Year: 2009

30) Brent Bozell

Ezra Klein discusses what has commonly become known as the “public plan” in the emerging “health care reform” legislation. Put simply it is “public insurance” which is supposed to compete with the private insurance industry and, as Paul Krugman claims, keep them “honest”. Klein lays out the various flavors being floated out there concerning this […]

Today’s lawsuit of the day: A federal judge in California has dismissed a complaint filed by a San Diego woman who had bought “Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries” for four years believing the cereal contained real berries. Janine Sugawara cried fraud when she learned the “berries” were only colored cereal balls flavored with strawberry concentrate. She […]

Bureaucrats are planning to seize control of the healthcare industry and finance the power grab by taxing lifestyles. The Senate Finance Committee is considering raising taxes on alcohol and imposing a new levy on soda and other naturally sweetened drinks to help pay for overhauling health care. The committee calls them “lifestyle tax proposals,” saying […]

Over at Confederate Yankee, Bob Owens has written a post that touched on a pet peeve of mine. It’s not a particularly egregious example of it, but it’s still worth writing about. From Confederate Yankee, “I Did Not Vote to Lower My Standard of Living” Michael Jones of PoliGazette voted twice for Barack Obama last […]

Sometimes, a quote is just too juicy to hold until Friday for This Week In Quotes. Newt uttered such a line last night, Hat tip to Gateway Pundit for the story.

It’s a health-care palooza over at American Issues Project today, my column included. Here’s a snippet: Here is my concern about the health care legislation: While people will start sifting through the details of the legislation, the most important message of all will likely get lost: With fewer employed people, with less tax revenue, America […]

My latest Pajamas Media column practically wrote itself this last weekend and could have been twice as long. The column discusses how feminists are a-ok with misogyny as long as conservative women are the recipients. It’s summed up nicely in the bumper sticker, “They’re not women! They’re Republicans!” I’d like to add a few more […]

Unlike many conservatives, I think polling is extremely useful — provided you understand how to use it. You have to know which polls are reliable and which ones aren’t, be on the lookout for bias, pay more attention to trends than single polls, and understand that polling numbers are snapshots in time, not statues, forever […]

As the country continues to hemorrhage jobs, President Obama, leader of the Party who whined incessantly for 8 years that George Bush would never admit when he was wrong, refuses to admit he was wrong, and, instead, presses the reset button on the Generation Theft Act President Barack Obama assured the nation his recovery plan […]

Jane “Lieberman-In-Black-Face” Hamsher, web mistress of Firedoglake, gives us the news According to sources on the Hill, the Lieberman-Graham detainee photo suppression amendment is out of the conference report of the supplemental. For everyone who made phone calls — pat yourself on the back. Yes, liberals/progressives/surrender monkeys, pat yourself on the back. Do it every […]

The moment I first heard my co-blogger Melissa Clouthier use the phrase “Party of Yes,” I knew a column would eventually come out of it because that phrase so perfectly describes today’s Democratic Party. No matter how bad the idea, the Democrats are willing to say, “yes, yes, yes” and throw a few billion dollars […]

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One of the things we talked about on the podcast this week is how, in the broadest sense, socialism is a growing phenomenon in our country. As I mentioned, while government may not actually own the means of production, if its regulations are such that they dictate how a company must operate, then government exercises […]

Americans trust Republicans on 6/10 key issues according a Rassmussen poll. James Joyner says: Now, I’m not going to get too excited about this until we see it replicated over time and across polling instruments. Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, the results of any given poll can be junk. (It’s more complicated than that […]

Today, I had an interesting conversation with one of my sources in the Senate. This person, who’s very sharp, had some intriguing things to say about how the votes and timeline are looking for health care and immigration behind-the-scenes in the Senate. What follows is a sightly edited transcript of our conversation (and, yes, I […]

I saw this picture on Drudge and had to put it before you guys. It says it all. And for you lefties who think I’m reading waaaaaay too much into this look here: Anger: THE BROWS ARE LOWERED AND DRAWN TOGETHER. VERTICAL LINES APPEAR BETWEEN THE BROWS. THE LOWER LID IS TENSED AND MAY OR […]

PETA wants to take over two Michigan lighthouses and use them to propagandize against fishing: As Lake Michigan ports go, Grand Haven is an angler’s paradise. If People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals gets its way, it also will be home to a lighthouse café — serving faux fish sticks — where patrons learn […]

More than a few have figured out that global warming is a malignant hoax, designed to strip us of our freedom and transfer our wealth to the government, corrupt corporations like GE, and still more corrupt charlatans like Al Gore. The establishment almost uniformly promotes this swindle, but Tennessee Burger King owners are fighting back […]

I’m so sick of this statistics. It is meaningless.

When America learned of the reality television show awarded to Nadya Suleman, the reaction was similar to the news of the octuplets born to her: the miracle of eight healthy babies was overshadowed by their mother being unattached, unemployed, and already having six children at home. Although an extreme example of a selfish instinct for […]

Admittedly, when Obama came into office, he had a tough economy to deal with. So, in all fairness, he can’t be blamed for all the problems we have. However, Obama is spending so much money and interfering in the market so gratuitously that he’s creating a much bigger crisis than the one he’s trying to […]

* There’s a world of difference between a good cause and a good cause you’re willing to pay for out of your own pocket. * I understand Republicans in Congress don’t like criticizing a POTUS w/ a high approval rating, but they need to call him on his radicalism. * When liberals start to care […]

Does Pelosi have a huge set or is she just lost in a fog of delusional left wing feelings? She has penned a little missive in the San Francisco Chronicle: Climate change game-changer for China relations Climate change is an economic issue, a national security issue, an environmental health issue and a moral issue. It […]

So, what word applies? Socialist? Nationalist? Marxist? Fascist? They all include doctrine where the government is heavily involved in the private sector, sometimes mandating heavily, sometimes taking over, sometimes competing. In this case, Neophytis Obamis pulls out his lyre and tells Congress and the country to dance to his tune President Barack Obama reaffirmed his […]

After doing The 10 Hottest Liberal Women In Politics last week, I thought that in order to be fair, I should feature the women on the Right as well. So, in the spirit of the Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful lists, I present to you “The 15 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media.” Do keep […]

There’s a bit of a kerfuffle rippling through the sphere today (which means, of course, that most of us are going to comment). Ed Whelan, who blogs over at NRO has outed Publius who blogs at Obsidian Wings. There seem to be mixed feelings as to whether what Whelan did is “ethical” or not. In […]

The Politico reports today that things aren’t looking good for Norm Coleman in his bid to defeat liberal laughingstock Al Franken to retain his seat in the Senate: Seven months after Minnesota’s Senate election, the state’s highest court hasn’t reached a decision but election law experts agree: Norm Coleman doesn’t have a prayer. These experts […]

Yesterday was the sixty-five year anniversary of D-Day, the day that US, British, and Canadian forces stormed the beaches at Normandy. Over 150,000 of them charged off the ships; over 10,000 were lost. Many of the dead were never recovered. June 6, 1944 marked a turning point in WWII. Until that day, there wasn’t much […]

Objective and non-biased, my ass. Yet we get criticized for sarcastically calling him the Obamamessiah. Is it because we haven’t yet seen the light and accepted Obama for the savior that he is? Probably. Hat Tip: Newsbusters Cross-posted from Cassy’s blog. Stop by for more commentary or follow her on Twitter!