House pulls plug on health law funds
Right on! House today approved several amendments to block significant areas of funding for Obamacare.
Tag: budget
“Couldn’t he pretend he’s president?”
How to follow the events in Wisconsin
How to follow the events in Wisconsin.
More Webb budget troubles
According to its manager, the budget troubles of the James Webb Space Telescope will likely keep it on the ground until 2016.
This is terrible news for space-based astrophysics. Until Webb gets launched, NASA will have no money for any other space telescope project. And since all the space telescopes presently in orbit are not expected to be operating at the end of the decade, by 2020 the U.S. space astronomy program will essentially be dead.
Then again, there is the private sector, as Google Lunar X Prize is demonstrating.
U.S. military turns to private sector for its satellite communications needs
Now, was that so hard? The U.S. military is turning to the private sector to fill its satellite communications needs.
Boehner says spending must be cut, but Senate Dems won’t budge
The Republicans in the House are insisting that there must be some spending cuts before they will agree to a continuing resolution. Senate Democrats are refusing any compromise.
The result will be a government shutdown. And the fault, as far as I am concerned, will lie with the Democrats, who are the ones screaming shutdown almost like they can’t wait for it to happen.
To be a Republican lawmaker in Wisconsin means facing threats of violence
To be a Republican lawmaker in Wisconsin means facing threats of violence. Key quote:
[Republican state senator Randy] Hopper has received threatening phone calls and e-mails. These are threats of a physical nature. “We are working with law enforcement in my district. They are watching my home and my business.” Other Republicans have had their homes and businesses threatened, too. The unionists have demonstrated outside those homes and businesses.
A menacing old phrase comes to mind (and has been used by others, in talking about events in Wisconsin): We know where you live. [emphasis in original]
Squeals from the media
Squeals from the media. Key quote:
Now that budget battles have begun in earnest all around the country, those advocating spending cuts, Democrat and Republican, had better not expect any help in furthering their cause from the mainstream news media. In fact, the news media might be their most formidable foe. How so? Well, now that we know the targets of the cuts, the news media, suckers for a sob story, are already throbbing with carefully orchestrated, heart-rending tales about what devastation those cuts will cause.
Union protesters fill Ohio Statehouse
Now for some union squealing in Ohio: Union protesters fill Ohio statehouse.
Tennessee bill targets teacher collective bargaining rights
The historical illiteracy of the Wisconsin union protesters
The historical illiteracy of the Wisconsin union protesters. The best is the photo of the protester with the sign “Impeach Bush.”
Democrats flee to avoid participating in Wisconsin budget vote
The battle in Wisconsin: Democrat Senators in hiding to avoid participating in Wisconsin budget vote.