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The whole world is captivated over the missing Malaysian Airlines flight. My theory is that some Muslims decided it was time to meet their virgins. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, you can help search for the missing airline from the comfort of your home, even though modern technology can’t just tell us where the plane is. In fact, it looks like they really had no idea where it might be until the Chinese military said they think they may have found it on a satellite image.
This year, over 70% of all of the money that the federal government spends will be on direct payments to individuals, and a large portion of that isn’t even to poor people. There is a solution to this (and I discuss that in the podcast), but nobody in Washington has the cojones to get it done.
Dear Leader appeared in a town hall for Spanish language media last week and told people that health insurance under ObamaCare isn’t expensive; people just need to be willing to give up their cell phones and cable. Just imagine if a Republican had said this.
Senate Democrats pulled an all-nighter to talk about global warming, but it was neither in support of nor in opposition to any piece of legislation. They did it just to try to get a single donor to give them a lot of money. While the United States is having its coldest 6-month period since 1912, Harry Reid says that global warming deniers are “becoming less credible” due to the bad weather…like snow. Global warming has been so bad this winter that a town in Wisconsin had to use explosives to blow up a frozen creek. Honestly, that just sounds like fun.
Fracking is turning the United States into a bigger oil producer than Saudi Arabia. Take that, hippies.
There was a building collapse in Harlem this morning, leading Rep. Charlie Rangel to play the race card by calling this “our community’s 9/11.” This happened just 7.5 miles from the actual 9/11, and deaths were in the single digits. I’m guessing that a lot more black people died on the real 9/11. Our prayers are with the victims and their families.
Next time the media or the left (but I repeat myself) calls a conservative “stupid,” remember these stories and throw them back in their face. First, Dear Leader went shopping at the Gap yesterday (not a great way to build black street cred, Barry) and didn’t seem to know how a credit card machine worked. Second, Dear Leader misspelled “respect” while honoring Aretha Franklin. Third, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker told about the time he drove to Hawaii from his home in New Jersey. Fourth, Sheila Jackson Lee said on the House floor that the Constitution is 400 years old. That’s not even mentioning the older “57 states” or the Marine “corpsemen” from Dear Leader.
The Park Service knew that World War II veterans would be locked out of memorials on the National Mall, and they prepared their messaging accordingly. I am still willing to give most Park Service employees the benefit of the doubt on the Nuremburg defense; this had to have been ordered by the White House.
This is one of the craziest cases I’ve ever seen of zero-tolerance idiocy, and it may ruin the life of an 18-year-old student just because he had a pocket knife in his car.
Canadian researchers want the government to track food purchases to target neighborhoods with unhealthy eating habits. Here’s hoping Michelle Obama never hears about this idea.
Tales from Government Education: A Detroit-area teacher asked 8th graders to write an essay explaining whether they would rather be slaves or factory workers during the Industrial Revolution.
Americans continue to give up their citizenship in record numbers due to the insane tax code that we have. Here are the stories of five Americans who did just that. Also, our confiscatory corporate tax rates are leading large corporations to send their money overseas, with nearly $2 trillion outside the United States now.
There have been 19 reported cases of measles in New York City in the last month. If you are a parent and you do not vaccinate your kids, you are both criminally negligent and an inconsiderate jerk. This is doubly true in a large city like New York.
A New York City pharmacy paid AIDS patients to skip their medication, while still billing the federal government for the drugs.
Georgia is on the verge of passing a bill that will make driving too slow in the left lane of the interstate an offense punishable by a misdemeanor. What they really should do is revoke licenses for this. I make the libertarian case for laws like this in the podcast today.
Apparently it is possible for condom wrappers to be too sexually suggestive, and those were the condoms that Boston government schools were giving out to students. Fortunately for you, they’re not too sexually suggestive for this podcast.
Science has finally answered the important question of what Scooby Doo’s speech disorder should be called.
The poll worker who voted for Obama multiple times in 2012 has been released after less than a year in jail after it was discovered that she has bipolar disorder. That explains two of the votes, but didn’t she vote six times? Shouldn’t she still be in jail for the other four extra votes?
Beers at sporting events are a ripoff even when you don’t get screwed by paying a higher price for the same amount of beer.
A man has sued Kraft foods because macaroni and cheese “inflicted emotional distress” on him. I think this guy may have very serious problems.
Lena Dunham may quit acting. I hope so, because I’m really scared that one day I may turn on the TV and accidentally see her nude. I refuse to get HBO because I’m scared I may see her naked.
This Week’s Sign of the Decline of Western Civilization: The United States may no longer be able to sell parmesan, muenster, feta, gorgonzola, or other European cheeses due to a trade war. Thanks, Obama.
