Year: 2011

The Diminishing Returns of Reasonableness

Posted on by Jonah Goldberg

Should we bomb Iran for plotting to blow up a Washington, D.C., restaurant in order to assassinate the Saudi ambassador? Probably not. Should Iran be worried that we might? Absolutely. And yet, within hours of the Justice Department charging elements within the Iranian government (the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard) of scheming to […]

 

Obama Will Not Be Deterred

Posted on by David Limbaugh

If it’s not narcissism, what explains President Obama’s habit of demanding something against the people’s will, being rejected, refusing to take no for an answer and berating the public he is pretending to represent? We saw it over and over with Obamacare. By now, it’s part of our national lore that he delivered some 54 […]

 

President O’Carter? Nah

Posted on by Roger Simon

The Republicans claim that Barack Obama started it. He was the one, they say, who first compared himself to Jimmy Carter. Carter has distinguished himself since leaving the presidency, performing notable acts of charity, writing and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. But politically he has one word emblazoned on his forehead: Loser. Carter was the […]

 

Saudis Before Americans?

Posted on by Michael Fell

:  Based on allegations that there: was an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States,: the current White House occupant and his Attorney General: chose to take: action against Iran.: : Since the alleged Iranian plans violated American and international laws, as well as centuries of: ambassadorial protocol, one can argue that it was important for the administration: to […]

 

Flip Flop: Romney Now Accepting Occupy Wall Streeter’s Premise?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Only days ago Mitt Romney was saying that the Occupy Wall Streeters were dangerous. But, true to his penchant to “grow” in his opinion (“growing” is what the rest of us call flip floping), Romney is now beginning to accept the OWS theme of “the 99%.” The OWSers — I call them the Occupy-Whatevers because […]

 

Newest PC Goal: More Hispanic Theme Parks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When is a national park not a national park? When it is “themed” toward one small segment of the population by a government infected with PCism. That is what U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar did when he advocated recently for “Latino” themed national parks and historical landmarks. One might ask if Salazar is Interior Secretary […]

 

A Little Advice For Occupy Wall Street

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

bill hallowelltheblaze.com Here is a letter from Brookfield Properties, that owns the park that the NY protesters are living in right now, to NYPD chief Ray Kelly. While they support the right of the protesters to protest, the park has become disgusting. In part it says: The conditions at the park have deteriorated to unsanitary […]

 

Because Someone Drove To The Store, Reese’s Pieces Will Disappear

Posted on by William Teach

We’re dooooooomed (IBT) Imagine a world without chocolate. Chocolate is definitely slated to become a luxurious commodity if steps are not taken to halt the impact of global warming. This has been emphasized in new findings by the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). The CIAT study reveals that if preventive measures are not taken, […]

 

Senate GOP Set To Unveil Jobs Plan

Posted on by William Teach

It’s a real jobs plan, one meant to stimulate the economy and get people back to work, unlike Obama’s one which was a campaign platform that had so many poison pills that even his own party couldn’t pass it in the Democrat controlled Senate (The Politico) President Barack Obama had his American Jobs Act. Now, […]

 

David Frum Finally Admits He’s Not A Conservative

Posted on by John Hawkins

I haven’t been a fan of David Frum since he left National Review, started his own blog, and decided to make a name for himself by being a professional quisling. Since those on the Left control the mainstream media, they’re able to reward phony conservatives who tell them what they want to hear with plum […]

 

The 10 Greatest Moments From The Occupy Wall Street Protests So Far

Posted on by John Hawkins

Aren’t the Occupy Wall Street protests wonderful? They’re sort of like the Tea Party — well, if the Tea Party were largely made up of jobless hippies and anarchists who don’t bathe. Although they’ve only been around since last month, Occupy Wall Street has already provided us with so many memorable moments that they deserve […]

 

Predator in Chief

Posted on by Victor Davis Hanson

We are in a long war against radical Islamic terrorism. The struggle seems almost similar to the on-again/off-again ordeals of the past — like the French-English Hundred Years War of the 14th and 15th centuries, or the Thirty Years War between Catholics and Protestants in the 17th century. In these kinds of drawn-out conflicts, victory […]

 

Herman Cain to Blacks: Divorce the Democratic Party

Posted on by Larry Elder

What to do about Herman Cain? This question goes not to the Republican Party, where “establishment” candidates like Mitt Romney privately dismiss Cain as lacking the experience, gravitas and resources to beat President Barack Obama and then to soundly govern the country. Herman Cain is not going to be the GOP nominee. Without a serious […]

 

Politics and Religion 2012 Version

Posted on by Cal Thomas

It was said of Al Smith, a Roman Catholic, that if he won the 1928 presidential election he would take orders from the Vatican and not uphold the Constitution. John F. Kennedy famously confronted that anti-Catholic prejudice in a 1960 speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. Kennedy said in part, “I believe in an […]

 

Are Republicans Sabotaging the Economy?

Posted on by John Hawkins

From Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly: There’s been at least some discussion this year about the “sabotage” question — whether Republicans are deliberately hurting the country, holding back the economy on purpose, for the express purpose of undermining the Obama presidency. …Given recent events — the debt-ceiling scandal, the GOP-driven downgrade, the Republican rejection […]

 

Congress, Governors Nix Obama’s High-speed Trains

Posted on by Michael Barone

Dead. Kaput. Through. Finished. Washed up. Gone-zo. That, I think, is a fair description of the Obama administration’s attempt to build high-speed rail lines across America. It hasn’t failed because of a lack of willingness to pony up money. The Obama Democrats’ February 2009 stimulus package included $8 billion for high-speed rail projects. The Democratic […]

 

Wall Street Protester Struggles to Explain, Well, Anything (Video)

Posted on by Duane Lester

I had every intention of going down to the Occupy Kansas City hippie village and conducting interviews, but the water pump on the Green Monster, aka my 1998 Forest Green Chevrolet Malibu, had different plans and began throwing coolant like Linda Blair throws pea soup. But that’s neither here nor there, and really far to […]

 

Wingless, Bloodsucking and Parasitic: Meet the Flea Party!

Posted on by Ann Coulter

So far, the only major accomplishment of the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters is that it has finally put an end to their previous initiative, “Occupy Our Mothers’ Basements.” Oddly enough for such a respectable-looking group — a mixture of adolescents looking for a cause, public sector union members, drug dealers, criminals, teenage runaways, people who […]

 

Blame Corporations?

Posted on by Michael Fell

Would you hire people purely out of national loyalty knowing that doing so meant your company would eventually become fiscally insolvent? Corporations, like any business, are in business to make profits. Jobs are the byproduct of profits, not the other way around. Until U.S. corporate tax rates are cut to globally competetive levels, the corporations […]

 

Supercommittee to Consider Dropping the Paper Dollar

Posted on by Unicorn Jones

Last I checked, the Congressional supercommittee was charged with bringing down the national debt through a series of common sense budget cuts over the next decade. Although I’ve been in politics almost ten years, and living in reality slightly longer than that, I still held out hope that somewhere there was a Congressperson appointed to […]

 

David Dewhurst Thanks Pres. Obama For The Stimulus

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

Really? Are you kidding me? In case you aren’t aware. David Dewhurst is running in Texas against Ted Cruz for Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s seat in the Senate. Dewhurst will now tell you that he is totally against the 2009 Obama stimulus, but YouTube says differently. Maybe it’s just me, but I think as a conservative, […]

 

Labor Unions Support Wisconsin Agitators

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Until now many of the often-illegal antics perpetuated by several individual Wisconsin-based protesters appeared to be random acts committed by disillusioned agitators. But the MacIver News Service has learned that these acts have been highly orchestrated and perpetuated by an organization whose members are told to deny their involvement in the group. A group, we’ve […]

 

PG&E’s Catastrophic Failure of Public Trust By Company and Government Both

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Another in a long line of explosions and other catastrophic safety failures occurred at the end of September when a natural gas pipeline built and owned by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) ruptured in Roseville, California. This is just of a piece of the failure of PG&E to ensure public safety, a failure that the […]

 

Breaking: Subpoena Sent To DOJ And Eric Holder Over Gunwalking

Posted on by William Teach

No print stories out yet, will link when they are up. An interesting point is that if Holder claims “executive privilege,” that means that he discussed the issue with the President. Meaning he lied to Congress, and that Obama knows about the whole program. Here we go: Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight […]

 

Know Why Climate Realists Are Winning The Battle? Good PR!

Posted on by William Teach

So says Excitable James Hansen, who makes a ton of money of the climate change hoax as he takes unnecessary fossil fueled flights all over the world to get arrested (I’m sure there is some type of moral turpitude clause in his government contract) Climate sceptics are winning the argument with the public over global […]

 

LA Times Attempts To Explain That #OWS Folks Aren’t Hippies Without A Plan

Posted on by William Teach

Funny, I don’t remember them ever attempting to explain the TEA Party point of view (LA Times) How do you know when a protest movement is starting to scare the pants off the establishment? One clue is when the protesters are casually dismissed as hippies or rabble, or their principles redefined as class envy or […]

 

I Agree With Media Matters; We Do Need A New System

Posted on by John Hawkins

From Ari Rabin-Havt at Media Matters. In the Spring of 2000, my friend and former colleague Zack Exley arrived in Washington, DC, to observe the protests that had engulfed the city during the World Bank’s annual meeting. Driving into Washington from the airport, out the window of his taxi he saw “a teenage white girl […]