Author: TrogloPundit

One of my favorite parts of ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown this year was the “Come on, man!” segment: the talking heads would highlight something stupid (or funny) from the previous week and tag whoever was responsible with that line. “Come on, man!” I’m thinking exactly that about some of my conservative brethren right now, because […]

And yeah, I saw that headline in that British paper about how the scientific “consensus” is starting to swing the other way. Bunk, says I. I’ve got proof. See, I walked outside today. Coat hanging open, no gloves. And I thought to myself: wow, it’s pretty warm out. Bam! Global warming! Actual temperature: 26 degrees. […]

The government health care debate may be stalled in Washington, but it’s up and at ’em in Madison. We were arguing about it just this week: specifically, whether or not to extend government benefits to more childless adults. Yes, that’s right. We in Wisconsin provide government-run, taxpayer-subsidized health care to childless adults — leaving no […]

UPDATE – I posted this without looking, and so didn’t notice Warner’s post on the same subject, posted about ninety minutes before mine. Oops. END UPDATE. Andrew Sullivan, writing about Sarah Palin’s speech at that big Tea Party thingie this weekend: I was too busy tapping away at my laptop to notice this little high-school […]

Desperately seeking something they can: do right? Finish? Get some positive press for? Whichever. All of them. None of the above. Dunno. The story: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is considering several steps that would review the legality of the controversial Bowl Championship Series, the Justice Department said in a letter Friday to a […]

Blind squirrel, nut: For weeks, the right has heckled Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. for his plans to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators in New York City… Bring them to Wisconsin! …and his handling of the Christmas bombing plot suspect. And their non-handling of those Black Panthers who stood outside the polling places. Now the […]

From the MacIver Institute, a head-in-the-sand “denier” with a PhD: A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor is making headlines for his work suggesting the world is entering a period of global cooling. “Now we’re getting a break,” Anastasios Tsonis, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at UWM, said in an interview with the MacIver Institute. Tsonis published a […]

That’s the conclusion I drew, after reading this AP lede: PORTLAND, Ore. — If any Americans are willing to fork over more to state governments in 2010, it might just be those of Oregon, where voters are deciding the fate of two proposed tax increases that target the wealthy and corporations. The people of Oregon […]

NY Times columnist Paul Krugman wants the House of Representatives to pass the Senate’s health care “reform” bill. They have to pass the Senate’s bill, because Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts has given Republicans a 41-59 majority in the Senate. Feels that way, anyway. Doesn’t it? Back to Krugman, who quite wrongly writes: Tuesday’s Republican […]

He sure seems to be making that point, anyway. Chief Justice John Roberts is worse, Olbermann writes, than the Chief Justice who wrote the rampantly racist Dred Scott decision in 1857. I’m pointing it out, because it seems wrong to ignore it. I’m not going to discuss it further, because…well, I am the father of […]

“…he probably couldn’t win a GOP primary for county sheriff.” So says Rich Moran, over at Pajamas Media. Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate who might — might — actually win the election in mega-liberal Massachusetts, has become the conservative’s darling. Why? For the sheer chutzpah of it all, I’d say. As a […]

Over at Hot Air, Karl asks: The new Boston Globe poll showing Democrat Martha Coakley beating Republican Scott Brown by 15-points in the race for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, when contrasted with Public Policy Polling showing a dead heat, has people scratching their heads. So what’s up with that? My usual caveat: polls suck. But […]

You have got to be kidding. No? Well then. The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama’s race during the 2008 presidential bid. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described then-Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect.” Obama is the nation’s […]

In the interest of fairness, I’m sure, the TSA has withdrawn subpoenas they served to two bloggers who posted about the TSA’s new, post-Christmas Day Underwear Bomber security protocols. Story background here. The new developments: Just days after serving subpoenas to two travel bloggers, the Transportation Security Administration withdrew the subpoenas late Thursday, saying its […]

We’re all familiar with that Mayan legend that says the world will end in 2012, right? That’s why we’re all practicing driving our cars out of moving airplanes. Well: Forget 2012. As far as many Mexicans are concerned, the ancient Mayas were being generous: the sky’s actually going to fall next year. Why? Because it’s […]

Alternate headline: Blogger sees Democrats pulling facial muscles trying not to laugh. The story: WASHINGTON — Republican senators attacking the cost of a Democratic health care bill showed far different concerns six years ago, when they approved a major Medicare expansion that has added tens of billions of dollars to federal deficits. Medicare Part D: […]

We’ve got this rule at our house: no whispering in front of other people. You want to say something privately? Go someplace private. Whispering is rude. That rule is being broken. Over, and over, and over again. And my wife — she who made the rule in the first place — is one of the […]

A lot of bloggentary out there along the lines of: Senate Democrats are trying to push through this health care “reform” bill, because the more people see of it, the less they like it. Therefore, the longer it takes, the less chance of passage. Therefore, all together now! Push! I’m envisioning Harry Reid as Bill […]

Several lefty commentators are noticing — and, as commentators do, commenting on — the fact that the health care “reform” bill, currently limping through the Senate like a Skeksis on his way to dinner, doesn’t take effect until 2014. Five years from now. For example, Ezra Klein: There’s a lot of talk over whether the […]

Megan McArdle thinks it’s really, really bad for them: Democrats are on a political suicide mission; I’m not a particularly accurate prognosticator, but I think this makes it very likely that in 2010 they will (lose) several seats in the Senate–enough to make it damn hard to pass any more of their signature legislation–and will […]

Headline: Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure Failure? Why failure? They went there to make an agreement, and they did. The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement in Copenhagen tonight, falling far short of what Britain and many poor countries were seeking and leaving months of tough negotiations […]

I’ve been thinking about the EPA’s decree from earlier this week — the one where they threatened Congress over new legislation on climate change: The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn’t move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a “command-and-control” role over the process in a way that […]

Congress is thinking about legislating college football: Federal legislation that could lead to a college football playoff tournament will move a step closer to reality on Wednesday in a hearing before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Congress has no business mucking around with this. It’s not […]

Via Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades HQ, Justice Sonia Sotomayor used the phrase “undocumented immigrant” in her first published decision. Apparently, the justices have previously used the more accurate terms “alien not lawfully present in the United States” or “illegal alien.” But in her very first published decision as a Supreme Court justice, Sotomayor […]

We’re nearing a “new global accord” on climate change: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will attend the end of the Copenhagen climate change summit, a late change of plan the White House attributed on Friday to growing momentum toward a new global accord. But: The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of […]