Year: 2009

How to Deradicalize Islamist Extremists?

Posted on by Donald Douglas

I’m having a hard time taking seriously this article by Harvard’s Jessica Stern. Her essay is titled, “Mind Over Martyr: How to Deradicalize Islamist Extremists.” Considering all that’s happened in the last week — and not counting Fort Hood and earlier incidents — I’m convinced that the Ivory Tower is a bit removed from what’s […]

 

The Never Ending Palin Drama That MUST Be Made Public

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

Bristol Palin is sueing Levi Johnston for sole custody of their son, Tripp. A judge overturned a previous ruling that the case remain closed to the public. Really? Seriously? Who wants to make bets that the judge is a Democrat? I bet she just giggled over the fact that she had the power to drag […]

 

Too Little, Too Late? Obama Assailed for Response to Terror Attack

Posted on by Donald Douglas

From ABC News, “Did Obama Respond Too Late to Terror Plot? Critics Assail President? Democrats Say the President Reacted Appropriately, Security Reviews Are Important“: The Obama administration has come under fire from critics who said the president waited too long to address the nation publicly about the Christmas Day terror plot, and that his administration […]

 

While President Obama Is MIA, His Administration Is In Full CYA

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

While the President enjoys a Hawaiian vacation (it’s exhausting butting your head against the will of the people over and over and over), his D.C. people scramble and make the barely botched terrorist attack much worse. A.J. Strata has a must-read piece about the finger-pointing while Obama is mid-golf swing: It is a lame excuse […]

 

Where Are You Frum, Anyway?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Canadian David Frum is like the cross-eyed marksman, he can see the target but just can’t ever hit it. The self-styled conservative has been the Old Media’s leading conservative in attacking, well, other conservatives. Naturally his Dec. 25 piece on theweek.com is no exception. Not only does he attack other conservatives, as is his wont, […]

 

Under Dem Rule, No One at the Wheel at Key Anti-Terror Agencies

Posted on by Dave Blount

Why are we left to rely on private Dutch citizens and random luck to spare us from major terror attacks? Because under the regime of Hope & Change, there is literally no one running our security agencies. It seems our socialist rulers have been too busy nationalizing the healthcare industry to see to the defense […]

 

San Francisco Chronicle Wrings Hands Over Backscatter Imagers At Airports

Posted on by William Teach

I have a novel idea for those liberal pantywaist bedwetting hand wringers who are worried about invasive measures designed to protect flyers: don’t fly As the federal government begins an inside-out review of airport security after a passenger allegedly sneaked explosives onto a plane last week, attention is turning to a growing debate over a […]

 

A Radical Notion? Gridlock Makes For Good Government

Posted on by John Hawkins

“You say we [reporters] are distracting from the business of government. Well, I hope so. Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.” — P. J. O’Rourke Over at the New York Times, they’re bemoaning the polarization of Congress: Much to the distress of more rebellious Republicans, House Republicans […]

 

Andy Martin: Republican Fruit Loop

Posted on by John Hawkins

One of the downsides of getting to a certain level in the blogosphere is that candidates from all across the country slap you on their mailing lists and send you their “exciting” day-to-day exploits. “Candidate Smith comes out against deficit” “Candidate Smith to attend fund raiser” “Candidate Smith condemns opponent Jones for his boneheaded shenanigans” […]

 

Voting Rights Chief In Black Panthers Case Transferred Out Of D.C.

Posted on by William Teach

I’m sure the transfer was just routine, and had nothing to do with the case, and this was not about retaliation, right? Right? RIGHT? The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place […]

 

The Top 10 Conservatives Of 2009

Posted on by John Hawkins

Let’s face it: if you’re conservative, you’re not going to get your proper due from the mainstream media for your accomplishments. Case in point: Barbara Walters named Michelle Obama the most fascinating person of 2009. Really? Based on what? Her big arms? Her terrible fashion sense? The fact that she’s married to the worst President […]

 

Two Amazing Weapon Systems America is Researching

Posted on by Duane Lester

The United States has always had the best weapons systems in the world. The billions of dollars spent in the Department of Defense have insured America’s dominance in this field. Currently, two systems are being tested that I find simply amazing. The first one is lasers. The Air Force recently test-fired its Advanced Tactical Laser […]

 

But… I Thought Obama Was Going to Save the World?

Posted on by Sharon Soon

This time last year, I was told that once in office, President Barack Hussein Obama was going bring peace, prosperity, and all things warm and fuzzy to our beloved planet earth. All the national and international turmoil occurring at the time could be attributed solely to President Bush, a.k.a. the anti-Christ, including our two wars […]

 

Michele Bachmann is Tea Party Favorite

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Warner Todd Huston, my colleague at Right Wing News, has written an important analysis of the challenges for the tea party movement in 2010. See, “Tea Parties: The Biggest Mistake We’ll Make in 2010.” I’m especially interested in this passage: There was no unifying single goal of the Tea Partiers and no agency or party […]

 

Tea Parties: The Biggest Mistake We’ll Make in 2010

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s the end of 2009, the “aughts” are over, and we are about to embark on a new year — and what else are they but the “aughts”? Well, besides mostly a horrible and thankfully passed decade. In any case, we are at the end of the year and that means two things: lists about […]

 

Trial Lawyers Poised to Sue Society Into Stone Age

Posted on by Dave Blount

Moonbats had hoped Copenhagen would mean economically crippling Western Civilization. Instead, they had to settle for stealing $billions upon $billions from taxpayers on behalf of Third World dictators. But we’re hardly out of the woods when it comes to the profound threat to society posed by environmental extremism. Our rulers are using the EPA to […]

 

Muslim Maniac Granted British Asylum After Killing Child

Posted on by Dave Blount

It will take more than Muslims repeatedly attempting to blow up airliners full of innocent Westerners to put an end to the multicultural moonbattery we’ve been using to slit our own throats. The latest outrage from Britainistan: An asylum seeker who ran over a girl of 12 and left her to die has won his […]

 

Obama Has Lost The Public Trust

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

When people read something like what Donald Sensing wrote and believe it is true….: In announcing the pending charges against Schuringa the Justice Department spokesman said that after being treated for his burns, Abdulmutallab told a federal agent that Schuringa had slugged him in the mouth. Abdulmutallab pointed to his swollen lip as evidence of […]

 

It’s an issue when Republican Presidents are Silent about natural disasters, but not one when a Democrat is silent about “man-caused disasters.” and popular uprisings* against anti-American tyrants

Posted on by B. Daniel Blatt

Five years ago, there was much bellyaching in the media about how the callousness of the President of the United States for not making a public statement about the tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands, displaced an equal number (if not more) and causes untold damage to property and the landscape, even changing the coastline […]

 

There’s No Such Thing As A Slippery Slope

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

I think a lot of mistresses will be happy with this new policy: Unwed heterosexual couples in the Foreign Service are seeking the same family benefits extended this year to homosexual couples, U.S. officials said. In June, President Barack Obama gave homosexual spouses of federal employees the same family benefits — minus health insurance and […]

 

AGW Today: Students Say “How ‘Bout Some Balance?”

Posted on by William Teach

A student in New York has had enough of the one sided climate alarmism A Rhinebeck High School sophomore is urging the school district to require alternative views be presented by teachers on controversial topics like climate change. Michelle Dewkett said the global warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” was being shown in science and English […]

 

No Church on Christmas, Mr. President? Of Course Not, Communists Don’t Do Church

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Time Magazine reported that President Obama and his family didn’t attend a church service this Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. He is, to my knowledge, the first president to skip a Christmas Eve service for a long, long time. But, while it is interesting to note that Obama is quite unchurched in a position where […]

 

Liberals Terrorized by Americans

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

My latest American Spectator column: When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate an explosive aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, liberals were quick to warn against the clear and present danger. It wasn’t the threat of al Qaeda-trained bombers blowing up Detroit-bound planes that concerned them. Rather, liberals feared that Americans might blame […]

 

Man Who Told of Obama’s Islamic Benefactor Passes Away

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Percy Sutton, long-time Borough President of Manhattan passed away this week at 89. Sutton is famous for being Malcolm X’s lawyer and a powerful New York politician but he was also a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, a radio pioneer, and a civil rights activist. There is one more little thing that Sutton is […]

 

cBS News: Presidential Vacations Are Hard!

Posted on by William Teach

I bet you didn’t know that presidential vacations are actually interrupted by the news, and having to make decisions and listen to briefings. I know I sure didn’t know that from January 2001 through January 19th, 2009, because the State Run Media never told me. Headline: News Interrupts Obama’s Hawaii Vacation. No, seriously. I’m actually […]

 

Maureen Dowd Vs. John McCain Vs. Right Wing News

Posted on by John Hawkins

While I was away, there was one particular piece that really caught my eye and surprisingly, it was by the most tedious, overrated columnist in America: Maureen Dowd. Ok, you got me — Paul Krugman is actually the most tedious, overrated columnist in America, but Modo is definitely top 5. Anyway, it was a bit […]