Year: 2010

Why Regulating Nutritional Supplements Is Stupid And Why Drugs Are Over-Regulated

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Yesterday, my esteemed co-blogger John Hawkins wrote a post stating that he agrees with John McCain about regulating nutritional supplements. They’re both wrong. First, it’s important to examine how effective the FDA is in protecting the people when it comes to regulating drugs. Not very. Deaths from prescription drugs are “soaring“. Check out this recall […]

 

Washington State’s SEIU Bought Republican

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On February 24, Moe Lane posted a short piece alerting one and all to the fact that one of the Republican candidates for Washington State’s 3rd Congressional District is a favorite of the hard-core lefties in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — one of Obama’s favorite Big Labors cohorts. Mr. Lane, though, was sure […]

 

Reuters Acknowledges That It Isn’t Getting Any Warmer

Posted on by Dave Blount

Time to spread a little jelly on the global warming hoax. If even the establishment libs at Roto-Reuters admit that it hasn’t been getting any warmer despite the supposed ongoing crisis, you know the whole swindle is toast. Climate scientists must do more to work out how exceptionally cold winters or a dip in world […]

 

Respect The Dead & Protect The Living: Kill Tilikum The Killer Whale

Posted on by John Hawkins

Unless you’re a nut, like the people at PETA, people come before animals. And when we’re talking about an ORCA that has turned into a serial killer, it needs to be put down or at least released in the wild: A SeaWorld Orlando animal trainer died Wednesday from “multiple traumatic injuries and drowning” after a […]

 

What Should Be A Career Ending Health Care Lie For Harry Reid

Posted on by John Hawkins

In more rational times, Harry Reid’s egregious lie about reconciliation would end his political career. What lie, you ask? Actually, come to think of it, you’re probably thinking something more along the lines of, “Which lie?” This lie: In case you don’t want to watch the video, it’s a cranky Harry Reid, at the health […]

 

Lefty Dupe Says Pentagon Isn’t Part of the Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Americans for Prosperity has this hilarious slice of lefty disconnect that is just so typical of how folks on the left really just don’t have a grasp on rarity. Just outside of Blair House, across the street from the White House at the corner of 17th St & Pennsylvania Ave., we see young lady from […]

 

Now The Brits are Having Tea Parties!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s just plain odd, but funny and telling all at the same time. Apparently the Brits are going to have their own tea party to protest their own plight of over taxation. Accordingly, Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan is sponsoring a Brighton Tea Party to be held on February 27. Hannan thinks that […]

 

Up to 1,200 Killed at One Hospital by British Version of ObamaCare

Posted on by Dave Blount

From Airstrip One, yet another indication as to why the Dems are encountering so much resistance in their attempt to impose socialized medicine: Up to 1,200 people lost their lives needlessly because Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust put government targets and cost-cutting ahead of patient care. But none of the doctors, nurses and managers who failed them […]

 

CST: Guess Which Years Are Now The Hottest

Posted on by William Teach

Collapsing Science Today: Reuters is still pushing the climate alarmist meme The decade 2000-2009 was the hottest since 1850 as a result of warming through the 1980s and 1990s which has since peaked, says the World Meteorological Organisation. Well, you see, in reality Four of the top 10 are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, […]

 

GOP Forces Dems To Pull The “Be Nice To Terrorists” Bill

Posted on by William Teach

Did you hear about this one Thursday? While you were distracted by the health bloviations, Andy McCarthy found out what the Democrats tried to slip into an intelligence bill The Obama Democrats have outdone themselves. While the country and the Congress have their eyes on today’s dog-and-pony show on socialized medicine, House Democrats last night […]

 

There’s Nothing You Can Do That Can’t Be Done…

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Remember HillBuzz last month, describing Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, et al.? Honestly, we thought the extent of the attacks would be more of the same thing these people usually do, which is to say bad things about this site, to fill our voicemails up with nasty messages, to send more hatemail to our email telling […]

 

The Health Care Summit and The Wound That Never Heals

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

I don’t think the summit turned out quite the way Pres. Obama thought it would, and this is the reason why. Let me try something out on you: This health-care summit was a bad idea for the Democrats for this reason: They have long benefited from a perception — a perception greatly abetted by the […]

 

Sweet! Obama Admin. Blows Off England Again

Posted on by William Teach

Remember when Obama and the left would make our relations with the world all rainbows and unicorn poots? Well, how’s that working out? Washington refused to endorse British claims to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands yesterday as the diplomatic row over oil drilling in the South Atlantic intensified in London, Buenos Aires and at the […]

 

Max Blumenthal Booger-Boarded

Posted on by Donald Douglas

From Andrew Breitbart, “Max Blumenthal, You’re Being Booger-Boarded“: Max Blumenthal has an amazing thesis: All conservatives and Republicans are beneath contempt. He also has an amazing line of work. He is underwritten by various media organs to prove his thesis …. Max gallivanted around CPAC looking for prey. He was treated with respect as he […]

 

‘Compton Cookout’? Not the Racial ‘Crisis’ it’s Cracked Up to Be

Posted on by Donald Douglas

At the Los Angeles Times, “Students Walk Out of UC San Diego Teach-In.” The first thing I noticed is the tears streaming down the young woman’s face. What’s causing her so much pain? It’s hard to see at the screencap, so look closely at the original image. At issue was an off-campus party thrown by […]

 

Fiscal Responsibility Lasted Two Weeks In Senate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Two weeks ago the U.S. Senate passed new rules that would require new spending to be offset somewhere else in the budget, the so-called paygo rule. They did this because Democrats and Obama got tired of being called big spending socialists and wanted the veneer of fiscal responsibility with which to cloak themselves. It lasted […]

 

Bill Proposals Move Ill. Primary Back to March (Democrat Capriciousness)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Estimates of voter participation proved that the February primary didn’t garner much interest. With less than 30 percent of registered voters turning out to nominate those that will run in November, moving the primary to February was obviously a bad move. Of course, this year’s primary was moved up to February in a 2007 bill […]

 

McCain And I Agree? On New Regulations, No Less? The Government Should Regulate Supplements.

Posted on by John Hawkins

One of the great ironies of heavily over-regulated, overlawyered, and over-nannied society is that the makers of dietary supplements are allowed to make wild, completely unsupportable claims about their products while the government sits around with their thumbs up their behinds. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that people selling Yohimbe and […]

 

McCain Outflanks Moonbat Messiah on the Left

Posted on by Dave Blount

As the global warming farce collapses in ruins, with even a main perpetrator confessing that there has been no warming over the last 15 years, and even the shameless Al Gore laying low, there are few dupes clueless enough to continue buying into the most expensive hoax in pseudoscientific history. John “Lettuce” McCain — whose […]

 

Explaining The Democratic Health Care Strategery And Why It’s Going To Fail

Posted on by John Hawkins

I’ve heard a lot of confusion about what the Democrats are trying to do on healthcare and the chances of it passing; so I wanted to do a brief, easy-to-understand-as-possible post to explain where we’re at in the process. The Democrats have passed a bill through the House and through the Senate, but they’re different […]

 

Health Care Summit Sum Up So Far–UPDATED

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Obama: Whatever you can do, we’ve done better. Pelosi: People are sad. Reid: People are sad and Republicans suck. Alexander: Here are the CBO facts. Obama to Alexander: You lie. Coburn, MD: We should cut costs. Baucus: Mumble, mumble. Incoherent gibberish. UPDATED: Obama: I won. UPDATED AGAIN: It is my sense that the Democrats want […]

 

Climate Data Review: Fox Guarding Henhouse

Posted on by William Teach

Amazingly, the science is so settled and the data so picture perfect that leading climate alarmists want a do over The two most influential advisory bodies on climate change are planning independent reviews of their research in an attempt to regain public trust after revelations about errors and the suppression of data. The Intergovernmental Panel […]

 

Suffering Through Obama’s Political Theater: Blair House Bait-N-Switch Project

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Just FYI, I’ll be live-tweeting the Health Care Summit. Why is Obama doing this? From National Review’s Tevi Troy: In addition, as the New York Times reported, the main reason that President Obama had to – finally – release a White House plan is that the Democrats in the House and Senate could not come […]

 

Bernanke: You Dems Are Turning America Into Greece

Posted on by William Teach

OK, he didn’t specifically say that, but, for all intentions, that is what he meant With uncharacteristic bluntness, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Congress on Wednesday that the United States could soon face a debt crisis like the one in Greece, and declared that the central bank will not help legislators by printing […]