Category: Blogosphere

UVA College Democrats Accidentally Blast Awkward E-Mail

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Justin Higgins at JHPolitics: has obtained a rather awkward email: detailing a meeting of the University of Virginia’s College Democrats chapter. : In the email, we reportedly had a woman named Carmen who went nuts, a bad turnout at their phone bank, and a bad turnout canvasing. As Higgins noted, their plan to remedy their unenthused cohorts is […]

 

Gawker Wants Us to ‘Sympathize’ with Pedophiles

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Cord Jefferson’s: September 7 column: on Gawker should churn your stomach. : He wrote about how some consider pedophilia a sexual orientation and how it deserves public sympathy. : The first sentence stopped me cold — “it’s not easy to listen to Terry talk about the time he had sex with a seven-year-old girl.” It started with him [Terry] […]

 

Weekly Standard Says Christie “Under Serious Consideration” for VP Spot

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Say What? New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie is now under “serious consideration” for the number two spot on the ticket. : At least that’s what Stephen Hayes and Bill Kristol at The Weekly Standard have insinuated in their post published today. : I know the chatter about who the nominee will be is intensifying, but from […]

 

Video Interview with Glenn Reynolds on The Higher Education Bubble

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Since my blog was one of many inspired by Instapundit.com in the immediate wake of 9/11, and since it’s celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, I had wanted to do a video interview with Glenn Reynolds to discuss the history and state of the Blogosphere. Given that he has a new “Broadside” (much longer than […]

 

Scenes From Tim Scott’s Latest Fundraiser…And why Showing Up is Fifty Percent of the Battle [Picture Dump]

Posted on by Susannah Fleetwood

[Congressman Tim Scott with my son, Jackson.] This past Sunday afternoon, my husband Chris, my son Jackson and I attended Tim Scott’s latest fundraiser in Charleston, South Carolina. I gotta admit, it was a surreal experience. [(R to L) Me, Congressman Scott holding my son, Jackson, and my husband, Chris.] [Congressman Scott, Jackson and me.] […]

 

If You’re Going to Play the Game of Politics, Play to Win

Posted on by Susannah Fleetwood

Last week, Meghan McCain–who, for better or worse, has become a player in the game of politics–went on Al Sharpton’s unwatchable show on MSNBC (which is most famous for being mocked on SNL) and stated the following with regard to Michelle Malkin and the late Andrew Breitbart: I really don’t understand the popularity of Michelle […]

 

Arizona to Ban “Annoying” Behavior on the Internet

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

You and I may not use profanity in our Facebook posts, but what about that crazy relative who puts up the funniest posts that sometimes cross the line? Almost no one approves of swearing, but with the exception of broadcasting during daytime TV and radio, it is not illegal. Now new legislation inArizonawould effectively make […]

 

Americans with Disabilities Act Necessity: Conservative, White, Male Bloggers NEED a Federal Subsidy

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

OK, you people, I am sick and tied of this. The Americans with Disabilities Act is NOT being fairly applied. That’s right. You read that headline correctly. Conservative, white, male bloggers NEED a hand from Washington. In fact, I’d say we have a right to it. We are being discriminated against even from those on […]

 

Stupid Internet Meme of the Week: Santorum’s ‘Rough’ Handshake With Ron Paul Outrage

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Buzzfeed was the first to indulge it’s inner gossip — well, maybe its outer gossip since that is all that site is; gossip. Anyway, the stupid story of the day is based on the hearty handshake that Rick Santorum gave Ron Paul after Wednesday’s debates. Paul’s fans took offense at the handshake for some idiotic […]

 

Obama’s Budget: More Tax, Borrow and Spend

Posted on by Michael Fell

The White House presented its 2012 budget Monday. A $3.8 trillion proposal which includes $1.43 trillion in new taxes on households whose incomes meet or exceed $250,000 (note: this is the new “progressive” definition of millionaires and billionaires), a fourth straight year of $1 trillion-plus deficit spending (which will require yet more borrowing), and new […]

 

My Video At Heart of Controversy in Florida House Race

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently, a video I made in Denver is at the heart of a controversy in a race for the House of Representatives in Florida. While at Blogcon 2011 I had the opportunity to interview Karen Harrington, a Republican candidate for the 20th District House seat now held by Debbie Wasserman Schultz — who is also […]

 

Occupy Chicago Sign: ‘Dear Rich Straight White Dudes, F**K Off’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Like the rest of the large cities in the US, Chicago is currently suffering with small pockets of Occupy protesters and their ever-present signs. And like every other big city these signs are often misspelled, sometimes profane, commonly anti-capitalist, occasionally anti-Semitic, almost always anti-American, not to mention merely ignorant of the facts. But one thing […]

 

Occupy Wall Street College Grads Should Sue Their Schools

Posted on by Michael Fell

What’s most puzzling about Occupy Wall Street is: a persistent resistance by recent college graduates to acknowledging the cause and effect phenomenon manifested by big government interference in business. When you employ the economic policies of Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Jimmy Carter you’re going to get a lousy economy because you’ve created a climate that’s unfriendly […]

 

Blame Corporations?

Posted on by Michael Fell

Would you hire people purely out of national loyalty knowing that doing so meant your company would eventually become fiscally insolvent? Corporations, like any business, are in business to make profits. Jobs are the byproduct of profits, not the other way around. Until U.S. corporate tax rates are cut to globally competetive levels, the corporations […]

 

Traditional Hackers Now Turning Their Crosshairs on Conservatives

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Owners of popular conservative websites have increasing reason to be concerned their sites may be hacked or otherwise physically attacked for political reasons. Traditionally, hackers took an anarchist approach that primarily targeted government websites. Lately, they are assailing politically conservative websites. Many of these newer attacks are coming from hackers associated with Wikileaks. Some libertarian […]

 

Want Proof of How Democrats Would Shut You Up, Tea Partiers?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On MSNBC, John Kerry told us that Tea Party ideas are not “real” ideas, not “factual,” and thinks that the media should stop reporting on anything that smacks of ideas or news coming from Tea Partiers. If this isn’t proof of how Democrats and leftists would use the power of government to quash free political […]

 

Freedom of Speech Wins: Baltimore Politician Drops Lawsuit Against Blogger

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Examiner blogger Adam Meister was doing what bloggers do, namely posting the info that “journalists” refuse to write about. In this case, back in March, Meister found that a Baltimore Councilwoman was living in a different district than she claimed she was living in. As a result, the politician tried to sue the blogger for […]

 

The blogger “transparency” crackup

Posted on by Ron Coleman

It’s another big moment in blogger “transparency” upon us now. :  The general rule is that the person who hasn’t “disclosed” enough to meet some preposterous concept of transparency is the person who the writer is jealous of, or worse. : The current dart board is Tech Crunch. I saw this coming, now didn’t I? : I […]

 

Big Brother Bubba’s Ministry of Internet Facts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bill Clinton wants the government to “correct” what you say on the Internet, folks. Should the government listen to the former panderer-in-chief, we’ll go from Big Brother to Big Bubba on the ol’ Internet tubes. Bubba is not happy with what he claims is the “misinformation” on the Internet and he wants the force of […]

 

A rebuttal to Jesse Kornbluth on the subject of Andrew Sullivan

Posted on by Bookworm

I wrote a post taking Harvard grad Jesse Kornbluth (class of ’68) to task for his carelessly flattering portrayal of “journalist” and blogger Andrew Sullivan. It’s fine to like Sullivan, although I would question a person’s judgment in doing so. What bothered me was that Kornbluth failed to discover that Sullivan has taken a fair […]

 

3 Reasons Why Wonkette Self-destructed by Publishing a Hit Piece on Trig Palin

Posted on by Susannah Fleetwood

For the last several days, Twitter has been all aflutter with stories about a supposedly horrific attack on Trig Palin by the liberal website Wonkette. After seeing the uproar on Twitter, I remember thinking to myself, “Could this column from Wonkette attacking Trig (on his third birthday) really be as bad as everyone says?” Well, […]

 

How to Deal With Gutter Sludge Like Wonkette: Starve the Beast

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Cross-posted from NewsReal’s That’s What She Said blog. Please follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our feed! Sites like Wonkette are the overflowing Porta-Potties of the Left. The writers luxuriate in fetid puddles of their own waste, lusting after the next opportunity to belch forth their sewage into the blogosphere. Wonkette‘s vile, dehumanizing mockery […]

 

Addendum To My CPAC Post: My Pictures Were Featured On Red Eye!!

Posted on by Susannah Fleetwood

As some of you are aware, earlier this week I published a post that was chockerblock full of pictures documenting my adventures at CPAC. Well, included in that post were pictures of myself with the hilarious Red Eye guys, the hysterical Stephen Kruiser (who is a frequent guest on Red Eye, as well as the […]