Author: Kathleen McKinley

Here is a story about a Wisconsin bar that recently burned a paper mache of Obama. The secret service is investigating. Absolutely terrible. But it’s interesting that the reporter acts as if this has never been done before. And I totally disagree with one of the people he interviewed that it has anything to do […]

Never have I been so glad to see a Senator be defeated as I am with Pennsylvania’s Arlen Specter. He emobodies all that is wrong with Congress. He claimed his seat for decades, and felt intitled to it. As Scott Brown said of Ted Kennedy’s seat, “it’s not his seat, it’s the people’s seat.” Well […]

This is a big victory for liberty, parents, and education. From the Lone Star Report: A Texas Attorney General’s opinion (GA-0774) issued today stated that school districts may not fund political action committees of teacher unions via payroll deductions. “Because the Legislature has not expressly or impliedly authorized school districts to process payroll deductions for […]

From Jeffrey Scott Shapiro of FoxNews.com: Last year, the management of the Empire State Building stunned New Yorkers when they decided to honor the 60th anniversary of the 1949 Maoist Communist Revolution by illuminating the tower in red. The decision drew the protest of dozens of human rights activists who took issue with the management’s […]

Today let’s go from awful to awesome in our public officials. Let’s start with awful. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday said that he hasn’t read Arizona’s recently adopted anti-illegal immigration law that has generated sharp criticism from the Administration he represents. In a Department of Justice oversight hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. […]

I think you will find this interesting. The Milbloggers (military bloggers) listed below are essentially saying that the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy towards gays in the military, and implemented by Clinton, is not necessary. They welcome “open and honorable service, regardless of sexual orientation.” Almost all, if not all, of these bloggers are conservative. […]

Not that this is shocking to anyone, but as you recall, the Democrats were “delighted” when the CBO estimated in March that the net cost of Obamacare would be $788 billion over 10 years. They knew if that estimate had gone over $1 trillion before the vote, the bill would likely not pass. The CBO […]

Does it matter? To a liberal administration one would certainly think that it wouldn’t. But apparently it does. From Mediaite: Is President Obama going to manage to get Elena Kagan confirmed to the Supreme Court without addressing her sexuality? Well, not if Andrew Sullivan has anything to do with it. Sullivan attacked Kagan’s sexuality, or […]

Everyone is talking about Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan. I was curious about what the left was saying about her, so I took a look at Glenn Greenwald over at Salon. He is apparently furious that Obama didn’t pick someone wildly leftwing. Of course many on the right see her as just […]

I can’t tell you how I hate the illegal immigration debate. As someone who has great respect for the Mexican American community, has close Hispanic friends, and have personally helped a friend and employee become a citizen, I hate how it divides us. I hate how so many try to make it about Hispanics v. […]

The media loved painting Bush as being for “Big Oil.” But it looks like Bush isn’t the only President that is all about “Big Oil.” And by “Big Oil,” I mean “Big Money.” Politico reports that Obama has been the biggest recipient of British Petroleum donations over the past 20 years. What did BP get […]

I am THRILLED to post this announcement from my buddy Kevin Jackson of The Black Sphere and author of “The Big Black Lie.” Black Conservative Coalition Announces the Black Conservative Census 2010 Black Conservative Coalition Announces the Black Conservative Census 2010 Black Conservatives Offer Alternative to NAACP May 4, 2010–St. Louis, MO– Kevin Jackson of […]

President Obama has called the oil spill off the coasts of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, “An Unprecedented Environmental disaster.” Even though we don’t know the cause of the explosion that resulted in the oil spill, we have all seen the pictures of the oil slick. The first day I heard they were going to burn […]

The left went bonkers over the part of the new Arizona law that would require people to carry papers to prove their citizenship. Many wrote that it was like Nazism or Communism. I wasn’t sure how I felt about that. Many commenters made me pause to think about it. No matter how we feel about […]

Things are getting interesting in the Senate run in Florida. Charlie Crist is now going to run as an independent because it had become clear that Marco Rubio, a Tea Party favorite in that state, was going to defeat him. But get this. Crist, who as Governor cozied up to Obama for the Stimulus debacle, […]

I think Americans know now that the “transparency” that Obama promised during his campaign was simply a soundbite. In fact, Pres. Obama’s reluctance to be open with the White House Press reveals that Pres. Bush was actually the transparent one in comparison. Day-to-day interaction with Obama is almost nonexistent, and he talks to the press […]

I am continuing to post on parts of Karl Rove’s book, “Courage and Consequence.” As I have said before, politics is a nasty business. Both sides are guilty. But what struck me about recent years is how the liberal media went after regular people, and not the politicians. From Sarah Palin’s children, to Joe The […]

As you have probably heard, Arizona’s Governor has signed a tough new law targeting illegal immigrants. Both sides have done their usual barking from the far side of their political agendas. We are sick of it. I find myself agreeing in part with a liberal columnist for The Arizona Republic: From one side, we heard […]

I finally got to finish Karl Rove’s book “Courage and Consequence.” What I would like to do is run through a couple of the false narratives the left has always pushed about Karl Rove. The first, and perhaps the most vicious, is the story that Karl Rove was behind the pushpolling against McCain in South […]

I noticed in many of my comments that there are those on the left that seem to believe that it was Republicans that fought against regulation before our financial crisis. Nothing could be further from the truth. So let’s let the Wall Street Journal takes us on a walk down memory lane (emphasis mine). One […]

It was a beautiful day and I had a great time at the Houston Tea Party yesterday. Me and my SmartGirlPolitics buddy, Michelle Lancaster, manned the SGP booth and met lots of wonderful people. Some of the speakers are below. Natalie Arceneaux of The Civil Right, Ted Cruz, and a picture with Kevin Jackson of […]

In what is becoming my ongoing series of how racism seems to be defined or mis-used in today’s political landscape, I give you my buddy Zo (whom you have seen here many times). He is best know for his PJTV segments. Here is a taste of what he receives on a daily basis from the […]

Ok, I’ve had it with the left and the media trying to paint the Tea Party as racist. I know it kills you guys that we aren’t racist, but we are not. There hundreds of thousands of us. Are there a few kooks in the mix? Sure. Just as there are in the Democratic party […]

Two years ago I interviewed Sen. John Cornyn at the Capitol. I asked him why we let Democrats control the health care debate (and this was long before the current debate). I said that Republicans should start talking about it right away and take control of the narrative. Cornyn didn’t heed my advice obviously, so […]

Love him or hate him, Lieberman has the guts to tell the truth: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Sunday called the administration’s proposal to avoid the term “Islamic extremism” in national security references “absolutely Orwellian and counterproductive.” Lieberman revealed on “Fox News Sunday” that he had sent a letter to the president’s top counterterrorism adviser, […]

While the left and the media make a big deal out of a whole lot of nothing with Gov. McDonnell of Virginia and this Confederacy History month issue, maybe we should stop trying to score political points about the past, and focus on the present. Slavery is a stain on our nation’s past. We all […]

Bill White’s solutions to education includes targeting homeschoolers. Not a good idea. From Right In Texas: (emphasis mine) White says, “Perry’s claim of 10 percent dropout rate does not include students who continue in school, switch to home schooling, or have no follow up data. These students are not tracked, and the governor does not […]

The following is twitter conversation I had with CNN’s Roland S. Martin. He was upset at Gov. McDonnell’s issuing a proclamation declaring it Confederate History Month in the commonwealth without mentioning slavery. *He had retweeted the Donna Brazile’s tweet that she was outraged that the RNC hadn’t condemned McDonnell. Her tweet said: “RNC Chair should […]

If you ever thought that the word “indoctrination” is overused by conservatives as it relates to the education of our children, check out the following document given out by a teacher in Texas to her high school goverment class. She distributed this without parental consent, and did not allow her students to take the paper […]

Once again, the left smears without a shred of proof, and then it is taken at face value, and the media reports it as truth. As you may recall, a staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told reporters that Clyburn and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga) had been called the “N” word several times by Tea […]