Year: 2009

5 Things That Republicans In D.C. Need To Understand

Posted on by John Hawkins

Last weekend at the Defending the American Dream Summit, I had the opportunity to talk behind-the-scenes with some Republican staffers. During our back-and-forth exchanges, here are some of the things I told them that I thought their bosses should understand: 1) It’s going to take time to re-establish trust: During the Bush years a lot […]

 

AGW Today: Washington Post Trumpets A New Report!

Posted on by William Teach

Tell us all about it, Juliet Eilperin! New Report Details Costs of Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions With enough technological advances, the world could get to a dramatically lower level of greenhouse gas emissions at a cost of between one and three percent of global GDP per year, according to a report issued Tuesday by a […]

 

Two Years in Prison for Importing Orchids, Paperwork Errors

Posted on by Duane Lester

The Washington Times has a troubling article on the over criminalization of America. For example, they tell the story of a couple of retirees who had their house torn apart by gun wielding members of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The agents who spent half a day ransacking Mrs. Norris’ longtime home in Spring, […]

 

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Demonizing Private Insurance Companies

Posted on by William Teach

Over the past few months, we have heard and read about Democrat leaders doing their typical “hey, let’s insult, demean, damage, and demonize yet another private entity” in regards to the health insurance industry. They tell us that the private health insurance companies should be more like the selfless government run Medicare. Yeah, about that […]

 

CT Attorney General goes after private insurers.

Posted on by Tabitha Hale

From Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Connecticut attorney general is seeking information about what the state’s five largest health insurers may have sent policyholders over legislation that would reform the Medicare program for the elderly. The information requests announced on Friday follow a U.S. government probe announced last month into a letter sent from […]

 

The Top 10 Most Viewed Videos On Viral Footage For September

Posted on by John Hawkins

From Viral Footage: 10) Insurgents accidentally blow themselves up in Afghanistan 9) TheNoseonYourFace: Czars (Funny Song) 8) All the single babies (Hilariously Awesome) 7) Steve Crowder: Keith Olbermann DESTROYS Glenn Beck!! (Funny) 6) Hitler finds out Americans are calling each other Nazis (I loved this) 5) Ann Coulter drops the p-bomb on TV over liberal […]

 

And Now Senator Schumer is Lying about Job Loss

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You know, our job loses are bad enough without President Obama and now Senator Chuck Schumer lying about it all and making it sound even worse than it is. But this particular lie is a very particular lie, one that is aimed to make the presidency of George W. Bush the bad guy. Job loses […]

 

Rove Backs Rubio In Florida

Posted on by Dan Riehl

Well, there’s an interesting development. Former Bush political adviser Karl Rove “has signaled his preference” in Florida’s U.S. Senate race “with his wallet.” Rove confirmed to NBC News “that he has contributed a $1000 to Rubio’s campaign, the donation will be made public when Rubio files his next FEC report (due Oct. 15).” “This comes […]

 

The Defending The American Dream Summit Picture Drop (17 pics)

Posted on by John Hawkins

Last week-end, I was at the Defending The American Dream Summit in DC. That little shindig was thrown by the folks at Americans for Prosperity and it was heavily attended — around 2000 people were at the event, which isn’t too shabby for a political hootenanny. I drove to the conference, which turned out to […]

 

Obama’s Insufferable Arrogance Caused Olympic Fail

Posted on by Dave Blount

The Chicago Sun Times has gathered more unhinged voices of the left claiming that W can be blamed even for Chairman Zero not bringing home the Olympic bacon on behalf of his slumlord cronies in the Windy City. Some Chicago officials say anti-American resentment likely played a role in Chicago’s Olympic bid dying in the […]

 

The Dangerous Left-Wing Hatemongering from Media Matters

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Eric Boehlert of Media Matters is the worst kind of American. In fact, it’s hard to count him as an American at all except by accident of birth. It is plain that this Boehlert fellow is against many aspects of the American tradition chief of which is freedom of political speech. Well, perhaps, he’s not […]

 

Copenhagen Treaty Will Demand American Taxpayers Buy “Dignity” for Third World

Posted on by Dave Blount

Anyone who doubts that the global warming hoax aggressively promoted by Chairman Zero and his comrades at the UN is a Trojan horse for world socialism need only look at this draft of the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty produced by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Successful countries are called upon to severely […]

 

Obama Disses Dalai Lama To Woo Red China

Posted on by William Teach

Hey, you remember the Dalai Lama, right? He’s the guy who met with President Bush and on whom Congress bestowed a Congressional Gold Medal “for what American legislators say is his fight for democracy, freedom, and Tibet’s cultural heritage through a negotiated settlement with Beijing based on autonomy within the People’s Republic.” He offered up […]

 

President Narcissist Angry At General McChrystal. Now With Surrender!

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, The One doesn’t like to be upstaged or lectured on the reality of the situation in Afghanistan. I mean, how dare, DARE, one of those commanders on the ground that he promised again and again to listen to speak out after being mostly blown off during the first 8 months of the President in […]

 

Were I a Soldier Right Now, I’d Be A Little Worried

Posted on by Jimmie Bise

At least “don’t ask; don’t tell” opponents can take solace that they’re not last on the Presidential priority list. That position is reserved for General Stanley McChrystal. Last weekend, McCrystal informed America that his Commander in Chief, who set him in charge of all the forces in that the President called the “central front” in […]

 

Challenges Ahead for Conservatives

Posted on by Donald Douglas

From Dean Esmay, “Is Conservatism Becoming More Muscular?“: Eric thinks so, but me, I’m not seeing it. Sure, people who call themselves conservatives are more angry right now, but they also seem a lot less thoughtful and well-informed than the conservatism I remember from 10, 20 years ago. A movement once full of stellar intellectual […]

 

The Ridiculous Lengths Some Polanksi Supporters Will Go Through To Defend “Their Guy”

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

Just when you thought you’d seen it all. Check out Patterico’s blog (here and here) for mountains of evidence that the associate producer of a sympathetic Polanksi “documentary” from last year has been posting anonymous comments in several threads Patterico wrote about the topic, comments she wrote in attempts at both defending Polanksi and personally […]

 

Attention Gay Activists. Gay Activists, Please Report to Under Barack Obama’s Bus.

Posted on by Jimmie Bise

If you were one of those folks who thought that President Obama was going to roll back the military’s “don’t ask; don’t tell” policy, rest assured that he’s going to get right on that. In a while. You know, whenever he works his way down to it. President Obama will focus “at the right time” […]

 

People get it.

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Headline: Fear of Losing Private Health Insurance Trumps ‘Public Option’ Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters nationwide say guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage is a higher priority than giving consumers the choice of a “public option” health insurance company. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just […]

 

Rachel Maddow Attacks Robert Stacy McCain as White Supremacist

Posted on by Donald Douglas

From Pat in Shreveport, “Rachel Maddow Attacks Stacy McCain“::  Rachel Maddow on Meet the Press this morning, called Robert Stacy McCain a white supremacist. I’m thinking she’s been listening to Charles Johnson a little too much. The panel was discussing the Sarah Palin book, Going Rogue, when Maddow offers her criticism of Lynn Vincent, Palin’s […]

 

The “Post-American” President?

Posted on by McQ

Elliot Abrams, with a sense of deja vu, reviews Carter era foreign policy as one of weakness and accommodation leading to disaster. He’s seeing some eerie similarities in the foreign policy the Obama administration seems to be fashioning. One begins to wonder how far we will drift into a new period of generalized disaster. In […]

 

Meg Whitman: A Big Lib Supporter?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Meg Whitman has had some bad days lately. After recently proclaiming herself a “darned good” conservative Republican, Senator Barbara Boxer’s staff revealed that Whitman was a Boxer supporter in 2003. Dangerously for Whitman, Senator Boxer is one of the most liberal members of the Senate. According to Boxer aide Rose Kapolczynski, […]

 

Travesty: Most Illinois County GOP Organizations Have no Web Presence

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Imagine that. In this day and age most of the GOP Party organizations in the great state of Illinois do NOT have a web page. Illinois has 102 counties, but only 23 of them have a usable, working webpage. In this Internet age, the very first place everyone runs to in order to find out […]

 

The Stimulus Is A Failure: Guess Whose Fault It Is?

Posted on by William Teach

We said “Don’t pass the Generational Theft Act. It is laden with pork, most of it doesn’t actually kick in until, surprisingly, an election year, and it is basically a decades long wish list of Democrat wants, among others. We can’t back something that is going to mortgage the future of America’s children and grandchildren.” […]

 

Carol Browner, Obama’s Commie Climate-Czar, Says Tax-and-Trade Bust in 2009

Posted on by Donald Douglas

From the New York Times, “Obama Aide Concedes Climate Law Must Wait” (via Memeorandum): President Obama’s top climate and energy official said Friday that there was virtually no chance Congress would have a climate and energy bill ready for him to sign before negotiations on a global climate treaty begin in December in Copenhagen. The […]