Year: 2009

Those old Halloween costumes really stunk, eh?

The GOP establishment’s definitely getting a shake-up! This calls for some be-bopping: Okay, from CNN, “Gingrich Endorses Hoffman“: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who came under fire from some conservatives for endorsing Dede Scozzafava in next week’s special Congressional election in New York, is now backing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. Gingrich made the announcement […]

There are many kinds of courage. We hear most about the bravery of battle, when the adrenaline is pumping and soldiers are fighting just to stay alive. But we rarely hear about the incredible courage and strength needed to sit up for the first time despite searing pain, to stand, to take those few wobbly […]

From Jamie Kirchick, “The Fork in J Street: Will the New Israel Lobby Disavow Its Extreme Left Flank?” After the introduction, Kirchick writes: In the weeks leading up to its conference, J Street was wracked by a series of controversies. The group had to cancel a poetry session after it was exposed that one of […]

With Scozzafava’s “suspension” of her candidacy, GOP elites in Washington may have dodged a bullet. But we can’t forget that they are the ones who put conservatives into this position in the first place.:  The MSM wants to blame “angry” right wingers for the fight.:  In fact, it was just the opposite. :  What happened […]

It’s… transparency like you’ve never seen! The White House blog gushes: We previously announced that the White House in December of this year would — for the first time in history — begin posting all White House visitor records under the terms of our new voluntary disclosure policy. As part of that initiative, we also […]

I blogged about this last week, and it turns out Ann Althouse and Andrea Harris agree, so… Shut up about breast cancer awareness. We are so ‘frickin aware I’m gonna vomit. People are always “raising awareness” about things everybody knows about. It is the activism of cowards. Especially women, who are so desperate for safety […]

People often criticize me for “dishonoring” the office of the president (the anarcho-socialist James Webb, for example), but I wrote a respectful post yesterday in response to President Obama’s visit to Dover: “Obama Honors Fallen Troops at Dover.” Sure, the president’s visit was perhaps the worst instance of political grandstanding since taking office, but knowing […]