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Good stuff. When you tell a liberal the truth they recoil in disbelief. Seriously. Just watch Kirsten Powers and her disbelief in this interview when the bomb is dropped about 6:00 in. She’s so flustered when she finds out the truth that President Bush vetoed the 2008 bill with the end-of-life provision in it and […]
Read Nick Gillespie’s essay, “The #1 Game-Changer of 2010: Wikileaks By a Landslide.” The key point is that unlike the umpteen other purported “game-changing” news stories, WikiLeaks is genuinely new. And Gillespie argues the frequently heard point that WikiLeaks’ impact goes far beyond one individual, such as Julian Assange. Beside that though is to what […]
Word has run like wildfire through the Internet that former GOP Senate candidate for Delaware, Christine O’Donnell, is under investigation for misuse of campaign funds. O’Donnell flatly refutes the claims and says that these rumors were started by operatives of the establishment of both parties in Delaware, rumors meant to prevent her from ever running […]
Nothing like coordinated anarchists to say anarchy ROME — A loosely linked movement of European anarchists who want to bring down state and financial institutions is becoming more violent and coordinated after decades out of the spotlight, and may be responding to social tensions spawned by the continent’s financial crisis, security experts say. Italian police […]
The latest zero tolerance educratic insanity reaches us from Sanford, North Carolina: An athletic and academic standout in Lee County said a lunchbox mix-up has cut short her senior year of high school and might hurt her college opportunities. Ashley Smithwick, 17, of Sanford, was suspended from Southern Lee High School in October after school […]
America isn’t quite bankrupt yet. How else could our rulers waste what’s left of our money while gloatingly rubbing our faces in the fact that moonbats are in charge? Here’s an idea: Shy of her first anniversary on the federal bench, an Obama-appointed judge known for promoting “racial tolerance” [i.e., very special treatment for all […]
See, “Progressives and the Julian Assange Rape Allegations.” Via American Power. RELATED: At The Other McCain, “Julian Assange, Libertarian ‘Reactionary’?” PLUS: At WSJ, “Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers.” Also, at CNN, “Jessica Yellin’s response to last night’s Assange discussion,” and Wired, “Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs” (via Memeorandum).
Years after most Americans retire, in fact years after the federal retirement age of 68, more than 100 U.S. Postal Workers in their 90s are still getting 75 percent of their salaries (tax free, yet) of federal workers compensation payments instead of having been graduated to the cheaper retirement payments at 60 percent of their […]
Remember the time when the climate alarmists would disappear during the winter time, because it was hard to push their pet cult while snow fell from the skies and cold temps rocked the land? Apparently, that has all ended, as the alarmists continue to spin away Barry Hunt, an honorary research fellow at the CSIRO’s […]
From the letters to the editor at Los Angeles Times (in response to this article): Palestinian- Israeli impasse Re “Let’s get tough with Israel,” Opinion, Dec. 22 Yousef Munayyer is dead wrong. It’s time to get tough with Arab terrorists, not with the only democracy in the Middle East. He reiterates the myth of Palestinian […]
At Telegraph UK, “Christmas bomb plot: nine men remanded over plan to ‘blow up Big Ben and Westminster Abbey’.” And LAT, “Nine terrorism suspects appear in London court“: Reporting from London – Nine men accused of terrorism and conspiracy to blow up high-profile targets that reportedly included the U.S. Embassy and the London Stock Exchange […]
Sometimes standing up for the Constitution seems a bit annoying, especially in the case of violent felon Mrs. Carol Bond. Fortunately, standing for the Constitution here doesn’t necessarily release a horrible woman into freedom, but it does help to spotlight some unconstitutional federal overreach. In this case, it also centers on the Tenth Amendment, or […]
The full essay is here: “Amanda Marcotte, Digby, and TBogg Nominated for ‘Moore Award’ at Daily Dish.” And see The Other McCain: “Glenn Reynolds ‘Nuke the Norks’ Only 5th Place in Sully’s ‘Malkin Awards’ Finals?” Updates throughout the day at American Power.
An update to “Progressives Cheer Mark Madoff Suicide as ‘Revolutionary Justice’ .” Turns out that the DownWithTyranny! progressives are invoking revolutionary appeals again. A ten-point roster of GOP quotes on the unemployed and public benefits actually ends with Marie Antoinette’s famous line, “Let them eat cake.” And then the progressive response: Now we know that […]
What might an irresponsible, authoritarian, hyper-intrusive government driven by a radical environmentalist agenda and hostile to American interests do to the energy sector? It might prevent the building of nuclear plants and oil refineries, squash drilling in the ANWR wasteland and the Gulf of Mexico, and declare drilling to be out of the question most […]
The “Muslim–moonbat alliance” is more than a figure of speech. Progressives have been sympathetic to expansionist Islam since 9/11, possibly hoping it might succeed where Soviet communism failed. Sometimes this goes beyond sympathy, to the point where the liberal elitists who govern us actually coordinate campaigns with jihadists. An appalling example is 9/11 itself, an […]
After the Dec. 15 Red State poll that showed Atlanta businessman and talk-radio host Herman Cain topping even Sarah Palin as a favorite of the online conservative grassroots, I began blogging about the Cain phenomenon and did an interview with Cain for The American Spectator. Yesterday a commenter at my blog chastised me, saying my […]
In 1997 a Brooklyn teacher was accused of attempting to molest a sixth-grade girl at PS 138. As it happened, he admitted the behavior, but no criminal charges were filed when all was said and done. Still one would think the fact that he inappropriately fondled a teen should be enough to get him fired […]
The New York Times had a small story that it likely thought was just an amusing little tale of a quirky government program from Los Angeles. Centered on the gift shop run by the L.A County Coroner’s Department, the Times indulged such lines as “we’re dying for your business,” and headlined the piece “Dealing in […]
Just when you thought we couldn’t Discover more globull warming idiocy, Treehugger, a subsidiary of The Discovery Channel, proves us wrong. Time for some more climaheimers (like Alzheimers, but for climate alarmists. This is where they forget everything a Realist has told them, and the Realists have to explain it yet again) Blizzards & Blustery […]
Obviously, it’s just like a liberal to get involved in an issue two years after it started. Of course, Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie opened this can of worms up again, saying he would find a way to release the long form Obama birth certificate (psst: all Obama has to do is pay a few bucks […]
Previously: The liberal/Democrat civil war, part xii; The liberal/Democrat civil war, parts ix, x, and xi; The liberal/Democrat civil war, part viii: this time, it’s got ears. Normally, the “previously” section goes at the bottom of the post. This one’s different, because: I think this’ll get me more hits; and I want to emphasize that […]
Education. Important, yes. Expensive, apparently so. But do important plus expensive equal success? Over at OpenMarket.org, Hans Bader says no: America spends far more on education than countries like Germany, Japan, Australia, Ireland, and Italy, both as a percentage of its economy, and in absolute terms. Yet despite this lavish government support for education, college […]
California’s colonization by illegal aliens with a well-known penchant for driving drunk may put an end to the inconvenience of DUI checkpoints, which moonbat activists deem to be racist: Two local advocate groups for undocumented immigrants have publicly accused the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sherriff’s Department of using DUI checkpoints […]
Yesterday Comrade Obama and the Bitter Half treated the nation to this uplifting Kwanzaa greeting: “Michelle and I extend our warmest thoughts and wishes to all those who are celebrating Kwanzaa this holiday season. Today is the first of a joyful seven-day celebration of African-American culture and heritage. The seven principles of Kwanzaa — Unity, […]
More great news for seniors: the all-powerful Department of Health and Human Services will create monetary incentives for medical professionals to accelerate “end of life care”. …the White House will create incentives for doctors to discuss “options” for end of life care through regulation, after Congress removed the incentives from ObamaCare… Under the new policy, […]
Some of you may have missed this story since it was published on the day after Christmas (and a Sunday at that), but Obama’s death panels are back, this time via the president’s fiat regulatory powers. Since it was easy to have missed, I’ve decided to post the story today (Monday) so that more people […]
t’s funny how lefties always consider themselves the more “logical,” the more civilized,” and more “adult” side of the argument. Why, they just want to have an adult debate to explain how correct their ideas are, right? Well, they might unless they work for MSNBC, apparently. Especially if they’re Ed Schultz. Ed Schultz, you see, […]
For years many people including myself have felt that the Western is dead. Sure, there have been a few to come around like Open Range and 3:10 to Yuma, but that’s nothing for a genre that was once so popular that Westerns were being pumped out weekly (on film and TV). Today it’s difficult to […]
This Holiday season Hollywood is apparently taking a break from Christmas movies. In fact, Hollywood seems to be having a serious love affair with remakes and unnecessary sequels. Who really asked for a reboot of The A-Team or Tron? Absolutely no one asked for MacGruber. So what is going on? Your guess is as good […]