Year: 2010

Podcast: TN #3 District Candidate Van Irion On Running Against The Establishment and AFP’s Phil Kerpen On Earmarks

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Van Irion, running for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District talks establishment Republicans, about Tea Party candidates and overcoming the cynicism of voters. Then, the American’s For Prosperity Phil Kerpen talks earmarks and why they corrupt the process and the courageous stand Republicans are taking right now.

 

House Republicans Approve Earmark Ban

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

This is a step in the right direction at curbing spending. You have to start somewhere and pork-barrel spending is a good place to start. While the numbers involved aren’t huge, in relation to total spending, at the very least it means that the GOP is listening and starting to take heed. Usually, one isn’t […]

 

Small Children Listed for Thought Crimes

Posted on by Dave Blount

Still more lunatic politically correct totalitarianism from Once-Great Britain, the croaking canary in the coalmine of moonbattery: Teachers are to be told that even if a primary school child uses homophobic or racist words without knowing their meaning, simply teaching them such words are hurtful and inappropriate is not enough. Instead the incident has to […]

 

Republicans Finally Become Conservatives Again

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today after the House Republican Conference approved a moratorium on all earmarks: “Federal spending is out of control and the American people know it. Earmarks have become emblematic of everything that is wrong with spending here in Washington […]

 

The Day Health Care Reform Finally Died?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Simply put, if this holds up, I think health care reform just died: The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday. The Senate Parliamentarian’s Office was responding to questions posed by […]

 

“March 18th Is A Very Interesting Date”

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

From The Note: “March 18th is a very interesting date,” Pelosi said, referring to the White House’s preferred deadline — the date President Obama leaves for a foreign trip. “We will take up the bill when we are ready to take up the bill.” In other words, “Obama, why don’t you just let Auntie Nancy […]

 

Obamaganda: Another School Sings Praises to Dear Leader

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s a veritable cornucopia of Obamagandistic musical agitprop. You’ll recall the militaristic, fascist-styled Obama youth corps from 2008 where a line of inner city youth stamped out their obeisance militia-like to The One like good little automatons? Perhaps the slickly produced exploitation of sweet faced children from Hollywood that same year will ring a bell? […]

 

Unions Top the $1 Billion Club in California Political Spending

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The California Teachers Association spent $211,849,298 on lobbying and political spending to get its way in California in 2009. Along with the CTA, the Calif. State Council of Service Employees and 13 other organizations spent a total of one billion dollars on political lobbying of the State House at Sacramento. All of these special interests […]

 

Massive Rally Against ObamaCare in St. Louis

Posted on by Dave Blount

Indicating how little Americans appreciate Obama’s ham-fisted attempt to take over the healthcare industry, a Kill the Bill rally in St. Louis yesterday, expected to draw 600 protesters due to the heavy interest, instead drew well over 2,000. Via Gateway Pundit: Democrats scuttled for cover and watched from the safety of their crevices. Instapundit reports: […]

 

Stupid Ideas 101: Combining Pig Roast With Burning WTC Image

Posted on by William Teach

Could this be considered a case of political correctness, or, simply a case of “some ideas are so stupid that I’m not sure how you actually did this“? Saskatchewan’s opposition New Democratic Party is slamming an advertisement distributed in a government-held constituency announcing a fundraising dinner that includes an image of the twin towers of […]

 

Louise Slaughter: Slaughtering The Will Of The People

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Glenn Reynolds wrote of the consent of the governed the other day; that was before Louise Slaughter’s evil genius plan to get health care passed. It’s government gone wild! Steve Schippert of Threats Watch fumes: House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter says she is “prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially […]

 

Hispanic Caucus May Vote No On Healthcare Over Illegals

Posted on by William Teach

Here’s your law abiding Democrat Hispanic Caucus A group of Hispanic lawmakers on Thursday will tell President Barack Obama that they may not vote for healthcare reform unless changes are made to the bill’s immigration provisions. immigration remains just as explosive an issue and carries the same potential to derail the entire healthcare endgame, a […]

 

The Obama Administration Vs. The Insurance Industry: The Double Standard

Posted on by John Hawkins

The Obama Administration’s demonization campaign against the insurance industry is proceeding apace with Kathleen Sebelius publicly carping about the companies: The head of the Health and Human Services Department is sketching out a stark choice for the nation’s insurers: oppose reform and eventually lose customers, or work with the Obama administration to improve the legislation. […]

 

A Funny Conservative Image Dump: More Pics From John Hawkins’ Hard Drive (22 Pics)

Posted on by John Hawkins

I’ve been running RWN for almost 10 years and during that time, I’ve accumulated a lot of funny conservative images on my hard drive. I thought today might be a good day to put some more of them out in a post. Enjoy! Who says Matt Drudge isn’t funny? This was a graphic from the […]

 

We’ve Moved From Passing Bills Without Reading Them to Passing Bills Without Voting On Them.

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

Let me explain the less than honest way the Democrats are trying to pass Obamacare. Newt Gingrich, who certainly knows the rules, explains it here. The problem the Democrats are having is bringing the pro life Democrats on board. They don’t want to vote for a bill with abortion funding in it. So House Democrats […]

 

Gibbs: If Senate Bill Passes House It Will Go to the President’s Desk

Posted on by SusanAnne Hiller

Original post at Big Government The other day I exposed the fact that Harry Reid switched the languagein the House-passed H.R. 3590 Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 and inserted the Senate version of the healthcare bill via a manager’s amendment in order to meet the requirement of all legislation raising taxes originate […]

 

Will Tom Hanks Screw Up “The Pacific?” Sounds Like He Might

Posted on by Duane Lester

Tom Hanks has brought more attention to the stories of World War II than one man can be expected to bring. However, a recent article in Time magazine makes me wonder what he is going to do with stories from the Pacific Theater. The Pacific, his new 10-hour epic about the Pacific theater in World […]

 

Global Warming Hoaxer George Moonbat Succumbs to Despair

Posted on by Dave Blount

Seen to the left in actual size is the world’s smallest violin, playing a special rendition of “My Heart Cries for You” in honor of George Monbiot, aka George Moonbat. The collapse of the global warming hoax has made him tragically aware that his life has been a waste of time. Whimpers Moonbat: No level […]

 

The Stupidest Story Ever On ABC? Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart

Posted on by John Hawkins

Before you ask, this is not a story from The Onion, it’s not a prank, and, no, it’s not April Fool’s Day. To the contrary, the story you are about to read actually comes from ABC News: Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that […]

 

Next Victim of Obamunism: Recreational Fishing

Posted on by Dave Blount

After the nightmare progressives call Hope & Change is finally over, it may take years to sort out all the liberties we’ve lost. Some of the most outrageous encroachments are hardly even reported, having been drowned out by the thunderous artillery aimed at our healthcare system. For example: The Obama administration will accept no more […]

 

The GOP Isn’t Going To Let The Dems’ Stupak Amendment Pass

Posted on by John Hawkins

What part of “We Will Kill Your ‘Fix’” do the Democrats not understand? Using reconciliation to try to pass socialized medicine is the nuclear option and it means all-out-political-warfare in the Senate. If the Democrats are going to play it dirty by going that way, the GOP is going to use every procedural trick in […]

 

A Concise Explanation For Why Americans Ain’t Buyin’ What President Obama Is Sellin’ On Health Care

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

To little avail, I tried explaining why Health Care Reform scares Americans on Bloggingheads the other day. While, Democrats haggle over the details of health care reform, they’re ignoring how the entirety of the bill feels like to the American people. Rasmussen sums it up, with data: Why can’t the president move the numbers? One […]

 

Walmart’s Barbie Price is Raaaacist

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Race hustlers, hate peddlers and “critics” strike again with their wolf-crying about raaaacism. This time it’s that eeevil Walmart (again) that is raaaacist because one of its stores marked down the black Barbie doll to $3.00 while the white Barbie doll was still being sold at $5.95. See? It’s raaaacist! ABC claims it found some […]

 

150 Convicted County Officials in Obama’s Chicagoland Area

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Better Government Association (http://www.bettergov.org/), a beleaguered Chicago-based watchdog group that has its work cut out for it, recently released its “Hall of Shame” report that details the nearly 150 county officials that have gone to jail for corruption in Barack Obama’s home county of Cook. And that doesn’t even include the over 100 Chicago […]