tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40013592011-04-21T13:46:10.543-07:00The View From ArlenWhy Arlen?
Arlen is the TV home of <A HREF="http://www.fox.com/kingofthehill/">"King of the Hill."</A> It's a small conservative town that is threatened with ruination on a regular basis by twig boys, enviro wackos, diversity nuts, "PC" police and other ivory tower liberals.
I like to think of Arlen as a metaphor for this here great nation of ours.Hanknoreply@blogger.comBlogger1641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1149123510977905122006-05-31T17:55:00.000-07:002006-05-31T17:58:30.986-07:00WE'RE MOVINGFor the forseeable future I will be blogging with the fellas over at http://www.federalreview.com/Please bookmark the site.Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1148313155831743462006-05-22T08:52:00.000-07:002006-05-22T08:52:35.846-07:00NY, SPITZER, ADD INSULT TO INJURYGENEVA, NY--The State of New York is threatening to take a local business owner to court after its own alleged negligence closed her business.The Finger Lakes Times reports that New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer "sent 'a final notice' to concessionaire Darlene DiFederico of Geneva, notifying her that she needed to settle a $2,058.28 debt or a lawsuit Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1148222472710677402006-05-21T07:40:00.000-07:002006-05-21T07:41:12.723-07:00AMERICANS: HEALTHIER THAN YOU THINK?An article in today's New York Times sheds doubt on the theory that Americans are less healthy than their European counterparts.According to the article, Americans may simply be perceived as sicker because our medical system does more tests, and is quicker to label a patient as "sick":The question of which country is healthier...turns out to be a perfect Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1148142223868129972006-05-20T09:23:00.000-07:002006-05-20T09:23:43.886-07:00ITHACA'S GAS PRICE GOUGEITHACA, NY--Despite a state law allowing them to do so, Ithaca area politicians have said they have no intention of cutting the local sales tax on gasoline.Speaking to the Ithaca Journal, Tim Joseph (D-Ithaca), Chair of the Tompkins County Legislature, said that area officials were “not interested” in following the state’s lead in capping the sales tax, despite Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1147052649575845532006-05-07T18:43:00.000-07:002006-05-07T18:44:09.586-07:00WAS PLAME OUTED BY HUSBAND?A blogger at American Thinker speculates that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson himself might have been the one who "outed" his wife, Valerie Plame.In my opinion, that's a long shot. However, given how willing Wilson is to trade on his wife's alleged "covert" status even to this day, it's not completely impossible.Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1146543305737104282006-05-01T21:14:00.000-07:002006-05-01T21:15:05.753-07:00COMING SOON: JAMES BOND VS RACHEL CORRIE?Reuters reports that "[i]n the opening scene of 'Casino Royale,' the 21st installment of the popular movie franchise, Bond will pursue his latest enemy in a four-wheel W190 bulldozer supplied by Fiat, the Italian industrial group."This proves that the Bond movies are fiction. In real life, if you run over a terrorist with a bulldozer, their family sues Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1145541525183851442006-04-20T06:58:00.000-07:002006-04-20T06:58:45.196-07:00ITHACA PROFESSOR BLASTS AMERICAN FLAGITHACA, NY—A professor at Ithaca College is attacking that school’s use of the American flag on its athletic uniforms.Writing in the Ithacan, Stephen D. Mosher, a Professor in the Department of Sports Management and Media, claims the use of the flag on sports uniforms violates athletes’ right to free speech:Many non-citizen athletes are expected to wear the Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1144418952609854022006-04-07T07:08:00.000-07:002006-04-07T07:09:12.623-07:00COURT: NOISE LAW USED TO VIOLATE CHRISTIAN SPEECHITHACA, NEW YORK-The free speech and religious rights of an Evangelical Christian were violated when the City of Ithaca selectively enforced its noise ordinance.According to the Ithaca Journal, a federal appeals court ruled that the city unfairly singled out preacher Kevin Deegan with its noise law in October, 1999, and threatened him with arrest Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1144089857905264922006-04-03T11:31:00.000-07:002006-04-03T11:44:17.946-07:00WILL HE NEXT BAN "FRUIT OF THE LOOM"?GENEVA NY--From the Finger Lakes News Network:Hobart and William Smith Colleges President Mark Gearan has sent a letter to faculty and staff decrying the use of the word "fruit" on t-shirts worn by Hobart lacrosse fans to the game against Syracuse last week at the Carrier Dome. The shirts read "at least our mascot isn't a fruit." Syracuse teams are called the Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1141511909165320102006-03-04T14:37:00.000-08:002006-03-04T14:38:29.180-08:00ROAD RAGE OR MUSLIM TERROR?Has the "cartoon controversy" come to America?ABC News is reporting that an Iranian former student at University of North Carolina is in police custody "after he allegedly drove a sport utility vehicle through a popular gathering spot on campus Friday, clipping and scattering startled bystanders."Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22... was in the custody of campus police. TheyHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1140617302593761442006-02-22T05:44:00.001-08:002006-02-22T06:08:22.606-08:00PUBLIC SCHOOL CAVES TO RELIGIOUS FANATICSST. PAUL, MINN--A publicly funded charter school is changing its art curriculum to avoid offending the religious sensibilities of its Muslim students.The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that "ArtStart," a St. Paul-based nonprofit organization that provides art classes to the school changed its classes because of Muslim law:[S]ome Muslims ...refrain from Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1140615881461327572006-02-22T05:44:00.000-08:002006-02-22T05:44:41.473-08:00CAMPUS LIBERAL COMMITS A "HATE CRIME"?ITHACA—A contributor to Cornell University’s “premier liberal voice” has been charged with stabbing a black student on the university’s campus after using “racial epithets” in front of his victim.According to the Cornell Daily Sun, Nathan Poffenbarger, Class of '08, a regular contributor to the campus magazine, “Turn Left” was charged with second-degree Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1140038245199174972006-02-15T13:16:00.000-08:002006-02-15T13:17:25.210-08:00HILLARY, KENNEDY LAUGH OVER CHENEY SHOOTINGWASHINGTON--Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Ted Kennedy publicly mocked Vice President Cheney's hunting accident, the same day that the shooting victim suffered a mild heart attack brought on by the incident.According to New York Newsday:Clinton stopped by the Senate Armed Services Committee ...to listen to ...Kennedy...ask questions about Humvee Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1139847612276720052006-02-13T08:19:00.000-08:002006-02-13T08:20:58.990-08:00AL "GORES" THE U.S.With Muslims rioting throughout the world over a cartoon, insurgents still attacking us in Iraq, and Iran getting ever closer to having nuclear weapons, you would think the last thing any sane American would want to do would be to go to the Middle East and stir up more anti-American sentiment.Unfortunately, the man who claims to have invented the internet has probably not been Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1139675884255413442006-02-11T08:37:00.000-08:002006-02-11T08:38:37.940-08:00THE DEMOCRATS' "WAR"The Los Angeles Times reports on the predictable Democratic reaction to President Bush's speech this week, in which he described how the government foiled an al Qaeda plot to fly hijacked planes into L.A.'s Library TowerThe details did little to counter skepticism from Democrats and some law enforcement officials who have questioned whether the reported scheme had ever been Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1138560155192711772006-01-29T10:36:00.000-08:002006-01-29T10:42:35.210-08:00SHEEHANSTEIN: THE DEMOCRATS’ “MONSTER” RETURNSBERKELEY, CA--Last summer, the controversial “peace activist” Cindy Sheehan was the toast of the Democratic party when she camped outside of the President’s ranch and all but accused him of murdering her son.Since then, however, Sheehan has become a growing thorn in the Democrats’ side, as her extremist views and bizarre behavior are increasingly Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1136830502102425522006-01-09T10:00:00.000-08:002006-01-09T10:15:02.116-08:00FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE WORLD OF LIBERALSLiberals fear and hate conservative thought and red state values. That’s the message to be gleaned from two guest editorials with opposing political viewpoints.The Ithaca Journal recently printed a “guest editorial” from Janis Kelly, who complained that “liberal” Ithaca, which claims to celebrate diversity, did not extend that diversity to political or Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1136053843819325252005-12-31T10:30:00.000-08:002005-12-31T10:30:43.830-08:00SPITZER PROBE URGED AFTER "THREATS"ALBANY—Top New York Republicans have called for a formal investigation into allegations that Attorney General Eliot Spitzer threatened a man who wrote an editorial critical of Spitzer’s conduct.According to the New York Post, both Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Rensselaer) and state Republican Chairman Stephen Minarik have urged that a formal Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1135799730008812432005-12-28T11:54:00.000-08:002005-12-28T11:55:30.016-08:00SCHUMER PREDICTS IRAQ FAILURE(WANTS NATION SPLIT ALONG ETHNIC LINES)AUBURN, NY--US Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) thinks that Iraqi democracy will fail, and that nation should be split along ethnic lines.According to the Auburn Citizen, Schumer made that statement at a meeting with constituents on Tuesday (December 24) in Auburn.Schumer does not expect an American-style democracy to flourish in Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1135641762622640022005-12-26T16:02:00.000-08:002005-12-26T16:02:42.633-08:00ITHACA OFFICIAL: IMPEACH BUSHITHACA--The outgoing Ithaca City Attorney has publicly called for the impeachment of President Bush, over reports that he authorized wiretapping for foreign intelligence purposes without judicial warrant following September 11.Writing in the Ithaca Journal, Marty Luster, a democrat, argues that the President and Vice President Cheney should be impeached, over what Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1135465509067703462005-12-24T15:03:00.000-08:002005-12-24T15:05:09.080-08:00"AND THE BELLS WERE RINGING OUT ON CHRISTMAS DAY"Over the past two days, as the holiday season approaches, I find myself playing the same Christmas song over and over: the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York":It was Christmas Eve, babeIn the drunk tankAn old man said to me,"Won't see another one"And then he sang a song,"The Rare Ole' Mountain Dew"I turned my face awayAnd dreamed about youGot on the Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1135086137620536422005-12-20T05:28:00.000-08:002005-12-20T05:42:17.630-08:00UCLA: Media Bias RealA UCLA-led study confirms what most Americans have long thought: that the mainstream media is liberal."There is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left," said co?author Jeffrey Milyo.The study, which appears in the latest issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, both confirms some long held beliefs and offers a few suprises.CBS NewsHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1134704807540126592005-12-15T19:44:00.000-08:002005-12-15T19:46:47.553-08:00BLOOD-THROWING CRIMINALS PROTEST AT GITMOGuantanamo, Cuba—A group of anti-war protesters awaiting sentencing on charges of throwing blood on a soldier, a recruiting station and the U.S. flag are now in Cuba, protesting the alleged treatment of terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay.According to a Ithaca Journal, the three Ithaca residents, “Daniel Burns, Clare Grady and Teresa Grady, have joined Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1134480293689250752005-12-13T05:24:00.000-08:002005-12-13T05:24:53.700-08:00TOOKIE WILLIAMSHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1133984073919982492005-12-07T10:49:00.000-08:002005-12-07T11:36:43.680-08:00THE CONTINUING DEMOCRATIC CRACK-UPJohn Marciano, a professor emeritus at Cortland State College, is a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq. Unlike many in the anti-war movement, however, Marciano is at least consistent. Rather than attack only the Bush administration, Marciano takes the leaders of the Democratic party to task for their own “opportunism” regarding the war: Democrats accuse Bush of Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1133442872027407482005-12-01T05:13:00.000-08:002005-12-01T05:14:32.040-08:00BLOOD-THROWING CRIMINALS FETED BY CAMPUSGENEVA, NY—A group of anti-war protesters who threw blood on a soldier, a recruiting station and the U.S. flag will deliver a lecture at Hobart and William Smith campuses today.According to a campus press release, the four Ithaca residents-- Daniel Burns, Peter DeMott, Clare Grady and Teresa Grady--are expected to address students on “the use of Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1131975963910998052005-11-14T05:40:00.000-08:002005-11-14T05:46:03.920-08:00COMING SOON: THE BEERMOBILE?Fox News is reporting that chemical engineers, working with the Coors Brewing Company, have found a week to run your car on beer, sort of:Though Coors and its partner, Merrick & Co., aren’t pouring brewskies straight into your car, they are turning some of the waste created during the beer-making process into 200-proof high-octane alcohol called ethanol, used to purifyHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1130772144993846172005-10-31T07:21:00.000-08:002005-10-31T07:22:25.010-08:00WHOOPI AT "FAMILY SHOW":TOM DELAY IN HANDCUFFS MADE MY WEEKITHACA—Outspoken liberal actor Whoopi Goldberg delivered an obscenity laden tirade to students and parents, bashing Republicans and joking about her own marijuana use, at Cornell University’s “family weekend” comedy show on Friday (October 28).“Tom DeLay in handcuffs made my week,”Goldberg reportedly said, referring to the arrest of the Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1130276138542951692005-10-25T14:35:00.000-07:002005-10-25T14:35:38.546-07:00THE AXIS OF WEASELS STRIKES AGAINThe Telegraph is reporting that the Agent behind fake uranium documents worked for France:The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy material for nuclear bombs has admitted that he was in the pay of France.The man, Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1129299612421635982005-10-14T07:19:00.000-07:002005-10-14T07:20:12.426-07:00NEW STONES ALBUM A BOMB?Fox News is reporting that the latest album by the Rolling Stones, "A Bigger Bang," is "less than a month old, [and] already out of the Top 50.""A Bigger Bang" is the album that features "Sweet Neo-Con," a rare poltical song from the band, and one that attacks President Bush and Condoleezza Rice as "full of sh-t."Fox also reports that the latest album by frequent Bush Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1128950693587806982005-10-10T06:16:00.000-07:002005-10-10T07:15:03.800-07:00UNICEF KILLS THE SMURFSFinally, the U.N. does something right:The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes.The short but chilling film is the work of Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund....It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1127914792708392922005-09-28T06:39:00.000-07:002005-09-28T06:39:52.716-07:00ITHACA PROTESTERS COST CITY THOUSANDSBINGHAMTON, NY--The activities of supporters of four Ithaca-area protesters who throw blood on an American flag, a recruiting center and a soldier are expected to cost the City of Binghamton at least $15,000.00.News 10 Now reports that city officials were forced to spend at least that amount in overtime to provide security during the trial of Ithaca-area Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1127753980178093712005-09-26T09:59:00.000-07:002005-09-26T09:59:40.186-07:00ITHACA PROTESTERS GUILTYBINGHAMTON NY--the Ithaca New York antiwar protesters who threw blood on a recruiting center, a soldier and the American flag in 2003 have been found guilty of three counts by a federal court.According to the Ithaca Journal, the group, which calls itself “St. Patrick’s Day Four,” was found guilty of three counts of damaging federal property, but acquitted of the most Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1127409340411179142005-09-22T10:15:00.000-07:002005-09-22T10:15:40.420-07:00Blood-throwing Protester's History of ViolenceBINGHAMTON, NY--The New York Times reports that one of the Ithaca, NY-area protesters who spilled human blood on a soldier and the flag in 2003 has a long history of attacks on government property.According to the Times, Peter DeMott, one of the self-styled “St. Patrick’s Day Four,” has previous arrests for “ramming a car into a nuclear submarine in Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1127317615166804632005-09-21T08:45:00.000-07:002005-09-21T08:46:55.173-07:00ITHACA ANTI-WAR PROTESTORS SPLASHED SOLDIER WITH BLOODBINGHAMTON—A U.S. soldier has testified in federal court Tuesday (September 20) that he was splashed with human blood by anti-war protesters during a 2003 protest.The soldier, Staff Sgt. Rachon Montgomery, was working as an army recruiter on March 17, 2003, the day that four protesters threw their own blood around a recruiting center in Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1127045693566073092005-09-18T04:58:00.000-07:002005-09-18T05:14:53.573-07:00CLINTON: KATRINA A "POSITIVE" THINGFormer President Bill Clinton described the devastation from Hurricane Katrina as "a positive thing for our country" on Saturday (9/17/05).Speaking to the BBC Radio 4's Today program, Clinton said that the disaster could encourage Americans to view government involvement in their lives more positively, something the Democrats wanted."I think [Katrina] is likely Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1125968656639912332005-09-05T18:03:00.000-07:002005-09-05T18:04:16.646-07:00A TALE OF TWO DOCTORSThe Associated Press reports that Senate Majority leader Bill Frist, Republican, and a doctor, has gone down to Louisiana to treat hurricane victims:The senator spent the day treating diabetics for low blood sugar and dealing with cases of high blood pressure and dehydration. Though he is a surgeon by training, there was no need to perform surgery on Saturday, he said. After Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1125491696644421272005-08-31T05:23:00.000-07:002005-08-31T05:34:56.650-07:00HURRICANE KATRINA: WHO SHOULD PAY FOR CLEAN-UP?An Economics Professor tells Fox News that federal aid for disaster ravaged areas is unconstitutional:..if we look at Article One, Section Eight of the United States Constitution — and I encourage all Americans to look at that before we start opening up our tax coffers to pay for all of this — we have every obligation to provide for New Orleans in Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1124559601769888172005-08-20T10:35:00.000-07:002005-08-20T10:40:01.776-07:00SOMETHING DID GO WRONGAn Army intelligence officer, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, is alleging that his unit, known as "Able Danger," had identified two of the three cells involved in the 2001 terrorist strikes more than a year before the attacks.According to the Associated Press:the unit had identified Sept. 11 ringleader Mohamed Atta along with three other hijackers as terrorist suspectsHowever, he Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1123774461387669572005-08-11T07:59:00.000-07:002005-08-11T08:34:21.393-07:00“FREE SPEECH”, ITHACA STYLE(August, 2005, ed.) Today’s Ithaca Journal editorial page is a good primer on what passes for “free speech” in what claims to be “the most enlightened city in America.”First, there are letters to the editor about recent liberal calls to censor both Rush Limbaugh and "the Wizard of Id" from the city’s airwaves and newspapers.Then there is the paper’s own editorial, whichHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1122033571763048422005-07-22T04:55:00.000-07:002005-07-22T04:59:31.770-07:00Paper: New yellow Ithaca police Beetle: ‘Not striking fear'ITHACA NY--The Ithaca Police have a new patrol car: a yellow Volkswagon bug.I am not making this up.Today’s Ithaca Journal reports that Police Chief Lauren Signer used the year’s patrol car budget to buy two bright yellow beetles for the department, for a total cost of $30,858. One was striped and fitted like a “normal” police car, and Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1120705239892175212005-07-06T20:00:00.000-07:002005-07-06T20:00:39.900-07:00ADM. JAMES STOCKDALE, R.I.P.Retired vice admiral James Stockdale, Ross Perot's running mate in 1992, died yesterday at 81, the Associated Press reports:Stockdale gave a stumbling performance in the nationally televised vice-presidential debate against Dan Quayle and Al Gore and later said he didn't feel comfortable in the public eye. "Who am I? Why am I here?" he asked rhetorically in his openingHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1120495585861002002005-07-04T09:45:00.000-07:002005-07-04T09:46:25.866-07:00AND THAT'S WHAT INDEPENDENCE DAY IS ALL ABOUT, CHARLIE BROWN...From the Finger Lakes Times, a small town paper in upstate New York, comes this combination of good news from Iraq and a nice reminder of what July 4 really stands for:[Spc. Christopher Bean], 20, of Port Gibson, finished up a year-long stint in Baghdad as a truck driver with the 594th Transportation Co., a 101st Airborne division. Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1120318520482527252005-07-02T08:34:00.000-07:002005-07-02T08:35:20.486-07:00SLOW NEWS DAY IN UPSTATE NEW YORK:Apparently, every time a single person tries to talk people out of seeing a movie, its big news in Rochester, New York.A local TV station is reporting that a "a local college student tried to get people to ...not to go to Tom Cruise's latest movie, 'War of the Worlds.'"Fugle believes Cruise is adding to the stigma of mental illness, by talking about his Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1118192014095025252005-06-07T17:53:00.000-07:002005-06-07T17:53:54.156-07:00"NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHINGWRONG WITH IT?"First Hoover, then Lincoln, now "Malcolm X, gay icon":Marking what would have been Malcolm's 80th birthday, Peter Tatchell writes in London's Guardian that "Now it is time to blow the whistle. Young black lesbians and gays need role models."Tatchell, who calls Malcolm a personal "inspiration," cites the 1991 book "Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1117504627593780402005-05-30T18:42:00.000-07:002005-05-30T18:57:07.600-07:00WES CLARK COMPARES BUSH TO DARTH VADERITHACA--Apparently, democrats are tired of comparing President Bush to Hitler, and have decided to compare him to fictional dictators for the rest of the summer.Speaking at Cornell University's convocation on Saturday (May 28), former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark compared the President to "Star Wars" supervillain Darth Vader:"We don't need Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1116853898422444392005-05-23T06:04:00.000-07:002005-05-23T06:11:38.426-07:00DEM CONGRESSMAN BLAMES "REPUBLICAN SPIN” FOR $161,000 IN JUNKET MONEYITHACA"New York State Congressman Maurice Hinchey, recently under fire for “racking up a stunning $161,393 [in free travel] footed by special-interest groups,” is excusing his actions by blaming “Republican spin.” But a non-partisan group tells a different story.Writing in the Ithaca Journal, Hinchey, claims that his trips, to Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1115664111502355142005-05-09T11:41:00.000-07:002005-05-09T11:41:51.506-07:00GANNETT EDITOR: OK TO VANDALIZE PROPERTY, THROW BLOOD ON FLAG A Gannett News editor has called for the dismissal of criminal charges against four anti-war protesters who vandalized an Army recruiting office near Ithaca, New York and poured blood on the office's American flag.Writing in his syndicated column, Dave Rossie justified the actions of the self-styled "St. Patrick's Day Four" as Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1114886140295681272005-04-30T11:34:00.000-07:002005-04-30T11:35:40.300-07:00ITHACA COLLEGE PAPERS STOLEN AS "RACIST"ITHACA, NY—Another college newspaper was stolen and thrown out to protest its “racist” coverage earlier this month.According to published reports, “hundreds” of copies of the April 21 edition of the Ithacan, the official student newspaper of Ithaca College, were stolen and thrown out that evening.One of the thieves was later identified, reports indicate. “Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1114608186957780652005-04-27T06:22:00.000-07:002005-04-27T06:23:06.956-07:00THIS "STRIKE" COULD LAST FOR MONTHS...From the San Francisco Chronicle:Diana Ponce talks on a phone in the yard of her San Pablo home Wednesday, the fifth day of a hunger strike to protest the gathering of armed volunteers, the Minuteman Project, at the Arizona-Mexico border to keep illegal immigrants from entering the United States. Chronicle photo by John O'Hara Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1114368022953747652005-04-24T11:33:00.000-07:002005-04-24T11:40:22.956-07:00THE FLAT TAXMAN COMETH?Okay, fair tax and flat tax advocates, now is our chance to speak up. From today's LA Times, comes the invitation to "Add Your 2 Cents to Ideas for a Tax Code Makeover"Hate the U.S. tax code? Now's the time to speak up.The President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, four months into examining what's wrong with the U.S. income tax system, is soliciting ideas from the Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1112978870749668262005-04-08T09:37:00.000-07:002005-04-08T09:47:50.750-07:00WOULDN'T IT HAVE BETTER TO HOLD A TRIAL?"Man acquitted of murder in gunfight"--Rochester Democrat and ChronicleHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1112272705533617642005-03-31T04:37:00.000-08:002005-03-31T05:03:14.863-08:00WHAT PASSES FOR "INTELLIGENT DISCOURSE" ON THE LEFT TODAY...Comic book artist Alex Ross apparently drew this picture of President Bush for the October 2004 Village Voice, entitled "Sucking Democracy Dry":You hear a lot from conservatives that liberals "hate" the President. This seems to be another example of that.It also seems like a good example of how this hatred has prevented, and is Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1111790899298472882005-03-25T14:47:00.000-08:002005-03-25T14:48:19.303-08:00NEW YORK'S COOKIE MONSTERSHeading into its 21st year without an on-time budget, the State of New York is working diligently to put aside its partisan differences and select....a state cookie.According to the Elmira Star Gazette:Assemblywoman Sandra Lee Wirth, R-Elma, Erie County, has proposed making cinnamon applesauce the official New York cookie."Given both the popularity of the cinnamon Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1109777625949493112005-03-02T07:04:00.000-08:002005-03-02T07:33:45.953-08:00CORNELL CUTS FUNDING FOR PRO-LIFE, OTHER, GROUPS; "ROE" VISIT CANCELLED.ITHACA NY--Following a thirty-three percent cut in its funding, the Cornell Coalition for Life was prevented from bringing pro-life activict Norma McCorvey to speak at Cornell, the Cornell Daily Sun reports. McCorvey is better known as Jane Roe, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case that created the right Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1109271027322983102005-02-24T09:58:00.000-08:002005-02-24T10:50:27.326-08:00DEAN ADMITS: TROUBLE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY IF NOTHING DONEITHACA NY—Newly elected Democratic National Commitee Chair Howard Dean, speaking at a Cornell University rally Wednesday (February 23), admitted that social security faced “problems” if not reformed, contradicting the claims of many in his own party.According to the Cornell Daily Sun, which covered the event locally, “Dean pointed out that…Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1109171562717113752005-02-23T06:53:00.000-08:002005-02-23T07:13:32.903-08:00NEW YORK'S "WILLIE HORTON" IN WAITING?The New York Post is reporting that a college student who died of a drug overdose in New York City, was "partying" with a convicted felon out on "work release:"Veronica Hagman, a 22-year-old psychology major...at Western Connecticut State University, met buff inmate Javier Tamez at the trendy Chelsea nightclub Crobar on Saturday night.Tamez, a construction Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1109036092650869102005-02-21T16:50:00.000-08:002005-02-21T17:35:59.886-08:00THE CBS MEMO MYSTERY "SOLVED"Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey, who represents parts of Upstate New York, including Ithaca, the City of Evil, has "solved" the mystery of who forged those fake National Guard documents about President Bush that CBS aired.According to Hinchey, as reported at Little Green Footballs, the culprit is...Karl Rove?!?!...it originated with Karl Rove, in my belief, in Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1108739661390577992005-02-18T06:55:00.000-08:002005-02-18T07:14:21.396-08:00BLACK HISTORY IN ITHACA: A MODERN MINSTREL SHOWITHACA, NY—Instead of pride at the accomplishments of African-Americans, students in Ithaca are being taught that “black history” is little more than exercises in “simulated racism,” and reinforced stereotypes.According to the Ithaca Journal, middle school students spent the day engaged in classes such as "Jim Crow Simulation" as part of a “diversityHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1108392239018269712005-02-14T06:18:00.000-08:002005-02-14T06:48:59.153-08:00AIDS: WORSE THAN EVER?Bad news in the war on AIDS: both New York City and Boston are reporting a "strain of highly drug-resistant HIV that quickly progressed to AIDS."As noted here:"This is just scary. This just throws out the medicine chest," said Dr. Charles Gonzalez, an AIDS specialist at NYU Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital.Modern treatments rely on a cocktail of two to three types of Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1107877574833954692005-02-08T07:12:00.000-08:002005-02-08T07:46:14.833-08:00HOW MANY ELECTIONS CAN ROVE STEAL, ANYWAY?
In an editorial in the Ithaca Journal, Susan Buck-Morss, a "professor of political philosophy and social theory at Cornell University" wrings her hands over the recent Iraqi elections and argues they may not be legitimate.Bush-Morss, in arguing against the election results, attacks the election on issues that including campaign financing, ethnic politicsHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1107485344474071812005-02-03T18:33:00.000-08:002005-02-03T18:49:04.473-08:00MAYBE THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A SPRINGSTEEN CONCERT?Well, so much for Democrat calls for civility:Democrats... booed President Bush twice last night during his State of the Union Address as he detailed his plan to save Social Security, a program that even President Clinton acknowledged eight years ago was in trouble."Thirteen years from now, in 2018, Social Security will be paying out more than it Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1106856649805570592005-01-27T13:10:00.000-08:002005-01-27T12:10:49.806-08:00DEJA VU ALL OVER THE WEBThere must be a glitch in "the Matrix."The "Wal-Mart Living Wage Coalition," of Ithaca, New York, has its own website, which features a picture of a handful of the many committed, "ethnically diverse," men and women of Ithaca who tirelessly work against Wal-Mart's everyday low prices and job opportunities for the disadvantaged class.Incidentally, the exact same committed, Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1106595072823339592005-01-24T11:30:00.000-08:002005-01-24T11:31:12.823-08:00HYDROGEN FUEL NOT SO "CLEAN"
Check out the recent issue of Popular Science. It goes point by point how Hydrogen fuel, as of right now, is not the wave of the future.
It'll increase the use of fossil fuels not only for the process of seperating the hydrogen atoms from water, but also with the shipping from the factories to any fuel stations. A gallon of gas has 2,600 times the energy as a Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1105972392239802612005-01-17T06:32:00.000-08:002005-01-17T06:33:12.240-08:00THE NEXT SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS?The Associated Press is reporting that a New England man has been charged by police with manslaughter for "leaving his girlfriend to drown, after their car crashed ...into a ... pond":The [vehicle] crashed through a guardrail and ended up on its roof in Holly Pond ...early Saturday. Officers caught [the man], soaking wet, nearby.Police said the couple has been Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1105362833347278562005-01-10T05:13:00.000-08:002005-01-10T05:20:59.226-08:00"MOORE" DECEPTIONS
Talk about hypocrisy.Michael Moore made "Fahrenheit 9/11," a film in which he alleged that Bush stole the 2000 election. Now, Moore himself "stole" an election for "Favorite Film" at the People's Choice Awards last night.It turns out that Moore stuffed the ballot box:Moore had the last laugh, taking advantage of the People's Choice Awards' new Internet voting system to Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1104519268858547052004-12-31T10:54:00.000-08:002004-12-31T10:54:28.856-08:00SO MUCH FOR "SUPPORT THE TROOPS, NOT THE WAR"
Today's Ithaca Journal has a letter to the editor from Miriam Rice, supporting terrorist attacks on U.S. soldiers:If the United States is ever invaded and occupied by a more powerful country ... it is likely that Americans will fight back in self-defense. Should this happen, will [the media] call those who fight to defend the independence of the Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1104005538489983392004-12-25T11:27:00.000-08:002004-12-25T12:12:18.490-08:00HOLLYWOOD: THE REAL "GRINCHES"
I'm sitting here, with the wife and kids, being subjected to the festering sore of a movie that is the Ron Howard/Jim Carrey version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."Without a doubt, this is the worst Christmas movie of all time...worse than "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"...worse than "Jingle all the Way"...in fact it's worse than all twenty-four hours of Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1103906219973725802004-12-24T08:36:00.000-08:002004-12-24T08:36:59.973-08:00GOTTA LOVE CAPITALISMThe Associated Press reports on a Portland, Oregon, man who rents live Christmas trees to people who don't want to have to kill a tree:The Original Living Christmas Tree Company founded by John Fogel, 39, has rented out more than 400 Christmas trees this holiday season, starting at $55 for a 7-foot Douglas fir.The trees are taken out of the ground, roots and all, put into Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1103414611060907192004-12-18T16:01:00.000-08:002004-12-18T16:03:31.060-08:00THE MOST GAYEST REINDEER OF ALL...? Think about it:Rudolph is born different. His macho father can't accept it. He even tries to get Rudolph to "stop" having a shiny red nose. His mother is more understanding, but unwilling to stand up for her son against society and her husband. She is reduced, somewhat, to half hearted attempts at chiding Rudolph's father and getting Rudolph interested in "Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1103300469949496712004-12-17T08:16:00.000-08:002004-12-17T08:21:09.950-08:00NO PUN INTENDED, I HOPE
The Auburn, NY, Citizen, heaps praise on a new "domestic violence court" recently instituted in the city:The new court will hear all domestic violence matters, ranging from misdemeanors to felonies. Judge Mark Fandrich will preside, and costs for the first two years will be covered by a $302,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department's office on violence against women.All Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1103030855406760462004-12-14T05:27:00.000-08:002004-12-14T05:30:29.016-08:00OH YEAAHHH....(MORE TALES FROM THE "CITY OF EVIL") Two items appeared on the same day last week in the local paper of Ithaca, the City of Evil:The first was yet another letter from a conspiracy minded Ithaca resident, disgruntled over the election. The writer used, as proof Bush "stole" Ohio, the fact he (the letter writer) didn't get a receipt when he voted. Never mind the fact that Ithaca is Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1101995647992389012004-12-02T05:54:00.000-08:002004-12-02T05:54:07.993-08:00AND TO THINK HE WANTS TO BE U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL...News reports indicate that one of the figures in the growing "Oil for Food" scandal at the United Nations is former fugitive Marc Rich:Rich is suspected of having become one of Saddam Hussein's middlemen in Iraq's illegal oil trade...Rich... and several other prominent oil traders are suspected of making illegal kickbacks to Iraq to win the Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1099977930760492632004-11-08T21:25:00.000-08:002004-11-08T21:25:30.760-08:00MANDATES: THEN AND NOW
Then (1992): Time magazine's cover declares Bill Clinton's forty-three percent of the vote a "Mandate for Change".Now (2004): The media struggles to convince us that George W. Bush's nearly four million vote margin of victory is no mandate.In other words, a clear majority, fifty one percent, counts for less than a minority, forty-three percent.Must be some more of that "Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1099077326147147732004-10-29T13:15:00.000-07:002004-10-29T12:15:26.146-07:00"OCTOBER SURPRISE"...INCOMING....?The blogosphere is abuzz that the SwiftBoat Vets have unearthed proof that Kerry was not honorably discharged.At this point it is all rumor and innuendo.However, it's potentially telling that Kerry has now admitted to Tom Brokaw that his military record "is not public" after months of insisting it was. While such a reversal could just be another Kerry "flip-flopHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1098968484866594842004-10-28T06:01:00.000-07:002004-10-28T06:01:24.866-07:00ITHACA POLICE BAN US FLAG?
A letter writer to the Ithaca Journal reports that Ithaca's controversial police chief, Lauren Signer, has ordered officers to remove the American flag from their uniform:Ms. Signer and the deputy chief of the Ithaca Police Department have decided, in their wisdom, to remove the U.S. flag from the police uniform and put a police patch in place of it.
The men and women Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1097677494880878182004-10-13T07:24:00.000-07:002004-10-13T07:24:54.880-07:00THE OCTOBER SURPRISE: KERRY'S DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE?
Today's New York Sun is reporting that a "Mystery Surrounds Kerry's Naval Discharge":An official Navy document ...opens a door on a well kept secret about his military service. The document is a form cover letter [that] describes Mr. Kerry's discharge as being subsequent to the review of "a board of officers." The article goes on to note:ThereHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1096658537575163452004-10-01T11:57:00.000-07:002004-10-01T12:22:17.576-07:00OBIT ENDORSES BUSH-CHENEY
Today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contained the following paid death notice:Dey, Jeffrey Gordon
Publication Date: October 1, 2004
Born to Eternal Life on September 25, 2004, age 48 years. Loving husband of Mary Dey. Father of Jason (Karina), Christopher, Red Reynolds and PFC Benjamin Reynolds. Loving son of Gordon and Carrol Dey. Dear brother of Brian (Amy) Dey. Dear Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1096459124874215802004-09-29T04:49:00.000-07:002004-09-29T04:58:44.873-07:00CHURCH AND STATE: ITHACA STYLEThe Ithaca Journal (fourth item), is reporting that a public forum will be held in that City on various election issues.The series, entitled "The Morals Behind the Headlines: Election 2004", will focus on "the value dimensions of the issues voters will face in the 2004 elections [including] church and state."Despite a concern over the separation of church and state, Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1096287832449549382004-09-27T05:08:00.000-07:002004-09-27T05:23:52.450-07:00"He trav'led with a gun in ev'ry hand..."
Heading up the week's "irony" department is the news that music legend Bob Dylan, muse to a million hippies and pacifists, believes in handguns for self defense.In his new autobiography, Dylan speaks about how he got the guns, " two pistols and a rifle," to protect himself from his "fans":"At first, it was merely the nomadic homeless making illegal entry Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1095874078249618652004-09-22T10:27:00.000-07:002004-09-22T10:27:58.250-07:00JUST A "GRIEVING MOM"?Liberals, and their willing allies in the media, were aghast when the "grieving mother" of a soldier killed in Iraq was arrested for disrupting a New Jersey appearance by First Lady Laura Bush last week.For example, columnist Jimmy Breslin bemoaned, "they whisked her out of the place and arrested her for using free speech." CBS News, that bastion of accuracy, declared her aHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1095735316187916512004-09-20T19:55:00.000-07:002004-09-20T19:55:16.186-07:00MEMOGATE: A TANGLED WEB BEGINS TO SHOWConnections between CBS, the Kerry campaign and the likely source of the forged documents about President Bush's National Guard service are beginning to develop.The Associated Press is reporting that two Kerry advisors, Joe Lockhart and Max Cleland, spoke to the CBS story's source, "retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett," at least twice before theHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1095626289038411872004-09-19T13:37:00.000-07:002004-09-19T13:38:09.036-07:00JUSTICE IS BLIND...AND, IN NEW MEXICO, CROOKED?
Ralph Nader was booted off the ballot in New Mexico Friday by a State Judge.This, in and of itself, would not be news. However, it turns out that the Judge, Wendy York, is a contributor to the Kerry campaign, having donated $1000.00.As the Albuquerque Journal noted:
[The New Mexico] Code of Judicial conduct ...says in part, "A judge is disqualifiedHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1095129059524810762004-09-13T19:30:00.000-07:002004-09-13T19:33:49.183-07:00YOU'D THINK A GUY THIS RICH COULD AFFORD A TISSUE, IIIHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1094927824649175522004-09-11T11:36:00.000-07:002004-09-11T11:37:04.650-07:00FORGED (?) MEMOS: MORE EVIDENCE?Fellow Blogger Kevin Probasco, brings more evidence to the table that the documents being vetted by CBS are forged.Probasco, who "served as administrative communications officer and assistant chief of central base administration for the 92d Combat Support Group at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington," is familiar the the document formatting of the National Guard Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1094479181284719352004-09-06T06:49:00.000-07:002004-09-06T06:59:41.283-07:00LIBERAL MEDIA: THE SAGA CONTINUES...
What's up with the Associated Press these days?First, their coverage of the Republican Convention contains more "Bush bashing" than a press release from Michael Moore, even going so far as to write stories from John Kerry's point of view. Now they are manufacturing stories to make Republicans look bad:On Friday the AP falsely reported that a crowd at a Bush Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1094234534593472712004-09-03T10:32:00.000-07:002004-09-03T11:06:52.756-07:00LIBERAL MEDIA? WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA?
The following is the opening of the Associated Press article on President Bush's acceptance speech last night, appearing in thousands of newspapers across America:An unpopular war and 1.1 million lost jobs is enough to kill a presidency, so President Bush tried Thursday night to make the election about something else: himself and his leadership style. "Even Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1093989622876761812004-08-31T15:00:00.000-07:002004-09-01T06:12:32.973-07:00MOORE: MCCAIN A "LOSER"
Now that the Democrats' favorite Republican, John McCain, has gone from Kerry's first choice for a running mate to Bush's first endorser at the GOP Convention, he has apparently also gone from "man of principle" to "loser" at least in the opinion of their "intellectual leader," Michael Moore:John McCain, speaking from the podium, mentioned "a disingenuous film-maker", an Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1092158235742629462004-08-10T10:01:00.000-07:002004-08-10T10:17:15.743-07:00KERRY COUNTS ON MEDIA BIAS? The American Spectator (last item) reports that John Kerry's campaign is not overly concerned about the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" movement.The reason? Not the truth (or lack thereof) in the allegations, but the fact that the campaign believes the media is too liberal to give much coverage on the allegations:"'the media wouldn't have the nerve to come at us with Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1091831266457783742004-08-06T15:27:00.000-07:002004-08-06T15:27:46.456-07:00YOU'D THINK A GUY THIS RICH COULD AFFORD A TISSUE II
Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1091535915387372682004-08-03T05:25:00.000-07:002004-08-03T05:25:15.386-07:00Ithaca Police Chief Chosen: Quotas Trump Experience, AgainITHACA--According to the Ithaca Journal, the former aerobics instructor/Democrat who Ithacans voted their Mayor recently has named a new police chief.To the surprise of absolutely no one who knows how Ithaca operates, Mayor Carolyn Peterson passed over the popular and highly qualified John Beau Saul to appoint Lauren Signer, the Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1090931473732341272004-07-27T05:24:00.000-07:002004-07-27T05:32:05.046-07:00MEDIA BIAS: "L.A. TIMES" GETS OUTED
The prestigious Columbia Journalism Review recently did a piece on the Los Angeles Times' placement of political articles within the newspaper. Read the article and learn how the editors made the decision on one day where to put articles on Iraq that are favorable to Bush (buried inside) and unfavorable (page one). It's clear from the dialogue that they don'tHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1089810373287188812004-07-14T05:58:00.000-07:002004-07-14T06:06:13.286-07:00TAX CUTS WORKING...AGAIN
Reuters has an article which helps to demonstrate that tax cuts don't cause deficits, they cure them.According to the article, the "U.S. government posted a larger-than-expected budget surplus in June, propped up by higher quarterly business tax receipts."The higher tax receipts were the result of the economic recovery. The economic recovery was spurred by the tax Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1089745406244036952004-07-13T11:48:00.000-07:002004-07-13T12:03:26.243-07:00FILE THIS UNDER "DUH..."
The New York Post reports that Big Apple politicians are aghast at the fact that "[t]city is sending as much as $11 billion a year more in taxes to Albany than it's getting back in state aid."However, what did they expect?Have these politicians forgotten that the whole purpose of a system of taxation is the redistribution of wealth? Since New York City has more money Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1088484271788286822004-06-28T21:40:00.000-07:002004-06-28T21:44:31.786-07:00"MOORE" LIESThe Smoking Gun finds out that Moore lied about his party affiliation:
Prior to last week's Washington, D.C. premiere of "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore denied that the new documentary represents his de facto endorsement of John Kerry. "I am an Independent," the filmmaker told reporters. "I'm not a member of the Democratic party."
Which is not exactly correct.
New York City Board ofHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1086959458852229132004-06-11T06:10:00.000-07:002004-06-11T06:10:58.853-07:00"MICHAEL MOORE HATES AMERICA" COMING SOONFrom MoviePoopShoot.com, comes the news that Michael Moore may be getting a taste of his own medicine:Michael Moore Hates America is a documentary that forces audiences to rethink the genre. It challenges conventional wisdom and takes on the top documentary filmmaker of all time. Join Mike Wilson as he travels from coast to coast in search of the American Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1086474306574417062004-06-05T15:24:00.000-07:002004-06-05T15:25:21.286-07:00
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN'S FAREWELL SPEECHThis is the 34th time I'll speak to you from the Oval Office and the last. We've been together 8 years now, and soon it'll be time for me to go. But before I do, I wanted to share some thoughts, some of which I've been saving for a long time. It's been the honor of my life to be your President. So many of you have written the past few weeks to say Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1086265814178284372004-06-03T05:30:00.000-07:002004-06-03T05:30:14.176-07:00HERE'S A HEADLINE FOR JAY LENO:Same-sex partners demand actionHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1085108432190599102004-05-20T20:00:00.000-07:002004-05-20T20:00:32.190-07:00RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS DEBUNK KYOTOThe Russian Journal Daily is reporting that "top scientists" over there have confirmed what conservatives and open-minded people of science in the United States having been saying for years: that the Kyoto Treaty is bunk."The Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse gases has no scientific basis Russia's leading scientists said ....the Russian Academy of Sciences said theHanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4001359.post-1084981561291374772004-05-19T08:45:00.000-07:002004-05-19T08:47:04.676-07:00YOU'D THINK A GUY THIS RICH COULD AFFORD A TISSUE:
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