Year: 2009

Fish Wrap Wonders If VATs Are The Cure For Deficits

Posted on by William Teach

Sure, why not, another tax on everyone is a good thing in Liberal World: Many See the VAT Option as a Cure for Runaway Deficits Runaway federal deficits have thrust a politically unsavory savior into the spotlight: a nationwide tax on goods and services. Members of Congress, like their constituents, are squeamish about such ideas […]

 

An Obama Doctrine? What Obama Doctrine?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Last night on Twitter, Allah Pundit from Hot Air was going off on the idea that Obama’s Nobel Prize speech was important because it laid down some sort of foreign policy doctrine. His comments were right on point: What groundbreaking “doctrine” did he really lay out? “Sometimes war is necessary, but we should also use […]

 

If The AGW Debate Is Settled, Why The Different Answers?

Posted on by William Teach

Funny stuff from those who are supposed to be “the experts” Which is it–6 feet or 3.5 feet? Last week, White House science czar John Holdren told members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that changes in global temperatures could mean a rise in sea levels of 6 feet or […]

 

Sarah Palin Hits ‘Em Where It Hurts–Updated: Jon Stewart Feels Frum’s Pain

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Could there be anything worse for President Barack Obama than his nemesis agreeing with him? I don’t think so. From CNN: Sarah Palin had some rare praise Thursday for President Obama after the president delivered his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo. But the former Republican vice presidential nominee added that she would like […]

 

The 8th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blog Awards

Posted on by John Hawkins

In order to recognize the excellent work some of our fellow bloggers have been doing, RWN has put together the “8th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blog Awards.” More than 250 bloggers were invited to vote for their favorite blog in numerous categories and 49 responded. Here were the rules of the contest: 1) For […]

 

This Week In Quotes: December 4 – December 10

Posted on by John Hawkins

The financial crisis killed small entrepreneurs as surely as Joseph Stalin killed the kulaks, and the roots of the economy are dead and dry. — David Goldman “Either the war (in Afghanistan) is vital, or it’s not. It can’t be vital until an arbitrary deadline.” — Michael Goodwin The response to my op-ed by global […]

 

The Blindness Of The Left To The Consequences Of Their Decisions: The Medicare Edition

Posted on by John Hawkins

Liberal golden boy Matthew Yglesias says that the Medicare program’s “low reimbursement rates are a feature not a bug.” In other words, the fact that the government doesn’t pay fair market value for the services is good news! Why? Consequently, there’s strong political pressure for generous benefits. That means, on the one hand, that funding […]

 

Do You Understand How Far The Global Warming Loons Want To Go?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Earlier today on RWN, Van Helsing talked about eco-kook, Dave Reay, who wants us to cut back on washing, personal hygiene, and buying new clothing. Hmmm…a dirty liberal hippy who wants other people to be dirty, too? Seems pretty convenient, huh? But, Reay is not alone. When they’re not yelling “scientific consensus” in an effort […]

 

Teddy Kennedy From The Grave: Medicare As A Path To Single Payer

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Are you starting to breath easier because it looks like the Public Option is toast? Don’t. The guys from Verum Serum explain: Earlier today I referred to the Senate compromise plan as “RahmCare”, given a similar proposal that the President’s Chief-of-Staff made at a congressional healthcare forum in 2007. But it turns out this isn’t […]

 

Public Funding for ACORN Will Continue

Posted on by Dave Blount

House Minority Leader John Boehner has a very small surprise for us: despite lopsided votes in favor of cutting off public funding to Comrade Obama’s outrageously corrupt enablers at ACORN in the aftermath of the O’Keefe/Giles videos, the Big Government fire hose will continue to blast a torrent of our money at these vermin. On […]

 

Global Warming Priest Dave Reay Denounces Personal Hygiene

Posted on by Dave Blount

The beauty of the global warming hoax is that it allows liberals to wallow in their trademark neurotic guilt, baseless sanctimony, and hostility to civilization while imposing all elements of their agenda — including deliberately excessive taxation, suppression of the private sector, totalitarian power for Big Government, degradation of our standard of living, elevation of […]

 

Fraud In The EU Carbon Trading System? The Heck You Say!

Posted on by William Teach

Say, how’s that carbon trading market working? The European Union (EU) Emission Trading System (ETS) has been the victim of fraudulent traders in the past 18 months. This resulted in losses of approximately 5 billion euros for several national tax revenues. It is estimated that in some countries, up to 90% of the whole market […]

 

Podcast: Climategate Made Simple

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

The Climategate controversy is complex. This podcast makes it simple. Charles Martin, a scientist himself, walks me through all the parts and pieces of this story. He is also aggregating all information around the controversy for Pajamas Media. Go there to learn more. Download MP3 To subscribe on iTunes, just click here! When Melissa isn’t […]

 

An IPI Christmas: Feeding The Hungry, Bringing Opportunity to Developing Nations

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last night I was invited to attend a Christmas get together sponsored by the Illinois Policy Institute. This year’s theme was feeding the hungry in Africa and bringing economic freedom to developing nations. We heard some interesting presentations from Paul Wormley of the One Acre Fund as well as Tim Probasco of Opportunity International, both […]

 

Obama’s Bound To Disappoint Someone: An Ignoble Nobel

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Headline I wrote yesterday, but didn’t have time to finish the post yesterday. Seems I was prescient: The Norwegians aren’t happy. The King isn’t happy. Any American who actually believes in achievement as a measure of success isn’t happy. The peacenik left isn’t happy. Is anyone happy?

 

Obama’s Big Bus Side Swipes King Of Norway During Nobel Visit

Posted on by William Teach

As I write this, the award ceremony is in full swing, and Barry is sitting in the audience with a monstrously smug look upon his face, reminding me more of one of the thug type football players just drafted with his chin up in the air. Football watchers know what I mean. Meanwhile, it doesn’t […]

 

Medicare Buy In? Worst. Idea. Ever.

Posted on by McQ

What in the world are the Senate Democrats thinking? Isn’t this supposed to be about “health care reform”? Apparently their idea of reform is to take a system that has trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities and expand it without ever addressing the underlying reason for the huge future debt? Brilliant. Just brilliant. But apparently […]

 

Why Can’t We Question Man Made Global Warming?

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

One of the things I cannot stand about the left is how they answer an argument that was never made. Case in point. Sarah Palin has a thoughtful informed piece at the WaPo today about climategate, her own personal experience with climate change, and what we need to do to move forward. “But while we […]

 

Oh, No You Can’t: Kids Deprived Voucher-Supported Education Obama’s Kids Enjoy

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Education good enough for thee, but not for me: U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says no more low-income, mostly minority children will get taxpayer-funded scholarships to attend private or parochial schools in the District of Columbia. Duncan told CNSNews.com that school vouchers are “not the solution” to fixing D.C.’s failing public schools. Duncan made the […]

 

Studying The Sex Lives Of College Students

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

You thought you were done with that when you graduated, right? Well, this is just one of the many boondoggles that our stimulus dollars went to. I’m thinking that maybe somewhere along the line someone got confused on what: the word “stimulus” actually means. Perhaps they took it to mean the human body and not the […]

 

Harry Reid, Health Care, And Being Owned

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

If an American citizen wants the comfort of guaranteed care, he will have to pay a steep price. Freedom and slavery is a continuum–with indentured servitude, heavy taxation and other crimps in economic style falling in between the absolute ideals. One could argue that the health care legislation being proposed by Harry Reid et al. […]

 

Obama to Journalists: No Christmas Present For You

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is beginning to look like TheOne has just told the lapdog U.S. Old Media that he didn’t get them a Christmas present this year. Politico is reporting that the Obama Administration didn’t invite the average number of newsies to the White House Christmas Party and on top of that, even the ones that did […]

 

The Teacher’s Union That Stole Christmas

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Weekly Standard has an excellent new article in its latest issue that reports on the discouraging story of the Washington D.C. teachers union that is rushing headlong toward destroying the successful and popular federally-funded D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). The program has helped many disadvantaged D.C. are kids get a better and safer education […]

 

Moonbat Tech: The E~Cart

Posted on by Dave Blount

At last, technology has delivered a means for progressives to assuage their guilt as they shop for arugula at grocery stores lit and refrigerated at the expense of the put-upon polar bears: The e~cart promises quite an electrifying experience! It’s a shopping trolley re-designed to be fitted with wheels that harness the kinetic energy, generated […]

 

Global Warming Blamed for Cannibal Polar Bears

Posted on by Dave Blount

Time for an update of The List — the media has again resorted to shrieking that the nonexistent global warming crisis has turned cuddly polar bears into bloodthirsty cannibals: A group of tourists were left horrified when they came across the grisly sight of a polar bear eating a cub in northern Canada. The large […]

 

People Less HopeyChangey On Barry’s Economy

Posted on by William Teach

I wonder how he will blame this on Bush? He spent more time yesterday blaming Bush, excuse me, the previous administration, during his jobs speech (which Rush Limbaugh tore apart, check out this post by Nice Deb), and is now saying he was against the TARP, despite voting for it. And people are not enthused […]