Year: 2009

Glenn Beck: The Man With The Plan

Posted on by John Stephenson

This guy’s passion is what draws people to him. – Education is key, and not just for our children. To that end, we will be conducting a series of conventions. These will be full-day experiences where you will be immersed in learning about topics ranging from self-reliance, community organizing, the economy and how to be […]

 

SEIU Fixing the Vote in Fresno, Too

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A few weeks ago we reported on how the Services Employees International Union was attempting to fix the vote in Sonoma County, California so that Sonoma’s in-home healthcare workers would end up with SEIU representation instead of NUHW representation. Well, Sonoma wasn’t an isolated case. The SEIU used the same vote fixing tactics in Fresno […]

 

As AGW Is Exposed As A Hoax, EU President Tells Us The Real Purpose

Posted on by William Teach

On Friday, we found out that the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit server was hacked, which was, as The Air Vent put it, 62mb of gold. The files, especially the emails, are very damning to the AGW movement, and could be the final nail in the coffin of human induced global warming, er, […]

 

Updates From Crazyville

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

Where to begin? Jules Crittenden observes that since resuming “normal” blogging, Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish “has racked up no fewer than 23 Palin posts.” Which is only “normal” in Sullyland, a destination on the far side of the looking glass, where caterpillars smoke hookahs, etc. Certain that his lunacy is entirely rational, Andrew Sullivan declares […]

 

Voters Beginning To Blame Democrats About Recession

Posted on by McQ

It was inevitable (the party in power always gets blamed – eventually), but that doesn’t mean I don’t like the fact that this perfect storm may crest precisely at the 2010 midterms (although you shouldn”t count out the possibility of Republicans completely blowing the opportunity): Nearly two years into the recession, opinion about which political […]

 

San Francisco Booksellers Won’t Carry Going Rogue

Posted on by Donald Douglas

You know someone’s packing some REALLY powerful intellect when every other post on their blog is a Jon Stewart video. Perhaps it’s generational change, where we see a lazy kind of media-induced resistance to hard thinking and analytical reasoning, but it’s out there, and not just among hardline netroots denizens. I’m tempted to try to […]

 

Q&A Friday #104: Imagining A Fight Scene Between Blade And Edward Cullen

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: “Please describe, in detail, with dialouge, your version of a vampire fight between Blade and Edward Cullen.” — President_Friedman Edward Cullen: Hi! I like baseball and I sparkle! Can we be pals? Blade: Some motherf*cker’s always tryin’ to iceskate uphill. Edward Cullen: Did I mention I’m over 100 years old and I like to […]

 

Q&A Friday #104: Why Shouldn’t We Want To Copy Our European Pals?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: “I am 45 and I work with and am somewhat influential with smart, younger people (25-30), most of who voted for Obama. To them “socialist”, “big government” and “european model” are not a scary thing. What would you say to someone who is not a dyed in the wool anti-capitalist, but who has been […]

 

Q&A Friday 104: What Will Obama Do If Libs Take A Beating In 2010?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: “If the republicans take the House next year, do you think that Obama will moderate and work with republicans, like Clinton, and have a shot at reelection at 2012; or he is just too liberal for that and will continue with his policies, risking defeat at 2012?” — gustn Question: “Having proven yourself over […]

 

An Environmental Disaster Of Epic Proportions

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

An environmental cataclysm occurred this week. Al Gore is somewhere howling in psychic pain. Global warming skeptics and any real scientists rejoice: the fable of Global Warming aka Climate Change aka Impending Doom has been revealed for a scientifically manipulated fraud. Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters has an excellent wrap-up of the story (damning emails, links) […]

 

Q&A Friday #104: Why Is ObamaCare So Bad If Social Security And Medicare Are So Great?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: “How would you answer Kristof’s “Wrong Side of History” piece in the 11/18 NYT? If Medicare, Social Security and similar past advances of the welfare state didn’t do us in, why should anyone believe this one (healthcare takeover) will be the one that kills our economy? Are we suffering from a “boy who cried […]

 

Another Obama Slight to American Jews

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In another in a long series of swift kicks to Israel and American Jews, the Obama Administration has announced that it is slashing the guest list and budget for its 2009 Hanukkah celebration. According to the Jerusalem Post the guest list is being cut in half causing some American Jews to wonder if Obama is […]

 

Obama’s KSM Show Trial Will Cost NYC $100 Million

Posted on by Dave Blount

Circus show trials don’t come cheap. According to Charles “Chucky Schmucky” Schumer, the bill for Chairman Zero to put George W. Bush, the CIA, the military, and pre-Moonbat Messiah America on trial will come to a pretty penny: “Rough estimate from the city of New York, which I received yesterday, place the added cost of […]

 

Were There ‘Tribal Aspects’ To The Anti War Protests?

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

Noel Sheppard pointed out: at Newsbusters yesterday that Chris Matthews once again accuses the Tea Party goers of being too white: “This is a largely white — almost no minorities in this crowd,” reported MSNBC’s O’Donnell live from the scene. Matthews reiterated, “Well, they look like a white crowd to me,” later claiming, “I think there […]

 

Der Spiegel Wonders Where All The Warming Went

Posted on by William Teach

Just the other day, Senator James Inhofe said “Until this year, any scientist, reporter or politician who dared raise even the slightest suspicion about the science behind global warming was dismissed and repeatedly mocked.’’ And the hit parade just keeps on coming! Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average […]

 

Los Angeles ACORNista Eager to Assist Child Prostitution Business

Posted on by Dave Blount

James O’Keefe on the latest ACORN video released by himself and Hannah Giles: Lavelle Stewart, of ACORN in South Central Los Angeles, tells us she thinks we have to hook up with “someone who’s on that international sex business level,” that “14 and 15 year olds been traveling overseas for years,” that she can do […]

 

Obama’s Bus Sideswipes The Jewish Vote On Hanukkah

Posted on by William Teach

For the 2008 general election, 78% of the Jewish vote went to Barack Obama, topping the percent Kerry achieved in 2004 (76%.) The Jewish vote tends to go overwhelmingly to Democrats, despite so many Democrats railing against Israel and that “evil Israeli lobby,” being pro-Palestinian, pro-Muslim terrorist, etc. Not all, of course. Bill Clinton has […]

 

Harry Reid’s Version of the Health Care Monstrosity

Posted on by McQ

Over 2,000 pages (yeah, nothing can be hidden in there, can it?) the bill sets up at least 370.2 billion in new taxes over the next 10 years: 1. 40% excise tax on health coverage in excess of $8,500/$23,000 ($149.1 billion) 2. Employer W-2 reporting of value of health (negligible revenue effect) 3. Conform definition […]

 

Coburn wants the bill read from the Senate floor. All of it. UPDATE: Coburn backing off.

Posted on by Tabitha Hale

Crossposted at TabithaHale.com. UPDATE: After making the threat earlier this week, Coburn said, “I don’t know” when POLITICO asked if he would force a reading by Senate clerks on the floor. With his colleagues eager to go home for the Thanksgiving break, it’s possible that Coburn may backoff. Thanks, Coburn. The 2,074-page Senate health care […]

 

Frightening Democratic Incompetence: No Need To Interrogate Bin Laden?

Posted on by John Hawkins

I’d be perfectly happy if Osama Bin Laden caught a bullet to the brain, got hit with the business end of a missile, or if a few of our GI’s were just to up and decide to impale the son-of-a-b*tch on a sharp stick for the fun of it. However, if we do capture Osama […]

 

Where is THIS Republican Party?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An excerpt of the 1924 Republican Party Platform: The prosperity of the American nation rests on the vigor of private initiative which has bred a spirit of independence and self-reliance. The republican party stands now, as always, against all attempts to put the government into business. American industry should not be compelled to struggle against […]

 

Sarah Palin on Oprah: No tears or jumping on couches

Posted on by Tabitha Hale

Crossposted at TabithaHale.com For those of you that live under a rock, Palin ventured behind enemy lines, so to speak, and made a long awaited appearance on Oprah, designed to coincide with the release of her highly anticipated memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life. What better place to catapult a book that is already a […]

 

A Mini-Interview With Dick Armey

Posted on by John Hawkins

While I was at the Freedomworks event in Raleigh last week-end, I got an opportunity to interview former House Majority Leader and Freedomworks Chairman, Dick Armey. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of my interview with him. Should the official Republican Party stay out of primaries? You know, my general attitude is that everybody […]

 

Andrew Sullivan Gazes Into . . . uh, the Abyss

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

He has become so wildly erratic that it’s hard to predict what he’ll do next, but Sully now seems to be telegraphing his intent to do something even more monumentally embarrassing than his unrequited: twink-lust for Levi Johnston. (Yes, those are live links to Sullivan’s blog; click at your peril, or don’t.) Though not a Sarah […]