Year: 2010

What an incredible load of whiny, petulant crap, or: David Brooks has another column out today.

Posted on by TrogloPundit

To avoid ruining anyone’s Friday afternoon, I’ll limit myself to the first two paragraphs of the “why can’t everyone be as mature as I am” whine-fest that is David Brooks’ latest. Those of you with weak stomachs: consider yourselves cautioned. It begins: In these columns I try to give voice to a philosophy you might […]

 

Dems Conspire to Kill the Filibuster

Posted on by Dave Blount

It’s as if the power-drunk socialists currently in the driver’s seat think they’ll be there forever. Do they know something the pollsters don’t? Now they want to kill the filibuster. Here‘s what Dems said in defense of the filibuster just a few years ago, when they were in the minority, and Republicans were considering the […]

 

California Bureauweenies Punish the Righteous, Reward the Wicked

Posted on by Dave Blount

In a world run by moonbats, there’s a price to be paid for not helping to advance degradation and depravity. The Girl Scouts are on board with the progressive agenda, going so far as to encourage children to have sex and to keep the STDs they spread secret. But the Boy Scouts, not wanting an […]

 

$338.3 Billion Paid to Service America’s Illegal Aliens

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

My friend Gary Karlin over at the Evanston Conservative blog has spent the last year or so collecting a series of stories detailing the costs of illegal aliens to the United States. With just the 14 news stories he highlights, the cost rings in at a staggering $338.3 Billion in money wasted by government giving […]

 

AFSCME Official’s Threats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees chief Henry Bayer addressed a rally of Illinois unions members on April 21. During his harangue this man revealed the exact sort of logical disconnect in which union thugs everywhere wallow. Bayer noted that 10% of the workforce in Illinois is out of work. OK, then what […]

 

$crew You: Senior SEC Employees Spent “Hours a Day” Surfing Internet Porn

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports: On a day when President Obama argued for more government regulation over the financial industry, a new government report reveals that some high-level regulators have spent more time looking at porn than policing Wall Street. The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to be the sheriff of the financial industry, […]

 

Larry King Agrees Sarah Palin Should Pose For Playboy, Leftist Women’s Groups Outraged

Posted on by William Teach

Did I say outraged? Sorry, I meant “mostly silent”: Larry King gets flak for Palin comments On Tuesday night, CNN’s Larry King had comedian Sarah Silverman on his program and, towards the end of the show, Silverman made a crack about whether Sarah Palin should pose for Playboy. Silverman said “I think she should go […]

 

Climahysterics Upset Because Bush Was Pro-Solar

Posted on by William Teach

Reason # 4 why climate alarmists are nuts: they talk the talk, but, when push comes to shove, they will not actually allow alternative energy facilities to be built The Mojave Desert in southeastern California is the mother lode of renewable energy. The sun shines about 360 days a year, making it hugely valuable territory […]

 

Good News: New Comment System. Bad News: Off Today

Posted on by John Hawkins

Just a little heads up and two things. #1) I’m not going to be posting on RWN today, although some of RWN’s week-end bloggers should be taking up the slack. #2) If all goes as expected, RWN’s comment system will be replaced with Disqus this week-end. That should make the comment section easier to use, […]

 

‘South Park’ Caves to Jihadi Intimidation

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Check Boston Globe for a report, “‘South Park’ vs. Revolution Muslim.” And Ann Althouse, “Comedy Central cowers in the face of a murder threat/warning against “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.” (Via Memeorandum.) And at Gay Patriot: Those in our media élites have been taught to see “the other” as the victim of […]

 

Women Can Have It All? Only If You Abort, Claim Pro-Abortion Feminists

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Last week, an ad campaign aimed at helping women learn about post-abortion syndrome exposed the fact that modern day Feminists rejoice at abortion for convenience and that they are anything but “pro-women.” I wrote about it here and those same feminists, and others, were none too pleased with me. While they blatantly ignored my point […]

 

Moonbat Brainwashers Need to Get Them Even Younger

Posted on by Dave Blount

According to moonbat ideology, gender is just a social construct, and it’s perfectly normal for boys to turn out like Adam Lambert. But in the alternate dimension known among non-liberals as “reality“… Baby girls make a beeline for dolls as soon as they can crawl — and boys will head for the toy cars, a […]

 

Bill Gates, Racist

Posted on by Dave Blount

What do you know: the people running America really are racists. The world’s second richest man and first richest dorkazoid Bill Gates, for example: Bill Gates has made his scholarship fund off limits to white teenagers. The Gates Millennium Scholarship fund is financed by a $1 Billion endowment Bill Gates made in 1999. The fund […]

 

Union Thugs at Capitol Demand Illinois Gov’t ‘Raise Our Taxes’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the late morning hours of April 21 dozens of rented buses streamed into Springfield, the Illinois capitol, and began spewing out hundreds of tax-gorged union thugs. It was as if the Illinois Hog Producers association had pulled up to the capitol and thrown wide the doors to their livestock carriers. Some estimates say the […]

 

Policing for Profit – The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A group called the Institute for Justice (http://www.ij.org/) is doing yeoman’s work alerting everyone to the simply un-American powers that police agencies across the country have been afforded by an out-of-control government. Police agencies have been given ever increasing stormtrooper-like powers to steal your property and assets because they merely suspect you might have gotten […]

 

AP Pushes Muslims Into Story Where They Don’t Belong

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The AP recently posted one of its many daily short news stories, reports usually of only three or four paragraphs in length, this one about the possible Nazi connotations of a vanity license plate issued by the Virginia Dept. of Motor Vehicles. But at the last second, this report suddenly became a propaganda tool for […]

 

Navy Seal Found Innocent Of Roughing Up Terrorist Who Deserved To Be Beat To A Pulp

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

One of the three Navy Seals being harassed by the government has been found innocent: A U.S. military jury cleared a Navy SEAL Thursday of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed four American security contractors. The contractors’ burned bodies were dragged through the streets […]

 

Comedy Central Censorship: You Can Drop F-Bombs But Don’t You Dare Say The M-Word

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

No, the word is not Marriage. It’s Mohammed. And if you’re a show on Comedy Central, you’re safer being a vulgar Christ-phobe than being a mildly mocking Mohammed cartoon. From the New York Times: The new episode of “South Park” on Wednesday night tried to revisit this character, but with the name and depiction of […]

 

100 Places To Visit Before Climate Change Doesn’t Destroy Them

Posted on by William Teach

Oh, wait, sorry, I let my natural skepticism and denial get in the way of a good climate alarmist screed, as Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria completely loses his mind (or is he just trying to be overly controversial so that someone actually reads their magazine?): 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear (Had to use a […]

 

Mid-East Double Shot: Israeli Tells Obama “NO!”/Mystery Rockets

Posted on by William Teach

Yet again, Obama has failed on the world stage. Copenhagen, Chicago Olympics, his Iran policy (let’s be honest, everyone has failed), despised by the British press, annoyed a large number of leaders in American ally nations……and now Israel has said no. Again Aides to Israel’s prime minister said Thursday that he has officially rejected President […]

 

The Circular Reasoning Behind Manmade Global Warming

Posted on by John Hawkins

Over at National Review, global warming true believer Jim Manzi lands on Mark Levin with both feet because the Great One treats the theory of manmade global warming with the scorn it deserves. Here’s Manzi: Levin argues that human-caused global warming is nothing to worry about, and merely an excuse for the Enviro-Statists (capitalization in […]

 

This Week In Quotes: April 16 – April 21

Posted on by John Hawkins

The problem isn’t that things are collapsing. It’s that not enough things are collapsing. General Motors, AIG, and the government of California have committed enough errors to merit immediate extinction, but there they still are. Yet the political establishment continues to argue that the market needs to be prevented from delivering rough justice to sinners. […]

 

Explaining The GOP’s Fund Raising Hole

Posted on by John Hawkins

The fact that the Republican:  Party is having a hard time raising money has been much remarked upon. So has the amount they’ve been spending to do it: Both the national Democratic and Republican party committees spend about two-thirds of the money they take in on the care and comfort of committee staffs and on […]

 

Geico Dude Talks To A Blog Reader; Also, Geico Dude Gets Himself Fired

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Wrote about this before. I guess the super-incisive voice of Geico has become a product liability. From Dave Weigel: Today, Douglas reports he’s been dropped from Geico’s campaign. His dramatic news release is here; he claims to have been motivated by “the recent gay and racial slurs slung by Tea Party members at Congressman Barney […]

 

Dem Rep Raul Grijalva Calls for Boycott of His Own State

Posted on by Dave Blount

Nothing could be more profoundly self-destructive than moonbattery, as shockingly demonstrated by Arizona Congresscrumb Raul Grijalva, who wants the rest of the country to boycott his own state to punish it for trying to do something about the illegal immigration crisis. An Arizona congressman urged businesses on Tuesday to boycott his state if the governor […]

 

GEICO Drops Obnoxious Moonbat D.C. Douglas

Posted on by Dave Blount

Teacher Jason Levin isn’t the only moonbat to let Tea Party Derangement Syndrome threaten his career: Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 21, 2010 — Los Angeles actor, D.C. Douglas, says he was dropped from the upcoming GEICO “Shocking News” campaign after a group of Tea Party members harassed him and the insurance giant over a […]