Year: 2011

Budget Victory: All Right, Tea Partiers, Time to Stop Whining and Learn Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Sorry Tea Partiers, but the GOP won this budget battle despite that you didn’t get all you wanted, this was a major GOP win. In fact, treating it otherwise endangers further cuts and bigger budget wins. If the drive to cut the budget stops now, it might be YOUR fault! What is that you say? […]

 

A post you should read at a blog you should visit

Posted on by Bookworm

My son asked me “Is Princeton a good school?”  I didn’t quite know how to answer that.  It’s an old school.  It’s a school with a great reputation.  It’s expensive.  It has its pick of the nation’s best students.  It also employs Paul Krugman and Peter Singer. What!?  You don’t know who Peter Singer is, […]

 

A Short, Obligatory Post On The Averted Government Shutdown

Posted on by John Hawkins

The Democrats and Republicans reached a deal to avoid shutting down the government and everyone seems to see it differently. Did the Republicans win or did the Democrats? Was a great start to getting the budget under control or not even a drop in the bucket? Here’s the reality; Democrats believe we should be spending […]

 

Apparently, After Budget Battle Washington Is Still Broken

Posted on by William Teach

That’s the conclusion of the Washington Post’s Dan Baltz As the midnight Friday deadline loomed for a possible government shutdown, and politicians continued their rhetorical war of words, a larger message went out to the rest of the country: Washington is still broken. Unfortunately, Dan never quite says “why” Washington is still “broken.” But, is […]

 

Climate “Scientists:” Did We Say Ice Free In 2013? We Meant 2016. Our Bad!

Posted on by William Teach

Mark Landsbaum at the Orange County Register finds a big Woopsie! from climate “scientists” Global warming is a lot like everything else. There are pretty easy ways to tell when you’re being conned or at least whether the ones making claims know what they are talking about. For example, one way to know whether a […]

 

Louise Slaughter Escalates the Projection

Posted on by Dave Blount

The projection and hypocrisy that typify the left have been taken to new extremes by the aptly named congresscritter Louise Slaughter (D-NY), who shrieks that Republicans have come to Congress “to kill women” by slowing down the firehouse of taxpayer money gushing into the highly profitable baby-killing industry. “I went through this as co-chair of […]

 

Gov’t Union Chief Says Working for Gov’t is Like ‘Slavery’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In yet another incident that goes to show why government unions should be made illegal as they once were, we find a government union chief so enraged that he and his members might have to tighten their budget belts — like every other American has had to — that he exploded into a charge that […]

 

Drunken Pawlenty Worker At Iowa Family’s Door at 3AM

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For some unexplained reason a drunken campaign worker for the Tim Pawlenty Presidential Exploratory Committee was found at a Polk County, Iowa Family’s back door at 3AM on Wednesday morning. Ben Foster was arrested and ended up in the Polk County jail after the Steward family called police about a drunken intruder trying to get […]

 

The Basic Truth Behind The Scenes On The Budget (Updated!!)

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

Hopefully by the time you read this Congress will have reached a deal on the budget. Despite the hyperbole coming from the likes of Harry Reid, the truth is this. The budget was supposed to be passed this past October. The Democrats were fully in charge. But they didn’t pass one because they didn’t want […]

 

Climate Morons Discuss Mounting Primary Challenges And Collecting Scalps

Posted on by William Teach

Apparently, Grist writer David Roberts (who’s going for the Commander Ricker look) missed the memo on the “new tone”: Nothing will change until greens mount some primary challenges and collect some scalps So, 350.org and 1Sky are uniting. Interesting news! I was particularly struck by this bit from Bill McKibben and Betsy Taylor’s post: We […]

 

Shutdown Threat Tests Obama’s Leadership Skills

Posted on by William Teach

Oh, wait, sorry, the headline for Dan Balz’s Washington Post opinion piece says “style,” not “skills.” Surprised? I’m not. Kinda hard to discuss skills that a person lacks. One would think that a former community organizer would posses some leadership skills, yet, I suppose whipping up some people who are agitated to begin with is […]

 

Wind Power: It’s Even More Useless Than You Thought

Posted on by John Hawkins

You’d think the first requirement for a source of energy that’s going to replace coal, oil, or natural gas would be that the new source of energy could actually keep the lights on. However, when it comes to wind power, no one seems to worry about such petty concerns. Yet, the reality is that unless […]

 

Michael Moore And The Daily Kos: The Union Election Loss In Wisconsin Must Be Fraud!

Posted on by John Hawkins

After the Republicans hammered the unions in Wisconsin, all we heard was how it was apocalypse now time for the GOP. Oh boy, the Republicans really blew it by making the unions angry! Of course, the unions fight the GOP tooth and nail in every election and despite generally favorable polling for the unions, it […]

 

This Week In Quotes: April 1 – April 7

Posted on by John Hawkins

Defense officials slammed the brakes on any broad participation Thursday, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates saying there will be no American ground troops in Libya “as long as I am in this job.” — Associated Press I don’t want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many of the […]

 

Real Life And Antibiotic Resistance

Posted on by Dennis Avery

CHURCHVILLE, VA—The Wall Street Journal recently made a dreadful error in a news story. That’s “dreadful” as in causing consumers to dread the potential loss of the antibiotics we need to cure pneumonia, tuberculosis, and infected scratches. On January 10, the WSJ online told its readers that America’s hog farmers were overusing antibiotics in their […]

 

Lefty Journalist Doubts Libyan Woman’s Gang Rape Allegations

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! Yet again, an oh-so-enlightened left-winger tries to discredit politically inconvenient rape allegations. By now you’ve heard the story of Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman who was dragged off to prison after telling reporters of the vicious gang […]

 

Illegal Immigrants Make Heavy Use of Welfare Programs

Posted on by Dave Blount

The one nice thing about the illegal aliens Big Government deliberately allows to swamp our country is that until pernicious politicians like Obama and McCain manage to ram another amnesty through, they can’t collect welfare because they aren’t US citizens. Or maybe I’m wrong: Census Bureau data show that the share of immigrant-headed households (legal […]

 

Obama Golf Buddy Bobby Titcomb Busted for Prostitution

Posted on by Dave Blount

From before he was even born, red diaper baby Barack Hussein Obama has always surrounded himself with some of the most nefarious characters imaginable, prominently including his primary role models, the militant communist and child-molesting pervert Frank Marshall Davis and the America-hating professional racist Jeremiah Wright. His taste in company hasn’t improved: The Honolulu Police […]

 

Left-Wingers Have the Cash To Constantly Beat Conservatives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As some of you may remember I have been covering the anti-vote fraud efforts of True The Vote, a program created by the Texas-based King Street Patriots. They recently sent out a fund raising letter that almost immediately drew the notice of left wingers intent on destroying their anti-vote fraud work. This immediate response by […]

 

Obama’s Bribes to the Wash. Post and CBS

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a blow to the autonomy of the media it has been discovered that employees of two Old Media outlets are the happy beneficiaries of hundreds of thousands of federal dollars from an Obamacare slush fund. CBS and the Washington Post have both taken large payments from Obama’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP), with the […]

 

NY Times Notices That Using Food As Fuel Is Not The Best Of Ideas

Posted on by William Teach

Better really, really, really late than never: Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears The starchy cassava root has long been an important ingredient in everything from tapioca pudding and ice cream to paper and animal feed. But last year, 98 percent of cassava chips exported from Thailand, the world’s […]

 

Obama Road Tests 2012 Campaign Slogans, Such As “I’m Not A Perfect Partier”

Posted on by William Teach

Huh? He didn’t say that? That was just my eyes replacing “president” with “partier”, due to his actions over the past 2+ years? Oh. Sorry. My Bad. Anyhow, he’d have to spend a lot more time at East Carolina University if he wants to perfect his partying skills, but, moving on For the first time […]

 

Obama’s Plan Is To Come Up With A Plan To Convince People He Has A Plan On Gas Prices

Posted on by John Hawkins

Obama hates the oil industry, he’s blocking drilling in ANWR, he still has the clamps down on drilling in the Gulf — in other words, if it increases the price of oil, he’s in favor. If he were honest, Obama would simply make the case to the American people for high gas prices. But of […]

 

The Real Scoop On A Government Shutdown

Posted on by John Hawkins

First of all, it’s worth noting that the budget that’s being fought over is the one that the Democrats neglected to pass last year, when they controlled the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. In other words, they could have easily passed a budget last year, but didn’t fulfill that basic responsibility because they were […]

 

If You Emasculate Yourself To Impress Women They’re Going To Hate You Anyway

Posted on by John Hawkins

It was an atrocity. A trainwreck. An avalanche of fail sailing down loser mountain and headed right for pitiful gulch. It was a video called Dear Woman. I have tried watching it four times and the furthest I managed to get was 2:15 seconds before my complete revulsion at the nauseating, whimpering, castrated half-“men” on […]