Year: 2008

What should we stand for? Here’s what I think we should stand for: Life: Protecting life, preserving life, defending life, encouraging life and fostering ways to make life more abundant. Liberty: There is a sense that there are too many laws, constricting too many lives, for too many idiosyncratic reasons. People need to be free […]

Courtesy of the nation’s top cutting edge, online paper, the Weekly World News, there is huge news out of Illinois! Apparently, in a surprise move, Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich is appointing a Republican to fill Barack Obama’s Senate Seat, At a press conference this morning, Governor Rod Blagojevich unveiled a resurrected Abraham Lincoln as the […]

As bizarre and surreal as this story may seem, it’s oddly typical of the attitude on the left here in America and across the world, On the evening of Nov. 26, the biggest names in Bollywood walked the red carpet at the Bombay premiere of “The President Is Coming,” a comedy about six 20-somethings vying […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: NY Daily: Photoshopping what celebs like Jennifer Anniston and Angelina Jolie would look like dressed up like Sarah Palin Thomas Sowell: Freedom and the left So Weirdo: The 10 most unethical experiments Cracked: The 10 most devastating insults of all-time. CelebSlam: Araceli […]

“This domestic troop deployment looks at best to be part of the Bush Administration’s last-minute plans to leave its fascist mark on this country in perpetuity before leaving. At worst it’s a sign that the current Administration has no intention of leaving at all.” — Brilliant at Breakfast There seems to be –ahem — a […]

Via The Corner, we get a story about a blatantly discriminatory practice that doesn’t belong in this century, The Oregon Department of Transportation is facing criticism over an effort to give more work to specific groups of minority contractors. A $30 million project to add a lane to Highway 217 in Washington County is the […]

“The One” has caused some controversy by contradicting the Bible on who can get into heaven, The impetus was an interview conducted four years by Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun Times. She’d already published a column based on the interview but Beliefnet published the full transcript after the election. That interview included the following […]

A few friends and I had the most interesting bar conversation with a random man this weekend. It began with a few disgruntled remarks about our suffering financial state and quickly moved to how the bailout and Barack Obama were two disasters just waiting to happen; an hour or so later, we had discussed every […]

The Pentagon has released a plan to deploy 20,000 troops in America by 2011.  The deployment would be to assist locals in dealing with terrorist attacks, or so the story goes: Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, dedicating 20,000 troops to domestic response — a nearly sevenfold increase in five years — “would […]

Dorthy Rabinowitz takes issue with the “blame America” crowd, specifically Deepak Chopra, and their attempt to lay the Mumbai terrorist attacks at the feet of the US. How the ebullient Dr. Chopra had come to be chosen as an authority on terror remains something of a mystery, though the answer may have something to do […]

As a lawyer for ACORN, Obama exploited the Community Reinvestment Act to inflict race-based extortion on the mortgage industry, helping to bring about the collapse of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which led in turn to our current economic crisis. Now the same racket is setting it sights directly on Wall Street: In what is […]

Remember Samantha Power, the ultra-left screwball who publicly equated waterboarding guys like 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed with genocide? She was considered a key Obama advisor, but got tossed off the campaign team for being conspicuously nuts. Now — with the election safely over — she’s back: Power is listed on Obama’s transition Web site […]

Tomorrow, Saxby Chambliss has his run-off election with Jim Martin and given that it’s a close race and holding on to his seat is incredibly important, he could have just about any Republican he wants on the campaign trail for him today. He could have John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Bush, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, […]

“At least two senior Indian officials have now resigned over their failure to thwart the horrific attacks in Mumbai last week, as further evidence emerged Monday of the possible links to Pakistan of the gunmen who went on a 60-hour rampage in India’s financial capital. How many people resigned over 9/11? Over the immigration disaster? […]

Want to be unemployed? Join a union! Toyota, BMW, Kia and others now make 54% of the cars Americans buy. The internationals also employ some 113,000 Americans, compared with 239,000 at U.S.-owned carmakers . . . To put it concisely, the transplants operate under conditions imposed by the free market. Detroit lives on Fantasy Island. […]

There are a lot of valid complaints about conservative messaging on illegal immigration. Unfortunately, those of us who are in favor of securing the border and against amnesty can come across, falsely, as being hostile to Hispanic Americans. With that in mind, here are points that may deserve to get a little more attention when […]

Hey all, this isn’t a huge post. I’m just linking you through to Hugh Hewitt who has the whole thing, but I thought this was worthwhile enough to pass along. Having been through a couple Hurricanes, now, here is what I’ve discovered: The thing that is most needed is communication. The thing that goes out […]

Score 1 for the good guys, That is just the point. Fueled by technology and a powerful victims’ rights movement, “victim impact videos” are becoming staples in criminal trials nationwide. The increasingly sophisticated multimedia presentations depict victims from cradle to grave, often with soft music in the background, tugging on the heartstrings of jurors. Defense […]

This post could be obscenely long, there are so many potential problems in the health care field. I’m going to try to make this brief and concise. There are about to be many more old people than people to care for them. Gen X is about half the size of the Boomers. The Boomers are […]

As a student of human nature, I was absolutely FASCINATED by this story, Lois Feldman of Carroll, Iowa was enjoying a one sided college football game (55-0) between her beloved Iowa Hawkeyes and the Minnesota Gophers last weekend when she suddenly opted to engage in a quickie sex romp with a stranger in the Minneapolis […]

Via Dr. Helen comes the latest trend in feminizing men: Mantyhose — no, seriously! My first thought after looking at these guys was Silence of the Lambs. Ya know, Buffalo Bill: “It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again!” Dr. Helen had a different take on it, “Are they […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: It’s not the Cold War. Updating strategy to fight the ideology. Michael Eden: Do unto Obama as liberals did unto Bush Blackfive: One of the coolest signs you’ve ever seen and naturally, it was on the door of a wounded […]

That, of course, means some immediate propaganda work repackaging by the Obama team after all the shots they threw her way during the primaries: “What exactly is this foreign policy experience?” Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. “Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no.” No, she was dodging […]

Or, is that taking the Christ out of Christmas? Threat of ACLU lawsuit means no cross in Pontchatula The huge cross near Ponchatoula’s downtown locomotive won’t be covered with blazing white bulbs for this year’s Christmas Lights Festival. Instead, a second bar has been added to display banners advertising citywide events. The cross was highly […]

Some self-designated “doctor of journalism” decided to take on Mark Steyn, who opens up a can of forensic whupass on the aforesaid professor: Not for the first time you realise that, for the lazy white liberal, driving around with a “CELEBRATE DIVERSITY” sticker absolves one from having to take the slightest interest in other cultures. […]

One of the things I appreciate the most about Dennis Prager is his unofficial motto, “I prefer clarity over agreement.” To me, that says it all. All too often, we’re deluded into thinking whoever’s nearby and for some reason refuses to go-with-the-flow, that person must have fastened his identity to the role of loose-cannon. He […]

Apparently he wasn’t kidding when he said he thought it was his “job” to help the Obama adminstration succeed: HARRISBURG, Pa. – A Pennsylvania Democratic party leader says MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews may be considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2010. The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reports Matthews met with state party leaders this past […]

I hope they get some sort of cute uniform, too. Something low cut and sexy. For the women. Maybe they can all wear lettuce bikini’s, like the PETA wackos. But the real fear driving climate alarmists wild is that a more rational approach to the fundamentalist religion of global warming may be in the ascendancy […]

Instapundit links to John Thompson, who writes: The Mumbai attacks represent a scenario that few Western police and security forces have dared envision. Fewer still have prepared for it. The basic strategy: use a large number of attackers to overwhelm a target city’s ability to respond, and then suddenly switch focus to high value targets […]

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