Year: 2009

I literally laughed out loud when I read this, “Invoking his own name-and-shame policy, President Barack Obama warned the nation’s mayors Friday that he will “call them out” if they waste the money from his massive economic stimulus plan. “We have asked for the unprecedented trust of the American people to deal boldly with the […]

The Obama Administration’s hunger for your money and desire to control your life is absolutely insatiable. The newest thing up for discussion by Team Lenin? Taxing you by the mile. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he wants to consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they burn […]

I would like to say tonight that if the American people will let the Republicans back in charge, the 60% of this bill that won’t be spent until after the next election, we’ll cut it off and let it go to the Americans.” — Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) Hawkins’ Note: We have a “stimulus” bill […]

There was a time, say 4-5 months ago, when this would have been a pretty big story. Iran has built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday. In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran […]

The stimulus bill that Obama just rammed through Congress is the single most expensive bill in American history. It came out to $1.2 trillion when you include the interest on the money. That’s despite the fact that the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the recession would end in the “second half of 2009” even if […]

If you have a brain in your head, the older you get, the more you learn about life. One of the things I’ve personally learned is that you do not ever loan money to your friends. If you have a friend that’s really in need and you want to help, you decide if you can […]

If you haven’t used the rating system on RWN’s articles… …you may want to give it a try. It helps give us an idea of which posts you like and don’t like. The more people who rate, the more accurate the rating tends to be, so it would be great if you could start rating […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Rich Lowry: Goodbye to the Governator Daily Kos: From age 6, I was called n—-r, now my problem at the Daily Kos is “white privilege” Mental_Floss: The secrets behind your favorite toys The Bastardly: Fergie bikini pics Also, you’ll want to see […]

As we might have expected, opposition to Chairman 0’s Marxist policies is being depicted as “racist.” Check out this cartoon from yesterday’s New York Post: The reference is to Travis the psycho chimp — and to The Anointed One, if Al Sharpton is to be believed. For some reason, whenever a monkey is referred to, […]

For alcoholic derelicts who don’t find San Francisco to their taste, Rochester, Minnesota could be a nice place to settle: A housing project for homeless chronic alcoholics is being planned at the Olmsted County government campus in east Rochester, near the Fuad Mansour youth soccer complex. The location will be particularly convenient for degenerates who […]

What’s next? I’ll tell you what’s next… The housing bill. The government has come up with a great idea to solve the mortgage crisis. Wanna know what it is? They are going to take money from YOU, the responsible citizen and give it to irresponsible companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In order to […]

As you recall, the following is partially blamed for getting us into the current housing crisis: Ever since the credit crisis began, a lot of blame has been heaped on adjustable-rate mortgages, home loans that recalibrate according to market fluctuations. One brand of these innovative mortgages that have come under special criticism has been so-called […]

“People have been calling for national dialogues and conversations for decades. It usually works something like this: Liberals say we need a frank discussion about race (or class or gender) in this country, and then they proceed to bludgeon any conservative stupid enough to take them up on their offer.” — Jonah Goldberg The latest […]

On a day when bank nationalization, the stimulus, hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending, and the Roland Burris scandal were all in the news, it was a bit of a surprise to head over to the Drudge Report and see the “killer chimp” story as the headliner. However, this is one of those […]

Last night, I was thinking about doing a post today predicting that Obama’s approval rating would drop into the 50s by next month. However, after taking a look at the RealClearPolitics poll numbers, I noticed that depending on the poll you look at, it has already happened. Two things. #1) The reason Rasmussen and Democracy […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: Why we don’t celebrate ‘historians day’ Oddee: 10 most bizarre arrests Cracked: Photoshop contest: 20 moments that would have improved great movies COED Magazine: 77 sexy suicide girls Also, you’ll want to see these vids on Right Wing Video, Bakwa, […]

Normally, I save the videos for Right Wing Video, which incidentally, just cracked 3000 daily uniques for the first time yesterday (Are you hitting RWV every day? If not, you should be). However, this video and the snarky comments that went with it on YouTube were so good I just had to talk about it […]

I was delighted to get an opportunity to do a phone interview with one of my favorite columnists and economists, Walter Williams, about his new book, Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. A lot of Americans have been confused about the mortgage crisis. Conservatives tend […]

You can listen to my short appearance today on Cross Action News, here. — At 4:07 PM EST, I’m going to be on the Jaz McKay show. Click on Stickam in the left corner to listen to the show.

They say if you put a frog in a pot and bring it slowly to a boil, it will fail to jump out to safety, unable to perceive the incremental rise in temperature. Until recently, Marxists used this concept as a guide to imposing socialism on America, although they have recently grown arrogant enough to […]

Hopey Change has taken us down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass, into a Jabberwocky world where a Russian strongman warns America to preserve what’s left of its economic liberty. Vladimir Putin at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: Although additional protectionism will prove inevitable during the crisis, all of us […]

Immediately after rolling out a $1.2 trillion dollar “stimulus” plan, Obama is already planning to spend another 275 billion dollars and the Big 3 want billions more of your money and oh, and by the way, they may need ANOTHER stimulus if the trillion dollars of your money that Obama just flushed down the toilet […]

If you haven’t been following what has been going on in Cali, let me give you a quick rundown: They have an enormous budget shortfall (Ah-nold campaigned as a fiscal conservative and social moderate, but he’s actually just a tax-and-spend liberal with a (R) beside of his name) and Democrats have a large majority in […]

Matt Lewis poses the question, since references to FDR and The Depression seem all the rage now that Obama is in office. It’s disturbing that the Left thrills at the notion of economic devastation just so their guy can have a platform to shine. If it’s not bad enough, make it worse! President Obama will […]

California crisis explained by Ed Morrissey: Democrats . . . refuse to consider large-scale rollbacks of state government programs. Doing so would jeopardize their standing among key constituencies, especially public-sector unions like AFSCME and SEIU. Instead, they want to bulldoze Republicans into jacking up taxes even higher, making the state that much less competitive and […]

In one of the more bizarre legal twists that has been seen in a long while, trespassing illegal aliens have been awarded $78,000 because a rancher detained them, on his property, until the U.S. Border Patrol arrived, A federal jury found Tuesday that a southern Arizona rancher didn’t violate the civil rights of a group […]

A friend sent me this article last week and I am just now getting around to it. Evidently, the Standard Achievement Test (SAT) is unfair and so a “fair test” must replace, or better yet eliminate testing altogether. Before even reading, I had pictures in my head of dullards finally having self-esteem because the test […]

Our power mad President has now set his sights on taking over the US banking system and John McCain’s sidekick Lindsey Graham seems to be toying with the idea of helping Obama jam a knife into the back of American capitalism, Long regarded in the US as a folly of Europeans, nationalisation is gaining rapid […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Cracked: 5 things you think will make you happy but won’t (really outstanding) MailOnline: Tycoon’s beauty contest for his FIVE mistresses ends in tragedy – when spurned woman drives him and four rivals off a cliff New York Post: More big ethics […]

The thing that struck me coming up with this list is that it’s woefully short. Here’s my list, though: @JimDeMint–Senator DeMint knows engagement. He mixes helpful links with the personal. He’s doing a good job. @KarlRove–This man is a machine. He has embraced the Twitter technology. He joined Twitter a couple weeks ago, but got […]