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I’m sure that if it hadn’t been for the Arizona shooting story yesterday, the big news would have been that Former Republican House majority leader Tom DeLay was sentenced to three years in prison for violating campaign finance laws. If you want to read a good overview of the entire thing, Human Events has a […]

This is really amazing. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik doubles down: “Arizona Sheriff Blasts Rush Limbaugh for Spewing ‘Irresponsible’ Vitriol.” (Via Memeorandum.) And at Pat Dollard, “Leftist Tucson Sheriff Tries to Gain Political Profit From Blood of Dead Victims.” Contrast that to the measured reason of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu: See also, Andrew Klavan, “The Hateful […]

See: “Progressives and the Giffords Shooting.” And at Michelle Malkin’s, “The Progressive “Climate of Hate:” An Illustrated Primer, 2000-2010.”

Sadly the blame rhetoric is continuing today from the left. It’s ironic that as they decry toxic rhetoric, they are contributing to. It is this kind of talk that divides us and promotes hatred. All morning I watched on the news as various Democrat politicians sought to blame conservatives for the shootings yesterday. Here is […]

My wife mentioned to me one evening that Herman Cain was going to be in Council Bluffs, Iowa on Saturday, January 8th to talk with a small group of people. So I e-mailed the organizer and next thing I know, I’m sitting down with The Hermanator for a 10 minute one-on-one interview. — So what […]

From Olby: “Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our Democracy, and I apologize for and repudiate any act or any thing in my past that may have even inadvertently encouraged violence. Because for whatever else each of us may be, we all are Americans.” Good try, I must say, although the […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: Future of Capitalism. Link: The TrogloPundit. Link: The MacIver Institute. Link: GoDaddy Bowl. Link: Left Coast Rebel. Link: Michelle Malkin. Link: The Other McCain. Previously: This […]

I’m praying for everyone involved. See the full report: “Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot by Gunman at Townhall Event in Tucson – Progressives Blame Sarah Palin ‘Hit List’.” While Firedoglake and other progressive blogs are implicating Sarah Palin in the assault … … diarists at Daily Kos are frantically scrubbing posts announcing that Rep. Giffords was […]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker. It may not be quite as glorious a phrase as “Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the incoming chairman of the House Budget Committee,” but it’s up there. Anyway, this was the single best line (I thought) from Governor Walker’s inauguration speech on Monday: Article I, Section 22 […]

Ed Driscoll blogs: The Onion goofs on “Revamped WPA To Create 50,000 New Jobs By Disassembling, Reassembling Hoover Dam.” Which is, by the way, a great idea. Think of the stimulus effects! As one of Ace’s co-bloggers notes, “Keynesian ‘stimulus’ in one easy lesson.” Keynsianism doesn’t exactly call for this kind of thing: general Keynsianism […]

The culture of entitlement is an ugly thing (in more ways than one). Paul Mason has stuffed himself full of food for years, eating ten times the calorie intake of a healthy person. While it sounds like NHS has been its typical slow, bureaucratic self in scheduling his surgery, there’s no excuse for his lawsuit […]

My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up! Enjoy FREE audio and video highlights from the week in conservative talk radio. Top stories include: Herman Cain’s possible Presidential bid Who got called “the Larry Flynt of talk radio” by Alec Baldwin? Glenn Beck’s show dropped from two major markets CLICK HERE for more. PLUS: […]

Dana Milbank, writing in the Washington Post, offers a voice to a widespread complaint. The reasonable observer cannot help but entertain the notion Mr. Milbank is also offering a semblance of substance to a complaint, that in reality has none. What the Republican majority decided to read [in the House of Representatives] was a sanitized […]

Listen to this discussion with Keith Olbermann and Yale political scientist Akhil Reed Amar. Progressives despise limited government, a concept that never leaves the lips of either of these men. The full entry is here:” Progressives Want to Read Slavery Back Into Constitution.” Additional commentary at American Power.

I mentioned previously that one of the extreme gender feminists suggested on Twitter that the #MooreandMe protest was something akin to a new civil rights movement. No doubt there’s quite a bit of self-congratulations there. And while the gender feminists did gain a lot of attention, the power of Twitter and other media is to […]

At WSJ, “Savings Ordered Up, Spurring First Troop Cuts in Decades; Salvo in Budget War“: In an early salvo in Washington’s battle over the deficit, the White House ordered the Pentagon to rein in its budget, a move that will force a sizable cut in overall troop numbers for the first time in two decades. […]

At London’s Daily Mail, “Girls, Guns and Why Tom Jones and Elvis BOTH Wanted to Beat Up John Lennon.” (Via Dana Loesch.) Read it all. Elvis couldn’t stand Lennon’s antiwar pacifism, and Jones was tempted to kick Lennon’s but himself. Cross-posted from American Power.

My D.C. trip was a mixture of emotions for me. On the one hand it was fun to see all my fellow conservative actitivists (we always have a blast when we get together), and it was exciting to go to a reception for the new Congress. But on the other hand, I learned about dangerous […]

At the “natural born” passage, a heckler apparently yelled: “Except Obama, except Obama. Help us Jesus.” See ABC News, “Constitution Reading on House Floor Mired by Yelling, Objections.” (And more at Memeorandum.) Cross-posted from American Power.

I’ve got some additional thoughts on the Assange rape allegations backlash: “The Gender Feminist ‘Rape Card’.” RELATED: “Gender Feminists Throw The Nation’s Greg Mitchell Under the Bus.” Ane more commentary later today at American Power.

An interesting piece at LAT, “‘Tea Party’ Activists Keep Watch on Congress’ New Class.” With a GOP majority now in the House, the role of the tea party in politics and policy will change. The Times‘ piece points out the polarizing tendency between purity and pragmatism, and considering the longstanding insight that Members of Congress […]

There are rumors that Andrew Ian Dodge, freelance writer and Maine coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, is planning a run against perennial RINO Sen. Olympia Snowe: Maine’s Tea Party Patriots state coordinator, Andrew Ian Dodge, hinted for weeks that he had intimate knowledge of a viable Snowe challenger, but he refused to name the […]

You know this whole radical progressive schism over the Assange rape allegations has gotten out of control when one of the world’s leading revolutionary parties is pushing back against the feminist left’s charges against the WikiLeaks frontman. See the Socialist Equality Party’s, “The Nation Joins the Campaign Against Julian Assange.” And I’ve written a full-blown […]

So, my glorious week long Christmas vacation is over and….I am sick as a freaking dog. Actually, I’m not entirely sure where that expression came from because I don’t recall my dog ever being this sick. This is a particularly lousy time to be sick, not just because I am coming off a long vacation […]

At New York Times, “Floods Kill Woman in Australia.” A full report from PA Pundits International: “Queensland Australia Flood Disaster Central — Rockhampton.” And from The Australian, “Military sends supplies to Rockhampton.” Also, an editorial at the paper, “Resilience in facing catastrophe“: Australia must plan and build for extremes of climate FOR many city dwellers […]

Weasel Zippers has the report from WaPo (via Memeorandum): The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight called President Obama’s administration “one of the most corrupt administrations” on Sunday and predicted that the investigations he is planning over the next two years could result in about $200 billion in savings for U.S. […]

Jazz Shaw has the story at The Green Room. Also, a useful roundup from CBS News, “How WikiLeaks Enlightened Us in 2010.” And here’s communist Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! year-end review, “Julian Assange on WikiLeaks, War and Resisting Government Crackdown” (transcribed at the link): PREVIOUSLY: “WikiLeaks – News Story of the Year.” Plus, “Progressives and […]

Just a few stories that caught my eye this week, whether I blogged them or not. Click the link under each picture if you need a little explanation. Link: GOP 12. Link: Steve Benen. Previously: This Week in Automotivators, December 13-19 This Week in Automotivators, December 6-12 Make your own automotivators.