Year: 2007

Isn’t this nice? Note the absurdities here: When the bill that would extend farm subsidies for five years goes to the Senate floor this week, eight senators will have special reason to pay close attention: They or their relatives collected about $3 million in federal payments from 1995 to 2005, according to government records compiled […]

In my Advanced Placement Government and Politics class, we’ve been talking about the Constitutional Convention and the fight over ratification. As we were listing the objections of the Anti-federalists to the proposed constitution, it struck all of us how relevant their criticisms are still today. They feared the powers of the presidency would lead to […]

In case you haven’t heard, another gay sex scandal has hit the news cycle as Washington state Representative, Republican Richard Curtis, announced his resignation after the details of his sexual encounter with a male escort were aired. During a segment on MSNBC, Dan Abrams, accused the representative of “hypocrisy” for voting against “legislation for gay […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Michelle Malkin: The disappearing dead-tree audience Hot Air: Kossacks “quietly panic” at prospect of success in Iraq Popoholic: Vanessa Minnillo bikini pictures Majikthise: My top 10 list of the most influential liberals in America Maureen Down: Hillary’s gift of gall. You can […]

Yesterday, RWN featured a post from a Daily Kos diarist wishing for, “total economic destruction” in the United States. Now today, over at Alternet, there’s a column by George Monbiot that — I kid you not — is rooting on a recession, Bring on the Recession If you are of a sensitive disposition, I advise […]

I’ve cut a few side deals with people participating in the weblog awards. They link Conservative Grapevine, I encourage all of you to vote for them. So, come on, let’s play kingmaker and deliver some victories for the blogs that are working with me. The results are being announced on the 8th, which means we’re […]

You have to hand it to Democratic House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey. Not only is he looking for a way to lose the war in Iraq and deny our troops credit for all the progress they’ve made in recent months, he has found a way to tie it all into a tax increase. It’s […]

The Democrats have been spending the last few years finding any and every excuse to scream “Nazi,” “Hitler,” and “Fascism,” at everything that moves. Well now, the Democrats have gotten so Nazi happy that they apparently think that murdering 12 million people in concentration camps is roughly equivalent to asking the Glacier a few medium-hard […]

Fred Thompson doesn’t seem to have any serious baggage, he has proven that he has the requisite charisma to be President, he is raising a lot of money, he is without question the most conservative top tier candidate, and he is definitely in the thick of the race. However, I find little incidents like this […]

Looks like Democrats are trying to make waterboarding an issue in the nomination of Michael Mukasey for Attorney General. Democrats want him to condemn waterboarding as torture. But, waterboarding is not torture, and I have no idea why Democrats want terrorists to be coddled, not interrogated. A friend of mine who served in the U.S. […]

As a little format break, here’s what I’m listening to, reading, and watching on TV these days…. I’m currently reading… Witness by Whittaker Chambers The last movie I watched on TV… Waterworld (2.5 out of 5 stars) The last movie I rented… Day Watch (2 out of 5 stars) My current TiVo Season Pass Group […]

I’m a finalist in the Best Conservative Blog category at the 2007 Weblog Awards, which I must admit is flattering. It’s always great to get a little recognition for your work. However, because the awards allow people to vote once every 24 hours, even if I encouraged all of you to vote for me every […]

John Edwards’ campaign has fallen on such tough times that he has had to accept public financing. Do you think the damage that you did to him in the running feud you two have gotten into has something to do with that? If by “running feud” you mean the way Edwards cries every time I […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: What about sanctuary for us, from them? P.J. O’Rourke: The (really) long goodbye of the Baby Boomers. The Sun: The 30 most annoying celebs and things in Britain HollywoodTuna: Heidi Montag showers in her bikini You can check out all […]

After spending half her diary comparing America to Nazi Germany, Daily Kos diarist Granny Doc openly roots for an “economic meltdown” in America, The parallels are undeniable, and I see only one solution if America, The Grand Experiment, is to survive. I want to stand by and watch it all blow up. I want the […]

People are still talking about Hillary Clinton’s disastrous debate performance last week and Peggy Noonan wrote her latest column on the subject. Here’s a particularly piquant passage from her piece, “People who’ve studied Mrs. Clinton often ask why her ethical corner cutting and scandals have not caught up with her, why the whole history of […]

The fence we’re building on our Southern border is not intended to be a cure-all for our illegal alien woes. To the contrary, it’s supposed to act as a force multiplier for the border patrol. In other words, the fence will make our border extremely difficult to cross in certain places that are now high […]

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This week-end, Fred Thompson did Meet the Press and unlike Hillary, he bore up well under Russert’s questioning. However, there was one thing that Thompson said that raised a few eyebrows. Here’s the passage in question, MR. RUSSERT: This is the 2004 Republican Party platform, and here it is: “We say the unborn child has […]

These pics were taken by Zombie, the single best anti-war rally photographer in the MSM or the blogosphere, who’s walking the planet today. Make sure to check out the rest of his pics, here. Yes, you can question the patriotism of the liberals who attended this anti-war rally in San Francisco and while you’re at […]

Because of contractual obligations, I am missing the best football game of the season. At least Houston is winning. And I notice that John doesn’t have a sports category. What is wrong with him? And don’t tell me he only blogs politics. I saw Michael Vick’s name here once. Cross posted at Dr. Melissa Clouthier.

How much does voice matter? “Voice matters — it’s what sells,” says John Daly, a University of Texas communications professor who has written a book about persuasion. University of California at Los Angeles psychology professor Albert Mehrabian even claims to have quantified how important a voice is. When we are deciding whether we like the […]

Socialized education not only fails its constituency miserably — witness today’s utterly uneducated, and essentially ineducable, masses. As this article at Chicago Boyz aptly points out, it and its class allies also constantly sing a refrain blaming the very imbecility of the supposedly brainless proletariat, and its easy manipulation by The Man (currently embodied by […]

At first, the situation seemed like an extreme way to deal with a Supreme Court Musharraf disagrees with: He accused the country’s Supreme Court of releasing 61 men who he said were under investigation for terrorist activities. “Judicial activism,” he said, had demoralized the security forces, hurt the fight against terrorism and slowed the spread […]

The AP reports that thousands of Baghdad residents have returned to their much safer city (h/t: ST reader forest hunter): BAGHDAD – In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said […]

Check out all these moderate Iranians! TEHRAN (Reuters) – Thousands of Iranians chanted “Death to America” and vowed not to yield to U.S. pressure over Iran’s nuclear program at a demonstration on Sunday marking the 28th anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy. Students burned the Stars and Stripes outside the leafy compound in […]

Liberalism is nothing new in academia. Leftists seek sanctuary in the ivory tower of higher education where they can feel free to impose their liberal moonbattery on hapless college students. The less control they have over the country, the tighter their grip over academia becomes. And nothing runs more rampant on college campuses than anti-Americanism. […]

Anyone else notice the first reaction by some to the attack on Hillary Clinton during Tuesday’s Democratic debate was to play the “chick” card. You know, “the guys are ganging up on a girl” defense? I thought this was about presidential politics and front-runners. Can anyone remember a time when the front-runner wasn’t attacked both […]

Their reasoning? Mukasey would respect a law that bans waterboarding. Here’s Schumer justifying his position: “I deeply oppose it,” Schumer said of waterboarding. “Unfortunately, this nominee, indeed any proposed by President Bush, will not agree with this. I am, however, confident that this nominee would enforce a law that bans waterboarding.” Here’s Feinstein doing the […]

Rather’s investigating Canada’s poorest neighborhood — Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside — to expose the tax-payer sponsored needle exchanges, public drunkenness and prostitution that’s on display just a block or two from 5-star hotels. Why? Cuz Vancouver’s hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics, don’t ya know. (Maybe Van could just invent new events, like Run the Junkie Gauntlet, […]