I want my NRA TV!: In an effort to bypass that McCain-Feingold unconstitutional campaign finance "reform" law, the
National Rifle Association is looking to buy a television or radio station. If it does buy a station, it hopes to bypass the spending limits of McCain-Feingold. Just goes to show that if you place ridiculous restrictions on how people can raise and spend money in political campaigns, they'll find a legal way to get around that law.
The Commonwealth Formerly Knownly As The British Empire
has suspended Zimbabwe from membership. For those of y'all unaware of the situation there, the former Brit colony is a thugocracy run by a despot called Robert Mugabe who is heck-bent on destroying his country. You can read about the latest news about that country at
NewZimbabwe.com
Gerrymandering at its finest, or, I should say, it's worst.
Some members of Congress are proposing
replacing FDR on the dime with Ronald Reagan.
Some may say that it's silly to be wasting time on such things; I say that the more time they spend on those silly things is less time they have making bad laws that harm us. Besides, I think the man that helped dismantle the Soviet Union and slash taxes deserves to be on a coin.
So SNL had
Al Sharpton guest host this last Saturday, huh? I guess David Duke wasn't available, too busy on the KKK rubber chicken circuit. Well, I'm glad that someone who
wrongfully destroyed a man's reputation and incited race riots is still able to get on TV and have fun.
Mark Latham has just won the leadership of Australian's Labor Party, which in opposition to PM's John Howard's Liberal Party. That means that if Latham's party wins in the next election a majority of seats in the Australian House of Representatives, he'll be the next Prime Minister. Mr. Latham has made
some rather "interesting" remarks about the PM and President Bush that should concern us that support the War on Terror:
Last year, he called Howard, who was visiting Washington, an "a***licker" of the Bush administration, an expression he later defended as "a great Australian phrase." Asked about that term during an interview three months ago, Latham replied, "It looked accurate then and it looks even more accurate today."
Early this year, as Australia considered sending armed forces to participate in the U.S.-led campaign to overthrow Saddam Hussein, Latham called the American president dangerous and incompetent, adding: "We should not be placing the lives of young Australians in George Bush's hands."
Let's pause and ponder on the politicians that Vermont has produced lately:
- US Representative Bernie Sanders, an independent socialist who believes that government isn't meddling in our lives enough
- US Senator Pat Leahy, a Democrat that doesn't have the courage of Sanders to say that he's a socialist.
- US Jim Jeffords, Republican turned "Independent" that in May 2001 suddenly realized that there were (gasp!) conservatives in the Republican Party. This revelation amazingly coincided is a bribe, er, offer from the Democrats to chair some committees if he joined them.
- Former Governor Howard Dean, the now Dem frontrunner to lose against G-Dub featuring the Cheney Experience. He's angry about Bush (typical complaints about the Iraq War, tax cuts, Bush being mean to kittens, etc.) and that's why the far Left wuvs him. He also loves to call himself a "fiscal conservative," a point that is quite arguable.
This goes to show that Vermont needs to be kicked out of the Union.