Year: 2009

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An AGW promoter driving down Scaremonger Lane? The hell you say! U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack defended efforts by the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress to pass climate change legislation, saying: “I start from the proposition that climate change is real. I know some disagree.” In an appearance Wednesday at the Iowa State […]

It’s the famous liberal two-step: First screw something up, then claim that it’s screwed up because there’s not enough government oversight (it’s the free market run wild!), and then step in and really screw it up in the name of “reform.” — Ann Coulter And yet, the fact is that “me Tarzan, you Jane” is […]

I had to laugh at an Associated Press headline that is so tortured as to be beyond belief. Naturally, the purpose of the twisted headline is so that the AP could get a Palin reference into its headline in order gain attention for its story, even though the story has little to do with the […]

Whistling past the graveyard, the White House is trying to write off its recent troubles in selling health care reform to it being nothing more than the problem of – August? Seriously. Because, you know, everyone understands that August just isn’t Obama’s month. Obama on a recent conference call with the DNCC discussing health care: […]

Three stories of the new hotness. First, as Erick Erickson points out, um, yeah, that fishy email thing did collect personal information. He catches Greg Sargent inadvertently telling the truth Now the DNC is striking back by pointing out that similar email collection is done on the Web sites of Senators and members of Congress, […]

Not everyone is left waiting indefinitely for crucial medication under Britain’s socialized medicine: A paedophile with a 30-year history of abusing children is being prescribed Viagra on the NHS… Roger Martin, 71, merely has to visit his GP to obtain the libido-enhancing drug, even though experts warn it will enable him to continue preying on […]

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic, an event more of us should remember: Twenty years ago Wednesday, members of Hungary’s budding opposition organized a picnic at the border with Austria to press for greater political freedom and promote friendship with their Western neighbors. Some 600 East Germans got word of the event and […]

We are in the middle of a recession and Americans are hurting. People are losing their jobs, they’re struggling to pay bills, and we’re having a huge debate about health care, much of which is being driven by the cost of care. Meanwhile, we’re spending exorbitant sums on the health care of illegal aliens: Last […]

After spending four years getting all fired up about Iraq, the issue almost completely dropped off of the radar screen the moment Barack Obama was elected. However, that’s only because Bush’s success with the surge made it clear that Obama was taking over a war we were winning handily. A loss at this point would […]

On August 16 the Associated Press published a story on the growing ratings success that Fox News is enjoying in this age of Obama. While all the facts that the AP reported are completely accurate, one key aspect of the Fox News ratings story was left out and it is an aspect that can materially […]

Pat Toomey is an outstanding conservative candidate and his numbers in Pennsylvania look good right now. He has an excellent chance to knock off the winner of the Arlen Specter/Joe Sestak primary battle and add a seat in the Senate for the GOP. What follows are my notes, not quotes, from a NRSC teleconference call […]

So, Barack Obama has gotten religion. How convenient. And he’s gotten religion just in time to beat the bitter Bible-thumping, gun-clingers with it. Even better. Ann Althouse has the whole story: Bearing false witness? Breaking the 9th Commandment? So his opponents are sinners. I’m trying to imagine the separation-of-church-and-state freakout if George Bush had taken […]

Don’t look now, but while the citizenry wrestles over the notion of Health Care legislation and what that all means, a big (literally bigger) pile of odious legislation sits in committee waiting to enslave Americans with taxes and limited lifestyle: Cap-n-Trade. To understand just how awful Cap-n-Trade is, one only has to look at California […]

Before he lost the presidential nomination in 2000, John McCain was a fairly reliable conservative vote. After McCain lost, he became a squish. Thus, you see John McCain’s all too typical of late ACU rating of 63% for 2008, but his lifetime rating of 81%. My theory about that has always been fairly simple: Because […]

AGW Loony Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) in an interview with the Detroit News in mid-August 2009, said: “Climate change is very real.” She endorsed cap and trade’s massive tax increase on Michigan industry, saying it would not lead to an increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. “Global warming creates volatility,” said Senator Stabenow. “I feel […]

Can people who are paid by and work for the government be considered “private citizens?” In my mind, yes. While they are government bees, they are not elected. And, the President shouldn’t be trashing American citizens in the first place. So, when a president comes a slurring, they have every right to get upset U.S. […]

The New York Times is reporting that Congressional Democrats and the White House are now completely abandoning the claim that they want a bi-partisan healthcare “reform” bill thereby confirming conservative claims that no compromise is coming from the left with healthcare policies. The spin from Democrats is that Republicans are at fault for the lack […]

The NY Times tells us this morning that we’re likely to get health care reform whether we want it or not. Frankly I’m not sure why that should be a surprise to anyone. Democrats know that they have to pass something or they’ll effectively, to use Howard Dean’s phrase, “kill the presidency” of Barack Obama. […]

Nothing is worse than a writer who takes the reader’s interest for granted. This mistake is particularly common in political writing: “I am a conservative, expressing a conservative viewpoint on an issue of interest to fellow conservatives. Therefore, why bother trying to make it interesting?” Bland, boring writing — however sound the political principles or […]

Early in June The New York Times was all aghast that overwhelming debt from medical bills will cause “nearly two out of three bankruptcies” in the US. Since then the White House has also used the statistic as a way to sell Obamacare policies and frighten voters into accepting a nationalized healthcare system. But is […]

While Obama and the Donkeys are working on ways to “go it alone,” meaning, “forget those troublesome Republicans, we need to spend our time wacking our Blue Dogs,” I wonder what is going on in the Wonderful World Of Single Payer? A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was […]

Could you imagine a nightmare dystopia where corrupt ACORN troglodytes would be charged with monitoring your lifestyle and dietary habits on behalf of an all-powerful federal Leviathan that officially owns your very body? The statist goblins that wrote the ObamaCare bill sure can. From Fox Nation: The health care reform bill approved by the Senate […]

The Moonbat Messiah must have had an epiphany: the economy requires energy, and it won’t be coming from windmills or pixie dust. Shifting emphasis from the draconian drilling restrictions demanded by antihuman environmental extremists, he is actually underwriting oil exploration with tax money that would normally be devoted to salt marsh harvest mice and payoffs […]

In my latest AIP column, I imagine the American public watching a disaster movie and being helpless to stop the disaster: It’s not being said out loud much, but many think it: It was a big mistake to give the government into the hands of Democrats in the House, the Senate and the Executive Branch. […]

There was a ballot initiative in environmentally conscious Seattle that tells you a lot about the American people’s real attitude towards environmental issues: Seattle voters have rejected a 20-cent fee for every paper or plastic bag they get from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience stores. The city’s incumbent mayor didn’t fare much better than the […]

On Twitter, there’s a hilarious “#obamacarefacts” tag that has started getting a lot of attention. I’m not sure if it started as a pro-Obamacare trend or not, but now it’s chock full of hilarious tweets ripping on Obamacare. Here’s are some of the best of the bunch: @jephjacques under ObamaCare, Twitter will be replaced by […]

While politicians and policy wonks get lost in minutiae, it’s important to remember the essential truths about the health care debate: 1. The Democrats control the House, the Senate & the Executive Branch. They can do whatever they want. Republicans are window dressing designed to give political cover for bad policy. 2. America cannot afford […]

Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft posted this video of the Democrats giving themselves a standing ovation for blocking George Bush’s attempt to reform Social Security: From there, Hoft goes on to note this story: Social Security could face a deficit within two years,” U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus predicted here Tuesday. “The situation is much […]

It would make sense that Feminists would oppose burqas because they are a tool of oppression for women: that is, burqas are specifically made to make a woman persona non grata. A burqa’s very purpose is to hide the woman and make her invisible as an individual. She is just not there. But feminists, and […]