Year: 2010

Obama Fires McChrystal

Posted on by Donald Douglas

At NYT, “Obama Relieves McChrystal of Command“: President Obama removed Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander of American forces in Afghanistan on Wednesday, and tapped as his replacement the general’s boss, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the architect of the 2007 surge in Iraq. Mr. Obama, standing with General Petraeus and Vice President Joseph R. Biden […]

 

Sex Ed Keeps Pushing the Envelope

Posted on by Dave Blount

You can’t say our government-run schools aren’t teaching kids anything. They just aren’t teaching what we would want them to teach: Parents are outraged after young teenagers were instructed on graphic sexual acts during a Planned Parenthood sex education class at the local high school in Shenandoah, Iowa. “It was horribly inappropriate,” Colleen Dostal told […]

 

Atlanta Journal Columnist Tucker Says USA is ‘The Enemy’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Columnist Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner, has found the enemy and he is us. During a recent episode of the Chris Matthews show, Tucker decided that because we are “addicted to petroleum” we are our own enemy just as much as communism was our enemy during the Cold War. […]

 

Petition to Remove Statue of Murderer Stalin from D-Day Memorial

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There has been a lot of anger over the inclusion of a statue of Joseph Stalin, Russia’s murderous WWII dictator, in our National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.As a result of that anger a petition has been started to remove the Stalin celebration from the National D-Day Memorial. Thousands of Americans feel that including a […]

 

Do You Want To Submit? Because In Michigan, They’re Submitting

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Powerline reports this: Under Sharia law, it is forbidden to proselytize to Muslims, and no Muslim can leave the faith. Dearborn, Michigan, is home to a substantial Muslim population, and there is strong evidence that local authorities now enforce sharia in preference to the Constitution of the United States. Thus this Associated Press story about […]

 

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Should Go

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

In a move that was sure to devastate the coastal region even more, the Obama administration issued a six month moratorium on deepwater drilling. This would be like having a plane crash, and putting a six month moratorium on flying. Luckily for us, a judge in Lousiania has overturned this decision. The Obama administration is […]

 

Judge Who Struck Down PeBO Drilling Ban Owns Oil Stock – Liberal Freakout Ensues

Posted on by William Teach

As usual, Democrats and their media peeps focus on the personal, rather than the facts The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration’s six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports. He’s also a new member […]

 

Promises, Promises: Obama’s Ever Evolving Pledge Not To Raise Taxes On People Making Less Than $250,000 A Year In Quotes

Posted on by John Hawkins

Barack Obama is being smeared by baseless claims that he would dramatically raise marginal tax rates to levels not seen since the 1970s, or impose new taxes on everything from your child’s education fund to your water. These tired attacks are patently false and have been repeatedly debunked by independent fact check organizations. Below are […]

 

Fish Wrap – “Hey, Pass The Unemployment Extension All Ready!”

Posted on by William Teach

The NY Times Editorial Board provides a perfect example of Liberal World Thought: Cutting Off The Unemployed It was bad enough when the Senate left town for a long Memorial Day break without passing a bill to extend expiring unemployment benefits. It’s worse now. Back in session for nearly three weeks, the Senate still has […]

 

A Tuesday Full Of Awesome: Mike Lee, Tim Scott, And Nikki Haley All Win!

Posted on by John Hawkins

Yesterday was a great day for conservatives. Nikki Haley, who’s a strong conservative, easily won a run-off race for : governor in South Carolina. If she wins the general election, she’ll be the first female Indian-American governor in the country. The latest poll I’ve seen has Haley up by roughly 20 points over Democratic candidate Vincent […]

 

The Real McChrystal Scandal: Are We Losing The War In Afghanistan?

Posted on by John Hawkins

There has obviously been a tremendous amount of controversy surrounding the remarks Gen. Stanley McChrystal made to a Rolling Stone reporter about Barack Obama and other members of his administration. That’s understandable. Even the grunts know that they’re not supposed to publicly trash the Commander-in-Chief and McChrystal & his staff certainly knew it, too. So, […]

 

McChrystal and Civil-Military Relations

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Eliot Cohen, who is not kind to Obama (and his strategic blunders in Afghanistan), puts the burden on McChrystal’s breach of civilian control, “Why McChrystal Has to Go“: It is intolerable for officers to publicly criticize or mock senior political figures, including the vice president or the ambassador (who is, after all, the president’s personal […]

 

John Kyl Is Telling The Truth. So That Leaves President Obama As The Obfuscator.

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Here’s the audio from Naked Emperor: Kerry Picket has the find and here’s the text: We have a system that is unfair to a lot of people. What I’ve suggested is we have to concentrate on is: ‘How do we secure our borders? How do we track individuals coming into this country who may be […]

 

MacArthur vs. McChrystal

Posted on by John Hawkins

When I heard that General Stanley McChrystal, the man running the show in Afghanistan, had mouthed off about Obama to Rolling Stone and could conceivably be fired, my first thought turned to the conflict between MacArthur and Truman that helped destroy Truman’s presidency. If you don’t remember, Truman ended up firing MacArthur after the general […]

 

Video: ‘The Three Terrors’ Skewers Palestinian Supporters

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The folks at the Hebrew language opinion and news site Latma have done it again. A new effort revealing the hypocrisy of the Palestinians and their slavish supporters across the world are skewered in yet another parody video. Based on Funiculi Funicula Sung by the Three Terrors: Erdogano Pavarotti, Assad Carreras and Ahmedido Domingo Erdogan. […]

 

Wind Farms Paid to Shut Down When the Wind Blows

Posted on by Dave Blount

One of the reasons windmills cannot generate energy efficiently is that the wind doesn’t always blow — and when it does blow, bureaucrats pay wind farms to shut down: Energy firms will receive thousands of pounds a day per wind farm to turn off their turbines because the National Grid cannot use the power they […]

 

Arguing by Arson

Posted on by Dave Blount

Being an American, 72-year-old David Jungerman wanted to exercise his right to express himself politically. So he parked a trailer in his cornfield along US 71 an hour south of Kansas City painted with the message: Are you a Producer or Parasite Democrats — Party of the Parasites Hard to argue with that. Yet the […]

 

The Left’s Idea For The Economy: Fixing Heartburn With Heart Transplant Surgery

Posted on by John Hawkins

William Greider over at the Nation wrote a short, but wacky piece called Goodbye Keynes, Hello Hoover that’s just so off-the-mark it demanded a response, The first fundamental failure of Keynesian economics occurred forty years ago during the Vietnam War when the economy was overheating but the political system failed to take the corrective steps […]

 

Those Poor Muslims Forced to Sell Pork Rinds in Chicago

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Chicago Tribune has a long lament of an article bellyaching about how so many wonderful and devout Muslim grocery store owners in Chicago are somehow forced to sell liquor, lottery tickets and pork products in their stores. The article worries over their Muslim souls for having to violate their un-American Shariah codes. Naturally, a […]

 

The AP: Using Emotional Descriptives to Demean the GOP

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the best ways to cajole a reader into accepting a point of view is to use emotional descriptives in writing. It is the difference between opinion style editorials — like what I write — and straight news — like what a wire service like the Associated Press is supposed to be writing. Unfortunately, […]

 

Tuesday Stupid: Pelosi Vs. Carter

Posted on by William Teach

Two CNS News articles to compare. Let’s start with Queen Nancy House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said last week that passing energy and climate change legislation is a “moral issue”–although, at the same time, she indicated that she is “agnostic” about what means should be used in legislation to reduce dependence on foreign oil and […]

 

WSJ Lays Out The Differences Between Katrina And BP Responses

Posted on by William Teach

Paul H. Rubin, professor of economics at Emory University, does a great job in comparing and contrasting the federal responses to the two disasters as they relate to two presidents, though, I do think he forgot one point, which I’ll get to. First, some background In many respects, the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Katrina are […]

 

Five Reasons Moderates Are Wrong About Bipartisanship

Posted on by John Hawkins

Middle-of-the-roaders and people who don’t pay a lot of attention to politics have made such a fetish out of bipartisanship that the most partisan political hacks in D.C. will go on and on about “unity” and “working with the other side” even as they lustily plant toe kicks to the other side’s groins at every […]

 

Object to Prostitot Culture? You’re Probably a Racist Prude

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Decked out in flashy burlesque costumes, five dancers mouth sexually suggestive lyrics as they writhe and shimmy across the stage.: :  The audience hoots and hollers as they gyrate to Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).” If you’ve seen the viral video then you already know: these YouTube sensations are just eight and nine […]

 

Obama Knew all and did Nothing….

Posted on by Heather Bachman

From day one of the spill, we have seen that it has left more than tragedy and waste in its path but also a magnifying of exactly what our White House holds: Zero real leadership and continuous degradation of the U.S. Constitution.:  While many political experts have said time and time again that our Commander […]