Let’s see, we had a housing market collapse because of risky liberal schemes that lent money to people who had no business taking on such loans but did line the pockets of a lot of DC insiders. The market collapse caused every home owner in America to lose massive amounts of equity (read – savings), [...]

Well, it has been a while since I dusted off The Duh! Files, but here is one for the record: The health care overhauls released to date would increase, not reduce, the burgeoning long-term health costs facing the government, Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf said Thursday. … The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, [...]

  It’s been a while since I dusted off the Duh! Files category, but this news article cries out for the label: Holder: Closing Gitmo won’t be easy … Closing Guantanamo, he said, “will not be an easy process.” … “It’s going to take us a good portion of that time to look at all [...]

Ron Paul won’t win the GOP nomination! Friday night, Representative Ron Paul, a long-shot G.O.P. candidate from Texas, basically conceded that he’s not going to win the party’s nomination. Seems Ron Paul is the last person on Earth to figure this out – which says a lot about his powers of observation generally!

It has been a LONG time since I have dusted off the “Duh! Files” to blog on the blatantly obvious. But I couldn’t pass this up. The Democrat House Whip notes that success in Iraq would split the Dems and make a surrender/withdrawal impossible: House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that a strongly [...]

It seems everything coming out of DC is pretty inane and idiotic, so I have not had to use the Duh! Files tag for sometime. But occassionally something bubbles out of DC so ridiculous it is hard to believe anyone ever debated the idea for even a split second – let alone two years. Here [...]

Obviously unsatisfied with her second straight slur at CPAC, Ann Coulter is now trivializing murder. Is this acceptable discourse? I don’t think so.

This is a bit off the beaten path, but it is frustrating to see the federal government giving indications that it is going to fight the merger of XM and Sirius. Unless they have proof of nefarious intent, then they need to lay off. The biggest reason I have NOT purchased satellite radio is the [...]

Over at Captain’s Quarters, there is a discussion of civility. On the previous thread is what appears to be his response to Ann Coulter’s comments. It’s a good post, but the comments at the second link are instructive as well. They are part of the reason that Republicans got spanked in the 2006 mid-terms. Conservatives [...]

What happens when you disarm law abiding citizens so that only criminals have weapons? Simple: More criminals feel comfortable commiting crimes with guns (allows them to control the situation). Ask Washington DC, which has one of the nation’s bans on personal firearms. And then come across the River to VA where we have conceal and [...]

The news media is all atwitter today that Hillary wants to be President. Well – Duh! Why did she pretend to be a NY resident so she could sit in a Senate seat for so many years and do what again? Think Hillary could stand up to Bin Laden? Think Hillary could keep her notorious [...]

You think the Western governments have their act together after 5+ years of adjusting to the post 9-11 world and then you read something like this and you just have to wonder what people are doing all day long: The Government’s terrorism watchdog is to call for tighter checks on executive jets arriving in Britain [...]

Reports out today Iran won’t give up their nukes. Duh! Who was naive enough to think they would? In fact, who was naive enough to think all the waffling and attempts at appeasement by the UN and EU did anything but convince Iran they had nothing to worry about from the impotent West? This one [...]

Folks in the media are all atwitter with the idea Iraq could sink into civil war. Here from a US Commander and here from a departing UK Ambassador to Iraq. That has been a concern and possibility from before the invasion and remains the one top risk to success. Is it possible? Well, duh! Yes. [...]

How can the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza be stopped through a cease fire? Well, the requirement for cessation of hostilities has always been the same: Israel would agree to a cease-fire in its six-day-old offensive against Hezbollah if the Lebanese guerrillas withdraw from the border area with Israel and release two captured Israeli soldiers, [...]