No Shame: Chicago Pols Say Bush Lost Them the Olympics

We all knew that Chicago wasn’t about to blame President Obama for their stunning Olympic flop.  Instead, the city’s politicians decided to mimic their favorite son’s most cherished rhetorical flourish – Blame Bush.  The Sun-Times summarized it by saying that “President Obama could not undo in one year the resentment against America that President Bush [...]

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Five More Ways to Honor the Memory of Ted Kennedy

As you may have heard, our Secretary of Health & Human Services (and presumably our Administration) believes that Congress should honor the memory of Sen. Kennedy by taking over one-sixth of the American economy:
“Hopefully, at every step of the way, people will ask themselves: ‘What would Teddy do?’ and move it forward,” said Health and [...]

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Stimulating Religious Discrimination

Senator Jim DeMint has highlighted a nasty little morsel in the Democratic stimulus legislation:
(2) PROHIBITED USES OF FUNDS.—No funds awarded under this section may be used for—
(C) modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities—
(i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or
(ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions [...]

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