Bloggericide: Ohio Officials Charge Blogger With Campaign Violations

Well, folks, this is bound to happen more and more as time rolls onward in this New Media world of ours. A blogger is in trouble with local Ohio officials who are trying to Shut him down using a badly applied campaign finance law all because he has been critical of county officials on his […]

 

Democrat Lobbyist Charged With Campaign Contributions Violations

Paul Magliocchetti, president of the lobbying firm PMA Group Inc. of Arlington, Virginia, was arrested on August 5 and charged with using friends and family to make illegal campaign contributions in order to skirt federal campaign finance laws. His firm has been under investigation since 2009. In a statement the Justice Department alleged, “Magliocchetti orchestrated […]

 



Ssssssh! Obama Quietly Rolls Out Program Similar To Arizona’s SB1070 In Boston

Be vewy vewy qwiet. I’m hunting iwwegals The Arizona law aimed at removing illegal immigrants has attracted attention and pitted the federal government against the state of Arizona. But the Obama administration is quickly and quietly rolling out a program, started in Boston, that relies on the help of local police departments and is raising […]

 

“Evidence and Denial”

Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times: As almost everyone now knows, there are two competing theories about how to revive the American economy. One theory is to promote the supply-side of the economy by cutting tax rates or at least to maintain the Bush-era tax rates and reduce spending and government regulation; the other theory is […]

 

Texas Sends Snarkygram To EPA Over EPA Globull Warming Demands

Have y’all seen this one yet? Texas is not amused by EPA demands It’s no secret the Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality are at odds with each other right now. But the language in a letter from Attorney General Greg Abbott and TCEQ head Bryan Shaw complaining about EPA’s efforts […]

 



How Communists Exploit WikiLeaks

It’s one thing when you have communist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviewing convicted computer hacker and communist activist Julian Assange on the U.S. government’s response to WikLeaks. It’s quite another thing when mainstream newspaper editors also come down on the side of the WikiLeaks/communist alliance. But that’s what’s happening today at LAT, “WikiLeaks and […]

 

Outrage as Race Ignored in Hiring Decision

The new fashion director of the black lifestyle magazine Essence has plenty of qualifications: [Elliana] Placas’ resume is impressive since moving to the US from Australia, working on a mix of mass-selling American publications including 0: The Oprah Magazine, Us Weekly, New York, More and Life & Style. […Essence editor-in-chief Angela] Burt-Murray said Ms Placas […]

 

Undertaxed Soda Makes Us Fatter as We Drink Less of It

An earlier decent into progressive rule brought us the debacle of Prohibition. This generation’s dictatorial do-gooders aren’t focused on alcohol; they have it in for food. Yet another liberal media article screeches hysterically that we’re getting too fat: The number of states with an adult obesity rate of 30 percent or more has tripled, to […]

 



President Obama Bailing Out Chicago Mobster Alexi Giannoulias

Wow, a terrific ad from the NRSC about President Obama’s connection with mobster Alexi Giannoulias: Haven’t heard about Giannoulias? Here’s some background from the Examiner’s David Flatt: Since his return from Greece Giannoulias has met repeatedly with known criminals. Alexi Giannoulias family bank is known as the Broadway Bank in Chicago. Clients of the Broadway […]

 

No Mosque! No Mosque! The Ground Zero Mosque: Michael Grimm NY-13 and Randy Altschuler NY-1 Explain Why They’re Against It

The primaries in New York come up August 24. In anticipation of that day, I requested interviews with two conservatives, yes, conservatives, running for office around New York City. Randy Altschuler of NY-1 out on Long Island, whom I first interviewed at CPAC [video here] and I recently wrote about with the Chris Cox controversy […]

 


The Gay Marriage Compromise

An activist judge in California overturned Prop. 8 (banning gay marriage) yesterday to no one’s surprise. Most everyone actively involved on both sides of this issue, can’t seem to see the forest for the trees. Reasonable people can compromise. But there doesn’t seem to be any reasonable people in charge on this issue. Here’s newsflash […]

 

Democrats: Say, Let’s Exempt Rich People in Blue States From Tax Hike!

If this doesn’t exemplify the left’s propensity to act in the mode of for-thee-but-not-me, nothing does. The Wall Street Journal (by way of the Wash. Examiner’s Mark Hemingway) reports that at least one Democrat has suddenly realized that when the Bush tax cuts fade away his state will be hit by a massive tax hike […]

 

WikiLeaks: Criminal Enterprise

From Marc Thiessen, at Washington Post, “WikiLeaks Must be Stopped“: Let’s be clear: WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a criminal enterprise. Its reason for existence is to obtain classified national security information and disseminate it as widely as possible — including to the United States’ enemies. These actions are likely a violation […]

 


AFL-CIO Chief Pleading for Union Support of Dems in Nov.

The AFL-CIO plans to spend another $50 million coming to the aid of Democrats during this campaign season for the 2010 midterms. But all is not well in uniondom as many unions are very, very unhappy with various and sundry Democrat candidates across the country. Still, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka has issued a call to […]

 

Mass. School Kids Now ‘Allowed’ To Say the Pledge of Allegiance

What sort of nation have we become when it takes monumental efforts by a kid to get a school administration to “allow” them all to recite the Pledge of Allegiance? Nonetheless, that is the nation that liberals have turned these great United States into as after two months of wrangling Arlington, Massachusetts High School student […]

 

19 Cross-dressers Flogged Under Sharia Law

No matter what one might think of gays and/or cross-dressers, approve or disapprove, nowhere in human compassion should something like this happen to someone simply being themselves A SUDANESE court had 19 Muslim youths flogged in public overnight for dressing up like women. The punishment was carried out immediately after the sentencing by the court […]