This Week In Quotes: July 30 – August 5th

And these programs that you mentioned — that Obama has going with Reid and Pelosi pushing them forward — are all entitlement programs built to make government our God. And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry […]

 

Ssssssh! Obama Quietly Rolls Out Program Similar To Arizona’s SB1070 In Boston

Be vewy vewy qwiet. I’m hunting iwwegals The Arizona law aimed at removing illegal immigrants has attracted attention and pitted the federal government against the state of Arizona. But the Obama administration is quickly and quietly rolling out a program, started in Boston, that relies on the help of local police departments and is raising […]

 


Texas Sends Snarkygram To EPA Over EPA Globull Warming Demands

Have y’all seen this one yet? Texas is not amused by EPA demands It’s no secret the Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality are at odds with each other right now. But the language in a letter from Attorney General Greg Abbott and TCEQ head Bryan Shaw complaining about EPA’s efforts […]

 

Texas Tells The EPA To Pound Sand–UPDATED A War Is Breaking Out

Please go over to Pierre LeGrand’s place and read the whole document and then come back. You need to feel better today so slug through the legalese, because it is SO worth it. Here’s the deal: The States and the people are starting to assert themselves (Missourians rejecting Obamacare, States calling out the federal government–Arizona […]

 

More Unexpected Economic News, But Only If You’re An Economist In D.C.

Bad economic news just keeps piling up. Today, the news about jobless claims from the AP: Initial requests for jobless benefits rose last week to their highest level since April, a sign that hiring remains weak and some companies are still cutting workers. The Labor Department said Thursday that new claims for unemployment insurance rose […]

 

How Communists Exploit WikiLeaks

It’s one thing when you have communist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviewing convicted computer hacker and communist activist Julian Assange on the U.S. government’s response to WikLeaks. It’s quite another thing when mainstream newspaper editors also come down on the side of the WikiLeaks/communist alliance. But that’s what’s happening today at LAT, “WikiLeaks and […]

 

Outrage as Race Ignored in Hiring Decision

The new fashion director of the black lifestyle magazine Essence has plenty of qualifications: [Elliana] Placas’ resume is impressive since moving to the US from Australia, working on a mix of mass-selling American publications including 0: The Oprah Magazine, Us Weekly, New York, More and Life & Style. […Essence editor-in-chief Angela] Burt-Murray said Ms Placas […]

 

Undertaxed Soda Makes Us Fatter as We Drink Less of It

An earlier decent into progressive rule brought us the debacle of Prohibition. This generation’s dictatorial do-gooders aren’t focused on alcohol; they have it in for food. Yet another liberal media article screeches hysterically that we’re getting too fat: The number of states with an adult obesity rate of 30 percent or more has tripled, to […]

 

So, If Bigotry Is Behind Opposition To The Ground Zero Mosque…

One of biggest mistakes the Left has made during the Obama presidency is overplaying the race card. Not only do they play the card constantly, they’ve applied it to an ever growing circle of people. In fact, there’s probably not a non-liberal in America who hasn’t been called a racist or a bigot by some […]

 

Who’s To Blame For Omar Thornton Killing 8 People? Barack Obama & Keith Olbermann

You’ve heard the story by now. Fired union member Omar Thornton murdered 8 people after being fired for stealing because he claimed he was a victim of discrimination, Omar Thornton, who walked into a Connecticut business on Tuesday, opened fire and killed 8 then himself, was being forced to resign from his truck driving job […]

 

President Obama Bailing Out Chicago Mobster Alexi Giannoulias

Wow, a terrific ad from the NRSC about President Obama’s connection with mobster Alexi Giannoulias: Haven’t heard about Giannoulias? Here’s some background from the Examiner’s David Flatt: Since his return from Greece Giannoulias has met repeatedly with known criminals. Alexi Giannoulias family bank is known as the Broadway Bank in Chicago. Clients of the Broadway […]

 

No Mosque! No Mosque! The Ground Zero Mosque: Michael Grimm NY-13 and Randy Altschuler NY-1 Explain Why They’re Against It

The primaries in New York come up August 24. In anticipation of that day, I requested interviews with two conservatives, yes, conservatives, running for office around New York City. Randy Altschuler of NY-1 out on Long Island, whom I first interviewed at CPAC [video here] and I recently wrote about with the Chris Cox controversy […]

 

The Right Side Of The Blogosphere’s Reaction To The Prop 8 Ruling

One of the more despicable things about liberalism is the way that it has destroyed the rule of law in this country. That’s because when the laws conflict with liberalism, liberal judges have no qualms whatsoever about substituting their own judgment for the law, for the will of the people, or the decisions of legislators. […]

 


Democrats: Say, Let’s Exempt Rich People in Blue States From Tax Hike!

If this doesn’t exemplify the left’s propensity to act in the mode of for-thee-but-not-me, nothing does. The Wall Street Journal (by way of the Wash. Examiner’s Mark Hemingway) reports that at least one Democrat has suddenly realized that when the Bush tax cuts fade away his state will be hit by a massive tax hike […]

 

WikiLeaks: Criminal Enterprise

From Marc Thiessen, at Washington Post, “WikiLeaks Must be Stopped“: Let’s be clear: WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a criminal enterprise. Its reason for existence is to obtain classified national security information and disseminate it as widely as possible — including to the United States’ enemies. These actions are likely a violation […]

 

Dingy Harry Plans Tax Cuts Showdown For September

Either Harry Reid has something up his sleeve, or, he is the dumbest Democrat leader ever to put an issue with which Democrats are always on the wrong side of the American people at the forefront right before elections Senate Democrats will hold a September showdown over trillions of dollars in expiring tax cuts passed […]

 

AFL-CIO Chief Pleading for Union Support of Dems in Nov.

The AFL-CIO plans to spend another $50 million coming to the aid of Democrats during this campaign season for the 2010 midterms. But all is not well in uniondom as many unions are very, very unhappy with various and sundry Democrat candidates across the country. Still, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka has issued a call to […]

 

Mass. School Kids Now ‘Allowed’ To Say the Pledge of Allegiance

What sort of nation have we become when it takes monumental efforts by a kid to get a school administration to “allow” them all to recite the Pledge of Allegiance? Nonetheless, that is the nation that liberals have turned these great United States into as after two months of wrangling Arlington, Massachusetts High School student […]

 

19 Cross-dressers Flogged Under Sharia Law

No matter what one might think of gays and/or cross-dressers, approve or disapprove, nowhere in human compassion should something like this happen to someone simply being themselves A SUDANESE court had 19 Muslim youths flogged in public overnight for dressing up like women. The punishment was carried out immediately after the sentencing by the court […]

 

‘Gender No Longer Forms An Essential Part of Marriage’

Folks are reacting to that line at the ruling. AoSHQ is especially good. And Jeff Goldstein responds: … this ruling does nothing more than enshrine the notion that what has always been the definition for marriage can no longer be the definition for marriage, because defining marriage as it has always been defined is discriminatory […]

 

Katie Couric: Sneeringly Palin-Biased on Day One

Originally posted at NewsReal A video surfaced today of the abysmally-rated Katie Couric rehearsing and taping some segments on the very day that Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain’s running mate for the 2008 election. While her derision isn’t surprising — she made it quite evident in all subsequent alleged reporting as well — […]

 

WaPost’s Kurtz Cries About ‘Nasty’ Media

In an August 2 editorial the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz cried a river over the rancor he saw in today’s media calling it a “nastiness index” that continues to rise. But his lament is not only off base in many ways, it is also historically illiterate and is built on only one real complaint: the […]

 

Gruesome Trainwreck Averted: Bristol And Levi Break Up!

Somewhere right now, Sarah Palin is doing this: If Bristol Palin were your daughter and you got this news, you’d be celebrating tonight, too: And just like that, they were off again. “It’s over. I broke up with him,” Bristol Palin tells PEOPLE exclusively of her second try at an engagement to Levi Johnston, father […]

 

E.D. Kain Joins Balloon Juice: ‘Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself’

Hey, that didn’t take long. E.D. Kain’s found his bone (e.g., “True/Slant Shuts Down – Charles Johnson, E.D. Kain Looking for New Digital Media Bones to Suck Dry“). Turns out the lying freak-blogger’s joined John Cole’s Balloon Juice, and the title of his post is fully apropos: “Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself.” And hey, […]

 

Put-Upon Mass Murderer Omar Thornton Oppressed by Racism

According to the liberal media, there isn’t much that cannot be blamed on the nefarious white man and his racism. A black guy is caught stealing, loses his job, snaps, and starts shooting people and whose fault is it? If you’re white, it’s yours. Here’s the headline: Family: Racial Bias Caused Conn. Gunman to Snap […]

 

Bitter Half Spends Fortune in Formerly Racist Spain

Gulf states have been crippled economically by the oil leak Obama’s bumbling and intrusive regime made so hard to defend the coast against, and still more by his malevolent ban on off-shore drilling. Although liberal elite types will curl their lips insufferably at the “Redneck Riviera,” there is no shortage of fine hotels on the […]

 

“Those Lamenting The Good Old Days Of Conservativism Have Blinders On.”

In his latest column, Jonah Goldberg pounded home a point that some of the intellectuals, wonks, and elitists in the conservative movement really needed to hear: Conservatives, being conservatives, have a soft spot for the good old days, but this is getting ridiculous. It seems every day another colleague on the right wants to click […]