Unsafe Sharia Healthcare Coming Your Way, America

Recently the British health services ruled that Muslim nurses and doctors didn’t have to wash their hands before handling patients. Why did they reverse a hundred years of sanitary medical practices? Why, because the Brits didn’t want to upset their Muslim citizens who think that washing themselves is some sort of crime against their religion. […]

 

How Unions Are Destroying California

Steve Malanga of City journal has a great piece detailing how California’s public employee unions are destroying that once great state. Malanga starts by repeating the ominous warning to the politicos at the state capitol in Sacramento made by a Service Employees International Union chief. “We helped to get you into office and we got […]

 

SIGTARP Report Confirms: Homeowner Bailout Program Won’t Fix Housing Crisis

Connie Hair at Human Events reports: A new report released yesterday (.pdf) by Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) warns that Obama administration efforts to bailout homeowners through the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) are ineffective and will not stem the sweeping tide of foreclosures. The $75 billion HAMP […]

 


AGW Today: Free Light Bulb Night At The Ball Park!

I’m not quite sure whether to be appalled or amused, to laugh out loud or do a double face palm Xcel Energy is giving away compact fluorescent light bulbs to every person attending Wednesday’s Minnesota Twins home game, and four of those bulbs come with free tickets to future home games this season. The energy-efficient […]

 

Obama Homeowner Bailout Program A 75 Billion Dollar Bust

The government has no business using taxpayer money to prevent foreclosures in the first place. As Jeb Hensarling has said, We must remember that 93.6% of households rent, own free and clear, or are current on their mortgages…Programs…that force the responsible majority to subsidize the irresponsible minority should be rejected. That brings us to Obama’s […]

 

Steve Benen Concern Trollery on Lindsey Graham Sexual Orientation

The post is really about delegitimizing the tea parties, and especially a recent South Carolina Tax Day Tea Party. As one website put it: Tea party activists in South Carolina apparently didn’t receive the memo to tone down their incendiary rhetoric, in the wake of death threats and violent acts waged against U.S. lawmakers. A […]

 

Two Democrats Ask Obama To Shake Down Arizona Governor Over Illegals

Nice to have more confirmation that the Democrat Party is even more like the Mafia. Without the morals and prevailing rules of conduct, of course Two House Democrats on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to shun an immigration enforcement bill in Arizona – an attempt to put new pressure on him to enact comprehensive immigration […]

 

Special Report: A Briefing On All The Key Republican Senate Primaries

This year there:  is : a surprising number of competitive Republican primaries. All in all, that’s a good thing because it gets more Republicans involved, it makes the establishment Republicans respect the base, and it encourages Republicans in D.C. : to pay close attention to their constituents. That being said, at the end of the day, if […]

 

Abortion, Again: Do Babies Feel Pain?

Nebraska heats this topic up again. Embarrassed about being the late-term abortion capital of the United States, Nebraska changed the law: Can an unborn child feel pain? That question will dominate the abortion debate in America for the next several years thanks to Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska. Last week, Heineman signed the Pain Capable […]

 


Grotesquely Overpaid Illinois Teachers Demand Tax Hikes

The staggeringly greedy criminal racket known as public education has gotten so far out of control in the state that gave us Comrade Obama that taxpayers are on the hook for $1 BILLION in pension liability for just the top 100 educrats. But at least the teachers unions have figured out how to pay for […]

 

Those Delusional ‘Coffee Party’ Lefties

The self-delusional world in which liberals wallow truly is amazing. It takes an Olympic gymnast’s level of agility to warp your logic enough to think like one of them and a recent report on the left-wing blather site Newsvine is yet one more example of the backbreaking contortions that liberals must indulge to make themselves […]

 

Why Can’t Old Media Get History Right Part 2: Boston Herald Muffs Rev War

Last week I posted a deconstruction of the muffed WWII history as penned by NPR commentator Cokie Roberts. Today I have another example of muddled history in the Old Media. This one is misconstrued Revolutionary War history as published by the Boston Herald. Hard to believe that the Boston Herald, a paper that sits in […]

 


A “Take Murtha’s Seat” Moneybomb

The biggest race in America next month is going be Tim Burns (R) vs. Mark Critz (D) for “John Murtha’s seat.” Burns is a solid conservative who’s come out in favor of repealing Obama’s health care reform. It’s also worth noting that he’s winning. The latest numbers from Public Policy Polling look good: Buoyed by […]

 

Why Would Dems Worry About 2012 If Their Policies Are So Popular?

Remember when Democrats opined that Americans would love health care reform once it passed? Remember how Republicans wondered why in the world Democrats were so content to commit political suicide given the Scott Brown victory? Evidently, all is not well and so incumbent Dems are hoarding cash–not for the impending climate apocalypse–for the impending electoral […]

 

Obama And Chris Dodd Lay The GroundWork For More Bailouts

If Barack Obama came up to you and told you the sun is shining outside, you’d be wise to grab an umbrella because not only does he incessantly lie, as a general rule, whatever he says is:  the:  exact opposite of the truth. He talks about slashing the deficit, even as he’s spending like no […]

 

Nanny State To Regulate Your Salt Intake

Aren’t you thrilled that the Government is just looking out for your best interests, since you are obviously to incompetent to make your own decisions? FDA takes aim at salt content in processed food The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying […]

 

More Memory Loss. Democrats Refused Regulation of FreddieMac and FannieMae

I noticed in many of my comments that there are those on the left that seem to believe that it was Republicans that fought against regulation before our financial crisis. Nothing could be further from the truth. So let’s let the Wall Street Journal takes us on a walk down memory lane (emphasis mine). One […]

 

PETA Has An Issue With Comical Dog Riding Monkeys In Cute Costumes

Starting out the day on a lighter note this Tuesday, and proving yet again that folks on the Left tend to have no sense of humor When the dog-riding capuchin monkeys are in town, people talk. (video at the link) Philip “Dolce” Hendricks, owner of the Banana Derby, says his festival attraction tends to draw […]

 

Seven Reasons Government Has Become Completely Dysfunctional in America

The government of our country has become increasingly incompetent, corrupt, and dysfunctional. Although Barack Obama has certainly hastened our government’s slide toward mediocrity, the problems didn’t begin with him, nor are they likely to end on the very happy day when he leaves office. Moreover, many of the issues that prevent our government from operating […]

 

Rahm Emanuel: ‘I Would Like to Run for Mayor of Chicago’

On PBS’ Charlie Rose show, Rahm Emanuel finally admitted what has been rumored in hushed voices throughout the city of Chicago: He wants to run for Mayor. Emanuel told host Rose that if Mayor Daley decides not to run again, he would like to throw his own hat in the ring and run for the […]

 


How Slick Willie Exploited Oklahoma City

When the Obamunist lackeys who run the media attempt to paint Tea Partiers as potentially violent — despite the only violence coming from the left — they are implementing a strategy Dick Morris devised for their moral paragon Bill Clinton in the immediate aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing: Morris told Clinton that “direct accusations” […]

 

Baskin-Robberts New Ice Cream Flavor Honors Obama

In honor of the 44th President of the United States , Baskin-Robberts Ice Cream has introduced Barocky Road, its new flavor. Barocky Road is a blend of half vanilla, half chocolate, and surrounded by nuts and flakes. The vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and usually denied as an ingredient. The nuts […]

 


I Spent My Saturday Night Defending the Tea Party. How About You?

Saturday night I was a party with my friends, all of whom happened to be of a different political persuasion than I. One in particular, who works for the Democratic Party, decided to announce that the Tea Party movement is full of racists. Umm, no. With half a glass of wine (thank God that was […]

 

Big Government Knifes Goldman Sachs in the Back

There is danger in dealing with criminals, as the Obama-bankrolling crony capitalists at Goldman Sachs are finding out the hard way. The firm was at the top of the list of Obama donors, and was soon rewarded with mountains of our money during the “bailout” looting spree. But next on the hit list for nationalization […]

 

Video: After Saying They’re Angry Mobs, Sen. Boxer Now Wants Her Supporters to be Like Tea Partiers

Kerry Picket of the Washington Times found two amusing videos of California Senator Barbara Boxer, one in 2009 and one from this month, that shows the sad state of affairs in which Democrats find themselves politically these days. In 2009, Boxer was warning about those dangerous “well dressed” angry mobs that make up the tea […]