Year: 2010

Say, Who’s Really Holding Up Berwick’s Appointment?

Posted on by William Teach

Just a little follow up on the Berwick issue, via the ever reliable Jake Tapper, who, unlike the majority of the media, will actually post real facts. After discussing the recess appointments of two others, one of whom (Joshua Gotbaum) had a hold put on his nomination by Democrat Sherrod Brown, Jake goes on to […]

 

How Bad Is Obamacare? How Evil? This Evil.

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

How evil is Obamacare? Donald Berwick bad. 1. The Obama administration doesn’t want to talk about health care in any forum. Ever. 2. The Democrats are outraged about the recess appointment of the new Medicare/Medicaid chief, too. 3. Obamcare, aka Romneycare, has been in action in Massachusetts and it’s a disaster. Or, according to the […]

 

During A Dempression, You Get A Job Offer, You Take The Job

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

I know I’m supposed to read this and feel sorry for this smart 24 year old waiting for the perfect opportunity, but I don’t. From the New York Times: Over the last five months, only one job materialized. After several interviews, the Hanover Insurance Group in nearby Worcester offered to hire him as an associate […]

 

Rachel Maddow, MSNBC’s Hijab Host, Embeds in Afghanistan!

Posted on by Donald Douglas

There’s a Memeorandum thread on this one, so I thought I’d share over here. See, “Rachel Maddow Reports From Kandahar; or, Just When You Thought DOD Got Beat Up on Rolling Stone and McChrystal…” Folks are getting a kick out of Maddow’s hijab. Also at Blazing Cat Fur, Doug Ross, Moonbattery, Weasel Zippers, and WyBlog.

 

Why Can’t Satanists Get Perks Like Muslims?

Posted on by Dave Blount

Since Islam is officially protected and even promoted by our rulers in the name of political correctness, why not Satanism? Irving Davis, who was convicted of raping and killing a 15-year-old girl, asked to have his death sentence thrown out, alleging he was discriminated against because he practices Satanism. … Defence lawyer Ruben Morales said […]

 

San Francisco Bureauweenies Regulate Marijuana Brownies

Posted on by Dave Blount

Where liberals rule, nothing goes unregulated — not even pot brownies. In San Francisco, the City’s Department of Public Health has rules for legitimate edible cannabis treats at medical marijuana dispensaries. For instance, anything that requires refrigeration is right out unless the dispensary applies for an exemption, so you might want to rethink your plans […]

 

The Danger of Islam Taking Over the World

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In India two Muslim savages cut off their college professor’s hand because they felt one of the questions on an exam he issued was “insulting to Islam.” So-called “honor killings” where Muslims kill their own wives, daughters, and sisters over perceived immodesties or violations of sharia “laws” are on the rise throughout the western world. […]

 

An American Tragedy: When Commies Give You Lemons…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Chicago Sun-Times financial reporter Terry Savage wrote a little opinion piece this week about a kid’s lemonade stand she came across in a ritzy, liberal northern suburb of Chicago. The kiddie enterprise violated one of our most sacred American principles and Savage was incensed by the whole incident. Savage stopped to buy some lemonade from […]

 

Video: I Am A Tired American

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, we just celebrated Independence Day, a day we rejoiced at the things we love about America. But, let’s face it, there are things going on in America today NOT to love. Here is a video to point out those things we are all “tired of.” Forgive me if I posted this here before. I […]

 

Obama To Try Recess Appointment For Director Of Medicare/Medicaid, Making Him Damaged Goods

Posted on by William Teach

Let me say upfront, I have little problem with recess appointments, as they are, in fact, Constitutional. However, ‘memba this? “To some degree, he’s damaged goods,” said Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “I think that means we’ll have less credibility and, ironically, be less equipped to reform the […]

 

ObamaCare Tanning Tax: Why Do Democrats Hate Women?

Posted on by William Teach

Once again, we can see how Democratic business and tax policies, which, in their world, they think will be super! and help people, actually cause misery and problems The sun hasn’t exactly set on Solar Planet, but anxiety over the fate of the Arlington tanning salon has been running high ever since a “tan tax” […]

 

Amanda Marcotte: The Pleasure of Sadism Is the Force Behind Conservatism

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal … Is there any limit to the cruelty of the American conservative? These vicious sadists take great delight in harming people and reveling in their suffering, or so says Amanda Marcotte, noted expert on wha? huh? look over there! The pleasure of sadism as [sic] always been a driving […]

 

Alexa’s Top 5 Must Reads of the Day 7/6/10

Posted on by Alexa Shrugged

Son pleads for help as mother awaits stoning in Iran CNN “Legally, it’s all over, and we have no chance. It’s a done deal. Sakine can be stoned at any minute. But we have experienced again and again that when we organize events world-wide, when we protest world-wide, and in particular when we contact European […]

 

Hey, Remember That Time at Summer Camp? Now With Abortion Workshops!

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Out: Camp fires and swimming. In: groupthink! Yes, now femisogynists are weaseling their way into the realm of summer camps: Lots of kids go to summer camp to roast hot dogs and learn how to canoe. Others go to get really good at tennis or to immerse themselves in musical theater. And now, you can […]

 

Video: Ignoramus Democrat Says The More we Borrow the Richer we Get

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Idiot Pete Stark (D, Calif.) says that the more we borrow as a nation the “richer” we get. You see, says Congressman Stark Raving, that trillions of dollars in debt proves that we are a rich people. “If YOU’d SHUT UP,” Stark says we might be able to appreciate his genius. And if the guy […]

 

Mercy Mercy Me: Obama Decried, Then Adopted, Bush Administration Drilling Policies

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Yeah, well, thing’s ain’t what they used to be. Marvin Gaye’s 1971 hit “became one of his most poignant anthems of sorrow at the world dealing with the environment.” And I imagine to the eco-extremist left, the Obama administration’s blatant hypocrisy on offshore drilling is bit of a sorrow as well. From WSJ: Less than […]

 

Previous comfortable margins no re-election guarantee

Posted on by Scott Elliott

The race between Democratic incumbent Bob Etheridge and Republican Renee Ellmers in North Carolina’s 2nd district has garnered national attention thanks to Etheridge’s taped outburst on a Washington D.C. sidewalk. It also has personal significance for me.:  An: interview I had with Ellmers was my very first and: my friend and distant cousin, Lorie Byrd, works with […]

 

New Silicon Graffiti Video: ‘The Cold Civil War’

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

In 2007, author William Gibson wrote the phrase the “Cold Civil War” for one of his science fiction novels. That led blogger April Gavaza, also known as the “Hyacinth Girl,” as well as Mark Steyn to pick up on the concept a year later. But of course, as General McChrystal’s disastrous interview with Rolling Stone and his subsequent dismissal illustrates, the media isn’t just where wars are fought domestically, as we discuss in the latest edition of our Silicon Graffiti video blog

 

It was all I could do not to leap from my chair and dance right along with them.

Posted on by TrogloPundit

The place: Hebron, an Israeli-occupied Palestinian city. Or so I read. The event: Remember a few weeks back when a video featuring a group of U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan performing their own version of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video stormed the Internet? Well, it looks like they’ve got some competition from their counterparts in the […]

 

‘The Republican’s Party First Ever State Convention’

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

A few weeks ago I reported on the Texas GOP convention, so I thought it would be interesting to look back at the history of these conventions. On this day in 1854, the Republicans held it’s first state convention. How did this first GOP convention come about? A groundswell of reaction to the pro slavery […]

 

If The Obama DOJ Is Interested In “Supremacy”, When Will They Sue California?

Posted on by William Teach

If Obama, Eric Holder, and their politicized DoJ is truly interested in arguing that Arizona’s tough illegal aliens law violates the supremacy clause of the Constitution, I wonder, will they apply this same clause across the board? That’s what the law is about, holding every party accountable for violating the law. First, though, let’s start […]

 

Government Tightens Control of Information on Gulf Mess

Posted on by Dave Blount

Never let a serious crisis go to waste, preaches Obama teleprompter-programmer Rahm “Dead Fish” Emanuel. After all, they’re opportunities for our moonbat rulers to inflict an agenda that might result in rebellion under normal circumstances. The Deepwater Horizon disaster has been an opportunity not only to demonize the energy sector (which the bumbling crony capitalists […]

 

Charles Krauthammer on NASA’s Foremost Mission Under Obama

Posted on by Dave Blount

Regarding the astounding revelation that NASA’s “foremost” mission under our first Affirmative Action president is to “reach out” to Muslims and help them “feel good” about their (nonexistent for the last thousand years) scientific accomplishments, a word from Charles Krauthammer: “This is a new height in fatuousness,” Krauthammer said. “NASA was established to get America […]

 

Why Can’t The Obama Administration Speak Of Radical Islam?

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

This is something you might have missed last week, but it is vitially important in understanding this administration’s disconnect with radical Islam. The Fort Hood shooter, the Christmas Day bomber, the Times Square attacker. On May 13, the following exchange occurred at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee: Rep. Lamar Smith (R.,Texas): Do you […]

 

Dear, Former Victims of Socialism/Communism, America Needs OUR Help!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(A friend of mine, Leon Weinstein who is a US citizen that emigrated from the USSR in 1974, wrote this because he is alarmed that the U.S. is headed to the hell he ran from so long ago. This is important stuff, folks. Leon KNOWS what he’s talking about as he lived through Russian Communism. […]

 

Obama Says Stimulus Worked, Created Jobs… Here’s a Reminder of the Waste

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In his recent trip to Racine, Wisconsin, President Obama claimed that his stimulus policies worked and “saved jobs.” He also said that his policies staved off another Great Depression. But lets take a look at some of the graft, waste and pointless, useless, wild-eyed spending that was in his so-called stimulus. $5 million to create […]

 

Even the NYT Noticing that Unions Losing Friends and Allies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You know its bad for unions when even the New York Times publishes a story reporting that Big Labor is losing friends and allies in formerly well controlled political spheres. But such is the times in which we live where fiscal disaster is highlighting the illicitness that is unions in general, but public employees unions […]

 

AGW Today: Now Air Conditioners Are Bad, And Hosed America From The Beginning

Posted on by William Teach

Have you ever noticed that liberal whine a lot? The glass is usually empty in their world. Nothing is ever good enough. And, once they have beaten one thing to death, they find something else (though, they will come back to beating the previous thing when necessary). Now we have them whining about air conditioners […]