Year: 2009

Podcast: Why Are Milblogs Going Silent? What Is Going On With Healthcare? Hope For Dateless Men

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

John Hawkins of Right Wing News and Blake Powers, aka Laughing Wolf of Black Five and Laughing Wolf join me to discuss the plight of bloggers in the military, PTSD, the health care debacle and why Democrats are in big trouble with it and ….hope for men who want a woman. Download MP3 To subscribe […]

 

Illinois Deserves Better Than This

Posted on by Peter Roskam

President Obama’s decision to relocate Guantanamo Bay’s inmates to my home state of Illinois is a misguided decision that will ultimately be regretted. Proponents of the decision have failed to prove how this move will make America safer. Let’s be clear: the Administration is not closing Guantanamo, they are simply moving Guantanamo to Illinois. The […]

 

Latest AGW Scare: 20% Of All Species Could Perish

Posted on by William Teach

Yet another in a long line of face palm pronouncements from the Climate Alarmist camp Up to a fifth of all species of animals and plants risk extinction even if the world manages to limit global warming to levels widely viewed as safe, the head of the Convention on Biological Diversity said. Ahmed Djoghlaf also […]

 

Fail Tag: Hillary Discusses The Reality Of Obama’s Iran Policy

Posted on by William Teach

Via Gateway Pundit, Hillary admits that the Obama admin. has failed in their policy regarding Iran. Let’s watch As Jim Hoft points out, Hillary stated that the Obama admin has stood by the Iranian protesters. Jim points out otherwise. Furthermore, has anyone heard word one from the President regarding the protests going on since the […]

 

The Left Starts To Turn On Obamacare: “Kill-The-Bill” Quotes

Posted on by John Hawkins

Conservatives were shut out of giving input on Obamacare from the beginning, so there has never been any support for it from the Right. Independents have also long since turned on the bill. Now that the stealth road to a single payer system appears to have been ripped out of the bill, even a significant […]

 

An Interview With Dating Advice Columnist Christan Marashio

Posted on by John Hawkins

Christan Marashio runs a popular dating advice blog called “……And THAT’S Why You’re Single.” After reading her blog, I’ve found her writing to be superb and her advice to be generally spot-on. So, I managed to run down Christan for an interview. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation: …What misconceptions do you […]

 

An Inconvenient Mess

Posted on by McQ

Copenhagen has settled into what can only be characterized as an embarrassment for those who had hoped to see a historic treaty limiting greenhouse gases signed. World leaders – with Gordon Brown arriving tonight in the vanguard – are facing the humiliating prospect of having little of substance to sign on Friday, when they are […]

 

Gitmo To Chicago

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

For your consideration: Alexander Statement on Proposal to Relocate Gitmo Detainees to American Soil WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today issued the following statement on the administration’s proposal to move detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States: “Congress made it very clear to the administration that […]

 

Would Chicago Gun Rights Case Destroy Federalism?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For the Family Research Council, Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski warned in a Washington Times op ed that a case on gun rights that will soon come before the Supreme Court could “trigger the unhinging of American culture.” Not only do I think the pair went too far in their claim, I also think they […]

 

African Dictators to Demand 5% of West’s GDP

Posted on by Dave Blount

It’s a good thing we all have plenty of money to spare, because the socialist dictators lording it over Africa are exploiting the Dopenhagen spectacle as an opportunity to demand a fat cut of it in the name of the global warming farce: According to a draft text, 50 African countries are considering demanding five […]

 

Maybe I’ve Had It Wrong All Along: I Shoulda Been A Guy Blogger

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Is a woman an “Uncle Tom” if she writes under a male pseudonym? What if she gets paid more and seemingly more respect by doing so? Also, would a woman write differently if she “wrote like a man”. If I didn’t have the cultural pressures, would I write differently? More forceful, more tough, maybe? Here’s […]

 

UN’s Rajendra Pachauri: Another Greedy Global Warming Profiteer

Posted on by Dave Blount

What a surprise — like Al Gore, the UN’s creepy climate chief Rajendra Pachauri stands to make a grotesque fortune off the global warming hoax: A story emerging out of Britain suggests “follow the money” may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific […]

 

With Another $15 Million, Poizner is Poizner’s Biggest Contributor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

California Insurance Commissioner and candidate for the GOP nomination for Governor, Steve Poizner, has announced that he’ll donate another $15 million of his own fortune to float his flagging Gubernatorial campaign making himself his biggest contributor. Once the transfer is complete, Mr. Poizner will have donated a total of just over $19 million of his […]

 

Second Grader Suspended For “Violent Drawing.” Can You Guess Of Whom?

Posted on by William Teach

If you thought “Barack Obama,” nope. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore? Nope. Welcome to Taunton, Ma. A Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross. The father said he got a […]

 

The Goracle’s Crystal Ball Lets Him Down Yet Again

Posted on by William Teach

So sad. The Times of London catches Al Gore making it up as he goes along. Not that this is anything unusual for Gore. His movie is full of lies and distortions and made up “facts.” He recently claimed the interior of the Earth was several million degrees. He is actually being sued by 30,000 […]

 

Rhett Butler Still Doesn’t Give a Damn

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

That “black-hearted varmint”: is the subject: of: my latest column for The American Spectator: Conceited and coolly cynical, he has “the most terrible reputation,” so breathtakingly scandalous that he isn’t received by “any decent family in Charleston.” Yet 70 years since his silver screen debut, Rhett Butler’s roguish charms are still irresistible. Rhett will once again swagger into […]

 

Trouble In Liberal Paradise: Even Kos Wants To Kill The Bill?

Posted on by John Hawkins

My, oh my: The things you learn when you read Kos’s twitter feed: RT @jakemcintyre: Short term goal: kill the bloody abortion that is Senate HC “reform.” Long term goal: kill the Senate RT @aravosis: When it still feels like Bush is in the WH and Gingrich the Congress, I don’t call that ‘change’ RT […]

 

20 Other Historic B+’s Like Obama’s

Posted on by John Hawkins

As you may have heard, after one of the most disastrous first years of a presidency in the entire history of the United States, Barack Obama has evaluated his own performance and given himself a “good solid B-plus.” If the last year has been a B+, then what would a “C” entail? An asteroid destroying […]

 

A Message to Senators Landrieu and Reid form the Louisiana Tea Partiers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This past Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in the pouring rain in New Orleans, Louisiana, to tell Senator Harry Reid (D, Nev.) and Senator Mary Landrieu (D, Loius.). As you may know, Senator Reid was supposed to attend a fundraiser in New Orleans, but canceled his plans to attend when he started taking heat for […]

 

You Know, Had Democrats Used The Republican Health Care Reforms, Almost Everyone Would Be Happy–UPDATED

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

At the moment, it looks like no health care bill will pass. It’s a debacle from top to bottom and no one wants to be hung with this noose. President Obama is the biggest loser. Which is why he is doing this. Had the Democrats pushed a real reform plan such as the Republicans had […]

 

The Left vs. Lieberman: ‘By Any Means Necessary’

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

Not content to smear Sen. Joe Lieberman for his opposition to ObamaCare, now the Left is attacking Lieberman’s wife, Hadassah. Both Jane Hamsher and DailyKos are trying to get Mrs. Lieberman purged from her job at a breast cancer charity. Those who remember the way the “progressive netroots community” assailed Joe Lieberman in 2006 will […]

 

Obama Says He Gives ‘Better Gifts’? Don’t Ask the Brits About That One

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On yet another appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show, President Barack Obama broke his own arm patting himself on the back telling the talk show maven that he gives better gifts than he gets. As Chicago’s Lynn Sweet reports, “When it comes to gifts, President Obama says he gives ‘nicer stuff that I get,’ an […]