Year: 2008

“The fact is, we seem to be in a kind of moment of madness in Washington, where day by day, step by step, massive expenditures and undertakings are contemplated that would radically alter the relationship between the people and their government and that would have been simply unimaginable, with good reason, just a few months […]

Well the Republicans in the Senate (with the usual exceptions) and a couple of Democrats kept the US government out of the car business last night. Reading the blogosphere, on both sides, has been fascinating. From Ed Morrisey’s “good” to Jane Hamsher’s “the Republicans quite plainly want the economy to fail” and everything in between. […]

The campaign to purge Christianity from Christmas presses forward: A school choir was forced to withdraw from a Christmas event because organisers branded its carols ‘too religious’. Around 60 children aged between seven and 11 had spent six weeks practising favourites including Once In Royal David’s City and Silent Night for the Corringham Winter Festival. […]

If BHO is still looking for staff, I know just the guy to oversee Social Security — provided he can do it from a prison cell: Bernard L. Madoff, a former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market and a force in Wall Street trading for nearly 50 years, was arrested by federal agents Thursday, a […]

If you just found a large sum of money and could easily walk away with it, what would you do? This immigrant bagboy found $10,000. He turned it in. Why? Here’s what he said, “I teach a Sunday school with 10-year-old kids and I always tell them to do the right thing.” 75 year-old Billie […]

One of the arguments that’s being kicked around is that the stock market will take a big hit if the “Big 3” don’t get bridge loans — so, therefore, Bush now has to use TARP money for the loans in order to prop up stock values. While I would not be surprised to see the […]

One of Barack Obama’s biggest supporters, Colin Powell, is now offering up his sage advice to Republicans, The Republican party must stop “shouting at the world” and start listening to minority groups if it is to win elections in the 21st century, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday. …”I think the party has […]

This graphic was swiped from Maggie’s Farm.

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Karl Rove: How the GOP should prepare for a comeback Adult Swim: The worst game ever. Cracked: The 8 most horrifying body modifications COED Magazine: Kay Sivilay bikini pics You can check out all those links and more by clicking here. Don’t […]

“If all we want are jobs, we can create any number — for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. Our real objective is not just […]

So nerds suffer in the short term: Researchers in Australia surveyed 185 men and women, ages 16 to 25, at the University of Sydney on their sexual history and STD knowledge. Responses to questionnaires revealed that “art students were younger [and] more likely to be sexually active” than science students (who, presumably were too busy […]

This was originally posted at 10:34 PM EST, Dec 11, 2008. It’s from an instant messenger conversation with one of my sources in the Senate. Anon Senate Aide: Auto bailout dead. John Hawkins: Dead dead? What happened? =D Anon Senate Aide: Negotiations ended, no deal. John Hawkins: Until next year or for a day or […]

Just hate them because they’re conservative. This is apparently the mantra of the desperate left wing, who preach tolerance, political correctness, hugs, and high-five’s to all – unless, of course, they don’t subscribe to the secular leftist agenda. If that’s the case, then the rules are turned upside-down: the most vicious, vile, crude, and classless […]

I‘m already tired of the Blagojevich scandal (an Illinois governor is corrupt? Well knock me over with a feather), but I remain concerned with this auto bailout and can only hope, with the White House caving in, that the Republicans in the Senate will make one final stand before their minority power is blown away […]

From the Washington Times: Environmental extremists and global warming alarmists are in denial and running for cover. Their rationale for continuing a lost cause is that weather events in the short term are not necessarily related to long-term climatic trends. But these are the same people who screamed at us each year that ordinary weather […]

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” — Author unknown “Every time you take a rich man down, you take a 100 poor men with him.” “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in […]

The farce Washington governor Christine Gregoire initiated by allowing militant atheists to put up a sign denouncing Christianity next to the Christmas display in the state capitol has reached a new extreme of tastelessness. Active Democrat and enthusiastic Al Gore supporter Fred Phelps would like to put in his 2¢ too. Via Knowledge Is Power, […]

Here‘s what Obama had to say this Tuesday, the last time anything could be extracted from him regarding his dealings with fellow Illinois machine politician Rod Blagojevich, who was caught trying to sell BHO’s Senate seat to the highest bidder: I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, […]

Dr. Helen, in a post explaining why intellectuals tend to sympathize with criminals, quotes Theodore Dalrymple, Intellectuals need to say things that are not immediately obvious or do not occur to the man in the street. The man in the street instinctively sympathizes with the victim of crime; therefore, to distinguish himself from the man […]

What a fiasco. So Jessie Jr is behind door #5 according to the New York Times: Mr. Jackson was described in an affidavit filed in Mr. Blagojevich’s arrest as one of at least six people being considered by the governor to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s unfinished term in the United States Senate in exchange for […]

Anti-Semitic incompetent Jimmy Carter made news by declaring that he would meet with Hezbollah. Now, Hezbollah has made news by declaring that they won’t meet with Jimmy Carter, Lebanon’s militant group Hezbollah has refused to meet visiting former US president Jimmy Carter to discuss legislative elections set for the spring, Carter’s spokesman said on Wednesday. […]

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same Last week I wrote a column called “Before We Carve Barack Obama’s Face on Mt. Rushmore.” It was about the rapturous honeymoon period that Barack Obama is experiencing at the moment. Well, judging by the latest numbers from this Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, Americans […]

There’s a very poorly thought out argument that we seem to be hearing more and more of lately. It goes something like this, “We already do (horrific idea X). Therefore, that’s justification for doing (horrific idea Y).” Some examples of this sort of thinking include, “We’ve already bailed out the banks. Therefore, we should definitely […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: Minnesota ballots: Land of 10,000 fakes Dr. Helen: Why do intellectuals sympathize with criminals? Slightly Warped: The strange plant life on the Isle of Socotra Totally Crap: More Penelope Cruz bikini pics You can check out all those links and […]

Just finished up a brief interview with Andrew Breitbart for The American Spectator: “I think that now is the right time to strike,” Andrew Breitbart says, talking on his hands-free cell phone as he drives through Hollywood. He’s en route to dinner with a screenwriter whose work has been filmed with big names like Michael […]

While the President-elect trots out his New New Deal, which smacks more of Soviet style planning than free market recovery, Communist China is taking an alternate course: CHINA may soon cut business tax as part of its efforts to prop up the slowing economy amid the global financial crisis, state media reported on Tuesday. The […]

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About a year ago, maybe two now, time flies, we got in a fender bender and the man who drove the tow-truck was from the Middle East somewhere. I took a leap and said to him, “Asalam Alakum” or roughly “peace be unto you” (a fairly universal greeting) in Arabic. He was delighted. Asked how […]

Bush is technically still in office, yet already the truth is coming out regarding his brutal regime’s abuse of misunderstood Islamic terrorists: U.S. military interrogators have often blasted music at detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. According to the British law group Reprieve, these are among the songs they have used most frequently: • […]