Year: 2011

Yes, a 3 inch lizard can collapse the Texas oil industry.

Posted on by Bookworm

There’s a new bad guy in town in West Texas. He’s called the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard. He’s actually kind of cute, as lizards go. He’s about three inches long, a nice tan color, and has a vaguely Winston Churchill-esque expression. He seems harmless enough, but he comes packing a huge, powerful weapon: the federal government. […]

 

Fish Rescued From Global Warming by Llamas and British Taxpayers

Posted on by Dave Blount

Just because there hasn’t been any “global warming” since the 1990s is no reason not to carry fish by llama into the mountains where they’ll be safe from it. From the moonbattery-ravaged farce we once knew as Great Britain: Thousands of rare fish have been given a lift up a mountain on the back of […]

 

TIME Mag Does Not Know What ‘Influential’ Means with Top 100 Most Influential People

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Like all too many Americans TIME Magazine proves that it doesn’t know what is worth celebrating, noting, or memorializing in this world. Time doesn’t know what “important” means, it doesn’t know what “influential” means, it doesn’t even know what “top” means. And it has proven this again with its latest “2011 TIME 100 most influential […]

 

Warrantless Searches By Police of Your Cell Phone

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

News during this past week a story made the rounds that police in Michigan may be using a device in random traffic stops that instantly copies all the data on your cell phone and stores it for later use by police. It was said that this data copying is going on without consent and without […]

 

Union Plan: ‘Forget About the Law, Brand Businesses as Human Right Violators’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again we see how lawless the Obama administration and its allies in unions are. By their own admission they don’t care about the law. In the following video we see Obama’s appointee to his Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations and United Auto Workers President, Bob King, telling attendees at a recent union […]

 

Globull Warming Cold May Turn The Lights Out In Britain

Posted on by William Teach

Or, it could simply be because of idiot, moronic, silly, ridiculous, absurd climate alarmist policies. You decide Figures published last week reveal that the moment when Britain’s lights start going out may be much closer than previously predicted. Thanks in part to the hammering they took in the abnormal cold of last winter, six large […]

 

Politico Wants You To Meet The Unhinged Anti-Palin “Crusaders”

Posted on by William Teach

Isn’t it amazing how this supposedly stupid, moronic, lite-weight non-factor of a politician and presidential candidate garners so much press, loathing, and fear? Not just from those on the Left, but some of the wishy washy Republicans? Mission for anti-Palin movement: Expose her She is a promiscuous, petty and unintelligent, yet deviously conniving warmonger intent […]

 

Dear Women

Posted on by John Hawkins

Sometimes a video comes along that inspires you, that motivates you, and that helps you appreciate the things you have that other people don’t. Like testicles. That video, for me, was the instant Internet classic Dear Woman. Unlike the “men” in Dear Woman, I don’t apologize for my gender. Men don’t owe women an apology […]

 

What We Don’t Teach To The Next Generation Doesn’t Get Effectively Passed On

Posted on by John Hawkins

In her latest column, Peggy Noonan notes the cultural deterioration of our country. Imagine for a moment that you are a foreign visitor to America. You are a 40-year-old businessman from Afghanistan. You teach a class at Kabul University. You are relatively sophisticated. You’re in pursuit of a business deal. It’s your first time here. […]

 

The TSA: Putting Children And The Pedophiles Who Like To Touch Them Together At The Airport

Posted on by John Hawkins

Last week, I did a Liberalism in 120 Seconds video called, “The TSA Agent Who Molested Anna Drexel Should Do Jail Time.” Some people agreed that a TSA agent running his hands over the crotch and behind of a little girl was way over the line and others didn’t. Well, guess what? Now we’ve got […]

 

A Double Whammy For Consumers

Posted on by Dennis Avery

CHURCHVILLE, VA–U.S. Energy prices have risen to more than 6 percent of consumer spending–which may be a historic “tipping point.” Our food prices, meanwhile, have had their steepest increase in a generation, to about 6.5 percent of spending. That’s a double whammy consumers haven’t suffered since Jimmy Carter’s infamous “stagflation,” a painful mix of weak […]

 

Obama Blames Everyone Else on Oil Prices

Posted on by Brian Garst

Despite public demand for increasing domestic oil production, the current White House has sent a clear signal that the U.S. will not be increasing production into the future, despite growing demand. While simply one of many factors impacting the global price of oil, it is a factor. But rather than acknowledge that the price of […]

 

How Team Obama Broke His Promise To Close Club Gitmo

Posted on by William Teach

This Sunday morning in the Washington Post’s print edition, there is a long, long article which is entitled “Guantanamo Bay: Why Obama hasn’t fulfilled his promise to close the facility.” Alternate title, per the web permalink, “how the White House lost the fight to close it.” Strangely missing from the article is the proven fact […]

 

Happy Easter!

Posted on by William Teach

Tug on the heart strings When Rachel Pierce’s soldier father told her he would send something for Easter, she thought he meant a chocolate egg or a cuddly bunny. She got the bunny. But what the pretty 16-year-old wasn’t expecting was that her father, Robert a helicopter gunner who was supposed to be in Afghanistan […]

 

We’re doing what, now? Buying our warplanes from Brazil?

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Not quite, but: The awarding of the air tanker contract to Boeing over European rival EADS has been making headlines lately, with the promise of thousands of jobs for U.S. workers and suppliers. There may be additional heartening employment news in the same sector, following a request by the U.S. Air Force to identify suppliers […]

 

Left Laments Ryan’s GOP Budget NOT Raising America’s Ire

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left is desperate to color Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s GOP budget plan (The Path to Prosperity, as it is styled) as the end of America, crazed to call his plan a killer of old people, and maniacal about saying that the GOP and Ryan want to destroy the country by asking for a few […]

 

“Don’t Talk To Someone Who’s Not Even A Climate Scientist”

Posted on by William Teach

I’ve mentioned that this weekend the climate alarmists are holding Power Shift 2011 in D.C., sponsored by the Government Accountability Project, a far left group which operates out of D.C. on ….wait, K Street? Isn’t that where all the evil lobbyists reside? And, we get funny stuff like this Climate Science Watch participated in the […]

 

As Even More Protesters Are Killed In Syria, Washington Post Calls US Inaction Shameful

Posted on by William Teach

There are many differing reports on the death toll during yesterdays protest in Syria. The BBC pegs it the highest At least 72 protesters have been killed by security forces in Syria, rights groups say – the highest reported death toll in five weeks of unrest there. Demonstrators were shot, witnesses say, as thousands rallied […]

 

The Feminist Left’s Dramatic Reaction to Wonkette’s Mockery of Trig Palin

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Did I say “dramatic”? I meant “nonexistent”: National Organization for Women: chirp chirp chirp Ms. Magazine: chirp chirp chirp Feministing: chirp chirp chip Feministe: chirp chirp chirp Pandagon: chirp chirp chirp Shakesville: chirp chirp chirp Jezebel: chirp chirp chirp The Frisky: chirp chirp chirp Bitch Magazine: chirp chirp chirp Seems like a lot of crickets […]

 

What happens when government (state or federal) is pathologically hostile to business

Posted on by Bookworm

This post tells the story of a case on which I worked. It’s a true story. Picture this: It’s 2001. You live in California and you own a small business that consists of you and maybe three to five at-will employees. Your profits are decent. One morning, Jane, one of your employees, announces that she’s […]

 

3 Reasons Why Wonkette Self-destructed by Publishing a Hit Piece on Trig Palin

Posted on by Susannah Fleetwood

For the last several days, Twitter has been all aflutter with stories about a supposedly horrific attack on Trig Palin by the liberal website Wonkette. After seeing the uproar on Twitter, I remember thinking to myself, “Could this column from Wonkette attacking Trig (on his third birthday) really be as bad as everyone says?” Well, […]

 

Mayor Bloomberg Pushes Solar Energy

Posted on by Dave Blount

Ignoring economic plight, New York’s moonbat mayor continues to shove his subjects toward green dystopia: The city will phase out the use of polluting heavy oils to heat buildings and will begin building solar power plants on capped landfills, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday in his first update to a 4-year-old environmental plan that aims […]