Category: Culture

Film of the Week: To Save a Life

Posted on by Anna Maria Hoffman

by: Johnny Whichard Introduction:: :  Very rarely does a teen-Christian film achieve spreading its messages while not coming across as “preachy.”: To Save a Life: is an excellent example of how a film can trap its audience by appearing secular and contemporary while conveying strong messages and keeping the audience on the edge of its seat.Released in 2009,: To Save […]

 

Visual Aid: The Stupidity of What Constitutes an ‘Assault Weapon’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

First of all, there is no such thing as an “assault weapon.” But, despite that fact, when half-wit leftists try to define what an “assault weapon” is, all they really end up doing is describing what such a weapon looks like not what the weapon does. Essentially you get this… Note that the two weapons […]

 

MSNBC: NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre is ‘Afraid of Dark People’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again MSNBC has accused the National Rifle Association of being racists. Now host Alex Wagner claimed that NRA chief Wayne LaPierre employed coded racism in a recent op ed he wrote. The day after the President’s State of the Union speech, LaPierre posted an op ed detailing the NRA’s response to Obama’s speech. In […]

 

Sports Illustrated’s ‘Racist’ Swimsuit Issue

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Everything is racist these days. Even the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, apparently. At least that is the latest tempest in a teapot being stirred by our busy race merchants. The website Jezebel is the latest to stir the pot claiming that because SI used locations on all seven continents and featured people in native garb […]

 

Sex Week at University of Chicago

Posted on by Dave Blount

Obama’s ham-fisted nationalization of the student loan industry indicates that the federal government will take an ever larger role in financing the preposterously bloated expense of college. This should prevent institutions of higher learning from having to cut back on essential scholarship like Sex Week: The prestigious University of Chicago is in the midst of […]

 

Happy Birthday Sarah-Five Lessons I’ve Learned from Palin

Posted on by Anna Maria Hoffman

by: Caleb Parke It was one year ago, today, that Palin: celebrated her birthday: at the: Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC): by delivering a: rockstar speech, which you can watch here. I had the honor of being there and Palin signed my: resume. (A sign of good things to come?) Today, we celebrate the birthday and living legacy of the former governor […]

 

A Defiant Dance of Power AND Sex

Posted on by Anna Maria Hoffman

by: Andrew Collins What did you see onstage at the Super Bowl halftime show? According to Patheos.com blogger David Henson, if you saw “a singer wearing too little clothes,” or “a singer selling sex to the masses in a skimpy outfit,” or “an offensive, inappropriate hypersexual display of legs and barely covered unmentionables,” then you didn’t […]

 

Machine Gun Preacher: A Surprising and Gritty Message for All

Posted on by Anna Maria Hoffman

by: Johnny Whichard:  Introduction: My roommate and I are both movie-nuts.:  At least once a week, we’ll make a bag of popcorn, enjoy a beer and watch a film. As a film major, I have seen hundreds (if not thousands) of films and I generally find my roommate’s fascination with sci-fi flicks hysterical. One night, however, […]

 

Homosexual Event Features Child Drag Queen, HIV Testing for Kids

Posted on by Dave Blount

Obama isn’t the only one who has been fundamentally transforming America. Over the weekend, the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Youth (BAGLY) and Boston Pride sponsored a Valentine’s dance for sexually confused teenagers. Here’s is how it was announced on the liberal site Socializing for Justice: Boston Pride is hosting their very first […]

 

Dan Rather: Bush AWOL Documents ‘Not Proven’ False

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Dan Rather is back to defending the story that essentially got him fired from network television by claiming that the documents he presented in 2004 as proof that George W. Bush went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard have never been proven to be forgeries. On February 7, Dan Rather hosted a Q&A on […]

 

Green Movement Founder Opposes Wind Turbines in His Backyard

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the world’s premiere environmentalists, credited as a founder of the green movement, is fighting plans to erect wind turbines in his own village. Professor James Lovelock, 93, is renowned for having created the “Gaia Theory” and becoming one of the World’s earliest and most active modern environmentalists. He is also known for predicting […]

 

Hawaii Five-O’s Anti-Gun Tirade

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On the Monday’s broadcast of the long awaited remake of a popular 1970s era episode of Hawaii Five-O, one of the main characters went on a rant against “gun nuts” and the lack of both strict regulations and a pervasive, privacy-invading registration process. But later in the show the same character was apologetic over not […]

 

Dear Fellow Females: Firearms, Not Rape Whistles, Best Deter Criminals

Posted on by Anna Maria Hoffman

by: Gabriella Hoffman The Left is relentless in their efforts to ban guns. They will stop at nothing to see every law abiding gun owner disarmed and helpless. It is also apparent that the Second Amendment means bupkis to them. Instead of using firearms to deter: criminals, leftists have proposed women taking up rape whistles and scissors.What?:  […]

 

Noam Chomsky: Obama is Like an Old ‘Moderate Republican’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On January 30, professor Noam Chomsky, famed linguistic scholar and long-time anti-American activist, said on Current TV that if President Obama were in office a few decades ago he would have “basically” been considered a “moderate Republican.” Chomsky made his comments on Cenk Uygur’s Current TV show The Young Turks. The MIT professor’s main point […]

 

ABC Ignores Tim Scott’s Senate Appointment in Dec., By Jan. Hails Mo Cowan’s as ‘History’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In December, ABC’s World News saw no news at all in the historic appointment of African American Tim Scott to the Senate in South Carolina. No mention was made of it during the broadcast. Only a month later, though, the same program suddenly hailed African American William “Mo” Cowan’s appointment to the Senate as history […]

 

Paul Krugman: Let’s Just Print More Money

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has said that our government trillions in debt is not a problem and even intimated that we might we crank up the printing presses and print more fiat money to get us out of our bad economy. Krugman appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” program […]

 

Obama Operatives Training Media How to Sell Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Old Media is getting a little help from team Obama on how to report about Obamacare the “correct” way. To achieve that goal, Obama operatives are setting up propaganda symposiums for journalists and giving large cash donations to journalism associations to help spread Obama’s word. This Obamacare propaganda campaign seriously blurs the line between […]

 

ATF’s Epic Fail In Milwaukee

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As Harry Reid: bolts: from Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s renewed push to ban so-called assault weapons, other senators, including Pat Leahy and Al Franken, may politick their way into killing the bill in committee. : As Ed Morrissey of Hot Air: posted yesterday, No one thought Reid would be excited to support a new assault-weapons ban.:  He didn’t support the […]

 

The YOLO Effect

Posted on by Anna Maria Hoffman

by Levi Fox You only live once. This twist of carpe diem, coined by Canadian rapper Drake, has become the anthem of our culture. In the 2013 season debut of: Saturday Night Live, hosted by Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, the comedians of New York’s finest satirically countered this debaucherous message of “YOLO.” In comparison with this […]

 

The NRA’s Media Strategy, Is It Working?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The newest efforts to ban guns being undertaken by Democrats and President Obama demands response and the National Rifle Association isn’t lying down on the job. But is the NRA’s media strategy working? For about a week after the murders of 26 school children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA […]

 

VP Biden: Mental Health Checks Could Have Stopped Vir. Tech Shooting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After a discussion on gun control at an event in Richmond, Virginia, Vice President Joe Biden claimed that better mental health checks could have stopped the shooting on the Virginia Tech campus in 2007. Biden said that he and those he consulted during the recent gun banning commission he chaired which was completed in mid […]

 

Left Pays No Attention to Obama Pledge of No Name Calling

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Even as Obama stood in front of hundreds of thousands of admirers during his inaugural speech saying that we needed to end the name calling, many in his party and many of his surrogates have utterly ignored that advice. “We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned […]

 

WH Spokesman Carney Slams GOP’s ‘Obsession’ With Anti-Islam Film

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the days following the attacks on our embassy in Benghazi, Libya last year the Obama administration insisted the whole thing was a result of Muslim ire at an anti-Islam film posted to Youtube. Today, after Hillary testified in front of the Senate over her role in the debacle, White House spokesman Jay Carney is […]

 

Food Stamps Recipients Increased 11,133 Per Day In Obama’s First Term

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One way to mark the legacy of a presidency is to tally statistics and at least one stat is not very flattering for this president: Americans on food stamps have grown by 11,133 every day during his first term. In 2009, when Obama took office, recipients of SNAP, the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program, stood at […]

 

Did VP Biden Lie About Hearing 2006 Gun Shots?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week as Vice President Joe Biden talked publicly about his efforts to assist President Obama with his various gun-banning schemes, he made a startling new claim. He said that while golfing in Pennsylvania in 2006 he personally heard the gunfire from a mass shooting being committed at a nearby school. But did he really? […]

 

Left Says Gov’t Won’t Abuse Powers? What of Civil Rights Movement, 60s Riots?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left is scoffing at the belief held by Second Amendment supporters that their right to bear arms is in part meant to act as a check on tyrannical government. Government turning tyrannical is ridiculous, many leftists say. But isn’t this the most absurd hypocrisy because didn’t they build their entire lefty edifice on the […]

 

Cost of Obama’s 2012 Regulations: $236 Billion

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Despite Obama’s promise to cut unnecessary regulations, his administration issued $236.7 billion in new regulations in 2012. According to a report by the American Action Forum, headed by former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the direct costs of the regulations force America’s businesses to waste 87 million man-hours to fill out regulatory paperwork. Adding […]