Year: 2009

From the Republican Study Committee: Deficit Spending With Democrats Feb. 13, 2008 – The first “stimulus” bill, H.R. 5140, became law, putting checks in the mail. Democrat Response: 215 House Democrats (93%) voted to add $124.4 billion to the deficit (CBO). Senator Obama did not show up to vote. July 30, 2008 – H.R. 3221 […]

When Michael Steele originally announced his intention to run for RNC Chair, I said some very nice things about him, Michael Steele would be an excellent selection as well. He’s young, charismatic, gets it, likes the blogosphere, is popular with conservatives, and understands how to pitch younger voters. Moreover, when the RNC Chair race turned […]

As you might imagine, the 5% (the taxable “rich”) are trying to figure out how to become a part of the 95% (the “tax cut” rest): President Barack Obama’s tax proposal – which promises to increasetaxes for those families with incomes of $250,000 or more — has some Americans brainstorming ways to decrease their pay, […]

Not another one… Ron Kirk, the nominee for U.S. trade representative, has agreed to pay about $10,000 in back taxes, becoming the latest top-level appointee in the Obama administration to face the embarrassment of dealing with an income tax problem. At least Kirk can make use of the classic liberal defense so often heard when […]

Chairman Zero’s ability to slip carbon caps into law without any serious debate may cripple our already hobbling economy, but there is one group that will benefit, other than antihuman enviromaniacs: lobbyists. The Heritage Foundation quotes a study by the Center for Public Integrity: …more than 770 companies and interest groups hired an estimated 2,340 […]

I was wondering how long it would take the squishy Republicans who despised Sarah Palin and cozied up to Barack Obama during the campaign to come to the realization that they had been completely bamboozled by the most radically liberal President in American history. Well, the scales are finally, at long last, starting to lazily […]

I have written on manliness before since I dig manly men and find the softening male culture…well, boring if nothing else. Men and women are made different and their differences make life interesting. The sexual revolution resulted in a boring world where men are metrosexuals–all pointy-toed shoes and manicures, and women are butch she-beasts. In […]

If you’re black and you’re conservative, you belong in the Republican Party — period, end of story. If you’re black and you’re moderate, you should be at least considering voting for the Republican Party. That’s how it should be, but it doesn’t happen, does it? A tiny percentage of black Americans, maybe one in ten […]

“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.” — FDR We Americans, complain though we may, are a generation to which much has been given. We have enjoyed a level of power and prosperity […]

A billion dollars of your tax dollars is on its way to Palestine, 300 million of it earmarked for the Gaza Strip where Hamas still rules: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday will pledge about $300 million in U.S. humanitarian aid for the war-torn Gaza Strip, plus about $600 million in assistance […]

Presumably in return for under the table favors that may never come to light, RINO Arlen Specter stabbed his country in the back by voting in favor of the Intergenerational Theft Act of 2009, aka the “stimulus” package. But there could be a reckoning. A new statewide poll shows 53 percent of Pennsylvanians — and […]

Forget Cheryl Croak demanding we use only one sheet of toilet paper. Forget sanctimonious Euroweenies chiding Americans for causing “ecological destruction” by making our TP too soft. The global warming hoax has now truly hit bottom: What you see above are reusable cloth toilet wipes. According to advocates, reusables not only save the polar bears […]

Unfortunately, when the left gets involved in scientific endeavors, science always takes a backseat to their ideology. A perfect example of that would be a piece in the New Scientist called, Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers. This article is getting a lot of attention, but there are rather obvious problems with the […]

You may have seen the Sarah Palin video that I did during the campaign. If not, now’s a good time to watch it. I have plans to do several more videos that will be using multiple people, in multiple locations and I’d like to build up a group of people who’d like to participate in […]

From Conservative Grapevine. 20) Cracked: 6 obnoxious old people habits (Explained by science) 19) Telegraph: Mother sets fire to her daughter’s gloating rapist 18) Cracked: 8 awesome cars they won’t let you buy 17) Maureen Dowd: Well, it certainly didn’t take long for Obama to crumble. 16) Cracked: 10 awesome ads for traumatizing children (This […]

I heard a woman over the weekend say,”I’ve always clung to my religion. Now I cling to my guns, too.” Clearly, she’s not alone in her gun (and ammo) clinging. Says Confederate Yankee: Many people are buying significant amounts of ammunition for their personal supply, from thousands to tens of thousands of rounds each, to […]

I was pleased to get an opportunity to once again talk with Michael Medved about his new book, The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation. One thing we’ve heard over and over again is that our ancestors marched across the continent […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: 11 Points: 11 stupid questions from Yahoo Answers that have changed my life Michelle Malkin: The Rush Limbaugh revival Hot Air: Christopher Buckley surprised to find the guy he voted for is, in fact, a statist liberal Totally Crap: Madeline Zima bikini […]

Of late, the Democrats have been working hard to publicly demonize Rush Limbaugh. They’re even running anti-Rush commercials, which admittedly could endanger the Senate seat he holds in Florida — oh wait, he’s not a senator. Come to think of it, he’s not a congressman or governor either. He’s a talk radio host who, despite […]

Well, I have to give President Neophyte this: he is not backing off of the military action against al Qaeda and the Taliban in NW Pock-EE-stan At least eight militants were killed Sunday in a suspected US missile strike which destroyed a Taliban hide-out in northwest Pakistan, security officials said. Top US military and defence […]

The idiotic left is trying to attack Bobby Jindal over Hurricane Katrina. What they’re angry about is this statement from Governor Jindal, back when he was Congressman Jindal: During Katrina, I visited Sheriff Harry Lee, a Democrat and a good friend of mine. When I walked into his makeshift office I’d never seen him so […]

Instapundit defends those protesting Davids: RICK MORAN THINKS THE “TEA PARTY” PROTESTS are amateurish and disorganized. . . . Of course they’re amateurish. Most of these people have never organized a protest before (hence the tendency to do things like forget bullhorns). That’s what you get at the beginning of a movement. But it’s much […]

Say, as President Neophyte Obambi and the AGW Believes in Congress rail against AGW, perhaps they should take a look outside the window Washington has seen its share of big protests over the years, and most of them center on the White House, the Mall or the Capitol. That will change tomorrow, when the first […]

In the old days, when someone was a substance abuser, the entire onus for the abuse lay with that person. At a certain point, however, someone figured out that, in many relationships, the abuser’s partner was part of the dance of drug or alcohol dependency. A new term entered the pop culture vocabulary: “codependent.” The […]

Beyond being a Saturday guest poster on this blog, I blog regularly at GayPatriot, one of the leading gay conservative blogs. Being a gay conservative blogger has afforded me a unique perspective into the changing attitudes of conservatives toward gays and the seemingly stultified ones of all too many on the left. While some of […]

One of the Gipper’s favorite jokes involves a father who took his two young sons to see a psychiatrist because he was concerned about their contrasting personalities, one had become an extreme pessimist, the other an extreme optimist: First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a […]

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and Vice President Joe Biden ask the traitorous, backstabbing Senator Arlen Specter why he even bothers pretending to be a Republican: It was supposed to be a meeting, not a roast. But at the inaugural session of Joe Biden’s Middle Class Task Force … … in Philadelphia Friday, one guest was […]

Tom Delay introduces Ann Coulter. She is loved here. The general feeling among bloggers seems mixed. I’ve heard more than once that the criticism of Ann Coulter is that she says offensive things that serve her but don’t serve the conservative movement. I find myself defending Ann over and over–primarily on free speech grounds and […]