Year: 2008

David Petraeus and Ray Odierno, our top generals in Iraq, have now weighed in on Obama’s plan to have our combat troops out of Iraq in sixteen months and their verdict isn’t favorable, A new military plan for troop withdrawals from Iraq that was described in broad terms this week to President-elect Barack Obama falls […]

A new law, proposed in Russia and backed by Putin, would essentially label any criticism as “treason”: New legislation backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would allow Russian authorities to label any government critic a traitor — a move that rights activists said Wednesday was a chilling throwback to times of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. […]

Dan Mitchell of Cato: Michael Moynihan of Reason: (Cross-posted at The Other McCain.)

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“Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.” – Jim Quinn It was January of 2007 when the House passes the first minimum wage increase in a decade.  Senate Republicans added a ton of tax breaks to small businesses to the minimum wage increase before passing it in February. They bickered back and […]

So I put up a link that makes it seem like the United States is bankrupt–like bankrupt now. Turns out that the data The DC Examiner reported on is manipulated and essentially crap: The United States of America is bankrupt. Don’t believe it? Consider this: Federal obligations now exceed the collective net worth of all […]

ou know the NSA’s wiretapping permission? They get to listen in on foreigners blabbing about killing Americans and plotting badness. It’s how the Indian government knew about the Bombay bombing plot ahead of time but did nothing about it (small detail). There are government agents sitting around listening to these inane conversations and they have […]

You can fool some of the people some of the time, which the media proved by getting the Moonbat Messiah elected President and convincing the gullible that global warming is real. But as the MSM casts off even the thinnest pretense of professionalism in pursuit of its radical-left policy goals, fewer are getting fooled less […]

It’s already gotten to the point that you don’t need to be in trouble to get a bailout; you just need to be in ideological sync with the moonbats running our government. Planned Parenthood, the McDonald’s of abortion, is flush with cash thanks to the $millions of our money bureaucrats shower down upon it. Yet […]

My home state of North Carolina is considering levying yet another tax, With gas-tax revenues plummeting, the state of North Carolina is looking seriously at taxing motorists for how far they drive. If the “road-use tax” is implemented, it would at first be simple – with the state checking your odometer annually and taxing you […]

I’m writing a column on the top ten political screw-ups of 2008. How about giving me some suggestions in the comments section so I can make sure I don’t miss any of the big ones?

Matt Yglesias, a snobby, know-it-all, chomskyite punk who graduated from Harvard the same year the war in Iraq began, has deigned to enlighten the rest of us about how horrible the people who supported the war in Iraq really are, The harsh reality is that (the Iraq war) was not a noble undertaking done for […]

“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,” Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision “to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse.” — George Bush Oh, he’s trying to “save the free-market system,” is he? That’s funny, because to the untrained eye, Bush looks like a rudderless big government Republican who’s […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Newsbusters: Democratic Congresswoman pushes for return of ‘Fairness Doctrine’ and to extend it to cable and satellite James Pethokoukis: The 10 dopiest business and economy leaders of 2008 Los Angeles Times: 13 upcoming remakes of Hollywood sci-fi classics MailOnline: What Cleopatra really […]

Via Emily Zanotti at The American Princess comes my favorite post-election 2008 Barack Obama shirt so far, The t-shirt can be found here.

My buddy Cassy Fiano wrote a post that accepts as its premise that men find short hair on women unattractive. As I told Cass, personally, that’s not the case for me. I’ve always been a fan of short, stylishly done, short haircuts on women. Obviously, opinions on this subject are going to vary, but I […]

If you don’t use Twitter, here’s the sort of thing you’re missing — or alternately, not missing if this doesn’t catch your fancy =D Some recent posts from My personal Twitter profile, Watched “The Happening.” 10 min. of cool, gory suicides. 81 min. of unsympathetic characters runnin from grass, trees and the wind. Really. Once […]

Over at the The Guardian, they’ve got a story on — believe it or not, a Burger King body spray, Still can’t think what to get him for Christmas? Socks don’t seem to cut it any more? Fret no longer because Burger King is here to help. The mass purveyor of grilled meat is offering, […]

You can tell its a relatively slow news week. Crooks and Liars is reduced to resurrecting the “Nazis in the Army” story of a couple of years ago. Now, that’s pathetic enough (C&L has to admit that when the FBI investigated the claim, they found that there were all of 200 identifiable “neo-nazis” in the […]

How did Barack Obama claim power in Chicago? Why, the old-fashioned way, of course! He used connections, ingratiated himself with power brokers, became part of the machine and was hand-picked for the seat. And then the machine helped make it happen, including by nefarious means. If nothing else, the Chicago mess demonstrates how remarkable Sarah […]

Now I get why global warming hysteria has been going into overdrive lately, despite falling temperatures encasing the country in ice: A slackening in the growth rate of fossil fuel consumption gave comfort to environmentalists in 2008, as recession began to grip global economies. But, in most respects, this year was awful for the green […]

Having blown his presidential bid, John “Lettuce” McCain is back in his former job: toady to Democrats. True to his old pandering form, he went on This Week recently to denounce fellow Republicans for criticizing the way the Moonbat Messiah has mishandled the Governor Blago revelations. Bleats Lettuce: In all due respect to the Republican […]

We tend to think that those who run online systems like Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed and the grand poo-bah Google make them passive robot-like vehicles for democratic action. That’s not exactly true. At the very least someone wrote the code in a certain way to achieve a certain outcome. It doesn’t have to be a nefarious […]

Political correctness at a Chinese zoo: A pair of gay penguins thrown out of their zoo colony for repeatedly stealing eggs have been given some of their own to look after following a protest by animal rights groups. Last month the birds were segregated after they were caught placing stones at the feet of parents […]

After the grandstanding Iraqi reporter tossed his shoes at George Bush, the media’s focus wasn’t on how Bush had made it possible for this moron to throw his footwear at a world leader without being fed, head first, into a paper shredder five minutes later while his family watched, it was on what a great […]

Although I absolutely cannot stand John McCain, so much so that I put a higher priority on seeing him beaten in his 2010 Arizona primary than I do on defeating any Democratic senator, I think he has gotten a bad rap for these comments, Sen. John McCain said Sunday he would not necessarily support his […]

The final “Barneycam” video is out and unfortunately, I have to say it’s not one of the better ones. Sure, they have lots of cameos from Olympic athletes, but where’s the Barney in the Barneycam video? Personally, I wanted to see more of Barney running around the White House and playing with toys. So, with […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann: The impending collapse of our enemies Sports Illustrated: The 14 worst individual seasons by a team Rachel Lucas: A rapist returns to the home of his victim. This time, she has a shotgun. Egotastic!: Audrina Patridge bikini […]

Yesterday, I put up a couple of polls on the Big 3 bailout. Here are the results. Do you support using TARP funds to give the Big 3 a 15 billion dollar bridge loan? (567 votes) Yes: 5% No: 95% Would you support giving the Big 3 a 100 billion dollar plus loan next year? […]

The LA Times has done a story on Anthony Pellicano being sentenced to 15 years in prison. Unsurprisingly, they failed to mention his most famous clients, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday for running an illegal wiretapping operation that gathered information for a […]