KSM’s path to acquittal on a technicality

2009-11-19T23:20:10+00:00

The circus spawned by the decision to try the Guantanamo 5 in federal court in Manhattan is about the spin right out of its big top.

Consider this development chronicled by the alert fellows at Power Line, beginning with a little of Sen. Herb Kohl’s (D-Wisc.) debriefing…

Gus: Keep the 9/11 conspirators at GITMO

2009-11-17T23:19:29+00:00

Assuming a bi-partisan posture and agreeing with New York’s Democratic Gov. David Paterson, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Palm Harbor) says the whole notion about bringing confessed 9/11 conspirators Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al. from safekeeping at Guantanamo Bay to the Big Apple to be prosecuted in federal court is a…

Fun with imaginary numbers, stimulus-style

2009-11-17T23:11:51+00:00

From the alert staffers in the Washington office of U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, this lively update:

After reading the wildly unsubstantiated claims President Obama is making about the success of the stimulus, U.S. Congresswoman Brown-Waite (R-Brooksville) went to Recovery.gov to see for herself how a trillion dollars is being spent:…

Revealed: Obama’s tax-credit field of landmines

2009-11-17T05:43:10+00:00

Because it’s never too early to begin your end-of-the-year income tax preparation strategy, we commend your attention to an Associated Press story about financial landmines laid into last winter’s so-called stimulus package, costly little bombs the Treasury Department says may blow up on more than…

Savings through scutiny? Seeing is believing

2009-11-16T21:33:13+00:00

A piece of legislation—described in a press release from the office of state Rep. Tom Anderson below—sounds like a rather terrific step forward. It would subject the state procurement process—that is, how bureaucrats go about purchasing of stuff—to rigorous analysis.

That’s all well and good, and in many respects sounds…

The astonishingly high cost of health care “reform”

2009-11-16T18:33:31+00:00

Cassie Smedile, U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite’s press secretary, alerts us to parallel reports from publications not ordinarily regarded as Republican-friendly, both concluding – as the GOP has asserted from the start – that Nancy Pelosi’s recently passed health care “reform” bill is bad news. Bad news for seniors, who will…

Fasano scolds Rubio; Rubio scolds back

2009-11-12T23:18:07+00:00

The squabble over who hated the Obama stimulus before they loved it and then hated it once again—or is it the inverse?—just keeps getting better. Now state Sen. Mike Fasano, the New Port Richey Republican, surrogate for Gov. Charlie Crist and an infamous political in-fighter, has weighed in ... only…

Relay rally battles cancer

2009-11-12T22:20:23+00:00

The New Port Richey chapter of the American Cancer Society schedules a relay/rally/party to take action against the dread disease.

Check out the details below:

Join our Kickoff Party for the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of New Port Richey. The Party begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday (Nov.…

The Post’s flawed, but instructive, bias

2009-11-10T22:36:43+00:00

Only among my brethren in the main stream media would someone who supports the following – union card-check, gay marriage, limitless abortion rights – be regarded as politically moderate.

But time and time again that is the narrative lens through which the tale of Dede Scozzafava is viewed.

Today’s

A special Jax Files Weekend

2009-11-07T04:09:33+00:00

Saturday on the Jax Files Weekend, former state House Speaker and current candidate for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate Marco Rubio begins his day in the Tampa Bay area with a visit to the Talkradio 860, WGUL studios. We’ll hear him out on the meaning of Tuesday’s off-year…