‘Mobilizing Conference’ for Public Schools Revives ’60s-Era Campus Radicalism

At last weekend’s ANSWER’s “teach-in” on Afghanistan, one of the speakers was Tamara Khoury of Students Fight Back, a college protest group out of Cal State Fullerton. Ms. Koury denounced the “war economy” that was siphoning funds from public education: “I can’t get into my classes, my tuition this year was doubled, and yet hundreds […]

 

If You Were A Democrat In Congress, What Would Your First Domestic Priority Be?

Health care reform? Cap-and-trade? Or, perhaps, economic recovery and jobs? On Thursday, Obama’s economic adviser Christina Romer told Congress the administration agrees with other analysts that the economy will grow in the third quarter, and beyond. Even so, she said, “unemployment is likely to remain at its severely elevated level,” and noted expectations that few […]

 

Welcome To Political Hell, Democrats: Republicans Trusted More On Every Top Issue

Holy switcherolli, Batman. Barack Obama has flipped the political world upside down for the Democrats. Let me take you back to a RWN post from June 9 of this year, That brings me to the Rasmussen polling data that my co-blogger Melissa Clouthier discussed yesterday on Right Wing News. Here are the key numbers from […]

 

Obama’s 4 Steps To Dissent Free TV

The way that Obama is dealing with Fox News is transparently cynical. Fox News has the biggest cable news ratings. CNN and MSNBC are a joke beside of them. Moreover, while the other stations give sycophantic coverage to the Obama Administration and spend an inordinate amount of time beating up on hapless Republicans who have […]

 

Communist Truther Van Jones’ Green Graft Legacy Lives On

Remember Van Jones, the self-described communist and “rowdy black nationalist” who admitted to having been “radicalized in jail”? Comrade Obamao set him up as Green Jobs Czar and gave him a staggering $60 billion of our money to create green jobs, leaving even Newsreek to wonder where the money went when no one could even […]

 


House Speaker Lacks Democrat Votes for ‘Public Option’

Despite assurances to the contrary, Politico.com is reporting that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D, Calif.) does not have the votes to include the so-called public option in the House version of Obamacare making it more likely that a “trigger” will be included instead. Politico also reports that Obama himself announced support for the […]

 


Where I call a Bible Thumper a Moron

I believe that Christianity is the single best influence on mankind. It is responsible for Western civilization’s flourishing, it is responsible for the heights of freedom and liberty that untold billions of humans have enjoyed and will enjoy in the future. Certainly the bedrock of that success is the Christian Bible. So, don’t go calling […]

 

Hoffman in NY-23 Tests Tea Party Movement

From the Politico, “NY-23 Race First Test of Tea Party Power” (via Memeorandum): :  Tea party activists from across the nation are rallying around the House special election in upstate New York, viewing it as the first electoral test of the nascent conservative movement’s political muscle. Organizers up and down the East Coast report that […]

 

Republican Defeat in NY-23 Could Lead to GOP Victories in 2010

With word that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has endorsed conservative Doug Hoffman to fill the House seat vacated by Army Secretary John McHugh, there is a real chance the once and future Republican could score an upset, defeating GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens. The safe bet though would be for an […]

 

This Week In Quotes: October 16 – October 22

At least Fox News primetime hosts, and many of their guests, know something about politics. MSNBC’s primetime lineup presents an array of people who sound like earnest college kids who just walked up to a Common Cause table, and the sum-total of what they know about politics is what they read in the brochures. — […]

 


Obama Goes After Companies That Hire Illegals, And Fox News

One should never follow praise with criticism, so, let’s start with the latest in the White House’s War On Fox New, perhaps knows as Operation Domestic Contingency. Doug Ross reports Today the White House stepped up its attack on Fox News, announcing that the network would no longer be able to conduct interviews with officials […]

 

After Seven Months of Stimulus, How Many States Have Grown Jobs? One.

It was the Doomsday scenario. If we didn’t pass the Stimulus Bill, America as we knew it would be destroyed. But, if we had the courage to trust a man named Barack Obama and follow him into the pits of deep, deep deficit spending, we would find ourselves in a land were jobs were as […]

 

The Uniter Expands His Enemies List

Remember all the hokey talk about how the Moonbat Messiah would unite us? Chairman Zero doesn’t: “When you’re on their side, it’s all OK, but if you’re not, they rain hell down on you,” said R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, bemoaning the administration’s bellicose response to differing opinions […]

 

Palin & Romney: Heart & Head? More Like, Heart & Soul…less

Matt Lewis wrote a thoughtful piece about the Republican party and what the two leaders mean for the future of the party: The most often repeated template is for Republicans to select the person whose “turn” it is to run for president. That’s how the Grand Old Party opted for Richard Nixon, John McCain, Bob […]

 

Senate Defeats Dem Leader Reid’s ‘Doc Fix’ Plan

Roll Call is reporting that the $250 billion extension to the Medicare physician payment program was defeated in the Senate today. Reid couldn’t even get a simple majority losing in a 47 to 53 vote. Naturally Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev) blames the Republicans. Reid complained that the loss was a result of “activities […]

 

Moonbat Musicians Unite for Al Qaeda

Patriots defending us from terrorists have found a use for some of even the worst pop music; playing it until jihadists cough up their plans for mass murder rather than have to listen anymore. Personally I would rather listen even to R.E.M. than have my fingernails ripped out, as is customary in the countries most […]

 

New York’s Dede Scozzafava MUST Withdraw

In July liberal Republican DeDe Scozzafava was tapped by the 11 Republican county chairmen of New York’s 23rd Congressional District to run for the seat being vacated by John McHugh, who resigned to take Obama’s offer to become Secretary of the Army. The NY GOP made a huge mistake with this smoke-filled-room choice. Scozzafava has […]

 

Guess Who Is Getting Your Swine Flu Shot

It’s bad enough that there is already a massive backup on the Swine Flu vaccine, but….. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told CNSNews.com Wednesday that one in 10 doses of the swine-flu vaccine purchased by: the U.S.: will be donated to other nations before U.S. demand is filled. Sebelius also told a Senate committee […]

 


AGW Today: All Dogs Must Be Eaten!

Will Lassie be the next thing on the Climate Alarmists hit list? The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, researchers have found. Victoria University professors Brenda and Robert Vale, architects who specialise in sustainable living, say pet owners should swap cats and dogs […]

 

MSNBC: Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, It’s Hard To Tell Those Black Guys Apart

Contessa Brewer over at MSNBC committed what could have been a : job ending mistake — had she been a Republican. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy :  Here’s what was said: “Joining me now to talk about this and the nation’s real problem of joblessness, the Reverend Al Sharpton,” […]

 


Congress To Fix The College Football National Championships? Wow, Is There Nothing They Can’t Do?

Just when you think Congress can’t find a way to further involve themselves in every teeny-tiny bit of minutiae in America, they find a new way to surprise you: A senator whose undefeated home state school was bypassed for the college football national championship last season urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to ask the […]

 

TARP Report – “We don’t even know where the money went”

So let’s give them health care too! Sorry, couldn’t help myself. The quote in the title is from Democratic Representative Daniel Lipinski of IL. It’s a good preface to a Treasury Department Inspector General report issued today which was rather scathing. USA Today provides the “executive summary”: A Treasury Department watchdog is warning that a […]

 

Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Slashing Executive Salaries

Even for Congress, this is extraordinarily dumb: Responding to the growing furor over the paychecks of executives at companies that received billions of dollars in the government’s financial rescue, the Obama administration will order the companies that received the most aid to deeply slash the compensation to their highest paid executives, an official involved in […]

 

The Tabloid Trash Beat: Rielle Hunter Vs. Elizabeth Edwards

Normally, the National Enquirer is not the most reliable publication in the world. However, they have been all over the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter story to such an extent that they obviously have an inside source. So, when I saw a story like this on the front of the Enquirer, it was a gimmie that I […]