I went to the Montgomery County YR's Charity Ball this evening in Bethesda. It was a great event with a great turnout and raised money for a good cause. Now, I went to this event this evening to support the MoCo YR's club in their endeavors. It certainly wasn't the time to make a political spectacle...

In one of the least surprising things around you'll find, taxpayers aren't exactly enamored with bigger and badder government : In early October , as the meltdown of the financial industry gained momentum following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found ...

Apparently, it's time to roll up the carpet and go home. America as we know it is doomed and we need to start thinking small. So says Jack Cafferty at least: The interest on the national debt will approach $500 billion a year this year or next. Our country is sinking into the quicksand of insolvency...

To follow on to my previous post about health care records, CNET has a piece on the complete and total lack of privacy provisions built into the health care sections of the Stimulus Package: What didn't come up during the president's first press conference was how one section of the convoluted legis...

To follow up on yesterday's post , George Della quickly dropped his proposal to outlaw beer pong But that is not really the story I'd like to focus on here. I'd like to focus more on attitude, particularly the attitude of legislators to try and legislate our way into social order. You have Della's b...

Apparently all of Baltimore City's problems have been solved. Why else would State Senator George Della of Baltimore City introduce legislation aimed at beer pong in the city? Don't believe me? Here's some verbiage directly from the text of the legislation : (B) A HOLDER OF A RETAIL ALCOHOLIC BEVERA...

Wanted to give a shout out and thanks to Minority Leader Tony O'Donnell and the other members of the House Republican Caucus for sponsoring HB472 , a bill that would extricate Maryland from the National Popular Vote scheme that has been floating around for a few years that would tie Maryland's Elect...

You'll have a few chances to hear me talk about the General Assembly session in the next few days: Annapolis/DC/Eastern Shore: Three times a day from Thursday January 14th through Wednesday January 21st, listen to 50,000 watt 107.9 FM WFSI at 4:00 am, 12:04 pm, or 5:04 pm each day to hear me discuss...

Obviously I wasn't happy with the result of the Presidential Election, but regardless of that fact, Barack Obama will by law become President at 12 Noon on January 20th. But what is not required, by law, is for the Washington, D.C. Metro Area to be in a near multi-day lockdown situation in celebrati...

Catching up from Friday, take a look as to how the Democrats may try and cover the deficit : State officials are considering a $366 million budget fix that could spare difficult spending cuts by transferring money in an unused reserve fund kept by the Maryland comptroller's office. The fund is maint...