Bloomberg plans to ban the sale of large sugary drinks in New York. CBS: “Every single menu in New York City could soon be getting a major overhaul if Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way. … In other words, it may soon be time to say goodbye to those Big Gulps, those Slurpees or even […]
May 31, 2012
A prominent former Obama supporter, rep Davis(D) has turned his back on Obama while declaring himself GOP. LAT: “In a post published Tuesday on his website, Davis was vague about his future political endeavors, but declared: ‘If I were to run, it would be as a Republican. And I am in the process of changing […]
May 31, 2012
The Cherokee is back with more stuff. Back on the 20th we said not to pay attention to her, permit her to destroy herself: “She’s buried far too deep in too many other problems to worry about throwing more dirt on and distracting from her demise. Leave this Warren stuff alone, focus on what’s important […]
May 31, 2012
The city that doesn’t sleep cannot seem to wake-up. The people are packing-up permanently. It didn’t just start, like the old Three Stooges Niagara Falls scene, “Slowly we turn, step by step, inch by inch…”, and suddenly businesses and taxpayers are gone. It’s so bad in California they were just caught with their hand in […]
May 30, 2012
Fox: “Diane Tran, an 11th-grade honor student at Willis High School near Houston, was sent to jail for 24 hours last week by Judge Lanny Moriarty and ordered to pay a $100 fine for excessive truancy. It’s unclear how many days Tran missed, but state law reportedly permits only 10 absences in a six-month period. […]
May 30, 2012
CBS: “The bill would reduce annual cost-of-living increases for public employees, such as state workers, university staff and downstate teachers. It also gradually makes public schools and universities pay the cost of retirement benefits for their employees, as Chicago schools already do. It would also shift pension costs for public schools from the state to […]
May 30, 2012
Obama’s 2008 campaign mopped the floor in an effort to sanitize the germs left by the Bush interrogation policies. Before Obama walked into the Oval Office news media followers were focusing on the bitter divide amongst the Bush administration as to the harshness of the methods. A minority were concerned about the pendulum swinging too […]
May 29, 2012
CNS News: “New York State accounted for the biggest migration exodus of any state in the nation between 2000 and 2010, with 3.4 million residents leaving over that period, according to the Tax Foundation. Over that decade the state gained 2.1 million, so net migration amounted to 1.3 million, representing a loss of $45.6 billion […]
May 29, 2012
Obama speaking on Memorial Day: “When you came home, I know many of you put your medals away. You didn’t talk to much about your service. As a consequence, the nation didn’t always appreciate the chapter that came next. So let us also tell a story of a generation that came home, and how, even […]
May 31, 2012
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