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Media Matter exposed for the joke it’s always been

In his July 23 Washington Post column, George Will repeated National Review Online columnist Mark Steyn’s false claim that “[i]f you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you’re graduating high school, there has been no ...

From JON HAM, Right Angles,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company,  George Will,  Mark Steyn,  New York Times Company,  Thomas Friedman

All of Kay Hagan’s voice mail accounts are full

My wife tried to leave a voice mail for U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-NC, to urge her to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Harry Reid’s 2,000-page government takeover of health care bill, but, guess what, both voice mail accounts in Washington are full, as is ...

From JON HAM, Right Angles,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harry Reid

N.C. not left out in the race for phantom congressional districts

North Carolina has distributed more than $5.7 million in federal stimulus money to six congressional districts that do not exist, according to Recovery.gov. According to Recovery.org, the six districts, the number of jobs created, and the amount spent, ...

From JON HAM, Right Angles,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Brad Miller,  IBM

Rural areas not immune to nanny-state insanity

Finney said the principal told him the school policy does not allow outside food because it competes with child nutrition standards. “They can’t tell you what to feed your child, as long as it’s in a brown paper bag,” Finney said. “It ain’t no contest. ...

From JON HAM, Right Angles,  18 Nov 2009

Well, Gore’s Nobel Prize wasn’t for science anyway

Al Gore, who was called by a Washington reporter friend of mine in 1988 “the smartest man in the Senate,” shows monumental ignorance on a subject about which he’s supposed to be the world’s foremost expert. He asserts that the core of the Earth is ...

From JON HAM, Right Angles,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Al Gore,  U.S. Senate

So much for diversity on the left

Don Surber finds something interesting in blog log files: Users on the left are whiter, older and more male than on the right. So much for that “angry white men” meme regarding the right. Here’s what he found out about the DailyKos’s users: But old ...

From JON HAM, Right Angles,  17 Nov 2009

Obama jobs plan working in Raleigh

So far this year, more than 54,000 benefits appeals have been filed. At that rate, David Clegg, the commission’s deputy chairman and chief operating officer, expects appeals will set a record this year. To handle the crush, the ESC this year has added 8 ...

From JON HAM, Right Angles,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Americans increasingly immoral, NPR would say

For the first time in a couple of years I listened to NPR on the way to work today. Not only do I feel strangely soiled, but I realized why it will be another two years before I try again listening to the Network of Annoying Voices. I stumble onto some ...

From JON HAM, Right Angles,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NPR,  Gallup

Our president and his staff are economic illiterates

President Obama yesterday called for a “jobs summit” to try to figure out why his stimulus plan is such a spectacular failure. Even the funny math being used by the administration to prop up the jobs supposedly “saved or created” is not fooling even ...

From JON HAM, Right Angles,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

New TVA report contradicts Shuler

U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-NC, and TVA officials earlier had told The Tennessean newspaper that there’d been no contact between the two about a water-access problem, but a new TVA report says that, though there was nothing wrong with contact as long as ...

From JON HAM, Right Angles,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Heath Shuler

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