Year: 2009

Totalitarian regimes often require ostensibly independent action. An example would be the maniacal students who went wild during China’s Cultural Revolution, inflicting violence on those deemed insufficiently fanatical in their devotion to communism. Similar tactics will be required to push through the global warming agenda, which will entail radically restricting our liberty and lowering our […]

The Obama presidency thus far has been anything but post-racial. Rather, Americans have been reminded by Obama’s representatives that anyone feeling “over” the subject lacks courage. At the Huffington Post, Rinku Sin posits that Americans prove Eric Holder’s point when the deny that America is racist: Smartly, Holder noted that our goal should not be […]

What Barack Obama’s decision to close Gitmo means in real terms: allowing a terrorist who may one day be responsible for setting off a dirty bomb in an American city to walk free, Binyam Mohamed was also planning to blow up an apartment block in the United States when he was arrested, investigators claimed. …U.S. […]

One of the things the Left repeated over and over during Bush’s time in office was that he was a belligerent cowboy who “squandered” all the goodwill that America had after 9/11. Of course, that was always a lot of hooey. It’s one thing to say something like, “We’re all Americans now,” and it’s another […]

Isn’t there something creepy and demeaning about having our Secretary of State publicly prostrating herself before the Chinese? Later, Clinton met Chinese women’s rights advocates at the US embassy but continued to steer clear of speaking on contentious human rights issues. Instead, while taping an interview on a Chinese talk show, she focused on the […]

Over at Hot Air, they’re discussing the worst movies of all-time and I have to respectfully disagree with some of their choices. Granted, I have odd taste, but I LIKED Showgirls, Waterworld, Battlefield Earth, Volcano, and Date Movie — all of which made their list. Granted, I’m not saying that any of these are my […]

It’s bad enough when Nanny-staters do it, but when the party of small-government and individualism and freedom gets in your business, it’s worse. At CNET via RedState: Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local […]

I have a good friend, a retired general officer, who served in the Pentagon during the invasion of Iraq and a year or so afterward. When I saw him at a military reunion a year ago, he told me about duty at Dover Air Force Base in DE in the course of our conversation. By […]

Accused of Being Little More Than a Low-Level Taliban Fighter, Abdallah al-Ajmi Was Held by the U.S. for Nearly Four Years. After His Release, He Blew Up an Iraqi Army Outpost. Did Guantanamo Propel Him to Do It?” — Rajiv Chandrasekaran at the Washington Post

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Alan Reynolds: A national mortgage crisis? Hardly. Five states are causing the problem UPHAA: 10 spectacular pools around the world Cracked: 6 dream jobs that would actually suck Totally Crap: Audrina Patridge bikini pics Also, you’ll want to see these vids on […]

Via the BBC: Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says. The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights. Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US. […]

Where to start with this joker: California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested that his party is out of touch with average Americans on the issue of health care. “You’ve got to listen to the people. If the nation is screaming out loud, ‘We need health care reform. We want to have universal health care. We […]

Back on February 8th, John Hawkins wrote an article How The Internet Damages Our Culture. In it, he wrote Well, you have individuals from all over the world, who can talk anonymously to people they have no personal connection to and they can say absolutely anything without fear of getting punched in the nose. Put […]

More doom and gloom, dire predictions, a reason to panic, and overblown rhetoric. It is no wonder that more and more people are believing that anthropogenic global warming is not Mankinds fault, along with so few people caring about AGW as a policy priority. But there never seems to be a shortage of AGW Believers spewing […]

NYU’s administration doesn’t think collegiate protest is so groovy when you’re The Man: After renewed calls for negotiations between NYU officials and student body protestors after a night of intense rioting, those who were still barricaded in the college cafeteria Friday have finally ended their sit-in protest. I have never understood what leverage students have […]

Back in LA from San Francisco this week, I finally had time to watch the rest of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Maybe it’s because I had just read Jim Hoft’s post on how Obama groupie Chris Matthews followed the example of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in attacking Rick Santelli, the latest individual […]

UPDATE: Pardon the white heat in the title of this post, but I cannot tell you how many times, during the days and months leading to the election, liberal Jews assured me, both in the media and in personal conversations, that Obama would never do anything to hurt Israel. Nor can I tell you how […]

Observing Black History Month with my latest column at Pajamas Media: With so many problems afflicting America today, especially with the economy in crisis, what purpose was served by [Attorney General Eric] Holder’s remarks? Trillions of dollars in asset value were wiped out by the collapse of the housing “bubble” and the ripple effects of […]

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” — Ayn Rand When I see how politicians behave — especially last year, during the contentious elections — I see reason to believe the distinction between conservatives and liberals, is being irreversibly eroded. But then […]

My enemies are belligerent Muslims — from now on I’m calling them “brown supremicists” — and the radical left. Both are unfortunately being enabled by our liberal elite Establishment. It should go without saying, therefore, that I refuse to allow my enemies to control the way I speak. Because if they control the way I […]

A lot has changed in the month since Obama became president. Let’s review, shall we? Things That Have Gotten WORSE Since Obama Became President 1. The U.S. stock market has plumetted to a six-year low. But, hey, it’s only your retirement money, right? 2. Nationalization of banks has become a serious possibility. America, the new […]

Here’s the Right Wing News guest blogger line-up this week-end. Saturday ——– Bookworm from Bookworm Room Cassy Fiano Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Morgan from House of Eratosthenes B. Daniel Blatt from GayPatriot Gina Cobb John Stephenson from Stop The ACLU Little Miss Attila Cassandra from Villainous Company Sunday ——- Ron Coleman from Likelihood […]

Apparently signs equal threats to some of our police: An Oklahoma City police officer wrongly pulled over a man last week and confiscated an anti-President Barack Obama sign the man had on his vehicle. The officer misinterpreted the sign as threatening, said Capt. Steve McCool, of the Oklahoma City Police Department, and took the sign, […]

What if you spent one million dollars every day since Jesus was born? You still wouldn’t have spent as much money as is in the spending bill: From the Politico: The American Issues Project, which briefly aired a TV spot in last year’s presidential race, will go up on Friday with a TV spot that […]

Dating can be a hot mess and not the so-bad-she’s good Tara Reid kind, either. As I wrote last week, with the new technology, lack of family cohesion, and cessation of social rules governing all sorts of behavior, people are doing some crazy things (face licking) and thinking it’s normal. Exhibit A: If you’ve watched […]

A blogger friend and I were talking yesterday and she lamented the Obama administration’s long-lasting affects and it was only one month into his presidency: the drive to nationalize banks, the class-warfare, the hostility toward achievement, the secretiveness, the cult of personality, the talk of inclusion then the actions of exclusion, etc. The current push […]

Despite the sneering response Rick Santelli got from his colleagues at CNBC for giving voice to those of us who are not ready to give up on America and succumb to socialism, currently 93% of viewers in left-leaning CNBC’s own poll would like to join the “Chicago Tea Party” Santelli proposes as a protest against […]

“Society should reward people for carrying the water, not for drinking the water.” — Paraphrasing Rick Santelli

“Now that those of us who have been making steady, on-time payments on our mortgages for years will be paying off others’ mortgages through our taxes, can we claim a tax-deduction for our neighbors’ mortgage interest too?” — Edward G. Stafford

If you think the economy is in trouble now, wait until the effects of this insanity hits your wallet: The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials. The […]