How Ron Paul Might Win Iowa and STILL Get No Hawkeye Delegates

My friend Michael Bates has raised some interesting — if technical — points. He notes that Ron Paul could very will win Iowa but still come away with few or even no Iowa delegates. After looking over Bates’ points, I think he has it right. But one thing he said is really trenchant when he […]

 

Hooray! Warmists To Save Us From Globull Warming With A Polar Bear Plunge

I’m sure the irony is completely lost on the little cultists Maine’s largest conservation advocacy organization is using the frosty ocean waters to raise money in the name of global warming. The Natural Resources Defense Council’s annual Polar Bear Plunge raises money to support the group’s work to reduce pollution it says contributes to global […]

 

Obama Uses Final 2011 Weekly Address To Whine Some More

And, yes, he also gets rather snippy and partisan, as well (The Hill) President Obama ended 2011 by predicting a contentious 2012. In his final weekly address of the year, the president said he was hopeful about making progress on his agenda in the coming year but warned that it wouldn’t be easy. “We’ve got […]

 

“Bob Hope’s secret of getting rich”

“He was the first comedian to run himself as a business, and he succeeded brilliantly.Time: magazine reported in 1967 that he was worth half a billion dollars. Asked about the figure, Hope said, ‘Anyone can do it. All you have to do is: save a million dollars a year for 500 years.’” Link via: Stan Liebowitz.

 



Wash. Post Plays Hate-The-Rich-Republicans With Graphic Chart

-By Warner Todd Huston On Wednesday morning the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake posted an infographic that was a perfect example of how one can use a graphic chart to influence the public in subtle ways, ways that we of the center right better start employing in our own efforts if we want to win over […]

 

New Hampshire “Scientists” Urge GOP Contenders To Embrace Climate Change Hoax

The Warmists just won’t give up their cultish beliefs, and The Hill is there to run with the story without any fact checking Fifty New Hampshire scientists Thursday called on the Republican presidential candidates to accept the “overwhelming” scientific evidence behind climate change. The scientists issued the joint statement just weeks before the Jan. 10 […]

 

Gallup: GOP Contenders Come Closer To American Views

Here’s something we all intrinsically know, and knew prior to the 2008 election: Americans are center-right, and the GOP’s viewpoints are closer to their own than what Obama pushes (Gallup) Americans perceive Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, and Ron Paul as closest to themselves ideologically, and Michele Bachmann and Barack Obama as furthest away. A USA […]

 

Charlie Sheen was clearly the man of the year.

You’ll recall that 2011 began with the oafish actor celebrating his own narcotic and sexual crapulence like a victorious gladiator working the crowds. He was egged on by a media with as much decency as the cons on the top tiers of the prison who chant “fresh fish” as the new inmates walk into general […]

 


Voters Want Growth, Not Income Redistribution

“A 2008 election widely regarded as heralding a shift toward the more government-friendly public sentiment of the New Deal and Great Society eras seems to have yielded just the reverse.” So writes William Galston, Brookings Institution scholar and deputy domestic adviser in the Clinton White House, in the New Republic. Galston, one of the smartest […]

 


The Elephant Stick

What’s the elephant stick?:  Simply, it’s: a stake driven into the ground to keep a chained baby elephant from escaping captivity.:  The young elephant, small and relatively weak, is: not yet strong enough to pull up: the stake and flee.:  The baby elephant: learns that: when it feels tension on it’s ankle: it’s reached the end of: the chain and: can’t go any: farther.:  […]

 

Mitt Romney: My Mass. Healthcare Plan Is ‘Fundamentally Conservative’

Romney did it again. On Fox News he linked Romneycare to conservative principles, an outrageous act in the eyes of any conservative. But hold the boat, people, because Romney didn’t exactly say that Romneycare itself is a conservative policy. And therein lies the weasel words that Romney has used to describe the Massachusetts healthcare plan […]

 

Newt: Sitting On Couch With Nancy Was “Dumbest Thing….”

Unfortunately, he doesn’t walk back his globull warming beliefs, and, more importantly, his belief in legislation and regulation to “stop” globull warming (Huffington Post) Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was pressed again Tuesday on one of the ghosts of his political past, when a notorious advertisement on climate change featuring him alongside then-Speaker […]

 

Suddenly, Eric Holder’s Worried About ‘Undocumented” Guns

The current US Attorney General is probably the last person who should be discussing illegal guns, er, undocumented boom sticks, but, then, Fast and Furious seemed to be more about creating a situation to implement more gun controls on legal owners (Politico) The number of officers killed in the line of duty jumped 13 percent […]

 



Norman Lear’s Left-Wing Paranoia About ‘The Right’

They’re coming for your children! They’re coming for the womenfolk! Then they’re coming after you! Norman Lear, the famous television show producer, offered this hysterically paranoid assessment of the allegedly growing and presumably insidious power of “the right”: “I want to suggest that we lefties start laying claim to what we see as ‘sacred’ and […]

 

The Justice Department’s identity problem

Is there, or should there ever be, a point when a state is no longer penalized for its discriminatory past? Not according to the Department of Justice, which last Friday rejected a South Carolina law that would have required voters show a valid photo ID before casting their ballots. Justice says the law discriminates against […]

 

Republican Voters’ Choices

No one seems to be really happy with this year’s field of Republican candidates for that party’s presidential nomination — except perhaps the Democrats. The sudden rise, and equally sudden fall, of a succession of Republican front-runners is just one sign of the dissatisfaction of the Republican voters with this field of candidates. In this, […]

 

Only One Candidate Is Right On The Two Most Important Issues

In the upcoming presidential election, two issues are more important than any others: repealing Obamacare and halting illegal immigration. If we fail at either one, the country will be changed permanently. Taxes can be raised and lowered. Regulations can be removed (though they rarely are). Attorneys general and Cabinet members can be fired. Laws can […]

 

Politico’s Top 10 Political Blunders: Mostly GOP Blunders?

Top ten lists at year’s end are always subjective, to be sure. But some lists seem rather obviously out of whack at first glance. Politico’s “Top 10 political blunders of 2011” is one of those lists that is glaring for what isn’t present as opposed to what is. And what isn’t seems to bespeak that […]

 

From a TV Show to A Fight for Campus Free Speech

This video, which features an interview with legendary author Neil Gaiman (famed science fiction, fantasy and comic book writer), is a lighthearted look at how the University of Wisconsin-Stout ended up being forced to back down from its oppression of the free speech of one of its professors. Professor James Miller’s poster, one featuring a […]

 

Occupy DC: Rats, Meth, Terrorist Flags

At what point is the following representative of the 99%? (via OWS Exposed) (Washington Times) People monitoring the Occupy D.C. movement tell Inside the Ring that the two encampments are fast becoming health hazards. Numerous protesters also recently were sickened with unusual respiratory illnesses. The major emerging problem for the leftists camped out in tents […]

 

Hey, How’s Obama’s “Let’s Talk” Approach With Iran Going?

The other day, MSNBC had an article on Team Obama’s “let’s talk” approach to foreign policy, and declared that it wasn’t going to well when it comes to Iran (and most countries). Yesterday, it got worse (NY Times) A senior Iranian official on Tuesday delivered a sharp threat in response to economic sanctions being readied […]

 

The Year in Obama Scandals — and Scandal Deniers

With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama’s snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal. Dartmouth College professor Brendan Nyhan asserted in May — while Operation Fast […]