Year: 2009

You know the healthcare fight is getting desperate on the left when they start going after the wife of the independent they see standing in their way. Oh boy. Washington (CNN) – Sen. Joe Lieberman — whose opposition to a public insurance option has drawn outrage from liberal groups for months — is used to […]

I’ve been thinking about the EPA’s decree from earlier this week — the one where they threatened Congress over new legislation on climate change: The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn’t move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a “command-and-control” role over the process in a way that […]

Erick Erickson urges Senate Republicans to fight ObamaCare with every parliamentary means available: Some might argue that Republicans should not look “obstructionist.” But they are wrong — the vast majority of Americans don’t like this bill and don’t want it to pass. The Tea Party movement was the upheaval of millions of ordinary Americans who […]

I’m reading a lot of international relations theory, just not blogging that much on it. I’ve been hoping to write a longer entry on the current debate on American decline (see especially Niall Ferguson, at Newsweek, “An Empire at Risk“). But since I just found two real cool posts at TigerHawk on foreign holdings of […]

From the New York Times, “Gillette to Limit Role of Tiger Woods in Marketing“: One day after Tiger Woods said he was taking an “indefinite break” from the PGA Tour to try to repair his marriage, Gillette became the first of his major sponsors to distance itself, saying it would limit his role in its […]

Congress is thinking about legislating college football: Federal legislation that could lead to a college football playoff tournament will move a step closer to reality on Wednesday in a hearing before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Congress has no business mucking around with this. It’s not […]

Had these thoughts in my head for awhile, and as long as we’re on the subject of Palin I thought I should jot ’em down. These people are in a “most lunatic” photo-finish neck-and-neck with the hardcore Obama-zealots. I seriously think we’ve discovered a new mental sickness epidemic. Palin isn’t it, but she’s a useful […]

Via Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades HQ, Justice Sonia Sotomayor used the phrase “undocumented immigrant” in her first published decision. Apparently, the justices have previously used the more accurate terms “alien not lawfully present in the United States” or “illegal alien.” But in her very first published decision as a Supreme Court justice, Sotomayor […]

My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND. This recap of the week in conservative talk radio features lots of FREE audio and video highlights: Rush Limbaugh’s interview with William Shatner Mike Huckabee warns against the return of the Fairness Doctrine Laura Ingraham’s online auction of Sarah Palin’s famous red jacket Glenn […]

William Shatner made a return to the Tonight Show to read a few choice excerpts from Gov. Sarah Palin’s book, which you can win in the 2009 All American Christmas Contest or purchase by clicking the picture in the sidebar. He did read from the book, beatnik style, and was about to leave the stage […]

From yesterday’s Washington Post, “‘Tea Party’ Movement Preps for 2010 Vote“: The energized “tea party” movement, which upended this year’s political debate with noisy anti-government protests, is preparing to shake up the 2010 elections by channeling money and supporters to conservative candidates set to challenge both Democrats and Republicans. Buoyed by their success in capsizing […]