Year: 2009

You know, it’s not so much that Obama is on the wrong side of history, regarding Iran. He’s on no side of history. Even the BBC is getting rather cynical vis a vis Obama’s reticence to become engaged The White House has so far resisted calls to speak out more forcefully in support of Iranian […]

People of Iran: Traditionally, the president of the United States has been the spokesperson for the people of the United States — or, at least, for a majority of the people of the United States. For the first time in modern history, however, we have a president who appears incapable of giving voice to the […]

Please watch this only if you have a strong stomach and a true desire to see what life is like in a totalitarian regime. This is not about watching a snuff film (although it felt like it). This is a reminder to Americans about the government Barack Obama is currently backing. Obama may be a […]

Here’s the article from an extremely Progressive San Francisco blog. Here’s my distillation: 1. Liberals truly care about freedom, because they protested their hearts out over the illegal U.S. war in Iraq. 2. For all that screaming against the evil U.S. government, American liberals really weren’t risking anything because, unlike the Iranian people, they don’t […]

No Democrat has ever won the White House running against Ronald Wilson Reagan. Walter Mondale tried, but barely won his own state. Michael Dukakis tried to make the 1988 election about competency instead of ideology, but George H.W. Bush made it about Ronald Reagan and Michael Dukakis. The Gipper’s Vice President won forty states that […]

Nothing bothers me quite as much as a troll. It is one thing to argue about politics. It is something else — something evil — to hijack somebody’s bandwidth and use it dishonestly to attack them, their friends and everything they believe in. Wednesday, I posted an essay at the Hot Air Green Room, which […]

In 1992, the New Republic ran a piece, I believe it was by Jacob Weisberg (check spelling) on then-presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, reporting something the candidate’s mother (as I recall) had said about her son. If Bill Clinton entered a room with one hundred people, ninety-nine of them loving him, but one opposed to him, […]

I wonder how long it will take partisan critics to dismiss Kevin Jackson‘s ideas because his upbringing was so unusual. But while Diff’rent Strokes was a silly sitcom, you might say Jackson lived a real-life, "lite" version of the show, and it gave him a truly unique perspective on race and class in America. An […]

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We may be getting ready to see a repressive regime underestimating the power of the people or we may be on the cusp of another Tiananmen Square. Ayatollah Khamenei didn’t budge an inch in his speech today: Addressing Friday prayers at Tehran University, the bearded septuagenarian offered no concessions to the millions of irate Iranians […]

Over at The New Republic, a post by Jonathan Chaite entitled “Will the Conservatives Please Attempt An Argument? ” President Obama has taken a cautious tone toward the demonstrators in Iran, with his stated reason being that more open support would discredit their cause. This strikes me as a sensible position. The revealed preferences of […]

Over at Time, Kevin O’Leary asks, “Can the U.S. Afford to Let California Fail?,” States across the nation are suffering the effects of lost tax revenue in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. California’s woes are similar and different in kind, played out on a grand scale in a state that boasts the […]

To become Lord of the Moonbats, you have to get off to an early start. The offspring of a hippy and an African socialist, Obama was steeped in moonbattery from his conception. Now we learn that his connection with unrepentant communist terrorist Bill Ayers goes back to age 11: While Obama’s membership as an adult […]

Rarely do I get an opportunity to compliment Barack Obama, but if he actually stops this North Korean ship, he can at least count on a round of applause from me, The U.S. military is planning to intercept a flagged North Korean ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council […]

In February 2009, the President urged the passage of a grand rescue plan. Fearing certain disaster, he told the country that if they borrowed and spent $787 billion dollars, then everyone would have jobs again. So began President Obama’s saga of spending. With a straight face, the President promised America that if his stimulus package […]

The Senate’s conclusion about slavery? We’re sorry, but you’re not getting money. Still, there are those who want to quantify it: Charles Ogletree, the Harvard law professor who has championed restitution, was consulted on the Senate’s resolution and supports it, but he said it is not a substitute for reparations. “That battle will be prolonged,” […]

There have been more twists and turns to the saga of the kittens that were born under my house — starting with the fact that they apparently weren’t born under my house. A neighbor told me that the mother had kittens under his out-building, then his dog started nosing around, and she moved them. Since […]

You probably don’t care that Chastity Bono is getting a sex change operation. I’m just going to bring up two points about this. 1. We watched Chastity grow up. She looked normal enough as a kid. However, she is the kid of popular celebrities. One of her parents is the outrageous Cher. How do you […]

It’s actually become rather routine President Obama’s choice as chief of protocol for the State Department, a position that carries the status of an ambassadorship, did not file tax returns for 2005 and 2006, errors she corrected last November. Surprising, eh? As a sidebar, remember who the NY Times mostly referred to GWB as “Mr. […]

The great thing about government health care is … you can start denying coverage for demographics that don’t vote for you. — Borris While Mr. von Brunn is currently being made out to be the poster child of the Republican Party, even a cursory look at his professed views shows he is the avowed enemy […]

Have y’all seen this video yet? From the Chicago Tribune There’s plenty of room for “yes men” in the nation’s capital. Less for “yes, Ma’am.” Sen. Barbara Boxer’s suggestion to a general that she’d really rather be called “senator” has raised a few hackles here. “Could you say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am?’ ” Boxer (D-Calif.) […]

There have been some video games which display such explicit violence or sexuality that they have been decried as being too inappropriate for anyone to play. But there has never been a video game produced that is more despicable than XBox 360’s “Rendition: Guantanamo,” in which the game is “won” by killing American soldiers. The […]

I figured I’d make a quick video to stop the nonsense with the fly swatting. Enjoy!!

Daniel Henninger gives us a little walk down memory lane to remind us of the effect of our first attempt at “health care” reform. Back before recorded history, in 1965, Congress erected the nation’s first two monuments to health-care “reform,” Medicaid and Medicare. Medicaid was described at the time as a modest solution to the […]

From CQ Politics, Early in his presidency, Barack Obama had a grace period when the public saw the nation’s problems as ones he inherited, but two new polls — by New York Times/CBS News and Wall Street Journal/NBC News – make clear that there are rising concerns about his policies The biggest public concern is […]

Inspector Generals ought to apply for a slot on the endangered species list. In addition to the illegal firing of Gerald Walpin for looking into the corruption of Obama supporter Kevin Johnson, acting International Trade Commission IG Judith Gwynne is also getting canned, after having presumably incriminating documents taken from her by force. Neil Barofsky […]

Maybe Rowan Williams has finally figured out that pandering to Muslims is not going to reverse the Church of England’s headlong decline. Now he’s pandering to moonbats and teenyboppers: [I]deas for alternative-style worship are part of an initiative launched by Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to appeal to the younger generation. They are […]

ABC employees contributed $5,000 to John McCain in contrast to the $160,000 contributed to then candidate Barack Obama. Now, ABC gets to broadcast out of the White House about President Obama’s health plan. Hmmm…….PDF file on the details at Conservatives for Patients Rights

Here’s my cure for the sick system: 1. Eliminate tenure, the bane of all union systems. 2. Teach a classical education. 3. No homework until sixth grade. 4. Find a way to make standardized testing shorter and less complicated. To learn more about education please listen to my interview with Matthew K. Tabor, education and […]

Admittedly, North Korea is a sticky situation. You have a mentally unbalanced, potentially violent dictator running a non-functional, impoverished Hermit Kingdom. This thug has a fairly large army, nuclear weapons, which he first developed during the Clinton years, and enough artillery aimed at South Korea’s capital city to level Seoul to the ground. Complicating matters, […]