Year: 2011

HuffPo: You Climate Realists Are The Real “Alarmists”

Posted on by William Teach

And all this time, I thought I was using the word “alarmist” in the correct context, ie, people who practice chicken littleism on the climate, like Kelly Rigg: Will the Real Global Warming Alarmists Please Stand Up? I wish I had a dollar for every time someone called Al Gore an alarmist. I wish I […]

 

Oh, Noes, GOP Has Not Backup Debt Plan As Issue Turns “Scary”

Posted on by William Teach

It’s so terrible There’s a narrative gaining traction in Washington as a debt crisis looms: House Republican hard-liners might soften their stance once they’ve gotten a vote on their Cut, Cap and Balance proposal. But if that’s the case, the conservatives aren’t in on the plan. Well, that’s pretty much it for a story by […]

 

Follow-Up: The Slow, Painful Coming Death Of The Independent, Conservative Blogosphere

Posted on by John Hawkins

Yesterday, a post I wrote called The Slow, Painful Coming Death Of The Independent, Conservative Blogosphere created a lot of discussion across the blogosphere. There was plenty of debate, disagreement, and more than a little, “Ye Gods, what if he’s right?” Today, I wanted to link up some of those posts along with a few […]

 

5 American Economic Statistics That Will Blow Your Mind

Posted on by John Hawkins

“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.” — Douglas Adams Like Douglas Adams’ description of space, the economic issues in this country have become quite big. […]

 

What Liberal Feminism Has Come To: Fighting Over Which Gender Has A Vagina

Posted on by John Hawkins

Prominent left-wing feminist, Jessica Valenti discusses vagina issues with one of her crackpot readers. It’s like two weird aliens — who are studying up on human beings after missing almost the whole semester at school — are getting together to cram before their final exam, which both of them are destined to flunk. Hat tip […]

 

Barack Obama accused of crime against humanity for killing Bin Laden

Posted on by Kathleen McKinley

From the LA Times: Barack Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president who ordered the Seal Team Six to kill Osama bin Laden, is now being accused of committing a crime against humanity for the act that sent countless people to the streets to celebrate. Daniel Fiol, a Spanish lawyer, submitted a written complaint to the […]

 

More Lessons in Liberal Civility: Rape Yes, Target Maps No.

Posted on by Susannah Fleetwood

Pretty much everyone remembers last January when the liberal mainstream media accused Sarah Palin of being an accomplice to mass murder because she had almost the exact same target map on her Facebook page that the Democrats had up a year earlier. This whole “do as I say, not as I do” fiasco prompted liberals […]

 

Hanoi Jane Fonda Claims She’s Never Done Anything to Hurt the Country She Betrayed

Posted on by Dave Blount

One reason traitors are traditionally shot is so we don’t have to listen to them sanctimoniously whitewashing their unforgivable behavior for the rest of their lives. Jane Fonda is miffed that the QVC television channel canceled an opportunity for her to hawk a new book. QVC calls it a routine scheduling change. Ms. Fonda calls […]

 

Why Angela Merkel Wouldn’t Follow Obama Over the Edge

Posted on by Dave Blount

You can’t call what Obama et al. are doing to the economy an honest mistake, because we have been down this road before, as have other countries like Germany. Let’s see how Obama’s economic policies are faring at this point: Obamanomics has produced the weakest, most anemic recovery since the 1930s, when another generation’s big-government […]

 

Dylan Ratigan: Hates Newspapers, Claims Not to be a Common Leftist

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan has been saying some interesting things these days, hasn’t he? Most particularly, two amusing things scream out in a recent interview with The Atlantic. One was that he refuses to read newspapers and the other is that he wants people to think he isn’t the doctrinaire liberal everyone assumes he is. […]

 

Military Strategy l’Morte?

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Strategy! “The comprehensive way to try to pursue political ends, including the threat or actual use of force” Perhaps the only thing better than belly shots or strategy in general – is military strategy in particular. The 2011 Nat’l Military Strategy has been unleashed (pdf) and it ain’t all that. Teufel Hunden’s Warcraft Academy academic […]

 

If Only You’d Forgo Meat And Cheese Once A Week, We’d Save Gaia

Posted on by William Teach

I’m sure you can easily guess what we could save Gaia from, right? If every American skipped meat and cheese one day a week, environmentally it would be the same as the country driving 91 billion fewer miles a year. That’s the figure calculated by the Environmental Working Group, which in a report out today […]

 

GOP Shifts To The Hard Right On Debt Talks (?)

Posted on by William Teach

So says the Politico in a wonder article that could have been written by the DNC or the uber politicized White Democrat House Turning right with a vengeance, Republicans will bring to the House floor Tuesday a newly revised debt-ceiling bill that is remarkable for its total absence of compromise at this late date, two […]

 

Remember Those Death Panels David Brooks Said Were “Crazy?” Well…

Posted on by John Hawkins

….this time, the New York Times “conservative” (ha, ha) dancing monkey, David Brooks is talking up saving health care money by cutting back on end-of-life care. This fiscal crisis is about many things, but one of them is our inability to face death – our willingness to spend our nation into bankruptcy to extend life […]

 

All I’m Saying Is That If I Were The 12th Man On The Jury, The Lady Who Groped The TSA Agent…

Posted on by John Hawkins

…would walk. We hear a lot of complaints about security screeners groping airline passengers. But now, a Colorado woman is accused of putting her hands on a TSA agent at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Court records show 61-year-old Yukari Mihamae grabbed the left breast of the female agent Thursday at the Terminal 4 […]

 

The Slow, Painful Coming Death Of The Independent, Conservative Blogosphere

Posted on by John Hawkins

Way, way back in 2001, when I got started in the blogosphere, the Right side of the blogosphere was bigger and more influential than the Left. Why? Well, in American politics, the energy tends to be with the party that’s out of power. During the nineties, that was the Right and a lot of websites […]

 

NY Times: This Prolonged Recession Is The Fault Of You Consumers

Posted on by William Teach

Because, darnitall, you silly consumers just won’t spend yourselves into massive debt in the manner (NMP) Obama has THERE is no shortage of explanations for the economy’s maddening inability to leave behind the Great Recession and start adding large numbers of jobs: The deficit is too big. The stimulus was flawed. China is overtaking us. […]

 

“Let’s Face It, High Speed Rail is Dead”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

From a writer at New Geography: “But beyond those philosophically opposed to HSR, some : high speed rail advocates have done themselves no favors either. They’ve resolutely backed pretty much any and every rail project regardless of whether it is potentially useful or an outright boondoggle. They’ve engaged in false advertising by labeling 110 MPH peak […]

 

Video Interview: Florida Rep. Allen West

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rep. Allen West (R-FL) sat down with MRCTV on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 to talk about a wide range of issues from the debt crisis to the Obama administrations handling of fast and furious. West also stands by his statement that Attorney General Eric Holder should resign.

 

While We Celebrated, Obama Sneaked Terrorist Into US Courts on July 4

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that a suspected Somali terrorist was sneaked into a U.S. criminal court in New York City over the July 4th holiday? Most people don’t. While we were all distracted by celebrating our Independence Day President Obama was sneaking foreign terrorists into our civil court system instead of taking him to Guantanamo. A […]

 

GOP Votes To Defund EPA On Light Bulb Enforcement

Posted on by William Teach

Funny how this news was lost in the shuffle Friday, and I had to go to a British newspaper to find out Republicans claimed to have struck a blow for freedom on Friday when the House of Representatives voted to strip all funding from government programmes promoting energy-saving lightbulbs. The measure, brought as an amendment […]