Year: 2008

Remember Seattle’s $5-million toilet misadventure? Replacing affordable portable toilets with extravagant self-flushing super-crappers actually resulted in even more bums defecating in the streets. They cost $360 per day just to maintain, and soon had to be closed down after they became clogged with trash, both literally and figuratively, only drug-dealers and prostitutes being able to […]

The Senate approved the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), agreeing to give away $50 billion of American taxpayer money to African countries to help stop the spread of AIDS. Current estimates are that 33 million people worldwide suffer from the disease. That is less than one half of one percent of the total […]

No. Seriously. Welcome to the Reality Based Community Take Your Paws off the Presidency! Does the Bush administration have a secret succession order that bypasses Congress? Suppose the worst happens, and the next terrorist attack hits Washington hard, taking out the president and the vice president. What happens next? New Yorker writer Jane Mayer’s new […]

Early morning thought: will those on the Port side accuse Obama of going to Iraq for a photo op? IHT – Media stars will accompany Obama overseas Senator John McCain’s trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported […]

I am flying in to the Defending The American Dream Summit in Austin, Tx today and will be attending the event tomorrow. That means updates from me may be a bit spotty. However, there’s no need to fear, because I have crew of guest bloggers taking up my slack. While I am gone, the following […]

I am flying in to the Defending The American Dream Summit in Austin, Tx today and will be attending the event tomorrow. That means updates from me may be a bit spotty. However, there’s no need to fear, because I have crew of guest bloggers taking up my slack. While I am gone, the following […]

Dan Collins links to an article about how women resist temptation from single men better than men resist temptation from women: The report concluded that men must form a plan of how to resist a good-looking temptress. I’m going to stop right there. Does this strike you as condescending? It struck me as treating men […]

This story confirms my theory that people don’t get nicer as they age. They are who they are–they just usually get too tired too keep being as big a jerk. Beware the vital, healthy old people. They might look innocent: Two elderly women were sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday for murdering two […]

Here‘s something unlikely to make the cover of Time. From the Science & Public Policy Institute: WASHINGTON (7-15-08) — Mathematical proof that there is no “climate crisis” appears today in a major, peer-reviewed paper in Physics and Society, a learned journal of the 10,000-strong American Physical Society, SPPI reports. Christopher Monckton, who once advised Margaret […]

I’ve previously interviewed Peter Schweizer about his superb book, Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, and I thought he did a great job. So, when I saw that Schweizer had an important new book out, Makers and Takers: Why Conservatives Work Harder, Feel Happier, Have Closer […]

On Thursday and Friday of this week, I will be attending the Defending The American Dream Summit in Austin, Tx (If you’re attending, make sure to say “Hi.”) But, because I will be flying out to the summit tomorrow and will be attending Friday (Melissa Clouthier will also be arriving then), posting from the two […]

At 4:00 PM EST, I’m going to be on the Jaz McKay show. Click on Stickam in the left corner to listen to the show.

The website of the day is Katie Favazza.    

Good for Texas! THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The U.N.’s highest court on Wednesday ordered the United States to stay the executions of five Mexicans on Texas death row pending review of their cases. …Earlier, President Bush issued a directive to the state courts to abide by the decision and also asked Texas specifically to review […]

A few days ago, I was working legs at Gold’s Gym and I decided to try doing step exercises, which is something I don’t normally do. So, I walk up to a step, which is essentially a wide plastic stool, and I do a few left-legged steps and despite the fact that I had already […]

When the elitist snoots at the New Yorker attempted to ridicule normal Americans for objecting to an ultra-left presidential candidate who could be counted on to side with Muslims against the USA with this cover… …the joke blew up in their faces by accidently hitting far too close to the mark regarding the character and […]

When the war in Iraq turned out to be much longer, bloodier, and more expensive than those of us on the right thought it would be, we had to eat a little humble pie. Happily though, the Left is now starting to have to deal with the fact that they were 100% wrong about the […]

While the Saudi king promotes inter-faith dialogue this week, Saudi text books still teach hatred and intolerance to everything–and everyone–non-Islamic True enough. For all the Saudi king’s “gestures” of peace and goodwill, what Saudi children are being taught on a daily basis says it all. “New Report Shows Saudi Ministry Textbooks Still Teach Extreme Intolerance,” […]

His name is James A. Peden, he’s the Editor of the Middlebury Community Network. He also spent some of his earlier years as an Atmospheric Physicist at the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh and Extranuclear Laboratories in Blawnox, Pennsylvania, studying ion-molecule reactions in the upper atmosphere. About CO2 and AGW? He’s not particularly […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Rush Limbaugh: Some tough love from El Rushbo Dr. Melissa Clouthier: “I had sex with my brother but I don’t feel guilty” Thomas Sowell: Are facts obsolete? Mail Online: Helen Mirren: the bikini queen reigns supreme at 63 You can check out […]

“I know rednecks,” my friend was telling me, “and they’re not unaware, but this is what they think about Barack Obama: they don’t think he’s a Muslim, they think he’s a secret Muslim.” After laughing about it, I responded that I know very highly educated people who flat out believe Barack Obama isn’t a secret […]

Beer is too good not to find itself targeted by the Nanny State Police, or as reader Matt L. calls them, the Nastapo. The less wimpy the beer, the more we need to be protected from it. Award-winning Scottish microbrewery BrewDog is in hot water for creating a specialty brew called Tokyo that is 12% […]

This is something I noticed at the most awesome Houston restaurant I went to last week: chocolate cake. Big deal, right? Chocolate cake is the desert that everyone wants who is a desert denier regularly. So, it figures to be on the menu at fine restaurants. Or not. Too many are too smart by half […]

The liberal elite’s attempts to scare people into believing in the nonexistent climate change crisis are becoming increasingly desperate. Now we’re told global warming causes kidney stones: More Americans are likely to suffer from kidney stones in the coming years as a result of global warming, according to researchers at the University of Texas. Kidney […]

“We are winning and if we adopt Sen. Obama’s proposal for a set date for withdrawal, this very fragile success that we have achieved will be jeopardized. Senator Obama was wrong when he said [the surge] wouldn’t succeed. He was wrong when he said we’ve lost the war. And he is wrong today when he […]

The website of the day is The Nose On Your Face.    

You want to know what’s funny? A bunch of faux-objective liberals who are dying to see Obama win the election, trying to claim that they’re not making fun of him because there’s just nothing worth mocking about the guy. The New York Times actually did an entire piece on this ridiculous subject and it’s riddled […]

Erick Erickson found some very interesting info which he shares with us at RedState. But first, a little reminder. November 20, 2007, Chicago Tribune: In a story entitled, “Court to Hear Gun Case,” the Chicago Tribune’s James Oliphant and Michael J. Higgins wrote “. . . the campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said […]

This is incredibly tacky and tasteless, A controversial billboard in Orange County has a picture of the burning World Trade Center and the message, “Please Don’t Vote for a Democrat.” The man who paid for the ad says he’s trying to help Republicans, but officials with both political parties are calling the billboard inappropriate. …The […]

John McCain was one of the Senate’s biggest advocates of comprehensive immigration reform, which entails putting illegals on the path to citizenship while simultaneously putting security reforms in place that would be thwarted at the first convenient opportunity by members of Congress. The American people rejected that plan and conservatives were on track to reject […]