Year: 2009

On Friday, 44 Democrats voted against cap-and-trade legislation in the House. I want to congratulate those who did so because the legislation is far-reaching, job-destroying, and costly–but it is worth distinguishing the list of Ds into who voted “no” because the bill was bad and who voted “no” because the bill wasn’t liberal enough. Some […]

But not Iran. Hmmm. And even saying anything about Iran could be considered “meddling” in the internal affairs of another country, per the Obama administration, but apparently working actively within Honduras to stop what it characterizes as a “military coup” isn’t meddling. Confusing foreign policy. An interesting aspect of the Honduran “coup”, per Fausta is: […]

In light of official DNC blogger Linda Kellen Biegel’s tasteless assault on Sarah Palin’s disabled son, the execrable Wonkette — who earlier implied that Trig Palin wished he’d been aborted — has renewed her campaign of ridicule against this poor kid with Down syndrome whom progressives believe should have been put to death in the […]

Not everyone should be a parent. In Sweden, a pair of moonbats are attempting to turn their child into a freak by pretending the poor kid has no gender: Pop’s parents, both 24, made a decision when their baby was born to keep Pop’s sex a secret. Aside from a select few — those who […]

From CNN via (Allahpundit of Hotair): A new national poll suggests that nearly two-thirds of Americans think white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut where discriminated against when the city tossed out the results of a promotion exam after too few minorities scored high enough on the test. Monday the Supreme Court, in a five to […]

I do enjoy the Tabloid beat and when I saw that the big story at The Globe this week is “Michelle Obama’s Secret Hit List!”, I was so there. Come on, who could resist tag lines like: “Revealed: Who she vows to destroy” and “Her ruthless White House Rampage?” Of course, before we get started, […]

I am a suckah for naked Obama on a Unicorn art and so, I was thrilled to find a bunch of new Dan Lacey paintings over at Faithmouse. Here are some of my faves, starting with Sarah Palin with pancakes on her head (I don’t get the pancakes thing, really. It’s just something random he […]

Two weeks ago, I re-tweeted a disgusting little piece of Perez: Hey, Zac Efron, if you wanna make a sex tape, I’m available! 7:07 AM Jun 19th from web PerezHilton Perez Hilton I retweeted it and said to other parents: Your kids know who this is and like him. Today, Andrew Breitbart writes an excellent […]

South America is known for unstable governments, coups, and loud mouthed strong men. With that in mind, when most people heard that the military had deposed the President of Honduras, it was just another sad chapter in that continent’s checkered history — but something very different is actually going on there, That (Deposed President Mel […]

The most ethical Congress EVAH! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) will not give the public a week to review the final text of a health-care reform bill before it is voted on later this year. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) has also declined to commit to giving the public a week to read and […]

Just about everyone acknowledges, inside the Republican Party and out, that the GOP needs to do a much better job of bringing minorities into the party. There’s a big problem, however, with doing that, one that is seldom discussed. You see, the issues preventing Republicans from bringing more minorities into the party are cultural as […]

CHURCHVILLE, VA–When last we heard from Australian Senator Steve Fielding, he had paid his own way to a Washington, D.C. conference of climate skeptics–and armed himself with some questions about why Australia needs heavy carbon taxes on its energy use. Back home, Fielding asked these three questions of Australian Environmental Minister Environmental Penny Wong: First: […]

With the passage of the massively insane Waxman-Markey cap and tax bill, here are four questions to ask those who support it, particularly the politicians who voted for it and AGW leaders such as Al Gore 1. Did you read the bill before throwing your support behind it? Did you read the 300 page dead […]

The New York Times has a suprisingly good profile on SC First Lady Jenny Sanford, the “woman scorned” in the Gov. Mark Sanford affair scandal. The piece talks about how she was and is arguably the woman “behind the man” – the one who perhaps had more influence on his decision-making both inside the office […]

Who would have thought that people don’t want to watch 3 hours of Michael Jackson breaking news.

Here’s a perfect example of why Paul Krugman should stick with writing about economics: One of the favorite arguments of climate-change deniers is “but it was warmer in the late 90s.” In fact, the odds are good that I’ll get that argument from George Will on This Weak tomorrow. I basically know the answer: temperature […]

Not that the Democrat Congress and the Obama administration hasn’t already broken their pledge to not raise taxes on those making less than $250k a year already (cigarette tax, cap and tax bill, among others), but, we all a saw those of us who were not hypnotized by Obama saw the taxes increases coming, and […]

Inspired by the post immediately previous, and the realization that our President has revived a campaign slogan for unthinking dolts to sell a dumb idea that He knows He cannot sell by appealing to reason and common sense — I decided to retitle the page called How To Make Large Numbers Of Some Reasonable People […]

Media Bloggers Association president Bob Cox is all over the story regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s brand new Guides on Endorsements and Testimonials, which, as Bob explains, will certainly affect bloggers. In fact, one of the examples given of a testimonial in the proposed revisions, found here, is of a product review written by a […]

Who were the losers in the cap and tax bill? Anyone who pays an electric bill would likely feel the impact of climate legislation. Utilities will try to raise rates as they invest in cleaner-yet-more-expensive energy sources. Some have already announced plans to do so. Petroleum companies also may try to import more of their […]

Once you’ve proven you can’t be trusted, not even becoming a Democrat can save your hopless RINO butt: Sen. Arlen Specter continues to pick up support from Democratic party leaders across Pennsylvania. However, a new poll indicates that the five-term incumbent has not convinced a majority of Pennsylvania voters that he should be re-elected. According […]

While my Congressman has, to his credit, never taken an earmark to benefit our district, he has also never held a job in the sector he so delights in regulating. He doesn’t understand how money is made, innovation fostered and jobs created. For over forty years, Henry Waxman has served in government, six years in […]

It is incredible how prescient was the nineteenth century novelist George Eliot (née Mary Anne Evans), who died approximately one century before Iran’s Islamic “Revolution, was about the driving force of this tyranny. As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashes out at President Obama for interfering in Iranian affairs, it becomes increasingly clear to all but […]

Movie review one: The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise. [snip] Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind of hyperbolic realism, distills the […]

* It was a week marked by celebrity deaths. On Monday, Dennis Miller remembered Ed McMahon, who’d hosted Star Search when Miller had appeared as a young contestant. Years later, McMahon called Miller to ask if he’d appear on a Star Search retrospective, having apparently forgotten that Miller had actually lost. McMahon was flabbergasted, and […]

Blog sister Daphne would like someone — anyone — to explain eco-feminism to her. It’s a pretty tall order. Eco-feminism is inherently incoherent because as a collection of alternative values and scruples, it is designed to oppose something else. And it isn’t willing to admit this. This is why it consists of so many things […]

It all comes down to apologies for being. Not apologies for doing, but apologies for being. Surely you’ve noticed, haven’t you. Anytime an issue comes up that has something to do with belief in a Capital-C Creator — it happens just as simultaneously and just as suddenly as if someone yelled “Go.” We line up […]

Nancy Pelosi is trying, and for the moment at least, failing to ram through the Cap and Trade Bill, H.R. 2454, which is also called Waxman-Markey. This bill will drive up gas prices. It’ll drive up energy prices. It’s the biggest tax increase in American history and it will hurt American families and businesses across […]

Question: “What’s the funniest movie you’ve ever seen? Or if you’d prefer to go the opposite route, what’s the saddest?” — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: Ok, let’s do both. The 5 Funniest Movies I’ve Ever Seen. In no particular order, Something About Mary: Why was there never a Something About Mary 2? Animal House: This has inspired […]

I understand that everywhere else today it is “Michale Jackson is dead” day – I suspect days such as this must be infinitely boring to most news junkies because the news is dominated by a single topic. Meanwhile Democrats are doing their best to rush cap-and-trade through the House today while the pseudo-science that supports […]