Year: 2009

While there is all sorts of silly criticism emerging on the right (including the pronunciation of her name and the fact that she likes certain latin foods), there is an emerging criticism which I think has some validity. Most of of focuses on a speech she delivered at UC Berkley in 2001 and published later […]

There are a lot of people around the world, particularly in this country, who sincerely deserve to be punched in the mouth really hard for the things they say about other people– and who I am kidding? I’m probably among them. We live in a world when it’s considered acceptable to say just about anything […]

No wonder Plugs Bidens thinks that only 5% of the Taliban is too “incorrigible” to get along with. After all, he gets along fine with the ACLU, which as Teh Resistance Blog points out is the Taliban’s American equivalent. Here’s one of the 6th-century Buddhas of Bamyan, which no longer exist because the Taliban doesn’t […]

Here‘s a sterling example of how Democrats opportunistically respond to our economic problems with intrusive coercion wrapped in free goodies: Policy makers in Washington, D.C., have been desperately seeking ways to lift the U.S. economy out of its worst slump since the Great Depression. Enter first-term House Democrat Alan Grayson of Orlando, who says it’s […]

The impulse is to say Soto-may-er. But that wouldn’t be correct. The proper pronunciation is Soto-may-YOUR and with a opening of the mouth to get the proper fullness and roll of the tongue. Sigh. Remember when people Americanized their names? Partly, it made their names easier to say. Mostly, people just wanted to be American. […]

What Obama is doing with the auto industry is not politics as usual; it’s the sleaziest, crookedest, most underhanded use of the federal government since the Teapot Dome Scandal in the 1920s. Barack Obama is using billions of dollars of your money to give his political allies in the unions control of Chrysler and it […]

Last night on his show, Bill O’Reilly read off what were supposed to be blog comments about the Sonia Sotomayor nomination. You can see the whole segment on this video, which features Bill talking to my friend, Amanda Carpenter from the Washington Times, For those that don’t want to watch the video, here’s the comment […]

Sure, it’s early and we don’t know for sure who’s going to get in the race yet, but it’s still fun to speculate about who the GOP nominee in 2012 will be. Here’s a short, but sweet rundown of the strength of the most likely candidates. This can and will change — perhaps considerably — […]

Cue the 9/10 mentality: FBI planning a bigger role in terrorism fight The FBI and Justice Department plan to significantly expand their role in global counter-terrorism operations, part of a U.S. policy shift that will replace a CIA-dominated system of clandestine detentions and interrogations with one built around transparent investigations and prosecutions. Under the “global […]

Shocker, eh? But it’ll make people feel good about a fantasy. If it wasn’t for double standards, Climahysterics wouldn’t have any standards at all A new United Nation’s global warming treatyis expected to give some of the world’s worst polluters–such as the communist People’s Republic of China–and some of the world’s wealthiest nations–such as the […]

Sure sounds like it to me: A transcript of a secretly recorded phone call between the brother of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and U.S. Sen. Roland Burris was released in federal court today, a call in which Burris, then seeking the Senate seat, was recorded offering the Blagojevich campaign a campaign check. “I know I […]

If you’re planning a garage sale or want to make a few bucks selling stuff you don’t want on eBay, make sure to hire a lawyer first: Just like megasize toy manufacturers and stores that sell products from China, the notoriously broad and confusing federal Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act applies to you and your […]

It couldn’t have been easy for moonbats, having to look at all those flags after 9/11. But now they’ve got the whip hand, and they are taking their revenge. Is it okay to show your patriotism at the office? For one Arlington [Texas] woman, the answer was “no” after she hung an American flag in […]

You can spot the trainwreck coming a thousand miles away, In better times, many employees of General Motors called their company “Generous Motors” because of its rich benefits. The latest plan for the troubled automaker, which is expected to file for bankruptcy by Monday, calls for the Treasury Department to receive about 70 percent of […]

I’ve been thinking about the root cause of this bail-out mess and the changes in our American culture. My column at AIP today sums up my thinking about things: America, in general, and our government in particular, has been consuming more calories than it can afford and grown fat, and rather than cut back, has […]

Some things are so predictable. Like, when the economy is in the crapper and people don’t work, there’s less tax revenue: Federal tax revenue plunged $138 billion, or 34%, in April vs. a year ago — the biggest April drop since 1981, a study released Tuesday by the American Institute for Economic Research says. When […]

Here’s Michael Steele on Sonia Sotomayor, The head of the Republican Party wants his forces to watch their steps when it comes to Supreme Court hopeful Sonia Sotomayor. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told CNN Radio Tuesday the party that he hopes will include more Hispanics must be cautious in how it scrutinizes a […]

When is the change coming? I thought when Barack Obama was elected, he was going to get together with all the world leaders and bring world peace. Remember that? Because everybody loves Barack Obama. Everybody loves Barack Obama. Apparently, everybody doesn’t love Barack Obama, okay? Apparently, this guy is a paper President created by the […]

Since becoming the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il has put South Park’s underwear gnomes to shame Make threats and/or do something provocative World blusters, makes yap yap, passes resolutions Nations give North Korea all sorts of stuff, including nuclear reactors with a wink and a nod Rinse, repeat every few years. Lately, Kim […]

Jonah Goldberg, in his excellent book “Liberal Fascism,” calls today’s far left “nice fascists.” If the far left progressive movement is trying to control what people think, say, and do, I would tend to agree. The extent of their discrimination laws, going well beyond any sort of equality under the law, point the way. And […]

“You can’t help what you were born and you may not have much to say about where you die, but you can and you should try to pass the days in between as a good man.” – Anton Myrer, from Once an Eagle There are some of us lucky enough to know very early what […]

Another emerging hallmark of Obama rhetoric are the startling inconsistencies to be found there. For instance, his speech at the National Archives where he invoked the founding documents as the keepers of our fundamental rights and values and condemned the previous administration for its egregious violations of those right and values. All of it sounded […]

That colorful expression by the late Lewis Grizzard can be roughly translated as, “Don’t tell me about my business.” Which is exactly what’s wrong with Rod Dreher presuming to criticize Mark Levin: Most people never really think about the craft of talk radio, just like they never think about the craft of journalism, or the […]

So the Supreme Court of California upheld a law thus reinforcing the will of the people and that’s noteworthy only because the court has made such a consistent practice of making laws rather than interpreting them. There will be lawsuits. There will be outrage. I don’t care. So President Obama was utterly predictable and picked […]

Back in 2008, the judicial activists on the California Supreme Court overruled the will of the voters by overturning Prop 22, which said that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California.” So, the voters of California once again voted on the issue via Prop 8. and once again, […]

Hopefully the looters running Maryland are learning a lesson regarding the limits of the eat-the-rich politics so fashionable among Obamunists: Maryland couldn’t balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy. Politicians in Annapolis created a millionaire tax bracket, raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 6.25%. […]

The cult of global warming, as represented by Britain’s bureaucracy, has found new culprits in the climatic oppression of the polar bears: lamb, tomatoes, and alcohol. Lamb should not be eaten because sheep belch, thus throwing the climate into chaos. A government-sponsored study into greenhouse gases found that producing 2.2lb of lamb released the equivalent […]

Sotomayor seemed like the obvious choice for Barack Obama. Not only does she share his understanding of the Constitution, that the Constitution can be molded into whatever a Justice wants, but her ethnicity will be used as a weapon against any Republican who attempts to block her nomination. Sadly, there is little that Republicans can […]

When last I updated you on “Operation Save TeH Kittehs,” the cat and her kittens were under my house and I had decided to wait a few weeks for them to start running around before I trapped them. The goal was, of course, to get the kittens, socialize them while they were young, and give […]

Barack Obama picked Sonia Sotomayor because she’s Hispanic, female, and is willing to put liberal political concerns above the Constitution. That checks a couple of important political boxes for him and gets him a liberal judge on the court. Happily (well, as happily as it gets under these circumstances), Sotomayor will be replacing David Souter, […]