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It’s been quite some time since I read Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. Maybe I should read it again, or at least Walter Russell Mead thinks so, “Literary Saturday: The Communist Manifesto.” What’s interesting is Mead’s counterfactual asking what Marx and Engels would think of today’s academic postmodern Marxists: I don’t think […]

Crossposted from TabithaHale.com We recently received this call from an “anonymous source”, if you will. Sheer brilliance. Click to listen.: Do it. Now. Some money quotes: “Be careful what you wish for – the right to bear arms means that everyone: can bear arms.” “We will be fighting you to the death.” “I’m so glad that I […]

Crossposted from TabithaHale.com I got a chance to chat with the most popular Republican in American, thrust into the spotlight after Stupak rolled over last Sunday. Meet Stupak’s challenger in MI-1, Dr. Dan Benishek. Download MP3

I came to DC almost 7 months ago. Sometimes it feels like an eternity. Sometimes it feels like I’m still not really here… like I’m just visiting a place I never really wanted to be in the first place. I hate Washington, DC and what it represents. I walked through this city as a tourist […]

I am loving this. I’m sure you heard the story that ran in several newspapers with this AP story: “Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told a reporter that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the civil rights era, some among the crowd chanted “the N-word, the […]

You have to give the Republicans credit for finally growing a spine. Senate Republicans did force Democrats to send the health reform reconciliation bill back to the House for another vote, after Senate parliamentarian Alan Frumin ruled in the wee hours of Thursday morning that two minor provisions violated the chamber’s rules and couldn’t be […]

Secretary Arne Duncan presented District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty with an Easter basket filled with 3,000 tickets to the White House Easter Egg Roll. There was one catch: don’t give them to private or parochial school students. And homeschoolers, don’t even think about it. You get the lottery like everyone else. Oh, and the […]

What loathsome creatures. For months the press has been cheerleading and now they carry water to manage expectations? Read Ruth Marcus’ latest and fume: In fact, the occasion called for more humility than hyperbole, however unlikely that may have been given the setting. If I were a member of Congress, my floor speech before casting […]

“… the United States is in the express lane to Declinistan: unsustainable entitlements, the remorseless governmentalization of the economy and individual liberty, and a centralization of power that will cripple a nation of this size. Decline is the way to bet. But what will ensure it is if the American people accept decline as a […]

As of right now, 12 states have filed suits against the federal government for their unConstitutional requirement that all Americans must purchase health insurance. Never before has the federal government compelled Americans to purchase a product, regardless of the reason. So where does it get this power? That’s what CNS News asked Rep. John Conyers, […]

The Democrats cannot stand that regular people are stepping up to fight them. What have they been trying to do? Pull the race card of course. When they have nothing else that’s what they do. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver tried to say that the tea protestors yelled racial insults at him while he walked to the […]

As I wrote here on March 02: Bottom line. The Democrats will pass this sweeping legislation that will take over 1/6 of our economy, over the clear majority of the American people that don’t want it. They will do it on a purely partisan basis using a procedural process never used before on big legislation […]

Regular readers of all things Trog knew that I couldn’t see Lori’s new billboard without bringing this back out: (TrogloPundit loves his automotivators.)

…and then they pass it? Is that why it smells so bad? I was just getting to understand the whole “deem and pass” (or, if you must, “demon pass”) thing when the news broke: the Democrats have dumped “deem and pass” and will instead take an up-or-down vote on the bill… …um, which bill? The […]

Ezra Klein has this to say about “the process” now under fire by Republicans: So far in the health-care debate, Republicans have attacked the legitimacy of private negotiations, parochial dealmaking, the budget reconciliation process, self-executing rules, the Congressional Budget Office’s analyses, and even the constitutionality of the legislation. It’s a good theory: Make people hate […]

I’m sure everyone remembers the left’s constant trumpeting of negative presidential popularity polls during the Bush administration. Understandably, now that the shoe is on the other foot, they’re not quite so keen on those polls anymore. However there is an interesting point to be drawn from them. Take this week’s Rasmussen poll on job approval […]

Knowing that the 111th Democrat-Progressive ruled Congress is indeed tyrannical in its endeavors to ram through ObamaCare, the Left continuously touts that the American people want this bill. Now, I have seen the polls and so have you, and so have the Democrats, including Obama, and they clearly know that they American people are vehemently […]

One more thing. Really guys. This is important. Please do this. Call these members of Congress this week (mostly pro-life Dems) who could use some support. They are Democrats, but some of those rare breed Democrats who are actually good people who believe in principles and values. The Democrat leadership is coming down HARD on […]

I’m officially off this week, but I had to post this delicious piece of news. Stick with me to the end. You won’t regret it. As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the “tea party” movement is the tale of an average citizen in action. “I […]

Although I’m using the word “quotes” rather loosely. I was writing stuff down as fast as I could, but I can’t be completely sure I got every single preposition and conjunction. Dr. Tim Nerenz, of the Oldenburg Group, Inc. “I never thought I’d be living in a NASCAR Republic. A NASCAR Republic is when you’re […]

FreedomWorks is calling everyone that is able to Washington, DC on March 16th, 2010 for one more push against Obamacare. We will meet at the Cannon building at 9am and speak with as many representatives as possible, encouraging them to vote NO on this version of health care reform.

Do you believe in reincarnation? Do you want to avoid coming back in the next life as one of these? The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo. Better stop polluting Mother Earth, then. Because Goddess has a sense of humor, and if you spend […]

Here’s an update on “Green Zone,” out today from Universal Studios. From the film’s website: It is 2003, and U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of inspectors have been dispatched by their commanders to find weapons believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site […]

Yesterday morning on Fox and Friends they had several young African American boys from a low income area who attended a charter school that boasts 100% college bound students. You guys know this is an issue close to my heart. Gretchen asked them what made the difference in this school. One young man answered that […]

Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, delivered the following remarks today after the House Republican Conference approved a moratorium on all earmarks: “Federal spending is out of control and the American people know it. Earmarks have become emblematic of everything that is wrong with spending here in Washington […]

From The Note: “March 18th is a very interesting date,” Pelosi said, referring to the White House’s preferred deadline — the date President Obama leaves for a foreign trip. “We will take up the bill when we are ready to take up the bill.” In other words, “Obama, why don’t you just let Auntie Nancy […]

So I’m back… and I’m relaunching my podcast with a recap of my Haiti trip. No guests – just a 30 minute stroll through my head. Talking about people, places… and how I may or may not be wanted by Haitian officials. ;) Also, we will be testing out a vodcast, which will be up […]