Last year, the National Federation for the Blind (headquartered in beautiful Baltimore, MD) sued Target Stores because their website was not fully compatible with "screen readers" used by the blind and thus violated the American with Disabilities Act.

This week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals-- which is more representative of the cantina in Star Wars than American jurisprudence-- certified the case as a class action and allowed it to move forward.

The blind are rising, and it isn't a good thing...

John Stossel hits a home run with his latest article on national health insurance.

I have long said that the problem with health care and health insurance in America is not there is too much capitalism involved, it is that there isn't.

I think this is a question that needs to be asked before we allow one dime to be spent to institute slot machines.

While Governor Nero fiddles, and the state starts to burn, believe it or not, the itty-bitty Republican caucus has in fact come up with an alternative budget plan.

Here is a PowerPoint presentation of the plan.

Exxon/Mobil is now up to FOUR stations in Nothern Maryland that have had serious problems pouring MTBE into the ground.

First, there was the Exxon in Upper Crossroads (MD 165 and MD 152) outside Fallston. 

Second, there was the 26,000 gallon gas spill in Jacksonville at Four Corners.    Jacksonville thought they had it bad when the US Army virtually destroyed the underground water supply when Nike Missile Fuel was spilled.  That was peanuts compared to the 26,000 gallon leak that was "discovered" last Winter.

Third, the Parkton Exxon closed this winter after the MTBE levels got too high and Exxon said "to hell with it".

The fourth station in the list -- another Meadowcroft station, by the way, just like in Parkton -- is the Hereford Exxon on Mt. Carmel Road.  The station will close in a couple of weeks for almost three months as tanks are replaced as a result of the MTBE leaks.

Guvnah Marty The Mick O'Malley, General Secretary of Maryland's own version of the Communist Party USA, is at long last starting to unveil his strategy to overcome the "structural deficit" that a decade of teat-sucking by the General Politburo in Soddom on the Severn has given us.

His strategy can be broken down into three separate programs:

1)  Break any and all campaign promises used to whore votes from all his left-wing, on-the-dole constituents in metropolitan Baltimore and the Washington suburbs. 

2)  Raise each and every tax he possibly can and kill small business.

3)  Continue to let his politico buddies and financial supporters suck at the teat of Maryland government while he screws the actual hard-working citizens of the state.

Paul Moreno has an outstanding Op/Ed on today's OpinionJournal.com site.  Titled Affirmative Action's Strange Career, the article traces the nefarious history of affirmative action.  It's not what you were probably led to believe by the MSM.

Guvnah O'Malley's plan to raise the gasoline tax from its current level of 23.5 cents per gallon to 35.5 cents a gallon is a VERY bad idea, and will hurt the state more than help it.

From the blog CARPE DIEM, between 2002 and 2007 -- the greatest period of "globalizing economics" the world has ever seen, stock market capitalizations have increased $35 trillion dollars.  That is a doubling in value in just five years.

It took us almost 2000 years to reach the original $35 trillion dollars.

This success is the result of ever-increasing integration of the global economy, which fuels growth and prosperity for all people, given the chance.  But if the so-called Progressives in the Democrat party get their way, no one will be given the chance.

Question is:  when will we be able to get Africa into the game?

Guvnah Marty the Mick should read the Wall Street Journal on gas taxes and bridges.  Or he might be next in their target site.

Meanwhile, I'll just keep buying my groceries and my gas in Pennsylvania.