Year: 2011

Awesome: Globull Warming Beliefs Kill 23 Hondurans For Palm Oil Land

Posted on by William Teach

Remember the story about 20,000 Ugandans evicted from their land, along with many who were raped and murdered, all in the name of carbon offsets, thanks to the Warmists and their crazy beliefs? Well, now we get, via The Reference Frame (The New American) The deaths of 23 Honduran farmers involved in land disputes with […]

 

Quietly, Obama Wants To Allow Collectors To Robo-Call Wireless Phones

Posted on by William Teach

I can’t decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing (Fox News) To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to call the cellphones of consumers delinquent on student loans and other billions owed the federal government. […]

 

The Left’s New Tone: The N-Word and F-All Y’all.

Posted on by John Hawkins

Remember what happened after Gabrielle Giffords was shot? Liberals apparently don’t because all of their talk about how important the tone of political debate seems to have gone right out the window. Courtesy of Gateway Pundit, here are three stories about the “tone” we hear from the Left. Lovely People… Obama Supporters Chant Against StL […]

 

It’s Time For Eric Holder To Resign

Posted on by John Hawkins

There are Americans dead because the Obama Administration funneled guns to Mexican criminals for reasons that have never been fully explained. Moreover, even the inadequate explanations we’re getting aren’t true. Eric Holder has apparently perjured himself. New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and […]

 

Obama’s Terrorist Dilemma

Posted on by Jonah Goldberg

I agree with the Obama administration’s decision to kill the American-born al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki. What I can’t fathom is why the administration agrees with me. Here’s Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta responding to complaints from the ACLU over the “assassination” of an American citizen without due process: “This individual was clearly a terrorist. And […]

 

Macaca Media: Squeezing Blood from Stone

Posted on by Michelle Malkin

The Washington Post’s stoning of Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry is journalistic malpractice. Instead of calling the newspaper to task, other national media outlets have joined in. And now, the Post is doubling down on slander. The Post dispatched reporters to the remote hunting grounds of a Perry-linked ranch — “associated” with Perry through “his […]

 

Government Makes Us Poor

Posted on by John Stossel

Here’s my fantasy: Libertarians are elected to the presidency and to majorities in Congress. What would happen next? Well, if libertarians were “in charge,” you’d have more freedom and prosperity. Freedom frightens some people. They say if no one is in charge there would be chaos. That is intuitive, but think about a skating rink. […]

 

Debunking Obama’s Tax Demagoguery

Posted on by Dick Morris

When President Obama says that the rich don’t pay their share of taxes, he is lying, distorting and demagoguing. Here are the facts according to the IRS: ___Those making more than $1 million pay 24 percent of their income in taxes. ___Those making $200,000 to $300,000 pay 17.5 percent. ___Those making $100,000 to $125,000 pay […]

 

Top Obama Fundraiser OK’ed Solyndra Loan

Posted on by Dick Morris

Who arranged the Solyndra loan? Top Obama fundraiser Steven J. Spinner, who according to ABC, worked to “pick and select fantastic projects” for the Department of Energy to fund. During the campaign, he was responsible for raising at least half a million dollars for Obama. Now he told associates that he “helped oversee the more […]

 

Good GOP Flip-Flops

Posted on by Tony Blankley

William F. Buckley, Jr., founding father of the modern conservative movement, famously asserted his doctrine of voting for the most conservative candidate who is electable. Let me presume to add an analytic codicil: The GOP and the conservative movement have tended to support the most conservative policies only when they are understood to be conservative […]

 

The 80/20 Rule

Posted on by Zig Ziglar

In the early 1900s, Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian engineer-economist-sociologist, developed what he called the “80/20 rule.” His research indicated that in a business, 20 percent of the items accounted for 80 percent of the business and that roughly 20 percent of the population controlled roughly 80 percent of its wealth. Since then, others have incorrectly […]

 

Republican Party Benefits From Obama Errors

Posted on by Dick Morris

The conventional wisdom holds that the parties in Congress are not locked in a zero sum game where the loss of one triggers the gain of the other. Instead, it appears that the parties are embracing one another in a downward death spiral, losing public favor with each passing month as their bickering continues. But […]

 

Slow Joe Biden Strikes Again, Doesn’t Even Know People in His Own Administration

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Proving yet again why he was considered the joke of the Senate when he was a member of that august body, Vice President Joe “Slow Joe” Biden has once again shown that he is one of the most clueless men ever to serve in our second chair. And that really is saying something when we’ve […]

 

Non-Candidate Christie Says Won’t Be A Candidate. Still Waiting On Sarah

Posted on by William Teach

Anyone shocked? From The Politico New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie formally announced that he wasn’t going to join the presidential race on Tuesday, saying he’d come back to his original feeling about staying out despite reconsidering in recent days. “In the end, what I’ve always felt was the right decision remains the right decision today. […]

 

I’m Not Sure What ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Is Protesting, But We Could Come Together On One Thing

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

The Occupy Wall Street Crowd is finally getting the media coverage it wanted when hundreds were arrested crossing over the Brooklyn Bridge a few days ago. On twitter many conservatives have been making fun of the protesters who seem to be young people not sure of what they are protesting. They know they are “anti […]

 

Climate Change Has Caused Massive Suffering In The Past

Posted on by William Teach

I have to tell you, it’s stories like these which may turn me back into a Warmist….oh, you didn’t know that prior to 2003, I was a True Believer? Well, yes, I was, and stories like these make me very worried about the future if climate change continues to happen. Starting off with Discovery News: […]

 

Can Obama Legally Kill You With A Drone Strike?

Posted on by William Teach

Obviously, there has been a big kerfuffle over the “targeted killing” of Anwar al-Awlaki, a United States citizen turned al Qaeda big wig (along with Samir Khan, another traitor who hails originally from North Carolina). Said kerfuffle is bipartisan in nature, with many saying that killing him amounts to assassination of a US citizen, and […]

 

5 Long-Term Trends Working Against The Democratic Party

Posted on by John Hawkins

There tends to be a rough parity between parties in the American political system. That’s because both parties shift in response to changing conditions. They go after new groups of constituents, positions on the issues change, and the only rule at the end of the day tends to be that he who can deliver the […]

 

My 20 Favorite Tweets For September

Posted on by John Hawkins

* Once you start catering to people’s pathologies, it seldom ends well or at a reasonable point. * Tolerance, diversity, and “not being mean” are part of a pseudo-morality. Real morality is difficult & requires firm lines. * God > Family/Friends > other Americans > America’s allies > Everyone else > Animals * Women complaining […]

 

Congress Does The Right Thing By Cutting Palestinian Aid

Posted on by John Hawkins

You could make an argument that the United States should dramatically cut back on foreign aid just on purely financial grounds. After all, if we don’t have the money to pay our own bills, why in the world are we giving our money away to other countries? But, let’s say you reject that argument on […]

 

Thirteen Obstacles to Becoming a Better Person

Posted on by Dennis Prager

This week, for the fourth consecutive year, I am conducting Jewish High Holiday services. Though not a rabbi, I spent 12 years studying in yeshivas and 35 years teaching and writing on Judaism. The following is a summary of the Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) sermon that I gave this past Wednesday night. The purpose […]