Year: 2009

A group of economists asked to assess the efforts of both Obama and Geithner were none too impressed: U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to revive the economy from participants in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey. The economists’ assessment stands in stark contrast with […]

The USA hosts the United Nations and is by far its largest financial supporter, providing 22% of this nefarious institution’s operating budget. In return, this is the gratitude we receive from head UN bureauweenie Ban Ki-Moonbat: A day after his White House meeting with President Obama, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon raised congressional hackles by calling […]

If Chairman Zero doesn’t know what private citizen he should attack in his next lame attempt to distract us from what he’s doing to the economy, he can always ask the Soros-financed Commie Conference. From Politico: The vast new left-wing conspiracy sets its tone every morning at 8:45 a.m., when officials from more than 20 […]

Most people who make it to adulthood have been hurt or harmed by another human being. Some have been hurt by the very one who should defend and protect them like parents, teachers, ministers. That’s a horrible sort of betrayal. And yet, most people don’t make a list, add to it yearly and finally, load […]

As people who have closely — or even not so closely — followed Barack Obama have come to realize, much of his rhetoric is right out of the George Orwell school of Newspeak. Even as he pushes radical, massive shifts of power from the people to the government, he declares that he opposes big government. […]

Michael Steele is in trouble again with Republicans, but this time, unlike the Rush Limbaugh / RNC Nazi flap, the criticism is totally undeserved. Here’s how Steele supposedly stepped in it on abortion, How much of your pro-life stance, for you, is informed not just by your Catholic faith but by the fact that you […]

What’s next? I’ll tell you what’s next… Nancy Pelosi! Nancy Pelosi! This piece of trash is in the news again. Supposedly, some watchdog group intercepted emails from Nancy Pelosi asking for military planes to fly her and her family back and forth across the country every freaking weekend. Sometimes she would reserve these planes, get […]

I’d like to thank Houston Chronicle editors Dwight Silverman and Will Radcliff for inviting me and a bunch of other featured bloggers to observe the editorial process at The Chron and also for some pizza and a bull session afterwards. You can see who all attended at John Kuglar’s page. Back in college, I worked […]

I just cannot get enough of these schlock Obama pictures. Here, we have Wolfman Obama getting ready to chow down on Uncle Sam. That was apparently a response to an old cover of the Nation that featured this image. Admittedly, Obama is a little tough to categorize as a monster. A Siren would be perfect, […]

I absolutely loved the concept behind Scratch Beginnings and admired Adam Shepard for coming up with that fantastic idea straight out of college, when many of us were flailing around, doing meaningless jobs without being able to write a book about our experiences. What follows is the slightly edited transcript of my interview with Adam. […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: Are ‘hope’ and ‘change’ still tax-deductible? Dan Gainor: We’ll pry global warming from their cold, dead hearts Oddee: 10 most frightening torture techniques from the Middle Ages Cracked: 7 bad*ss cartoon villains who lost to retarded heroes Egotastic!: Paris Hilton’s […]

Both Camille Paglia and Howard Fineman give an assessement (although not presented as a 50 day assessment). Paglia says, “free Obama from his advisors“: Yes, free the president from his flacks, fixers and goons — his posse of smirky smart alecks and provincial rubes, who were shrewd enough to beat the slow, pompous Clintons in […]

I just got off of a teleconference with Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference and Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN), Chairman of the House Republican Conference. The teleconference was about Obama’s budget and what follows are my notes, not quotes, from the teleconference. Opening statement Mike Pence: We’re working with […]

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The bad guys taking total control of the federal government is not good news for local officials who do their jobs with integrity. An example is legendary Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has repeatedly stood up to moonbat slugs like Phoenix Mayor Filmstrip Phil Gordon and former Arizona Governor Janet “Crappy Nappy” Napolitano, enforcing […]

People profoundly hostile to America have taken control of the American government, producing a bizarre foreign policy situation in which friends are treated as enemies and enemies as friends. Obama’s eagerness to shower our money upon Palestinians and appalling rudeness toward Britain are hardly the only examples. Take Cuba and Colombia: The $410 billion Omnibus […]

Forget taking away worker rights, forget silencing opposition, forget all the money that will pour into Democratic coffers, ….yes, for all those reasons the legislation that Democrats are trying to pass are wrong. Card check is dangerous because it’s a way to remove economic competition. If every big company, in every state can be coerced […]

I watched this video yesterday and got sick to my stomach. You can watch the whole thing, too, to get an idea of what is being taught at say, Harvard University. Professor Lani Guinier, at the State of the Black Union jams so many false premises and wrong-headed thinking in 10 minutes that it’s impressive. […]

Between Obama’s “enemies list” and the David Frum’s of the world, who are trying to fill the “I’m a Republican who hates Republicans, please promote me, liberal media” niche, Rush Limbaugh has been under regular attack for the last few weeks. But, let me be clear: the problem with the Republican Party is most certainly […]

It’s time for me to rank my favorite blogs for the 1st quarter of 2009. Do keep in mind that as the quarter has progressed, some blogs have, of course, moved up and others have dropped, based on how often I visit them, how much I like what I see when I get there, how […]

If you love quirky Obama kitsch — and I know you do, then today is your lucky day! That’s because the kitschiest Obama kitsch that has ever been kitsched is now available! Introducing, the “Milfs For Barack Obama button Octomom pin Nadya Suleman.” That’s right, folks, it’s three annoying things that are even more annoying […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Roger Kimball: The idiot’s guide to destroying the economy: a 12-step program Hit & Run: The full list of the DVDs that Obama gave Gordon Brown Christopher Booker: Climate ‘denial’ is now a mental disorde Cracked: 5 deadly Sci-Fi gadgets you can […]

They yelled, they screamed, they hopped up and down on one leg and told us how bad this 410 billion dollar spending bill was and how it was “business as usual’ (something they should certainly know about) that increased the spending level 8% and was full of 9,000 earmarks. And they condemned the Democrats and […]

What is going on with the Charles Freeman nomination, and is it an indicator of a overwhelmed administration losing control? Who, exactly, is in charge there? Frankly, approaching 45 days into this administration, the transition process, at least as it pertains to critical nominations, has been an unmitigated disaster. But it is the Freeman nomination […]

Here‘s something we can expect to see a lot of from our Community Organizer in Chief: Obama is attempting to overcome resistance to his Cloward-Piven spending spree by deploying armies of glassy-eyed ACORN types to bang on doors and persuade us peasants that our greedy rulers know best. First Obamunists must pledge support for the […]

Maybe it’s just as well Ronaldus Maximus didn’t live to see what the world is rotting into. Remember how he stood up to the moonbats in Congress to defend El Salvador from communism? The Marxist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) is now poised to take over the country democratically, just as its ideological brethren […]

Here’s an excerpt of my latest Pajamas column titled “Much Ado About Obama and Embryonic Stem Cells”: In a move that shocked no one, President Barack Obama reversed President George W. Bush’s executive order to ban government-funded human embryonic stem cell [ESC] research on new embryonic stem cell strains. This decision has caused many to […]

It seems fairly obvious to me that one of President Barack Obama’s strategies for getting elected and now, presiding, is to overwhelm people with the sheer volume and scope of policy “change.” With huge, monumental pieces of legislation passing at a steady clip, people have little time to understand and digest the content, and to […]

These wacky paintings almost make naked Obama on a unicorn art look dignified (Acquired from here and here.) How do they come up with this stuff?

Although it’s understandable that Obama would be primarily focused on domestic issues, his inattention to foreign affairs is creating an increasingly perilous situation for the US around the world. Just to give you a quick, non-comprehensive rundown… * Kyrgyzstan has sided with Russia over us and is closing a key base we’re using to supply […]