Year: 2011

If you think a gold standard is the answer . . .

Posted on by Craig Newmark

. . . I suggest you read this. It’s not. BUT TO invoke the wisdom of Herman Cain, returning to the gold standard would be more difficult than practical. Envisioning a statute requiring the Federal Reserve to redeem its notes for fixed amounts of specie is easy, but deciding what that fixed amount should be […]

 

The First Amendment, alive and well in Wisconsin

Posted on by TrogloPundit

The story: The Teaching Assistants’ Association at the University of Wisconsin at Madison — the oldest TA union in the nation — voted not to recertify their own union. Last week, after hours of debate, the union’s members voted not to seek state certification to continue to act as a collective bargaining agent. The vote […]

 

Obama: The Kingpin of Broken Promises

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, let’s get the ball rolling on another broken promise from The One, Barack Hussein Obama, shall we? I mean, every time we think we are done chronicling his broken promises we have to do a reset. He’s had so many gutter balls on this that it is hard to keep them straight. His record […]

 

Good News: State Department Protects Terrorist’s Privacy

Posted on by William Teach

And not just any terrorist While the New Mexico-born cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, is the first American on the CIA’s kill or capture list, the U.S. State Department refuses to release documents about al-Awlaki citing his right to privacy. This disconnect was uncovered as part of the ongoing investigation by Fox News’ Specials Unit into the […]

 

Think Progress: Globull Warming Made Irene Worse

Posted on by William Teach

Because before 1980 (or pick a year that the Climate Alarmists like to start with), there were no such things as hurricanes, or, at least, they were never more than tiny things that weren’t really powerful. Also, you just knew that some alarmist would go down this super-highway of stupidity, despite being 1075 days since […]

 

Get Credit for Being a Pervert on Your College Application

Posted on by Dave Blount

Perverts with less than stellar grades no longer need to worry that they won’t receive special consideration when it comes to getting into college. Elmhurst College admissions applications now feature the following question: “Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) community?” What business is it of educrats? […]

 

Boot of Big Government Comes Down on Gibson Guitar

Posted on by Dave Blount

Who would have thought that when fascism came to America, it would be implemented by harmless-sounding agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? In its latest crime against liberty, this malignant tentacle of Big Government wraps itself around the neck of an American icon: Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories […]

 

Idiot Ohio Congressman Bans, Confiscates Devices at Townhall

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I go after the left all the time for opposing free speech and for doing its best to shut down citizens, especially at townhall events. Well here is an example of a Republican doing the same thing. His actions are those I’d instantly condemn were it a left-wing Democrat (but I repeat myself) perpetrating it. […]

 

Regime Changing

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Perhaps the most charming charm Great Satan has exhibited (aside from angling her body diplopolitaire’ to create other angles) is the killer cool heap of trashed out despots, dicts and autocrats she’s tossed on the junk heap since the new millennium broke unto us. The guy with one eye (hot rumours whisper he’s a moped […]

 

Belief In Man-Caused Climate Change Hoax Continues To Dry Up

Posted on by William Teach

The more people know, the less they believe Residents in the top five greenhouse gas-emitting countries are no more aware of global warming or climate change than they were a few years ago. Majorities in all five countries Gallup surveyed in 2010 — except India — continue to say they know at least something about […]

 

Probable Islamist Attack Kills 10 At Nigerian UN Office

Posted on by William Teach

Now we await the typical attempts to equate this act of terrorism with some Christian doing some un-named something, or thinking about it, or something A huge explosion rocked the main United Nations building in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Friday, sending billows of smoke over the area and spreading panic among citizens. News agency […]

 

Interviewing Mark Steyn About His New Book “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”

Posted on by John Hawkins

Mark Steyn’s new book is called After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. This is one of the best books I’ve read in years, I’d highly recommend it, and I was absolutely thrilled to get an opportunity to interview Mark Steyn about his book. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of my conversation with Mark […]

 

This Week In Quotes: August 19 – August 25

Posted on by John Hawkins

You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand – I’m not second-guessing – of one child per family. The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable. — Joe Biden on China’s one child policy I’m […]

 

The narcissistic delusions of Leftists

Posted on by Bookworm

Can I say that an entire political ideology is narcissistic? Because I’d really like to say that about Leftism, a political movement that sometimes seems like the textbook definition of narcissism. Although the DSM is a highly political book, it’s still the starting point for any diagnosis of narcissism: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of […]

 

Feds Come Down on Father for Defending His Kids From Grizzly

Posted on by Dave Blount

A government as overbearing and depraved as our own does not have the consent of the governed. For example, Jeremy Hill of Porthill, Idaho stands charged in federal court of killing a grizzly bear to protect his children. His peers are hardly taking the government’s side. The most dangerous kind of grizzly — a mother […]

 

From My Facebook Feed: What Caused the D.C. Earthquake?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Here are some of the jokes that appeared on my FaceBook Page about what caused the earthquake in the Virginia/Washington D.C. area the other day. I started the ball rolling with this: Wait, is it true that the DC quake was triggered by someone dropping a copy of the Obamacare bill?? My friend Matt added: […]

 

Mitt Romney Revises Climate Change Hoax View

Posted on by William Teach

Of course, the extreme left (which is most of them) will trot out their “anti-science” and “flat-earther” talking points: Mitt Romney tweaks climate stance Hours after being called “mushy on environmental issues” by a Republican senator (it was Jim Inhofe), Mitt Romney has tweaked his position on global warming. Asked Wednesday at a Lebanon, N.H., […]

 

Sino Mil Sec 2011 Report

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

It’s time! Red China – the world’s largest autocracy of the old school Collectivist type gets all Congressfied with an especial annual pdfing Congressional Report bout Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China. Ton of hot deets, cool maps, missile stuff:  – you name it – the Sino Mil Sec thang be […]

 

I Believe It’s Time To Redefine Pedophilia, Too….

Posted on by John Hawkins

The more immorality and sexual deviancy you tolerate as a society, the farther you slide down the slippery slope. Eventually, predictably, you get to the point where people work to take even the worst sorts of depravity into the mainstream. B4U-Act is a 501(c)(3) organization in Maryland that was established “to publicly promote services and […]