Year: 2010

(Video) Townhall Meeting With Mark Kirk and Randy Hultgren, Saint Charles, Illinois

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Dec. 11, 2010, I attended a townhall meeting held in the 14th Congressional District featuring Congressman-elect Randy Hultgren and newly minted Senator Mark Kirk. The event was held in the theater of a local high school in Saint Charles, Illinois. The afternoon started out with an address by Senator Mark Kirk who already was […]

 

Push For ObamaCare Repeal Remains High As Constitutional Ruling Should Come Today

Posted on by William Teach

They told us that the longer ObamaCare was around, the more people would love it. Au, contraire Time doesn’t seem to be winning the new national health care law any more friends. Most voters have favored repeal of the law every week since it was passed and support for repeal has now inched up to […]

 

Obviously, Denial Of Globull Warming Is Like Denial Of Hitler

Posted on by William Teach

I’m tempted to use the malodorous phrase “jumping the shark”, a phrase I detest, for this next bit of climaidiocy, yet, the climate change hoax has continued on long after Happy Days finally ended beyond the Fonzie jumps the shark episode, and Happy Days wasn’t broadcasting idiocy daily. Case in point In 1933 Winston Churchill […]

 

The Problem With “Intellectuals”

Posted on by John Hawkins

Intellectualism has become the readiness, willingness and ability to call dangerous things safe, and safe things dangerous. — Morgan Freeberg What’s wrong with “the new elite?” Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the “new elite” is that they’re not an elite at all. That is, they aren’t particularly smart, or competent. — […]

 

Michael Steele Made The Right Call (***Updated:*** Just Kidding, Steele Blew It)

Posted on by John Hawkins

When Michael Steele ran for RNC Chairman, I was behind him 100%. There were certainly other qualified candidates, but he seemed like the best selection. He understood the conservative base, he had a great personality, and we definitely needed some new blood at the RNC. Well, Steele got the nod and his tenure at the […]

 

The Best Quotes From Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History’s Greatest Speakers

Posted on by John Hawkins

Do you ever have to get up and do a speech? Well, if so, I’d highly recommend reading Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History’s Greatest Speakers. The book was written by James Humes, who has been a speechwriter to five Presidents, including Ronald Reagan. Here are the best quptes from […]

 

“Get on a Subway and Go to Maryland”

Posted on by Morgan Freeberg

This one’s going viral. Or it should. Breyer made a brilliant point, the same way Joe Biden beat Sarah Palin in a debate: Didn’t do it. Flashed pearly whites in a grin that telegraphed self-satisfaction, condescension, insouciance and ignorance. Strip away the grin and there’s nothing to it. Not a shred of logic as far […]

 

Stephen Breyer: Your Constitutional Rights vary with geography

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning. He spoke to his interpretation of the Founding Fathers’ intent with regard to gun control. Hint – as an ultra-liberal Mr. Justice Breyer is totally in favor of as much gun control regulation as possible. After all, he authored the dissenting opinion […]

 

Progressives Cheer Mark Madoff Suicide as ‘Revolutionary Justice’

Posted on by Donald Douglas

At DownWithTyranny!, “At This Point Do We Have to Be Hoping for a Revolution?” (And Memeorandum.) From Howie Klein in the comments: On the other hand, more rich people and the criminal spawn can hang themselves, the way Mark Madoff did. That’s justice served — and revolutionary enough. Amazing. Folks may have heard. Mark Madoff […]

 

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: Madison.com. Link: Pirate’s Cove. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: Confederate Yankee. Link: Just One Minute. Link: Hot Air. And: Previously: This Week in Automotivators, November 29-December 5 This […]

 

Countries Agree To Redistribute Wealth For Climate Change, As Snow Collapses Metrodome

Posted on by William Teach

Big doings in exotic Cancun, doings which highlight exactly what this whole farce is all about Delegates from 193 nations agreed Saturday on a new global framework to help developing countries curb their carbon output and cope with the effects of climate change, but they postponed the harder question of precisely how industrialized and major […]

 

Pigford’s Fraud on the American Taxpayer

Posted on by Jane Jamison

By Abraxas:  for UNCOVERAGE.net On December 12, 1996, a handful of black farmers, led by John Boyd (founder of the “National Black Farmers Association”) gathered on the frozen grass of Lafayette Park across from the White House to protest what they claimed was widespread racial discrimination by the USDA against black farmers. This protest prompted […]

 

Kristi Noem Delivers GOP Weekly Address

Posted on by Donald Douglas

This is a perfect example of less is more, in her wonderful delivery and in her message of limited government. Via Gateway Pundit and Dakota Voice. And at the Daily Republic, “US Rep.-elect Noem delivers Republican address“: U.S. Rep.-elect Kristi Noem delivered the weekly Republican address Saturday, reiterating her calls to cut spending and reduce […]

 

Scandal (and 2011 Estate Tax?) Makes Bernie Madoff Son Choose Suicide

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Not everyone is in the desperate legal straits of the Madoff family, but I have no doubt that between now and December 31, we are going to see more of these deathly tax dodges. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is being thwarted. This is what Obamanomics is doing to this nation: death is […]

 

Conservative Talk Radio Weekly Recap: Dec 6-10

Posted on by Kathy Shaidle

My NEW Talk Radio Watch column is now up! Enjoy FREE audio and video highlights from the week in conservative talk radio, including: Rush Limbaugh vs the mayor of Bristol, CT Michael Savage wonders why he isn’t mentioned in any WikiLeaks documents Laura Ingraham challenges Newt Gingrich’s amnesty flipflops and more… Check it out! PS: […]

 

Having Solved All Other Problems, LA Bans Some Fast Food Places

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, there’s no more crime in LA, no illegals, and no budget issues New stand-alone fast food restaurants have been banned from setting up shop in South Los Angeles, due to rising health concerns by the city council. How many fast food eateries does one area really need? The Los Angeles City Council thinks South […]

 

Ethanol Subsidies Show Why Washington Is Broken

Posted on by William Teach

Interesting revelations from the Investors Business Daily Here’s the bottom line for the ethanol tax credits additive to the White House-GOP tax compromise: – $6 billion in subsidies for 2011. – $10 per extra gallon of ethanol. – $14 million per extra job. – $1.2 billion to attract one extra Senate vote. In a season […]

 

Are You Using Fair Trade Condoms With Your Free-Range Hookers?

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal … Like any socially conscious steward of Mother Earth, I have minimum standards when it comes to sex. I want my hookers sustainable, my porn carbon neutral, and my sex toys handcrafted from renewable resources. I don’t care if you’re heterosexual or homosexual as long as you’re eco-sexual. Tell […]

 

WikiLeaks Bombshell: Cuba To Be Bankrupt in 2-3 Years

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

The warnings were all there.:  Just sixteen months ago we learned that Cuba was running out of one of the most important and basic family commodities. The Communist dictatorship, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, was running short of toilet paper and couldn’t get sufficient supplies until the end of the year. Now […]

 

Obama Claims Power to Decide if Your Medicine is Too Expensive to be Allowed

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s very easy for Obamacare supporters to scoff at the whole idea that there are “death panels” ensconced in Obama’s health care power grab. But the fact of the matter is that they exist in a defacto form. One of those defacto death panels is the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), an agency invented under […]

 

Something very, very weird is going on in Washington

Posted on by Bookworm

Are the wheels coming off the bus, or are we witnessing the most brilliant, and dangerous, political theater in our life times? Here’s what it looked like a few days ago: the President caved on maintaining the current tax rate, leaving Republicans triumphant. In exchange, it seemed as if the Republicans were extending unemployment benefits, […]

 

Ron Radosh’s Blogging Hat Trick: His Three Must-Read Posts

Posted on by David Swindle

Cross-posted from NewsReal Blog Ron Radosh is on a roll over at his blog at Pajamas Media. He’s nailed it with his last three posts. Let’s start with the most recent and work our way back. First, yesterday Ron published, “TNR and the Crisis of The American Intellectual: Can the Old Liberal Stalwart Play a […]

 

Students Attack Royal Couple in Violent London Protests

Posted on by Donald Douglas

And just minutes before, while in route to the Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium, Prince Charles joked, “Hopefully we’ll be able to brave our way through, get there and be all right.” Added: From Glenn Reynolds, “ANARCHY IN THE U.K.” And at WSJ, “Violent Protests Follow U.K. Fee Vote.” Cross-posted from American Power. […]

 

No air of verisimilitude to this otherwise unconvincing narrative

Posted on by Bookworm

It turns out that the young man who hung on the Union Jack flag in order to climb a cenotaph dedicated to the dead of WWI, a cenotaph that has inscribed on it in large letters “the glorious dead,” has apologized, claiming he knew not what he did. Hogwash. First of all, any halfway civilized […]

 

Gun-Toting Woman Accosted in Own Home is Arrested in Kansas

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Most Americans would imagine that if a homeowner is accosted in her own home by an outsider, the homeowner would be justified in arming herself. In fact, most Americans would think it a right… seeing as how there’s that whole Second Amendment and all. Well apparently there are neither any Americans nor any supporters of […]