The Failed Record of DOE Capital Investing

From American Spectator: We’re heard a lot about Bain Capital and how it throws people out of work in order to enrich investors, but how about the record of DOE Capital, which has compiled a fantastic record of defrauding investors while benefiting cronies and insiders? DOE Capital is a Washington-based investment operation that looks for [...]

Paul Krugman, Keynesian Idiot: Part 4

Previously: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Kyle Smith has a great piece at the New York Post ripping Paul Krugman’s latest book: “End This Depression Now!  We Need An Extraterrestrial Invasion!”  Well, the first part of that is the book title.  Really, it rips much of Krugman’s idiotic Keynesian philosophy, one that Krugman is [...]

Gunwalker Update: Waiting For Godot, Working Around Boehner

Via Sipsey Street, from CBS News: (CBS News) Rep. Darrell Issa, the chair of the House oversight committee, is accusing the Department of Justice (DOJ) of failing to fully cooperate in the ongoing investigation of the for the so-called “Fast and Furious” gunwalking operation by likening the situation to the Samuel Beckett play “Waiting for [...]

The ATF and Dirtbag Informants

Via Sipsey Street Irregulars, from the Seattle Times: A felon with a lengthy history of violence against women, Jackson was sentenced to 10 years in prison April 13 for sexually abusing an 18-year-old woman and holding her against her will for days inside a cheap South Seattle motel last year. The woman told investigators Jackson [...]

California and the Gun Ban Mentality

To preface this, California currently bans “assault weapons” based on cosmetic reasons.  They ban rifles based on whether they have a pistol grip, a detachable magazine, a collapsing stock, or a “shoulder thing that goes up“. This guy explains what a “bullet button” is and how it works, and why it’s necessary in California.  Basically, [...]

Gunwalker Update: When You’ve Lost Communist Van Jones…

Via the Daily Caller: During a radio interview Wednesday night, former Obama “green jobs czar” Van Jones broke ranks with current and former administration officials and ripped Attorney General Eric Holder for his handling of Operation Fast and Furious, the failed gun-walking operation that trafficked thousands of firearms across the Mexican border. “I believe that if [...]

Fingerprinting Illegals, Richard Ramirez, and Dead Cops

Via HotAir: A program that gives federal immigration officials access to the fingerprints of undocumented immigrants booked into local jails will start Tuesday across New York state despite staunch opposition from advocates and lawmakers, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo. A representative of the immigration enforcement agency is quoted as saying that the program has already delivered [...]

Gunwalker Update: Justice Department Contempt Draft, ATF Planning More Gun Control

Both from David Codrea, one of the original reporters on the story of Operation Gunwalker/Fast and Furious. Issa Sends Contempt Draft To Supportive Democrats: House Oversight Committee on Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent a letter today to Jason Altmire, D-Pa., and 31 House Democrats who wrote to President Obama in June, 2011 “to [...]

Democrats Trying to Stop Self-Defense

Evan Sayet’s famous “How Modern Liberals Think” speech postulates that the modern liberal, the Democrat, the leftist, is not just wrong most of the time, but is in fact invariably siding with evil, failed, and wrong.  They’re proving it here. Via Drudge, from the Washington Times: House to Vote on Trayvon Amendment House Democrats said [...]

Gunwalker Update: Congress Drafting Contempt Citation… About Time, Ya’ Think?

HotAir has it here. About damn time.  Now when are they going to serve it? The CBS clip omits one important fact, and instead fills it in with a lie.  Sharyl Attkisson, while important, didn’t break the story of Fast and Furious.  That was left to David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh. Mike V. at Sipsey [...]