Year: 2011

Shocker! Economy Falters Dramatically In First Quarter

Posted on by William Teach

I know, I know, you’re saying “how could that possibly happen after two years of far left Keynesian economic policies?” The economic recovery faltered dramatically in the first half of the year, and that means more trouble ahead. The latest Commerce Department figures show that the nation’s economic output was gasping for breath long before […]

 

Man With No Plan Demands Deal By Tuesday In Weekly Radio Whinefest

Posted on by William Teach

There’s an old saying: respect the office, if not the man. But, what if the man uses the office to make the presidency as much of a joke as he is himself? Anyhow, Obama has used his perch to complain like a 5 year old who isn’t allowed to have a cookie before doing his […]

 

Polar Bear Champion Charles Monnett Accused of Scientific Misconduct

Posted on by Dave Blount

It will take more than a warm summer to keep the global warming hoax from continuing to crumble. Charles Monnett, the government bureaucrat/scientist who helped make polar bears the mascot of the envirocommunist movement, now finds himself on leave, having been accused of scientific misconduct. It’s unclear whether Monnett’s “integrity issues” have to do with […]

 

Terror Plotter Naser Jason Abdo Is Put-Upon Victim of Islamophobia

Posted on by Dave Blount

The heart bleeds over the religious persecution suffered by Muslims in America. Take Naser Jason Abdo, for example: The U.S. military serviceman arrested after raising concerns over another alleged plot to attack Fort Hood said he endured harassment, discrimination and intimidation due to his Muslim religious beliefs during basic training, he told FoxNews.com last year. […]

 

Is It Over For The Climate Alarmists?

Posted on by William Teach

That’s the question that Powerline’s John Hinderaker asks, regarding the new report that NASA’s own data blows a gaping hole in global warming alarmism, a story I never got around to Thursday, due to time constraints from Real Life. John boils the whole thing down This could be the last nail in the coffin of […]

 

Politico Op-Ed: TEA Partiers Are Terrorists

Posted on by William Teach

The actual headline reads “The tea party’s terrorist tactics“, which is interesting, when one considers that The Politico, like so many other leftist news outlets, refers to actual Islamist terrorists as militants and insurgents. And, having kept track of so many liberal blogs and forums for a long time, the Left generally thinks of Conservatives […]

 

Q&A Friday #108: What Are Your Thoughts About The FBI’s Crackdown On 14 Members Of Anonymous

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: What are your thoughts about the FBI’s crackdown on 14 members of Anonymous? How is a socially motivated distributed denial of service attack ethically different from jamming a Congressman’s phone lines over a political issue? Does the Anonymous crackdown signify the beginning of the end of the Wild West era on these here internets? […]

 

Q&A Friday #108: What Will The Outcome Of The Operation Fast and Furious Scandal Be?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: What do you expect the outcome of the Congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious to be? Will any prominent heads roll, or will some middle management types be forced to fall on their swords and the scandal be swept under the rug? — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: You’d go to jail for the rest of […]

 

Q&A Friday #108: Why No Stories On The News Corp./NOTW Hacking Scandal

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: Why no stories on RWN about the News Corp./NOTW hacking scandal? — Vega – Sugar & Spice Answer: We live in a world where newspapers publish classified documents that compromise America’s security without consequence. Compared to that, phone hacking is small potatoes. Certainly, that doesn’t excuse it. I hope anyone involved is prosecuted to […]

 

Q&A Friday #108: What 5 Books Should Be Required Reading For All High School Seniors?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: If you were tasked with creating a list of 5 books that would be required reading for all HS seniors in your school district, which books would you include and why? — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: This is a fun question. Difficult, too, but still fun. I’m going to assume that I have carte blanche here […]

 

Q&A Friday #108: If Tim Pawlenty Were A Hot Latino Female, Would He Be The Front Runner?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: If Tim Pawlenty had the same record, personality, and policy platform, but was a hot latino female, would he be the frontrunner in The Republican Primary? — President Friedman Answer: Of course! Let me add, if Sarah Palin were a man, she wouldn’t be 1/10 as popular. If Barack Obama were white, he would […]

 

Businessmen Who Are Actually Going John Galt: Their Stories

Posted on by John Hawkins

The reason Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged has struck such a chord since Obama got into office is because people can see so much of the book in Obama’s approach to governance. The open encouragement of envy, the demonization of success, the attacks on business….they all fit in with the book. Well now, we’re starting to […]

 

How Barack Obama is destroying the American economy in two nauseating charts

Posted on by Doug Ross

You don’t need to be a math major to understand these devastating charts (slightly modified from the originals to depict the beginning of the “one-time, emergency Stimulus”): …next time Obama or his allies in the press go back to the well and recite the well-worn verse that spending is all the other guy’s fault, take […]

 

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Republicans Are Dictators Sparking Panic and Chaos

Posted on by Dave Blount

To paraphrase Ann Coulter, if you want to know what liberals are secretly scheming, just listen to what they accuse their opponents of doing. Let’s tune in to the next Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Watermouth Schultz: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Wednesday that House Republicans are trying to impose […]

 

John McCain Denounces the Tea Party

Posted on by Dave Blount

John Boehner’s lame budget plan would only cut $91.7 billion per year (supposing anything really gets cut), which is like treating a slashed throat with a Band-Aid. But that’s plenty for a Big Government oligarchical collectivist like John McCain, who yet again seizes the opportunity to suck up to the liberal press by knifing conservatives […]

 

Man With No Plan Ramps Up PR In Debt Debate

Posted on by William Teach

President Snippy Pants is doing what he does best: voting present, then giving speeches As House Republicans slog toward a Thursday vote on raising the debt ceiling, President Obama and his staff have hit the airwaves in a massive, all-hands-on-deck public-relations effort to turn the tide of political opinion in their favor. All told, the […]

 

Why, Yes, Atheists Have An Issue With The World Trade Center Cross

Posted on by William Teach

And, because it annoys them, they have to attempt to ruin it for everyone else (just to be clear, not all atheists should be blamed, just the group American Atheists) An atheist group has filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent a cross made out of World Trade Center steel beams from going on display at […]

 

“We Don’t Have A Deficit Problem Right Now.”

Posted on by John Hawkins

“That’s the real crisis — the unemployment, not the deficit. We don’t have a deficit problem right now. In the long term, we have a deficit problem — we’ve got to get it under control but not right now. — Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) Here’s a newspaper headline from a yellowing cutting I found up in […]

 

Today In Britain: Your Future Under Obamacare Tomorrow!

Posted on by John Hawkins

The government rationing medical services to save money? If you listen to liberals, it’ll NEVER happen. Yet in Britain, where the government runs health care, you can see what our future looks like if Obamacare isn’t repealed. Two-thirds of health trusts in England are rationing treatments for “non-urgent” conditions as part of the drive to […]