Year: 2012

E.J. Dionne Wonders If We’ll Miss Obamacare If SCOTUS Kills It

Posted on by William Teach

Does anyone think Obamacare supporters are getting a bit nervous over the coming announcement as to how the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare? Here’s EJ Dionne’s take Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court may make possible something that has yet to happen: an honest and complete discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care […]

 

Obama Plays Small Ball With Carp, Pythons

Posted on by William Teach

Unable to do anything meaningful to get the US economy moving, Mr. Obama has resorted to playing small ball in many states with issues that should simply be normal government business (Politico) President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are jousting over the big national themes of 2012: the economy, the deficit, the crisis in Europe. […]

 

The Best Quotes From “Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin”

Posted on by John Hawkins

Brett Kimberlin has been in the news a lot lately. He has filed suit against some conservative bloggers, he’s called the workplace of Stacy McCain’s wife, some people believe he’s behind a website that has posted the personal information of bloggers and others believe he’s connected to the SWAT-ting of three conservative bloggers. According to […]

 

Doug Giles’ Cure for the Skinny Punks Who Viciously Bullied the Granny on the Bus

Posted on by Doug Giles

The video of Karen Klein, a 68-year-old granny who was bullied beyond belief by a gaggle of 13-year-old pukes went viral last Wednesday. If you haven’t seen the video,: here it is: (viewer warning). What these little 666s did to this passive, sweet lady–ultimately bringing her to tears–was truly disgusting. If these hellions would have sadistically berated […]

 

Sheldon Adelson Is Evil — But George Soros and Labor Unions Aren’t?

Posted on by Ronn Torossian

The Sunday New York Times had an: op-ed: vilifying casino magnate Sheldon Adelson yet again.: : Stating that he is pouring money into a political agenda that is “wildly at odds” with the American nation’s needs, in a way which the NYT has never written of George Soros or Labor Unions who have given more to the liberal left. […]

 

Obama Backers Use Race as Alibi for Ebbing Support

Posted on by Michael Barone

As Barack Obama’s lead over Mitt Romney in the polls narrows, and his presumed fundraising advantage seems about to become a disadvantage, it’s alibi time for some of his backers. His problem, they say, is that some voters don’t like him because he’s black. Or they don’t like his policies because they don’t like having […]

 

NY Times on Israel: Hamas as Moderates & Israel Is To Blame For The Violence

Posted on by Ronn Torossian

Could anyone imagine a mainstream newspaper running an op-ed which called for a violent uprising against the government of Australia? Or against Mexico? Well, there always has to be a first time, right? An op-ed endorsing a violent uprising against the State of Israel ran today in an op-ed in The New York Times. The: op-ed: by […]

 

A Generous Gift Has Been Made In Your Name To Obama 2012

Posted on by Derek Hunter

There’s desperation. Then there’s the Obama-Biden re-election campaign’s fundraising operation. Remember that Seinfeld episode where George Costanza, because he’s cheap and didn’t want to buy co-workers anything for Christmas, gave everyone a card saying a gift had been made in their name to the “Human Fund”? The Human Fund didn’t exist. George made it up […]

 

Hey, Hey, LBJ … How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?

Posted on by Roger Simon

Remember that one? I certainly do because, as a young leftie, I shouted it at many demonstrations. I also shouted, “Off the pig!” and even went so far as to support, at least from a distance, the “Days of Rage” as described by John Jacobs of the Weatherman faction of the Students for a Democratic […]

 

The Age Old Power Struggle: Chapter 2012

Posted on by Michael Fell

A Muslim cleric introduced Egypt’s new President, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi by saying: Our Capital ‘shall be Jerusalem, Allah willing’.:  For his part, Morsi pronounced: Abroad women are ‘free,’ but not here. These types of proclamations do not bode well for Egyptian minorities, which includes members of the Coptic Church community, who make up […]

 

Confiscated: Obama Afraid Latinos Will Attack Him With Forks At Luncheon

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Imagine if Bush had insulted his Latino guests like this. Latinos with forks, that seems to be Obama’s newest fear. At least, that’s the case judging from his actions at this years National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) luncheon since Obama had the Secret Service confiscate all the dinner forks […]

 

The Age Old Power Struggle: Chapter 2012

Posted on by Michael Fell

A Muslim cleric introduced Egypt’s new President, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi by saying: Our Capital ‘shall be Jerusalem, Allah willing’.:  For his part, Morsi pronounced: Abroad women are ‘free,’ but not here. These types of proclamations do not bode well for Egyptian minorities, which includes members of the Coptic Church community, who make up […]

 

This Week in Automotivators, June 18-24

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Click the link under each picture for more details. Forgot that one last week. Link: Trog. Link: Hot Air. Link: Grandpa Steve. Link: Insty. Link: Sean Hackbarth. Link: Daley Gator. Link: View from the Porch. Previously: This Week in Automotivators, June 4-10 This Week in Automotivators, June 11-17 Make your own automotivators.

 

NY Times: Democrats Thought Mandate Was Constitutional Because They Said It Was Constitutional

Posted on by William Teach

Things are getting a little tense for Democrats and the far left Democrat voters as they see the good possibility that the Obamacare health insurance mandate will be shot down this week by the Supreme Court. There is even the possibility that the whole thing will be shot down because the wholly Democrat legislation did […]

 

If you don’t have enough to worry about

Posted on by Craig Newmark

“Space weather expert has ominous forecast“. A stream of highly charged particles from the sun is headed straight toward Earth, threatening to plunge cities around the world into darkness and bring the global economy screeching to a halt. This isn’t the premise of the latest doomsday thriller. Massive solar storms have happened before – and […]

 

Obama’s Justice: Upside-down

Posted on by Debra Saunders

The important question to ask about Attorney General Eric Holder is: Whom does he protect and whom does he pursue? Until recently, Holder claimed “deliberative privilege” to justify his refusal to comply with House Oversight Committee subpoenas for documents involving the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “Fast and Furious” program of 2009-2010. The […]

 

New Silicon Graffiti Video: Where Krugman Has Gone Before

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Rather than shoot the new video in the newsroom set we typically use as home base, I decided to borrow a used Apollo capsule and Saturn rocket to make my way to Space Station V. What better place to discuss the alien invasion that’s about to strike planet earth? Or at least the one that […]

 

Oddly twisted headline: Feds sue Arizona/Utah town for discriminating against the non-polygamous?

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Here’s the actual headline: Polygamous towns face federal lawsuit for religious discrimination Officials of polygamous sect near Utah-Arizona border discriminate against nonmembers by putting their leader Jeffs above law, suit claims. Shouldn’t any legal action against a “polygamous sect” somehow involve…polygamy? It is still illegal, isn’t it? And if Justice isn’t going after them for […]

 

If the internal combustion engine had never been invented, would food preservatives be even more advanced today?

Posted on by TrogloPundit

Café Hayek’s Don Boudreaux made an interesting argument in a letter he wrote to the Wall Street Journal: …industrial capitalism is history’s greatest anti-pollutant. Asphalt and automobiles, for example, combine to cleanse our cities and towns of the bacteria and insects (and stench) that are inseparable from animal-powered transportation. The petroleum used to make asphalt […]

 

New Film: Jesus Christ Not Divine, Born of Roman Rapist

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

So much for Hollywood’s days of the sweeping Biblical epic, I suppose, but a film director and author of a controversial book on Jesus Christ has announced he’s found the financial backing to produce a film on the Christian Messiah that will contend that Jesus was just a good politician, one born after his mother […]

 

Typical Liberals Show Typical Liberal Class At White House Event

Posted on by William Teach

The most shocking thing is that almost no one will be shocked by this typical complete lack of class by people sure to vote Democrat (Philly.com) Last Friday, an attaché of important gay people from Philadelphia made a trip to Washington D.C. as invited guests of President Barack Obama for the White House’s first-ever gay […]

 

Obama: What We Need Is “Bottom-Up” Economics

Posted on by William Teach

Because, you know, it’s all those people with no freaking money who make the economy run, create jobs, and open businesses. After his Typical Whining about Republicans, mischaracterizing the proposals, we get (UPI) “I believe we should do everything we can to help our entrepreneurs succeed,” the president said. “I want our companies to be […]

 

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Part Duh

Posted on by Michael Fell

Apparently suffering the long term effects of habitual Botox abuse, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi again defied the grounding gravity of logic to concoct a thread bare story trying to tie Wednesday’s contempt of Congress proceedings in the House of Representatives to unproven allegations of voter suppression. “It is no accident; it is no coincidence […]

 

Too funny: MassGOP buys Elizabeth Warren an Ancestry.com membership for her birthday

Posted on by Sunshine State Sarah

Oh, this is too funny. The merry pranksters at the MassGOP sent out a press release this morning, saying that as a gift for Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren‘s 63rd birthday, they had bought her an Ancestry.com membership: MassGOP’s Gift To Elizabeth Warren On Her 63rd Birthday: A Complimentary Ancestry.com Account Boston – Nearly two […]

 

Democrat’s Newest Attack on Free Political Speech With Willing Assistance by Media

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What would you say if a Koch Brothers, right-wing effort was pushed on Americans with the knowing assistance of National Public Radio — and big money was paid to NPR for the effort? Would you say that this is an outrage, that NPR’s use of public airwaves to push a right-wing policy idea is a […]