Month: November 2009

Marriage Hating ‘Psychologist’ Calls Palin a ‘Special Liar’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An anti-Palin screed somehow ended up on Psychology Today’s website. I know, I know, it’s shocking that Psychology Today could sponsor something that is less science than it is PC, hatespeak against conservatives, what with psychology being so scientific and all — but, there you have it. Penned by one Bella DePaulo, the piece really […]

 

College Atheists Give Up Club: ‘What’s the Point?’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Denitown, Connecticut — Chip McKeown, president of the Atheist club at Connecticut’s College of Regional Accountant Practitioners (CRAP), has announced that the club will be disbanding at the close of this semester. Professor Freewind Pulcinski (pictured) expressed his disappointment with the move. “It was, like, totally, you, know, juss… like bummed. Ya know, man?,” the […]

 

Health Care Debate Heats Up in Senate; Health Care Protests Heat Up Nationwide

Posted on by Donald Douglas

There’s lots of debate on the procedural moves in the Senate to start the floor debate and amending process for the Democrats’ ObamaCare monstrosity. Here’s how the Los Angeles Times explains things: Without a vote to spare, Democrats pushed their healthcare legislation over its first obstacle on the Senate floor Saturday, as the chamber voted […]

 

Senate Approves Motion to Proceed on Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With a 60 to 39 vote, the Senate has passed the motion to proceed to move on with the debate over Obamacare. Again, it is important to note that this is only a vote to begin the floor debate on the bill. It is not a vote to pass Obamacare. In the Washington Examiner, Byron […]

 

SEIU Fixing the Vote in Fresno, Too

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A few weeks ago we reported on how the Services Employees International Union was attempting to fix the vote in Sonoma County, California so that Sonoma’s in-home healthcare workers would end up with SEIU representation instead of NUHW representation. Well, Sonoma wasn’t an isolated case. The SEIU used the same vote fixing tactics in Fresno […]

 

Conservative talk radio recap: Nov. 16-20

Posted on by Kathy Shaidle

My latest Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND. You can enjoy lots of FREE audio and clips of highlights from this week, from conservative talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and others. Some stuff that came in after the deadline… “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys […]

 

Updates From Crazyville

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

Where to begin? Jules Crittenden observes that since resuming “normal” blogging, Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish “has racked up no fewer than 23 Palin posts.” Which is only “normal” in Sullyland, a destination on the far side of the looking glass, where caterpillars smoke hookahs, etc. Certain that his lunacy is entirely rational, Andrew Sullivan declares […]

 

Voters Beginning To Blame Democrats About Recession

Posted on by McQ

It was inevitable (the party in power always gets blamed – eventually), but that doesn’t mean I don’t like the fact that this perfect storm may crest precisely at the 2010 midterms (although you shouldn”t count out the possibility of Republicans completely blowing the opportunity): Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political […]

 

San Francisco Booksellers Won’t Carry Going Rogue

Posted on by Donald Douglas

You know someone’s packing some REALLY powerful intellect when every other post on their blog is a Jon Stewart video. Perhaps it’s generational change, where we see a lazy kind of media-induced resistance to hard thinking and analytical reasoning, but it’s out there, and not just among hardline netroots denizens. I’m tempted to try to […]

 

Q&A Friday #104: Imagining A Fight Scene Between Blade And Edward Cullen

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: “Please describe, in detail, with dialouge, your version of a vampire fight between Blade and Edward Cullen.” — President_Friedman Edward Cullen: Hi! I like baseball and I sparkle! Can we be pals? Blade: Some motherf*cker’s always tryin’ to iceskate uphill. Edward Cullen: Did I mention I’m over 100 years old and I like to […]

 

An Environmental Disaster Of Epic Proportions

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

An environmental cataclysm occurred this week. Al Gore is somewhere howling in psychic pain. Global warming skeptics and any real scientists rejoice: the fable of Global Warming aka Climate Change aka Impending Doom has been revealed for a scientifically manipulated fraud. Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters has an excellent wrap-up of the story (damning emails, links) […]

 

Q&A Friday #104: Why Is ObamaCare So Bad If Social Security And Medicare Are So Great?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: “How would you answer Kristof’s “Wrong Side of History” piece in the 11/18 NYT? If Medicare, Social Security and similar past advances of the welfare state didn’t do us in, why should anyone believe this one (healthcare takeover) will be the one that kills our economy? Are we suffering from a “boy who cried […]

 

Der Spiegel Wonders Where All The Warming Went

Posted on by William Teach

Just the other day, Senator James Inhofe said “Until this year, any scientist, reporter or politician who dared raise even the slightest suspicion about the science behind global warming was dismissed and repeatedly mocked.’’ And the hit parade just keeps on coming! Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average […]

 

Obama’s Bus Sideswipes The Jewish Vote On Hanukkah

Posted on by William Teach

For the 2008 general election, 78% of the Jewish vote went to Barack Obama, topping the percent Kerry achieved in 2004 (76%.) The Jewish vote tends to go overwhelmingly to Democrats, despite so many Democrats railing against Israel and that “evil Israeli lobby,” being pro-Palestinian, pro-Muslim terrorist, etc. Not all, of course. Bill Clinton has […]

 

Coburn wants the bill read from the Senate floor. All of it. UPDATE: Coburn backing off.

Posted on by Tabitha Hale

Crossposted at TabithaHale.com. UPDATE: After making the threat earlier this week, Coburn said, “I don’t know” when POLITICO asked if he would force a reading by Senate clerks on the floor. With his colleagues eager to go home for the Thanksgiving break, it’s possible that Coburn may backoff. Thanks, Coburn. The 2,074-page Senate health care […]