American Elephants

Never Fear. The Secretary of Homeland Security is On the Case!

The Elephant's Child — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:52:42 +0000

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The American Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, says that her agency is working with groups across the United States to try to deflect any wave of anti-Muslim sentiment after Thursday’s dreadful massacre by U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim who reportedly expressed growing dismay over the [...]

Just the Facts, Please. We Don’t Need the Politically Correct Version.

The Elephant's Child — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:15:43 +0000

THIS WEEKEND IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON: On Halloween, Police Officer Timothy Brenton and rookie Officer Britt Sweeney were sitting in a car following a traffic stop when shots were fired in a clear assassination attempt. Officer Brenton was killed and Sweeney was grazed in the neck. On Friday, police detectives were pursuing a tip from a resident who [...]

Hardly “My Pet Goat”, but Revealing, Nevertheless.

The Elephant's Child — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:11:09 +0000

It is being described at President Obama’s “My Pet Goat Incident.” The reference, of course, is to the morning of 9/11 when President George W. Bush was reading a storybook to a group of primary schoolchildren. An aide came in to inform the president of the first strike on the twin towers, and then of the [...]

Cool Website of the Day!

The Elephant's Child — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:04:49 +0000

Prowl around enough on the internet and you find all sorts of useful websites. Here is the National Debt Clock, but it is far more than that: Call it “The Control Panel for the Ship of State.” We live in perilous times, and we need citizen activists who are willing to get informed and make themselves heard. If [...]

Committing National Suicide, Step by Step.

The Elephant's Child — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:31:04 +0000

The House passed the bloated, liberty-destroying, job-killing, tax-hiking, deficit-exploding health care bill late Saturday night. The Democrats are so excited. They’ve wanted to nationalize health care just forever, and to hell with the majority of Americans who do not want any part of it. PelosiCare would not go fully into force until 2014, but the [...]

New Democrat Breaks FOUR Promises in First HOUR!

American Elephant — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:42:19 +0000

(Update: Traffic from Drudge appears to have crashed the linked site, if the link doesn’t work, try again later.) That’s gotta be record-breaking dishonesty, even from the notoriously dishonest Democrat party. Brand-spanking new Democrat congressman, Bill Owens (NY-23) has broken at least FOUR campaign promises in his very first hour! Owens told voters he did not [...]

Pelosi Lies to America Again

American Elephant — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:44:53 +0000

Nancy Pelosi breaks pledge to put final health care bill online 72 hours before vote. She doesn’t WANT Americans to be able to read about the vast amount of power she is going to assert over them, the vast amount of money she is going to steal from them, or the vast amounts of liberties this [...]

On the Ninth Day of November, in 1989, the Berlin Wall Fell.

The Elephant's Child — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:20:27 +0000

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. She said: [F]or me America seemed completely out of reach . . . then on the 9th of November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. And this border which had divided a nation, for decades, keeping people in two different worlds, was now open. And [...]

Unending Analysis of the Amazing Environmental Benefits of “Cash-for-Clunkers.”

The Elephant's Child — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:42:13 +0000

Every time I think that there is not another word to be said about the “Cash for Clunkers” program, another bit of information turns up, demanding to be mentioned: WASHINGTON — The most common deals under the government’s $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program, aimed at putting more fuel-efficient cars on the road, replaced old Ford [...]

$2.4 Trillion for the House Health-Care Bill!

The Elephant's Child — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:56:05 +0000

Oh My! The Republican staff on the Senate Budget Committee has published an estimate of the cost of H.R. 3962 (the Affordable Health Care for America Act) when fully implemented over ten years: $2.4 trillion. In August, Stephen Parente, a University of Minnesota expert on health-care financing (and former volunteer policy advisor to the McCain campaign) [...]

The 20 Best Halloween Movies EVER! [Digg]

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:53:08 PDT

It’s that time of year again! October is here, the weather has turned crisp if not downright cold, the days are markedly shorter, and the grocery stores are already bursting with candy and pumpkins.Fall has arrived and Halloween is almost upon us...