Year: 2010

Democrats And Health Care Bill: Bait & Switch & Switch & Then, Probably, Switch Again

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Public option: In School loans: In And yet, it’s called a “shell” bill that will be stripped. Philip Klein explains it all. Here’s a bit: Shortly before midnight on Sunday, Democrats released a 2,309 page health care bill that will start the process of reconciliation — but don’t let that fool you, it’s not the […]

 

Selected quotes from the 2010 AFP Defending the American Dream Summit

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Although I’m using the word “quotes” rather loosely. I was writing stuff down as fast as I could, but I can’t be completely sure I got every single preposition and conjunction. Dr. Tim Nerenz, of the Oldenburg Group, Inc. “I never thought I’d be living in a NASCAR Republic. A NASCAR Republic is when you’re […]

 

3rd Annual AFP Defending the Amer. Dream Summit, Wisconsin — Final Report

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, I am back home from attending the AFP Defending the American Dream Summit. The speakers were inspiring and the panel on which I sat during one of the break out sessions was really fun. A word about what this whole thing was is apropos here. It was attended by some 4,000 folks, all regular […]

 

Leftist The Nation magazine: When In Doubt, Blame Bush. Again

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

It seems that math, cooking and basic home economics aren’t the only things with which Katrina Vanden Heuvel has trouble. I wrote about her inability to function at those household basics yesterday, here. Well, it appears that the reality-challenged Vanden Heuvel, Editor of The Nation magazine, also isn’t a very good, you know, Editor. .. […]

 

Senator Scott Brown Delivers Devastating GOP Weekly Address

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Senator Scott Brown Delivers Devastating GOP Weekly Address Associated Press Then ‘Blames’ Senator Brown for Failure to Pass Health Care Bill Last month, I defended Scott Brown on his vote for cloture on the ridiculous jobs bill. While I obviously thought that it was a mistake, I wasn’t ready to break out the pitchforks. Scott […]

 

Help Obama Escape Gitmo And Bush’s Eeeeeevil Plans!

Posted on by William Teach

One of my favorite on-line distractions is playing “room escape” games (best starting site is Escape Games 24). Imagine my surprise when I ran across this typical piece of leftists wackadoodle insanity Just move on, lefties, just move on. I understand Prozac helps many of you adjust to rational, adult society, and reduces the amount […]

 

Latest AGW Scaremongering: Harms Women The Most, Causes STDs

Posted on by William Teach

Like I, and so many others, have stated, as we run into the warm season in the Northern Hemisphere, the Climahysterics start emerging from their burrows like so many hibernating skunks (the comparison might not be fair to the skunks), and we end up with UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9 (IPS/TerraViva) — The negative fallout from […]

 

Great Mother Gaia has a special place in Hell Negative Karma for…bloggers.

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Do you believe in reincarnation? Do you want to avoid coming back in the next life as one of these? The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo. Better stop polluting Mother Earth, then. Because Goddess has a sense of humor, and if you spend […]

 

3rd Annual AFP Defending the Amer. Dream Summit, Wisconsin — Opening Festivities

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am here in Beautiful Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin for the AFP Defending the American Dream Summit… or I assume it’ll be beautiful once the drab days of Winter are over, anyway. I haven’t been to the Dells since about 1973, so things have changed a tad since I was last here. Tonight, after registration closed […]

 

Stupak: Dems Told Me Funding Abortion Is Good, Because Kids Are Costly

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Bart Stupak just had a revelation. And it’s a disturbing one. Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes […]

 

Katrina Vanden Heuvel Needs to Try Being Barefoot in a Kitchen

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I read something in The Washington Post the other week that amused me, but:  I was side-tracked with other news. However, I believe this idiocy still needs pointing out. The very people who want to tell us what to do, apparently can’t even fend for themselves! Katrina Vanden Heuvel, the Editor of the radical leftist […]

 

Mixed Reviews for ‘Green Zone’

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Here’s an update on “Green Zone,” out today from Universal Studios. From the film’s website: It is 2003, and U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of inspectors have been dispatched by their commanders to find weapons believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site […]

 

Reporter Silenced on Behalf of Sean Penn

Posted on by Dave Blount

Tinseltown totalitarian Sean Penn, a fawning admirer of socialist dictators, has learned from them when it comes to dealing with troublesome journalists: A Yeas & Nays reporter [Tara Palmeri] was publicly berated and threatened to be escorted out by police on Thursday night when the reporter asked actor Sean Penn a controversial question about his […]

 

Coffee Party Astroturf

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What is it that the left and the Old Media said about the Tea Party movement? Didn’t they say it was not really filled with regular folks and didn’t they say it was not really a grass roots level effort because some nefarious “top-down” Republican groups were secretly behind the whole thing? That’s what Paul […]

 

Mentoring

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

Yesterday morning on Fox and Friends they had several young African American boys from a low income area who attended a charter school that boasts 100% college bound students. You guys know this is an issue close to my heart. Gretchen asked them what made the difference in this school. One young man answered that […]

 

Do Democrats Understand How An Economy Works?

Posted on by William Teach

I was hoping to go with a bit of lighter fare, a funny story about a guy bringing a barstool to a gunfight (guess who wins), alas, two other stories caught my eye, and highlight how clueless and inept Democrats are regarding jobs and the economy. Let’s start with The Cluelessness Of Obama President Obama […]

 

Health Care Reform: Poll…Tell Me What You Think

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Since no one seems to know what’s up or down… Although John is pretty darn sure that it’s over. I just don’t believe it. I have never seen legislators so willfully defy the American people. Ever. A poll: Health Care is…. Alive and kicking Dead On life support Who the heck knows…..    pollcode.com free […]

 

AP Slips in ‘Poverty’ as Reason For Nigerian Massacres

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

True to its fealty to left-wing, western pop psychology, the Associated Press thinks it knows one of the principle reasons why roving gangs of Muslims are hacking Christians to death and burning their villages to the ground in Nigeria: It’s “poverty.” Liberals that struggle to understand why man is often so cruel to his fellows […]

 

Obama’s Indonesia Trip Timing Questioned

Posted on by William Teach

At first blush, I looked at the headline of this story (Timing of Obama Indonesia Trip Questioned) and thought “come on, give me a break. Presidents go on international trips. Lighten up.” Then I read the substance, and, while I do not really question the timing (seriously, does it matter if Obama is here or […]

 

This Week In Quotes: Mar 5 – Mar 11

Posted on by John Hawkins

I may be guilty of extortion, but I never took a bribe. — Monica Conyers Big business is not “right wing,” it’s vampiric. It will pursue any opportunity to make a big profit at little risk. Getting in bed with politicians is increasingly the safest investment for these “crony capitalists.” — Jonah Goldberg Back in […]