The thoughts, views, and opinions of some guy in Maryland.
Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky held an old-school filibuster on the Senate floor yesterday. Paul is against President Obama's choice of John Brennan to lead the CIA. Brennan is currently Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser. He also played a central role in Obama's targeted killing by drones of suspected terrorists in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Paul and others have a .... [Continue Reading]
We're at Day One of the sequestration and it already looks like it will be a permanent situation for some time to come. From the Huffington Post (which probably means it was lifted word-for-word from somewhere else): Boehner's office, in a statement describing the meeting, said he and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told Obama they're willing to close loopholes but .... [Continue Reading]
President Obama signed an order earlier tonight that enacts cuts in federal spending, nine percent for non-defense spending and 13 percent for defense spending. These automatic cuts are referred to as sequester or sequestration. It's the result of the White House and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives not being able to come to an agreement as to how to tackle the .... [Continue Reading]
President Barack Obama recently raised some eyebrows when he told New Republic that he likes to shoot skeet while at Camp David. Some people had a problem wrapping their brains around the idea of our president shooting skeet. The reason? Because some people believe Barack Obama is a gun hating liberal bent on robing Americans of their sacred Second Amendment rights. It doesn't .... [Continue Reading]
Last September, the Obama administration started We The People, a program on the official White House website that allows people to submit petitions. If petitions get enough electronic signatures, currently at least 25,000 in a 30-day window, petitions will receive an "official" response. If this program seems like a good way for people to submit stupid ideas to their .... [Continue Reading]
The Washington Post reported yesterday that the Obama administration is considering new gun-control measures as a result of the recent Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. The ideas getting kicked around include: Universal background checks for all firearm purchases, not just for handguns. Track the movement and sale of guns through a national .... [Continue Reading]
President Barack Obama, shown here with daughter Sasha, carried on the stupid Thanksgiving tradition yesterday of saving a turkey from the dinner table with a presidential pardon. He pardoned not one, but two turkeys. If he was in the mood to hand out presidential pardons, why not pick two people sitting in a federal prison serving long sentences for a non-violent, drug related .... [Continue Reading]
U.S. Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney poses for a picture with President Barack Obama and the two share a look made famous by Maroney at the 2012 London Olympics. Maroney won the Silver medal for the vault and during the medal ceremony, momentarily made a face that looked like she was disappointed, or "not impressed" with only winning the Silver medal. People almost immediately began .... [Continue Reading]
Barack Obama won a second term as president earlier this morning, winning both the popular vote and the electoral votes. As of this morning, they're still counting votes in the state of Florida, but because states such as Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, and Pennsylvania all went for Obama, Florida doesn't really matter. Even without Florida, Obama has 303 .... [Continue Reading]
Tomorrow is officially election day here in the United States. Though early voting has been going on here in Maryland and elsewhere, tomorrow is the official big day. Americans will get to choose between re-electing millionaire Barack Obama for a second term, or instead turn the keys over to the White House to former Massachusetts Governor and mega millionaire, Mitt Romney. All .... [Continue Reading]
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