Year: 2010

Canadian CF18 Pilot Ejects Moments Before Crash at Alberta International Airshow

Posted on by Donald Douglas

At Chicago Ray’s, “Canadian CF-15 Pilot Escapes Death Ejecting Moments before Fiery Air Show Practice Mishap…” And at Boston’s WCVB TV, “Jet Crashes During Air Show Practice: Canadian Pilot Able To Eject Before Aircraft Hit Runway“: LETHBRIDGE, Alberta — A Canadian air force jet crashed and exploded in a ball of flames during a training […]

 

PeBO Admin Finds Out That Dealing With North Korea ‘Taint That Easy

Posted on by William Teach

Obama actually had the correct posture early on in his presidency regarding North Korea, which was to ignore the provocations and histrionics of the country and Kim Jong Il. However, he learned that being president is hawd! work, especially between vacations and golf, and his policy started to be all over the place, to the […]

 

AGW Today: Kerry And ABC News Use FAIL Tag

Posted on by William Teach

You do have to give John Kerry some props: he is using the old saying that there is no such thing as bad press to good effect. Witness his latest histrionics Speaking at a town hall-style meeting promoting climate change legislation on Thursday, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) predicted there will be “an ice-free Arctic” in […]

 

Cook County Board to Extort Suburban Drivers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Just a reminder of how Obama’s Chicago Way-style of politics works…. THIS is where he comes from: Oh, the games Cook County Board President little Todd Stroger plays. And they are always about sticking it to the taxpayers, aren’t they? Stroger and his Democrat co-conspirators have really proven that county Democrats are more like a […]

 

Abercrumbie & Flitch Under Fire: Old People Should Stay Out of Malls

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Abercrumbie & Flitch, the trendy fashion retailer, is under fire from customers and the media for its newest sales campaign. The retailer is calling it “Old sCOOL” and features scantily clad elderly folks modeling the store’s latest line of apparel. Store spokesman and mastermind of the campaign, Stewart Kindly, said that the new campaign is […]

 

Tax cuts expiring, more unexpectedness on the way:

Posted on by TrogloPundit

That’s “unexpected” in the Instapundit sense. The story: Democrats happy to let taxes rise. The Obama administration will allow tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire on schedule, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday, setting up a clash with Republicans and a small but vocal group of Democrats who want to delay the looming […]

 

Recess missing one key demand from the Obama/Pelosi Led House

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : : : : : : : :  The one thing Obama seemed to pride himself on was that his legislative majority, especially in the house, was behind him.:  When ObamaCare was signed into law, it was called a triumph by many of the liberal Representatives who supported it.:  However, when it came to actually supporting it on their land via health-care […]

 

Liberal Blockheads At Netroots Nation

Posted on by John Hawkins

It’s fair to say that some conservatives expect too much out of Republicans from liberal states or districts, but only the complete blockheads would go this far, Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos blog and an organizer of the first such annual conference five years ago, said he and his followers are disinclined to […]

 

Free Money: Federal Government Gets Into the Payday Loan Business

Posted on by Dave Blount

As America plunges headlong into socialism, it’s getting hard to keep track of all the industries that our collectivist rulers are in the process of nationalizing. Next up — payday loans: Deep in the bowels of Donk (DOdd-fraNK Financial abomination bill, whose 2315 pages nobody has read in their entirety), in Title XII: IMPROVING ACCESS […]

 

New Report: U.S. Vulnerable to a Nuclear Attack

Posted on by Donald Douglas

See, “Report by the Joint Defense Science Board and the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee Task Force.” And the related discussion thread here: The United States is now woefully unprepared for any kind of nuclear attack … and the Obama administration has taken steps to further reduce the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The problem and the cause […]

 

The Best Quotes From Laura Ingraham’s “The Obama Diaries.”

Posted on by John Hawkins

One of the hottest books in America right now is Laura Ingraham’s The Obama Diaries. Happily, because I’m supposed to eventually be getting an interview with Laura, I was sent a media copy of the book, which I’ve already read. Since a lot of you are probably considering buying the book, I thought I’d give […]

 

Confirmed: Administration Playing Games On Issue Of Unemployment Benefits Extension

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

CBS News’ Mark Knoller reports on how both the administration and Democrats in Congress have shamelessly used the issue of the unemployment benefits extension in an attempt at political gain during an election year: In signing the bill restoring unemployment benefits to 2 million Americans jobless for more than 26 weeks, President Obama is also […]

 

Ezra Klein: ‘This is My Final Finally-ish Final Word on JournoList!!’

Posted on by Donald Douglas

“I actually expect this to be my final public comment on the subject.” Famous last words, from JournoList head-henchman Ezra Klein. Now the Boy Wonder’s got another post up attacking — wait for it!! — Tucker Carlson for “smearing” JournoList with omissions and misleading statements and — Oh, the humanity!! So, what better way to […]

 

Hypocritic Democrats Today: Kerry Avoids Paying Taxes (plus open thread)

Posted on by William Teach

Yeah, I know, John Kerry is kinda old and busted, but, he has been trying to rehabilitate his standing with his climate change wackadoodleness (I don’t care if it isn’t a word, being Friday and all), and, let’s face it: it’s really funny exposing Democrats for the hypocrites they are Sen. John Kerry, who has […]

 

Top Ten most Left-Biased American Journalists – #1: Helen Thomas, UPI/Independent

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We have finally reached the number one, most left-biased journalist in America today on our top ten count down and our most biased journo pick probably won’t surprise any of you. Even though she just “retired” due to her outrageous bias and hatred for Israel, we just have to give the number one most biased […]

 

JournoList ‘Sick Puppies’ Planned Attacks on Sarah Palin; Systematic Femisogyny In Action

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Originally posted at NewsReal The most insidious form of media bias is deciding what to cover and, more importantly, what not to cover.:  The revelations uncovered by The Daily Caller in regard to Journolist have been damning on that front. The latest involve Sarah Palin and while anyone with a speck of honesty already realized […]

 

Teachers Unions Spent $100 Per Teacher on Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Education Next undertook for the first time an effort to find out how much of their members dues money that teachers unions spent on political action. The results are very interesting. The analysis discovered that, “national teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the […]

 

Friday Awesome: Say Goodbye To Cap And Tax

Posted on by William Teach

At least for this year Senate Democrats pulled the plug on climate legislation Thursday, pushing the issue off into an uncertain future ahead of midterm elections where President Barack Obama’s party is girding for a drubbing. Rather than a long-awaited measure capping greenhouse gases – or even a more limited bill directed only at electric […]

 

Obama Forces Doctors to Snitch to Feds on Patient’s Weight

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

New federal regulations issued by Obama’s administration will require doctors to record their patient’s body mass index (BMI) ratio. No longer will your weight problems be a matter between you and your doctor. Thanks to Obama, now your doctor will be required by law to snitch to the feds on how fat you are. Like […]

 

This Week In Quotes: July 16 – July 21

Posted on by John Hawkins

Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should […]

 

Roundup on Breitbart and JournoList

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Been busy today with a few posts, in reverse chronological order: * “‘Not All Journalists Are Jerks’ – And Then There’s JournoList.” * “Letter From Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson.” * “Shirley Sherrod May Sue for Defamation: ‘Andrew Breitbart Came at Me’.” * “The Vast Left-Wing Media Conspiracy.” * “Terry Moran on ‘Nightline’ – ‘A Kind of […]

 

Priorities: Obama Calls Shirley Sherrod within HOURS; Meets with BP 2 MONTHS Later

Posted on by SusanAnne Hiller

President Obama has his priorities straight, indeed.:  Within hours of Shirley Sherrod asking to speak to Obama, he spoke to her: to express his regret: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president expressed his regret, and told Sherrod he hoped she would accept the Agriculture Department’s offer of a new position, saying she could parlay […]

 

Not So Wild About A Tea Party Caucus

Posted on by John Hawkins

I’ve long been a fan of Michele Bachmann. She’s conservative, fearless, pays attention to the grassroots, and I really believe her heart’s in the right place. That being said, I have to respectfully disagree with her decision to create a Tea Party Caucus in the House, Congress has strayed from the fundamental principles of the […]

 

Black Activist Mary Frances Berry Calls for More Deliberately False Allegations of Racism Against Tea Party

Posted on by Dave Blount

Again we see that the white racism supposedly oppressing privileged blacks in this country is a concoction of the leftist ruling class. Thanks go to militant moonbat Mary Frances Berry — Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and Commissioner on the US Commission on […]

 

Obama Parody Brilliance: Same as it Ever Was… After the Oils Gone

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is some brilliant parody of the Talking Heads song “Same As It Ever Was.” This one lampoons Obama’s sad reaction to the Gulf oil spill. Smashing work, from The PolitiZoid Channel. They also gave us this one… Love it. (H/T HotAir.com and alhouse.blogspot.com)