Year: 2009

Palin / Bachman To Headline National Tea Party Event

Posted on by Dan Riehl

Hmm. CNN claims to have confirmed Sarah Palin’s role as keynote for a Nashville-based Tea Party event in February. The conference is: being dubbed the first National Tea Party event. Formally speaking, perhaps. Though I suspect many who went to Washington’s protest: might disagree. But this is being called a convention. Very interesting as they are both […]

 

Flashback: President Lincoln Establishes Thanksgiving as a National Holiday

Posted on by Sharon Soon

It seems like more and more often, the true meaning of our national holidays are lost in an increasingly secularized liberal society. As my co-blogger, Gina Diorio, points out here, even our President doesn’t really “get” what Thanksgiving is about. As a reminder, perhaps we should all take a moment to recall an event that […]

 

Podcast: The American Left-Right Divide: Is It As Big As It Seems?

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Tommy Christopher of Mediaite.com and Caleb Howe of RedState.com join me to discuss a divided America. We veer off into health care and other topics. Then, John Hawkins joins me to talk about American and Thanksgiving and thankfulness. Happy Thanksgiving all! Enjoy! Download MP3 To subscribe on iTunes, just click here! When Melissa isn’t on […]

 

Global Warming… is Dead. Soon to Follow: Mainstream Media

Posted on by Alex Nobles

“The lack of media attention to this so called “climategate” is unbelievable. I do not even know if we can even call it “climategate”, as nobody seems to acknowledge that it has happened. Of course Fox News has brought it up, as well as numerous talk show hosts but, there has been no trace of […]

 

Warmists Caught Fudging Data in New Zealand

Posted on by Dave Blount

Global warming is manmade, all right. It’s made by men in lab coats who angle for government grants by fudging the data. Right on the heels of ClimateGate we have this news from New Zealand: The New Zealand Government’s chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly massaging raw climate data to show […]

 

Great News! President Obama and Prime Minister Singh Were ‘Never in Any Danger’ – Yeah, Lucky Tareq and Michaele Salahi Weren’t Jihadis!

Posted on by Donald Douglas

You can’t have a bigger security breach, and if this were a Republican White House the press would be hammering the administration for it’s near-catastrophic security lapse, but there’s almost a breathless fawning over Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who crashed the White House state dinner on Tuesday night. See the New York Times, “At the […]

 

Oops! Now New Zealand NIWA Accused Of Faking Data

Posted on by William Teach

From Anthony Watts through a report from the Climate Science Coalition of New Zealand, we find some more climate alarmist chicanery The New Zealand Government’s chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly massaging raw climate data to show a global warming trend that wasn’t there. The scandal breaks as fears grow worldwide […]

 

PETA Speech: I Think Liberal Networks Should Air Liberal Ads

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Really, now. Why hide from this: The ad wraps up the left’s disgust with America. Crappy tradition, crappy white family, crappy Thanksgiving, hypocritical Christians, and of course, animal-hatred. Basically the ad captures everything they hate about America in one ad. It’s fabulous! Let America know. Be overt! Don’t be shy! And some libs agree: PETA […]

 

Stimulus Stimulated Much of Nothing in Illinois

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Chicago Tribune has an interesting story that shows that Obama’s $787 billion stimulus really didn’t do much by way of creating any new jobs in Illinois. Though Obama is counting “jobs saved” as some sort of success story, the fact is few jobs have been created and nothing will be sustainable after the stimulus […]

 

What Would Barack Obama’s Approval Rating Look Like Today If He Had Done This?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Imagine this scenario. Barack Obama is elected President and he actually decides to pursue a center-left agenda and work with Republicans. * He crafts a stimulus package, smaller than the one he has now, but with more tax cuts and all the spending front loaded to 2009. It passes with a significant number of Republican […]

 

Hey, Matthew Yglesias, Why Don’t You Quit And Let A Minority Have Your Job?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Rather bizarrely, after noting that Obama is much more popular with minorities than white people, Matthew Yglesias wrote the following: About 50 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s job performance, but he’s overwhelmingly liked among non-white Americans and quite widely disliked by white Americans. Our punditry, however, is done almost exclusively by white people and […]

 

Obama’s Servile Bowing Has Gone Too Far

Posted on by John Hawkins

I’m not exactly sure how it is that a man as arrogant as Barack Obama here in the United States, can go overseas and turn into Waylon Smithers with all this bowing. Perhaps he doesn’t realize how repulsive it is to other Americans because he spent so much time overseas and doesn’t fully understand American […]

 

Dopes’ Hope Is Fading Fast

Posted on by Dave Blount

How quickly fashion changes. Less than a year into our first Affirmative Action presidency, here’s the new look: Shirts unflattering toward the Moonbat Messiah are hardly a novelty among patriots, but the FreshJive design above is a product of the Left, which is starting to understand the implications of having placed a naked emperor on […]

 

George Moonbat, Tim Flannery Rattled by ClimateGate

Posted on by Dave Blount

Even George Monbiot — the kook whose name may have given us the term “moonbat” — understands that ClimateGate is a big deal that cannot be ignored: It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely […]

 

Jobs And Landmines Plus Open Thread

Posted on by William Teach

I couldn’t decide which story I liked better, so, how about both, starting with George W. Obama and landmines? The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday that the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy. […]

 

Best Buy Ditches ‘Christmas’ But Celebrates Muslim Holiday in Fliers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Christmas. Who needs it? Not Best Buy, that’s for sure. After all, Best Buy is loathe to use that hateful word in its advertising. It’s so “religious” and tinged with racism, America, and tradition. It makes Best Buy shudder to think of using that foul word, Christmas. But, advertising for the Muslim holiday of Eid […]

 

Woah! AP Prints Reality About Point Of Copenhagen AGW Nuttiness

Posted on by William Teach

Someone was seriously drunk at the Associated Press to allow this bit of reality leak into the narrative Next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen seeks to transform the way we run the planet, from the generation of energy, to the building of homes and cities, to the shaping of the landscape. It would also shift […]

 

Navy SEALs on Trial for Allegedly Assaulting Wanted Terrorist

Posted on by Duane Lester

Three Navy SEALs are charged with assault for allegedly fattening the lip of a wanted terrorist. Ahmed Hashim Abed is wanted by the United States for being the “mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004.” When he found himself in United States custody, he told the […]

 

Ohio’s Ben Konop Wants Kids to Starve so he can Give Gov’t Payoffs to Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ruinous PLAs Coming Your Way Lucas County, Ohio! Magie Thurber is reporting that Lucas County, Ohio County Commissioner Ben Konop is trying to force unions on non-union labor in his jurisdiction. What about freedom to chose? Forget it. Konop as big brother knows better. On Tuesday, the commissioners will discuss an agenda item ominously entitled […]

 

The End of History or a History of the End?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A few years ago, Francis Fukuyama was widely criticized for his book claiming that mankind had seen “The End of History.” Fukuyama contended that liberal democracy had won the debate over which system was best and, therefore, there was necessary no more “moving forward” for man’s social order. While Fukuyama might have thought the question […]

 

President Lou Dobbs? Ha, Ha, Ha…NO!

Posted on by John Hawkins

Sure, Al Franken won…in a center-left state like Minnesota. With a political wind blowing against Norm Coleman that was about as strong as it could get — and even then, if there had been an honest count of the votes, there’s zero chance Franken would have won. Since Lou Dobbs can’t rig a nationwide election […]

 

Podcast: Erick Erickson Joins Me To Discuss The Possibilities For Health Care, Afghanistan & More

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Erick Erickson of Redstate talks health care, small business, taxation, bureaucracy, and America being at a cross-roads. Download MP3 To subscribe on iTunes, just click here! When Melissa isn’t on the radio, you can find her at melissaclouthier.com and on Twitter. Her username is MelissaTweets.