Weekend Caption Contest™ Winners

This week’s Weekend Caption Contest™ was another smashing success. The assignment this week was to caption the following picture: Here are the winning entries: 1) (Rodney Dill) – “Oh man…. The price of gas has really gone up.” 2) (fustian24) – “Sad to realize that with the Obama economy, this is your best chance at [...]

May 20, 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More

Rush Limbaugh Does Live in Obama’s Head

On May 14 after news broke that President Obama had once again attacked talk radio host Rush Limbaugh by name, El Rusbo joked that he was “living rent-free in Obama’s head.” It’s hard to fault Limbaugh’s logic on this. After all, the President of the United States of America has used his bully pulpit to [...]

May 19, 2013 / No Comments / Read More

Was the 2013 ‘Photo of the Year’ a Photoshopped Fake?

At the beginning of the year the World Press Photo of the year was awarded to Swedish photog Paul Hansen whose photo “Gaza Burial” took top honors. But only weeks passed before some in the industry began to wonder if the photo had been manipulated in photoshop. Some even said that it was a composite [...]

May 19, 2013 / No Comments / Read More

As Gangs Flourish, Displaying Historical Firearms Illegal in Chicago Museums

Outside of Chicago’s museums gangs are killing each other at an alarming rate. But due to Chicago’s strict gun ban policies, inside those museums curators are not allowed to display historical firearms. In fact, in some cases the museums are not even allowed to store their collections inside the city limits. The matter has become [...]

May 17, 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More

Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Enter your best caption for the following picture: Winners will be announced Monday morning. Update: Winners announced. Click the link to read the winning entries. The contest is now closed.

May 17, 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More

New State Dept. Spokesperson Gets Slammed Over Benghazi

It has been 8 months since the terrorist attacks on our facilities in Benghazi, Libya, attacks that ended up killing four Americans including our ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. Still we haven’t had a concrete explanation about this incident and new State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki didn’t do anything to alleviate that state of affairs [...]

May 16, 2013 / No Comments / Read More

Eric Holder Doesn’t Know

I haven’t had the energy to post on the recent run of scandals rocking the Obama administration. This is mainly due to the fact that I don’t have any faith that the administration will actually be rocked by them in the long term. The media may be angry now, probably over the AP issue and [...]

May 16, 2013 / No Comments / Read More

The U.S. Marshal Service Has Lost Over 10% Of The Terrorists In The Witness Protection Program

CNN’s Jake Tapper has details on the Obama administration scandal of the day, this one based off of yet another Inspector General report. The U.S. Marshal Service had been “unable to locate” two former participants in the federal Witness Security Program “identified as known or suspected terrorists,” states the public summary of an interim Justice [...]

May 16, 2013 / No Comments / Read More

Feds Killing Off Private Bus Lines Based on Fraudulent Study

The story of the coming demise of Chinatown bus lines in New York City is a tale of multiple failures in both government and the media and shows that both have a bias against entrepreneurs that kills new, start up ideas with unfair regulations, faux public advocacy, and dismal reporting. A “Chinatown buss” was a [...]

May 16, 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More

Square Mobile Payment Systems Modifies User Agreement to Prohibit Gun-Related Purchases

Square payment services is one of those new payment applications that merchants can put on a smart phone and, along with the plug-in hardware, is used like a credit card swipe machine to accept payments made by their customers. This month, however, Square has changed its user policy and is now prohibiting merchants from using [...]

May 15, 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More

Sequestration Just Got “Real” For DoD Civilian Employees

Real, as in “your pay is effectively being cut by 20% from July through September”… Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced yesterday that cuts due to sequestration will require DoD to reduce spending for civilian employees in order to meet required budget cuts. Hagel delivered the following message on civilian furloughs: “As you are fully [...]

May 15, 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More

When you lose the New York Times . . .

Once upon a time, you could count on the New York Times to have President Obama’s back no matter what what he or members of his administration did. Not anymore. In its 14 May 2012 edition, the New York Times published an editorial that starts with the following statement: The Obama administration, which has a [...]

May 15, 2013 / No Comments / Read More