Author: Melissa Clouthier

I have a confession. It’s kinda embarrassing but I’m going to tell you anyway: I like trashy pop music. Yes, I do. My heart is moved by Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love”. Natasha Bedingfield puts snap in my step. I’ve taken solace under an Umbrella and like Lollipops. I know. Terrible. Even I have limits, though. […]

His jacket might be a different color…. Remember when you were eleven and there was one kid who developed before everyone else? He had the musculature and facial hair of a 30 year old man. On one level, it was disconcerting, on another level, terrifying. Did you mess with muscle kid even if he was […]

The man started bothering me way back in the day with his Maverickness schtick that I felt was a load of B.S. Doesn’t a maverick carry a weapon–not necessarily to commit acts of aggression, but to at least defend himself in a gunfight? Metaphorically, the presidential race demonstrates a man or woman’s ease in relentlessly […]

John Hawkins aptly establishes that Barack Obama is an out-of-touch snob about American kids learning Spanish. There is something more to all this, though. Obama ignores what makes a person a success in the world today. If there is any one factor that will contribute to a person’s success, no matter where he or she […]

What good is the United Nations when this sort of thing happens: Caroline knows all too well. “It was a week before the election and the trouble was getting worse,” she said. “The Zanu (PF) chairman said that in the Eighties when there was war, girls fought too so we need them to fight this […]

Germans demonstrate their awesome insight once again: The Pew Global Attitudes Project, published last month, showed that 66 per cent of Germans had unfavourable views of the US and that China and Russia had more interest than Washington in Germany’s point of view. The sheer animosity towards America was displayed recently in sneering media reviews […]

Olympic athletes will be suffering with terrible air quality over in Beijing. This may make a difference in their performance. More than that, I’ve been wondering where the environmentalists are on this. Interestingly, the American government (EPA) has done air quality studies on the city. Now, wait just a minute. I thought that the United […]

Being terrorist’s metaphorical friends is not the same thing as actively working against one’s own government, but that’s exactly what Nancy Pelosi has done. No doubt, being in bed with terrorist scum will endear her to her constituents, but will average voters like it? And there’s this: How will Barack Obama respond to the House […]

Conservative groups begin highlighting one of Barack Obama’s more extreme positions: his views on abortion. CBN reports this from the Christian Defense Coalition: “Senator Obama talks about bringing hope, faith and change to American politics. We now see this is all just political ‘doublespeak.’ One of his top priorities as President would be protecting abortion […]

He is not a he, he is a she with boobs lopped off and testosterone that would increase the size of the clitoris and make it look more penis-like. Let’s be real here. A man cannot carry a baby. She was not born with ambiguous genitalia. This “dude” is not a dude. She is a […]

So today, I had the pleasure of seeing the Astros lose at the gorgeous Minutemaid Park. It was a pleasure, too. The company, two of my sweet cherubs (have I mentioned that I’m a breeder?) and the mad blogging Floridian Cassy Fiano escorted by her conservative, buff, national guardsman and even better, Texan boyfriend, made […]

If you’ve watched the news, you know about the little “missing” girl from Vermont. Well, her remains were found yesterday on her uncle’s property. Vermont, it turns out, has a wonderful sex offenders rehabilitation program. Daniel Goleman (of Primal Leadership fame) enthuses in the New York Times fifteen years ago: The sex offender treatment program […]

Read Christopher Hitchen’s article and then come back and vote. His conclusion: I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. That being said, that’s not the real question, is it? […]

Ann Althouse wonders where the kids are. Makes me think about the book Where The Wild Things Are. Our neighborhood is full of kids, yet good luck finding evidence of them. Where are they? Swimming–in public pools or in pools in the back yard. Summer camp. There are camps for everything and since playing stick […]

What’s happening in New York City this balmy summer day? The city bustles but there is little building going on ground zero. Prices are sky-rocketing. Government officials are wrangling (imagine that): In a report to New York governor David Paterson, Mr Ward said: “The schedule and cost estimates of the rebuilding effort that have been […]

See, what I meant about the ugly choices? Marrying Rosie O’Donnell can’t last long. It’s the ending that makes it all worthwhile. Cross-posted at Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Why would you be a bad guy in Texas? Everyone owns a gun and people really, really like to use them. Dave from Ace’s blog has been watching this case, as have I. He explains what happened: To recap: Joe Horn, a resident of Pasadena Texas observed two men (illegal aliens as it happens), burglarizing […]

Is New York returning to the bad old days pre-Giuliani? Maybe: The NYPD’s CompStat data indeed show upticks in violent crime since last year. The city has had 238 murders so far this year (as of last Sunday), up 7.6 percent from 221 last year, and 664 rapes, up 6.2 percent. Should we be worried? […]

A British family chose IVF and screened embryos that had a breast cancer gene: By screening out embryos carrying the gene, called BRCA-1, the couple, from London, will eliminate the hereditary disease from their lineage. About 5% of the 44,000 cases of breast cancer diagnosed in Britain each year are estimated to be caused by […]

Can we all commiserate with Hillary Clinton just for a moment and consider how utterly galling it must have been to stand by her man, once again? Cross-posted at Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Question: F, Marry, Kill: One you have to F—, one you have to Marry and one you have to Kill. Rosie O’Donnell Cindy Sheehan Janet Reno Answer: This is too easy–mostly because I’m a woman and not gay, but….. Marry: Rosie O’Donnell. It’s called California. Marriage. Community property. Divorce. Hello? Screw: Janet Reno is hot […]

Via the Scotusblog: Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one’s home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession. Although times have changed since 1791, Justice Antonin Scalia […]

Even Barack Obama feels the Supreme Court overreached with their asinine ruling where they came to the conclusion that there is a “cultural consensus” against capital punishment for child rapists. It seems that there’s a cultural consensus, alright, and it is exactly opposite to the court’s. Here is what Obama said: Democrat Barack Obama said […]

The Supreme Court issued another stellar ruling: It is “disproportionate” to take the life of a child rapist. That would be cruel and unusual punishment. As opposed to what the child endured, which falls into the category “lucky to be alive”. Lucky, lucky child! Here is a sampling of the reasoning: (Opinion here.) Part of […]

This campaign season could not have been more fatiguing. As much fun as it was to watch the sissy fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, it’s over now. As an aside, I’ve had to chuckle about the talk of the “brutal campaign season”. What? The Democratic primary candidates hardly disagreed policy-wise and when things […]

The world could end tomorrow….for you. Hell, it could end today. That’s right, every moment you’re living, you’re avoiding the apocalypse and have escaped the inevitable doom all humans face. It’s called death and it’s appointed to all of us. Christians though, believe that a catastrophic end is inevitable, and through the ages, different dates […]

Does it matter that a talk radio host is racist? I’m serious. Howard Stern has made a good living, um, exploiting sex and weirdos and everything and everyone else. Now, Don Imus has supposedly waded into racist waters again, although it seems that his words were misinterpreted. But let’s just say he did say something […]

Check out the first paragraph of David Stout’s opinion piece, I mean, hard-hitting New York Time’s reportage: The Supreme Court sided with the White House on Monday in two cases involving national security and worries about the environment, strengthening the Bush administration’s drive, at least for now, for sweeping executive powers in the post-9/11 world. […]

Murderous impulses abound these days. In Houston, children seem to be particularly vulnerable to their parent’s frustration. It’s a new phenomenon, really, child abuse, and the local government officials are grasping for reasons what has so recently gone horribly wrong. The Houston Chronicle’s Dane Schiller reports: With word Saturday that yet another parent was implicated […]

Sorry, folks, that’s rather raw, but whatever. A friend was telling me about her troubles with her man and suggested that the guy had “manic-depression”. I responded, “How about, he’s just an a@@hole?” I mean, come on. Why the need to pathologize everything and everyone? Ace points to this research that men with this “dark […]