Category: America

Sirens Of Isolationism

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

“O Tay Mr Peabody! Set the dial on the Way Back Machine to 1911!” Prob the best descrip of the recent GOP Debatery that CNN King Grunting Guy kept grunting through (yeah – it was kinda gross) “…Mitt Romney sounded not so terribly different from Obama on Afghanistan, with the crucial difference that he wants […]

 

Army Day!

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

“This We’ll Defend!” Joyeuex Anniversaire’! (#236 in fact!) to Great Satan’s all weather original voltiguerres – the Army! “…Two hundred and thirty-six years ago, the United States Army was established to defend our Nation. From the Revolutionary War to the current operations taking place around the world, our Soldiers remain Army Strong with a deep […]

 

Will the West Stop Iran Before It’s Too Late?

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Cross-posted at UNCOVERAGE.net Scroll down for updates. Saturday: State Dept. denies that Iran is building missile bases in Venezuela. Sunday: Qiyam 1 missile in mass-production. The temperature has just increased by several degrees in the Iranian hostility toward the U.S. yet there is no national discussion of it. There are many fast-moving Iranian developments, all […]

 

moRon Paul Says We Shouldn’t Have Killed Osama bin Ladden!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ron Paul, the GOP’s cranky old uncle, has been spouting his isolationist, appeaser-styled foreign policy ideas for decades but with this bin Ladden business he has again gone too far. Now Ron Paul says we should never have killed Osama bin Ladden. Ron Paul says he would not have authorized the mission that led to […]

 

Wash Post’s Cohen: GOP Should Compromise… Like They Did With Slavery?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Richard Cohen is what passes for an opinion editorialist in the Washington Post — not a learned one, just a bloviating one. Cohen’s latest, “The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” is at the same time as self-loathing as it is historically stupid. Not only does this nonsense Cohen ladled out upon us all serve an example […]

 

Even American ‘Cowboys’ Now Government Teat Suckers

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last month when the current series of budget debates began to heat up, the ineffectual leader of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate thought he had a great little point against proposed tax cuts by crying that the cuts would destroy Nevada’s “Cowboy Poetry.” Oh, the humanities. You might recall that last month Reid ambled […]

 

TSA wants your DNA

Posted on by Chris Wysocki

I’ll bet you thought the TSA’s “enhanced” patdown procedures could not possibly get more invasive. Think again. Beginning this summer TSA will start collecting travelers’ DNA. According to a report from The Daily the Department of Homeland Security plans to deploy portable DNA scanners at U.S. points of entry. They’re about the size of a […]

 

Ronald Reagan: Father of the Tea Party

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We are still living in Ronald Reagan’s era, despite the constant refrains from Democrats and the left that Reaganism is long dead. As we observe his 100th birthday, it is also beneficial to point out that in many ways Reagan is the father of the Tea Party Movement. It was his great success, his sunny […]

 

Video: What The Heck Happened to the Anti-War Movement?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember those hoary days of raucous protest when anti-war protesters sent thousands of people into the streets sometimes with only a days notice? Now consider this: have you seen any of these giant protests since 2008 presidential election? Yeah, no one else has, either. Do you wonder why that is? Well, it’s because the anti-war […]

 

A Spoiled Generation?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Over at the Telegraph, Jenny McCartney talks about something I’ve been thinking about lately, In the years since the Second World War, the bulk of us have gradually become accustomed to the steady decline of personal risk. The absence of war on our soil, the advances of medicine, and the extensive establishment of a “health […]

 

December 16, 1773 The Tea Party Was Born in Boston Harbor

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Two-hundred and thirty-seven years ago today:  a team of colonists wearing Indian Costumes went on to ships docked in Boston Harbor to show the British that they were sick and tired of oppressive taxes. Two-hundred and thirty-five years later the colonies were now a country, and Americans picked up the mantle of those brave colonists […]

 

Supreme Court Justice Breyer: Founders Were For Restricting Guns… Why Breyer is Wrong

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Fox News Sunday, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke of his dissenting decisions in the several Second Amendment cases that he heard as a Justice. He told host Chris Wallace that he thought that James Madison only included the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights as a sop to the states and Breyer […]

 

Washington Post: What’s Up With You Righties And American Exceptionalism?

Posted on by William Teach

You right wingnuts keep using that phrase, and Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post has a problem with that Is this a great country or what? “American exceptionalism” is a phrase that, until recently, was rarely heard outside the confines of think tanks, opinion journals and university history departments. But with Republicans and tea party […]

 

Why Would the Obama Administration Think China Will “Help” with N. Korean Aggression?

Posted on by Jane Jamison

This little story : is a ridiculous oversimplification of the facts, but since President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are either ignoring the obvious: or trying to gild it over with idle threats, maybe this will take things to a level they will understand.:  Maybe President Obama can take the time to read the report enclosed […]

 

Taxes, government dependency and happiness

Posted on by Bookworm

Two interesting things rolled across my desk today, interesting because they address the same topic — dependence on Big Government — but reach diametrically opposite conclusions. The first is a Dennis Prager column that examines why American conservatives are happier than American liberals. This isn’t just Dennis’ opinion, by the way. Instead, several recent polls […]

 

All Those Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes in the U.S. Aren’t Happening

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently there is an awful lot of “anti-Muslim hate” going on in this post 9/11 America. At least that’s what the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) gravely tells us each and every day. Just look at all this anti-Islamic bigotry going on out there: In May, CAIR demanded that the GOP refudiate all that “racist,” […]

 

Death Of The West: Creeping Shariah

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The worst aspect of the Muslim invasion of the west is the alarming way that Islam is undermining Western culture using the west’s own liberal, democratic processes to do so. Muslims are using our own best philosophy against us and it is working to destroy our own culture, laws, and traditions, not just in the […]

 

Will The Treasury Dept. Turn the U.S. Into A New Weinmar Republic?

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Germany in the 1920’s did not “invent” Hyperinflation, they just made it famous. Hyperinflation was first systematically:  documented in Germany. The currency on the left is a relic:  from the Weinmar Republic. It was originally:  a 1,000 Mark currency note, but:  because of inflation, it was re-stamped to make it 1,000,000 Marks. You see:  inflation […]

 

Restrained No More’s — Big $pender-Like a Kid in a Candy Store

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

We all know who the Big $$pender is … Here’s a little tune to sing on the way to the polls. Just make sure you take your billy clubs (oops! Sorry, wrong audience.) I mean your boas ;) For other episodes of the show, a “backstage pass” and to download songs go to – http://www.restrainednomore.com/

 

Church, State and the First Amendment: What Coons needs to know

Posted on by Alexa Shrugged

I read this article by Ken Paulson, the President of the First Amendment Center and had to respond to almost everything he wrote. Church, State and the First Amendment: What O’Donnell needs to know Sometimes political debates generate light as well as heat. Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s question “Where in the Constitution is […]

 

What the GOP Pledge Reflects and Why We Need To Stand By It

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : : : : : : : :  When the Pledge to America was first announced, it immediately met backlash from the other side of the aisle. President Obama began a tour dedicated specifically to breaking down the plan’s items one by one.:  While to many political strategists, this response may be seen as politics as usual, there are many holes in […]

 

Rep. Roskam on The ‘Pledge To America’ (Answers to Earmarks Question)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week the House Republicans issued their update of the 1994 “Contract With America.” They have labeled it the “Pledge To America,” and it was launched to a standing ovation from House Republicans. On Friday I spoke to Representative Peter Roskam (R, Ill.) and asked a few questions about this new effort. Roskam said that […]