Year: 2009

am so bored with Republican sex scandals. First, they are not nearly as potentially problematic to the rule of law and to policy issues as all the Democrat financial scandals. Second, the sex scandals are one more way for the Democrats to hamstring the Republicans. Mostly, I’m just sick of the left screeching “hypocrite!” Good […]

Last week-end, I got together with Texas Governor Rick Perry for an interview. I found him to be an extremely impressive guy over the phone. He has a great personality and is a terrific ambassador for the state of Texas. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Enjoy! Now you actually wrote […]

I wonder if the letter included Obama’s typical apologies? Prior to this month’s disputed presidential election in Iran, the Obama administration sent a letter to the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling for an improvement in relations, according to interviews and the leader himself. Ayatollah Khamenei confirmed the letter toward the end of a […]

But, don’t say that the Obama administration is not telling Government Motors what to do. Not because that is incorrect, but, just because they don’t want you to say it General Motors Corp will do the “heavy lifting” to help meet the ambitious goal set by President Barack Obama of having one million plug-in hybrid […]

The main criticism of capitalism and the free-market is that they’re mean. But look at the states with socialistic policies and their unemployment rates and cost of living. Who is mean again? See the gory socialist numbers at American Issues Project. Also, smart guys like John Stossel, Jim Hoft aka Gateway Pundit and Danny Glover […]

Ever wonder why we spend more and more and more on education, and yet kids keep learning less? Here’s a clue: Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or […]

He sets it up with these observations: 1. There is nothing at all that any Western country can do to avoid the charge of intervening in Iran’s foreign affairs. The deep belief that everything–especially anything in English–is already and by definition an intervention is part of the very identity and ideology of the theocracy. 2. […]

The reason Comrade Obama has vacillated over whether he’s on the side of Iran’s terrorist dictatorship or those rising up against it is simple: he sides with the former, but knows that admitting it openly would steepen the decline of his approval ratings. No one with even half a clue expected Obama to confront America’s […]

Personally, I am not a big fan of tattoos — especially for women. In fact, in my entire life, I can think of exactly two women who had tats that I liked. One of was some chick I passed in Wal-Mart, who was heavily tattooed up and down her arm and neck and I just […]

In politics, it’s not about where the poll numbers are today, it’s about where they’re going to be by the next election. Some Republicans have said that it’s foolish for the GOP to lay down a marker on fiscal issues because Americans love big government now and aren’t going to make decisions in the voting […]

Yesterday, when the “Mark Sanford is Missing” story hit Drudge, I thought it was tremendously unfair to Sanford. Couldn’t the guy take a four day week-end without people proclaiming he is “missing?” Moreover, as Redstate has noted, the story isn’t nearly as troubling when you know all the facts, First, we need to be clear […]

Scary news from Iran (Interestingly, there is a difference between the two page and single page versions.) TEHRAN (Reuters)– Iranian authorities said they would teach an exemplary lesson to “rioters” held in the worst unrest since the birth of the Islamic Rapublic and pressed accusations that violence was being incited by Western powers. (EDITORS’ NOTE: […]

Apparently, President Neophyte is not enjoying the look of things right now. His poll numbers are slipping, John McCain, among others, made a powerful speech on Iran, and it appears as if the election result will be left to standand Ahmadinejad will be reinstalled as the Iranian president. All while Iranians plead for the U.S. […]

Liberals care about the poor: Almost every program the Left supports to “help” the poor in this country is surreptitiously designed to de-motivate them and keep them dependent on the government. The Left saps their will to work with welfare and food stamps, the Left reduces their income and puts them out of jobs by […]

With six states allowing homosexuals to marry, and New York’s Governor insistent on it being the seventh state to allow such unions, the definition and legality of marriage has come under more introspection than ever before. During the 1960s with the rise of modern radical feminism, marriage as an institution was discouraged by the left […]

Frankly, that’s precisely what’s going on with the developing situation in Iran. Our President is both inexperienced and naive, and in the world of foreign relations, that can be a fatal mix. As I previously pointed out about Gitmo, the president hadn’t done his homework when he announced his pre-election decision to close the prison […]

Moonbat insanity has now guaranteed that terrorists fighting our troops in Afghanistan will hide behind civilians: The top U.S. general in Afghanistan will soon formally order U.S. and NATO forces to break away from fights with militants hiding in Afghan houses so the battles do not kill civilians, a U.S. official said Monday. … Gen. […]

A few years ago Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity movement that rebelled against communism in Poland, published a grateful editorial entitled “Remembering Reagan“: When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can’t be said often enough by […]

CHURCHVILLE, VA–It was only a matter of time before First Lady Michelle Obama sprang to the wall of the White House Organic Garden and demanded more organic food–a heartfelt campaign fully as sincere as her husband’s ongoing demand that the affluent countries fight off man-made global warming by taxing away most of their energy. However, […]

Back on April 10th, I ran a story called, “An Indication At Walgreens That Obama’s Honeymoon May Be Just About Over.” That indication was that Obama collectible plates had plunged in price, Notice what we have there: loads of Obama kitsch, discounted down from $19.99 to $5.19. Let me tell you something, folks: You don’t […]

My co-blogger Melissa Clouthier tweeted out an article called The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution. The alarmism of it intrigued me enough to write about it. From the author, Jamais Cascio, The emergence of Twitter as a heroic enabling technology for the pro-democracy demonstrators in Iran this past week has been a thrilling reminder […]

From the New York Times, David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after more than seven months of captivity in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mr. Rohde, along with a local reporter, Tahir Ludin, and their driver, Asadullah Mangal, […]

Resisting yet another Obama post (this time, the NY Times gently calls him a liar). It’s difficult. Guy gives a constant stream of copy. So, let’s jump into the realm of global warming hysteria, shall we? First up, the Sun, that big ball of nuclear fire that, according to most Climahysterics, can’t possibly have anything […]

A lot of people think China is destined to be the world’s next great super power. They have the world’s largest population, a thriving economy, a huge cash surplus, a large manufacturing base, and one of the world’s strongest militaries. China certainly does have plenty of advantages — but, and this is a huge but […]

Will he answer? Or, is it time for another photo-op trip to get a burger with Joe, frozen custard with the kids, or maybe a round of golf? This is what North Korea had to say regarding the U.S. trailing a Nork ship that could possibly be carrying materials banned by a U.N. resolution passed […]

The notorious “Chicago Way” of political corruption seems to have arrived full-force in Washington, as both Michael Barone and John Kass observe in regard to the inspectors general who seem to be dropping like flies these days. Meanwhile, good-government activists are “dismayed” to discover that Barack Obama’s promises of “transparency” were just so much more […]

Read this: TEHRAN, Iran — Students disrupted a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday at a major university in Tehran, setting fire to photographs of him and throwing firecrackers. The protesters chanted “death to the dictator” and demanded the resignation of Alireza Rahai, a conservative and the chancellor of the institution, Amirkabir University, the […]

If ever there was a text book example of a false premise wrapped in an absurd ‘moral’ analogy, Glenn Smith at Firedoglake provides it: The gravity of America’s health care crisis is the moral equivalent of the 19th Century’s bloody conflict over slavery. This is not hyperbole, though the truth of it is often lost […]

Iran has erupted into full-scale chaos. Former Iranian President Rafsanjani has been slaughtered and his family arrested. Thousands of protestors crowded the capital yesterday, where police met them with batons, water cannons, and… tear gas. Injured protestors are being arrested and detained when they go to hospitals for treatment, to the point where they have […]

Obama, it turns out, isn’t even different about being different, especially as regards the… different: “When a president tells you he’s going to be different, you believe him,” said John Aravosis, a Washington-based gay activist. You do? What if he says, “This time it’s for real” or “I’ll call you”? In fact, it turns out […]