Year: 2010

Charlie Crist On Health Care: You Trust This Guy? Do You Trust The GOP?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Too often during the Bush years, Republicans became enamored with the idea of compromising for compromise’s sake. Good idea, bad idea, it really didn’t matter because it wasn’t about doing what was right for the country, looking out for their constituents, or even helping the Republican Party. No, no, to the contrary, as long as […]

 

U.S. Temperatures: Adjusted Or Massaged?

Posted on by Dennis Avery

Churchville, VA – My neighbor, physicist Edward Long, is afraid our temperature records have been falsified to support the man-made global warming scare. Dr. Long recently chose two sets of U.S. meteorological stations from the master list offered by the National Climate Data Center. One data set was rural, one urban. Each had a site […]

 

Congratulations to the Marines and their Afghan allies for the Marjah victory

Posted on by Bookworm

I meant to post this yesterday, but time got away from me: many, many, many congratulations to the Marines and their Afghan allies for the Marjah victory. I never doubted that they would win, but I certainly understood that each Marine and Afghan soldier faced the risk that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for […]

 

The Most Transparent Administration Evah Strikes Again

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

Submit a FOIA request to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to release certain agency documents related to the issue of global warming, and what do you get? I simply can’t add anything to this. Unbelievable. (Via ST reader Sev) Cross-posted from the Sister Toldjah blog.

 

Obama Still Smoking ‘Em If He’s Got ‘Em

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

President Obama had his first physical as President today. I’m surprised he couldn’t perform the physical himself, since he fancies himself a doctor and all. Obama told to quit smoking for good at health check-up Under his recommendations, Kuhlman urged the president to “continue smoking cessation efforts” and noted Obama was medicating himself with nicotine […]

 

One whale of a disconnect

Posted on by Ron Coleman

I’m not someone who wants to see a killer whale killed just because it killed someone. : It’s what killer whales do, and of course Dawn Brancheau, the Seaworld trainer who was killed by an off-kilter orca yesterday, knew that well. : Still and all, there’s something not only circular but disturbing about the reasoning displayed in […]

 

The Obamotivator may have run its course…

Posted on by TrogloPundit

…leaving the Sarahmotivator still as the untied and undefeated automotivator champ. Which indicates a certain amount of rightness in the universe. Yet, we have more. A link, first: Grandpa Steve, director of health care “summit” security, thinks maybe Obama was having an epiphany. Commenter Cavalier X offers these (links open to his flickr account): Another […]

 

Media’s Obsession With ‘Multicultural Britain’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On February 27 the Times Online from Britain published what it hailed as amazing proof that 4th century Britain was “multicultural” and “diverse” during the Roman occupation of the island nation. This “new” revelation came from a recent scientific investigation into the burial in York of an African woman. The problem with this whole report […]

 

Bottoms up!

Posted on by Ron Coleman

Today is the Jewish holiday of Purim. (Unlike the biblically-based Jewish holidays, this is one, like Chanuka, on which orthodox Jews such as myself are allowed to blog!) As well explained in the Book of Esther, it’s the holiday of turnabout, surprises, false identities, intrigue, perhaps some emotional legerdemain, and not a little spiritual confusion. […]

 

Fannie Mae Gets Another $15.3 Billion Of Taxpayer Money

Posted on by Brian Garst

On Friday Fannie Mae announced a loss of $16.3 billion for the fourth quarter of 2009.:  It then ran hat-in-hand to the Treasury, requesting another $15.3 billion in taxpayer aid.:  That makes $76.2 billion that has so far been requested by Fannie Mae.:  Oh, and Fannie says yet more of your money will be needed […]

 

ManBearPig Returns! Pens Op-Ed In Fish Wrap Of Record, But Still Won’t Debate

Posted on by William Teach

After Climategate hit the airwaves and Copenhagen was a cold and snowy disaster, Al Gore, Jr. disappeared from the public scene. As this extremely cold and snowy chugged on (there is a chance of snow Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in D.C. again!), Al Gore laid low. As even more problems with the science of the […]

 

Things I Learned Watching The Joy Behar Show

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Well, actually reading about Joy’s show on sites such as Hot Air and Newsbusters, since like 99.5 percent of America I’ve never actually watched it (except for possibly a few minutes while trapped in an airport). But still, the good work and ingratiating tone of this breakthrough in television programming is getting out, even through osmosis

 

Multiplicity II, Starring Janeane Garofalo As Andie MacDowell

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

During the Bush #43 administration, the left really went to town with their practice of stealing pages from the conservative playbook that they had preceding years. But much like the cloning machine in Michael Keaton’s “Multiplicity”, the copy of a copy of a copy tended to lose more than a little crispness once it had been cloned. Here’s a brief, and very likely incomplete recap

 

Obama Already Planning 2012 Election Campaign

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I know, hard to believe, right? And by hard to believe, I mean totally believable and obvious to anyone without their head up their own behind. If anyone is shocked by the fact that Obama is already focusing on his 2012 re-election campaign, they may as well give up now. The man has never stopped […]

 

SEIU Prez Andy Stern Appointed to Federal Deficit Commission?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama has today appointed Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern to the federal deficit-reduction commission. And I say, why not? After all union thugs like Stern are one of the root causes of federal deficits so he should know all about them. Unfortunately, though, Stern only knows how to make deficits worse […]

 

The common bonds between Iranian Mullahs and the Democrats

Posted on by Bookworm

Several years ago, when Bush Derangement Syndrome was at its peak, I tackled the “he’s got his finger on the button and he’s going to blow up the world” meme that anti-war activists were so shrilly screaming. I pointed out that there was no evidence whatsoever to indicate that George Bush was an apocalyptic person. […]

 

Mob Rule, Alive and Well, Despite Coughing on Second-Hand Smoke

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

As I was roaming about the house, muttering under my breath with outrage at yet another “How dare you question The One! Racist Crackers! ” demonization of conservatives, I couldn’t help but think, and thus become further dismayed, that I wasn’t really surprised. It is obvious that few, including Congress, understand that America is a […]

 

Conservative talk radio weekly recap: Feb 22-26

Posted on by Kathy Shaidle

My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up! Enjoy FREE audio and webcam highlights from the week in conservative talk radio: Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and more. Here’s what came in after my deadline: Hugh Hewitt played the now-infamous “wearing her sister’s dentures” clip from the Blair House health care summit for […]

 

Cap And Tax May Be Gone, Replaced With “Just Tax, Baby!”

Posted on by William Teach

It’s a good thing the Washington Post is there to tell us these kinds of things on a Saturday when most people are not watching: Senators to propose abandoning cape-and-trade Three key senators are engaged in a radical behind-the-scenes overhaul of climate legislation, preparing to jettison the broad “cap-and-trade” approach that has defined the legislative […]

 

The other 44% didn’t understand the question

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Is the vast maze of U.S. law and regulation, and the intricately interwoven web of bureaucratic and departmental turf, and the insidiously spreading take-to-give addiction of our elected leaders an “imminent” threat to American liberty? Most of us say yes. The next question is: do enough of us think that? Or too many of us? […]

 

Crist Is Toast: ‘Goodbye, Charlie’

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

The American Spectator‘s Florida-based correspondent Larry Thornberry: TAMPA — “Moderate” Florida governor Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign is circling the drain. And it’s mostly his own fault. Crist, a formerly conservative politician who “grew in office” after becoming governor in 2007, went through a 50-point lead over conservative former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio faster than […]

 

Free Tilly! Death of Dawn Brancheau Sparks Debate on Animal Cruelty

Posted on by Donald Douglas

It’s an eerie thing watching the amateur video of Dawn Brancheau’s last few minutes alive (available here). And see the New York Times, “Video Shows SeaWorld Trainer With Orca Moments Before Her Death“: A local news station in Florida has obtained video shot by a tourist from New Hampshire at SeaWorld in Orlando on Wednesday […]

 

Heel Time With Bill Maher: He’s Better Than You

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Image courtesy of iowntheworld.com Bill Maher is better than you. Or, so he claims, once again, during an appearance on Larry King. “But what the Democrats never understand is that Americans don’t really care what position you take, just stick with one,” Maher said. “Just be strong. They’re not bright enough to really understand the […]

 

Podcast: Matt Kibbe of Freedom Works Talks Tea Party, Crowd Sourcing And The Power Of The People

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Freedom Works President Matt Kibbe talks the Tea Party, the power of the people and why he’s so optimistic about the future. We also talk about how technology has empowered the people and why that’s a good thing. People mentioned in this show include Dick Armey, Matt Lewis, Ryan Hecker, the Dallas Tea Party, Ludwig […]

 

Tea Party Weekend: Daytona Bike Week Freedom Rally Is Ready to Rock!

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

Chelsea Schilling at WorldNetDaily: One year ago this week, tens of thousands of patriots held “tea parties” in 40 cities in protest of government expansion, bailouts and the stimulus package, launching a nationwide movement — and now those citizens are regrouping and heading back to the streets to “recharge the movement” Saturday. Feb. 27 marks […]