Year: 2011

Easter Eggs to Be Called Spring Spheres

Posted on by Dave Blount

Make sure to revise your copy of the Newspeak dictionary so that you are not caught using incorrect terminology until the next official edition is published. As part of the ongoing campaign to eradicate even oblique references to Christianity from our culture, Easter eggs are henceforth to be referred to as spring spheres. From moonbatty […]

 

Teachers Union Backs Cop Killer

Posted on by Dave Blount

If their wanton destruction of the quality of education and their willingness to bankrupt state governments out of pathological greed aren’t enough to convince you of the profound malignancy of teachers unions, maybe this will do the job: Between negotiating for more benefits and teaching their students, the California Federation of Teachers has adopted a […]

 

Nat’l Teachers Union Chief Steals Reporter’s Story for Speech Without Attribution

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I guess being the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) means not having to do your own homework. Just ask AFT President Randi Weingarten. Weingarten was caught using verbatim and without attribution the work of a journalist from New York in a speech she gave a week ago. Usually this is called plagiarism […]

 

Even American ‘Cowboys’ Now Government Teat Suckers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last month when the current series of budget debates began to heat up, the ineffectual leader of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate thought he had a great little point against proposed tax cuts by crying that the cuts would destroy Nevada’s “Cowboy Poetry.” Oh, the humanities. You might recall that last month Reid ambled […]

 

Climate Alarmist Comes Up With 3 Point Plan To Restart The Alarmism

Posted on by William Teach

As the globull warming craze dies a slow, deserved death, many alarmists are working to find ways to get people back on board with the Cult of Gore. Here’s another one at Fangaroo Joe Romm of Climate Progress recently had an interesting post on an email from Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp regarding “how […]

 

The Kennedys Miniseries–What did We Learn?

Posted on by Fingers Malloy

This post originally appeared at NewsReal Blog. Sunday night, ReelzChannel broadcast the two part finale of a controversial eight part miniseries entitled; The Kennedys. Many networks passed on the miniseries; including but not limited to the History Channel, Showtime, FX, Starz, Direct TV’s 101 Network, The Bass Fishing Network, Dental Floss TV, Air America and […]

 

Good News! CIA Mostly Out Of Detention And Interrogation Business

Posted on by William Teach

This should make every feel very safe. From the LA Times He’s considered one of world’s most dangerous terrorism suspects, and the U.S. offered a $1-million reward for his capture in 2005. Intelligence experts say he’s a master bomb maker and extremist leader who possesses a wealth of information about Al Qaeda-linked groups in Southeast […]

 

Liberal Feminists Are Apparently Very Confused About Gender

Posted on by John Hawkins

Gender IS NOT a social construct. Let me repeat that, because it’s important. Gender IS NOT a social construct. In fact, believing that gender is just a social construct is an exceptionally stupid belief that ironically, is often held by very smart people. It’s surprisingly similar in many ways to the error that Leftists make […]

 

5 Things That Will Happen To You When America Goes Bankrupt

Posted on by John Hawkins

“Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Does it seem too strong to call the way America deals with its debt “madness?” If not madness, then what? Denial? An addiction? However you phrase it, we’re a country that’s in deep trouble, but […]

 

‘Educators’ Conference To Get You Racist White’s Minds Right Coming Soon

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Alright you evil, rotten, racist, white oppressors, it’s time once again for the “White Privilege Conference,” this year to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 13 – 16. Come on out you white teachers so we can get your rotten minds right about how racist you are and so that you can go back […]

 

429 Pages of New Regulations Wrought from 6 Pages of Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obamacare will destroy our healthcare system and our economy both while giving unprecedented and unconstitutional powers to unelected, unaccountable federal regulators. It’s just that simple. Further proof of this was reported by US News and World Report on April 7 where we see that out of just six pages of the Obamacare law, federal regulators […]

 

Christians Barred By NYPD From Muslim/ANSWER Sponsored Anti-War Rally

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Two Christians were told by Police that they were not allowed to attend an anti-war rally held by a conglomerate of Muslims groups, unions, and Barack Obama’s Organizing for America organization on April 9 in New York City. About 1,000 people came together at Union Square on Saturday to protest the U.S. military at a […]

 

Ed Markey (D-ranged): GOP “Trying To Destroy The Whole Wide World”

Posted on by William Teach

Not content with simply whining about one thing at a time, Ed Markey (D-Ma) works the Internet and globull warming into the same rant (via The Blaze through The Daily Bayonette through Tom Nelson) Some choice derangement from his rants about GOP legislation to stop ‘net neutrality” and stop the EPA from regulation greenhouse gases […]

 

Surprise! Obama’s Deficit “Plan” Will Include Tax Increases

Posted on by William Teach

Of course, it appears as if his plan is more of a draft, well, really, a rough outline….OK, more of some talking points scribbled on a cocktail napkin from a campaign event: Obama Puts Taxes on Table President Barack Obama will lay out his plan for reducing the nation’s deficit Wednesday, belatedly entering a fight […]

 

Interviewing Thomas Sowell About Economic Facts And Fallacies

Posted on by John Hawkins

Thomas Sowell has just released Economic Facts and Fallacies: Second Edition . I read the first edition, thought it was outstanding, and would highly recommend it. I was also pleased to have the opportunity to interview Thomas Sowell about the Second Edition of the book. What follows is the slightly edited transcript of our conversation. […]

 

I Get Emails: It’s Those Billionaires Who Are The Real Enemies!

Posted on by John Hawkins

From my email last night, A Wall Street Billionaire, a Tea Party member, a Union member, a Black WELFARE mother, and a non-union electrician were having lunch. The waiter brought in 12 cookies for ALL of them to eat. The BILLIONAIRE immediately grabbed 11.5 cookies and started to eat them. He looked at the Tea […]

 

The Bookworm Turns — an e-book with collected posts from the Bookworm Room

Posted on by Bookworm

I started blogging in 2004, right before the election, and was hooked.  After years of churning out legal briefs, it was an endless pleasure to write about politics, pop culture, education, social issues, national security, the media, and whatever else caught my attention.  It was wonderful, too, to develop a new writing style, one that […]

 

This Week in Automotivators, April 4-10

Posted on by TrogloPundit

A lighter batch this week, even though it seemed like a helluva tempestuous seven days. Follow the links below each picture for more info, if you need it. Link: The Blogprof. Link: Cubachi. Link: Ann Althouse. Link: Jimmie Bise. And, just because: Which may have partially led to: Link: The TrogloPundit. Previously: This Week in […]

 

FCC net neutrality mavens impose forced wireless broadband sharing

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

Maybe now that Congress is done haggling over miniscule budget cuts they can return their attention to the Obama Administration’s net neutrality power grab. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is hell-bent on redistributing the networks built by AT&T and Verizon to every penny ante bit player who comes along. Why build your own wireless network when […]

 

Climate Morons To March On D.C. On April 18th, Confront “Climate Criminals”

Posted on by William Teach

Obviously, they will provide these climate criminals with ideas on how to control our 4.5 billion year old climate From April 15th through the 18th, thousands of students and youth will be attending Powershift 2011. This conference has been billed as another opportunity to do something about climate change. Throughout the conference, Democratic politicians from […]

 

“Dear Woman” Scheme to Get Laid With Feminists May Actually Be Working

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Cross-posted from NewsReal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! Are we looking at a possible love connection for the (purported) men of “Dear Woman” fame? Earlier this week Lori Ziganto went full-on mean girl on the “sniveling, pathetic whiners” who recorded a video apology to all […]

 

Here’s a quote that resonates with me today

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Megan McArdle: …every single voter who is benefitting from a government program right now not only wants to continue benefitting, but believes they have a moral right to do so. Word. On Thursday, I spent eight long hours at a public hearing. The subject: Wisconsin’s proposed state budget. The testimony fell into one or more […]

 

Sibling Rivalry (of a sort) in Wisconsin

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan is either a few days old or several years old now, depending on whether you’ve been paying attention to him since he first won election. So far, reaction falls into a few basic categories: It’s a horrific (and probably fascist) attack on the elderly, the poor, America, childhood, and rainbows; […]