Year: 2010

Let’s Get Tough With Israel – Or the Palestinians?

Posted on by Donald Douglas

From the letters to the editor at Los Angeles Times (in response to this article): Palestinian- Israeli impasse Re “Let’s get tough with Israel,” Opinion, Dec. 22 Yousef Munayyer is dead wrong. It’s time to get tough with Arab terrorists, not with the only democracy in the Middle East. He reiterates the myth of Palestinian […]

 

Terrorists Targeted U.S. Embassy in London

Posted on by Donald Douglas

At Telegraph UK, “Christmas bomb plot: nine men remanded over plan to ‘blow up Big Ben and Westminster Abbey’.” And LAT, “Nine terrorism suspects appear in London court“: Reporting from London – Nine men accused of terrorism and conspiracy to blow up high-profile targets that reportedly included the U.S. Embassy and the London Stock Exchange […]

 

An Interesting 10th Amendment Case That Doesn’t Seem Like One

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Sometimes standing up for the Constitution seems a bit annoying, especially in the case of violent felon Mrs. Carol Bond. Fortunately, standing for the Constitution here doesn’t necessarily release a horrible woman into freedom, but it does help to spotlight some unconstitutional federal overreach. In this case, it also centers on the Tenth Amendment, or […]

 

Progressives Again Call for ‘Revolutionary Justice’ After GOP Comments on Unemployed

Posted on by Donald Douglas

An update to “Progressives Cheer Mark Madoff Suicide as ‘Revolutionary Justice’ .” Turns out that the DownWithTyranny! progressives are invoking revolutionary appeals again. A ten-point roster of GOP quotes on the unemployed and public benefits actually ends with Marie Antoinette’s famous line, “Let them eat cake.” And then the progressive response: Now we know that […]

 

Thanks to Big Government, Oil Prices Headed for the Sky

Posted on by Dave Blount

What might an irresponsible, authoritarian, hyper-intrusive government driven by a radical environmentalist agenda and hostile to American interests do to the energy sector? It might prevent the building of nuclear plants and oil refineries, squash drilling in the ANWR wasteland and the Gulf of Mexico, and declare drilling to be out of the question most […]

 

Bloomberg Has Worked Behind the Scenes With Islamists to Get Ground Zero Mosque Built

Posted on by Dave Blount

The “Muslim–moonbat alliance” is more than a figure of speech. Progressives have been sympathetic to expansionist Islam since 9/11, possibly hoping it might succeed where Soviet communism failed. Sometimes this goes beyond sympathy, to the point where the liberal elitists who govern us actually coordinate campaigns with jihadists. An appalling example is 9/11 itself, an […]

 

Who Says Herman Cain Can’t Win?

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

After the Dec. 15 Red State poll that showed Atlanta businessman and talk-radio host Herman Cain topping even Sarah Palin as a favorite of the online conservative grassroots, I began blogging about the Cain phenomenon and did an interview with Cain for The American Spectator. Yesterday a commenter at my blog chastised me, saying my […]

 

Child Molesting Teacher Can’t Be Fired Thanks to Union

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In 1997 a Brooklyn teacher was accused of attempting to molest a sixth-grade girl at PS 138. As it happened, he admitted the behavior, but no criminal charges were filed when all was said and done. Still one would think the fact that he inappropriately fondled a teen should be enough to get him fired […]

 

Beware When They Say a Government Program Will ‘Make Money’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The New York Times had a small story that it likely thought was just an amusing little tale of a quirky government program from Los Angeles. Centered on the gift shop run by the L.A County Coroner’s Department, the Times indulged such lines as “we’re dying for your business,” and headlined the piece “Dealing in […]

 

Good News! Blizzards & Blustery Wind Don’t Mean Global Warming Is Fake

Posted on by William Teach

Just when you thought we couldn’t Discover more globull warming idiocy, Treehugger, a subsidiary of The Discovery Channel, proves us wrong. Time for some more climaheimers (like Alzheimers, but for climate alarmists. This is where they forget everything a Realist has told them, and the Realists have to explain it yet again) Blizzards & Blustery […]

 

Snap! Chris Matthews Finally Gets On The Birtherism Bandwagon

Posted on by William Teach

Obviously, it’s just like a liberal to get involved in an issue two years after it started. Of course, Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie opened this can of worms up again, saying he would find a way to release the long form Obama birth certificate (psst: all Obama has to do is pay a few bucks […]

 

The liberal/Democrat civil war, part xiii

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Previously: The liberal/Democrat civil war, part xii; The liberal/Democrat civil war, parts ix, x, and xi; The liberal/Democrat civil war, part viii: this time, it’s got ears. Normally, the “previously” section goes at the bottom of the post. This one’s different, because: I think this’ll get me more hits; and I want to emphasize that […]

 

When spending more doesn’t help…spend even more?

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Education. Important, yes. Expensive, apparently so. But do important plus expensive equal success? Over at OpenMarket.org, Hans Bader says no: America spends far more on education than countries like Germany, Japan, Australia, Ireland, and Italy, both as a percentage of its economy, and in absolute terms. Yet despite this lavish government support for education, college […]

 

DUI Checkpoints Deemed to Be Racist

Posted on by Dave Blount

California’s colonization by illegal aliens with a well-known penchant for driving drunk may put an end to the inconvenience of DUI checkpoints, which moonbat activists deem to be racist: Two local advocate groups for undocumented immigrants have publicly accused the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sherriff’s Department of using DUI checkpoints […]

 

Comrade Obama’s Kwanzaa Greetings

Posted on by Dave Blount

Yesterday Comrade Obama and the Bitter Half treated the nation to this uplifting Kwanzaa greeting: “Michelle and I extend our warmest thoughts and wishes to all those who are celebrating Kwanzaa this holiday season. Today is the first of a joyful seven-day celebration of African-American culture and heritage. The seven principles of Kwanzaa — Unity, […]

 

Warner, that is quite rude of you to call the new monetary incentives to speed up end-of-life care ‘Death Panels’

Posted on by Doug Ross

More great news for seniors: the all-powerful Department of Health and Human Services will create monetary incentives for medical professionals to accelerate “end of life care”. …the White House will create incentives for doctors to discuss “options” for end of life care through regulation, after Congress removed the incentives from ObamaCare… Under the new policy, […]

 

President Gets Around Annoying Voters, Instills Death Panels By Regulation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Some of you may have missed this story since it was published on the day after Christmas (and a Sunday at that), but Obama’s death panels are back, this time via the president’s fiat regulatory powers. Since it was easy to have missed, I’ve decided to post the story today (Monday) so that more people […]

 

Why Won’t MSNBCs Ed Schultz Interview Republicans? Cuz he is ‘Sick of ‘Em,’ of Course

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

t’s funny how lefties always consider themselves the more “logical,” the more civilized,” and more “adult” side of the argument. Why, they just want to have an adult debate to explain how correct their ideas are, right? Well, they might unless they work for MSNBC, apparently. Especially if they’re Ed Schultz. Ed Schultz, you see, […]

 

Coen Brothers Master the Western with “True Grit”

Posted on by Chris Yogerst

For years many people including myself have felt that the Western is dead. Sure, there have been a few to come around like Open Range and 3:10 to Yuma, but that’s nothing for a genre that was once so popular that Westerns were being pumped out weekly (on film and TV). Today it’s difficult to […]

 

“Little Fockers” Administers a Double Dose of Blah

Posted on by Chris Yogerst

This Holiday season Hollywood is apparently taking a break from Christmas movies. In fact, Hollywood seems to be having a serious love affair with remakes and unnecessary sequels. Who really asked for a reboot of The A-Team or Tron? Absolutely no one asked for MacGruber. So what is going on? Your guess is as good […]

 

Why, Yes, All This Snow And Cold Is Caused By Manmade Global Warming (Part Lots)

Posted on by William Teach

Ever get the feeling that dealing with climate alarmists is like dealing with people with Alzheimer’s? That is not to make fun or light of people who suffer from this debilitating disease, I’m sure plenty of us know people who have had it (like, one of my grandfathers). It is simply to compare what happens, […]

 

Snap! The Hill Says Obama And The Democrats Job Creation Policies Rock!

Posted on by William Teach

Vicki Needham is working hard to provide cover for the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats, who just got whacked during the 2010 mid-term Job creation is happening at a faster rate than during previous recessions, more good news for the White House and congressional Democrats who have spent the past two years defending their policies […]

 

Global Warming Brings Lots Of Snow To Raleigh And East Coast

Posted on by William Teach

Good morning! How was everyone’s Christmas? I was going to attempt to write something pithy and poignant, but, just too tired, even though I just woke up. I drove to New Jersey the night of the 23rd to see the parent for Christmas, and, because of the potential weather, drove back yesterday after an early […]

 

Richard Dawkins Slams Pope, Christianity on Christmas Eve

Posted on by Donald Douglas

At least The Guardian titled the essay for what it is, “A Shameful Thought for the Day.” Dawkins slams the Vatican’s “obscene indulgences” and then goes after original sin, a foundation of Christian faith: We’ve already had what little apology we are going to get (none in most cases) for the raped children, the Aids-sufferers […]