Year: 2010

Deutschland Deja Vu: The Baader Meinhof Complex

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Watching The Baader Meinhof Complex’s titular Teutonic terrorist gang in action on the small screen, I was struck by déjà vu of it all. A small but growing band of radicals with a penchant for street theater, wishing to smash capitalism and destroy the system from within, led by a fanatical, brawling leader, with at least one articulate well-bred intellectual within the inner circle. Starting off by blowing up small, bourgeois shops. Eventually hooking up with sympathetic allies in the Middle East. Then killing American soldiers. And when finally cornered, going out in a Gotterdammerung of mass suicide rather than face punishment from their captors. That’s never happened in Germany before

 

The Moral Equivalent Of The War On The Na’vi

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

At a recent pre-Oscar fundraiser, James Cameron goes back to the future, and regurgitates a meme that’s about as old as the original Titanic herself. As John Nolte of Big Hollywood writes, “James Cameron Declares Thoroughly Debunked Global Warming as Severe a Threat as WWII”

 

Bloggingheads TV: Well, I Think We Can Establish That Liberals Really Dislike Me, They Really, Really Dislike Me

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Thursday, I had my debut on Bloggingheads with the liberal blogger Bill Scher of Liberal Oasis. I had never met Bill before, though we had had some pleasant exchanges on Twitter. Here’s the link to Bloggingheads.tv and our show. I was a little nervous and was short on prep time. There is no question I […]

 

Illinois Dangerous ‘Presumed Consent’ Organ Donor Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Illinois State Senator Dale Risinger (R, Peoria) has offered a bill in Springfield that drives our society further along the path of making parts of the human body a commodity, undercutting the sacred status of human life. SB 3613, the Presumed Donor bill, amends the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act to define all Illinois patients as […]

 

Federal Worker Pay Outpaces Private Sector

Posted on by Brian Garst

The productive sector of the economy is having to shoulder quite the burden when it comes to paying the salaries for their “public sector” cohorts, who USA Today finds are excessively compensated: Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal […]

 

What?

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Writing at Reason, the outstandingly named economist Veronique de Rugy included this sentence in a column about the Value Added Tax, and why it won’t work: Take President Obama’s first budget, released last year. In it, he assumed that most of the $600 billion coming from proposed cap-and-trade fees would be allocated to deficit reduction. […]

 

Conservative talk radio weekly recap: Mar 1-5

Posted on by Kathy Shaidle

My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND. Check out the FREE audio and webcast highlights from the week in conservative talk radio: Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and more! PLUS: Sarah Palin and Michael Reagan will do guest appearances along Salem’s 12-city “America Unplugged” tour. The first stop on the […]

 

The House Vote on the Senate Healthcare Bill Is the Final Vote; Obama Will Sign It Into Law

Posted on by SusanAnne Hiller

Americans need to understand the devastating significance of the House vote on the Senate health care bill set for March 18th. The Democrats have–by design–created the perfect storm to take over the US healthcare system, while providing an ideal distraction–reconciliation. First, let’s examine exactly how we got here. In late December, while Americans were arguing […]

 

Obama Use Weekly Radio Address To Push Economic And Jobs Recovery

Posted on by William Teach

Just kidding. He yammered on about health care yet again President Obama pressed Congress on Saturday to “finish its work” on health care, dismissing criticism from Republicans as he sought to build a case that the legislation would be friendly to families and small businesses. As the administration works to win over skeptical Democrats in […]

 

Dear Harry Reid: Is Your Ivory Tower Padded?

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

If Harry Reid’s Ivory Tower isn’t padded, it should be, because he is cuckoo pants. I submit as exhibit A: Only 36,000 jobs lost, which is UP from last month. What a super awesome day! Who wants evil private sector jobs anyway, right Harry? The rhetoric of the Democrat’s has moved from incomprehensible to absolutely […]

 

Is Google Evil? Part II: Search Neutrality

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Google skates the edge. Persistently, relentlessly invading our lives. We want Google. We need Google. Then, they go and do something like Buzz and we feel violated. They cow-tow to the Chinese government and allow censorship to the Chinese people. Or strangely, no matter how you enter “Islam” into Google, you won’t get negative word […]

 

Follow the Money to the Global Warming Hog Trough

Posted on by Dave Blount

You know the wheels are coming off the global warming swindle when you can get material like this from Australia’s public ABC: For all the smears of big money funding the “deniers”, the numbers reveal that the sceptics are actually the true grassroots campaigners, while Greenpeace defends Wall St. … Greenpeace has searched for funding […]

 

Pentagon Shooter John Patrick Bedell 9/11 Truther–UPDATED: And A Democrat

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

The press in the U.S. is already trotting out that Bedell was a Right-Wing extremist. Meanwhile, the BBC reports this: Police said they had found no immediate connection to terrorism, but internet postings suggested Bedell had harboured ill-feelings towards the government. A user by the name of “JPatrickBedell” wrote that he was “determined to see […]

 

And Not Once Did the New York Times Mention the Word Islam!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Nicholas Kristof rightly celebrates a new book highlighting the evils of the forced marriages of pre-teen girls to older men. Kristof is also right to reveal the sordid truths about the practice of marrying off pre-teen girls and the abuse they invariably seem to suffer in the arrangement. But one word was conspicuously missing from […]

 

Service Employees Inat’l Union Gives $1.7 Mil to Ill. Gov. Quinn

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Service Employees International Union wants YOU to pay more taxes, Illinois. And, in order to get their wish, they’ve donated $1.7 million to the one candidate that has since the beginning promised to raise everyone’s taxes, Governor Pat “Mighty Taximo” Quinn. Oh, it’s a cozy arrangement, of course. The SEIU represents many of Illinois […]

 

Uh Oh. ClimateGate II?

Posted on by William Teach

The Washington Times let’s us in on the story Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be “an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach” to gut the credibility of skeptics. Apparently, the science can’t stand on its […]

 

Dangerous Anti-Government Gun Nut Rightwinger Suspended From Kindergarten

Posted on by William Teach

Good thing the Nanny State jumped on this quickly! To the little boy’s mother, it was just a 6-year-old boy playing around. But when Mason Jammer, a kindergarten student at Jefferson Elementary in Ionia, curled his fist into the shape of a gun Wednesday and pointed it at another student, school officials said it was […]

 

Conservative Bloggers Choose Their Favorite Movies Of All-Time

Posted on by John Hawkins

Right Wing News emailed more than 255 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of their favorite movies. Representatives from the following 55 blogs responded… All That Is Necessary, The Anchoress, Argghhhh!, Atlas Shrugs, Bad Example, Basil’s Blog, Bookworm Room, Lorie Byrd, Classical Values, Melissa Clouthier, Copious Dissent, Classical Values, Conservative Compendium, […]

 

The University Of Washington Protest: Socialism Makes You Stupid

Posted on by John Hawkins

As you may have heard, yesterday there were protests at universities in several states over tuition hikes and funding cuts for schools. Well, University of Washington student, Nick Jacob, headed out to get some snaps of the UW protest and got an absolutely hilarious shot: Nick’s comment? “Pure irony. The students who are cutting class […]

 

Military Tribunal For KSM? Hmmmm….. UPDATED

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

The Washington Post reports (via HotAir) that Kahlid Sheik Mohammed will now be getting a military tribunal: President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. […]

 

Rahm Emanuel Is Committing Suicide By Cop

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Erick Erickson writes a provocative piece tonight: It started mid-February with a hagiographic tale of woe in the Obama administration and how Rahm Emanuel is the hero and adult in the room. A week later it followed with another look into the White House with Obama as the wimp and Rahm as the muscle. Earlier […]

 

Illinois Rep. Halvorson’s $60,000 of Dirty Rangel Money

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

First-term Democratic Congressman Debbie Halvorson (Ill., 14th District) was the recipient of $60,000 in political donations from the ethically compromised New York Representative Charlie Rangel, recently deposed Chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee. Rangel was found guilty of multiple violations of House ethics rules that have gone on for decades and because of […]

 

Keeping Us Safe From Terrorists

Posted on by Dave Blount

At last we have an answer to the question, “Where the hell is Secretary Napolitano?” Up she pops like a puzzled prairie dog to reveal once again that she has no clue: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told senators it is a national security concern that people from countries with ties to terrorism could ‘potentially’ […]

 

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Bribe ‘Em: Obama Now Trading Judgeships For Votes

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Chicago-style politics once again coming home to roost. The Weekly Standard is reporting that Obama is now selling judgeships for health care votes: Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to […]