Year: 2010

Newt Gingrich Attacks Kagan Nomination and Obama’s ‘Secular-Socialist Machine’

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Newt Gingrich is on something of a tear this week. Huffington Post is up in arms today over the former House Speaker’s slam on Obama’s High Court nominee Elena Kagan: And then there’s Crooks and Liars goon John Amato, freakin’ at Gingrich’s FNS gig this morning, “Newt Gingrich says President Obama is Nazi-Commie “threat to […]

 

The Last Days of Tehran

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Some Hollywood films are built on the idea of suspense on a grand scale — “The Last Days of Pompeii”, and the story of the Titanic are both perennials for filmmakers, because the audience knows the characters are doomed, and thus watching their otherwise everyday quotidian details takes on a whole new dimension, as we await the tragic denouement. Photos of the Middle East in the 1970s take on a similar look these days.

 

Fake Mich. ‘Tea Party’: Another Example of How Democrats Fight Dirty

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every Democrat I know likes to act as if it were the GOP that fights dirty. Of course, every time I ask them for an example they just stare back blankly at me — I know, it’s their normal state, but this question gets particular blankness. On the other hand, I can give reams of […]

 

Illinois One of the Worst Legal Climates in the Country

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Institute for Legal Reform has completed its 2010 rankings of the lawsuit climate in the various states and Illinois comes in at a dismal 45th place. If Obama needs some help, that would be 45 out of 50 states (not 57 or 58 states as he said during the campaign). This overly litigious lawsuit […]

 

Palin/Brewer to Obama/Holder: Read the AZ Immigration Bill – and Secure the Border

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

Rockin’ video: Love the video clip in the ad of AG Eric Holder, a leading critic of the Arizona immigration bill, admitting he hasn’t read the 10 page bill. Palin and Brewer had a press conference yesterday in Arizona where they announced the launch of a new website: Secure the Border, a site the cuts […]

 

Love me, love my tie

Posted on by Ron Coleman

Jim Lindgren of the The Volokh Conspiracy writes (hat tip to Glenn Reynolds), a tad grudgingly, of a kinder, gentler left-wing Supreme Court nominee on the issue of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies–that supposedly black-hearted fascist group I’ve been an active member of since 1985 (hence the: Federalist: Society tie in the above […]

 

“If you see something…” it’s probably “trademarked”

Posted on by Ron Coleman

A while ago, while obsessing about New York’s:  Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its obsession with turning what might have once merely been viewed as functional municipal signage or insignia into “IP” (intellectual property), I made fun of the MTA’s trademark application (since approved) for IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING. So in light of last […]

 

Arizona’s Gov. Brewer Wonders If Obama Is The Comic-In-Chief

Posted on by William Teach

I’m just wondering, is it too early to start the “Brewer 2012” talk? Or, perhaps, Palin/Brewer 2012? Because, damn, I really love the way she is going after President Obama In launching a Web site aimed at educating the United States on Arizona’s controversial illegal immigration law, Governor Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) took umbrage with the […]

 

Griff Jenkins Interviews Social Justice Teacher Ron Gochez: ‘I Am Against Capitalism’

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Robert Stacy McCain loves his Google bombs, but I’m telling you, I’m getting some of teh awesome search engine exposure with my reporting on Los Angeles revolutionary teacher Ron Gochez. I mean, seriously. Search for “Ron Gochez” and my entries top the list. I’m even beating Gochez on Facebook! Sweet. And lots of folks have […]

 

Study Shows Businesses Weren’t Cutting Jobs Until…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Associated Press made an interesting concession — likely without even knowing they did so — in a recent report on the “new normal” of permanent job loss in Obama’s economy. The AP admitted that until the recession, American businesses weren’t firing people simply so improve the bottom line as many anti-business, left-wingers have been […]

 

Team Obama Proposes Delay In Terror Suspect Hearings

Posted on by William Teach

According to Anthony Romero of the ACLU, the Left can now stop referring to Obama as “Bush Lite” when it comes to terrorism suspects. Let’s skip briefly ahead in the story, shall we? Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, assailed the Obama administration for considering such ideas. He noted that […]

 

Elites Hate When The People Speak

Posted on by Brian Garst

Much of the animosity we’ve witnessed directed at the Tea Party over the last year has come from political and cultural elites who find regular people disturbing, if not downright disgusting.:  The peasants, according to elites, are prone to temper tantrums and just don’t get how things work in the sophisticated political world. That same […]

 

How Chris Christie Press Smackdown Is Different Than President Obama’s Lecturing

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

When President Obama lectures the press, he’s lecturing adoring sycophants. Their problem is that they don’t love enough. When Chris Christie lectures the press, it’s because they are fundamentally unfair and biased. Dave Weigel loses that fact and says this: I can’t help but notice, however, the difference between the reaction Christie’s getting and the […]

 

Take That, Liberal Media

Posted on by Sharon Soon

*UPDATE: Apparently, the Star-Ledger doesn’t like when the truth is disclosed. They’ve quietly pulled all relevant YouTube videos relating to the incident. Thank goodness for the Eyeblast (the conservative version of YouTube), with which I’ve replaced the the YouTube video. Despite the “controversy” over newly elected Republican Governor Chris Christie, you’ve got to admit that […]

 

Google Gets More Evil: Data Collection

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Unbelievable. But not really: Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions. His request prompted us to re-examine everything we […]

 

Taking Feminism Back: Sarah Palin Endorses Nikki Haley for SC Governor

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Today, in Columbia, South Carolina, two of the women who are showing America what real feminism is, will appear together, at which time Sarah Palin will officially endorse Nikki Haley for South Carolina Governor. I had the honor of meeting Nikki Haley, and hearing her speak, in Atlanta at the Red State Gathering last Summer. […]

 

Arizona or San Francisco Values

Posted on by Dave Blount

The leftists running the media and federal government have responded to SB 1070 with a screeching cacophony of lies, as they are unable to challenge this commonsense legislation on its merits. The tasteless joke we’re asked to regard as Attorney General admits that he couldn’t even be bothered to read the 10-page bill before denouncing […]

 

Big Government to Monitor How Much Your Kids Weigh

Posted on by Dave Blount

Michelle “Baby Got Back” Obama, the junk food profiteer at the helm of the crusade against our right to feed ourselves and our kids as we see fit, will soon know exactly which children have and have not complied with her dietary decrees: A bill introduced this month in Congress would put the federal and […]

 

From Awful To Awesome

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

Today let’s go from awful to awesome in our public officials. Let’s start with awful. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday said that he hasn’t read Arizona’s recently adopted anti-illegal immigration law that has generated sharp criticism from the Administration he represents. In a Department of Justice oversight hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. […]

 

Making Medals Meaningless: Giving Them For “Courageous Restraint”

Posted on by John Hawkins

Since the very beginning of the war on terror, we’ve had overly restrictive rules on engagement for our troops. Those rules of engagement are the only reason Mullah Omar and Osama Bin Laden are alive today. We had both of them in our sights, but the Pentagon lawyers forced the troops to hold fire and […]

 

DU Thread Of The Day: Obama’s Anti-Pot, Or Something

Posted on by William Teach

Recently, I received and email from a reader who pays attention to my site, Stop The ACLU, and Right Wing News, wondering whatever happened to all the DU threads, Kos posts, and other unhinged lefty posts that used to be excerpted. I know I started DU dumpster dives long ago, after seeing John Hawkins do […]

 

The Best Quotes from “Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard”

Posted on by John Hawkins

Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. It actually altered the way I think about personal “change.” I’d certainly recommend the book to anyone and to give you an idea of why that’s the case, I wanted to put together the […]

 

Friday Stupid: Holder Admits He Hasn’t Read The Arizona Illegal Immigration Bill

Posted on by William Teach

Personally, I would think it rather important to actually read the Arizona illegal immigration law before you criticize it, much less say you are considering suing, wouldn’t you say? It’s not like it is a really big bill (perhaps Holder could spend some time reading the ObamaCare bill and see if it violates the Constitution) […]

 

2005 Kid’s Bush/Hitler Art Gets Award, 2010 Kid’s Obama/Commie Art Gets Censored

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is, as we all know, the year 2010 and the era of Obama has fairly begun. Accordingly the commissars of good art taste in our schools have spoken: no kid’s artwork that makes The Obammessiah out to be a commie will be allowed. Interestingly there was another time, another year when things were different. […]