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Interviewing Robert Stacy McCain About Brett Kimberlin
25 May 2012 10:03 am

Robert Stacy McCain, who blogs at RWN on occasion, has become a story himself this week. After reporting on “Speedway Bomber” Brett Kimberlin, Stacy announced to the world that Kimberlin had been in touch with his wife’s employer and that he had moved his family out of their house as a result. Quite naturally, this caught people’s attention — and that was before this article from Patterico came out today credibly alleging that Kimberlin and his allies had engaged in harassment that included having a SWAT team called to his …

This Week In Quotes: May 11 – May 24
25 May 2012 2:15 am

I have to just say from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity. To me, it’s just we’re getting to a ridiculous point in America. Especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other people invest in companies like Bain Capital. If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses. And this, to me — I’m very uncomfortable with…This kind of stuff is nauseating to me …

The Top 20 Reasons To Vote For Barack Obama In 2012 According To Liberals
25 May 2012 1:27 am

My latest Townhall column is called, The Top 20 Reasons To Vote For Barack Obama In 2012 According To Liberals. Here’s an excerpt.
1) Mormons are scary! Ooooh, magic underwear! Multiple wives! They probably hate black people and were behind something or another awful that happened 150 years ago!
2) Obviously Republicans hate women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann! Wait, bad examples…uhm, let’s see, they kill female babies, put women’s faces on pinatas and beat them, and degrade women by drawing them with penises in their mouth! That’s still us? …

San Francisco Consults Harvey Milk By Ouija board Before Trying To Convince The Navy To Name A Ship After Him
24 May 2012 8:45 am

In an extraordinarily bizarre turn of events, one of the most anti-military cities in America, San Francisco, wants the Navy to name a ship after left wing politician Harvey Milk. In Milk’s defense, he did serve in the military and rose to the level of lieutenant, junior grade. On the other hand, Harvey Milk’s claim to fame was that he was the first openly gay non-incumbent politician who was elected in the United States and he was later shot to death by a former city supervisor who said he went …

Real Americans Don’t Bow (Quote/Pic)
24 May 2012 7:39 am

The Best Quotes From Brian Tracy’s “Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed.”
24 May 2012 12:08 am

From Brian Tracy’s Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed.
I learned that if I didn’t commit to achieving my own happiness, no one else would. — P.24
At almost any time, you can measure how well you are doing in your relationships by one simple test: laughter. How much two people, or a family, laugh together is the surest single measure of how well things are going. When a relationship is truly happy, people laugh a lot when they’re together. And when a relationship turns …

Eduardo Saverin Leaving The US: Is It The Problem Or A Symptom?
23 May 2012 5:15 am

Eduardo Saverin just became an extraordinarily wealthy man and the fact that he’s renouncing his American citizenship is adding an enormous amount to his bottom line.
Alone among Facebook’s 900 million users, Mr. Saverin is special: a billionaire with only the vaguest of causes.
He co-founded Facebook at age 21, then left two years later with a legal settlement that cut him off from Facebook but left him phenomenally wealthy. His stake will most likely be worth more than $3 billion when Facebook goes public Friday.
Reports last week that Mr. Saverin, …

Colin Powell Shows You The Folly Of Trying To Build A Party Around Moderates
23 May 2012 4:40 am

The David Brooks, David Frum, and Meghan McCain crowd argues that the GOP should abandon conservatism and move away from conservatism towards the middle. The idea is that conservatives will continue, like drones, to give their support to the party that doesn’t support their values — and moderates will flock to our banner…. moderates like Colin Powell. So, how well is that working out with Colin Powell?
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn’t ready …

Barack Obama’s 7 Nastiest Nixonian Moments
23 May 2012 12:31 am

My latest Townhall column is called, Barack Obama’s 7 Nastiest Nixonian Moments. Here’s an excerpt from the column.
During his 2008 campaign, Barack Obama was like a mixture of the Teletubbies, a Hallmark card, and Morgan Freeman’s portrayal of God in Bruce Almighty all mixed up in one big fruity glass. Every time you listened to the guy it was “hope” this, “change,” I love “unity,” “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” and creating a “new tone” in D.C. That strategy turned out to be plausible because Bush was …

In Memoriam: Patton (2003-2012)
22 May 2012 3:15 am

“Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don’t worry…I’m here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.” – Charlie Brown to Snoopy, Peanuts
Patton is gone.

I wasn’t sure whether to write about that sad fact or not.
On the one hand, I’m not one of those people who puts dogs on the same level as human beings. But, I thought of Patton almost like a little brother …

Return On Wed
21 May 2012 1:44 am

Apologies, because I can’t really get into the details online just yet, but I’m not going to be able to do any personal updates until Wed. Of course, the show will go on without me and I’ll be back at the same bat time, same bat channel in a couple of days. See you then!

If You’re On Twitter, You Should Be Following This Account….
21 May 2012 12:01 am

This Twitter account is a week old, it’s mine, and if you’re on Twitter, you should DEFINITELY be following it.
I have to beat Romney. Where else will I get another job with this much vacation time? #RomneyEconomics
— BS Barack Obama Says (@bsobamasays) May 15, 2012

Sasha said she heard I was “an arrogant jackass.” I asked if she heard that from Sean Hannity. She said, “No, from Mommy.”
— BS Barack Obama Says (@bsobamasays) May 16, 2012

So I fudged where I was born to try to get a book deal. Big deal! …

5 Behaviors That Make You Trash
19 May 2012 12:10 am

My latest PJ Media column is called, 5 Behaviors That Make You Trash. Here’s an excerpt from the column.
People aren’t trashy because of who they are, they’re trashy because of how they behave. That means the cast of Jersey Shore, Perez Hilton, and the Kardashians didn’t pop out of their mama’s wombs wrong. To the contrary, they all had to learn how to be as trashy as a Louisiana landfill. Now trashy people have always been around, but the difference is that in our “any attention is good attention,” …

Right Wing News Changing Servers Today
19 May 2012 12:01 am

Tonight, Right Wing News will be changing servers. Hopefully, most people won’t even notice the difference until they see that the page loads considerably faster on Monday. However, I have yet to ever have a server change that went smoothly. Come to think of it, every single move has ended up being a rambling train wreck that made me want to pull my hair out for at least 72 hours or so. Still, being an eternal optimist, I’m hoping this one will be different…ha, ha, ha. In any case, if …

There’s No Need To Run A 10 Million Dollar Campaign To Talk About Jeremiah Wright
18 May 2012 2:33 pm

Last night, Michael Savage was ripping Mitt Romney up one side and down the other over this story.
Don’t go there. That, in essence, is the message Thursday from Mitt Romney, who said he “repudiates” an idea that was reportedly under consideration by an outside GOP group to run ads using the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. to attack President Obama.
Since publication of The New York Times article Thursday describing the idea, the Chicago billionaire who was reportedly considering funding the $10 million plan has disavowed it.
But that news came …

15 Facts That Even Obama’s Biggest Supporters Should Be Able To Admit Are True
18 May 2012 11:00 am

My latest Townhall column is called, 15 Facts That Even Obama’s Biggest Supporters Should Be Able To Admit Are True. Here’s an excerpt from the column.
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Conservatives and liberals may disagree on reasons, motivations, and excuses for Barack Obama’s performance, but the facts are still facts. There may be many reasons that a pro football coach goes 1-15, but everyone can agree that his record is still 1-15, right? Well, here are …

You Can Help People And Uplift Them… (Pic/Quote)
18 May 2012 8:49 am

Libertarians Against Hard Work Or Alternately The Balanced Life Vs. The Unbalanced Life
17 May 2012 8:52 am

Over at Reason, Shikha Dalmia wrote a strange piece called, “Jack Welch vs. Feminists: The Dumb Debate Over Female CEOs.” It’s a weird column not because of the comments about feminists, but because Dalmia may be the first Libertarian I’ve ever seen who seems to have contempt for people who work hard and succeed.
General Electric CEO Jack Welch ignited a firestorm recently when he told female executives that to become top dogs (like him), they have to toughen up. “Over-deliver,” he lectured. “Performance is it.” Forget about “life balance.” …

More Evidence That I Was Right About Killing Julian Assange
17 May 2012 7:44 am

George W. Bush never took leaks of sensitive classified material seriously and Obama is following in his footsteps, but the reality is that these leaks can lead to big body counts. When we alert the enemy to techniques we use to get information out of them, track them, or our sources — people can die as a result.
…In Assange’s case, he’s not an American and so he has no constitutional protection. Moreover, he’s going to get a lot of people killed. Can we do anything legally about someone from another …

Interviewing Jonah Goldberg About His New Book, “The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas.”
17 May 2012 7:08 am

Earlier this week, I interviewed Jonah Goldberg about his outstanding new book, The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas.
If you’re looking for a book about politics that isn’t just a regurgitation of things you already know or so topical that you can throw it out in a couple of years, I would not hesitate to recommend “The Tyranny of Cliches” to you. It covers timeless subject matter, the research is outstanding, and Goldberg’s a clever writer who keeps the book moving.
What follows is …

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