Author: Melissa Clouthier

Weekly Wrap-Up: Couric, Palin, DOJ, Prop 8, Pelosi, August Surprise, Republicans ….

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There are a couple stories that happened this week and I didn’t get to write a post but here are some thoughts: Regarding Katie Couric making fun of Sarah Palin. What immediately comes to mind is the idea that we hate what we fear. More specifically, we hate what we fear are our own weaknesses. […]

 

Texas Tells The EPA To Pound Sand–UPDATED A War Is Breaking Out

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Please go over to Pierre LeGrand’s place and read the whole document and then come back. You need to feel better today so slug through the legalese, because it is SO worth it. Here’s the deal: The States and the people are starting to assert themselves (Missourians rejecting Obamacare, States calling out the federal government–Arizona […]

 

More Unexpected Economic News, But Only If You’re An Economist In D.C.

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Bad economic news just keeps piling up. Today, the news about jobless claims from the AP: Initial requests for jobless benefits rose last week to their highest level since April, a sign that hiring remains weak and some companies are still cutting workers. The Labor Department said Thursday that new claims for unemployment insurance rose […]

 

President Obama Bailing Out Chicago Mobster Alexi Giannoulias

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Wow, a terrific ad from the NRSC about President Obama’s connection with mobster Alexi Giannoulias: Haven’t heard about Giannoulias? Here’s some background from the Examiner’s David Flatt: Since his return from Greece Giannoulias has met repeatedly with known criminals. Alexi Giannoulias family bank is known as the Broadway Bank in Chicago. Clients of the Broadway […]

 

No Mosque! No Mosque! The Ground Zero Mosque: Michael Grimm NY-13 and Randy Altschuler NY-1 Explain Why They’re Against It

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The primaries in New York come up August 24. In anticipation of that day, I requested interviews with two conservatives, yes, conservatives, running for office around New York City. Randy Altschuler of NY-1 out on Long Island, whom I first interviewed at CPAC [video here] and I recently wrote about with the Chris Cox controversy […]

 

Missouri: The Show Me State Is Showing Something Good: Proposition C Passes & Slams Obamacare

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. How much do Missourian voters hate Obamacare? They hate it by a 73% – 27% margin. And even in very liberal St. Louis, 30% of the voters there voted FOR Proposition C. What did proposition C state? From Ballotpedia: Official Ballot Title: Shall the Missouri Statutes be amended to: Deny the government authority to […]

 

Pete Stark Unplugged: The Whole Gory Video Of His Anti-Constitutional Rant

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Thanks to @Forest4Congress for this “Context”. It clarifies even more: You have to watch the WHOLE thing. Here’s one particularly laughable part: There’s enough blame for the House of Reps … it is a fact that the Senate has been unable, perhaps unwilling, to move any legislation (that cuts funding for the war in Afghanistan.) […]

 

President Obama Should Thank Democrat Socialists of America And Its Journolist Members

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For those with more than passing curiosity, the Journolist delivers a treasure trove of elite connections that lead all the way to the White House. Trevor Loudon of NoisyRoom.net continues to do spectacular work to dig up the connections. Now, he finds President Obama’s socialist pals on the list. He asks: Would Barack Obama be […]

 

Kristen Davis, Businesswoman For New York Governor [Also, Eliot Spitzer’s Madam]

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Via Reason magazine, the best governor candidate New York State has had in years. Here’s the thing: I bet she’d balance the budget and be the most honest pimp to occupy the State office: I do find it an abomination that this woman spent time in jail while Eliot Spitzer now has a CNN show. […]

 

Let’s Be Friends: Sharron Angle’s Media Strategy A Lot Like Democratic Media Strategy

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Carl Cameron thinks Sharron Angle is naive. I think Sharron Angle thinks like a Democrat: Expect good media coverage, tell the media what you want to talk about, and by golly! expect friendly coverage! Elizabeth Crum, of the National Review Online, reports from Las Vegas the exchange between Carl Cameron and Nevada Senate hopeful Sharron […]

 

Deadlocked Senate: “Nothing”–Said Like It’s A Bad Thing

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You know what I love? I love a do-nothing government. Every time they fix something, another part of my life gets regulated and I either, one, feel like a criminal or, two, want to become one, just out of pure rebellion against all the crappy laws that the lawmakers exempt themselves from. And yes, that […]

 

Sarah Palin Kicks Arse. Again.

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From the Right Scoop (thanks, as usual, Brian!): For those of you still flummoxed by Sarah Palin’s influence and power, here’s a brief explanation: She’s plain spoken and does not tip-toe around issues. Americans are disgusted with double-talk. Palin is nothing if not clear about her message. Think back through the issues and the politicians. […]

 

You’re Not Imagining It: America Is Less Free–This Time Property Rights

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The cornerstone of liberty is the right to private property. It’s yours. The government doesn’t own it. It can’t take it. It’s yours. Since Kelo, though, private property has become passé..at least in some states. From the Eminent Domain Law Blog: According to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom published by The Heritage Foundation and […]

 

Americans Are Delusional: Do They Really Want An Efficient Government?

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So polling shows this: A May survey of 2,523 participants conducted by Hart Research Associates found that 67 percent of respondents believed a major source of government waste was due to inefficient federal employees receiving generous benefits or high salaries. So far, so good. But this conclusion made me want to shake my fellow citizen: […]

 

My iPad Makes Me An Elitist And I’m Proud Of It…Wait

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I am one of those people. Well, according to Wired, I am: Consumer research firm MyType conducted the study, in which opinions of 20,000 people were analyzed between March and May. The firm’s conclusion was that iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored […]

 

SEC: No More Transparency For Me

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Just passing along the latest example of rank hypocrisy from the Democrats. The SEC will not have to disclose their business to the American people. Dustin Prial of Fox News reports: So much for transparency. Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply […]

 

Outrage: Cops Stand Impotent As Family Gets Murdered

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This reminds me of Columbine and Virginia Tech and pisses me off just as badly. From the Washington Examiner: The District police department policy on forcible entry caused a “deadly delay” as officers waited for a supervisor outside an apartment while a mother and her two young sons were being stabbed to death inside, according […]

 

No Lawyers: Stephens Media LLC, RightHaven LLC, and Bloggers

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Bloggers: Do not link these newspapers: The newspapers owned by Stephens Media LLC are listed below by state. As the Wired article notes, many of these papers will be using the “services” of RightHaven LLC. As for me, I plan to never link to any of these papers. The only paper they own in North […]

 

“Objective” News Journalists: Let’s Coordinate For Obama

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Some things are really so stupid. I mean, why go through the trouble of spelling out the implied purpose of the Journolist? If the lefties wanted to help George W. Bush, for example, they wouldn’t have been on a list of progressives. The list discriminated based upon ideology. Obviously, they were talking, coordinating coverage, honing […]

 

The Race Ruse: Racism Hasn’t Been About Race For A Long Time Now

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Racism has been about this: Mary Frances Berry Professor of American Social Thought and History, U. Penn. : Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many […]

 

Leftists At Loyola: Group Thinking “Educators” Block Karl Rove From Speaking

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Another University bars a Republican. Shocker. From the press release: While many college students are currently enjoying their time off, some are utilizing this summer to prepare for the upcoming school year. Conservative activists at Loyola University Chicago were planning to bring best-selling author and Young America’s Foundation lecturer Karl Rove to their campus for […]

 

Journolist IS A Big Deal: Check Out Who We Know Is On The List So Far

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The smarty pants set, breezily dismiss the contents of Journolist, the group made up of hundreds of mainstream journalists, bloggers, activists and Democrat policy wonks. The reasoning goes this way: how is it shocking that a bunch of like-minded people want to get together and chat? I mean, that’s just human. They’re young and liberal […]

 

The Video President Obama Doesn’t Want You To See

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The oil spill is a travesty beyond all imagination. It’s hard to get a grip on how awful this all is. Watch this video of Bill Nungesser talking about what’s happening. Once again The Right Scoop, scoops everyone. It very nearly made me cry because of the abject helplessness: Brian, at The Right Scoop says […]

 

Us And Them

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Rush Limbaugh beats the drum today: it’s not left versus right, it’s establishments versus everyone not them, the “other”. He cites this worthy American Spectator piece by Angelo Codevilla [a must-read]: When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their […]

 

Silent Jews, Again: When Will Leftists Realize That Unbelief Is A Belief?

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The distressing phenomenon of refusing to call an objective evil, evil, permeates the leftist culture. Just last night the Twitter blogger Queen of Spain got in an argument with a couple conservative friends Brooks Bayne and Beregond about La Raza which means, literally, The Race, over whether they were a racist organization. Even after being […]

 

America: Too Big To Fail? No. And Who Will Lose Most? The Youth.

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Great video from the College Republican National Committee: Is America too big to fail? Is President Obama playing with lethal levels of debt? The answers, of course, are no and yes. The youth watch the actions of their elders and it’s a curse for their generation. For the first time in history, the younger generation […]