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When the federal government can take money out of our pockets — out of our grandchildren’s pockets, that is — to build a tunnel for turtles; when the Commerce Clause and the General Welfare Clause are cited as authority to regulate anything from what farmers can plant to what Grandma can sell at her yard […]

My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND. It’s got lots of news and FREE audio/video clips of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and other shows this week. As usual, some stuff didn’t make it into the column: FREE audio clip of Greg Gutfeld, Andy Levy (sitting in for John Gibson) […]

Insane people reflect the obsessions of their times. In the old days, insane people heard messages from the Devil. In the post-nuclear age, they were in contact with Martians. And nowadays, if their Muslim, Islam gives the impetus to their urges. Indeed, Islam is an all-purpose blank check for bad behavior. As my cousin, the […]

How bizarre is it when the number two link on Google for Brian Chontosh, a bona fide war hero and recipient of the Navy Cross, goes to a site devoted to “debunking” urban myths? Is the idea that a Marine officer could perform acts of heroism so outlandish that it requires debunking? If so, there’s […]

Publisher’s Note: It is my pleasure once again to publish a guest essay from a reader, Bill Dawson. A U.S. citizen, Bill has lived in Austria since 2000. He blogs regularly about German History rather than contemporary politics, but he has his finger on the pulse of the German-language media and offers an interesting perspective […]

CNS News has been asking a simple question to anyone in Congress they can get a minute with to ask. It’s simple. “Federally, if you look at it from a federal standpoint, what area, specifically of the Constitution, would give Congress the power to mandate an individual to have health insurance?” When they asked Nancy […]

Regardless of who is right or who is wrong, it seems to me when victories by one faction over the other are scored in a society’s significant political events, the assault that lead to the victory more often than not has been spearheaded by the battering ram known as the question-mark. We may debate why […]

Don’t have time to write, but you guys need to see this. What is the government doing when we’re not looking? Bad things.

Some Right and Wrong Lessons from last night — any others? Right Lesson: The voters turned away from the Obama administration and its handling of the economy. Wrong Lesson: The candidates won because they “soft pedaled” their conservatism, as National Review and others in the MSM: alleged. Right Lesson: DeDe Scozzafava was a disastrous candidate for […]

The White House and the rest of the Democrats want us to understand that despite the high unemployment rate and despite the fact that America has lost 2.7 million jobs since the Stimulus Plan was signed into law, the Stimulus Plan has saved or created over a million jobs. After spending $160 billion, we have […]

My husband attended a professional multi-day seminar at an Ivy League university.:  One of the classes he attended touched directly upon the work he does day in and day out.:  The teacher for this seminar is a professor at the Ivy League institution.:  As one of the premier “experts” in his field, he is an […]

Old joke: At a very fancy ball, a man has been talking to a woman for a while, and they’re getting along well. Eventually he asks her, “Would you sleep with me for $1 million?” She bats her eyes at him: “Oh, you romantic man!” She then suggests that they rendezvous in a quiet hotel […]

Feeling stupid yet, GOP leadership? So now the GOP leadership gets to walk around with two black eyes, the first delivered by Hoffman and conservative activists, the second by their chosen candidate.:  All this on top of the fact that they threw away over $1 million on Scozzafava’s campaign.:  At this stage, even if Hoffman […]

Those old Halloween costumes really stunk, eh?

The GOP establishment’s definitely getting a shake-up! This calls for some be-bopping: Okay, from CNN, “Gingrich Endorses Hoffman“: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who came under fire from some conservatives for endorsing Dede Scozzafava in next week’s special Congressional election in New York, is now backing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. Gingrich made the announcement […]

There are many kinds of courage. We hear most about the bravery of battle, when the adrenaline is pumping and soldiers are fighting just to stay alive. But we rarely hear about the incredible courage and strength needed to sit up for the first time despite searing pain, to stand, to take those few wobbly […]

From Jamie Kirchick, “The Fork in J Street: Will the New Israel Lobby Disavow Its Extreme Left Flank?” After the introduction, Kirchick writes: In the weeks leading up to its conference, J Street was wracked by a series of controversies. The group had to cancel a poetry session after it was exposed that one of […]

With Scozzafava’s “suspension” of her candidacy, GOP elites in Washington may have dodged a bullet. But we can’t forget that they are the ones who put conservatives into this position in the first place.:  The MSM wants to blame “angry” right wingers for the fight.:  In fact, it was just the opposite. :  What happened […]

It’s… transparency like you’ve never seen! The White House blog gushes: We previously announced that the White House in December of this year would — for the first time in history — begin posting all White House visitor records under the terms of our new voluntary disclosure policy. As part of that initiative, we also […]

I blogged about this last week, and it turns out Ann Althouse and Andrea Harris agree, so… Shut up about breast cancer awareness. We are so ‘frickin aware I’m gonna vomit. People are always “raising awareness” about things everybody knows about. It is the activism of cowards. Especially women, who are so desperate for safety […]

People often criticize me for “dishonoring” the office of the president (the anarcho-socialist James Webb, for example), but I wrote a respectful post yesterday in response to President Obama’s visit to Dover: “Obama Honors Fallen Troops at Dover.” Sure, the president’s visit was perhaps the worst instance of political grandstanding since taking office, but knowing […]

A majority of people believe that the country is on the wrong track according to this Wall Street Journal poll via Politics Daily: Fifty-two percent say the country is on the wrong track compared to 36 percent who say it is headed in the right direction with 9 percent saying conditions are mixed and 3 […]

When I heard today that Harry Reid and the other looters in the Democrat party were going ahead with a public option in their “health care” plan, something became clear to me. There is a distinct difference between the Republican party and the Democrat party. I know this isn’t an epiphany to some who might […]

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From Michael Ledeen, at the Weekly Standard, “We Have Met the Enemy … And it is Iran“: Speaking publicly about the role of Iran in Afghanistan–which is substantial, and about which we have considerable information–seems to be taboo for our current leaders. This is neither new nor surprising. Iranians, and Iranian-trained terrorists from organizations such […]

Oh-oh: “One thing I can tell you: They can go out and chase me and chase the Chamber and put stuff in the newspaper. It only . . . drives more and more support. . . . You think we are going to blink because a couple of people are out shooting at us? Tell […]

In “Goodfellas,” the mob movie that won Joe Pesci an Oscar, the restaurant owner found out what it means to take the money. Not money, exactly — he took protection. He asked the mob boss to become a silent partner, in order to protect him from other mobsters — like Joe Pesci — who were […]

So earlier this week I got cc’d on an email with links to a Geert Wilders’ speech on YouTube. The person who sent it said, in effect, “This is a must-see! What this man has to say is very important.” Today one of the CC’s sent this reply: I had a brief look, and if […]