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Q: What do you call 25 skydiving plaintiffs' lawyers?

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 13, 2008 · Comments (4)

A: Skeet. Okay, how about this one: Q: How many plaintiffs' lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Three. One to climb the ladder. One to shake it. One to sue the ladder company. * * * Speaking of lawyers and tort lawsuits: Bush administration crafts rules to... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (9 votes cast)

The check is not in the mail

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: May 10, 2008 · Comments (9)

Some of us have begun receiving those tax rebate or economic stimulus checks. A certain group of married US citizens won't be getting their share. From the San Jose Mercury-News When Congress passed an economic-stimulus package giving hefty rebates to most taxpayers, it tried to make sure that illegal immigrants... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.5/5 (8 votes cast)

Appeals Court Shoots Down NYC Lawsuit Against Gun Industry

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 30, 2008 · Comments (6)

Click the below link to read about a noteworthy court decision that deals with the intertwined topics of legislated tort reforms, partisan politics, the federal judiciary and so-called "gun control."... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (12 votes cast)

Rx For Better Healthcare

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 30, 2008 · Comments (5)

Click the below link for info and musings about the Bush administration's health savings accounts and the related issues of tax policies, the liberal media, partisan politics and legislative reforms.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (5 votes cast)

Congress Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 24, 2008 · Comments (2)

Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democrat scheme to subject the country's business community to waves of frivolous and vexatious job discrimination lawsuits. Democrat leaders pushed for a vote on the bill with full knowledge it would fail as an election year stunt that specifically was designed to rile up... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (7 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 5, 2008 · Comments (7)

Today's winner is Republican Congressman Rep. Patrick McHenry. He gets the award for the following. A North Carolina congressman has apologized for calling a contract employee in Baghdad a "two-bit security guard." Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., used that term when talking about a visit to Iraq where he was denied... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.5/5 (13 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 28, 2008 · Comments (4)

Today's winner is Congressman Albert Wynn. He gets the award for the following. WASHINGTON - Maryland Congressman Albert Wynn says he's leaving Congress before his term ends to take a job at a Washington law firm. The Democrat was defeated in a primary election last month. He said in a... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.5/5 (8 votes cast)

GOP rebellion in Alaska

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 16, 2008 · Comments (14)

How often is it seen when a Governor endorses a challenger over the long-time incumbent in a Congressional race. From AP- ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A state Republican convention that could have unified a troubled party descended into infighting Friday, with the lieutenant governor announcing his intention to unseat a congressman... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.9/5 (9 votes cast)

The Privileged Class

Posted by DJ Drummond · Published: March 13, 2008 · Comments (26)

One of the mostly untouched subjects in debates between Conservatives and Liberals, is a direct discussion about Class Warfare. On the one hand, it is patently obvious that Liberals believe that Society is divided into various cultural and economic strata, which they blame for a number of perceived injustices. On... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (18 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 15, 2008 · Comments (11)

Today's winner is Congressman Henry Waxman. He gets the award for the following. A day after a dramatic, nationally televised hearing that pitted Roger Clemens against his former personal trainer and Democrats against Republicans, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said Thursday that he regretted... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (7 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 13, 2008 · Comments (15)

Today's winner comes from the Congressional hearing into whether Roger Clemens used steroids or HGH. Our elected leaders have better things to do IMHO. Our winner today is Congressman William Lacy Clay. He gets the award for the following. Rep. William Lacy Clay, a Missouri Democrat, asked Clemens what uniform... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (8 votes cast)

Senate Votes to Grant Legal Immunity to Telecom Companies for Warrantless Surveillance, ACLU defeated -- again

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: February 12, 2008 · Comments (41)

The Senate voted 67-31 on Tuesday to grant legal immunity to telecom companies to protect them from potentially-vexatious lawsuits in connection with their cooperation with the federal government in the post-9/11 investigation of potential terrorist suspects, designed to help prevent another mass-casualties attack. The vote was a defeat for the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (12 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: January 30, 2008 · Comments (12)

Today's winner is Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite. She gets the award for the following. U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, was complaining about parts of an economic-stimulus package when she referred to residents of Puerto Rico and Guam as "foreign citizens." ". . . The bill sends hundreds of millions of dollars... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.8/5 (15 votes cast)

New Welfare Rules Friendlier to Students

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: January 26, 2008 · Comments (9)

Welfare Guidelines Eased for College and Vocational School Students Welfare recipients who go to college will be able to use up to a year of classwork to meet the program's work requirements and no longer will need to have their homework supervised for that time to count. Those rule changes... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (7 votes cast)

Senate Backs Bush on Wiretaps

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: January 24, 2008 · Comments (13)

The U.S. Senate on Thursday rejected an attempt by the chamber's liberal wing to weaken the Bush administration's ability to fight the global war against genocidal Islamic terrorists. By a 60-36 vote, Senators defeated a proposal to give the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court increased oversight powers over wiretaps and... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (14 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: January 17, 2008 · Comments (8)

Today's winner is Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur. She gets the award for the following. U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur came to a House committee hearing on Thursday prepared to ask U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tough questions about his involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis. Unfortunately, she was questioning the chairman of... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (15 votes cast)

Big Pig takes Pork crown

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: January 15, 2008 · Comments (10)

The Democrats may not have much to show for their vaunted agenda after taking control of the Congress last year, but they have excelled in at least one area: congressional pork. And no one was more successful at it than Abscam's "unindicted co-conspirator," the Round Mound of Money Found, the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (19 votes cast)

Congress

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: December 19, 2007 · Comments (2)

Here's a summary of the week thus far in Congress: -- By Wednesday afternoon (EST) if not sooner the full Congress will have appropriated another 70 billion dollars for Iraq and Afghanistan. Here's a link to a synopsis by the liberal wire services. -- Speaking of Iraq, the Senate on... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (9 votes cast)

Democrats' tax dilemma

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 15, 2007 · Comments (0)

One of the Democratic Congress' consistent themes has been their desire to "roll back" tax cuts "for the wealthy." The simplest way for them to accomplish this goal is to allow the last round of tax cuts implemented to just expire in 2010, or to only extend them for "middle... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.1/5 (7 votes cast)

C.C.C.ongress.P.

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: December 13, 2007 · Comments (5)

Tax Hikes The House on Wednesday for the second time in 7 days passed a de facto tax hike under the guise of fixing the Alternative Minimum Tax: 226 / 229 - 99% - Democrats in favor of de facto tax hike 0 / 190 - 0% - Republicans in... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (17 votes cast)

Democrats cave to Bush - again

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 13, 2007 · Comments (6)

President Bush continued his string of victories over the Democratic Congress as leaders in both House and Senate acquiesce to his spending limit demands, reports Alexander Bolton for The Hill: Senate and House Democrats backed down Wednesday from a spending showdown with President Bush. The Democrats' capitulation Wednesday on the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (9 votes cast)

Eric Cantor's tribute to the Democratic Congress

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 6, 2007 · Comments (7)

Representative Eric Cantor (R - VA) salutes the accomplishments of the Democratic Congress: Via Gateway Pundit. Too bad it's too late for Cannes - maybe next year?... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (15 votes cast)

The latest on Politics

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 5, 2007 · Comments (0)

With less than a month remaining before the first votes are cast for President in 2008, these are the most recent posts on the Politics page - which you can also reach with the tab at the top of this page: McCain wins key New Hampshire newspaper endorsement . .... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.3/5 (7 votes cast)

Trent Lott to quit Senate

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: November 26, 2007 · Comments (19)

Mississippi Senator Trent Lott will resign his seat by the end of the year, Michael Kunzelman and Jack Elliott, Jr. report for the Associated Press: Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, announced Monday he will retire from the Senate before January, ending a 35-year career in Congress... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (16 votes cast)

Will You Answer What Congress Won't? The Top 20 Questions pt 20

Posted by DJ Drummond · Published: November 23, 2007 · Comments (11)

Back in late 2004 and early 2005, I sent emails, faxes, and letters to every member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. In it, I asked them for their answer to a set of twenty questions which the readers of Polipundit wanted asked. The... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (9 votes cast)

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