Category: Conservatives

When You Don’t Vote Well, Liberals Assume You’ve Lost Your Minds

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Ben Smith of Politico noticed that two “influential writers broadly in sympathy with Obama” recently floated the notion that as the nation turns rightward and isn’t voting with the extreme left, why we’ve all become “irrational.” In the New Yorker, George Packer wrote that we’ve become a mob of unreason. “Nine years later,” he writes, […]

 

The Veracity of Karl Rove’s Political Analysis is Suddenly Suspect

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During Delaware’s primary night Karl Rove was one of the analysts that sat with Sean Hannity on Fox News hashing out the results of the polls in several states. During his comments on Delaware’s winning candidate Christine O’Donnell, Rove eviscerated her as a loser even as she had just won the primary. Rove claimed that […]

 

(Video) Bob Parks: In Search of People of Color

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Where are the people of color at the 9/12 March in Washington D.C.? Well, the media always says that there are no African Americans, no Hispanics, no Asians that frequent the Tea Party-styled protests anywhere in America. So, Bob Parks took the occasion to do a little hunting for some at the Freedom Works 9/12 […]

 

Conservative to Seek Daley’s Emptying Chair? R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. Thinking of running for Chicago Mayor?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Our friend Pat Hickey has caught wind of some potentially interesting news on Chicago’s soon to be roiling Mayoral election now that Richard “King” Daley has decided he no longer wants the big seat. Conservative publisher R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. has reportedly said he might be interested in taking a run at City Hall. Pat […]

 

Report: 9/12 Rally At D.C.’s Capitol Hill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(I am finally back home where I can get to my photo editing software, so this report is a few hours late, but…) Over 50,000 patriotic Americans attended the 2010 edition of Freedom Works’s 9/12 March on the Capitol. Americans from all over the country attended and I below have a few particularly interesting stories […]

 

The Short-Sightedness Of The Talking Heads

Posted on by Brian Garst

It’s election season.:  That means every paper, TV news show, magazine, or blog is full of predictions, prognostications and prophesying.:  More often than not, it seems, the talking heads engaging in such speculation are incredibly short-sighted. Take this New York Times article which notes the “double-edged sword” the Tea Party poses to the GOP.:  The […]

 

Michigan Democrats Told Their Fake Tea Party Is Illegal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Michigan Supreme Court has made the final decision eliminating the fraudulent “Tea Party” Party from the 2010 elections. Two of Michigan’s Democrat appointed justices joined its small three Republican appointed contingent to declare the so-called “Tea Party” Party ineligible for the ballot. For months various Democrats and union members have been trying to create […]

 

Axelrod: The GOP Blocks Everything done To Help Recession

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: While the possibility of yet another stimulus package stood in the wings, Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod recently discussed his conservative opponents involvement in the attempt to revive the nation our of the current recession as attempts “to block” every effort to repair the issues.:  Obviously not able to make any examples, yet another […]

 

A Glenn Beck Rally and Our Current Culture of Bias

Posted on by Heather Bachman

It is not news to hear that we are in an environment of bias which is fueled by our mainstream media. It is not even news when we hear that people who speak truth are pushed down by this sector. However, a recent situation has forced us to not only see the strength of this […]

 

Paul Ryan: Obamanomics Has Failed

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Congressman Paul Ryan (R, Wis) and former Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Holtz-Eakin came together early this week to lambaste Obama’s failed economic policies. In a conference call to supporters and the press, CBO Director Holtz-Eakin said that there is “no evidence” that “the stimulus has really worked” and that Obama’s Keynesian fixes simply won’t […]

 

It’s Joe Miller Time!

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Little Old Big arse Alaska once again takes the spot light. A national drama unfolds on the state level and all eyes watch. There is a subtext in the Murkowski verses Miller primary: Incumbent versus Tea Party Establishment versus grassroots Palin versus D.C. This race and the many other Republican Senatorial races mean so much […]

 

Why True Conservatism And Libertarianism Are Natural Allies: Restoring Honor And Shrinking Government

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Some libertarians watched the Beck rally with skepticism and more than a little loathing. The God thing is just too much. Reason’s Nick Gillespies’ bemused reporting from the Mall made me smile. Libertarians have looked for small government and fiscally responsible candidates, and they seem alarmed that many of the folks who preach this religion […]

 

So When Does Team RINO Start Engaging The Same Self-Criticism That They Expect From Everyone Else?

Posted on by John Hawkins

There’s a whole group of sad sack moderates in the Republican Party who’ve made a name for themselves by trashing conservatives. You know the people I’m talking about: David Frum, David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, Meghan McCain, etc., etc., etc. Now, we can argue about whether their intentions are good (sometimes), whether their complaints have any […]

 

The Daily Caller Blew It: The Truth About Conservative Bloggers And Consulting

Posted on by John Hawkins

Over at the Daily Caller, they’re running a story called, “True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash.” While there’s some validity to the story, parts of it are WILDLY overstated and it gives a very inaccurate impression of what’s going on: Katie Couric once described bloggers as journalists who gnaw at new […]

 

Using our Rights against Our Own: The 9-11 Mosque and Religious Rights

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : : :  There is one consistent factor of our society which we are seeing more and more: Using our rights against ourselves in order to protect others.:  A great recent example is the 9-11 Mosque.:  Almost daily, people are debating the 9-11 Mosque and whether it should be placed two blocks where terrorists involved in the […]

 

Big Announcement: Right Wing News Is Sponsoring Homocon

Posted on by John Hawkins

The Log Cabin Republicans have long been an annoyance. They’re a gay “Republican” group that withheld their endorsement of George Bush in 2004* and they essentially sound identical to every liberal gay group that you run across. In other words, there’s nothing meaningfully Republican about the Log Cabin Republicans or any point to their continued […]

 

Is The Tea Party Like A Starfish, Like the Apache… Like al Qaeda?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Politico’s Kenneth Vogel has an interesting piece on a book that Tea Party activists are starting to glom onto as an administrative guidebook of sorts. The book, “The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations,” is a book that explains how leaderless organizations work and can be effective. Of late tea partiers […]

 

No Bias Zone: ‘Journalist’ Calls Tea Parties ‘Right-Wing Bloodfeasts’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of my early blogging assignments was the media bias beat over at Newsbusters, so I became particularly attuned to picking up on how the Old Media toes that “unbiased” journalistic line. Unfortunately, in sometimes subtle ways their rhetoric is geared to smear Republicans in any way possible. Here is a perfect example. Last week […]

 

Now Congress Is Fighting Over Sports Teams

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In one of those “it’s gotten so bad that…” stories, McClatchy’s James Rosen reported today that Congress is so rife with partisan warfare that they can no longer even agree to sign onto each other’s harmless resolutions that celebrate sports teams for one success or another. “The once-routine resolutions honoring hometown squads or stars sailed […]

 

Final Report: RightOnLine 2010

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pictured from the left: Robert Bluey [Heritage Foundation], Guy Benson [Chicago Radio Host], Ed Morrissey [HotAir.com], and Warner Todd Huston [PubliusForum.com] I just flew in from Las Vegas where I attended Americans For Prosperity’s RightOnLine 2010 conference. As always, it was an uplifting experience, educational, and a whole lot of fun. I caught up with […]