Congress Adjourned and You Need a Drink
Itâs the Heritage Action Christmas Party # Wednesday, December 17 at 6:00 pm
Itâs the Heritage Action Christmas Party # Wednesday, December 17 at 6:00 pm
[audio mp3=âhttps://hennessysview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/do-police-like-ticket-quotas.mp3â][/audio] What do police officer think about traffic ticket quotas? Hereâs one officerâs thoughts:
Thereâs something happening here But what it is ainât exactly clear Thereâs a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware ââFor What Itâs Worthâ by The Buffalo Springfield
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
[scroll to updates] And, yes, âHouse Republican Leadershipâ is a code word for Ann Wagner.
The danger of jumping to conclusions isnât that you might be wrong. Itâs that your brain will be unable to recognize its error.
Itâs all a lie. It didnât start that way. At first, the Mike Brown protesters were all about Mike Brown and people like him.
The US House of Representatives is not a meritocracy. And thatâs a shame.
If you think the mall protests are about the police, Ferguson, Mike Brown, or Darren Wilson, you could be wrong.
Gratitude, like love, is bound only by our choices. The more we give, the more we keep.
Nixon buck-passed while Ferguson burned. With the cityâs main business district laid to rubble, buycotts wonât have much effect.
I should be in bed. But I canât take my eyes off the images of Ferguson burning to the ground.
I donât want Barack Obama regulating the internet. At the same time, conservatives who believe big corporations are always right better pop their heads out of their Chambers of Commerce.
[caption id=âattachment_15564â align=âalignrightâ width=â300â] Rex Sinquefieldâs Mad Scientist Blimp-Piloting X-Ray Glasses.[/caption] The billionaire with the great big blimp buys another politician.
[caption id=âattachment_15564â align=âalignrightâ width=â300â] Rex Sinquefieldâs Mad Scientist Blimp Piloting X-Ray Glasses[/caption]
_Updated: the original title said âCongress is for sale.â My mistake. I meant Government.
Letâs be honest with ourselves: President Obamaâs unilateral, dictatorial action on immigration is not to benefit illegals.
Governors Republicans were supposed to lose governor seats. Instead, they picked up nine or ten.
Iâm sitting at Reagan National Airport waiting for my flight home. I just spent 24 hours meeting the people who keep America free.
The White House and its corrupt Department of Justice has one chance to change the electionâs outcome.
From about 1978 until the Monica Lewinsky fiasco, the GOP was called âthe party of ideas.
I am scaling back my blogging. I spend about 1-2 hours on most posts.
Maybe this logic sucks, but this is my logic. When I vote, I ignore my positions on issues.
My phone and inbox lit up all morning. Missouri Republicans are FREAKING OUT that Speaker Apparent John Diehl could go down to defeat at the hands of conservative/libertarian grassroots activists.
When people asked me to get behind Rick Stream, I first wanted to make sure that was the right thing.
Accountability? We donât need no stinking accountability. No, Ann Wagner didnât actually say that.
Libertarians want to take over the world and leave you alone. What a refreshing ambition!
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the lame duck.
There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Rep. Ann Wagnerâs Heritage Action Score is a disappointing 59. Itâs about to drop even lower.
I am embarrassed. I am embarrassed that I didnât know about this problem sooner.
If you talk long enough, you can butcher the best joke in the worldâeven the one from Monty Python that the Allies used to win WWII.
At 1:00 PM, Iâll be at 911 Beauty Salon: 9193 W Florissant Ave, St Louis, MO 63136, Cross Streets: Between Ferguson Ave and Canfield Dr.
Hi. Bill Hennessy here. If you can, please stop by 111 Clarkson Executive Park, Ellisville, MO 63011 on Tuesday, September 2 at 7 p.
Sorry Iâm so late on this. This sounds whiny, I know, but I have a really involved week at work this week.
Did you ever wonder why do-gooders and social planners never pay for their crimes?
Thereâs an awesome YouTube video of Jesse Jackson getting skewered in Ferguson.
âAnd then say what? say, âforget youâre hungry, forget you got shot inna back by some racist copâChuck was here?
****UPDATE Tim Jones let me know that Iâm giving the legislature more power than it actually has.
You canât change the world in your living room. Thatâs why a small band of (mostly) white people from (mostly) West County drove to Ferguson (and Dellwood) to shop tonight.
Since the Post wonât run my reply a recent op-ed about the Ex-Im Bank, Iâll publish it here:
Here are some businesses people should frequent: Eat at Sweetie Pies on W.
Guest post by Lee A. Presser On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, I was in Bel-Ridge, Missouri, Municipal Court to plead ânot guilty.
Including muster time and location, rules of conduct, and a little story about smiling.
What did you think when you first heard reports of violence in Ferguson?
DONâT STOP SHOPPING! The Buycott is underway. Great turnout on Thursday. Fantastic support from the media.
The next St. Louis County Executive better brace himself for this: poverty is exploding in the county.
I havenât written about Ferguson because Iâve known too little to add value.
I shout a lot. Not with my lungs. With my pen. Well, not a pen, actually.
Eurozoneâs economy is basically in recession. Walmart lowered expectations. Again. The world is teetering on the edge of World War.
Is it possible that we do criminal trials backwards? In the United States, criminal trials have two parts:
Iâm not being judgmental or rhetorical with that title. Iâm curious how other people deal with capital punishment.
Maybe the chickens are coming home to roost for the GOP in St.
On Saturday, I raised a concern about Erick Ericksonâs handling of Reince Priebus at Ericksonâs annual RedState Gathering.
Many Republican voters pulled a Democrat ballot August 5th, in St. Louis County.
UPDATE: Welcome, Donald Trump fans! Thanks for reading. Yes, itâs true, I have had disagreements with Erick in the past.
I wrote previously that I hate elections. I have many reasons for hating elections.
If you donât get The Missouri Torch delivered to your inbox every day, youâre missing out.
Now that Amendment 7 has gone down in flames, letâs look at highway funding in Missouri.
Go Ed! A few weeks ago, hunkered down at my laptop in my hotel room in Jacksonville, Florida.
CORRECTION: My sincerest apologies for an inexcusable error in this post earlier. I erroneously congratulated my friend Martin Baker in the US House 1st District primary.
No time for deep analysis tonight, but thereâs a small political earthquake in St.
When did first ladies become dictators? Seriously. The presidentâs family has no more authority than anyone else.
It was 2010. St. Louis was the epicenter of the Tea Party movement.
Thanks to MOPP for this fantastic summary for Center for Self-Governance training opportunities in the show me state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbYKydZ3T0Q The weird thing is: isnât that Sharp Elbows questioning the Chief? When did he become a detective in Michigan?
Youâd think being a political animal of sorts, election season would be my favorite time of year.
You donât hear the word âmainstreamâ in political spin like you used to.
I confess. When I write about freedoms lost, I donât itemize the freedoms.
Last week I blogged that Ronald Reagan would love the Transportation Empowerment Act (TEA).
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Have you ever felt like tuning out, giving up, and just riding out whatever storm comes down the pipe next?
Proponents of Amendment 7 are telling a lot of lies. (Iâm looking at you, St.
Listen to my short podcast about Missouriâs Constitutional Amendment, Amendment 9âthe Electronic Data Protection Act.
When a Republican invokes âReaganâs Sacred and Holy and Inviolable Eleventh Commandment,â (in nomine Patris et Filii et Spritus Sancti, Amen), you can rest assured youâre witnessing a frightened establishment type trying get himself out of trouble.
Since the scrawny punk from Chicago still hasnât figured it out, this President 101 lesson delivered without further comment:
[caption id=âattachment_14949â align=âalignrightâ width=â300â] âWhat, me worry?"[/caption] Russian troops or Russian proxies murdered 293 people, today, including 23 Americans by many reports.
Last week, I wrote about the Missouri Republican Establishmentâs plan to win a windfall for lobbyist Kit Bond via Senate candidate Jay Ashcroft.
Doesnât it suck when Jay Nixon and Francis Slay get on opposite sides of an issue?
Want to fix Missouriâs roads and cut taxes at the same time? Well, two American conservative icons showed us the way almost 50 years ago.
Iâm on the road this week, but Iâm thrilled to get this email from Missouri GOP Chairman Ed Martin:
Visuals: Some of the thousands of children suffering in a humanitarian disaster at the US border on the top of the split screen.
What political label do you give yourself? Yesterday, I blogged about calling myself a Republican.
Itâs funny, really, that America celebrates the day we signed up to fight a brutal war for independence, not the day that war was won.
A Pyrrhic victory is a victory with such a devastating cost that it is tantamount to defeat.
What if America didnât exist? Thatâs the premise of Dinesh DâSouzaâs new movie America: Imagine the world without her.
I love this video. And Iâm going to ask you a small favor for my son Jack, so please read all.
Lynd: So as charming as you are, Mister Bond, Iâll be keeping my eye on the governmentâs money and off your perfectly formed arse.
How many times have you thought, âI really donât care for the Republican, but Iâll never vote for a Democrat?
The âRed Deathâ had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.
What line of work was Tony Soprano in? Waste management.
What do we do with the plank? Yesterday I wrote about a new political dichotomy in America.
Before we get to politics, I want to tell you about a business exercise.
St. Louisan Eric Greitens did more before graduating from college than most people do in a lifetime.
âShellacked!â That was the word that stuck out to me. Eric Cantor, the Republican House Majority Leader led by 34 points according to his pollster.
You know how reckless and tone-deaf Obama is about Army deserters? Missouriâs House and Senate Republican leaders are just as clueless and irresponsible about money.
Thanks to Ben Evans of Heritage Action for America and Michelle Moore of St.
A lot of good people I know grumble that the House Republicans donât try to impeach Obama.
Not all casualties of war die in the field. Or even during hostilities.
I knew it was getting late. I was leaving work, walking to my car, when I got a text message.
I cried this morning. At work. Tears of shame. Every day when I get to work, I go through a thirty-minute routine.
Iâll give Business Insider some credit. After Tea Party-backed candidates came up empty across the board in Tuesdayâs Republican primaries, the website that has spent years maligning our rule-of-law movement could have taken the low road.
If youâre reading this, the Blues blew it. Again. Iâm writing this six hours before Game 6 against the Chicago Blackhawks.
I told my nephew Scott that I was worried about the parallels between this yearâs Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 1 and last yearâs bitter collapse to the LA Kings.
In 1977, the National Socialist Party (Nazi) applied to march and rally in Skokie, Illinois.
I hope you read Jonah Goldbergâs short article on National Review Online last week.
From the âsee, I told ya soâ file . . . Rockwood NEA President Suzanne Dotta worked hard to influence the recent school board election.
Every inch of US territory is a Constitutionally guaranteed free-speech zone. I am all for arresting and prosecuting without mercy any government employeeâincluding militaryâwho attempt to limit the size or scope of this zone.
Events of the past week show the power of the Second Amendment to challenge government tyranny, regardless of the governmentâs firepower advantage.
The NIKKEI Is down 1.56% already. This comes on the heels of a terrible day in US momentum stocks Friday.
âYet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
When youâve stated your opinion or belief about something important, do you defend your belief to the hilt?
Eileen Tyrrell is the only candidate who represents ALL the stakeholders in Rockwood School District.
Youâd think American foreign policy couldnât sink any lower than standing by while Vladimir Putin re-conquers the Warsaw Pact nations.
Just got a reminder from Tony Pousosa, Republican for St. Louis County Executive:
Donât you just love brash upstarts? People with verve and moxie? I do.
This morning, a White House aide told reporters that Obamaâs sanctions are visibly âweakeningâ Putin and Russia.
You saw Obama stand by as you threatened Georgia in 2009. You heard Obama whisper to Medvedev that heâll be willing to defy Congress to capitulate to you after Obamaâs re-election.
How long has it been since you said, âthey just donât listen to us?
Ask yourself this: why did the stock markets rally today after Obama announced sanctions against Russians?
Do you live in Rockwood School District? I do. My kids all went to Rockwood schools.
Hereâs a roundup of what to look for in the coming week.
Did you ever read a book and think, âI need to tell people about this?
Have you ever said, âvote them all out?â Do you sometimes think anybody would do a better job than the incumbent?
In the 1970s, a magazine ad for Benson & Hedges cigarettes portrayed a hockey fight.
Senator Roy Blunt (HA-57) proposed that all Obamacare ads contain a disclaimer: âPaid for by the American Taxpayer.
If you were out on the Arch steps on February 27, 2009, take a moment to consider whatâs happened.
Ben Evans of Heritage Action has free tickets for his Activist Skills Training.
Give all due credit to Rick Santelli. His rant inspired a movement. But words donât wear boots.
Okay, Iâm fired up. Iâm fired up about Obamacare. I donât know what got me onto this, exactly.
TV hockey color man Eddie Olczyk said during the USA vs. Slovakia game that TJ Oshie would become well-known in the hockey world during these Olympics.
Youâre going to hit me with the small sample size argument here, but thatâs okay.
Karl Marx foresaw something thatâs now playing out. As corporations cut labor costs to increase profits, they also destroy the markets for their goods and services.
I wanted to write this post earlier today, so youâd all think Iâm really smart.
I stand by my assessment that Chris Christieâs leadership and management played a role in the retaliatory shutdown of Fort Leeâs access lanes to the George Washington Bridge.
One argument put forth by conservativesâand even some liberalsâregarding the IRS scandal was this:
Use your snow day to join the opening of the Missouri General Assembly # Speaker of the House Tim Jones ⢠Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder
Last weekâs Weednesday Post generated several comments that took my side but the facts wrong.
Ben Sasse wants to break the back of lobbying and crony capitalism by moving the seat of government from Washington to Nebraska.
I blog about tea party stuff 90 percent of the time. I get decent readership with those blogs, and I appreciate my loyal followers.
I repeated my New Yearâs Day tradition of proposing cannabis law reform in Missouri and America last Wednesday.
The Republicans are the Leon Spinks of politics these days. Remember Leon Spinks?