Year: 2011

Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change

Posted on by Donald Douglas

I mentioned previously that one of the extreme gender feminists suggested on Twitter that the #MooreandMe protest was something akin to a new civil rights movement. No doubt there’s quite a bit of self-congratulations there. And while the gender feminists did gain a lot of attention, the power of Twitter and other media is to […]

 

Paul Ryan Promises to Eat His Tie if ObamaCare Reduces Deficit

Posted on by Dave Blount

Of all the insolent falsehoods we’ve been fed by oligarchical collectivists lately, the most insulting to our intelligence may be the whopper that government seizure of the healthcare industry will, instead of adding even more massively to the deficit than other entitlement programs, magically reduce it. Fortunately there is at least one countermoonbat in Congress […]

 

Paul Mason, Socialism Incarnate

Posted on by Dave Blount

The nice thing about socialism is that no individual is responsible for his own behavior. That means that if you screw yourself up, it’s society’s fault — and you can sue taxpayers: A man who once weighed nearly 70 stone [980 pounds] is to launch legal action against the NHS [Britain’s socialized medicine monolith], claiming […]

 

GOP-Controlled House Judiciary Committee Fires First Shot at DOJ

Posted on by Sister Toldjah

And the New Black Panther case controversy is at the centerpiece of it’s first oversight letter. Right Turn’s Jennifer Rubin reports: Right Turn has obtained the first oversight letter from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) issued to the Justice Department. While he was in the minority, Smith labored, largely unsuccessfully, on the committee […]

 

GOP Looks To Block EPA Climate Alarmism Regulations

Posted on by William Teach

Obviously, this will drive the greenie-weenies insane, because they think that Someone Else besides themselves should have to suffer House Republicans wasted no time Thursday in trying to block the Obama administration from acting to stem global warming. On their second day in power, Republican lawmakers introduced several bills that would hamstring the Environmental Protection […]

 

Dems Still Working Hard To Thwart The Will Of The People On Health Care Reform

Posted on by William Teach

As most of us know, the American People were dead set against the passage of the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” which started out with the notion of reducing health insurance costs and providing coverage to the 30-45 million Americans that had no health insurance, and escalated to a 2,000 page bill that none who voted […]

 

Welcome To My World: A Week With The Norwalk Virus

Posted on by John Hawkins

Let’s face it: does it get much sweeter than a week long vacation? Ok, how about this: A week long vacation at home with nothing to do? That’s what I had going on the week after Christmas. Superficially, it sounds like it’s more fun to go somewhere for a week, but when you do that, […]

 

Marco Rubio Stuck in the Basement

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

While I was on Capitol Hill to cover Wednesday’s swearing-in of the 112th Congress, I dropped by Marco Rubio’s office: Alas, poor Marco! Florida’s Tea Party superstar has been stuck in a temporary office in the basement, behind the cafeteria, on a dead-dead corridor across the hall from the Senate stationery store! The new senator […]

 

Note to Jerry Brown: You Want to Cut the Budget? Here’s Where to Start!

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Incoming governor California Jerry Brown is now considering how to plug the $28 billion hole in the California budget.:  There is talk that he is “seriously considering” what to do about Proposition 13 (which he opposed in the 1970s when it was passed) and putting a tax increase before voters in June.: 

 

Dem Rep. Jerrold Nadler Sneers at Republican Reverence for Constitution

Posted on by Dave Blount

Just because the public has thrown them out of the leadership position is no reason for House Democrats to begin showing respect for the Constitution they are sworn to uphold, yet seem to despise. From their friends at the Washington Compost: For more than 200 years, Americans have revered the Constitution as the law of […]

 

A Tale of Two Congressmen: Peter King and Keith Ellison

Posted on by Dave Blount

Countermoonbat Congressman Peter King (R-NY) has received the ultimate recommendation in the form of a denunciation by the Islamophiles of the New York Times, a publication that characteristically stands with Historic First Muslim Congresscritter Keith Ellison against anyone with the backbone to face the Islamic enemy within. If the militant moonbats at the Slimes thought […]

 

Rep. Blackburn Introduces Bill to Preempt FCC Internet Takeover

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Representative Marsha Blackburn (R, TN) has introduced a bill to preempt the December power grab by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and she has made the bill bipartisan with the support of Democrat Dan Boren (Oklahoma). Blackburn’s bill would place all rules governing the Internet in the purview of Congress and would take the […]

 

Great Oceanic Garbage Patch Not So Large As Thought

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember the floating patch of plastic garbage swirling in the Pacific Ocean between California and Japan that was claimed to be the “twice the size of Texas”? Well if Texas is the size of, well, Teaxs, it turns out that the plastic patch isn’t quite so large. Like most of the wild-eyed claims by enviro-Nazis […]

 

Warmist Insanity Today: Standing Up To “Polluters” Same As Standing Up To Nazis

Posted on by William Teach

And by polluters, they mean “companies that release CO2, a gas necessary for most life on planet Earth”: Why we need a law on ecocide Sophie Scholl, a Munich University student, was executed for revealing the truth about the activities of the Nazi authorities; today 20 brave Ratcliffe whistleblowers have been sentenced at Nottingham crown […]

 

Steve King (R-Iowa) Submits Bill To Stop Anchor Babies

Posted on by William Teach

And unlike during the Democrat controlled Congress, this legislation from Republicans will actually see a floor vote Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) isn’t wasting any time with his immigration agenda, dropping a bill on the first day of Congress that goes after birthright citizenship. King’s measure would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, ending automatic citizenship […]

 

Mark Twain’s Great Works Rewritten to Conform to Political Correctness

Posted on by Dave Blount

Inevitably, the squishy soft form of totalitarianism known as political correctness has reached the point that great works of literature are being rewritten to conform to current ideological orthodoxy: Mark Twain wrote that “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.” A new edition of “Adventures of […]

 

The GOP Takes Control Of The House Today. Obviously, That Has Unhinged The NY Times

Posted on by William Teach

There are all sorts of fun stories running around the liberal media today, ones such as this one, which is already proclaiming the GOP is having problems with cohesion. And this one from Time, which wonders if the opening ceremony, which includes “showcasing their fealty to the Constitution,” is making a mockery of ….. something. […]

 

In 2011 Public Employees Unions Must Be Targeted for Elimination

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston One of the biggest recurring themes in union reporting these days is music to the ears of any fiscally responsible American. It seems almost weekly that we are seeing stories that recount the ire being directed at public employee unions. Let us hope that this reporting is the first ripples of […]

 

Did Globull Warming Cause The Haiti Earthquake?

Posted on by William Teach

Just because I knew you needed to start off the day with either hysterical laughing or a look of complete and total repulsed shock on your face. I’d suggest going with laughing, because you know what your Mom said about making faces when you were young At the American Geophysical Union meeting late last month, […]