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An animal cruelty investigation is underway Saturday after a 16-year-old boy was seen on video throwing a cat onto the street, according to Ontario police. The video in question was apparently posted on Snapchat. Ontario police launched an investigation into the incident that eventually led them to identify a teen boy believed to be responsible for the abuse of the kitten, authorities said. The suspect, who will not be identified due to his age, has not been located and arrested. Investigators said they located the animal and its owner. They said the cat has a fractured leg but is expected...

There is quite a bit out there about making "black lists" of Trump supporters. I support Ted Cruz for the nomination. I have what I believe are legitimate concerns with Donald Trump. Nonetheless, I will express those concerns at the ballot box, as part of the democratic process. If Mr. Trump should attain the nomination fair and square one has the right to withhold their support, sit it out, vote for Hillary whatever floats their boat. I myself will not. I plan on supporting him. If I held my nose and supported Romney, I think I can manage some support...

With Christmas fast approaching and the public's attention in other places, the pieces appear to be falling in for Democrat Governor Tom Wolf to get the 30.8 billion dollar budget he wants along with 2.2 billion dollars in tax increases over the next 18 months. It looked like the big spending deal approved by the Republican controlled Senate 43-7 was being shot down in the House last Saturday when a pension reform bill was shot down in flames. But now a group of the mostly liberal Republicans in the House, mainly from the southeastern part of Pennsylvania, have stepped up....

Britain's Tories fail to reform costly tax credits for the middle class.David Cameron's government last week abandoned its plan to reform Britain's expensive working-family tax credits. U.S. politicians who think this kind of "pro-family" tax policy is a good idea-hello, Marco Rubio might take note. The centerpiece of Mr. Rubio's tax plan is an increase in the child tax credit to $2,500 from $1,000, despite its cost and lack of growth incentive. Such ideas may have a short-term political appeal, but eventually they become entitlements that benefit the left.

Three things about Donald Trump have now become clear to the Republican establishment: 1) He might not implode before people start voting for president next year. 2) He could actually wind up as the Republican nominee for president. -snip- Right to Rise raised more than $103 million in the first six months of this year. It spent - as I mentioned above - $28 million on ads. Let's say the organization has spent another $15 million on fundraising, consulting fees and other miscellaneous costs. And let's assume, just for the sake of this argument, that Right to Rise hasn't raised...

New figures by the Congressional Budget Office released on Monday reveal that over the next 10 years the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio will double to 78%. Over the last four decades America's average debt-to-GDP ratio was 39%. At the end of 2007, federal debt was just 35% of GDP. The CBO report says gross federal debt will soar from $17.7 trillion to $27 trillion over the next ten years. CBO warned of the dire consequences the nation's debt will have if gone unchecked. "Such high and rising debt would have serious negative consequences," says the report. "Federal spending on interest payments...

Here's the root of the problem. When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed his revised budget last month, he said he was "making the difficult decisions to slow spending growth ... ." Excuse me? The difficult decisions to slow spending growth? What's so difficult? It must be an irrepressible love of spending other peoples' money that makes it difficult, as the governor confesses it is for him, to merely slow down the annual increase in government spending. Notice that we never hear the governor complain about how difficult it is to spend more. Every year he's been office, Gov. Schwarzenegger has signed...

Dear RNC In the spirit of cost savings and spending reductions, cornerstones of the Republican Party platform, I offer this heartfelt suggestion the the RNC brass: You can save money by removing me from your mailing list. Your correspondence, for several years now, has hit my trash can unopened. Removing me from your mailing list [name and address below] will easily and painlessly save the RNC hard-donated money that you can put to better use continuing the party's on-going initiatives in big spending, open borders, the McVain presidential candidacy and Teddy Kennedy hugging. R-I-P GOP. Sincerely, Name Address

December 12, 2006 Dear xxxxxx, The Governor announced his budget amendments for public education today. A link to his release follows: http://www.governor.virginia.gov/MediaRelations/NewsReleases/viewRelease.cfm?id=299 The salary amendment provides the state share of a 3% increase beginning December 1, which, in fact, is a 1.75% increase when applied to the full year. It would take a 4.5% increase for the full year for two consecutive years to bring Virginia’s teachers to the national average. It appears that we will actually lose ground in our national ranking if the Governor’s amendment is all that is provided. Although the Governor did not mention this in...

Federal officials warn that the Big Dig's cost may rise by an estimated $75 million, forcing state taxpayers to cover any increase. The projected hike, outlined in a memo drafted by the U.S. Department of Transportation's inspector general, would be the first increase in the project's price tag since 2001. There are numerous reasons for the possible hike, federal officials told The Boston Globe: Officials may have miscalculated the cost of settling disputes with Big Dig contractors and underestimated how much money the state will recover from contractors that performed late or shoddy work. A spokesman for Transportation Inspector General...

What kind of legacy will Kern County's longtime Republican congressman, Bill Thomas, leave behind? There is no indication that retirement is in the near future for the volatile politician known for his razor-sharp intellect, temper tantrums and heavy-handed control of Kern County Republican politics. Thomas declined repeated requests to be interviewed for this story. But as Thomas approaches his 64th birthday, on Dec. 6, speculation about his place in the history of Kern County and the nation has gotten a jump-start. It was prompted by the federal transportation spending bill, which was unveiled a few weeks ago and quickly passed...

The White House appears to have been truly blindsided by the vehemently negative response from conservative intellectuals to the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. In truth, this is a revolt that has been long in the making. The surprising thing is that it has taken such a long time for it to come out into the open. The truth that is now dawning on many movement conservatives is that George W. Bush is not one of them and never has been. They were allies for a long time, to be sure, and conservatives used Mr. Bush just...

Highway Robbery: $286 Billion by John Berthoud Posted Aug 12, 2005 George Orwell’s 1946 classic Animal Farm is a tale of the rising up of the long downtrodden animals to overthrow the hated humans and establish a new order. Under new management, the farm seems to move in the right direction for a while, but the pigs slowly decide that the lifestyle of their former masters was pretty good, and consequently morph into a ruling class indistinguishable from that which they displaced. Originally intended by Orwell to parody the Soviet revolution of 1917, one can now see parallels to the...

<p>Wasn't the era of big government supposed to be over?</p> <p>"We know big government does not have all the answers. We know there's not a program for every problem. We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means. The era of big government is over."</p>

Is Co-Opting the Big Spending Agenda Sound Strategery? If you missed Wednesday's program, you missed a watershed moment in American history: the detailing of the once-great Democratic Party of Jefferson, Jackson and FDR's collapse. (See: The BIG Theory) I praised a caller named John in Pennsylvania, who did something rare: he used his brain to think about the examples of the trend of co-opting the liberal big-spending agenda as a way to GOP victory. John rightly pointed out that if Tom Daschle had "co-opted" our agenda in the 90s, we'd have claimed victory for the conservative movement. In fact, we...

CAGW Boos Congressional Democrats for Pushing to Increase Omnibus Spending Bill "Aren't these the same folks who say government can't afford lower taxes?" asks Schatz (Washington, D.C.) -- Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today sharply criticized Democrats in Congress for pushing to increase federal funds by as much as $10 billion as the Senate prepares to debate a $385 billion package of left-over fiscal 2003 appropriations bills from the previous Congress that the majority Republicans hope to pass this week. "Democratic leaders in Congress are obviously drawing the wrong lesson from the last election," CAGW President Tom Schatz said. "While...