Year: 2010

40% of Chicago Public School Teachers Send Own Kids to Private Schools

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Liberals love to claim that the public school system is the shining success story of the American political system. And even when the schools break down in effectiveness, liberals double down on their support for them and insist that we spend ever larger chunks of the taxpayer’s money to “fix” them. Of course, even as […]

 

The 50 Best, Most Notable, & Most Controversial Posts From John Hawkins In 2010

Posted on by John Hawkins

50) The Results Of The Conservative Blogger Google Bomb 49) The Karl Rove Interview 48) 10 Young Right-Wingers Being Prepped to Take Over the Conservative Movement (Featuring John Hawkins) 47) The 25 Best Ann Coulter Quotes About Liberals 46) A Conservative Misinterpretation Of The Laffer Curve 45) The GOP’s Problem With Minorities Needs To Be […]

 

WikiLeaker Not Liking the Leaking About his (lousy) Love-making

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Oily counter-culturalist WikiLeaker Julian Assange doesn’t see why his leaks of top-secret government reports and cables are such a big deal, but when two Swedish slut-honeys say that he’s lousy in bed, WELL NOW…….that’s an outrageous breach of his PRIVACY.:  >snort<

 

A Child’s First Book of Government Regulations

Posted on by Doug Ross

The Obama Administration’s Official Alphabet Guide for Learning Government’s Role in Your Life Hi, I’m Omar, the Obama administration’s official kid’s ambassador. Today I’ll be guiding you through some of the many necessary regulations that government imposes on us for our protection — and we’ll learn the alphabet at the same time! A is for […]

 

‘Snowfalls Are Now Just a Thing of the Past’

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

That was a headline that ran in England’s Independent newspaper in 2000; this year, snow has been so heavy in England that it’s closed their major airports for long stretches. In early 2010, Time magazine, responding to resurgent snow in America’s capital would take the exact opposite stance: “DC Snowstorm: How Global Warming Makes Blizzards Worse.”

Is there nothing that global warming can’t do

 

Debunking The Left’s “Media Is More Conservative Than Liberal” Myth

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

It never fails that when the discussion of liberal media bias comes up, some sanctimonious and ill-informed lefty will try to convince the crowd of the exact opposite: That it’s conservatives whose voices are most often heard in the media. Now, you and I know this is as absolutely hilarious as it is absolutely false, […]

 

A Christmas appreciation

Posted on by Bookworm

‘Tis the season for the usual politically correct attacks on Christmas. Ecumenical signs, disingenuously trimmed with Christmas holly and ornaments, urge a generic “Happy Holidays.” Bank inspectors, perhaps seeking an easier task than examining a bank’s books, remove crosses. Every December, Scrooge takes his steroids and is out in full force. You’d think, of course, […]

 

This Week in Automotivators, December 6-12

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: Verum Serum. Link: The Sundries Shack. Link: Theo Spark. Link: Mister Pterodactyl. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: A Lego a Day, via Obi’s Sister. And two more that […]

 

Awwwww. Fish Wrap Is Concerned For Barry After DREAM Act Defeat

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, the defeat of the DREAM Act amnesty bill has left Obama’s policy in disarray. Really, what policy of his isn’t in disarray? The majority of Americans are against most of what he done/tried to do, as well as what he wants to do now. So many have said “this isn’t what we thought we […]

 

Interesting assumptions underlying a study about Fox viewers’ ignorance

Posted on by Bookworm

The New York Times reported today on a study showing that the more one watchers Fox news, the less one knows: In particular, they found that regular viewers of the Fox News Channel, which tilts to the right in prime time, were significantly more likely to believe untruths about the Democratic health care overhaul, climate […]

 

Republicans = slavery lovers (or so saith an article in the NYT)

Posted on by Bookworm

Every summer for the past several years, we’ve gone to a local (and wonderful) Civil War reenactment. Without exception, the people who have chosen to reenact the Southern side will tell one, quite earnestly, that the Southern side was about states’ rights, not about slavery. Even 145 years after the war ended (or perhaps I […]

 

Congress Passes Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Posted on by Donald Douglas

At NYT. I’ve been on record as favoring repeal for a long time, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find the military’s rationale compelling. See, “Against Gays in the Military.” And I haven’t seen this kind of reaction for a while, but see Bryan Fischer’s, “Benedict Arnold Republicans destroy military and our national security.” The […]

 

On That Study That Says Fox Viewers Are Misinformed…

Posted on by Morgan Freeberg

…the one from the University of Maryland. Mediaite is to be congratulated for putting up something that not only talks about the study but actually points to it. There is an abundance of spewing and intoning and condescending out there in blogger-land, in which people merely talk about the study around virtual mouthfuls of churlish […]

 

Historically speaking, a great time to be rich.

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Which kind of implies that there’s a bad time to be rich. Which I doubt. Still. Ben Steverman writes: It’s a Great Time to Be Rich I’m sure he means that in a relative sense. Relative to the 1970s, for example. His opening paragraph: A bonanza of new and extended tax benefits could make it […]

 

AGW Irony Today: Guess What Got Called Off Due To Global Warming Snow?

Posted on by William Teach

No, no, guess first. Don’t skip to to the excerpt. Guess. Hey! No peeking! OK, ready? VAL D’ISERE, France — The women’s World Cup super-G in Val d’Isere has been called off due to heavy snowfall. Heavy snow fell overnight and continued into Friday morning. Organizers had hoped to hold the race in the afternoon […]

 

House GOP considers constitutional test for all new legislation

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Unbelievable, and yet wholly understandable: House GOP transition team leaders will recommend a change to the lower chamber’s rules that would require all members to prove that their legislation is constitutional. …Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), the head of the House Rules Working Group, on Thursday said the GOP transition team will recommend the adoption of […]

 

ABC News Explains What The Tax Cuts Extension Means

Posted on by William Teach

In Reality World, the article would be extraordinarily short, with the full text reading something like What do the Obama tax cuts extensions mean for you? Nothing. Nothing is changing. Thanks for stopping by ABC News. And, yes, ABC News did actually entitle the article the “Obama tax cuts extension” at some point. Check the […]

 

A Merry Christmas Open Thread That’s Made Of Awesome….

Posted on by Susannah Fleetwood

Christmas is my very favorite time of year. Why? Well, I think that Ebenezer Scrooge’s nephew, Fred Holywell, nailed it with regard to why Christmas is such a special time of year when he said the following: There are a great many things from which I have derived good, from which I have not profited, […]

 

James Meeks: Racialist Spoils System Should Only Benefit Blacks

Posted on by Dave Blount

Sorry, women. Sorry, Hispanics. Chicago mayoral candidate James Meeks says quota spoils in the form of set-aside city contracts should go only to blacks: “The word ‘minority’ from our standpoint should mean African American. I don’t think women, Asians and Hispanics should be able to use that title,” he said. “That’s why our numbers cannot […]

 

Democrats Slip Bringing Terrorists to American Prisons into Defense Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senator Mark Kirk (R, IL) is raising a red flag over the defense bill because the Democrat led House of Representatives and Democrat led Senate has slipped in a provision that would allow accused terrorists to be housed in prisons in the interior of the United States. In an apparent effort to get around the […]