Year: 2011

Something Else for Taxpayers to Grouse About

Posted on by Dave Blount

Almost no one in the media or either party could find any alternative in the ongoing budget crisis but to raise the debt ceiling even further, precipitating the credit rating downgrade by establishing that in effect there is no ceiling. Serious spending cuts were never regarded as an option. Meanwhile, here’s how the government is […]

 

Anti-Americanism Disguised as Ethnic Studies in Tucson Schools

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is in a contentious fight with the state of Arizona over its controversial Mexican-American Studies program. A state law went into effect in Arizona on January 1, 2011, banning the teaching of ethnic studies in K-12 schools. It was prompted by an investigation into TUSD’s ethnic studies curriculum by […]

 

Revo Guards Rise

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enqelāb-e “Slāmi, bay bee!! Perhaps the most charming ce je ne sais quoi about illegit despotries subtle, gross, horrid or benign is their magical ability to field praetorians. Throughout the manchile experience, the guardian guard of imperial imperators could perhaps best be scoped out as an uparmored posse of body guards sweetly functioning […]

 

Time Mag Movie Review: G.W.Bush and Rick Perry Just Like Blood Thirsty Conan The Barbarian

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that Texas Governor Rick Perry and President George W. Bush are just like the fictional, prehistoric, sword-wielding, mass murderer, Conan the Barbarian? Well Time Magazine entertainment reporter Richard Corliss is here to inform you all about it in his review of the new action movie released this week based on the Robert […]

 

Get Ready for A Laugh Riot New Obama Movie: ‘Porkulus II, The Next Fail’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

That’s right, folks, if you thought Porkulus one was a laugh a minute, get ready for “Porkulus II: The Next Fail,” a new flick coming soon from Obama/Alinsky/Marx productions. If you thought the last Porkulus was a failure wait till you see the next one. Click image to see larger version Yes, all your favorites […]

 

DNC’s New Spokesman: Jon Huntsman

Posted on by William Teach

Hey, Jon, perhaps it is time to give up your presidential aspirations, at least those where you would be the Republican candidate. Maybe you could challenge Obama for the Democrat nomination. The Politico’s Alexander Burns publishes a press release from the DNC has Huntsman’s greatest hits JON HUNTSMAN ON HIS REPUBLICAN RIVALS Huntsman Said The […]

 

Eric Cantor Slams Obama In Washington Post Op-Ed

Posted on by William Teach

The amazing thing is that the Washington Post published the piece at all. Perhaps this is further proof that the political left is getting rather tired of Mr. Obama: Removing the obstacles to economic growth Our country is facing two related but separate crises. The first is the federal government’s debt crisis, the result of […]

 

Union Astroturf Pretends Like Tea Partiers to Attack GOP

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Hill has an interesting, if not a bit slanted, report about the faux grassroots efforts of unions and left-wing advocates to pretend they are somehow just like the Tea Party by attacking the town hall meetings of various GOP congressman across the country this Summer. The Hill dutifully reports without complaint the union’s claims […]

 

Twelve Things I Notice About Liberals Since the Debt Limit Debate Started

Posted on by Morgan Freeberg

Something’s going on lately. They’re acting all cornered, wounded, tender, defensive. Since the election of Nancy Pelosi back in ’06 they had been going back to being petty, childish, smug, snooty, “aggressively non-threatening NPR male” Alan-Alda peevish. Now they’re back to the way they were after the Bush v. Gore decision. Us smart and good, […]

 

This Week in Automotivators, August 15-21

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Just a few of the stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged about them or not. Click the link under each picture if you’re not sure what it’s about. Link: American Thinker. Since we’re posting that one, here’s a Krugmotivator from last September: Link: The Other McCain. Link: Betsy’s Page. Link: Rich […]

 

“Now Prove It”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

Keith Hennessey gives excellent advice to the GOP. 4. Don’t waste all your time on nickels and dimes and process reforms; instead, slow entitlement-spending growth.: Yes, it’s good to cut stimulus spending. To eliminate earmarks. To cut discretionary spending back to 2008 levels or lower, and to wage the usual left-right appropriations battles. These are important […]

 

Herman Cain: ‘Still in It to Win It’

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

Herman Cain speaks Aug. 13 at the Ames Straw Poll Herman Cain is “still in it to win it,” his Republican presidential campaign told supporters in a fundraising e-mail highlighting the Atlanta businessman’s speech last week at the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames. Describing Cain as “a real leader” with “proven results,” the e-mail sent […]

 

Low Intensity Deux!

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Ouija! Talk about psychic – the horrific terror attacks against Little Satan emanating from Aegypt’s Sinai prove way more than the myth of Writ of State – it also makes the case that Low Intensity conflict can get way more bigger and xform into High Intensity conflict. :  An asymmetrical combined arms attack launched by […]

 

Top Ten Richest Members of Congress: Only 3 Are Republicans?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

OK, what’s the deal, here? I thought all the rich folk was s’possed to be Republican? But in Roll Call’s list of the richest members of congress we find that the top ten is stuffed mostly with fatcat Democrats. Only three Republicans made the top ten richest list. Gosh, what happened to the left’s meme? […]

 

What Feingold’s decision says about the recalls and Big Mo

Posted on by TrogloPundit

You know what the real results of Wisconsin’s recent recall elections were? Democrats won the seats everybody expected them to win, and Republicans won the seats everybody expected them to win. True, the Dems thought they had a shot at a couple of others. True, Republicans thought they had a shot at at least one, […]

 

Obamas Travel Like South American Dictators

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Presidente Obama es muy importante. He must be. He travels like a South American Dictator instead of a president of a democratic nation. Sacrifice is so for the little people, ya know? Let’s take his latest of his many, many vacations. His loverly wife, Michelle, had the government fly her via helicopter and a government […]

 

7 Quick Questions About Obama’s Magical Misery Tour

Posted on by John Hawkins

Our President has just finished his three day bus tour of the Midwest and after that Herculean achievement, he’s preparing for yet another vacation. Yet, there are still a few lingering questions people probably have. 1) Who designed that all black bus? Darth Vader? Since Barack Obama is rolling around like a super villain on […]

 

Carbon Fees Are A Way To Pay Back Mother Nature

Posted on by William Teach

Climate alarmists aren’t even pretending that so-called carbon fees will actually do anything anymore. Here’s a letter in the Baltimore Sun Mr. Piette’s letter on carbon tax (“Carbon fee is a tax to redistribute wealth,” Aug. 15), demonstrates how far we have to go in environmental education. The carbon fee is not for the government, […]

 

(NMP) Obama Continues To Question Republican’s Patriotism In Weekly DNC Address

Posted on by William Teach

Wait, it wasn’t the official DNC address? It was the weekly Presidential Saturday address? The man is a shameless, partisan hack President Obama says political leaders in Washington should take a lesson on values and patriotism from the American people he met on a Midwest bus trip last week. The president delivered this morning’s weekly […]

 

“Can somebody please fix this? Hello?”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

“Entire U.S. Stealth Fighter Fleet Grounded“. But after building more than 170 F-22 Raptors and a handful of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, not a single one is available for service. The Air Force currently has: zero: flyable stealth fighters. None. The vaunted F-22: has been grounded: with a possible faulty oxygen system since May. Production of the last few […]

 

Despicable

Posted on by Dave Blount

An increasingly desperate Barack Hussein Obama, in a despicable attempt to pander to foreigners at the obvious expense of America’s interests and security, has imposed amnesty for illegal aliens by fiat. [T]he Obama administration said Thursday that it will halt deportation proceedings on a case-by-case basis against illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria, such as […]

 

$20 Million for 14 Green Make-Work Jobs

Posted on by Dave Blount

Excellent news for our progressive rulers: unlike anthropogenic global warming, green jobs have been proven to actually exist. Seattle has created 14 of them, at a cost to taxpayers of a measly $20 million: Last year, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the city had won a coveted $20 million federal grant to invest in weatherization. […]