Year: 2010

Cody and his American Flag go to School (with Escorts)

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Here is a followup to last week’s story about Cody Alicea being told he could not fly his flag on his bike at Denair Middle School near Turlock, California because it would inflame the Hispanic students. The Superintendent changed his mind and decided to allow the flag (after a deluge of letters and emails and […]

 

Kids Busted for Engaging in Capitalism

Posted on by Dave Blount

Our collectivist rulers still have some work to do if they are going to root out the last remnants of the entrepreneurial spirit that built the country they are currently looting and dismantling. Right in the adopted home of a carpetbagging socialist Senator who went on to become Secretary of State, children were caught engaging […]

 

Muslim Maniac Gets Pricey Renovations Courtesy of Taxpayers

Posted on by Dave Blount

Abu Hamza has managed to get himself thrown in jail by whipping up his fellow Religion of Peaceniks to kill Britons. When he gets out, he’ll find his welfare mansion nicely spruced up — courtesy of British taxpayers: Hate preacher Abu Hamza’s family home is having a £40,000 makeover paid for by tax:­payers, the Daily […]

 

Charlie Rangel Decides To Waste Our Money Instead of Stealing It

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Charlie Rangel has decided to change his tactics.:  Usually he finds a way to steal tax payer money, like giving earmarks to a school named in his honor, or neglecting to pay his taxes, or live in four rent-controlled apartments even though based on his income he probably doesn’t even warrant one. Today different, today […]

 

A Unionized TSA Will Make Our Airports Less Safe

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Everywhere you turn the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is getting lambasted. If it isn’t people refusing to abide by TSA directions, it’s stories of a “backlash against body scanners” because of the abusive treatment that TSA employees are doling out to travelers. People are becoming fed up with the whole edifice. But imagine how much […]

 

Obamacare Waivers Prove Policy is a Jobs Killer, Unions Benefit Most

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

111 companies and organizations were granted waivers by Obama’s Dept. of Health and Human Services so that they could get out of having to comply with Obamacare and unions were particularly well rewarded by the HHS with these waivers. Interestingly, there was no great announcement of these waivers issued to the press. The HHS buried […]

 

Our de-aspirational society; or, a society aiming for victimization and tawdriness

Posted on by Bookworm

More than a hundred years ago, writing in a deeply religious era, Robert Browning observed “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” Perhaps it’s no surprise that today, in a society with a pop and media culture dominated by secularists who have abandoned entirely the notion of heaven, […]

 

Climate Change Will Make Chocolate Unaffordable Or Something

Posted on by William Teach

Time to break out the crystal balls again: Global Warming Could Lead to Vast Chocolate Shortage (via Steven Goddard) In a world that takes for granted the availability of delicious and affordable chocolate, it’s easy to forget that the popular product actually comes from trees — not magical elves or free-flowing cocoa rivers, sadly. But, […]

 

Leveling The Playing Field of Network News

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

My past post on Affirmative Action and this post at HotAir, got me to thinking about the term “a level playing field.” Sarah Palin has given this piece of advice to the incoming freshman Republicans: Remember that some in the media will love you when you stray from the time-tested truths that built America into […]

 

Obama Offers GOP Advice On Governing. No, Really. Stop Laughing, You’ll Hurt Yourself

Posted on by William Teach

Thank you Politico for publishing the funniest story of at least the past month. It’s not quite as delusional as the one about Nancy Pelosi (Pelosi and company being delusional, not the Politico, and, make sure to check out Nancy P’s San Francisco), but, well, you have to see this President Obama offered a lesson […]

 

A Conservative Misinterpretation Of The Laffer Curve

Posted on by John Hawkins

If you’re reading a blog like Right Wing News, you’ve probably heard of the Laffer Curve. If you haven’t, here’s the self-explanatory graph: Long story short, what Arthur Laffer is trying to get across is that contrary to what some people believe, tax increases DON’T ALWAYS increase revenue to the government and tax decreases DON’T […]

 

My Fave 25 140 Character Thoughts For October

Posted on by John Hawkins

* The Swift Boat Vets told the truth, the Willie Horton ad wasn’t racist, and Max Cleland’s patriotism wasn’t challenged in his Senate race. * You can’t have good without naming evil, rights without responsibilities, or decency without limits on behavior. * The GOP has completely rejected the advice of Frum, Brooks, Meggie Mac, etc. […]

 

This Week in Automotivators, November 8-14

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: Pundette. Link: Nice Deb. Link: Scared Monkeys. Link: No Sheeples Here. Link: Smitty. Link: The Blogprof. Previously: This Week in Automotivators, November 1-7 This Week in […]

 

San Francisco Mayor has Temporary Sanity on Happy Meals

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Maybe it was the fact that the whole world is laughing derisively at San Francisco. Maybe it was the fact that the very same week San Francsico supervisors:  voted to fight childhood obesity by banning toys in Happy Meal-style kids meals, a nutrition professor announced that he had lost 27 pounds on a diet of […]

 

What We Need to Say, And Say, And Say

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If leftists are good at one thing it is staying on message. Since 2006 when Nancy Pelosi was raised to the dizzying heights of Speaker of the House of Representatives the left has been chanting over and over that the voters wanted the country to take a hard left turn. This month’s election, however, proved […]

 

Sunday Funnies: NY Times Editorial Board Tells GOP To Try Governing

Posted on by William Teach

Liberals have long been having fits on the editorial pages, ranging anywhere from Hissy to Conniption to Unhinged Tools. Saturday’s full feeling of the paper is wacky and unhinged enough to make one go WharrblGarbl! Try Something Hard: Governing Yeah, it can be hard, which is why a man with virtually no real world experience, […]

 

China and Middle Eastern Investors May Own Stake in GM This Week

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Is “America’s” car company going to be sold to the Chinese and Middle Eastern investors?: :  Will the American public and the Congress object?: :  We shall find out this week as General Motors’ long-awaited post-Obama-bailout initial public offering will open Thursday.: : The U.S. government owns 61% of the company.:  : As reported here in early October, China, via […]

 

Conditioning Americans to accept the unacceptable

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

Every policeman is your friend. It’s an axiom taught to countless children in grade school. If you want to be safe you can always trust the police. And until the advent of the TSA it’s a statement that probably was true. Researching this post I happened to come across a detailed picture of a woman […]

 

“I Will List Palin’s Priorities For You, So You Don’t Have to Read Them”

Posted on by Morgan Freeberg

Thursday morning, in a post that received much attention and inspired much discussion, I made an observation about the way liberals tend to introduce their audiences to the subject matters they want to discuss. My observation was in the way they, in keeping with the tradition of all collectivist economies and totalitarian regimes, discourage the […]

 

Washington Post: quit now for greatness!

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Conservatives, Republicans, libertarians (both big-L and small-l): please don’t take this the wrong way. Your opinions are important to me. I’d hate to think that you think that I want President Obama (circa 2011) to become anything other than former President Obama (circa 2013). But. For two veteran political operatives to suggest that Obama should […]

 

Class-Warfare Propaganda Will Be Ramping Up Again

Posted on by Brian Garst

With a major tax fight looming around the corner, we can expect the usual class-warfare rhetoric from the White House and the punditsphere. Phrases like “for the rich” will be bandied about without second thought, while many question whether these so-called rich deserve to be “given” tax cuts. This is the argument made by Austan […]

 

One and Done? WaPo Columnists Call for Obama to Step Aside

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Cross-posted from American Power: “Obama ‘Has Largely Lost the Consent of the Governed’.” ***** I don’t take these calls all that seriously, mainly because I don’t believe that Obama’s a cut-and-run president, and while I disagree with him profoundly, that’s a good quality to have. He just needs to find a new tack, perhaps become […]

 

VIDEO: Myanmar Frees Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Originally posted at American Power: “Myanmar Frees Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi (VIDEO).” ***** The main story’s at LAT, “Myanmar Frees Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi.” I’m just blown away by the brazen and bankrupt maneuvering of the military junta, which just held the most carefully scripted elections imaginable, the first elections in […]

 

Name That Party: Another Criminal Democrat Goes Unidentified by Old Media

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Every now and again I like to play “name that party.” This is the fun parlor game where you read a story about a politician that has either been indicted, arrested, or imprisoned and try to guess by the story from which party he hails. If you read the story and no political party affiliation […]

 

How To Stop Globull Warming – Even If You Think It’s Mule Fritters

Posted on by William Teach

Somehow, this Washington Post article, meant for publication on Sunday the 14th, is available on-line, and it is a hoot! How to stop global warming – even if you don’t believe in it In the global-warming debate, scientists are, admirably, still trying to save the day. Last week, the American Geophysical Union announced plans to […]

 

GOP Doubles Down On Changing The Way Washington Works

Posted on by William Teach

Not to be a negative nelly, but, the House Republicans best not be writing checks they can’t afford to pay off Republicans are working to make sure the House of Representatives functions better than ever, the leader of the GOP’s effort to transition into power said Saturday. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), incoming Speaker John Boehner’s […]

 

San Francisco Petition To Ban Circumcision is About Much More than Skin

Posted on by Jane Jamison

San Francisco’s latest, greatest “cause celebre” is : the penis.:  Sure, why not? Liberals are driving this city-in-decline into the ocean (++++See below for San Francisco financial problems) because they refuse to stop spending tax payer money on “do-gooder” causes and refuse to deal with the financial reality of dwindling tax revenues.: :  San Francisco radicals, most […]

 

The Grand Obama $2 Billion “Vacation” Summit–Epic Fail

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Leaving aside his bizarre absolutions of radical Islam in the face of Hindus who have just removed bloodstains: from: the carpet at the Taj Mahal palace and have lost 80 million:  to Islamists over history, let’s focus on the stated purpose of President Obama’s $2 billion dollar “vacation:” : to seal deals to grow America’s economy and create […]