Year: 2010

Doctors Sick Of Medicare, Limiting Government Patients

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Well, this is utterly unsurprising. And the article undersells what the docs are doing. Many are quitting Medicare entirely: The number of doctors refusing new Medicare patients because of low government payment rates is setting a new high, just six months before millions of Baby Boomers begin enrolling in the government health care program. Recent […]

 

Free Condoms in Public Elementary School

Posted on by Dave Blount

These days public schools don’t pay much attention to the tired old topics of yesteryear — reading, writing, arithmetic, etc. Now the emphasis is on learning fun stuff, like sexual intercourse and disregarding the wishes of parents: A New England school district has approved a measure that will provide free condoms to elementary school students […]

 

Obama: “If We Secure The Border, Then You All Won’t Have Any Reason To Support ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform.”

Posted on by John Hawkins

This is a blindingly hot story that should be front page news if only for the furious denials it will undoubtedly prompt from the White House: “(Obama said) the problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’” [Audible gasps were heard […]

 

Despite Misconception, We Conservatives DO Want Some Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Leftists love to purposefully misconstrue what sort of government conservatives want. Certainly whenever some new big government boondoggle erupts in the typical corruption and waste that is government, conservatives rail against the misappropriation of powers that such boondoggles invariably mean. But when government isn’t doing something they want it to do and conservatives kvetch with […]

 

Arizona Illegal Immigrant Law Fosters Wife Beating, or Something…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Want to hear the latest idiocy against the Arizona anti-illegal immigrant law dreamed up by open-border advocates and illegal alien supporters? Well, try this on for size: Arizona’s SB 1070 helps men beat their wives and girlfriends. No, really. That is their argument. A national organization called Legal Momentum has asked a federal court to […]

 

If Unemployment Benefits Are Worth It, They’re Worth Paying For

Posted on by John Hawkins

Unemployment insurance is probably one of the more useful government programs you’re going to run across. It’s designed to be temporary in nature, it often provides a useful benefit to people who actually pay taxes, and it fills a genuine need. A lot of people don’t have large cash reserves. That means, if they lose […]

 

George W. Bush, Up to Evil Mischief Making Again!

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Now, President Bush is nefariously insinuating his way onto Facebook and Youtube, after taking a quick rest from breaking up Al Gore’s marriage and from magically tricking President Obama into being an utterly incompetent failure. He recently released a video on Youtube, discussing his delving onto the Facebook scene and a little summary of what […]

 

AGW Today: Dumping Iron At Sea To Reduce A Fake Issue. What Could Go Wrong?

Posted on by William Teach

The latest crazy attempt to reduce CO2 Thousands of tonnes of iron will be dumped at sea in an attempt to cut global warming by sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, it has been reported. The iron will lay vast amounts of phytoplankton, which absorbs CO2 as the grow, The Times reported. When the phytoplankton […]

 

Why Newspapers Are Dying: The Ann Coulter Edition

Posted on by John Hawkins

Townhall is the big league of conservative punditry. All of the A-List conservative columnists, with the exception of perhaps Mark Steyn, Karl Rove, : and : Peggy Noonan write for them. Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Michelle Malkin, Charles Krauthammer, Mike Adams, George Will, Jonah Goldberg, Victor Davis Hanson : — they’re all at Townhall, along with a lot […]

 

PeBO Apparently Bored With The Whole Gulf Oil Spill Thing

Posted on by William Teach

He’s made his speech, visited the Gulf a few times, blamed a whole bunch of people, so, it is time for Obama to move on to other things that have importance to Himself. He had nothing scheduled this weekend, except some golf (we haven’t heard what he did Sunday, but, being Father’s Day, I’d give […]

 

Making Good Science Decisions

Posted on by Dennis Avery

CHURCHVILLE, VA–I can’t help but praise Michael Specter’s new book: Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives. Specter warns that we live in a world where the leaders of African nations prefer to let their citizens starve to death rather than import genetically-modified food grains. Childhood vaccines have […]

 

Longshoremen Join Communists, Islamists to Block Iraeli Ship in Oakland

Posted on by Donald Douglas

The video c/o the communist Indy Bay website, “Labor and Community Picket Israeli Zim Line Ship“: The full report’s at American Power, “East Bay Jew Hatred: Free Palestine Movement Blockades Israeli Ship in Oakland.” RELATED: Be sure to read Melanie Phillips’ recent interview for background, “Melanie Phillips Interview at National Review.” Her new book is […]

 

About those Medicare doctor reimbursement cuts…

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Forget what the Senate did – the House is a whole ‘nother story: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struck a combative tone tonight, rejecting the Medicare “doc fix” passed hastily through the Senate Friday until Senate Republicans allow a vote on jobs measures that have passed through the House. That’ll be a 21.3% cut to the […]

 

Dems to Run on Joe Barton Campaign Platform

Posted on by Donald Douglas

At The Hill, “Dems Mount Effort to Label Conservative GOPs as ‘The BP 114’.” Plus, watch Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel cling to Rep. Joe Barton like a life preserver: There’s been panic on both sides of the aisle, actually. It’s an election year. Barton got skittish, others in Congress jumped at the political opportunity, […]

 

Carrie Fisher is Why I’d Vote No on Legalizing Drugs

Posted on by Morgan Freeberg

Or she’s part of the reason why. I’ve drawn a lot of flak on this and why I draw flak on it, has always been a mystery to me. Whether or not any drug should be legal, is a question on which the federal government has no jurisdiction whatsoever. Congress can declare things illegal, but […]

 

Aide to Alexi ‘Mob Banker’ Giannoulias Manhandles Videographer

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

OK, OK, this one has been making the rounds all last week. It shows one of Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi “The Mob Banker” Giannoulias’ staffers pushing around a videographer who was trying to get a look at who was attending a private fundraiser. Yeah its uncomfortable to watch, but I have to come down […]

 

Father’s Day 2010: ‘Love’ Does NOT Make a ‘Family’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the eve of Father’s Day, I heard on the air on Chicago’s WIND AM some typical left-wing babble about families. A fellow calling himself a doctor waxed eloquent over how we can “make our own families,” and how “families aren’t just about blood. They are about love.” Nice, gauzy, and wholly inadequate to truly […]

 

Sunday Funnies: Obama Lectures G20 About Debt Reduction

Posted on by William Teach

In the past, we on the Right have made fun of the Left’s use of the phrase “reality based community.” Over the past few years, we have discussed how Obama seems to be divorced from reality and actually have the temerity to lecture about it. More proof, in the form of a letter sent June […]

 

Female Genital Mutilation, Ivy League Edition

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog __ Should surgeons promote an aesthetic standard for little girls’ genitals? Pediatric urologist Dix Poppas thinks so, and he’s more than happy to slice and dice away any deviations in the size and shape of your daughter’s clitoris. This elective butchery of little girls isn’t based on the […]

 

Chicago Police Chief Struggles to Justify Daley Gun Ban

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mick Dumke of the Chicago Reader had an interesting report on a recent press conference held by Chicago’s Police Chief, Jody Weis. Dumke said that during the presser Weis struggled to “explain how the gun ban is working” for Chicago. In other words, Weis was at a loss to prove that Daley’s unconstitutional actions are […]

 

Al Franken’s Bad Judicial Comedy

Posted on by Brian Garst

Vitriolic left-wing Senator Al Franken has bought into the conservative courts myth.:  This myth is popular only so far as the courts have not yet completely embraced left-wing “progressive” interpretations of the Constitution that in reality render its existance entirely meaningless.:  Rather, such views only dominate academia, the political class and almost all levels of […]