Year: 2009

The Decider Decides To Send 40K Troops. No, Wait, He Doesn’t

Posted on by William Teach

We are fast approaching Obama being Coronated as President, and, he has finally made a decision on Afghanistan Tonight, after months of conferences with top advisors, President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep […]

 

4 Reasons The American Dream Will Be Over Unless We Act

Posted on by John Hawkins

“Make no mistake about it, this generation is a generation of thieves and the people who stole their parents and their children’s money to make their own lives cushier are at it again. This time the target is their grandchildren.” — Evan Sayet Throughout American history, generations of our countrymen took pride in leaving the […]

 

The Fall of the Berlin Wall & the Social Construction of Communism

Posted on by B. Daniel Blatt

As we celebrate today the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Empire, let us take a moment to remember the bitter legacy of Communism, based on an ideology drawn up not by men who studied human nature, but by an intellectual who studied law and […]

 

Newsweek: Nidal Hasan, It’s Not Islam, It’s a ‘Military on the Brink’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Andrew Bast of Newsweek thinks he’s got the real reason behind Major Nidal Hasan’s murderously criminal rampage at Fort Hood last Thursday. Could it be that Hasan was steadily radicalized and steeped in hateful Islamofascism? Could it be a jihad mindset that sent Hasan into that military clinic yelling Allahu Akbar as he shot at […]

 

Remember The Kelo Decision? This Is What Happened Next…

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

The Washington Examiner’s Timothy Carney is reporting that the property Pfizer took in eminent domain is going to not be used after all: The private homes that New London, Conn., took away from Suzette Kelo and her neighbors have been torn down. Their former site is a wasteland of fields of weeds, a monument to […]

 

Trusting The Government To Take Care Of You: H1N1 Debacle

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

So you might die if you don’t get the vaccine. It’s a National Emergency. And yet, the government is flopping around. Jennifer LaRue of the Washington Post: A poll released Friday by the Harvard School of Public Health found that two-thirds of parents and high-risk adults who want H1N1 vaccinations for themselves or their families […]

 

America Needs Industry, Obama Needs Therapy

Posted on by Kristia Cavere

More so than any other time in our history, Americans are beginning to believe there are no solutions to the many crises that we are experiencing. Even on a local level, which is often cushioned from the national difficulties of excess spending, a drastically increasing deficit and a larger percentage of our debt being own […]

 

Nidal Hasan Killed Those People Because He’s A Radical Muslim

Posted on by John Hawkins

Here’s the ugly truth that we’re so desperate to avoid talking about: A certain percentage of Muslims murder people not in spite of their faith, but because of it. Nidal Hasan was one of those people. By that, I mean had Nidal Hasan been a Christian or a Hindu or a Buddhist or an atheist, […]

 

Debate #1 Of 3: John Hawkins Vs. Conor Friedersdorf: What’s Your Advice For The Right Going Forward?

Posted on by Conor Friedersdorf

(Hawkins’ Note: Conor Friedersdorf challenged me to a debate. I accepted. This is the first of 3 posts from the two of us on this subject. A link to Conor Friedersdorf’s piece will be listed at the end of the article. The follow-ups will run Wed and Fri. Neither of us read the other’s piece […]

 

Debate #1 Of 3: John Hawkins Vs. Conor Friedersdorf: What’s Your Advice For The Right Going Forward?

Posted on by John Hawkins

(Hawkins’ Note: Conor Friedersdorf challenged me to a debate. I accepted. This is the first of 3 posts from the two of us on this subject. A link to Conor Friedersdorf’s piece will be listed at the end of the article. The follow-ups will run Wed and Fri. Neither of us read the other’s piece […]

 

An Interview With Congressman John Carter

Posted on by John Hawkins

Late last week, I did an interview with Texas Congressman John Carter. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our interview: There is some concern that the Ethics Committee in the House is brushing aside serious complaints. Do you think they’re doing the type of work they need to be doing to make sure […]

 

How Can One Write About The 20th Anniversary Of The Fall Of The Berlin Wall And Not Mention Reagan?

Posted on by William Teach

The 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has become a rather big deal over the last few days, with lots of people chiming in in the media. They all seem to be forgetting one thing: it would not have happened, at least certainly not that early, if it wasn’t for Reagan’s brilliant […]

 

Army Doubles Down on Political Correctness That Enabled Hasan

Posted on by Dave Blount

The governmedia has been twisting itself into pretzels in attempts to justify siding with Muslim terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan against the memories of the 13 Americans he murdered. “Compassion fatigue” doesn’t even begin to pass the laugh test, but our liberal rulers have an alternate explanation for Hasan’s killing spree: he was harassed for being […]

 

Fish Wrap Proclaims Ft. Hood Not A Terrorist Attack, Move Along

Posted on by William Teach

Good thing we have the New York Times to tell us these things After two days of inquiry into the mass shooting at Fort Hood, investigators have tentatively concluded that it was not part of a terrorist plot. Rather, they have come to believe that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused in the […]

 

Why Isn’t President Obama Traveling to Germany for Berlin Wall Fall Anniversary?

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

Fox News reports that the WH is taking heat over our celebrity President’s decision not to attend the 20th anniversary celebration in Germany for the fall of the Berlin Wall: The president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated […]

 

Yousef al-Khattab, New York Fanatical Muslim, Cheers Fort Hood Massacre

Posted on by Donald Douglas

From Fox News, “New York-Based Radical Muslim Hails Fort Hood Massacre“:: :  :  A New York City bicycle cabbie who mocked the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl and posted a prayer on the Web calling for the murder of Jews is now sending a “Get Well Soon” message to the suspected Fort Hood gunman, the […]

 

Our Commander in Chief Doesn’t “Get” the Military

Posted on by Cassandra

“What Vice President Cheney calls ‘dithering,’ President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and to the American public,” said Gibbs. “I think we’ve all seen what happens when somebody doesn’t take that responsibility seriously.” ~White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Life is full of mysteries, but chief among them […]

 

“Sweeping” Health System Plans Pass By 5 Votes

Posted on by William Teach

You have to wonder what the Founders, who shed blood to create a new country, would think about this Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement. I’m […]

 

House Democrats vote to increase Republican gains in 2010

Posted on by B. Daniel Blatt

The good news about the House vote yesterday to approve PelosiCare is that the city where I was born, Cincinnati, Ohio will, come January 2001, once again have a Republican Congressman. Now that Steve Driehaus, who currently represents the Queen City, voted in favor of HR 3962, he has all but guaranteed that Steve Chabot, […]

 

D.C. Based Muslim Prays for ‘Recovery of Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan’ on FaceBook

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised, but a Washington D.C. based Muslim named Khadeeja Nuur has created a FaceBook Page offering prayers for the recovery of Fort Hood murderer Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan. The page seems to have been started sometime before Friday at 3PM and she features this main message in her information section: […]

 

Anwar al Awlaki, Fanatical Mentor to Nidal Malik Hasan, Calls for ‘Allah’s Victory’ Over West

Posted on by Donald Douglas

From Jawa Report, here’s the webpage for Anwar al Awlaki, Nidal Malik Hasan’s religious mentor at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia. Al Awlaki boasts of the Taliban “making U.S. soldiers” cry in Afghanistan and argues for destroying enemy armies: “Establishing Islamic sharia is an obligation, and fighting in the cause of Allah […]

 

We’ve established the proposal as sound in principle. Now we’re just haggling over price.

Posted on by TrogloPundit

When the federal government can take money out of our pockets — out of our grandchildren’s pockets, that is — to build a tunnel for turtles; when the Commerce Clause and the General Welfare Clause are cited as authority to regulate anything from what farmers can plant to what Grandma can sell at her yard […]