Author: Melissa Clouthier

What if there’s a better interrogation method that the Army wouldn’t authorize to keep an old purveyor of outdated technology happy resulting in the use of questionable interrogation methods like waterboarding? To be clear: What if the Army still officially authorizes polygraph testing to use during interrogations when it is less effective, more invasive and […]

Remember when the Democrats loved the children? Remember when peace activists decried the bombing of innocent civilians? Remember when the press cared about sex scandals? A lot? Remember when a President’s Wife was out of touch? Remember when car companies were evil? Remember when the mantra was “my body my choice“? Just feeling a wee […]

Yesterday, I had the honor to be on the same editorial page as Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft over at America Issues Project. Jim has been my blog hero since the beginning along with The Anchoress, so it was quite an honor. He’s talking about the big, fat liar, Al Gore. Kinda like when a rookie […]

What’s going on at the EPA? Obama business as usual, that’s what. Obama business in service to the wacko environmentalists. From Pierre LeGrand: On April 28th Obama fulfilled a campaign promise regarding bankrupting Coal Power plants. He accomplished this by having his EPA pull a permit that had already been issued for the Desert Rock […]

It’s not Republicans. And it’s not Rush Limbaugh–much as Obama, his minions and the press would like to paint it so. I’ve got bad news: The opposition owns the Republican brand. Oh yes, they do. Democrats define Republicans and the Republicans accept the definition by operating from their false premises. How do I know Republicans […]

Hi Guys! Tonight is the inaugural episode of my new radio show called Right Doctor for Radio For Conservatives. Listen at RFCradio.com at 10 EST or 9 CST. There is also a chat room. I’d love your feedback! I’ll be there, please join in the conversation. Also, in the second half of the hour (hour […]

For the second straight month, home sales have increased: There was another ray of hope Monday for the distressed housing market: the National Association of Realtors said the volume of signed contracts to buy previously occupied homes rose for the second month in a row. Homebuyers taking advantage of bargain prices, low interest rates and […]

Arlen Specter the new Flavor of the Month on the Sunday talk circuit demonstrated why he’s come back to his ideological home in the Democrat party. On Meet the Press, he said: “If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think […]

Watching what President Barack Obama is doing with the country makes me think of Venezuela under Chavez. Is it any wonder they’re buddies? They certainly have enough commonalities that many people see the two together in heart, mind, and action: But times have changed and so have strategies. Saul Alinsky, radical of the ’60s, author […]

While it is very unlikely you’ll die from Swine, aka H1N1, Flu, it is very likely that you’ll die. [History lesson here.] The odds are clearly stacked against all humans. None yet has escaped death. Most of us, though, when pressed, would like to live as long as possible. Even many who think that life […]

How fat is too fat? Don’t worry, the government will soon have an answer to that question and your health care will be determined by that answer. From TheHill: Health reform radicals howl when it’s pointed out that the board’s true mission is to determine which treatments are “cost-effective,” claiming that language in the law […]

President Barack Obama is the college football star who has been told he’s the second coming since he was five years old. It doesn’t help that the Press refuses to do its job and ask a serious question. Conversely, he seems to have a hoarding mentality demonstrated by his lack of generosity. The insulting gifts […]

Will Arlen Specter be as big a thorn in the Democratic flesh as he’s been for Republicans? Doubt it. His ideological home has been the left for as long as I’ve paid attention to him. I’m still irritated as hell that President Bush threw his weight behind Specter who gave him nothing but fits about […]

Howard Kurtz detail more media bias and the insider access afforded the elite few. And those few love President Obama, especially the New York Times: The networks have given President Obama more coverage than George W. Bush and Bill Clinton combined in their first months — and more positive assessments to boot. In a study […]

You know that impossible task, border control, is so incredibly daunting and shameful and racist and discriminatory and all…, but if America is swept with Swine Flu and thousands die, will our politically correct porous border still be morally defensible? From a “First, Do No Harm” perspective America’s current border policy seems, well, harmful. This […]

Human to human transmission of swine flu causes alarm via Reuters: A strain of flu never seen before has killed as many as 61 people in Mexico and has spread into the United States, where eight people have been infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday. Mexico’s government said at least 16 people have […]

Doesn’t look good for the home team folks. The demographic and geographic changes mean that Republicans will have to reach a more diverse, more female, more young, more fickle populace. Alex Castellanos says,”‘We’re anti-government’ doesn’t work anymore. Conservatives don’t mind government, they just like self-government.” Individual liberty IS the common good. When people individually follow […]

I’m in Los Angeles at the Hyatt Hotel where the Heritage Foundation gathered thought leaders from across the country to learn and share information. Grover Norquist’s think tank Americans for Tax Reform sponsored me here and two chairs away from me, Adam Radman, ATR’s Communications Director sits. The main ballroom is filled with conservatives from […]

If you could have prevented 9-11 by water boarding Mohammed Atta, would you have? Yes No    pollcode.com free polls If you found out that an American agent could prevent a future attack with extreme interrogation, would you approve? Yes No    pollcode.com free polls

Just got off a conference call with Texas Senator John Cornyn. It seems that I was the only one on the call, so after his preamble about voting against President Obama’s budget and his foray into immigration, I got to ask all the questions. It seems that Immigration reform will happen with the Obama administration. […]

Since America’s infrastructure depends on the safety and stability of our information networks, it makes sense that the government would have a military cyber force dedicated to it’s defense. Here’s why: According to the official, the program would not be on the level of a separate combatant command. Instead, the likely recommendation would be to […]

Unresponsive Republicans face some bad news this election cycle: vicious primary fights. Sure, they’ll have all the big, fat-cat money that rolls in that comes with winning national office, but the Tea Parties are giving folks who would never get press a lot of free attention while the incumbents sit on the sidelines for fear […]

CORRECTION: Turns out that there are now two FBI most wanted lists one for regular baddies and one for terrorists. The lists got split. So technically, this is the first domestic terrorist. Strangely, Osama Bin Laden makes both lists. Why? The point about this leftist crazy on the list is a diversion, stands. Facts are […]

During McCain’s tedious, frustrating campaign season, Meghan McCain’s blog shone as a bright spot. Her cute behind-the-scenes pictures and sunny outlook made me like John McCain just a little more. Like many conservative-libertarian types, I held my nose and voted for the man believing that he would be a less-bad alternative to Barack Obama. I’m […]

The recurring question after the Tea Parties has been “what now”? Yesterday, I returned from the Sam Adams Alliance encouraged and more optimistic than I’ve been in a while about the direction of things. First, the winners of the awards are doing excellent work. Chad Everson of the GrizzlyGroundswell.com is empowering others in many states […]

President Barack Obama didn’t just greet Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, he gave him the hood handshake and the warmest smile he’s managed with any foreign leader. It’s not just that he shook hands with a socialist leader who is currently bankrupting his country, destroying the economy and cozying up to dictators and tyrants around the […]

Us Michiganders or is it Michiganians are good at lots o’ things. Procreation has got to be at the top of the list. I mean, look at this guy: Authorities in Michigan say a man fathered 14 children with 13 women and owes more than $530,000 in unpaid child support. A Michigan newspaper reports 42-year-old […]

Well, self-love is all the rage. So why not substitute yourself in Jesus’ parables and not mention his name? From Dawn Eden: And so it came to pass, beneath Gaston Hall’s beautiful painting of Morality, Faith, and Patriotism, with gold letters on the wall behind him spelling the Jesuit motto “Ad majorem Dei gloriam”–“To the […]

I’m going to tell a story in pictures today. Since the Left, including the Legacy Media, simply cannot display any empathy–that is, since they are incapable of putting themselves in someone else’s shoes–perhaps pictures will help them “see” what we on the Right see. Then again, maybe not. Imagine being a conservative woman blogger. I […]

Dan Riehl says it’s the spending. So does Betsy. Glenn Reynolds calls them, in the Wall Street Journal, a “they’re really a post-partisan expression of outrage.” Michelle Malkin talks repeatedly of “generational theft“, as in people are protesting robbing our children to pay for the current generation’s mistakes. MaxedOutMama brilliantly discusses the economics of things. […]