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• What Next? PETA Proposes Robot Groundhog

  Posted January 28th, 2010 at 4:00pm in Ongoing Priorities with 2 comments

  Next week, Punxsutawney Phil will make his annual appearance to decide whether we will experience another six weeks of winter or whether spring has finally arrived. However, PETA has other plans — they have demanded that Phil be replaced this year with a robot. You got that right — a robot. More

• What Next? Fish for Fidos

  Posted December 24th, 2009 at 11:59am in Energy and Environment with 12 comments

  Since the United Nations Copenhagen Climate Change Conference ended in complete failure, some on the eco-left are engaging in a bit of gallows humor including Head of Research for Oxfam Duncan Green who writes on his blog: The BBC’s ‘Ethical Man’ (probably another cat lover) has done the numbers. Keeping a medium-sized dog has the same [...] More

• What Next? Feds Want To Take Your Remote

  Posted October 9th, 2009 at 10:53am in Ongoing Priorities with 8 comments

  Earlier this week the Federal Trade Commission yet again proved their uselessness, this time by issuing guidelines requiring bloggers to disclose any payments they receive from the subjects of their reviews or face a $11,000 fine. Because who knows what death and destruction would occur if Timmy failed to let his readers know that Activision [...] More

• What Next? They Are Not Felons, They Are ‘Impacted Persons’

  Posted October 7th, 2009 at 11:16am in Rule of Law with 23 comments

  If you are up to date on your PC lingo, you already know that Columbus Day is imperialist and racist and that we should all be celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day instead. Now the left has come up with a new PC name for felons too. Next Tuesday, the Justice Roundtable is hosting Legislative Breakfast and Luncheon [...] More

• What Next? Empire State Building Honors Communist Anniversary

  Posted September 30th, 2009 at 5:14pm in Ongoing Priorities with 15 comments

  Residents and visitors of New York City will experience an odd phenomenon tonight. The Empire State Building, a symbol of American strength, determination and might will be colored Red and Yellow to honor the 60th anniversary of China’s communist regime taking power. Lighting the building for special occasions is not abnormal, as it has been [...] More

• What Next? Two-Ply Need Not Apply

  Posted September 24th, 2009 at 2:11pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 24 comments

  First they came for your car. Then for your cheeseburger. Now those crazy environmentalists want to control how you wipe. No really. The Washington Post reports: There is a battle for America’s behinds. It is a fight over toilet paper: the kind that is blanket-fluffy and getting fluffier so fast that manufacturers are running out of synonyms [...] More

• What Next? Taxpayers Buying Humor Edition (Updated)

  Posted July 17th, 2009 at 4:03pm in Ongoing Priorities with 9 comments

  While America debates rising deficits, rising debt, and reckless spending bills, the mood in Washington is understandably sour. For the Americans fortunate to have jobs in this recession, there is still a sense of anxiety about what is around the economic corner. For their jobless friends and family, there is only the hope that the [...] More

• What Next? No Showers!

  Posted June 3rd, 2009 at 12:38pm in Energy and Environment with 5 comments

  In an interview with the Washington Post last month Energy Secretary Steven Chu was asked how the United States could reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 with existing technology. Chu responded: It’s not widely believed you can do this in a cost-effective way, and so I think we can develop design tools to help people [...] More

• What Next? American Flag Edition

  Posted May 30th, 2009 at 8:24am in Ongoing Priorities with 38 comments

  Earlier this week, Debbie McLucas, a supervisor at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield, Texas, was told she would have to take down a 3×5 American flag that she had hung near her desk in an office she shares with three other supervisors. Her boss told her a fellow supervisor, who had immigrated to the United States [...] More

• What Next: Bible Study Edition

  Posted May 28th, 2009 at 5:28pm in Family and Religion, Ongoing Priorities with 31 comments

  Do you host a regular get-together with friends to watch your favorite college sports team? (Go Jackets!) What about a ladies dessert pot-luck or a monthly poker night with a small group of co-workers? If you are in the habit of such gatherings, you may want to hear how your rights to host friends at your house are [...] More