Year: 2009

This is what the New York Times thinks is part of all the news that is fit to print The actress known as Savanna Samson once relished preparing for a role. “I couldn’t wait to get my next script,” she said. There’s no reason to look at them anymore, she said, because her movies now […]

Too long the Left has dominated the “netroots.” Thankfully, however, many are working to change that sad fact. A great event that you all should be aware of is the “RightOnline” Conference (http://rightonline.com/ – August 14 and 15 in Pittsburgh). It’s an opportunity for conservative and libertarian activists to get together and discuss the strategies […]

My latest Pajama’s column discusses abortion. Here’s a snippet: Those at the fringes of the abortion argument wish to make it simple. At the foundation of the ideological debate lies the civil rights of the unborn child versus the civil rights of the woman. Protect the life of the unborn (is it life?), or sacrifice […]

From Anthony Watts: Given the U.S. Senate is about to vote upon the most complex and costly plan to regulate greenhouse gases, while the EPA suppresses earlier versions of the chart shown below from a senior analyst, this should give some pause to those who are rational thinkers. For those that see only dogma, I […]

Everyone agrees that Obama used the new media brilliantly throughout his campaign. The genius of having on the home page of his website a place where one could type in their zip code and be given the location of where they were supposed to vote (ads to click on this page to find your location […]

For anyone who doubts that the environmental movement is completely bananas: Casket makers catering to natural burials have offered biodegradable coffins made of such materials as recycled newspapers or cardboard. Ecoffins USA, based in Montrose, Colo., is selling caskets made of banana sheaves. They take six months to two years to biodegrade. Marketing director Joanna […]

Via Minnesotans for Global Warming: Temperatures have fallen .74°F since the release of The Goracle’s science fiction fraud “An Inconvenient Truth.” In that same time, the level of CO2 in our atmosphere has continued to rise, to the great benefit of the plant life we rely on for food. C02 up, temperatures down: this means […]

It’s no accident that President Barack Obama enjoys press adulation and unicorn coverage. It’s expensive. And best of all, the taxpayer, you, pay for it. Danny Glover has an excellent piece today aptly titled The Cost of Controlling the Press at Accuracy In Media and you need to read the whole thing. Here’s some of […]

Czars. We joke about them, and President Obama’s obsession with them. By most accounts, there are too many. Let’s have an updated look at them. Twenty One and counting. I think. Nothing seems to be definitive. Glenn Beck puts the count at 18, the most recent addition being the Health Choices Czar. Here’s a list: […]

I haven’t blogged obsessively about health care, though I could. I’ve avoided it mainly because it’s my every day life and it’s boring, even to me, and people have short attention spans. Now, it’s time to pay attention. There is one thing you should know, yea two things that should make your decision: One, we […]

CNN interviewed Sarah Palin about her resignation as governor of Alaska, and to me, the interview was very telling. It’s a little long, but check it out: Embedded video from CNN Video Now, I could be reading into this all wrong. But it seems to me that the media and the Left finally won. They […]

My latest interview, this time with Erick, included some interesting information–especially about how the Tea Partiers should proceed. He and Red State have exciting plans for future activist direction. Good stuff. [Oh yeah, all music choices were Erick’s too.] Here’s the information: Download MP3 Melissa’s show can also be found on RFC Radio every Monday […]

The Employee Free Choice Act or, more appropriately, the Employee Forced Choice Act is bad for workers and employers alike. Many on the Right, who have been referring to the legislation simply as “card check,” have made great progress in exposing the anti-democratic elimination of the secret ballot, which not only hurts workers, but also […]

I’ve said many, many times that I tend to avoid the abortion debate, but, there are two things that get me riled up: later term abortions and parental notification/consent. In this case, we are discussing the magazine Mother Jones, a far, far left progressive site, and a combination of typical Palin Derangement Syndrome with hatred […]

Despite the fact that the climate temperature has decreased by .74F since Gore release An Inconvenient Truth even though CO2 atmospheric concentrations continue to rise, the True Believers think they have hit upon another fantastic scheme, controlling the rich To fairly divide the climate change fight between rich and poor, a new study suggests basing […]

Last month, Sen. John Thune took to the Senate floor and cable news networks promoting his plan for the government to get out of business. His “government ownership exit plan” calls for the governments’ troops, as it were, to withdraw from the auto industry, banks, etc. in one year, by July 2010, with the possibility […]

If you had to choose one reason for the Palin-hatred what would it be? People hate Sarah Palin because: She’s a woman She’s beautiful She talks funny She’s working-class She’s anti-abortion She threatens the establishment    pollcode.com free polls And another poll: Sarah Palin: Is unelectable, now, period Is the Presidential Republican front runner for […]

We continue to hear how wonderful it is as compared to the horrible US system. But is it? One of the fundamental truths of any health care system is you have infinite demand meeting finite resources (beds, doctors, availability, etc). Whatever system a country has, that truth doesn’t change. So, regardless of system, there is […]

Nancy Pelosi was unable to install disgraced former judge Alcee Hastings — who was impeached for bribery and perjury, and then hit a further low by cochairing Shrillary’s presidential campaign — as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. But that doesn’t mean this felonious Congresscritter (D-FL) hasn’t been busily participating in the destruction of our […]

Interest in politics bottoms out this time of year. People are in vacation mode, and elections are far away. Despite this and the scorching heat in some parts of the country, the Independence Day Tea Parties were a great success. Hundreds of thousands turned out at over 2,000 rallies in all 50 states. Even some […]

I tried to think of a good analogy of Obama’s goodwill babble as our economy sinks. This is what I came up with. Imagine tens of thousands people in a auditorium listening to Obama speak. He gives a fantastic speech, and almost every one is mesmerized. Then the people in the back and the top […]

Why does President Obama wind up on the wrong side of history? Between North Korea shooting rockets (ignoring it), blood on the streets of Iran and public hangings for those desiring freedom (bland indifference) and near civil war in Honduras (actively encouraging the communist, drug lord thugocracy), President Obama is establishing some interesting credentials. In […]

The first quote is money.

One would think that a responsible elected official would read the legislation before voting for it, alas After Democratic promises to run the most open and transparent Congress in history, Republicans say they are stunned by the number of closed-off debates over legislation, including spending bills, and the lack of time to actually see, let […]

Will Rogers once said “We elect people to office that we wouldn’t invite over for dinner.” And H.L. Mencken put forth that “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” For the most part, people in national politics, and not just the politicians, but the handlers, the media, the policy wonks, etc, […]

He took off a few hours ago from the US in – wait for it – a Venezuelan plane. Naturally the UN has actually gotten off of its rear-end and taken what, for it, is “action”. The UN General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann and a number of journalists are accompanying former Honduran president Mel […]

My fellow blogger Scott Ott, the man behind the inimitable “Scrappleface” but in real life the executive director of a non-profit organization serving children, is seeking to become the next Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Executive. His campaign is premised on the idea that his years of business experience have prepared him to take bold action to […]

One thing we conservatives have always been is honest. We’ve said time and time again that we will go after politicians, our own and the Democrats, on policy. We went after Bush on some issues, such as Dubai Ports, illegal immigration, out of control spending, and Harriet Myers, among others. And, unlike the Left, we […]

And gets truly stupid. Mike Lux, in what looks to be a shameless plug for his book, goes Pure Barking Moonbat On this holiday celebrating the courage of America’s brave revolutionary founders, all Americans can celebrate. But progressives should take special pride in this holiday, for it was the ultimate achievement of progressive values that […]

Happy birthday, America! I’ve got a few Fourth-related items–mostly videos–worth sharing today: It’s a couple days old now, but it bears repeating: Karl Rove’s column this week is essential reading. Read this snippet, and you’ll want to know what happens: “I’m a pretty good orthopedic surgeon. When my younger son is deployed to Iraq next […]