Year: 2009

We don’t have to wait for $trillion dollar “stimulus” packages to cause a complete economic collapse to have cool postapocalyptic adventures like Mad Max. Thanks to having been run exclusively by lefties for decades, America’s most liberal city has already crossed into the bleak future moonbattery has in store for us, making it an ideal […]

I just finished a teleconference with one of my favorite senators, Jeff Sessions, on the Stimulus bill. What follows are my notes, not quotes, from the teleconference. Opening Statement From Jeff Sessions I still think people are not recognizing the size of this bill. It’s the largest spending program in the history of the country […]

Every time I see one of these stories I just shake my head in wonder. Obama and Congress are frothing at the mouth at those Wall Street types for paying out 18 billion in “bonuses”. Of course, had Congress not acted like a panicked herd of wildebeast when Paulson came flapping around declaring the sky […]

Please ignore the outrage you hear from Congress about Citi almost buying a new airplane. Apparently that’s an inappropriate expenditure of bailout funds. But this, one assumes, is appropriate: New York’s Charles Rangel and five other Democratic members of the House enjoyed a trip to the Caribbean sponsored in part by Citigroup (see above) in […]

Australia’s socialist prime minister is, like many of his liberal brethren here in the States, rubbing his hands together with glee at the prospect of using the fiscal crisis we’re in right now to empower government at the expense of the market. KEVIN RUDD has denounced the unfettered capitalism of the past three decades and […]

I wrote this to respond to another writer who cautioned Republicans against the new media. I think that’s very bad advice. Here’s a bit of my response: Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter provide a means to communicate directly to voters bypassing a self-admittedly biased media. If a politician were told there is a […]

One of the biggest mistakes people tend to make is to assume that the party in power is winning because it’s full of strategic geniuses. Of course, most of the political strategists in DC are “geniuses” in the same way that the penguin and Mr. Freeze were criminal geniuses in the Batman comic books. They’d […]

When Pajamas Media first came on the scene, I wrote several articles about them, most of which were skeptical about their advertising model. Since then, I’ve developed a good business relationship with Pajamas and have written columns for them, but given that their advertising network went belly-up this week-end, I feel like I’d be remiss […]

My latest at Pajamas Media: You knew the contest to become chairman of the Republican National Committee was getting ugly when they started throwing around nasty slurs like “moderate.” Michael Steele got tagged with the dreaded M-word as part of a vicious guilt-by-association smear. He sustained more damage from his acquaintance with RINOs like Christie […]

“Using these same principles, for example, I would strongly recommend against having the Obama Administration level talks with Iran. Why? Because merely coming to the table would be perceived as victory for them over America, there is no indication whatsoever that we have a genuine opportunity to talk productively, and it’s to their advantage, not […]

Fox News reports that President Obama is talking about how many American troops will be home from Iraq by the next Super Bowl: A “substantial” number of the 140,000 troops in Iraq will be able to return home by next year’s Super Bowl, President Obama said in an interview on Sunday before Super Bowl XLIII […]

After all the complaints about New Orleans, you’d think the Obama administration would be sensitive to this sort of thing: In some parts of rural Kentucky, they’re getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There’s not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their […]

OK, AGW Believers, step up to the truth detector: are you for or against this? Will you follow this advice? Or, will you finally admit that the anthropogenic global warming craze has gotten beyond absurd? Two children should be limit, says green guru COUPLES who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” by creating […]

Bloomberg News reports that “my generation”‘s President is every bit as thoroughly modern as you’d expect. In other words, no unauthorized drawing down of his icon-equity will be permitted: White House lawyers want to control the use of the president’s image, recognizing the worldwide fascination about Obama’s election, First Amendment free-speech rights and easy access […]

  While I’m rooting for the Steelers (my Dad’s a big fan, grew up in the area,) I think the Cards are going to take it by 10. What’s your prediction? Oh, bonus Cardinals cheerleaders visiting the troops Cheerleaders, guns……yup, that’s how I envision my death.

“Nothing catches an editor’s eye like a good rape.” — Hunter S. Thompson Remember that New York Times piece last week about how “experts” said the rise in teen pregnancy didn’t really represent any increase in teen promiscuity? Now, a noted authority on the subject is raising doubts: Well, that settles it, eh? Despite the […]

If the Senate confirms Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services, at least two members of the president’s cabinet will be tax scofflaws, leading my friend David Boaz of the Cato Institute to remark, “It’s too bad Leona Helmsley can’t be nominated as Commerce Secretary.” Given that the president is from Chicago where […]

In his piece, “Bush Hatred and Obama Euphoria Are Two Sides of the Same Coin” in today’s Wall Street Journal, Peter Berkowitz builds on a point I made a couple weeks ago on GayPatriot, Obama Worship: Flip Side of Bush Hatred. Finding that “Bush hatred and Obama euphoria . . . tend to reveal more […]

Are you getting the feeling that Obama, contrary to the hope hype, is a very grim, depressed man?   Since the precise moment of his inauguration, his every pronouncement has been redolent of hopelessness and anger. My feeling is that, if Obama is going to style himself the second Roosevelt when it comes to American economics, […]

I was scanning over fellow Right Wing News contributor Dr. Melissa Clouthier‘s thoughts about the way Sarah Palin was treated in the election last year. I thought it would be good to jot down some theories I’ve had rattling around in my head, which I can’t prove but can’t disprove either. Some of them cannot […]

Another day, another illiterate, belligerent Muslim takes a Canadian conservative to the “Human Rights” Commission… When I was in London talking about my book The Tyranny of Nice, I met lots of wonderful folks, including blogger Andrew Lawton. (If you’ve ever been to CPAC, you might have met Andrew — he’s quite the gregarious fellow.) […]

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 […]

After 2 years of lambasting the Bush administration about its supposed failure to adhere to the rule of law, it takes a military judge to remind our new President that he too must adhere to it. You may remember that the new commander-in-chief issued a request (which is, in reality, an order) that the military […]

In case you weren’t aware, the vote for RNC Chairman is today. The 168 members of the RNC Committee are the ones making the decision. Here are the candidates and the conventional wisdom about each one. Mike Duncan: He’s the current RNC Chair. He has the best relationship with the members, but no charisma and […]

Hopey Change has reached an elementary school in Sin City: At least three of the five classrooms have an overhead projector and as the children stand to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, the teacher turns on the classroom overhead and a full body image of Obama, with six U.S. flags behind him, comes up about […]

New York’s nanny-Nazi governor Mike Bloomberg, having saved his subjects from the perils of trans fats, is taking his jihad against consumer choice national by waging war on salt: The city’s plan is to get food manufacturers in the United States to agree to gradually start reducing salt content until it reaches a 50 percent […]

Question: “What do you think about: a) Negotiating with the Taliban or b) Negotiating with people who are allied with the Taliban, but no Taliban leadership?” — D-Vega Answer: I think whether you negotiate with your enemies or not is a very situational decision that tends to depend on their strength, whether there is a […]

Question: “What do you think the Republican Party will look like by the time the 2010 mid-terms roll around? I try not to get too excited about the recent show of unity of the GOP in the House, because we all know they would have been more than happy to vote for a $500 Billion […]

Question: “John, what are your thoughts on the proposed changes to the U.S. Postal Service in the wake of reduced volume of mail and reduced revenues? Do you think it is a smart idea for them to continue to punish the very people still using their service in order to survive? And as a follow-up […]

Question: “Now that the new seasons for most shows have begun, what are you currently watching/DVRing?” — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: Here’s my DVR list, some of which are in repeats, aren’t running right this moment, or that I hardly watch. Angel Aqua Teen Hunger Force Comedy Central Presents (Stand-up comedians) CSI Florence Baptist Temple Fringe Frisky […]