Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see [...]
I don't believe that her huge debt is the primary reason for her resignation. While it is a weight, I think she could have survived financially. She could [...]
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has told associates that she will not seek re-election next year, freeing her to pursue a White House bid in 2012, according to two GOP sources.
Palin is to make her decision known later this afternoon from [...]
Esqr. that he had the order of the Congress to acq[ain]t him, that the Congress had by a unanimous vote made choice of him to be general and com[mander] in chief to take the supreme command of the forces raised and to be raised, [...]
Number of comments: 1 There are hundreds of United States flags on the lawn of Notre Dame College Prepatory High School in Niles, Illinois, this photograph captures only a few.
(CNN) -- Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.
Number of comments: 2 Shock waves were sent through both our economy and our political apparatus yesterday. They were swift and significant and in fact, no one has yet fully determined these shock waves. These shock waves occurred after the release of June's employment data. The June numbers showed job losses of 467,000. [...]
I am leaving soon for the Tea Party. If all goes well, and we have wifi, I will be liveblogging the event at my Houston Chronicle blog. I probably will not be able to publish comments until afterwards, but still feel free to leave [...]
When Reagan was elected president in 1980, I was overjoyed. I remembered (and remember) his remarkable speech in 1964 in support of Barry Goldwater. My expectations for Reagan were extremely high. I expected (hoped?) he would repair a badly damaged economy -- and to take extraordinary steps to do so. [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of golf games on consoles. The button pushing just left a great deal of somethings to be desired. But I saw potential in the Nintendo Wii and the Wii-mote system for sports games. The basic Wii Sports package had a short golf game in [...]
For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson's correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now.
The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 by his friend and [...]
Number of comments: 1 Even as we roll into a holiday, the corruption in Illinois doesn't stop. One of the many things wrong in Illinois is that there are too many elected offices, for instance, the position of Cook County Regional Superintendent.
Perhaps the press honeymoon is coming to a close for the President. CBS’ Chip Reid and Helen Thomas challenge Robert Gibbs on Obama’s commitment to transparency and control of the press. [Source: John Allison, III, America You Asked for It]
Thomas to Gibbs: “I’m amazed…I’m amazed at you people [...]
As a nation, we were extraordinarily blessed in our revolutionaries. It wasn’t just that they were brave and determined. So were the avatars of revolution throughout the 20th century who wrecked nations [...]
We haven’t met, but you might remember I was one of the first columnists to tout you for John McCain’s running mate. I cheered you mightily when Senator McCain selected you, and I still believe that you were the smartest choice he could have made [...]
WASHINGTON -- Think an unemployment rate of 9.5% is bad? It could be worse. You could be a teenager.
For teenagers, the summer job market has not been so bleak in generations. During what should be the start of the bustling summer job season, the [...]
Number of comments: 0 The Washington Post reports on Obama's "town hall" on healthcare:
"The president called randomly on three audience members. All turned out to be members of groups with close ties to his administration: the Service Employees International Union, Health Care for America Now, and Organizing for America, which [...]
Number of comments: 0 It's often a topic of discussion among professors in the field of psychiatry and related fields. There is a growing influence by the pharmaceutical industry on research provided on it by those in academia. Often, junkets and seminars are paid for University psychiatry professors by the drug companies. In fact, [...]
Paul Krugman, 2005, saying universal health care would make us more like GM...
Why should we be a country in which hard working people aren't guaranteed health care if they need it? ... But the problem is that ... our economy is starting to look more like Wal-Mart and less [...]
During the last few election cycles there has been a terrific amount of talk and analysis at the state and national level. Much of that analysis focuses on labels ... Red vs. Blue ... Conservative vs. Liberal ... Republican vs. Democrat.
OBAMAFARCE- HEALTH CARE TOWN HALL A REHEARSED SET-UP By Michael D. Shear and Jose Antonio Vargas, Washington Post
President Obama offered a wonkish defense of his embattled health-care reform effort during an hour-long town hall meeting in Northern Virginia yesterday that featured seven questions, [...]
Randy Brinson, a conservative political consultant in Alabama, has been fielding anxious calls for weeks from business interests across the South.
Their concern is massive ad blitz on Christian and country-music stations across 10 states. The ads, funded by a left-leaning coalition, urge support for [...]
Just remember what Obama said: Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. And, that is exactly what someone in the know thinks will happen
Imagine your power bill going up by $200 a month.
Progress Energy spokesman Mike Hughes said Thursday that it’s a possibility [...]
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - This Saturday is the 4th of July, the day when people will gather all over the United States of America to celebrate Independence. Fireworks will light up the sky, families will gather and we will all pause [...]
…If we wish to be free– if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending–if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves [...]
According to NRO, that is the current number of planned “Tea Parties”. Its a growing movement, boys and girls, and we’re going to take our government back. America will never be socialist!
Jennifer Harper of the Washington Times reports: Free speech got a loud boost from Hollywood on Wednesday. Jon Voight has responded to accusations from a critic sympathetic to the American Communist Party, who said the actor had used hate speech and threatened the well-being of President Obama during [...]
In July 2008, the Communist Party U.S.A. picked their choice for POTUS......
Now that they have accomplished that goal, it's time to move forward. It's a new deal day! After all, they still have Supreme Court Justices to still elect and news stations to [...]
The Internet makes people crazy. We all know this. The guy on the message board who just called you a shitclown for owning a different video game console than him probably would have been perfectly polite had you met in real life.
Number of comments: 0 A new gnu (aka wildebeest - which is a really grumpy critter) from ZooBorns:
Extinct outside of conservation areas in their native Africa, this leggy baby black wildebeest is a welcome addition to the Newquay Zoo in the UK. Like all wildebeest, black wildebeest are known for their quick [...]
Dozens of "temporarily out of stock" signs dot the shelves of some state liquor stores, and store managers say they're not sure when their complete product line will again be available.
Number of comments: 0 Pressure mounting from all sides as economic drag continues
Stop Socialism Now:
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — A little more than a week ago, President Barack Obama said it was “pretty clear” that unemployment would exceed 10%. Unfortunately for him, he’s getting closer to being right.
A Republic… IF We Can Keep It! A commentary by J. D. Longstreet ************************************
The story is told that when Ben Franklin emerged from the Constitutional Convention an anxious lady asked him what kind of government they had given us. His famous reply was: [...]
Are you buying a house? Or you are currently about to sell your own house? Sometimes, buying or selling the property isn’t that easy as we imagine it before. Selling or buying some property need good network and some luck. Well, let’s not talk about lucks here because that would [...]
Thomas More Law Center: ANN ARBOR, MI – Yesterday ( 7/1/09), seven Texas-area Muslim organizations filed an appeal of the unanimous ruling of the Texas Second Court of Appeals at Forth Worth, which protected the free speech rights of internet journalists and at the same time dealt [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today released a new YouTube video targeting the failure of Washington Democrats trillion-dollar stimulus bill and asking where are the jobs? The tongue-in-cheek web video, inspired by a classic 1984 TV commercial by now-Senate Republican Leader [...]
The Star Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics were written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 and set to the 1780 music of John Stafford Smith. The song was formally adopted as our country’s national anthem in 1931. The lyrics are below. [...]
Michael Jackson's memorial service will be held at two separate venues on Tuesday morning -- the main event will be at the Staples Center and a simulcast will [...]
Number of comments: 0 "Courtny Gerrish exposes Dirty Dining."
This week's target by TMJ4: Gyros West on Moreland Blvd. in Waukesha.
It was a return visit for the Dirty Dining Squad. Gerrish was there last year. Alas, this time around the restaurant had some of the same problems in [...]
Number of comments: 0 Michael Jackson was born in Gary and spent the first ten years of his life in the Northwest Indiana steel town. His personal life was a series of disasters, and it's likely his bizarre behavior contributed to his drug use. Or was it the other way around? [...]
Number of comments: 2 What if a corrupt far left billionaire got together with a corrupt but effective grassroots group in an effort to radically change America ? That's exactly what's happening between George Soros and ACORN. Think of ACORN as instruments of George Soros grand plan. Soros wants to elect far [...]
And any piddling liberal who dares call this an “overseas contingency operation” will really, really tick me off…
Thousands of U.S. Marines descended upon the volatile Helmand River valley in helicopters and armored convoys early Thursday, mounting an operation that represents the first large-scale test of the U.S. military’s new [...]
It seems we all love a list, and twitter is like no other for making us want to rank and list. Here is my own list of Top 50 #nwindiana tweeps to follow. Obviously you can [...]
[Palin] is not a serious candidate for the presidency. She had to go home and study and spend a lot of time on issues in which she was not adept last year, and she hasn't. She has to stop speaking in clichés and platitudes. It won't work. [...]
It's always a bit difficult not to be sappy about the Fourth, which I insist on calling The Birthday of the Modern World. But a reader sent me a letter that contains two great paragraphs:
Long before the modern rationalizations for the "benign" nanny state, Confucius had [...]
Number of comments: 0 Working with the Ulster Heritage DNA Project has been fascinating. History is much different in reality than the pre-packaged often agenda driven pulp variety we are commonly asked to digest, and Ulster history is more complex than most. Now this could drive us to tears, but really it should not, [...]
WASHINGTON -- Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything [...]
Number of comments: 0 Sea-fog in the morning and sea-fog at night. Windy and sunny during the day with highs of 60 to 70F. Cool and misty at night with lows of 45 to 55F. No tornadoes, no hurricanes - and no rain. Is that perfectly boring or boringly perfect?
Number of comments: 5 What is Freedom? Is it just something we made up, or is it a God given right? Well it seems that in the United States Senate, they could care less about your Freedom, and more about exulting their power.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled bible quiz to give our readers breaking news concerning the possible state of Michael Jackson just two days before dying. Jackson seemed OK while rehearsing for the upcoming first show. Speculation that had been popular that somehow the mega-pop star was frail and even sickly [...]
There are hundreds of United States flags on the lawn of Notre Dame College Prepatory High School in Niles, Illinois, this photograph captures only a few.
Even as we roll into a holiday, the corruption in Illinois doesn't stop. One of the many things wrong in Illinois is that there are too many elected offices, for instance, the position of Cook County Regional Superintendent. 
