Maggie's Farm

The Mayflower and the Speedwell left Holland on Sept 6th, 1620, and left England on Sept. 16th. They were headed for New York Harbor where the Dutch already had a flourishing small trading colony (and Boston already had some rowdy, all-male Brit settlers with no evident religious inclinations and with a taste for rum and violence), but those Pilgrims never made it to New York because of bad autumn weather. How would American history be different had they made it to NYC?  Our post on the story.

Health care reform and the unions. It's a boondoggle.

George Will: Why nobody believes Obama

NPR jumps to defend ACORN, with a condescending and insane theory like "You can't expect poor black folks to act any differently." I can't? Why not? I expect decent behavior from everybody.

I thought the League of Women Voters was non-partisan.

As the O's proposals struggle, the race card gets played. It won't work, though, because so many of the O's struggles are with the Dems.

Mark Levin's book has sold 1 million copies - without a single MSM review.

Your choices show your character, and the Declaration of Dependency. Dr. Sanity.

Chavez challenges the US: Stop us from going nuclear

I agree that this is nuts: Three quarters of a million arrested for possession of pot in 2008