Let’s play: Ironic, or Not?

Here’s your situation, contestants. You get to decide: Ironic? Or Not? Bruckner Chase staggered ashore at San Carlos Beach in Monterey on Tuesday evening after a 14-hour swim to raise awareness about the fragile nature of the local marine environment. Ironically, some of the creatures native to that environment made Chase pay dearly for his […]

 

The Left’s Eliminationist Narrative

After yesterday’s smackdown, Charles Johnson is doing Olympian twists and turns (safe link) to try to salvage his “right-wing bigotry and hatred” slander regarding the New York cabdriver attack. To see people like this is to witness those who inhabit another world apart from reality. It’s a world that Melanie Phillips explained in The World […]

 




Demise of the Prairie Peace Park

Bad news for world peace: the Prairie Peace Park of Pleasant Dale, Nebraska is curling up its toes. The Prairie Peace Park opened in 1994. Interstate 80 travelers often [sic] dropped in to view the unique, peace-oriented artwork and exhibits. Annual visitation averaged about 600. Faced with financial problems, the Prairie Peace Park Board sold […]

 



Police Layoffs: Thanks To Obamanomics, You Can Be A Double Victim!

First, you have to live with the consequences of terrible economic policy that is destroying America, next Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime. Cutbacks in such places as Oakland, Tulsa and Norton, Mass. have forced police […]

 

Missouri Grade School: Singing ‘Happy Birthday’ Song is ‘Insensitive’

Fox News Radio’s Todd Sterns reported that a Missouri elementary school tried to ban the singing of “Happy Birthday To You” in order to be “sensitive” about those students that might find singing in public to be “offensive.” In a letter sent home to parents, school Principal Jodi Davidson explained that the ban on the […]

 



A Coalition No One Wants To Join: Lame-O’s Unite!

Well, isn’t this just a who’s who of awesome? The Park-51, i.e Cordoba Mosque, i.e. Ground Zero Mosque protesters of the protesters enjoy a weird little niche in American politics: Coalition Endorsements Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition International Socialist Organization Movement for a Democratic Society World Can’t Wait International Jewish Anti-Zionist Newtork […]

 

A Round-Up Of News To Make Your Blood Boil

Do you find it galling that after all this time being called “radical, violent, right-wing extremists”, we now have multiple examples in one day of psychotic liberals going cuckoo? Yeah, so Russ Carnahan’s office was burned. Tea Partier? Nope! TPM blogger and Carnahan staffer. The Department of Homeland Security, you know, the dudes are taking […]

 

Tea Party Group Hit With Death Threats

At U.S. News: One of Washington’s principal supporters of the Tea Party movement, former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, has been receiving death threats and profanity-laced phone calls as it gets involved in the fall elections. The number and intensity have reached such heights that the organization is leaving its downtown location near the […]

 


Cultural Suicide And Choosing To Live Again

The Anchoress writes a breathtaking piece and you absolutely must read the whole thing. I would like to focus on one small part. On the one side suicide, on the other redemption: As of April of this year, America’s own fertility rate has for the first time dipped to 2 children per female, suggesting that […]

 


Joe Biden Exemplifies The Liberal Attitude Towards Science

Liberals don’t actually care about science. Let me repeat that: Liberals don’t actually care about science. What they care about is using science as a political bludgeon, Vice President Joe Biden praised the National Institutes of Health Tuesday, despite the agency’s record spending of tax dollars to study such topics as teaching Chinese meditation techniques […]

 

Liberals Spend Your Money Promoting Islam Overseas

Bad enough that our liberal rulers support the obscene Victory Mosque at Ground Zero with mealy-mouthed platitudes about “building bridges.” Worse that the State Department is paying (with our money) Feisal Abdul Rauf, the stridently anti-American imam behind it, to travel around the Middle East, evidently to collect money to construct the abomination. But it […]

 

Police Piece Together Clues in Obama’s Post-Racial America

It only seems like political correctness has rotten away public officials’ brains to the point of reducing them to gibbering idiots. In Des Moines, police investigating a series of vicious attacks outside the Iowa State Fairgrounds were able to piece together clues and boldly reach on ingenious conclusion: “We don’t know if this was juveniles […]

 


Rep. Melissa Bean’s Jackbooted… Librarians?

Last week a shocking video of a townhall of sorts held by Chicago, Illinois area Congressman Melissa Bean (D, 8th District) was released that seemed to show that she’d hired a couple of thugs to intimidate attendees from asking her questions that she didn’t want to answer. The video kicked up a bit of controversy […]

 

The Left’s Newfound Respect for Freedom of Religion

For 20 years or more the left has initiated a steady campaign to destroy the free expression of religion in America. From attacking on government property any Christmas Nativity scenes, crosses or portraits of Jesus, to summarily eliminating prayer in school, even to go so far as to prevent kids who speak at graduation exercises […]

 


So When Does Team RINO Start Engaging The Same Self-Criticism That They Expect From Everyone Else?

There’s a whole group of sad sack moderates in the Republican Party who’ve made a name for themselves by trashing conservatives. You know the people I’m talking about: David Frum, David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, Meghan McCain, etc., etc., etc. Now, we can argue about whether their intentions are good (sometimes), whether their complaints have any […]

 


Michael Steele Brings The GOP Illegal Alien Policy Fail

In an attempt to patronize and curry favor with Hispanic voters, Michael Steele is working hard to tick off Republicans Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is putting some political distance between the national Republican Party and Arizona Republicans who enacted a tough immigration-enforcement law earlier this year. “Let’s be clear. The actions of one […]

 

The Summer of Recovery Never Arrived

On June 17th Vice President Biden joined Robert Gibbs at the regular news briefing to talk about the “Summer of Recovery.” He said, “more people are going to be put to work this summer.” He also said private-sector jobs will make up the “vast bulk” of the jobs created by the stimulus act. Now, here […]

 

‘Moderate Muslims Are Going to Be Pushed Into Joining Extremist Movements Like al-Qaida’

So much for moderate Muslims repudiating jihad: Experts worry the controversy surrounding an Islamic center near ground zero in Lower Manhattan is playing right into the hands of radical extremists. The supercharged debate over the proposed center has attracted the attention of a quiet, underground audience – young Muslims who drift in and out of […]