Year: 2011

This Week In Quotes: April 8 – April 14

Posted on by John Hawkins

I’ll tell you another thing I never could have predicted: That the guy who bought himself a year’s worth of no-comment by deferring important questions to a commission, and then promptly ignored that commission’s recommendations, would then make a major announcement that he fully intends to appoint a new commission. — Ace Status quo and […]

 

Irony In Government: The GAO Can’t Audit Itself

Posted on by Unicorn Jones

The Government Accountability Office is basically charged with making sure that the government isn’t needlessly wasting a ton of money on things you and other taxpayers don’t care about. If you think that’s a deeply ironic and – above all – endless and useless task, you’d probably be right. If you’d question whether the government […]

 

Thursday Evening Open Thread: Ganja’s Illegal In Jamaica?

Posted on by William Teach

Like, dude, one to get you, like, you know, going Ten years ago, Jamaica’s government-appointed National Commission on Ganja produced a report calling for marijuana decriminalization, which the Jamaican government, under pressure from the US, promptly forgot about. But now, the government of Prime Minister Bruce Golding has announced that it will again review those […]

 

Tim Berners-Lee: Internet Access Is a Human Right

Posted on by Dave Blount

Now that we are endowed with our fundamental rights not by our Creator, but by the liberal ruling class, practically anything can qualify as a human right. Tim Berners-Lee found one right where you might expect: Two decades after creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee says humans have become so reliant on it that […]

 

Old Media Gets Rolled on Hoax Story

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Associated Press was very excited to learn that General Electric was going to return its $3.2 billion tax refund to the U.S. Treasury because the company was so embarrassed that it got such a giant refund this year. Why, it was so selfless of GE to be that public minded, AP thought. Only one […]

 

San Francisco discovers free enterprise

Posted on by Bookworm

San Francisco is definitely up in the top five when it comes to “most Progressively governed cities in America.” No surprise, then, that the city’s finances are in a shambles. What is a surprise is the fact that, faced with a looming budget collapse, the City has suddenly discovered capitalist incentives: it’s offering the big […]

 

Pathetic: Warmists Now Trying To Connect With “JoeSixpack”

Posted on by William Teach

Here’s the latest attempt to somehow create a notion that globull warming is evil and going to destroy us all, because the climate has never changed ever in the 4+ billion year history of the Earth. RealClimate says Perhaps a way to connect with Joe Sixpack? Click the image to open up in full page. […]

 

Even The Washington Post Notices Obama’s Deficit Speech Was For Campaign 2012

Posted on by William Teach

More and more this year, the liberal leaning MSM are willing to give Obama a gentle smack on the behind, like a 4 year who snakes a cookie without mommies permission. And Dan Baltz at the Washington Post is today’s token liberal who chides Obama: Analysis: Obama speech frames a 2012 choice for the country […]

 

Change: America Reaches A Historic New Employment Low

Posted on by John Hawkins

The more illegal aliens we have in this country, the less jobs we have for Americans. The more we punish people for success, the less jobs those successful people create. The more regulations we put in place, the more it strangles whole industries and they create less jobs as a result. The more tax dollars […]

 

Saying Paying Taxes Is Patriotic Is Evidence That You’re Unpatriotic

Posted on by John Hawkins

Because most Americans have a high opinion of patriotism and most liberals aren’t patriotic, liberals keep trying to come up with new definitions of patriotism that have nothing to do with loving your country. Case in point… One group of millionaires, however, is saying that they are more than willing to pay more for the […]

 

Pelosi’s Budget Cutting Compromise: Planned Parenthood-PBS Merger?

Posted on by Fingers Malloy

Not So Tickle Me Elmo This post originally appeared at NewsReal Blog. Secret documents uncovered by Fingersmalloy.com have unveiled a plot concocted by Representative Nancy Pelosi to, under the guise of a budget cutting measure, merge Planned Parenthood with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The purpose of this maneuver would not only be to secure […]

 

The Budget Compromise: Why I Now Think Republicans Should Vote It Down

Posted on by John Hawkins

I was generally supportive of the GOP’s compromise with the Democrats on the Budget and considered it to be a small win. Granted 38 billion in cuts isn’t a lot when we have a deficit that’s north of 1.5 trillion dollars. Moreover, it’s not the 100 billion they initially promised or even the 61 billion […]

 

Yeah, I’m not thrilled about that J. Crew advertisement either

Posted on by Bookworm

The big “conservatives are evil” exhibit of the moment is conservative protests over at Fox about a J. Crew advertisement in which a mom happily paints her five year old son’s toenails pink. I think it’s worth adding here that the boy clearly hasn’t had a haircut in a while. In other words, if the […]

 

Chicago School Accuses Parents of Poisoning Children

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The nanny state in the people’s republic of Chicago rears its ugly head once again where a school principal has accused parents of trying to poison their own children with “unhealthy” bag lunches. And so, in her infinite wisdom, Principal Elsa Carmona had banned all lunches brought from home. I guess it’s just a coincidence […]

 

McCain Backs Crony Capitalist Coyote Boondoggle

Posted on by Dave Blount

So far there has been exactly one good thing about Barack Hussein Obama’s election: at least John McCain isn’t president. A tale of corrupt crony capitalism from his home state: Taxes provided $346 million of the $455 million cost of the huge (up to 72,200 seats) retractable-roof NFL stadium where the Arizona Cardinals will play […]

 

Anti-Homosexual Hate Crime at UNC Was Yet Another Hoax

Posted on by Dave Blount

University of North Carolina freshman Quinn Matney made the news with claims that he was called a bad name and even burned with a piece of hot metal for being a homosexual. Like most outlandish hate crimes attributed to the enemies of political correctness, his story is fake: A UNC-Chapel Hill freshman who told police […]

 

Bad News, Libs: Smoking A Joint Bad For Your Carbon Footprint

Posted on by William Teach

Oh, all right, yes, I know and have known plenty of right leaning folks who smoke pot. I don’t hang with them because, personally, I don’t smoke it, do not care for the way it makes me feel. And, as a sidebar, as I’ve said many times before, I could care less whether it is […]

 

Obama’s Deficit Speech To Be About Sharing The Pain Democrats Created?

Posted on by William Teach

This should be an interesting day, as Champ sets out his “vision” for reducing the deficit President Barack Obama will describe his plans for long-term deficit reduction Wednesday, in a move likely to kick off a months-long debate with Republicans while alienating some members of his own Democratic Party. In a midday speech in Washington, […]

 

Laughing At Arianna Huffington’s Hypocritical Misfortune

Posted on by John Hawkins

Welcome to the liberal plantation, slave. Your master will be Arianna Huffington. On the upside, if she cracks the whip, it’s because she’s kinkier than she lets on it public. On the other hand, the pay is still zero. That’s why one of her former freelancers is suing her for $105 million in a class […]

 

Dirty Communist Hippies: Let’s Give Mother Earth The Same Rights As Humans

Posted on by John Hawkins

Bolivia, which is a Communist pesthole that’s famous mainly for cocaine and grinding poverty is also — big surprise here — overrun with crazed ecofreaks (as if there were any other kind these days). So naturally Bolivia, which is run with all the intelligence and forethought that my dog puts into where to take a […]

 

PPP And Rasmussen Have Radically Different Poll Numbers. So, Who’s Right?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Since partnering up with the Daily Kos, my impression is that PPP has gone the Zogby route and has started to let their ideology interfere with their poll numbers. Does that mean I generally don’t trust their numbers? Honestly — yeah, that’s exactly what it means. Of course, a lot of liberals would say the […]

 

Putting the sexual identity cart before the accomplishment horse

Posted on by Bookworm

Okay, I’ll admit that my post title is awkward, but it sums up what California State Senator Mark Leno is trying to do in California public schools: namely, put a person’s sexuality front and center, with a tag-on coda about the person’s actual accomplishments. This isn’t the first time a gay California legislator has tried […]

 

New Tea Party and Boehner Alliance Triumphs in Government Shutdown Showdown

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Some conservatives and Tea Parties are criticizing the budget deal Republicans agreed to with Democrats and the Obama administration on Friday. Should they be? It averted a government shutdown, extending funding for government through the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 2011. It is the largest spending cut in American history in terms of […]