Year: 2009

Lt David Halderman Jr. – FDNY

Posted on by McQ

A post I did in September of 2006 for the 2996 Project, originally entitled “September 11th, 2001 – “We Lost David”. It is the ongoing fulfillment of a promise made in the last sentence of the post. This is what 9/11 should be about. ____________________________________________________________ Each week I do a tribute, called Project Hero, about […]

 

For Once Obama May Not Have Been Lying

Posted on by Dave Blount

Maybe Chairman Zero wasn’t lying after all when he proclaimed that illegal aliens won’t be eligible for free medical care at our extravagant expense under socialized medicine: It is true that both the House and Senate health care bills as they are now drafted would make illegal aliens ineligible for federally funded health care. But […]

 

Federal Agency Fights Card Check For Its Own Employees

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As the president and Congress considers passing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) in which the “card check” feature is still a major provision, a federal agency is trying to prevent its own employees from using the card check practice to organize. The Legal Services Corp., a congressionally chartered, taxpayer-funded entity has hired legal counsel […]

 

More ACORN Goons Caught Trying to Facilitate Prostitution

Posted on by Dave Blount

In case you thought Obama’s ACORNistas in Baltimore were atypical in their willingness to help use taxpayer money to set up a brothel for child sex slaves, let’s turn to DC: One day after two ACORN officials in Baltimore were fired for offering to help a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute […]

 

Rachel Maddow: Glenn Beck Exploiting Tragedy of 9/11 – But, Guest Melissa Harris-Lacewell Says ‘Healthcare Similar Time of Crisis’ to September 11

Posted on by Donald Douglas

I admit, Rachel Maddow is infuriating. She basically spouts off netroots lies as fact and assumes she’s got some kind of wisdom from on high. It’s always pretty pathetic, but it’s especially bad to hear her attack Glenn Beck’s 9-12 Project with a load of distortions and untruths. Maddow claims 9-12 tea parties are politically […]

 

Ann Coulter on Joe Wilson, “The Greatest Living Statesman”

Posted on by Sharon Soon

More on Congressman Joe Wilson: This is a must-watch. Ann Coulter is right on point about healthcare, while Bill O’Reilly beats around the bush defending big government. Ann defends Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) for being one of the few Republicans will the boldness to stand up to the Democrats and their “chosen one.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGCAB2h4US8 (Sorry, […]

 

Pat Toomey: How A Smart Conservative Appeals To Moderates

Posted on by John Hawkins

There is a difference between ideology and politics. It’s easy for talk radio hosts, bloggers, and columnists (including me) to talk about what needs to be done. Our audiences tend to be made up of like minded people and we don’t have to worry about moderates who barely know who the Vice-President is or which […]

 

An Un-American Display? No Way To Treat A President?

Posted on by William Teach

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post opinion writer, apparently thinks history started on January 20, 2009. On the Opinions front page, the article is entitled “An Un-American Display,” while in the screeching single page, it is called “No Way To Treat A President.” Anyone who watched Wednesday night as President Obama explained his health-care reform proposals to […]

 

An Interview With Congressman Joe Wilson

Posted on by John Hawkins

On Wednesday night Congressman Joe Wilson made big news when he shouted out, “You lie,” while Barack Obama was falsely claiming that illegal aliens aren’t going to be covered by the health care bills winding their way through Congress. Last night I got an opportunity to interview him. What follows is the slightly edited transcript […]

 

Will Obamacare Put Abortion Providers in Schools?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a section innocuously titled “School-Based Health Clinics,” the House bill, H.R. 3200, seems to set up Democrats to invite groups like Planned Parenthood into our schools to serve as a school “health clinic.” (‘Sec. 399Z-1. School-Based Health Clinics.) And even more insidiously the bill provides for these “clinics” to be initiated immediately — effective […]

 

9/11 + 8: Remembering Brooke Alexandra Jackman And Andrew Golkin

Posted on by William Teach

This is Brooke Alexandra Jackman. She was born August 28, 1978. She was murdered by Islamic extremists September 11, 2001, while at work at Cantor Fitzgerald where she worked as an assistant trader. She was 23. After reading so many touching stories and tributes about Brooke, I feel I almost know her. Her smile is […]

 

9/11: The Injustice Still Grates–UPDATED

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Eight years later, I’m still angry. Decent Americans, going about their business–going to work on a gorgeous Indian summer day got the shock of their lives. Buildings crashed down around them and nothing would be the same. A new friend in Texas moved from the New York a couple years ago, finally. She worked in […]

 

“In the next 16 days, Congress will spend more than $3 trillion in taxpayer money.”

Posted on by Duane Lester

For the record, the national debt at the time this was written was $11.7 trillion.  It’s higher now, but that doesn’t stop these porkers: In the next 16 days, Congress will spend more than $3 trillion in taxpayer money. To cover these programs, some Americans will be working up to three hours of each day. […]

 

CNN Tries To Spin A “Win” For Obama’s Speech

Posted on by McQ

The good old media waterboy comes through again. Immediately after the speech last night, CNN released the following: Two out of three Americans who watched President Barack Obama’s health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans – a 14-point gain among speech-watchers, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll of people […]

 

Revenue Neutral? Hardly!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A couple of stories have recently come out that really put the lie to President Obama’s claims that “his” healthcare bill is revenue neutral. These on top of the original plan-killing news that came out of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office in July. In July the CBO said that Obama’s plan was clocking in at […]

 

7 Quick Thoughts About Last Night’s Obama Health Care Speech

Posted on by John Hawkins

1) Wilson’s “You lie” outburst is a political plus, not a minus because the discussion over it, even from people criticizing or disagreeing with him, will focus an inordinate amount of attention on the fact that Obama is lying and that illegal aliens will be able to get coverage under the bill. 2) Obama’s insurance […]

 

Obamacare Gives Union Leaders Gov’t Power in Healthcare Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Kevin Mooney of the Washington Examiner has a piece from Sept. 2 that warns that H.R. 3200, the House healthcare bill, gives special consideration to union bosses for positions on various healthcare management boards. This means that Barack Obama is handing official government power to union bosses! Sections 123 and 2251 of H.R. 3200, the […]

 

ACORN Mob Attempts to Facilitate Child Prostitution, Tax Fraud

Posted on by Dave Blount

There really is nothing beneath Obama’s red-shirted goon squad ACORN — not even child prostitution: Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage […]

 

All You Fatties Are A National Security Risk

Posted on by William Teach

Lunatics of all stripes Health care experts, including two former U.S. Surgeons General, said on Wednesday said that obesity has reached epidemic proportions and is a threat to security in the United States and abroad. “Obesity is not just a health issue,” said Richard Carmona, who served as surgeon general in the George W. Bush […]

 

Surprise! New York Time’s Kidnapped Journalist A Moron Who Cost A Soldier And Friend Their Lives–UPDATED

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

The paper of record will probably not report the flaming ignorance of their own reporter, Stephen Farrell, but the British press is less inclined to cover for him. Remember the NYT reporter who got abducted and subsequently rescued? Remember how good the NYT was with keeping that secret, you know a secret that mattered when […]

 

Barack Obama Speechifying Fail: Dan Riehl And John Hawkins Discuss The President’s Speech & The Republicans

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Was the President’s address a win? In the short term, just like Bill Clinton, yes. Did Bill Clinton get health care reform passed? Don’t think so. The speech, like most Obama soliloquies was rife with Strawmen. Neo Neocon knocks ’em down. Do Americans want a mandate to get insurance? We’ll see. Was Joe Wilson right […]

 

Congress Pays Tribute To Flight 93. Plus Charlie Sheen’s Trutherism

Posted on by William Teach

The House and Senate did good! US lawmakers Wednesday paid tribute to the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 who fought back against hijackers to stop it possibly hitting the Capitol in the September 11, 2001 attacks. “In memory of the passengers and crew of Flight 93 whose brave sacrifice on September 11, 2001 not […]

 

Go Joe Wilson, Go Joe Wilson, Go Joe Wilson Go!

Posted on by John Hawkins

Last night, during his health care speech, after Barack Obama lied about Republicans, he moved on to lying about the coverage of illegal aliens: Some of people’s concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim, made not […]