Year: 2009

There are a number of things going on in the health care reform debate that are the reason Democrats are at odds with each other. One, obviously is cost. What should be apparent, even to rocket scientists like Nancy Pelosi, is that the American people are not buying into the premise that “government can expand […]

Mediocre Republican senator, George Voinovich, is spouting off at the mouth — and naturally, it’s about his fellow Republicans, not the Democratic Party, Too many conservative senators like Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) are to blame for the GOP’s downfall, one of their retiring Republican colleagues complained Monday. “We got too many Jim […]

The Birther issue serves one important purpose: if the whole of the Right can be painted as conspiratorial nutters, then the Left doesn’t have to defend or explain very unpopular policies like Cap-n-Trade, Card Check and Health Care. It is, in short, a diversion. When you got no game, play dirty. That’s the Left’s mantra […]

A few weeks ago, John wrote about what we can learn about socialized medicine from Massachusetts. Well, I think there’s one lesson he overlooked: the government health care fetishists can never be open and honest about their agenda. Recently, House Dems blocked Republicans from communicating with their constituents about health care “reform”: Democrats are preventing […]

I had a friend call all the Czars the President’s job’s program. Indeed. Today, Michelle Malkin’s new book Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies hits and it will be a must-read and dovetails nicely into the news of the day. In the meantime, check out this comprehensive list […]

The Competitive Enterprise Institute just began a new comedic YouTube channel called “Policy Translated.” It takes complicated policy issues and translates it with subtitles. Enjoy!!

It would be nice to think that moonbats are merely misguided. Many are, but at the core of their ideology, we find something very different from honest error. Vicious hatred of everything sacred is no accident: A publicly funded exhibition is encouraging people to deface the Bible in the name of art — and visitors […]

Now we know why conservative talk show host Michael Savage has been banned from entering Britain. Turns out they have an informal quota for non-Muslims on the no-entry list. No, I’m not kidding: Emails written by Home Office officials privately acknowledged the ban on Mr Savage would provide ‘balance’ to a list dominated by Muslims […]

As we’re moving towards the August break for Congress, Obama’s health care proposal seems to be sucking wind. It’s not dead, but it appears to have lost some momentum. Why is that? Well, first of all, you have to understand that the American people want diametrically opposed things. They want the quality of their health […]

Didn’t they know that they were supposed to nash their teeth, decry what Mankind was doing to Gaia, and hold awareness rallies? Climate study puts Incas’ success down to 400 years of warm weather Supreme military organisation and a flair for agricultural invention are traditionally credited for the rise of the Incas. However, their success […]

Taking the advice of Dr. Melissa Coulthier, I’m going to stop referring to the Democrat health care proposals as ObamaCare. Like she writes, “government run health care” doesn’t poll well, and “”Obamacare” sounds snipey and non-descriptive.” Another good way to term it would be “government taking away your freedom health care,” but, that tends not […]

Late last week, Right Wing News was pleased to have the opportunity to interview Congressman John Shadegg. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of that interview. All right, to begin with, if someone said to you, “Congressman, I have trouble following everything that’s going on with this healthcare debate — but what does it […]

Sunday night humor from Marston, Maryland The smell. Skip Roach can’t stand it on days when the temperature nears 90 degrees and a neighboring farm has spread a commercial fertilizer substitute on a field. The rotting stench is suffocating, he says. He shuts his windows, but without air conditioning, the heat is too much. Sometimes, […]

Two stories to draw your attention to on this hazy Sunday evening: First, the Detroit News editorial board Friday slammed State Senate Democrat Mark Brewer for his suggestion about having proposals on the ballot next year that would likely kill what little bit of economy Michigan’s got left: Mark Brewer seems determined to prove that […]

Instapundit: REASON TV: Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie on Why The Obama Honeymoon Is Over. I’m sure it’s a good piece, but as long as I have to go to Reason TV to find it, the honeymoon still isn’t over. When Glenn links to ABC with this story, that’s when I expect to see rolling […]

As people put up solar panels, whether for the energy savings or because they are barking moonbat climate changers, they could run in to a wee bit of a problem Solar energy customers are worried a new fee proposed by Xcel Energy would punish new customers for getting solar panels. The monthly fee, which would […]

As we’ve reported here throughout the year, the White House has made no secret of its antipathy towards conservative talk radio. So Radio Ink magazine took note on July 24, when, discussing health-care reform at a "town hall" Q&A, President Obama said, "You know, all those folks who are out there saying, we can’t afford […]

Reading a Canadian Press article this morning that a friend had forwarded to me, I was struck yet again at how fawning the media have been toward this President, certain that because of his presences, his coolness, his rhetorical gifts and the singular nature of his election (the first black man elected president in a […]

New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time

For the very first time, Barack Obama’s approval rating has gone upside down! According to Rasmussen, Barack Obama’s approval rating is at 49% and his disapproval rating is at 51%. Guess that’s what happens when you push big, unpopular liberal policy after liberal policy in an effort to take advantage of a crisis, talk about […]

A peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Geophysical Research confirms what anyone who isn’t drunk on Kool-Aid has already figured out: fluctuations in the climate are not caused by capitalism. Via Climate Depot: According to this study little or none of the late 20th century global warming and cooling can be attributed to human activity. […]

Nothing could be more American than hot dogs. So naturally, progressives oppose them. First they told us that hot dogs could make us choke. Bureauweenies called for warning labels, a first step toward a ban. Then they went after them on the grounds that hot dogs oppress animals. Moonbats tried to end the hallowed tradition […]

Evidently, the term “Government Run Health Care” doesn’t poll so well. I know it’s the only term I use for the health care debate because “Obamacare” sounds snipey and non-descriptive. So this is what is being reported by Human Events’ Connie Hair: Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), the secretary of the House Republican Conference and a […]

Evidently, the President’s remarks about the Henry Gates arrest are the media’s fault. A Fox News reporter spoke off-camera with press Secretary Robert Gibbs who felt the media blew up the remarks about the arrest: Says Patrick Hynes, “So the cops are stupid and it’s all the media’s fault. Got it.” [Video courtesy Patrick.] And […]

Republicans remember how the last election was made into a referendum on President George W. Bush. It looks like the same thing might happen with President Obama. Far from the uniter he campaigned on being, his words and deeds while delivered in a measured way, have proven to be very divisive:

While we wait for the researchers who feed at the federal trough to produce something, anything, from embryonic stem cells that does not include teratomas (monster tumors,) non-embronic stem cells are continuing to be super A middle-aged leukemia patient has became Chile’s first patient to receive stem cells from an umbilical cord in a radical […]

In an interview campaign stop with ABC News, Obama had this to say “The country has to reform its health care system or else not only are you going to continue to have people really going through a hard time, we’re also going see a continuing escalation of our budget problems that can’t get under […]

* We live in a perverse society when the most obnoxious people and biggest bullies are usually treated as if they’re victims. * The American people have a natural and sensible aversion to radical change. Big changes, coming fast, scare them. * DC Gov’t in 3 steps: 1) Pass a bill now! No time to […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 260 right-of-center bloggers and asked them several questions. The following 67 blogs responded, 101 Dead Armadillos, The Absurd Report, All That Is Necessary, American Diva, And Rightly So, The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Atlas Shrugs, Axis of Right, Bad Example, Basil’s Blog, Bookworm Room, Bright & Early, Bull Moose Strikes Back, […]

During the (Iranian) service, worshippers traded competing chants with some hard-liners in the congregation. When the hard-liners chanted “death to America,” Mousavi supporters countered with “death to Russia” and “death to China,” a reference to Ahmadinejad’s alliance with both countries. — Associated Press Trig is a reminder of our fierce ambivalence over disability. Every mention […]