Conservative candidates are better looking

You’ve long suspected it, but now we know it’s true: objectively speaking, conservative political candidates are indeed better looking: Rightwing candidates are better looking than their leftwing counterparts, something they benefit from during elections, according to a study conducted by Swedish and Finnish economists. The economists who conducted the study figured this out by asking […]

 

Obama Misspells Libya on Twitter Feed

-By Warner Todd Huston So, not only has Obama turned a deaf ear to the dozens getting killed in Libya by their own mad dictator, but when the White House Twitter feed finally did decide to discuss the country it spelled the name of the place incorrectly. Seriously, White House? “Lybia”? Sounds like something that […]

 

Defunding Obama’s Union Led Regulatory Army

You might recall that with great fanfare and the slobberingly positive coverage by the Old Media, President Obama made Reagan-like and claimed that he thought it was time to get rid of the regulations strangling American business. Since that time he’s met with businesses and pretended to suddenly be a pro-business, pro-economic growth president. His […]

 

Wisc. and Ind. Democrats: Union Cash Driving Democrats to Run and Hide

With Democrat state legislators in Wisconsin and now Indiana fleeing their states so that they don’t have to do their job — just call them fleebaggers — it would be easy to assume that Democrats are cowards. If not cowards, then petulant children throwing temper tantrums because voters did not give them a power-lock majority. […]

 

HuffPo Moonbats Side With Pirates

The savagery of the darkest part of the world has once again cast its shadow over innocent Americans: A pirate fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a U.S. Navy destroyer shadowing a hijacked yacht with four Americans aboard Tuesday. Then gunfire erupted, the military said. U.S. special forces rushed to the yacht only to find the […]

 

Wisconsin Teachers: Putting Kids at Risk

Why do these teachers hate Wisconsin’s kids? A reader named Tom from Des Moines, Iowa, emailed me and asked some pertinent questions of these recalcitrant teachers. I have asked some of these questions here myself and I have heard a few of them floated on Twitter, Facebook and the radio, but it is good to […]

 

No Truth In Left’s Wisconsin Union Support or Its State Budget Surplus Story

First came the disgrace of supposedly intelligent teachers in Wisconsin sporting hundreds of signs calling Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker “Hitler” and now comes the entire liberal blogosphere and it’s echo chamber in the left-media establishment claiming that Gov. Walker has “ginned up” a budget shortfall when he actually has a budget surplus. One wonders when […]

 

PBS Sends Belated Valentine to MoveOn.org

On February 18, our taxpayer-subsidized entertainers at PBS gave a little shoutout to one of their most stout supporters. On its Twitter feed on Friday, PBS heartily thanked the extremist left-wing activist group Moveon.org for its support in helping the broadcaster push for greater amounts of money from the pockets of the taxpayers and continue […]

 

Obviously, If You Love Gaia, You Must Stand Up For Planned Parenthood

Grist’s resident GINK (green inclinations, no kids) Lisa Hymas, makes the case that enviros, greens, climate morons should stand up for Planned Parenthood and abortion on demand A society is not sustainable if women don’t have basic control over their fertility. That’s just fundamental, a no-brainer. So the ongoing Republican assault war blitzkrieg on women’s […]

 


Wisc. Union Thug: ‘First They Take Away Unions, Then They Take Away The Jews…’??? Unions Want Legalized Theft, Plain and Simple

-By Warner Todd Huston Every so-called teacher in Wisconsin needs to be removed from the classroom and should not be allowed to return until she can prove that she’s become educated enough to understand that no politician in Wisconsin is “just like Hitler.” These thugs latest claim is that “it’s not about the money” but […]

 

So They Called Him Hitler, So What? Grow Up, The Both of You!

You know, I am about sick to death of this childish back and forth between the unhinged left and the oh-so-outraged right on the name calling issue, especially where it concerns the use of the name of humanity’s most evil villain, Hitler. Yeah, they said (put latest politician here) is Hitler. But so what? Let’s […]

 

Liberals Provide Smears And Innuendo Over Wisconsin Doctors Notes Story

A bit of typical unhinged derangement and lying from Crooks and Liars to amuse you as you start your Sunday: Wisconsin Protesters Breitbarted Over Bogus Teachers’ Excuses Fox News broke this bulletin about an hour ago. It stems from a video posted by the MacIver Institute Wisconsin alleging that a doctor is signing bogus excuses […]

 

Getting Rich Off the Taxpayers: School Administrators Double Dipping Pensions

It must be nice to work for the government. Sadly it’s the most lucrative way to make a living in American history. To “win life’s lottery” all you have to do is get a job with the government — whether the federal or state government — at practically any level and voila, welcome to easy […]

 

Great: One of the Most Violent Union Thugs Now Appearing With Thug Teachers in Wisconsin

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has decided to flock to the side of thug Wisconsin teachers on Friday. This should not be much of a surprise. Trumka understands that this battle could serve to galvanize anti-union sympathies all across the country, and rightfully so. With the hate and “violent rhetoric” being employed by these thug teachers […]

 

Call The Civility Police: Liberal Threats And Violence Surge

Wasn’t it just last month that we had hypersensitive liberals going on and on about civility after Gabrielle Giffords was shot? Well today, the same people who were hyperventilating over phrases like “job killing” are apparently peachy keen with actual threats and intimidation. Why? Because most liberals are actually fine with political violence and threats […]

 

Union Thug Whines That People Are Mistreating Union Thugs

This one is hilarious. Union chief James P. Hoffa of the Teamsters has an op ed in the Detroit News where he’s crying that everyone is turning against unions these days. Yes, ole Jimmy is yelling, “leave unions alone!” Hoffa’s headline whines out, “American ills not caused by unions.” We call that a straw man […]

 

How Obama’s Big Labor Pals Warp the System

Last September the Senate refused to reverse a rules change made out of pocket by Obama’s National Mediation Board. The rule change reversed a 75-year-old practice and made it possible to unionize a company even if less than half of its employees wanted to be unionized. Previous to the rules change, any company in the […]

 

Palin Gives Time A Few Minutes of Her Time About Its False ‘Reporting’

The media is so sure that only the worst about Palin could possibly be true that false stories, out right lies, and even comedy bits are constantly presented as actual news. Time Magazine is the latest to fall into that trap by reporting a satirical Internet posting about Sarah Palin as hard news. It all […]

 


CPAC 2011: Ron Paul’s Last Straw With YAF (Time for Paulies to Grow Up)

Ron Paul may have won the CPAC straw poll but he’s lost Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative, college Republican-style organization to which he used to belong. Just as the results of the straw poll were revealed YAF announced they were kicking Paul out of the organization. This is a pretty big deal, too. If […]

 

NPR And NY Times Say Bush Was Correct About Pushing Democracy

Get your ice skates out, folks, Hell has just frozen over, starting with NPR: In Egypt, More Proof That George W. Bush Was Right Two weeks of massive street protests have given Egyptians their voice and today Hosni Mubarak has heard them. If the events that led to Mubarak’s resignation after 30 years as president […]

 

Senator Jim Webb: The Hypocrisy at the Core of the Democrat Party

Virginia’s Junior Senator, Jim Webb, is already hanging up his senatorial career. One term was enough for the so-called moderate Virginia Democrat. He’s announced that he will not run for reelection. But the fact that he got elected at all shows the essential hypocrisy at the heart of the Democrat Party. Webb, you see, is […]

 


Union Boss Says Advocates for Spending Cuts are ‘Mentally Retarded’

In a perfect example of why unions are the biggest problem for government budget reform, John Gage, President of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), has just pronounced anyone that wants to cut the overly generous pay, benefits, and pensions of government employees are “mentally retarded.” This is the to-the-hilt fight that the unions […]

 

More of Rahm’s Union Troubles

In the race for the Chicago Mayor’s office we have seen quite a lot of evidence that Chicago’s union bosses are not big Rahm Emanuelites. This week we got another hint in that direction as several more unions came out in support of Emanuel’s most serious opponent, Gery Chico. The Chico campaign added a group […]

 

NAACP Has No Interest In Addressing Racism Against Justice Clarence Thomas

Who can blame them? Clarence Thomas is a conservative, and, liberals obviously can never be guilty of racism against against a conservative. He’s been called an “anti-black,” and even Obama’s 20 year pastor, Jeremiah Wright, referred to Thomas as an “Uncle Tom.” And now, according to the Daily Caller The NAACP won’t directly address the […]

 

Now THERE’S Chutzpah: Obama Claims He hasn’t Raised Taxes?

John Kartch over at Americans for Tax Reform found President Obama’s claim that he hasn’t raised taxes a bit, shall we say, quixotic. At one point in the interview with Obama conducted by Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and shown on Sunday, Obama stated bald faced that he didn’t do so. The truth seems to be […]

 

More Evidence that Centrists Democrats Are Dead

Ben Smith of POLITICO is reporting that the Democrat leadership Council is on it’s last paws and about to go belly up. This is one more little hint that the centrist, the moderate, or the “Blue Dog” Democrat is truly an extinct animal in America today. The Donkey’s big tent is more like a birdcage […]