tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188743482024-03-08T11:21:25.466-08:00MADHOUSE THOUGHTA place to talk about politics, world views and whatever else is on my mind.
Thanks for stopping by feel free to participate. I look forward to hearing from you!Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-57504492164410263202007-01-25T22:06:00.000-08:002007-01-26T09:33:56.849-08:00Moving On!For those of you who may or may not know I’ve started a community blog site called The Minority Report. With the attention I’ll have to be putting in there and recently accepting a Senior Writers position for The Hinzsight Report I won’t have time to post here but will pop in from time to time…Please join me at The Minority Report create an account and participate for free...See ya there!Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-41782409746794684142007-01-18T09:38:00.000-08:002007-01-19T11:51:04.353-08:00China may have an Anti-Satellite WeaponAccording to Aviation Week & Space Technology China may have performed a successful anti-satellite weapons test destroying one of their older weather satellites with a kinetic kill vehicle launched on board a ballistic missile. The Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, NASA and other government organizations have a full court press underway Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-21764922862681104392006-12-22T11:30:00.000-08:002006-12-22T11:32:06.940-08:00Score one for LA schoolsYesterday Judge Dzintra Janavs slapped down Mayor Villaraigosa's bid to take over LA’s dysfunctional Unified School District. The Judge ”found the entire law defective and ordered public officials "to refrain from enforcing or implementing" any part of it," Judge scuttles mayor's school takeover plan A judge today nullified legislation giving Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa substantial authority over Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-92024445746561572962006-12-21T08:46:00.000-08:002006-12-21T08:58:55.635-08:00Bloggers Must Disclose Sponsored PostsFor those who may not know about blogging for cash, let me introduce PayPerPost. PayPerPost is a consumer generated advertising company that connects advertisers with bloggers, videographers, photographers, podcasters and participants in social networks to market products. Until know, bloggers and others have been able to do so without disclosing the fact that they were being paid by said companySteven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-58402083519019900082006-12-19T13:57:00.000-08:002006-12-19T14:07:24.369-08:00A NEW DIRECTIONA NEW DIRECTIONWHY I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER !!!The Democrats promise; "A New Direction For America"The stock market is at an all-time high and America's 401K's are back.A new direction from there means, what?Unemployment is at 25-year lows.A new direction from there means, what?Oil prices are stabilizing,A new direction from there means, what?Taxes are at 20 year lows.A new direction from there Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-54046848895550896942006-12-14T15:33:00.000-08:002006-12-14T15:42:29.218-08:00The Defence of Rorke's DriftThe Defence of Rorke's Drift stands out in history as one of the finest examples of discipline and valor ever recorded. A battle in which, about 140 men successfully defended the Drift against an overwhelming force of about 4,500 Zulus.The Battle of Rorke's Drift The Combatants: British infantry with Natal irregulars against Zulu warriors.The Commanders: The British garrison was commanded by Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1165214925700588222006-12-03T22:43:00.000-08:002006-12-03T22:48:45.710-08:00Jesus!Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1165195358657851292006-12-03T17:21:00.000-08:002006-12-03T17:22:38.670-08:00Venezuela Halts TransmissionTelemundo: Venezuela Halts TransmissionOfficials identifying themselves as members of a state regulatory agency forced the U.S.-based Spanish-language TV network Telemundo to halt transmission Sunday of its presidential election coverage."We're surprised by this," said Pablo Iacub, a member of Telemundo's eight-person team, which arrived last week. "We only want to do our work," he said by Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1164827538866442682006-11-29T11:11:00.000-08:002006-11-29T11:15:08.826-08:00Britain: Sharia law is Spreading!Sharia law is spreading as authority wanes Islamic sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in parts of Britain, a report claims.Sharia, derived from several sources including the Koran, is applied to varying degrees in predominantly Muslim countries but it has no binding status in Britain.However, the BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action produced evidence yesterday that it was being used by Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1164753785312192512006-11-28T14:37:00.000-08:002006-11-28T18:57:44.896-08:00There is no war on Christmas we’re all just delusional!?!“A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says.”This is just the latest attack in a growing movement to remove anything and everything Christian from the public square altogether. “Nativity” Booted From Ill. Holiday Fair A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas festivalSteven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1164667108474121302006-11-27T14:37:00.000-08:002006-11-27T14:38:28.486-08:00Weird Picture of the day: Is that president Bush in a Burqa? h/t DrudgeSteven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1164653523982036842006-11-27T10:50:00.000-08:002006-11-27T10:52:04.010-08:00On General Welfare and Wasted VotesLarry Elder has a great article on WND called Why I'm 'wasting' my vote I don’t usually post whole articles but he completely captured my thoughts and feelings on general welfare and the Framers views on limited government! "With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers (enumerated in the Constitution) connected with them. To takeSteven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1164233973635662462006-11-22T14:18:00.000-08:002006-11-22T14:24:58.463-08:00Happy ThanksgivingSteven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163903204712133002006-11-18T18:21:00.000-08:002006-11-18T18:45:12.646-08:00Teaching JihadControversial Assignment Leads To Teacher's Resignation A Spanish teacher at Smithfield-Selma Senior High School resigned this week after handing out an assignment that some students and parents said teaches hate.Khalid Chahhou, who was in his first year of teaching in Johnston County, gave students a worksheet in which they were to translate words and find them within a word-search puzzle.Some Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163878335088689422006-11-18T11:31:00.000-08:002006-11-18T11:32:15.100-08:00Israeli envoy walks out of U.N. sessionfrom UPI Israel's ambassador walked out on the United Nations session that resulted in a strong call to Israel to end its military operations in the Gaza Strip.The 192-member General Assembly voted Friday night 156-7, with six abstentions, in favor of the non-binding resolution in an emergency special session.The United States, Israel and Australia voted against the document, while all the Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163804909312640372006-11-17T15:05:00.000-08:002006-11-17T15:26:01.593-08:00Iraq War Veterans Tell Their StoriesNew York State Veteran Oral History Program to preserve the stories of New York veterans in their own words. On Veterans Day in 2000, Gov. George E. Pataki established the New York State Veteran Oral History Program! So far 1,304 veterans going all the way back to WWI have made their way down to a small state armory in Saratoga Springs to be interviewed and tell their stories!This to me is an Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163641036142349372006-11-15T17:36:00.000-08:002006-11-15T17:37:16.143-08:00The Minority Report BlogI've set up a new blog called The Minority Report to post news and discuss the state of both houses and the effects of being in the minority!If you'd like to be a contributor please reply to this post and I’ll be in touch..ThanksSteven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163619841449096552006-11-15T11:35:00.000-08:002006-11-15T11:44:01.613-08:00UCLA Study: Hollywood Behind Global Warming!"UCLA report says the movie and TV industry is a major generator of Southland pollution. An economist cautions that more rules may drive filming out of state." Another Hollywood production: smog Hollywood is creating a film of a different kind over Greater Los Angeles: smog, soot and greenhouse gases, according to a UCLA report due out today. The report found that the film and television Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163612985740841792006-11-15T09:48:00.000-08:002006-11-15T09:51:52.826-08:00Levin says troops out of Iraq as early as April!All the debate about what to do in Iraq might turn out to be all for not!If Senator Carl Levin has his way, we will be pulling troops out of Iraq as early as April!Levin will become the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 13th 2007 and his top priority is a “phased redeployment,” which he said should begin in four to six months.” Levin has high hopes and apparently expects Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163542258704410572006-11-14T14:05:00.000-08:002006-11-14T14:28:54.843-08:00Pulling Out of Iraq: What the Soldiers are Saying!Recently when asked by The Washington Post about cutting–and-running from Iraq Soldiers Said a Pullout Would Have Devastating Results Here’s what the soldiers had to say:Lt. Col. Mark Suich, who commands the 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment just south of Baghdad said:”Take us out of that vacuum -- and it's on the edge now -- and boom, it would become a free-for-all… It would be a raw Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163525576254401112006-11-14T09:25:00.000-08:002006-11-14T09:34:39.846-08:00Iran: From the NewsJust a few little nuggets from the news today: Netanyahu: It's 1938 and Iran is Germany; Ahmadinejad is preparing another Holocaust Drawing a direct analogy between Iran and Nazi Germany, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu asserted Monday that the Iranian nuclear program posed a threat not only to Israel, but to the entire western world. There was "still time," however, to prevent Tehran from Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163448710026845962006-11-13T12:07:00.000-08:002006-11-13T12:11:51.723-08:00Democrats press for troop reductions in IraqDemocrats Push for Troop Cuts Within Months Democratic leaders in the Senate vowed on Sunday to use their new Congressional majority to press for troop reductions in Iraq within a matter of months, stepping up pressure on the administration just as President Bush is to be interviewed by a bipartisan panel examining future strategy for the war.The Democrats — the incoming majority leader, Senator Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163399521593607072006-11-12T22:14:00.000-08:002006-11-12T22:32:01.646-08:00Chinese submarine stalked USS Kitty Hawk"The surprise encounter highlights China's continuing efforts to prepare for a future conflict with the U.S."China sub secretly stalked U.S. fleet Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected, The Washington Times has learned. The surprise encounter highlights Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163336579082402682006-11-12T04:52:00.000-08:002006-11-12T06:04:40.050-08:00Iran TV broadcasts US ship spy plane footage!Iran TV broadcasts US ship spy plane footage Iran's Arabic language television station broadcast footage it claimed showed a US aircraft carrier cruising in Gulf waters it said was taken by an unmanned Iranian drone.The brief minute-long film, which was shown on Al-Alam television's evening news bulletin, showed wobbly aerial footage of an aircraft carrier stacked with war planes as it sailed. Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18874348.post-1163188114373677842006-11-10T11:46:00.000-08:002006-11-11T11:34:31.250-08:00CCR Seeks Foreign Venue for persecuting RumsfeldCharges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse A lawsuit in Germany will seek a criminal prosecution of the former Defense Secretary and other U.S. officials for their alleged role in abuses at Abu Ghraib and GitmoJust days after his resignation, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New Steven Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07768993378884949971noreply@blogger.com0