Year: 2010

Taking Down Eric Boehlert

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Patrick Frey and Matt Welch are just hammering useful tool Eric Boehlert of Media Mutters for America. We’re talkin’ utter devastation — total Maximus Decimus Meridius takedown territory for the useful clown at MMFA. Matt’s piece is especially killer, “Don’t You Go Calling Obama an ‘ex-state senator, ‘Hater!’.” Turns out Boehlert can’t get out from […]

 

Rep. Steve King: Obama Favors Blacks Over Whites

Posted on by John Hawkins

Conservative Republican Steve King said the following about Barack Obama, Democrats on Tuesday denounced an Iowa Republican congressman who says President Barack Obama favors blacks over whites, and a GOP candidate from Colorado canceled a fundraiser the Iowan was to keynote. Rep. Steve King, known for sometimes incendiary remarks about immigration, Abu Ghraib and other […]

 

Bureauweenies Blow $800,000 on Defining Three Words

Posted on by Dave Blount

The reason the standard of living invariably goes down as the size of government goes up is that bureaucrats do not spend other people’s money as wisely as we spend our own. For yet another example, refer to the moonbat dystopia of the San Francisco area: Believe it or not, BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit] […]

 

Barack Obama Doesn’t Represent How The American People Feel About Britain

Posted on by John Hawkins

One of the most ironic things about liberals is that they constantly fret about our image in the world. “Why that Cowboy George Bush is making people hate us!” If you heard something like that once over the last 8 years, you probably heard it a hundred times. So, what happens when a liberal like […]

 

Princess Leia Found Her Darth Vader: It’s You and Me

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, she’s a former alcoholic, drug addict, washed up actor, shock therapy patient (no, really) and one-time princess to the universe, but now Carrie “Princess Leia” Fisher can add one more calumny to her long list of off-kilter, personality deficits: she’s a “teabagger” hater. So, she’s got that going for her, which is nice. Hawking […]

 

New York Teachers Union Has Branch in Florida?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The outrage of union activities never ceases to amaze. From the Education Week blog we find that the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), the teachers union of New York, spends almost $200,000 a year of its member’s dues money on an office in Boca Raton, Florida! As Ed Week drolly says, “That’s not peanuts for […]

 

Four Reasons There Shouldn’t Be a Mosque at Ground Zero

Posted on by John Hawkins

There’s a time and a place for everything. For example, there may be nothing wrong with building a museum of Japanese military history, but would the place for that be Pearl Harbor? How about our First Amendment right to speak out — that’s important, isn’t it? So does that mean it’s supposed to be okay […]

 

Oh, Snap! WH Looks To Pass Regulations So Employers Can’t Drop Their Health Insurance Plans

Posted on by William Teach

“If you like your health insurance, yada yada yada” The White House on Monday outlined broad new rules designed to prevent employers from dropping health insurance benefits for their workers or shifting huge new costs onto them. The regulations empower the administration to revoke the so-called grandfather status of businesses that shift “significant” new burdens […]

 

Apparently, Etheridge Was Simply Caught In An Unflattering Moment

Posted on by William Teach

Just imagine for a moment, if you will, that Bob Etheridge (D-NC2) was a Republican. The media coverage would not be quite so flattering. Editorials would be written about how bad this incident was. They would demand a criminal investigation, and, perhaps, well, probably, demand he resign. Instead, we get The video was harsh. There […]

 

The Left’s Reaction to Afghanistan’s New Mineral Riches?

Posted on by Donald Douglas

Okay, NYT‘s got what’s apparently a big deal, “U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan.” I’m just now checking Memeorandum, and boy folks are excited. The Times‘ story is sensational. The mineral find is estimated at $1 trillion, and “Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the […]

 

Under Socialized Medicine, Belgian Nurses Admit to Killing Patients

Posted on by Dave Blount

Our government-dominated healthcare future is already on display in Belgium, where liberalism has triumphed to the extent that many Belgian nurses freely admit to killing the patients in their charge: A high proportion of deaths classed as euthanasia in Belgium involved patients who did not ask for their lives to be ended, a study found. […]

 

Newsweek Attacks Marriage

Posted on by Dave Blount

You can’t always learn what malignant objectives leftists are pursuing by listening to what they accuse the resistance of. Sometimes you have to stoop to reading their most execrable publications — like MSNBC’s website, which recently proclaimed in flagrant opposition to all evidence that fathers are not needed, or Newsweek, which asks us to believe […]

 

Exclusive To Right Wing News: Bob Etheridge’s Opponent, Renee Ellmers, Responds To His Assault On A Student Film Crew

Posted on by John Hawkins

As many of you are no doubt aware, Democratic Congressman Bob Etheridge is in the news for assaulting a student who asked him a question. Here’s the video of the incident that’s turning up all over the place. Etheridge has already issued an apology for his odd and violent behavior. I have seen the video […]

 

Vlog: News Analysis of ‘We Con The World’ Video Controversy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is my first vlog (that’s video blog for the uninitiated) using my new HD camera. I see I have to fix my lighting problem in the room I was using to record it in, but anyways… it was my first stab at it, so give me a break will ya? This episode I look […]

 

American Journalism, Brought to you By The Democrat Party

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When someone says “journalist” do you have a picture of a fedora-sporting, cigar chomping, agitator with jaded mien and independent mind, a man stubbornly outside the political establishment looking in and eyeing it all with suspicion? Do you get a flash of a writer that stands in opposition to entrenched powers, one looking out for […]

 

Our ‘Unions are Bad for America’ Theme is Resonating

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For those of you that have come to the blog often, there is a constant theme: unions are antithetical to good government. We’ve been saying this here for years, of course, but over this campaign season I think that meme is beginning to gain real traction because stories echoing this sentiment are everywhere these days. […]

 

MLB Players: No Instant Replay And We Love Jim Joyce

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Well, professionals know excellence when they see it–even when mistakes are made. But this is an interesting survey: Jim Joyce, the umpire whose missed call deprived Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga of a perfect game on June 2, is baseball’s best umpire nonetheless, according to an exclusive ESPN The Magazine Baseball Confidential poll of 100 […]

 

Obama: The Oil Spill Is Like 9/11 Or Something. Guess What He Did Next

Posted on by William Teach

Comedy gold Sunday morning from Obama (that’s when the story was published). Or, should that be, cluelessness, thin skinnedness, and detachedness? Anyhow, via Gateway Pundit, we get a Politicio story, Obama: Gulf spill ‘echoes 9/11’ Sounding reflective as he heads into a bruising electoral season, President Barack Obama told POLITICO columnist Roger Simon that the […]

 

Government Is The Same Everywhere: Slow, Stupid, And Incompetent

Posted on by John Hawkins

Most people who read this story probably finished it thinking, “What a decent and:  : courageous fellow!” While I’d agree with that sentiment, I took something else away from the story entirely: In nearly 50 years Don Ritchie, 84, has saved at least 160 people at The Gap, a rocky cliff at the entrance to Sydney […]

 

It Took An Oil Spill To Teach Obama About The Limits Of Government

Posted on by John Hawkins

The aftermath of:  the:  Obama oil spill or alternately, Obamatrina, has been fascinating to watch. For the first time in recorded memory, we actually have liberals, including Barack Obama, proclaiming that there are limits to what government can accomplish. Can the government create jobs by spending billions we don’t have? Can:  it : run the auto […]

 

The Alvin Greene Mystery: How In The World Did He Win?

Posted on by John Hawkins

South Carolina is starting to become known for wacky political shenanigans. You had Mark Sanford walking the “Appalachian Trail.” Nikki Haley has had two allegations of affairs lodged against her — neither of which the public believed. Then there’s Jake Knotts, the lowlife who was rambling on about Haley being a “raghead” controlled by a […]