Author: Melissa Clouthier

The New York Times reports the cutback in consumer spending: When the final tally is in, consumer spending for the quarter just ended will almost certainly shrink, the first quarterly decline in nearly two decades. Many economists, who began the third quarter expecting modest growth, now believe the cutbacks are so severe that the overall […]

Found via Slashdot, Matt Lasar reports: The United States Senate has unanimously passed a bill that requires the Federal Communications Commission to explore what “advanced blocking technologies” are available to parents to help filter out “indecent or objectionable programming.” The “Child Safe Viewing Act” (S. 602) was sponsored by Senator Mark Pryor, Democrat of Arkansas. […]

Why aren’t they happy? I mentioned it before, but I’m going to clarify: It is obscene that Congressmen and Senators preen for the cameras over this legislation. If the legislation was even necessary, it was a necessary evil. It was dirty business signifying a dismaying trend in American culture and American voters were not happy […]

The latest tribute to Sarah Palin from an adoring fan: There is more truthiness here. Oh, wait, it’s a spoof, but it MUST be real, because “puckering elitist IQ pimp(s)” say so. And even more truth. This time, some helpful advice to Obama: Ah can’t help it. I luv Sarih Palin! Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com

Why is this VP debate so important? Most years no one cares. Everyone seems to care tonight. 8:00 CST Why is this VP debate so important? Most years no one cares. Everyone seems to care tonight. Sarah Palin asks Biden if she can call him Joe. He says sure. She’s dressed in black and reached […]

“Through the Mercy of Fools all Justice is lost.” -Nachmanides on Deut. 7:16 Dan Friedman sent that to me and it landed in my inbox along with the best article that R.S. McCain has written (yet). It’s about the immorality of the American taxation system. You’ll want to read the whole thing: Whereas transactions in […]

The Senate’s version of water-boarding: Gloat to the press about their own wonderfulness and drown the American public in their sanctimony. Ugh, I’m still coughing up sputum. (I’m referring to the Bailout they all seem so proud of right now.) So a poll. What’s worse? Watching The View women blab about Barack Obama’s sexiness or […]

What if Ronald Reagan was wrong? He championed supply-side economics and through his policies created deficit spending. (And yes, I acknowledge the trade-off of bringing down the Soviet Empire was worth it in the near term, but what did that action create in the long-term?) It seems self-evident that tax and spend is wrong. The […]

I didn’t see the whole Couric interview. Evidently, Sarah Palin didn’t perform well and even conservatives are cringing. I buy it. The part I saw, made me wonder if she was sitting on a bed of nails, she was so nervous. Coached and careful, defensive and self-doubting, she clearly just wanted to get through it […]

The fact that I can’t answer the question clearly after being told by everyone that the world was imploding is irksome. Either this financial crisis bad but we’ll make it, or it’s bad and it’s going to suck the economy down the hole. And why is consumer confidence up? I have an answer: gas prices […]

Somebody taught their kid this. They wrote the lyrics, played the music, practiced and then performed this. Barack Obama is just a man. Evidently, way too many people have a life absent of a real God. Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com

I take a nap and this is what happens while I’m sleeping? Good. Grief. My natural instinct is to say that it’s good when new laws don’t get passed. Gridlock is a beautiful thing because laws tend to make the average person’s life harder. So the bailout plan failed. I should be ecstatic. Certainly, the […]

Here’s how the Democrats “solved” the housing crisis a few years back: And then there is this video that covers visually, what I’ve written about before, about what caused the financial crisis: Here’s an inconvenient truth: President Bush was smarter than Nancy Pelosi about this housing mess (not saying much, but still). John McCain tried […]

Here we go….. Okay weird thing, what happened to Obama’s eyebrows? He looks like he has eyebrow shadows. Obama pins the problem on McCain. Um…. Now, why isn’t McCain bringing up his solutions? Obama says that two years ago he warned about the problem. Really? When? I’ve seen the McCain legislation, what did Obama do? […]

Since I’m nearly always wrong about this thing, I want to reiterate what I’ve predicted before: McCain will win in a landslide. Maybe this time I’ll be right. Cross-posted at MelissaClouthier.com

House Republicans “rebelled“, eh? Maybe it’s because their constituents are burning up the phone lines in all out mutiny. The Republicans have acted like Democrats “lite” for years now. I have a newsflash for the Republicans, including McCain, about this whole bill: It feels wrong to fiscal conservatives and taxpayers generally. My most liberal of […]

That Joe Biden bungles even simple sentences surprises no one, no one, it seems, except Barack Obama. Let me get this straight: Since Barack Obama has no experience, we are supposed to vote for him for his temperament and judgment, right? Well, on the temperament front he seems either unwilling or unable to make a […]

Yesterday, on the Blog Talk Radio show with John Hawkins, he asked me whether the press should just give up the pretense and be open about their bias. My response was that intelligent people could perceive a bias already, but that yes, the press should just be open about their bias and be done with […]

It’s 700 Billion. Today. Assuming…do I need to finish that sentence? It’s getting porkified. It rewards stupidity. It ties Republicans to Bush-Pelosi. It turns American banking into a socialist enterprise. It means trusting Paulson. It has Democrats licking their FDR-loving, bacon dripping chops. It will, somehow, make those who get paid for failure, even richer. […]

So, I spend the morning telling my friend that Barack Obama is a terrible choice for president even though I have reservations about McCain. And then I read this which quotes George Will who says: Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial […]

Well, not exactly. Technically, it’s men with “traditional gender attitudes” make more money. That makes me wonder if men with those attitudes demand more money because their wives don’t work. Or, is it that employers are sexist and pay men with wives at home more because they know the family has one income? True story: […]

As the stock market tanks, I ponder whether Wall Street should be allowed to crash or not. And, have you noticed oil is up $25/barrel? Should the Fed bailout Wall Street? Yes No    pollcode.com free polls UPDATED: If you oppose the bailout, does this, from Megan McArdle, change your opinion? Have you considered what […]

Rusty Shackleford makes a good case that that’s exactly what has happened: Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views. Our […]

Confederate Yankee extends mercy to the kid with a depressive disorder who hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account. That is overly kind. Were this miscreant a Republican, he’d be tarred and feathered and we’d be hearing about how it’s no wonder a Republican had problems with depression, but put him in jail with the same law […]

In July, I wrote about New York’s Democrat Senator Charles Schumer’s loose lips being a reason for the current banking crisis–remember he blabbed about IndyMac’s viability and people withdrew 1.3 Billion dollars the next day, guaranteeing its failure. Well, he’s been running his big mouth again, this time on the Senate floor where he said […]

Hi all, obviously I’m back for now. I’m blogging from Florida where I’m staying with my brother. While word on the street is that power has returned to my neighborhood, phone service has not. So, I might be back in The Woodlands and not have a computer connection. My house is fine and I’m just […]

Every time I see a Democrat up to his neck in a scandal and then thumbs his nose at any form of punishment when an average American would be in jail (and is defended, by the way by the Speaker Nancy Pelosi), I exchange his name for a Republican’s name. When it comes to sex […]

Glenn Reynolds links to some guy who got caught “having sex” if you could call it that with his comatose wife. Here’s what the guy’s attorney said: Johnson’s lawyer, T. Christopher Kelly, of Madison, said his client should be left alone. “Mr. Johnson deeply loves his wife,” Kelly said. “He’s spent every day talking to […]

Question : When my wife and I decided to start a family, we had many long talks about how important it was that she, as the mother, be able to stay home and dedicate herself to raising the baby. When we discussed the possibility of me staying home, we kind of just laughed about it. […]

Question: What is that makes a musical genre enjoyable for you, or is it just certain songs that get you pepped up and dancing? –Markus For the record, I do not have an “anti-country music stance”. My problem is country music ignorance and a general dislike of the twang. Now. There is plenty of country […]