Year: 2010

What Really Happened with the ‘Doc Fix’ and the Current Political Chess Game

Posted on by SusanAnne Hiller

Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed that she was indeed using our doctors as political leverage by not passing the Senate version of the doc fix–triggering a 21.2% pay reduction in the Medicare fee schedule.:  When Pelosi said she would not vote on the standalone version of the doc fix and blamed the Republicans, I […]

 

Talking About Rush Limbaugh’s Personal Life With Zev Chafets

Posted on by John Hawkins

Zev Chafets is the author of Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. Chafets wrote the book with Limbaugh’s cooperation and it gave him a fascinating window into Limbaugh’s world. So, as someone who has been a Rush fan since college, I was really looking forward to talking to Chafets. What follows is a slightly edited […]

 

Obama’s Deadly Deadline: What President Obama Really Wants In Afghanistan

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Marc Theissen has an excellent piece today about Afghanistan and President Obama’s deadlines: The deadline is more than a tactical error; it is a strategic miscalculation that undermines almost every element of our efforts in Afghanistan. A withdrawal date undermines the very premise of a counterinsurgency strategy — that by protecting the population, you can […]

 

[Updated] Financial “Reform” DOA in the Senate?

Posted on by SusanAnne Hiller

UPDATE::  The Hill reports that Scott Brown (R-MA) will vote against the bill due to the $19 billion of fees (taxes): on financial: firms. The Hill is reporting: some interesting developments regarding the financial market takeover regulation reform bill: Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) said Monday he would vote against advancing Wall Street overhaul legislation. The move raises pressure […]

 

Ohio Dems Seek Gun Records To Harass Gun Owners

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the wake of the new Supreme Court decision on the 2nd Amendment, we have this illuminating story from Ohio and if this isn’t the perfect example of why American gun owners fear detailed firearm owners registration records in the hands of government officials there isn’t one to be had. Ohio’s State Democrat Party recently […]

 

Wash. Post Cries: White ‘Hate’ Groups Increasing! Says Who?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s time once again for some more left-wing hand wringing over the supposed rise of “white militias” in the era of Obama. This time it is the blather of Metro Columnist Courtland Milloy claiming that white-based hate groups have increased substantially because we have a black president. Milloy also rails about the “racial double standard” […]

 

Texas, Arizona Governors Not Happy With Obama’s Border Plan

Posted on by William Teach

Once again, Los Federales are nickle and diming the security of our nation. Bush was disappointing, and Obama has continued this alarming trend The Texas and Arizona governors criticized the Obama administration’s border security plans Monday, saying not enough National Guard troops are being deployed to their states. “What we heard wasn’t anything what we […]

 

Five Ways the Obama Administration Has Made the Gulf Oil Crisis Worse

Posted on by John Hawkins

The oil spill in the Gulf AKA Obamatrina has been a disaster for everyone involved. Millions of ordinary people who did nothing wrong are taking a huge economic hit, it’s a genuine environmental disaster, BP may end up going bankrupt over the whole disaster, and Obama’s incompetence has been so galling that even Democratic apparatchik’s […]

 

Mark Morford: Conservative Women Are “Pseudo-Women” and “B*tches

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal __ Mark Morford’s San Francisco Chronicle column is what a leftist’s diary might look like — if that leftist was a horny 14-year-old with a man-sized crush on Obama and a predilection for verbally abusing conservative women. Hmm. Scratch that. Morford’s column is exactly what a leftist’s diary would […]

 

Is President Obama Trying To Kill The Gulf State Economies?

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

It sure seems like President Obama despises Republican states. The industry remains dormant in the Gulf. Like the dry fields of California, acres and acres of livelihood being destroyed by Democrat mismanagement, so to the Gulf states see their fields dying and they’re lives destroyed. From CNN: The offshore drilling ban imposed after the BP […]

 

Updates on the David Weigel ‘JournoList’ Scandal – UPDATED!! Weigel Joins MSNBC!

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Ann Althouse has been raising some big questions about the secretive JournaList. For example, “The entire Journolist archive needs to be made public.” Now there’s an initiative to raise money and buy the JournoList archives so Althouse can open up that can of worms. Meanwhile, Weigel offered a “weasely” explanation for the affair at Big […]

 

Will the Democrats Apologize for Not Creating a Budget? (VIDEO)

Posted on by Ericka Andersen

It’s rather shocking that this Democrat Congress — well known by now for their spend-and-borrow tactics — would fail to produce even a budget outline for the coming year. Do the American people not deserve a little direction on where their hard earned taxpayer dollars will be going, and in what vague amounts? The most […]

 

Pedophiles Exploit Wikipedia in the Culture War

Posted on by Dave Blount

In case you need another reason to take anything you read on Wikipedia with a grain of salt: Chat room posts show a clear effort by pedophiles to use Wikipedia, which can be accessed unfiltered in public schools across the country, to further their agenda. Message board posts often include links to specific Wikipedia articles […]

 

Robert C. Byrd, Longest Serving KKK Leader in U.S. Senate, Dead at 92

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Top Note: See also Ed Driscoll’s earlier entry, “Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Dead at 92.” Thought this was worth cross-posting, in any case. ********** God rest his soul. At the video, former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, in a 2007 floor speech, decries as barbaric Michael Vick’s dog-fighting operation. Byrd was 92 and the longest […]

 

Grijalva’s Constituents Are Getting Restless

Posted on by Dave Blount

Arizona’s Congressional District 7 is run as a fiefdom by Raul (formerly Ralph) Grijalva, a militant moonbat who has actually called on the rest of the country to boycott his own state for attempting to enforce federal immigration law with SB1070. Grijalva presides over an extensive political machine, which with the help of Tucson’s wacky […]

 

2nd Amendment Rights Finally Considered a Right for Black Chicagoans Too!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

At long last the 2nd Amendment has been considered a personal right per the Supreme Court of the United States. In McDonald v the City of Chicago the Supreme Court has ruled in a 5 to 4 decision that Chicago’s gun banning laws are not in keeping with the right to self-defense as enshrined in […]

 

A Victory For The Second Amendment…For Now

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Constitution’s “right to keep and bear arms” applies nationwide as a restraint on the ability of the federal, state and local governments to substantially limit its reach. Just as in as with the Washington, DC Heller case in 2008, the ruling was 5-4. The voting […]

 

Are We Finally Going To Be In Position To Win On Illegal Immigration After November?

Posted on by John Hawkins

This is an incredibly telling admission that should embolden people who’re serious about fighting against illegal immigration, Rep. Luis Gutierrez let the cat out of the bag Thursday by acknowledging that the Democrats’ 77-seat majority in the House wouldn’t be enough to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year. The next Congress will look even worse: […]

 

National Review Endorses….John McCain?

Posted on by John Hawkins

If they were endorsing him for President I’d understand, but no Republican in the Senate has done more damage to the conservative cause in the last decade than McCain and yet, we’re still getting this from the editors at NR? That this magazine has not always agreed with Sen. John McCain’s judgments is an understatement. […]

 

Beer Monday*: Chump Who Skyrocketted Deficit Says He’s Serious About Reducing It

Posted on by William Teach

Another Monday! Time to get busy, shift a few paradigms, brow-nose the bosses. How ’bout a beer? You just know those beers Obama shared with British PM Cameron after losing a soccer bet went right to his head President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would follow through on a pledge to rein in soaring […]

 

ObamaCare Failing On Deadlines, Costs

Posted on by William Teach

It’s been awhile since we talked about President Chumps outsourced “historic” legislation. Since it has been passed, there have been stories, but, they have been low key, and tend to be somewhat buried. Like this one Three months after the $940 billion health care bill was signed into law, questions abound about whether the Obama […]

 

Why I Denied David Frum’s Website A Spot In The Blogads Conservative Hive

Posted on by John Hawkins

It’s no surprise that a guy like David Frum would be defending Dave Weigel, who resigned from the WAPO after his private comments mocking conservatives went public and proved exactly what conservatives have been saying all along: –: that he: is hostile to the right and had no business writing a blog called: : “Inside the conservative movement and Republican […]

 

Arizona Needs Help. Obama’s Answer? Signs, Lawsuits and More Incompetence

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Well, at least Obama can likely take credit for creating or saving one job: that of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Once floundering, she is now enjoying a 55% approval rating and is likely to be re-elected. This is partially based on the fact that she, like many conservative women in the forefront these days, actually […]

 

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Dead at 92

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Get ready for the mother of all narrative struggles: the left will be eager to whitewash Byrd’s horrific legacy, which includes a stint in the KKK, filibustering the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and opposing both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas

 

Faith in Government Regulators is Misplaced

Posted on by Brian Garst

Shakespeare would likely describe the latest major legislation winding its way through Congress as a piece of legislation crafted by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.:  Rather than address the systemic distortions created by prior government policies, and which caused the financial meltdown, policy makers are now “[putting] a lot of faith in […]