Record Tax Receipts: Balanced Budget by 2009

from Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein
The U.S. Treasury Department reported a gusher of tax revenue last week. Tuesday alone, the Treasury received $48.7 billion from individual taxpayers as their final tax payment for 2006, an all-time single-day record, and one-third higher than the same day last year.
Based on information available through Friday, we [...]

Gotcha! (from a famous ‘Sun’ headline in the UK).

[editor's note,  FYI -- here is a link to the background story. ]

Melting Arctic Sea Ice: Bad News for Iran

Science Daily — Arctic sea ice is melting at a significantly faster rate than projected by even the most advanced computer models, a new study concludes. The research, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), shows that the Arctic’s ice [...]

Okefenokee Fire

An image of the smoke from the Sweat Farm Road Fire in southern Georgia is captured by NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on April 17, 2007. The fire exploded from 1,000 acres to more than 20,000 acres in less than 24 hours between April 16 and 17 and strong winds [...]

Edwards: unfit for CIC

I’ve been going back to John Edwards’ whimsical assertion that there is no war on terror.
This is a man who would position himself as a populist– but, with a $400 haircut and a multi million dollar home carved out of the NC forest; a man who distrusts and dislikes his neighbor because he owns guns; [...]

Under Pressure

Saturday nite, with that little ole band from Texas……………………………………………………Enjoy

G’nite y’all

There is no War on Terror

I missed the democrat press conference debate Thursday night. And, to read the reviews, it was pretty much a non-event.
So, it came as a surprise to me to learn that there was some significant news that didn’t make the MSM after all. I would have missed it completely had it not been posted [...]

Hasta Luego…Sandmonkey!

The blogosphere has lost a voice of hope and freedom, and possibly one of the finest ranters known.
Friend of the world, and valuable info source for all things Egyptian, Rantings of a Sandmonkey has called it quits.
In his last post, he explains why.
Today is going to be the day that I’ve been dreading for quite [...]

7/7 mastermind tours Club Gitmo

7/7 ‘mastermind’ is seized in Iraq
The al-Qaeda leader who is thought to have devised the plan for the July 7 suicide bombings in London and an array of terrorist plots against Britain has been captured by the Americans.
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former major in Saddam Hussein’s army, was apprehended as he tried to enter Iraq [...]

Macho Mo’.

Utah allows guns on campus

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Brent Tenney says he feels pretty safe when he goes to class at the University of Utah, but he takes no chances. He brings a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic with him every day.”It’s not that I run around scared all day long, but if something happens to me, I [...]

Afghan district falls. Should dems surrender now or later?

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban conducted a raid in Afghanistan’s volatile south and took control of a provincial district, killing five people including the district chief and the head of the district police, the deputy governor said Friday.
The Taliban launched the attack Thursday evening on the Giro district of Ghazni province and during an [...]

Major terrorist cell busted in Saudi

Breaking news: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Fox News is reporting that a major operation by Saudi authorities has uncovered a plot to destroy Saudi oil fields. Large caches of weaponry and money were discovered, some buried in the desert sand. Fox reports the arrest of 172 terrorists in the operation.
~Developing…updates to follow
Update [...]

A rendezvous with destiny

As the democrat party wrings their hands in a desperate attempt to decide upon an official date of surrender in Iraq, I am reminded by a speech by Ronald Reagan, some 43 years ago…
Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over [...]

SCOTUS poised to strike down McCain-Feingold

In a NY Sun report from Jeff Goldstein, if the indications gleaned from yesterday’s oral arguments are correct, the Court is leaning toward striking down key First Amendment provisions in the McCain-Feingold bill related to campaign spending by grassroots organizations. Ironically, this could work in Senator McCain’s favor in the Presidential primaries, effectively removing [...]

Two out of three bloggers prefer Nuke™ brand carbon credits

Fiona Harvey and Stephen Fidler in London In the (UK) Financial Times report on the growing scam emanating from the do-gooders:
Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on “carbon credit” projects that yield few if any environmental benefits.
The FT investigation found widespread failings:
■ Widespread instances of people and organisations buying [...]

The Lonely Walk

Spook 86 follows up on his earlier piece, The most dangerous job in Iraq, pointing to Melissa Nelson’s excellent report from Eglin AFB. Here is a brief excerpt:
The abandoned truck-mounted rocket launcher didn’t belong on a road approaching sprawling Camp Liberty in Iraq.
Sgt. Timothy Weiner, Airman Elizabeth Loncki and Airman Daniel Miller [...]

Reid a Defeatist?

What’s going on at Walmart?

I like Walmart.  On my birthday last November, they were running a $399 special on Compaq laptops.  Some of y’all asked me how long I thought a $399 laptop would last.  I got the answer today when it fizzled out.  But, it’s not what you might think.  You see, I had this 7:00 am conference [...]

Who would let a kid…..? Beggers belief.

Laurie and Sheryl’s Excellent Adventure

Kevin Kernen of CNBC had the opportunity to interview two of the leading global warming cheerleaders a couple of days ago. And, although it appears that Kernen attempted to have a straight interview, any deviation from the faith-based mantra of the global warmists was like a major league pitcher throwing curveballs to 12-year olds.
Kernen’s [...]

alQaeda nuke boast: “we will ’shake the Roman throne’.”

AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report.Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on “a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in an attempt to “shake the [...]

The corridor of killing

What if they gave a war and the MSM ignored it?
Well, it’s here. Michael Marizco in Tuscon Weekly has provided one of the most compelling stories of the Arizona border war that I’ve seen. Although I consider myself fairly well informed, much of the report comes as a surprise to me. But, [...]

Sunday Open Thread

“Well, my plans of a day of some leisurely housecleaning interspersed with blogging and ironing followed by building an armature for a concrete sculpture were interrupted by a joyous cry of “Grammaw!” from the little 5-year-old blond-haired cherub. She watched me de-mold the planter I made last night and pronounced it very beautiful, while son [...]

Gun-free zones: recipe for disaster

Thirty-two people dead on a U.S. college campus pursuing their American Dream, mowed-down over an extended period of time by a lone, non-American gunman in possession of a firearm on campus in defiance of a zero-tolerance gun ban. Feel better yet? Didn’t think so.
Who doesn’t get this? Who has the audacity to demand unarmed helplessness? [...]