If A Lousy Newspaper Falls, Will Anyone Notice?

By Michael Costello | 03/14/09

Any day now, the 146 year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer will close its doors and turn its ink-stained wretches out onto the street with hand lettered signs reading "will transcribe propaganda for food." On January 9th of this year, the P-I's parent company, Hearst Corporation, set a 60-day deadline to find a buyer for the paper. If no buyer came forward, the P-I would either shut down or convert to an online only publication. The sand ran out... read more »

Barack Obama Really Could Save Million Of Jobs

By Michael Costello | 03/07/09

He could do it by backing off on his despotic card check agenda.Union bosses want card check as it would permit them to bully workers into joining unions. According to one study, every 3% increase in union membership translates into a 1% increase in unemployment. Proponents of EFCA say union membership would grow by 1.5 million members every year over the next 10 to 15 years under EFCA.But EFCA opponents point to the new study to back their... read more »

Seattle Democrats To Businesses: "Drop Dead"

By Michael Costello | 02/28/09

With the state's economy in a tailspin, and facing a rapidly deepening budget deficit, you'd think that Washington's legislature would rein in their instincts and refrain from business destroying mischief. But you'd be wrong.  With the encouragement of Governor Christine Gregoire, Washington's legislature took another step toward imposing an onerous carbon "cap and trade" system that will force many employers and taxpayers out of business... read more »

And A Democrat Shall Lead Them?

By Michael Costello | 02/13/09

    Probably nothing speaks to the sorry state of the Republican Party than the fact that Idaho's Walter Minnick might be the smartest Republican in Congress.    Idaho's Walter Minnick (Democrat, Idaho) was just one of eleven Democrats who joined all House Republicans in voting against the so-called economic stimulus package. Among other things, he argued that there was too little actual stimulus in the bill. And in... read more »

Democrats' Immunity From Accountability

By Michael Costello | 02/01/09

    I can't help but wonder how a Republican Senate Majority Leader would have been treated by the mainstream news media if he had made it clear that he didn't want no coloreds appointed to fill the Illinois United States Senate seat recently vacated by Barack Obama. According to Illinois' impeached governor Rod Blogojevich (Democrat), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Democrat) called to ask that the governor not appoint any of... read more »

Media Silence Equals Complicity On Homosexual Threats

By Michael Costello | 01/25/09

A decade ago, it was big news in the mainstream media when a pro-life website posted the names, addresses and photographs of abortionists and their enablers in the form of wanted posters. The Nuremberg Files encouraged viewers to communicate with the abortionists in a non-threatening manner to encourage them to stop. Nevertheless, in 1999, a federal jury awarded $107 million to northwest abortionists (since overturned) whose names and personal... read more »

At Last! A Good Reason To Buy an I-Phone

By Michael Costello | 01/21/09

How about an I-phone application that does your ballistic calculations for you? [T]he Bulletflight ballistics calculator, which predicts the trajectory of bullets fired from high-powered sniper rifles by taking into account half a dozen variables including wind speed, distance, outside temperature and altitude.After digesting all the information, Bulletflight tells you where exactly on the sniper scope you should position your target in... read more »

Name That Party

By Michael Costello | 01/19/09

The mayor of Portland was forced to confess to having a homosexual affair, with a boy who may have been underage at the time, and to suborning perjury from the young man. Nowhere in the Oregonian story is the mayor's party affiliation mentioned. That must mean that he's a...........Portland Mayor Sam Adams acknowledged Monday that he had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old in summer 2005 and, on the eve of his campaign for the city's... read more »

He Who Fights and Runs Away....

By Michael Costello | 01/19/09

Lives to run another day.Despite its losses, Hamas remains firmly in control of Gaza, and the fact that it took on Israel is likely to boost its image. Throughout the fighting, the group managed to keep firing rockets and hit deeper than ever inside Israel -- perhaps its main military achievement."There was a world war against Gaza. We, at least, were happy that somebody was able to retaliate," said Hatem Wahdan, a 49-year-old from the... read more »

A Law Firm In Every Classroom

By Michael Costello | 01/17/09

To err is human. But to really screw things up, takes a judge. And to make a real mess, bring in a whole panel of judges. In a ruling that essentially makes school attendance optional, a panel of Washington judges ruled that students accused of cutting class are entitled to legal representation at disciplinary proceedings. When one considers that no amount of money will ever quiet cries from educrats and teachers' unions that public school are... read more »