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Conservatives, Republicans, libertarians (both big-L and small-l): please don’t take this the wrong way. Your opinions are important to me. I’d hate to think that you think that I want President Obama (circa 2011) to become anything other than former President Obama (circa 2013). But. For two veteran political operatives to suggest that Obama should […]
With a major tax fight looming around the corner, we can expect the usual class-warfare rhetoric from the White House and the punditsphere. Phrases like “for the rich” will be bandied about without second thought, while many question whether these so-called rich deserve to be “given” tax cuts. This is the argument made by Austan […]
Cross-posted from American Power: “Obama ‘Has Largely Lost the Consent of the Governed’.” ***** I don’t take these calls all that seriously, mainly because I don’t believe that Obama’s a cut-and-run president, and while I disagree with him profoundly, that’s a good quality to have. He just needs to find a new tack, perhaps become […]
Originally posted at American Power: “Myanmar Frees Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi (VIDEO).” ***** The main story’s at LAT, “Myanmar Frees Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi.” I’m just blown away by the brazen and bankrupt maneuvering of the military junta, which just held the most carefully scripted elections imaginable, the first elections in […]
Every now and again I like to play “name that party.” This is the fun parlor game where you read a story about a politician that has either been indicted, arrested, or imprisoned and try to guess by the story from which party he hails. If you read the story and no political party affiliation […]
Somehow, this Washington Post article, meant for publication on Sunday the 14th, is available on-line, and it is a hoot! How to stop global warming – even if you don’t believe in it In the global-warming debate, scientists are, admirably, still trying to save the day. Last week, the American Geophysical Union announced plans to […]
Not to be a negative nelly, but, the House Republicans best not be writing checks they can’t afford to pay off Republicans are working to make sure the House of Representatives functions better than ever, the leader of the GOP’s effort to transition into power said Saturday. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), incoming Speaker John Boehner’s […]
San Francisco’s latest, greatest “cause celebre” is : the penis.: Sure, why not? Liberals are driving this city-in-decline into the ocean (++++See below for San Francisco financial problems) because they refuse to stop spending tax payer money on “do-gooder” causes and refuse to deal with the financial reality of dwindling tax revenues.: : San Francisco radicals, most […]
Leaving aside his bizarre absolutions of radical Islam in the face of Hindus who have just removed bloodstains: from: the carpet at the Taj Mahal palace and have lost 80 million: to Islamists over history, let’s focus on the stated purpose of President Obama’s $2 billion dollar “vacation:” : to seal deals to grow America’s economy and create […]
Cross-posted from American Power. ***** And again, that’s ALLEGEDLY gets black postal worker fired. Folks can check it out for themselves, at The Blaze, “Woman Goes on Racist Rant, Allegedly Hits Postman Over Mail Delivery,” and Mediaite, “Postal Worker Claims He Got Fired For Recording Customer’s N-Word Rant.” And at Guyism: There is no wrath […]
Cross-posted from American Power. ***** R.S. McCain suggests it’s The Weekly Newsbeast. Either way, don’t expect much change from the far-left Obama-worshipping program of Jon Meacham, which hammered the final nails in the Newsweek coffin. See, The Observer, “Newsweek and Daily Beast to Merge, and at NYT, “Newsweek and Daily Beast Have a Deal.” Plus, […]
Some science blogging for a Friday night, and for cat lovers as well, “Biomechanics of Feline Water Uptake.” And here’s the cool video: And previously at American Power: * “Back to the Future with Jerry Brown at the Helm in California.” * “Tory Councillor Gareth Compton Suspended After ‘Stoning’ Tweet to Columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.” * […]
Smitty (AKA, Chris Smith) over at The Other McCain has announced in a recent blog post that he will be reporting to Kabul, Afghanistan in time for Christmas, and that he will not be writing anymore blog posts until late 2011. To be specific, Smitty wrote the following about his upcoming deployment to Afghanistan: “Stacy […]
Amazon has finally pulled down from Kindle The Pedophile’s Guide to Love & Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct by a pervert named Phillip R. Greaves, 2nd. The author’s product description, via Geekologie: This is my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certian [sic] […]
Moonbat educrats celebrated Veterans Day a few days early in Denair, California — by banning the American flag: 13-year-old Cody Alicea rides with an American flag on the back of his bike. He says he does this to be patriotic and to honor veterans, like his own grandfather, Robert. He’s had the flag on his […]
Marc Theissen recently asked some very important questions about where the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is getting the mountains of cash that it spends on Democrat political campaigns. He finds that it is coming from foreign sources, but the SEIU is refusing to yield to requests for transparency. If the SEIU is getting the […]
I wondered what your thoughts were now on Affirmative Action. I was a great believer in it in the 70’s and early 80’s. I had grown up with such unfairness towards blacks in hiring and school, that I thought it necessary. Then we passed laws against discrimination, and anyone my age (49) or younger had […]
Why, yes, climate alarmists, composed primarily of left leaning people, do hate the human race, especially for what the say humanity is doing to Mother Earth. They tell us all about it by waking up to their electrical powered alarm clock, take a shower (hopefully) using water heated by electricity, flush the toilet a few […]
Normally, I would entitled this type of post “Friday Stupid,” but, really, these are liberals, and Common Sense (snicker) is ticked off that no one, including Bush, will be prosecuted here in the USA In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to the CRIME section) George W. Bush admitted that […]
Just prior to the election we discovered that in the state of Nevada the former chief of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now’s (ACORN) affiliated Project Vote organization was under indictment for voter fraud. This week we learn that Amy Busefink has coped a plea deal on charges of illegally paying “bonus” payments […]
Have you ever thought about what makes human beings stand out from the masses? What makes them exceptional, extraordinary, and well worth knowing? Well, as a thought experiment, I decided to approach this topic a little differently. I decided to go back, throughout my life, and think about the most exceptional people I’ve ever PERSONALLY […]
We have a system for detecting terrorists. You have a system for annoying people. — Attributed to ex-El Al security chief Dan Issacharoff Conservatives are committed to bettering the lives of the American people, but too often, we don’t start the process by asking, “What problems do people have today and how can we use […]
“Ethics,” in modern practice, basically consists of taking what the law would term mala in se offenses (bad in and of themselves; the sort of thing that people have a visceral, morality-based reaction to) and turning them into fairly minor mala prohbiata offenses (bad only because they’re prohibited by state action). More importantly, though, the […]
Given their love of warning labels and the current state of the hard left Democrat Party, I would propose placing at least one of the following warning stickers on every voting machine in America. Because at least with the stickers present, no one can claim they weren’t warned about the 100% track record of policy […]
I’m sure many of you have read the recent glowing article about a Communist / Marxist forum in New York City. Frankly, it made me want to vomit. Had they written such a supportive piece about NAZIS, there would be boycotts and protests, as there should be. But, as Jonah Goldberg and others have mentioned, […]
You just can’t make this stuff up, folks. Well, really, it can be made up, just not by you, because you are not raving paranoids living in a unicorn infested world of hopey changey unreality, like Ezra Klein does Since the election, there’s been a lot of talk about what President Obama and the Democratic […]
Plus some additional thoughts: “Veterans Day 2010.” More at American Power.
I had a Redbox movie I needed to return (Robin Hood, if you’re wondering) and I needed to pick up a few things from the grocery store, so I decided to put on my old USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) ballcap and take advantage of the free breakfast for veterans at the local Maryville Hy-Vee Food […]
Sammy Benoit at Yid With Lid calls our attention to Media Matters’ effort to paint Glenn Beck as an anti-Semite for criticizing George Soros. (They’ve even managed to get the ADL’s Abe Foxman to join up for their smear crusade.) Of course,: Jew-hating is a vicious thing, but Media Matters certainly didn’t hesitate to foment hatred […]
During John Stewart’s recent “Rally for Sanity” there were all of the usual signs one would expect the Left wants us to forget about. Signs about “9/11 truth” and the popular “teabagger” slur to Hitler comparisons and references to McCarthy, it’s all terribly predictable and boring. If these people want to do some research about […]