Year: 2012

Voter affiliation not polling point to a Romney victory in November

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

All the polls show that the election of 2012 is very close. Most polls show Barack Obama and Mitt Romney tied. Others show slight leads within the margin of error for Barack Obama. Yet still others show a slight lead within the margin of error for Mitt Romney. One thing is for sure. This is […]

 

This Week in Automotivators, August 20-26

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Just a few stories from the past week, whether I blogged them or not. Link: Fishersville Mike. Related: Please note: we here at The Trog do not think Biden is stupid, any more than Dan Quayle was. I just couldn’t resist that picture. Link: Allahpundit. Link: Erika Johnson. Link: Trog. Link: Trog. And: Link: Smitty. […]

 

Romney Reminds People About Obama’s Greek Columns

Posted on by William Teach

…and for a good reason. Though, somehow, it’s probably raaaaacist (Washington Times) Mitt Romney, routinely dismissed as a bit stiff and humorless on the stump, is suddenly cracking up his campaign trail crowds. On Saturday, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate delighted supporters at a rally in Powell, Ohio, with a Greek-themed jibe at President Obama. […]

 

To California GOP, Tampa a Far-Away and Hostile Planet

Posted on by Debra Saunders

Like teenagers on vacation with their parents, Republicans from blue states and Democrats from red states don’t want to be seen with party elders. “I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about Mitt Romney,” Elizabeth Emken, the Republican who will face off against Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein in November, recently told me. “That’s the […]

 

Cherna Moskowitz & Irving Moskowitz: Jews Should Be Able To Live Anywhere In The World

Posted on by Ronn Torossian

A story is told of Natan Sharansky, before he was arrested in the former Soviet Union for the crime of studying Judaism and wanting to emigrate to Israel. On July 14, 1978, Sharansky stood before a Soviet court about to sentence him to fifteen years in prison and said, “For 2,000 years the Jewish people, […]

 

CNN’s Important GOP Convention News: Strippers Readying for Convention

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN has a habit of getting to the real meat of a story, finding all the most important angles, and its coverage of the GOP convention is no exception. CNN has a reputation to burnish by finding only the most important convention stories and with its latest story about how an important sector of Tampa […]

 

Explosion at state-run Amuay refinery in Venezuela, nationalized in 1976

Posted on by Wintery Knight

In the United States, we’ve been seeing some efforts by the Marxist Obama administration to nationalize the auto industry and health care, too. This is what communists favor as the alternative to the free-market system. It makes sense, then, to look at how well the nationalization of assets, especially those owned by private companies, works […]

 

Democrats turn down Catholic leader – can’t say as I blame them

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Given the Democrats’ history, would you take the chance? The story: Cardinal Timothy Dolan offered to give the prayer at the Democratic National Convention, but has been turned down: WASHINGTON – President Obama turned down a chance to have Timothy Cardinal Dolan deliver a prayer at the Democratic National Convention after Dolan told Democrats he […]

 

Report Finds Christians Under Assault From Government And Secular Groups

Posted on by William Teach

Anyone who is surprised, raise your hand (Fox News) A new report by the Family Research Council and the Liberty Institute claims that there’s been a rising pattern of hostility toward Christians in America over the past decade. The 140-page “Survey of Religious Hostility in America,” prepared by the Liberty Institute and the Family Research […]

 

Obamanomics: Most Unemployed Unable To Find A Comparable Job

Posted on by William Teach

Obviously, this must be the fault of George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Republicans, international issues, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and ATMs. Nothing is ever the fault of Obama’s pathetic, uninformed, far left policies based on imaginary economic notions (Washington Post) Many workers are nervous about their livelihoods despite the economic recovery – and for good reason, it […]

 

“Don’t Eat Your Dog: The Surprising Moral Case for Free Enterprise”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

Eight-minute video by AEI president Arthur Brooks. (Send the link to your Liberal friends! Or, more importantly, to those undecided swing voters.) Personally, I think moral cases for free enterprise are nice but unnecessary. I think the material propserity and personal freedom engendered by free enterprise is more than sufficient. “From the time of Pericles […]

 

HuffPostLive Segment: The Future Of The Republican Party

Posted on by John Hawkins

Yesterday, I did a HuffPostLive segment on the Future of the Republican Party. This one was a little different than previous segments, in that you had a liberal host and a liberal guest (both of whom pretended to be independents) and 4 conservatives guests including my buddy Kira Davis. You can watch the whole segment, […]

 

But since it’s the government refusing to provide life-saving health care…

Posted on by TrogloPundit

If it were a private insurance company… There are two tiers of men with advanced prostate cancer in Ontario: Those who get access to a remarkable drug through private insurance, and those who get a death sentence. That latter group is also known as: people relying on gummint health care. The grim news is often […]

 

Romney Will Lead After Both Conventions

Posted on by Dick Morris

Each party convention usually produces a bounce in the polls of 6-10 points, though they often cancel each other out. But this year, there will be a difference. The Republicans will gain much more from their convention than the Democrats will from theirs. This year, there will be no offsetting bounces; the advantage will be […]

 

The World Of Charity & The Need To Give

Posted on by Ronn Torossian

Interesting that in an email centric world, the United States Postal Service continues to push the importance of direct mail: —: “Direct mail creates a one-on-one connection that’s hard for other media channels to match,” says Tom Foti, manager, Direct Mail and Periodicals for USPS. “The average household receives only two pieces of direct mail a day […]

 

What’s the Future of the Middle East?

Posted on by Michael Fell

For those who support the institutionalized “progressive” left’s or Ron Paul’s positions on foreign policy, consider these perspectives expressed in an article posted August 24, 2012 on pravda.ru: “With the beginning of the Islamic awakening movement in the Middle East, the United States and its allies in the region, fearing the increasing waves of anti-American […]

 

The Free Press Act: A Proposal to Reinvigorate Our Freedom of Speech

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In this day of mounting threats to our freedoms it is time to reinvigorate our Bill of Rights and so Senator John Kyl (R, AZ) has introduced S. 3493, The Free Press Act. This bill aims to prevent nuisance lawsuits meant only to quash freedom of speech, to stop the intimidation of journalists, bloggers, and […]

 

A Lance Armstrong Witchhunt?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Although like most people, I don’t follow or care about professional cycling, I know who Lance Armstrong is. I’d have to know if I’ve heard about cycling because HE IS cycling. Unfortunately, despite all of his amazing accomplishments, he spent his entire career being dogged by claims of doping. There have been rumors and accusations, […]

 

Polls Find Tight Race, People Want Government To Leave Them Alone

Posted on by William Teach

In case you hadn’t noticed, I rarely ever post national polls, because in my mind they mean very little when it comes to the presidential election. Yes, they can give a snapshot of the mood of the nation, but, while we may know the D/R/I samples, we do not know what states these people represent, […]

 

Politico Offers 4 Roadblocks To Romney’s Energy Plan

Posted on by William Teach

Romney just released his detailed energy plan Thursday morning, a 21 page plan that outlines how America can strive for energy independence. Fortunately, Politico is there to attempt to shoot it down just a few hours after it was released, offering four roadblocks Energy experts say Mitt Romney’s goal to achieve North American energy independence […]

 

Summer Of Recovery Update: About That Recession

Posted on by John Hawkins

The recession officially ended all the way back in 2009.: Yet… Household income is down sharply since the recession ended three years ago, according to a report released Thursday, providing another sign of the stubborn weakness of the economic recovery. From June 2009 to June 2012, inflation-adjusted median household income fell 4.8 percent, to $50,964, according […]

 

What Immigration Law Has Been Reduced To Under Obama: ICE Agents Suing To Be Able To Do Their Jobs

Posted on by John Hawkins

No matter how loudly the American people shout about illegal immigration, thegovernment never seems to listen. Ten officers and agents for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) including ICE Agents Union President Chris Crane, today filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton challenging […]

 

How Huckabee Is Blowing It With Akin

Posted on by John Hawkins

Mike Huckabee built up so much indy cred with Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day and he’sthrowing it all away on Todd Akin.   The Party’s leaders have for reasons that aren’t rational, left [Akin] behind on the political battlefield, wounded and bleeding, a casualty of his self-inflicted, but not intentional wound. In a Party that supposedly stands […]

 

“Clean Energy” Is Obama-Speak for Crony Government

Posted on by Michelle Malkin

Breaking news: The Fishwrap of Record has finally discovered that the Obama administration gives its Chicago corporate pals special access to power and regulatory favoritism. On Thursday, The Not-So-New York Times published an A1 story titled “Ties to Obama Aided in Access for Big Utility.” Everyone, put on your shocked faces! “With energy an increasingly […]

 

Akin’s idiocy is infectious

Posted on by Jonah Goldberg

Todd Akin’s idiocy appears to be infectious. The evil genius of the Missouri congressman’s comments is that they lend themselves to such broad interpretations — and misinterpretations. By now his remarks are familiar, but just in case … Akin told a local TV interviewer: “First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from […]