Year: 2010

New Video: ‘Ayn Rand: Goddess Of The Market’

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Jennifer Burns, the author of the best-selling late 2009 book on Ayn Rand’s remarkably contentious history with the American right stopped by the vast Silicon Graffiti production facilities last week to discuss her book and the research that went into it.

 

Health Care Reconciliation–AKA Jam The Legislation Through–While Using Republicans As Props

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

President Obama has a long history of saying one thing and sounding so reasonable and conciliatory while doing it while taking actions that completely contradict his words. Enter health care reform. The President wants to have a photo op with Republicans and an opportunity to lecture then about what bad people they are (you know, […]

 

Rajendra Pachauri Applies Green to the Golf Course

Posted on by Dave Blount

If you thought the $30,000 power bills for Al Gore’s mansion were impressive, check out Rajendra Pachauri’s retreat and golf course: The area around it is dry because water is in short supply in this region of India; nearby Gurgaon and Delhi sometimes don’t have enough for drinking. But despite the allegedly melting Himalayan glaciers, […]

 

White House Has Violated Federal Election Law

Posted on by Dave Blount

If Hopey Change means anything, it’s that Chicago-style politics have gone national. Let’s see if the whole country really wants to live with the sort of government that entails. Via The American Spectactor: “Whoever solicits or receives … any … thing of value, in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in […]

 

Why Sarah Palin Should Have Been At CPAC; Ditto Huckabee

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

If there are over 10,000 of the most dedicated grassroots activists for the conservative cause in one place, why would you miss it? That’s a rhetorical question. You wouldn’t miss it. CPAC was lit up with the energy not of old establishment types but the young, the restless and the politically active. You know those […]

 

Newt Might Try To Co-Opt The Tea Party Movement But It Won’t Work

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Donald Douglas has an excellent take-down of the LA Time’s perspective on the Contract FROM America verses Newt Gingrich’s Contract For America back in 1994. Go read the whole thing. It is clear to me that Newt very badly wants to harness the energy of the Tea Party movement but be let off the hook […]

 

The Mount Vernon Statement, A Poor Man’s Manifesto… VERY Poor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A group made up of some of the biggest names in contemporary conservatism got together a few days ago and crafted what they are calling the “Mount Vernon Statement,” a manifesto of sorts meant to give direction to today’s conservative movement. Put succinctly, it fails to fill the bill. Taken as a whole this statement […]

 

CST: Sea Rise Claim Withdrawn Plus Others

Posted on by William Teach

Collapsing Science Today: Yet again, a supposed peer reviewed report in a major journal, and used by the UN IPCC, has issues. Shocking! Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings. The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, […]

 

IRS Plane Attacker Part of ‘Right Wing,’ Christmas Bomber Just a ‘Lone Wolf’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

No clearer difference can be seen in how the Old Media and its left-wing compatriots treat mass killers, terrorists and nutjobs than the way Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab and Joe Stack have been portrayed by the Old Media and the left. Abdulmutallab, the jihadi Christmas Bomber, was treated as an aberration unconnected with any larger group […]

 

If Obama’s Not A Socialist, Why Is He Now Targeting Insurance Rate Control?

Posted on by William Teach

Dictionary definition of Socialism a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. Obviously, in practice, it is a bit more complicated than that, however, not much, and the primary point […]

 

The CPAC 2010 Experience (35 Pics): Day 2

Posted on by John Hawkins

Early on in the day Pamela Gellar’s “Jihad: The Political Third Rail” event was high on my list of priorities. It featured : “Steve Coughlin, Wafa Sultan, Allen West, Simon Deng, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, & Robert Spencer.” Unfortunately, I was pressed for time and the event was packed. Every seat was filled and there were maybe 50 […]

 

The CPAC 2010 Experience (35 Pics): Day 3

Posted on by John Hawkins

Over the course of the week, we had a number of big names come by bloggers’ row. Among others, they included Tim Pawlenty, Chuck Devore, Steve Poizner, Mike Pence, and Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart hung around to talk the most and he had a very good CPAC. He got into this confrontation with some liberal jackass. […]

 

Seattle Radio Host Wants to Punch Out Ann Coulter, Octomom, Zach Effron, Others

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Brooke Fox of Seattle’s MOVIN, 92.5 FM radio show “The Ladies Room” wants to know who would be worth risking jail just so you could punch them out. Such violence. Of course, the question is what would have happened if a conservative radio show host had made this Twitter post? On her Twitter feed on […]

 

A retrospective on the war on Iraq

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

If you read nothing else today, please read David Bellavia’s poignant piece on Iraq: Our Mission is Finally Accomplished… Anyone Care? It’s mostly directed at the doubters and naysayers, those who didn’t believe the US could and would win there, but it’s also an important read for those of us stateside who never gave up […]

 

Public Employees Unions Destroying California

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mark Tapscot echoes our current theme here on the blog by reporting that California is once again in a disastrous budget shortfall and one of the biggest reason that this is so is the undue power of the recalcitrant public employees unions. Tapscot says that California cannot get out of its mess because, “the unions […]

 

What do the reconciliation process and Danica Patrick have in common?

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Is it just me, or is this whole “we’ll pass health care ‘reform’ through reconciliation” thing becoming a little like the “Danica Patrick’s going to NASCAR” story was just a few months ago? The “Danica to NASCAR” meme was making the rounds for well over a year before she actually did join a NASCAR team. […]

 

‘Black Hawk Down’ is RAAACIST!!

Posted on by Donald Douglas

You know, while this is serious business, rebutting the left’s endless allegations of racism, I’ve been mostly mocking so far in my series on “racist movies.” But it’s beyond bothersome that “Black Hawk Down” is included and ranked at #27. And here’s the caption: Ridley Scott’s account of the 1993 “Battle of Mogadishu” drew heavy […]

 

CST: Senate Will Attempt To Pass Cap And Tax This Coming Week

Posted on by William Teach

Collapsing Science Today: Yes, you did read that headline correctly. And, yes, it was less than a month ago when Obama stood up in front of Congress and the American People and state uncatagorically that the economy and jobs were the top priorities for the government to focus on. A pledge that less time than […]

 

Glenn Beck: Our Hope is to Abolish Progressivism

Posted on by Sharon Soon

Again, I have to show my appreciation for the Barack Obama. About a year ago, I vividly recall watching Glenn Beck on CNN and thinking, “This guy should be bigger than Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. It’s a shame he’s stuck at CNN. Beck, tonight’s keynote speaker, has been around for several years – but […]

 

John Bolton on the Obama Administration

Posted on by Sharon Soon

Like just about all the speakers this weekend, John Bolton didn’t hold much back in his criticism of Barack Obama. A few notable words: On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was not qualified to be President of the United States. Today, 13 months later, Barack Obama is still not qualified to be President of the […]

 

Andrew Breitbart Thinks the MSM… Well, Sucks

Posted on by Sharon Soon

It may sound irreverent, but thank God for Andrew Breitbart. I mean it. For so long I’ve agonized over the single one great reason that has allowed liberals to deceive the American public, lying about themselves and about us: the liberal media, vile, vindictive, and until recently, largely unreigned. Just as Breibart says, the MSM […]

 

Kaus: Unions Are Crippling Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Lefty website Slate.com’s Mickey Kaus is another one of those left of center folks that are realizing that unions are killing Obama. Of course, I’d go one farther and say that unions are killing America, but Kaus is only worried about helping Obama. Regardless, he’s right that unions are a dangerous impediment. Kaus finds that […]

 

How much carbon did they release into the atmosphere with those torches?

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Via Insty and Moe Lane, if the unions can carry torches and pitchforks, can Tea Partiers start heating up the tar? Carrying pitchforks and torches a group of labor unions and health care groups marched down Church Street in Hartford Tuesday night to let the state’s largest business lobby know that they want health care […]

 

‘Falling Down’ is RAAACIST!!

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Gee, I guess I have a new hobby! It’s called “Let’s Mock the ‘Racist’ Victimologists”! Whoopee!! Racism!! Come out, come out, wherever you are! Okay, let’s put on our “racism radar” and talk some more about “racist” films. How about “Falling Down“? It’s not like you wouldn’t come across a couple of vatos like this, […]

 

Rick Santorum: I Was Wrong About Specter

Posted on by Sharon Soon

In case I haven’t mentioned this a hundred times before, Rick Santorum is my favorite senator. From the war on terrorism – his more recent focus – to values to the cultural plagues of our society, I really believe he has full depth of understanding; even more significant is that he’s a politician who puts […]