Year: 2010

At LAT, “With little money to spend, Chuck DeVore puts his faith in his message: Running third in a three-way race for the GOP’s U.S. Senate nomination, he is a strict “tea party” conservative.” As usual, the piece is one of those balloon poppers LAT‘s so famous for. Note especially the quote from political scientist […]

As you have probably heard, Arizona’s Governor has signed a tough new law targeting illegal immigrants. Both sides have done their usual barking from the far side of their political agendas. We are sick of it. I find myself agreeing in part with a liberal columnist for The Arizona Republic: From one side, we heard […]

I finally got to finish Karl Rove’s book “Courage and Consequence.” What I would like to do is run through a couple of the false narratives the left has always pushed about Karl Rove. The first, and perhaps the most vicious, is the story that Karl Rove was behind the pushpolling against McCain in South […]

The dude’s banned at the University of Wyoming, and you gotta love these “security threats” : Attorneys cite security threats as the only reason for the University of Wyoming barring University of Illinois-Chicago Professor Dr. William Ayers, according to court documents filed in federal court for UW and UW President Tom Buchanan on Saturday. Four […]

From NASA on Flickr (full-size is here, and be sure to cruise around a bit while visiting there … incredible stuff): Also at The Big Picture: The most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth created to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land […]

Did anybody else know that November 5th is “widely known” as “Guy Fawkes Night?” Those are Benen’s words. “Widely known.” Guy Fawkes was a British wannabe terrorist. He planned to blow up Parliament, but was arrested before he could bring the plot off. Much more recently — and much more relevant to Western cultural references […]

My all-new Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND! Enjoy lots of FREE audio and webcam clips from Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and many others. (Kathy Shaidle blogs at FiveFeetOfFury.com, now in its 10th year.)

At CNN, “Sources: Votes lacking for immigration push in Congress” (via Memeorandum). No surprise there: Also, at Gateway Pundit, “Obama Strikes Out with GOP Senators on Immigration — Lindsey Graham Stands Alone.” Cross-posted from American Power.

John Hawkins has a roundup at RWN, “The 10 Best Tea Party Signs So Far.” But not included are a some of my favorites from American Power… For example, from Irvine April 15, 2010: See the rest at American Power …

Because recent history kind of indicates that you don’t. The story: an insurance company called WellPoint appears to be canceling health insurance policies when women covered by those policies are diagnosed with breast cancer. Whether it’s true or not, I don’t know. If it’s true, holy crap how stupid. Seriously: this is exactly the kind […]

Actually, no. It’s more like Clark Kent accidentally left a piece of red cape sticking out where his shirt was supposed to be tucked in. A colleague and I were working over a piece of code…and I don’t know who brought it up, but somehow the birth certificate thing surfaced. That’s a year and a […]

Kerry: Three Big Oil Companies Likely to Back Climate Bill When Sens. John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman release their climate bill on Monday, they expect to have the backing of three of the five major oil companies, Mother Jones has learned. In a conference call with a coalition of progressive business leaders on […]