Year: 2009

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I‘ll leave it to you to read the health care fact check. But this was of particular interest to me: The president continued to take credit for deficit reduction by making a claim that has been challenged by many experts. “If we had done nothing, if you had the same old budget as opposed to […]

Earlier this week, I wrote a couple of posts (See here and here) about a scandal involving the American Conservative Union. According to the Politico, they went to FedEx, asked for 2 million dollars to go to work on their behalf on a key regulatory issue, and when FedEx declined their offer, the ACU’s chairman, […]

The latest Fox News Opinion Dynamics poll is out (though, of course, Liberals will poo-poo it while they themselves watch it on TV and read it on the ‘net), and Obama keeps dropping A new FOX News poll finds that while 49 percent want Congress to pass health care legislation this year, about the same […]

Who’s the bigger moonbat: a middle-aged hippie who lives in a cave, or the poodles who glorify his mental illness in a glossy magazine? You decide: Daniel Suelo lives in a cave. Unlike the average American — wallowing in credit-card debt, clinging to a mortgage, terrified of the next downsizing at the office — he […]

What a coincidence — another one of Chairman Zero’s “Czars” just happens to be a totalitarian screwball. Cass Sunstein is the Moonbat Messiah’s pick for Regulatory Czar. Considering the mountains of extraneous regulations that accrue in the District of Criminals with each passing day, he’ll have many opportunities to apply his ideology. Knowledge Is Power […]

Reaction Summary: The deepest irony of Obama’s presser is that it was supposed to be to promote health care, but his inflammatory comments about doctors and police officers actually drew more attention than what he had to say about health care. Igniting a new controversy that distracts people from his main message may not have […]

Atlas Shrugs reports that three Muslim men have been arrested for drowning their female relatives: Zainab Shafi, 19, and her two sisters, 17-year-old Sahar and 13-year-old Geeti, were found inside a black Nissan Sentra submerged in water, near a Rideau Canal lock northeast of Kingston. Another 50-year-old family member, Rona Amir Mohammed, was also inside […]

Hi guys, Dan Riehl of Riehl World View and my co-blogger John Hawkins join me. We discuss the news of the day. The third segment might be interesting to those who wonder about the future of the Right online. Why don’t we have a Kos on the Right? That question and more gets answered there. […]

Last night during his health care teleconference, Barack Obama was asked a question about the arrest of his friend Henry Louis Gates. Long story short, Gates is a professor at Harvard. He came home, found the door to his house jammed, and busted it in. A neighbor who saw the door being smashed in called […]

In the 1960’s, the popular surgery was to remove tonsils (sometimes, as in my mom’s case, it was even necessary). In the 1970’s, the popular surgery was to have perfectly functioning ovaries and uteri removed. In the 1980’s, the popular surgery was to have a knee “scoped”. And, at one time, bloodletting and frontal lobotomies […]

Lynn Sweet’s question about the Henry Gate’s arrest (white officers arrested a black Harvard scholar breaking into his own home) at the press conference seemed coordinated and purposeful and at first glance, strange. The press conference was regarding nationalized health care, why would a reporter talk about the Henry Gate’s arrest? As Yuri says over […]

OK, I’ll admit, I did not listen to that much of the “it’s not about me, but, hey, look at me, I’m Thee President” prime time campaign stop. I tuned out while driving to get dinner not long after I heard him say I’m the president, this MUST get done and then yammering on about […]

If you guessed hybrid, the tequila shot is on me Quite a few big-name auto insurers have been giving hybrid owners a discount on their premium. But those deals might not last much longer; as an insurance data-analysis firm points out, the insurance industry could be losing big because of this. The surprising result: Hybrid […]

This past Sunday a Hilton hotel right outside of Chicago hosted a conference for Hizbut-Tahrir, an Islamic extremist group connected to terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda. The seminar was entitled, “The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam” and was attended by approximately 500 Hizbut-Tahrir members. As the title of their gathering suggests, the […]

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Overall impression: I agree with Krauthammer: President Obama talked for an hour about selling a program that will save money, make government more efficient and better, only the evil rich will be soaked, etc. As Krauthammer said, “None of the questions nicked him.” Well, maybe the transparency one, but that wasn’t really about the specifics […]

Rasmussen reports on how our post-partisan, post-racial Affirmative Action presidency is coming along in fulfilling its promise to unite us: July 22, 2009: The President earns approval from 83% of Democrats but 81% of Republicans disapprove. … July 21, 2009: Among men, 26% Strongly Approve and 36% Strongly Disapprove. … July 20, 2009: The President […]

It isn’t just our leftist government that has been squarely behind Manuel Zelaya in his bid to reduce Honduras to a communist dictatorship. As you’ll recall, the thug serving as president (Zelaya, not Obama) was run out of town on a rail when he declared there would be a national referendum on repealing term limits, […]

I noted the other day that the Obama administration was hiding its revised budget numbers from the public until August. Obviously, in light of the push to pass health care legislation, they don’t want anymore bad news out there than the CBO has already delivered. And, of course, there’s no doubt that had the news […]

Who really cares about a pudgy Surgeon General? Remember K. Everett Koop? He was lovable in his Little House On The Prairie, old timey Doctor sort of way. Was he the Supreme Master of Fitness? Uh, no. But that wasn’t his job. His job, if a Surgeon General, even has a real job, was to […]

From Feb 26, 2009 in a post called, “The GOP Should S-L-O-W Things Down,” The other option the Democrats have, which is exactly what I would do if I were in their place, is to treat this as a historic opportunity and ram as much of their agenda down people’s throats as they can. That […]

How powerful is the press in creating the narrative around President Obama? His poll numbers have slipped and I’m wondering if their full court press can rescue him. Can shiny, happy, soft-focused coverage for a huge government health care plan change the poll numbers? Will President Obama’s cajoling, reasoned, pleading tones work on the American […]

Whether they be Libertarians, members of the Constitution Party, Reform Party members, angry independents, or tea partiers who don’t feel either party is serving their interests, there are plenty of disaffected people agitating for a third party in America. Although I think it’s extremely unlikely that a successful third party could get off the ground, […]

One of the memes that the Left has tried to hammer into place in recent months is that conservatives encourage violence. This is not new. In fact, Bill Clinton himself tried to blame conservative talk radio in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular for the Oklahoma City bombing. Of late, liberals have latched onto the […]

And then they will spend quite a bit defending against what they should have stopped. How else to read this? US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US is prepared to bolster the defence of its Gulf allies if Iran develops a nuclear weapons programme. Mrs Clinton said if the US extended a “defence […]

Let’s take a look from the DUmmy perspective Signed executive orders to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year, ban torture and end the CIA’s secret overseas prisons and define treatment of Detainees. (but, they are nowhere close to actually closing Gitmo and are still holding all those folks) Reversed […]

Former AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin says this isn’t just about him: “For a second I was thinking, ‘Why do I need all of this?’ I’ll just resign and go back to my good legal practice in New York,” Gerald Walpin told The Washington Times’ “America’s Morning News” radio show Tuesday. “But I would then […]

As yet another piece of evidence to show just how biased the MSM have become against outgoing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, take a look at the first sentence of an article which Yahoo! featured earlier in the day as one of its news headlines, Investigator rules against Palin in ethics probe:* An independent investigator has […]

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