Humane Society’s Feral Cat Program. I have spent the last three weeks caring for three feral kittens, they were finally large enough to take in [...]
The Opinionated Bastard (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Bottom line, giving a specific number (like say, 16) in a war is just foolish. Election2008 , Iraq , Obama
Brutally Honest (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
My initial reaction when hearing that a paper had published Obama's prayer left at the Western Wall in Jerusalem was one of suspicion. I frankly and honestly figured, especially after reading what I considered to be a well written and...
The Violence Worker! (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
NGR is about to be sent down the black hole of Arkansas plate history. It seems that the state should have been a little more niggardly in its use of certain letter combinations. That's right folks, that NGR combo on...
Brutally Honest (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Yesterday's Gallup Daily tracking poll has Obama up by 6 points over McCain and the title of the post breathlessly asks "Is there a Europe Effect?" Yet, a cursory glance here shows that Obama held a 6 point advantage on...
