February, 2011

Budget wars: have we lost my mom’s America?

State governors attempting to take fiscal responsibility vs selfish unions
By Lloyd Marcus - Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - Full Story

Alfred E President

Barack Obama resembles, more and more, the hapless, clueless, sappily cheerful mascot of MAD Magazine
By Bruce Walker - Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - Full Story

Barack Obama explained

An Obama supporter struggles to explain why she thinks Obama is a great president
By News on the Net - Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - Full Story

Unions: Dupes, Thugs, and Politicians

Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America’s Promise
By Alan Caruba - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

How To Make the Perfect Bowl of Pasta

Sauce Expert Reveals Tricks of The Pasta Trade
By Guest Column Dave Hirschkop- Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

The Bright Line

Conservatism
By Bruce Walker - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Blacks Who Built the GOP

Black America Forgot its Political Roots
By Guest Column Ken Raymond- Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

No Truth In Left’s Wisconsin Union Support or Its State Budget Surplus Story

Rachel Maddow does not think, she regurgitates, Left talking points
By Warner Todd Huston - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Major Networks, the Lamestream Media Again Shows Hypocrite Colors

NBC Anchor Brian Williams, ABC's Christiane Amanpour, CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge, Today, Good Morning America and the Early Show
By Jerry McConnell - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Laki Locals Defy Taliban With Girls’ School

Afghanstan
By Guest Column ~Story by Sgt. Jesse Stence- Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

More biofuels, More greenhouse gases

Current U.S. and EU ethanol mandates have already produced two huge food-price spikes in the past three years, causing political unrest around the world
By Dennis Avery - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

NOAA Rebukes Gore’s (& Other Warmists’) Snowstorm Claims

Snowstorm Claims,NOAA Finds 'Record-setting snowstorms were the result of natural causes' -- not man-made global warming!
By News on the Net - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Organized Extortion

Would an Eliot Ness of today, please, step forward and defend us, captive taxpayers, from the public sector unions dictatorship?
By Mark Andrew Dwyer - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Uncertainty of Mideast oil supplies boosts value of Alberta’s vast oil sands to U.S.

Alberta supplies more oil than legendary Saudi Arabia, and can supply much more
By Bogdan Kipling - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

No Right to Strike: Calvin Coolidge and the Boston Police Strike of 1919

Coolidge’s responses—one sentence of them, really, “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time”
By David Pietrusza - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

National Guard GED Plus Graduates 10,000th Recruit

Pvt. Corey Blackwood
By Guest Column Capt. Kyle Key- Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Isolationists: the latest breed of NEOs ~ Were the Barbary Pirates fairy tale characters?

A nation, which can prefer disgrace to danger, is prepared for a master
By Christopher Massie - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Reader Comments for Ridin Out the Recession:

By Dub and Deb - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Shelly Mae’s Six Layer Dinner

Shelly Mae’s Brown Rice
By Dub and Deb - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Deb: Cheyenne Saves the Day

Ridin out the Recession With Dub and Deb
By Dub and Deb - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Dub: Turnin’ the Other Cheek

Collectin’ Receivables
By Dub and Deb - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Jackboot Politics: IRS hiring thousands of new workers

There is plenty of room to cut spending ... huge cuts ... but Democrats have a constituency to bribe --- votes to buy --- and that takes money
By Jim Kouri - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Wheat, the Stuff of Revolutions

Price of wheat has soared 114 percent over the past year. Corn has surged 88 percent
By Alan Caruba - Monday, February 21, 2011 - Full Story

Canadian Elitist Academic Intolerance

The suffusion of malevolent leftist academic sentiment on the brain bedevils higher education
By Dr. Samuel J. Mikolaski - Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Full Story

What Are We Doing About Gaddafi’s Bloody Hands in Libya?

Gaddafi does not allow the kind of international media presence that recently flooded Egypt.
By Claudia Rosett - Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Full Story

7 Reasons Iran is an International Menace

Iran is reported to be planning to ship missiles and helping dictator Hugo Chavez with his efforts to develop a nuclear program of his own.
By Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist - Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Full Story

Love your site

Thank you, CFP
By News on the Net - Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Full Story

Diane Poem

CFP Poetry online
By Joseph P. Martino - Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Full Story

House votes 244-179 to kill U.S. funding of IPCC

Waxman, concluding: I don’t see how the gentleman from Missouri can say that this is a ‘nefarious’ group of people.
By News on the Net - Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Full Story

Obama Assaults Democracy by Rejecting Popular Consent

Could Barack Be Anything Besides a Manchurian Candidate?
By Kelly O'Connell - Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Full Story

Good Riddance to Fannie & Freddie

Financial collapse of the housing mortgage market
By Alan Caruba - Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Full Story

Getting Rich Off the Taxpayers: School Administrators Double Dipping Pensions

School superintendents that jump from state to state in order to double or triple their pension takings
By Warner Todd Huston - Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Full Story

A Legacy of Debt

And the older generation is leaving you their legacy – a legacy of debt.
By James Sharp - Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Full Story

Vitamin K2 Essential For Good Bones and Hearts

Preferred Nutrition’s vitamin K2 supplement contains 100 micrograms of vitamin K2 and is available in most health food stores
By W. Gifford-Jones, MD and Diana Gifford-Jones - Sunday, February 20, 2011 - Full Story

No time for “petty-ness”

The Right must unite
By News on the Net - Saturday, February 19, 2011 - Full Story

Coverin’ the Bases Reader Comments:

Plants and Coyotes
By Dub and Deb - Saturday, February 19, 2011 - Full Story

Rizzolo files redundant Motion with erroneous dates

Last minute, desperate move to continue stalling justice in a criminal case
By Steve Miller - Saturday, February 19, 2011 - Full Story

One Week in Kansas

Global warming
By Guest Column Andrew K. Dart- Saturday, February 19, 2011 - Full Story

Odd Man Ow!

Mr. Crawdad, flipping coins for lunch money
By Jimmy Reed - Saturday, February 19, 2011 - Full Story

Food storage, gardening, home canning

Coverin’ the Bases section of Ridin’ Out the Reccesion!
By Dub and Deb - Saturday, February 19, 2011 - Full Story