Lindsey Graham — When Ego Gets in the Way Of History

Oh, Lindsey, Lindsey, what in the name of all that’s holy are you talking about? On four occasions, [South Carolina Senator Lindsey] Graham met with Tea Party groups. The first, in his Senate office, was “very, very contentious,” he recalled. During a later meeting, in Charleston, Graham said he challenged them: “ ‘What do you […]

 






Nice Counting There, New York Times!

It doesn’t speak well of the New York Times’ layers upon layers of fact-checkers and editors that this paragraph made it to publication. The demonstrators numbered well into the tens of thousands, though the police declined to estimate the size of the crowd. Many came on their own and were not part of an organization […]

 

Someone Get Out the Wetnaps, Van Jones Has Resigned

I’m guessing by now you already know that Van Jones, President Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar” tendered his resignation in the middle of the night last night and slunk back to the fevered swamps from whence he slithered. His resignation letter is a masterpiece of petulance and dishonesty, anchored by this sentence: On the eve of […]

 

Not Civil War, But Maybe Ross Perot

Thanks to a tip from Carol of No Sheeples Here, I read this interview with actor and conservative political voice Jon Voight. Voight is concerned that the President and his various left-wing flying monkeys are stirring up a civil war in America. “There’s a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil […]

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AstroTurfing: What It Is and What It Isn’t.

I’ve noticed there seems to be some confusion in the MSM and elsewhere about the meaning of the word “AstroTurf” when used to describe the town hall meeting protests we’ve been seeing the past couple weeks. I’ve seen the word used to describe everything from bussed-in ACORN members to ad-hoc gathering organized by ordinary folks […]

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If That’s AstroTurfing, They’re Doing it Wrong!

If the pharmaceutical companies have been paying protesters to come out against Obamacare, as the President and his Democratic buddies sorely want us to believe, then they’re doing something very wrong. The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama’s health care overhaul, beginning […]

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