Dems Stick It To Poor: Kill DC Voucher Program

The voucher story via Big Government.

This is big government at its finest hour. The Democrats have officially killed a successful private school voucher program banishing more than 3,300 low-income children back to the DC schools they so desperately wanted to escape.

It was two days ago when I linked the WaPo item...

Obama TSA Nominee Censured For “Grave Errors In Judgment”

Yeah, that's what we want. Someone running the TSA who was only censured once by the FBI and now admitting to having run only a few unethical, if not illegal, record checks on his ex-wife's boyfriend. Why is this coming out on New Year's Eve? LMAO That Obama, … he sure does know how to pick 'em.

And ...

TSA Backdown?

It would make sense. They have other issues they should be concerned with right now. Looked like an internal issue, anyway. If someone inside is leaking stuff, they've a right to go after them. But trying to hammer bloggers over something they'd give the larger media a pass on is...

Media: The Year In Mediocre

One could go on just about forever citing media lapses this year. And let's not forget their largest failure of the year, Obama. Two-thousand and nine was the first year of a so far less than stellar presidency the media all but guided him into while constantly touting tremendous expectations that haven't panned...

More Drastic Cuts At Washington Times

Funny, they are starting to look more like a model akin to Politco, perhaps?

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Washington Times slashed its staff by more than 40 percent and will eliminate its sports section and most local coverage in 2010, shifting its focus to politics, business and investigative reporting.

The 27-year-old newspaper...

Terrorist’s Last Phone Call Should Have Sounded Alarm

A would be airline bomber's last phone call set off alarms, but not within the CIA, apparently. Alarm seems to be the wrong word in that regard.

Abdulmutallab's final call alarmed the Father enough for him to go directly to Nigerian authorities. They took him directly to the CIA. And then,...

FBI Reports: Guns Sales Way Up, Crime Way Down

Via Mellissa Clouthier on Twitter. Link via the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action.

Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the...

CNN’s Sanchez Ambushes Ensign: Forget Terror, Let’s Talk Sex

How special. Video below via Teagan Goddard. The network that unceasingly told us sex was a personal issue during the Clinton years has suddenly discovered the error of its ways after inviting John Ensign on to talk about the recent attempted terror attack. Ensign's issues aside, are we supposed to believe...

Quick End Of Year Look Back

Not some schmaltzy round-up. Just via a recent referral to a Dec 2004 photoshopped post of mine. The things I once got away with out here! ; )

Judge Dismisses All Blackwater Shooting Charges

No doubt this is good news for Blackwater fans. But the grounds may prove to have troubling implications, perhaps? After the shooting the guards gave statements to the State Department. Prosecutors were forbidden from using those statements.

Okay. But once we start walking terrorists into Federal Court, I'm left wondering what statements of theirs...

iPhone App, Or Terror Threat?

Quite a wonderful bit of ingenuity here. Though I can't say it doesn't cause me to wonder about what the future holds with regard to the possibilities in even more sophisticated, less purely industrious hands.

In past, we have seen iPhone being made to use in situations such as driving vehicles, controlling...

Houston: Rocket Launcher Linked To Islamist

Well, isn't this special. Looking to do a little urban renewal for Allah, perhaps? But police found no link to a terror group, of course. Good Lord. As if they'd even know how to discover one given their primary job. 

The woman did tell police that the rocket launcher belonged to...