Year: 2009

Earlier this week, David Hogberg filed an important story at Investors Business Daily: FHA-insured loans have more than tripled from 530,000 in fiscal year 2007 to 1.7 million thus far in 2009. The Government National Mortgage Association, which securitizes FHA loans, has boosted its mortgage-related issuance to $287 billion from $85 billion. Yet during that […]

As mentioned in the earlier post, I was invited to cover the Illinois Conservative Summit sponsored by the United Republican Fund of Illinois. The URF is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year and is Illinois’ oldest, independent, conservative GOP organization. The URF’s charge is to advance conservative policies and principles by supporting candidates that will […]

Things just keep getting worse and worse for Twoofer Van Jones U.S. Senator Kit Bond, ranking member of the Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today called for a Congressional oversight hearing probing the fitness of a senior White House official. In a letter to […]

I guess I’m getting noticed by the big Leftists on YouTube again.

If New Jersey politics isn’t bad enough, try getting a feel for one of the most liberal Congressional Disctricts in the state. I was quite surprised when I learned that Rep. Bill Pascrell, Congressman of my very blue hometown, would be holding a town hall meeting on the Democrats’ contentious health care bill, as if […]

An Anti-AIDS Ad Or A Pro-Nazi Ad? This is one of the most unintentionally funny advertisements that I’ve ever seen. It’s supposed to be some sort of anti-Aids “You’re worse than Hitler if you don’t use a condom” thing, but that’s not the message I get out of it: There are HIV/Aids charities protesting this […]

As noted yesterday, top Obama advisor Van Jones — the foul-mouthed, self-avowed communist who has apparently absconded with $60 billion of our money meant to create mythical “green jobs” — is a 9/11 Truther. The Obamination Administration has reacted to this revelation by lying: In a statement issued Thursday evening Jones said of “the petition […]

The moonbats at Roto-Reuters are aghast: Audi of America President Johan de Nysschen has said that the Chevy Volt will fail and that anybody who buys the car is an idiot. Not only that, de Nysschen has lumped proponents of any type of electric car into a category of “intellectual elite who want to show […]

The United Farm Workers union wants to enshrine in law a new way for potential members to vote in representation. For years now, the UFW has tried to push Sacramento to OK a plan to allow potential union members to cast their vote away from their workplace. The union claims that if union representatives can […]

Our president seems to believe himself more King than elected representative. Barack Obama has shown himself to be as despotic as George III through overly harsh taxation and forcing his will on the people. Like George used the Parliament, Obama is using Congress to assert his supremacy in a socialist empire. Now, Obama is inciting […]

This is some pretty good news Osiris Therapeutics Inc, which is developing a drug to treat a rare condition that affects bone marrow transplant patients, is poised to unveil results from a late-stage trial that could pave the way for the first approved drug in that indication and instill investor confidence in the company. GvHD […]

Is there any limit to the nutballs in the Obama administration? We have many tax cheats. We have a Truther. We have race baiters and people who push euthenasia. Plain racists. Climahysterics. Militant envirowackos. And all sorts of other wackos. Now we get Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information […]

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair I was watching democrat party advisors and consultants “guest” on the Fox News Channel to peddle their sh*t, and a very simple thought jumped into my head. At first I thought it was […]

There has been an inordinate amount of concern over a speech Barack Obama intends to make to school children across the nation next week. Talk radio and some blogs are freaking out. In some quarters, there are even calls to keep children home from school on the day of Obama’s speech. This is difficult for […]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Tea parties do little good if all the people do is protest. They must at some point put down the protest signs and pick up campaign signs. A “buycott” of Whole Foods may make you feel involved, but you aren’t really involved until you’re making politicians […]

Robert Reich has to be the poster boy for why liberals are only about 20% of our population. If it weren’t for the quiet backwaters of academia where, apparently they’re pretty much left alone to survive and breed, they wouldn’t have much of a chance of making it anywhere else. Here’s his latest riff: What […]

Meg Whitman didn’t even register as a Republican until 2007. Now, you’ve got to wonder: Is she running for governor of California on the Republican or Democratic ticket? What does it say about her that she has such a high opinion of Van Jones?

Obama’s Communist Czar Van Jones apparently believes George Bush may have been behind the 9/11 attacks. From my friend Amanda Carpenter at the Washington Times, President Obama’s “green jobs czar” Van Jones has been targeted again and again by conservatives for his controversial views and now they’ll have another item to use as fodder. Mr. […]

No doubt the socialist apparatchiks who run public schools have your kids studying up for Chairman Zero’s big speech to the children next Tuesday. Here are a couple of books likely to dominate their homework assignments, with excerpts via P.U.M.A.: He was there in Chicago because he cared about these people. They were his family. […]

As seen in elementary school classrooms and available here, the Pledge Allegiance to the Earth poster: As Glenn Beck put it yesterday: Well, how about this one? This was sent in by a listener of the radio program. This is a poster that was in their child’s classroom. Look at this. I pledge allegiance to […]

You see it all the time, Democrats in any particular state or county government proposing to raise sales taxes to raise “much needed” revenues — I say “much needed” because spending cuts are never considered an option for what ails a government budget. But these money-hungry Democrats never once consider the harm they are doing […]

So I’m making up the vegan part. Gateway Pundit reports the whole bloody mess. This probably shouldn’t make me laugh, but how much do you want to bet that the MoveOn.org activist is a hippie vegan? He probably wouldn’t eat meat. But human fingers? Yum! Moe Lane says it’s the zombies: The Moveon.org zombie apparently […]

Stephen Green joins me to discuss the Obama-Education talk controversy. He takes on AllahPundit with wit and style. [I would have asked AllahPundit to be on the show had I thought the man would come out of hiding.] We talk about Obama’s cult of personality. We also discuss The Moment President Obama’s presidency went off […]

The latest tactic in the left-wing smear campaign against Glenn Beck has been accusing him of rape. No, really… The attack on Glenn Beck continues by the internet crowd calling for a boycott of Beck’s advertisers. Can we now boycott the internet for making false accusations? The accusation that “Glenn Beck raped and murdered a […]

Honorable Mention) “But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot – what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done […]

Apparently, Ban Ki-moon isn’t reading what his own IPCC scientists have been writing as of late. In his world EVERYBODY PANIC! U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Thursday for swifter work on a new climate treaty to fend off what he said could be economic disaster with a surge in sea levels of up to […]

Of course, he didn’t actually say that, but, that is the meaning A participant at the town hall meeting that was held in Waldorf, Md., asked Hoyer if he believed the health care bill would cause a “tax increase or an increase to the deficit?” “Neither,” Hoyer replied. “The fact of the matter is, though,” […]

David Hogberg of the National Policy Center has an interesting, in depth study of the mess that is Sweden’s single payer healthcare system from 2007 that is very relevant to today’s discussion of Obamacare because much of what Obama wants has already proving a failure in Sweden. “The experience of Sweden demonstrates,” Hogberg says, “that […]

Well, when admitted communists are working in the White House, this doesn’t surprise me.

I gave away my television in 2006. Yes, I’m one of those people. It was not some snooty faux intellectual “I’m too good for the idiot box” mentality that caused me to get rid of what would now be an antiquated black box… it was convenience. I was in college and living the nomadic, transient […]