Year: 2009

Is The Tea Party Movement A Minority Movement?

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Is the Tea Party movement a minority movement? I discuss the question in my latest AIP column: This Tea Party movement isn’t a youthful rebellion. It isn’t a response of an obvious minority to injustice such as the women’s movement or civil rights movement. The Teaparty represents what used to be the silent majority: the […]

 

Obama is ‘Concerned’ About Blogosphere

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Hill is reporting that Obama is now “open” to a newspaper bailout. Well, welcome to the state run media. Not long ago Senator Ben Cardin (D- Md.) introduced S. 673, the Newspaper Revitalization Act. It is supposed to give news media tax breaks if they restructure as a non-profit corporation. So far, though, the […]

 

School Pensions Making Millionaires out of Retiring Employees

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bill Zettler recently submitted a Freedom of Information request on the pensions of 13 retiring public school employees from District 211 in Palatine, Illinois and he found that the people of Illinois are on the hook for over $50 million in pension benefits promised to people retiring at the average age of 58. Zettler found […]

 

Prince Charles Urges The Commoners Not To Live Like Him

Posted on by John Hawkins

From the do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do files comes Prince Charles’ latest suggestion for how the riff-raff should live their lives: Prince Charles urges people to abandon car in favour of walking and public transport The Prince, who has two Jaguars, two Audis, a Range Rover and still drives an Aston Martin given to him by the Queen […]

 

Energy Secretary Steven Chu: The American Public Is Like Teenagers Who Need To Be Taught How To Act

Posted on by John Hawkins

One of the most irritating traits of liberals is their paternalistic, we’re smarter than everyone else because we’re Lefties shtick. I don’t care if you’re talking about cousin Cletus the hog farmer, who quit school in third grade and has an IQ that’s barely in the high double digits, if he’s a liberal he thinks […]

 

You can’t legislate the poor into prosperity

Posted on by Tabitha Hale

I stumbled across this quote this morning and wanted to share. “You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody […]

 

AGW Today: Massive Climahysteria, Just Teenagers, And A Gas Guzzling Supermodel

Posted on by William Teach

The New York Post says EVERYBODY PANIC! It’s official. It’s getting hot down here. And if we don’t stop burning oil and coal, the Big Apple will be cooked. According to a high tech study commissioned by a concerned Mayor Bloomberg and generously funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, climate change caused by human-created greenhouse gases […]

 

5 Reasons Obama’s Election Is Bad For Race Relations

Posted on by John Hawkins

Because of our nation’s extremely complex history with racial issues, there have never been any “good old days” for race relations in America. We began as a slaveholding nation that simultaneously held the contradictory belief that “all men were created equal,” actually fought a civil war in large part over slavery, and eventually we moved […]

 

Republicans and the Social Media Revolution

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Back in February, interestingly, I thought Meghan McCain had a good point when she argued that “Republicans don’t get the Internet.” Not any more. With Americans witnessing the dramatic impact of Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government, which along with Fox News has been the main outlet breaking the ACORN prostitution scandal, we’re really seeing the power […]

 

Baldilocks Goes With God, So Exactly Where Is LGF’s Mad King Charles Going?

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

Longtime conservative blogger Baldilocks, a former Pajamas Media staffer, was banished Sunday: from Little Green Footballs,: where Charles Johnson’s: insane jihad against his erstwhile friends and allies has become: one of the most: embarrassing spectacles in the history of the blogosphere. “He’s like a troll with his own website,” as one commenter at Ace of Spades HQ said. This latest […]

 

Cash For Clunkers: The Debacle That Keeps On Giving

Posted on by John Hawkins

There were so many things wrong with the cash-for-clunkers program that it was hard to keep up with them all. The program quickly ran out of money, there were horrible paperwork snafus, a large percentage of the money was used for foreign cars, perfectly good cars were destroyed during the process, they’ve only handled about […]

 

Is it American to be Forced Into a Union? In Obama’s America it is!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Welcome to Obama’s America where you are forced to become a union member even if you had no idea you were being inducted into one. In fact, in Obama’s America you won’t even know you are IN a union until you notice union dues are being withheld from your checks. This is the case in […]

 

Chaos, Destruction Expected as Moonbats Converge on Pittsburgh

Posted on by Dave Blount

An estimated 1.7 million patriots descended on Washington on 9/12, and left it looking at least as good as they found it. No one expects the same to hold true of the moonbats who will converge on Pittsburg for the G20 summit: Barely a block from a parking lot where Pittsburgh will house protesters of […]

 

Breitbart: NEA Conference Call, Your Tax Dollars, And Artistic Coercion

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Here is the explosive tape from the NEA at Brietbart as well as a transcript in full. I’m listening now. Nick Gillespie, also of Breitbart’s Big Hollywood says: As Patrick Courrelieche, an L.A.-based arts organizer who participated in the call, reported at Big Hollywood, the people running the call, including the NEA’s director of communications […]

 

Why Are Women Unhappier Than Men? An Answer

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

It’s statements like these that get my co-blogger John Hawkins in trouble: It’s not choices that are causing problems for women, it’s expectations. Women are no longer merely expect to act like women. Now, feminism, liberalism, and Hollywood says they’ve got to be able to do everything women used to do AND everything that men […]

 

The Left’s Suicidal Anti-American Impulses On Foreign Policy

Posted on by John Hawkins

“While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.” — Ann Coulter When it comes to foreign policy, liberals are like sheep who have a desperate need to find a wolf and bare their throat to him. You can see a […]

 

Violence Serves The Left

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

The Left already enjoys a reputation for being whack-a-doodles. One only needs to visit Zombietime to see how leftists, or what is now being called neo-liberals, roll. Since conservatives don’t really protest, generally, watching the Teaparty movement unfold is fascinating. For all the talk of violent mobs, crazies, Nazis, terrorists and the rest of the […]

 

Climate Alarmist: Gee, Maybe We Shouldn’t Have Hung Our Hat Solely On CO2

Posted on by William Teach

Geoffrey Lean at the Telegraph is just asking for a beat down from the rest of the True Believers (who still refuse to walk the talk) Here’s a heretical thought, one that might even further inflame the great global-warming slanging match. Has the world set out to tackle climate change in the wrong way? It’s […]

 

The Newest Thrill Ride Named Porkulus

Posted on by William Teach

Of course, this Washington Times story is less than shocking, but, hey, all you Democrat supporters might want to take notice of the rank partisanship After a two-week binge to meet President Obama’s 200-day goal, stimulus spending has plummeted once again – and the roller-coaster pace of spending has critics worried about how the money […]