Year: 2009

Obama’s ultra-radical Climate Czarina — who makes money on carbon offsets, and who didn’t bother to read the Tax and Charade monstrosity — sums up his administration’s conception of “transparency“: Carol Browner, former Clinton administration EPA head and current Obama White House climate czar, instructed auto industry execs “to put nothing in writing, ever” regarding […]

Seriously, Newsweek has an article stating, “Why Barack Obama represents American Catholics better than the pope does.” Um, what? So, in the spirit of Newsweek’s completely unbiased opinion, I’d like to run a poll. President Obama is a better Catholic than the Pope: Agree Disagree    pollcode.com free polls

While we here in the United States were waiting breathlessly for the funeral of Michael Jackson, 34 people were hanged in Iran. 22 in one day. The mainstream media may be more focused on Jackson, but the people of Iran are continuing to fight against all odds and against extreme violence. Many have twittered and […]

Joe Biden stated last weekend that the administration underestimated the economic problem. You don’t say. Really, the didn’t think there even was a problem and decided to jam through Dem spending programs to pay off key Democratic constituencies. Only 1% of the Stimulus money has been loosed from bureaucratic hell. The rest will hit just […]

Hey! Mind your own business. Mocking Obama’s agenda is our job An American who left the United States to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia is strongly condemning President Obama’s efforts to seek “a new beginning” with the Muslim world, mocking Obama’s “magic of charisma” and warning of more attacks against U.S. interests. “Despite […]

What do we want “grasshopper health care” —– um, not many of you here, could y’all speak up? A group of about 30 people gathered on the sidewalk in front the Birmingham offices for Alabama’s U.S. senators at noon Thursday, calling for health care reform and the creation of a new public plan to provide […]

The passion versus power conflict within Governor Mark Sanford is a scenario seen in certain influential and important men, some of whom risk their ambition by engaging in inappropriate sexual behavior. But, when their indiscretions with a woman are based on love there can perhaps be more sympathy and forgiveness than if the affair was […]

The mystery gets partially unraveled in my Interview with Rick Moran of Right Wing Nut House and Jazz Shaw of The Moderate voice. Download MP3 Melissa’s show can also be found on RFC Radio every Monday and Wednesday night at 10:00 pm Eastern. To subscribe on iTunes, just click here! When Melissa isn’t on the […]

The Workforce Fairness Institute hosted a conference call today with Sen. John Thune, who addressed bloggers’ concerns about the Employee “Forced” Choice Act. I’ve posted the full audio below so that you can listen if you’d like. If you read my post earlier this week, you know that I’m worried about the binding arbitration part […]

Colin Powell said that it appeared to him that Americans not only wanted more government services, but were willing to pay for them. Michale Barone, who is probably one of the better poll interpreters out there, looks at a gaggle of them and isn’t so sure Powell is right (Powell has since become concerned with […]

Good information here: Stream videos at Ustream By the way, the Health Care bill is full of pork. Improving the public parks is in there–because a prettier park will prevent cancer.

I was skeptical when our leftist rulers promised to create jobs by imposing suffocating regulations on businesses and flushing $trillions of dollars down welfare programs, crony capitalism bailouts, industry nationalization, and ludicrous pork projects. But it turns out that Obamanomics has produced some job opportunities after all. Following a link from the Recovery Act Opportunities […]

Crossposted at Pink Elephant Pundit Abortion talk with Justice Ginsburg. This proved to be a sufficiently chilling conversation. From the NY Times: Q: The case ties together themes of women’s equality and reproductive freedom. The court split those themes apart in Roe v. Wade. Do you see, as part of a future feminist legal wish […]

Byron York reported this morning: A top official of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the government agency that oversees AmeriCorps, has refused to answer questions from congressional investigators about the White House’s role in events surrounding the abrupt firing of inspector general Gerald Walpin. I followed up with a report that CNCS General […]

I know that the last thing you want to hear about right now is Michael Jackson, but now that the Michael Jackson funeral circus is over, I think it’s important that we cut through the celebrity cult crap and look at some hard cold reality. If I hear one more time that Jackson “broke color […]

As part of its blitzkrieg to impose the entire radical left agenda before people figure out what the media has tricked them into voting for, the Obamination regime has been pushing more “hate crime” legislation. Needless to say, this doesn’t count as a hate crime: Akron police say they aren’t ready to call it a […]

Is Barack Obama at the tipping point? Victor Hansen lays out the mystery: We are living in a surreal age of $2 trillion annual deficits, in which we just casually talk about “more stimulus”, “reforming health care”, “fixing education”, “cap-and-trade”, while fighting two wars abroad — all the while “not raising taxes on 95% of […]

In Florida, Marco Rubio fights on–he’s young, he’s conservative, he’s Hispanic, and according to the NRSC, he’s a losing candidate when compared to Charlie Crist, current Governor of Florida. Crist has name recognition, but more than that he has the right friends. The guys in charge, the guys who direct fundraising, the guys who endorse […]

Let’s see, how does this work? The question of the C.I.A.’s candor Nancy Pelosi accused the agency of failing to disclose in a 2002 briefing that it had used waterboarding against a terrorism suspect. Ms. Pelosi said the agency routinely misled Congress, though she later said she intended to fault the Bush administration rather than […]

As leaders in developed countries push to reduce CO2 output, to go along with the .74F reduction in temperature after the century plus rise of about 1.37F, poor and developing nations have a message for the Climahysterics The world’s biggest developing nations, led by China and India, refused Wednesday to commit to specific goals for […]

I think he comes off pretty well.

Those of you who rallied against cap and trade till the bitter end of the House vote: listen up. Rep. Roy Blunt wants to see the same kind of public outcry against the Democrats’ health care agenda. Reps. Roy Blunt, chairman of the Health Care Solutions Group, and Cathy McMorris Rodgers, vice-chair of the House […]

First Paul Krugman calls anyone who opposes climate change legislation “traitors against the planet”. We then have Al Gore claiming fighting those who oppose such legislation akin to fighting Nazis. The latest to resort to ad hominem is Henry Waxman, who claims the GOP, and by implication, anyone who is against the nonsense he just […]

Obama and Pelosi like to brag about how this is the most ethical, transparent Congress EVAH!, but that’s far from the truth. Bills aren’t available far enough in advance that Americans can read them before they’re voted on. Obama certainly hasn’t gone over any bill “line by line” to make sure no earmarks make their […]

Anyone who has read my blogs these past 3 years know that I was a BIG McCain supporter long before the primaries. This July 2006 entry at the Houston Chronicle illustrates my early belief in McCain. All through the primaries I blogged and blogged on the man. I attended two fundraisers at River Oaks in […]

At last we know the truth about Sarah Palin’s resignation. A caller to Al Sharpton’s radio show is wise to Saracuda’s involvement in the death of the creepy pervert revered by millions as the King of Pop. Reverend Al seems to regard the theory as plausible: Partial transcript, via The Radio Equalizer: FEMALE CALLER (31:50): […]

Some consider the Community Activist in Chief to be a punk, incapable of showing respect. This notion took firm root when he wouldn’t put his hand on his heart for the National Anthem, back in the days when he sneeringly refused to wear a flag pin: But it turns out BHO can show respect after […]

Camille Paglia wrote a nice piece today about Sarah Palin. Worth reading. It got me to thinking. Especially this part, which I whole-heartedly agree with: What certainly was blameworthy was the chaotic and rushed statement itself. Something so politically consequential needed more careful composition and rehearsal. Why provide more fodder for the vultures and harpies […]

If you live a normal life, or you’re a Congressman or Senator, you haven’t read the Cap-N-Trade bill, but intrepid Jimmie Bise has and what he found was distressing on so many fronts. First the pain for home builders, an already destroyed industry here in the United States. From his latest AIP column: Let me […]

Apparently, Putin and Medvedev just aren’t considered the kinds of dictators, brutal leaders, or far left enough for Obama to kiss their butts. Perhaps the two should have stressed a little more that they have lots of nuclear weapons and the actual means to deliver them? Or Putin could have regailed Obama with some of […]