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WikiLeaks and the Afghanistan War Logs

It’s strange, since I was just listening to a 20 minute interview with Julian Assange yesterday at TED. I had planned to write about that as soon as this latest breaking news cycle winds down (JournoList, Shirley Sherrod, etc.), and now we’ve got the release of the Afghanistan war logs, which had been expected. Yeah, […]

Hillary in a Bind: Pakistan Aiding Taliban

Original post at 73wire.com This is getting even more interesting.:  Last week, I reported that Hillary promised more aid to Pakistan to the tune of $500 million, totaling about $1.5 billion of taxpayer money, and the next day she accused someone in the Pakistani government of knowing where Bin Ladin is.:  Terrific, right.:  Well, it […]

Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea

I’m about half way through C. Bradley Thompson’s new book, Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea. Yeah, it’s an attack on neoconservatism, by one who was sympathetic to the ideology at one time. It’s an excellent read, although I disagree with its conclusions, and it’ll take me some thinking to put those disagreements in more […]

Britain Slowly Doing Away With Government Health Care

As America slowly moves towards full government run health care, Britain, a country 1/40th the size of the USA in geography (#79 on the size chart, with the USA at #3) is moving away from single payer and government control, and has actual plans to do this Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized […]

Reminder: Nikki Haley is a Secret Muslim Whore

Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal … Nikki Haley whupped a whole lotta good ol’ boy ass in the South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary, trouncing her establishment opponents at the polls and leaving behind a battered pile of the state’s nastiest corruptocrats and sleazebags. And boy are they pissed. Now, just a month after Haley’s […]

Imam Feisal and the Ground Zero Mosque

It’s amusing that Charles Johnson, who was once perhaps the country’s lead anti-jihad blogger, has done a 180 degree turn, and is now an apologist for radical Islam. Here’s his post today (at a Google-safe link): “An Interview with the Lead Developer of Park51.” C.J. smears Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer (and their supporters) as […]

Talk Radio Weekly Recap: July 19-23

Enjoy FREE audio and webcam clips from the week in conservative talk radio, at my NEW Talk Radio Watch column at WND. Some highlights: JournoList wishes death on Rush Limbaugh… Michael Savage says Breitbart was “set up”… Glenn Beck mocks Keith Olbermann in viral video… and a whole lot more! Here’s some stuff that came […]

“Freedom of Speech and All That”

Very magnanimous and thoughtful of this punkweasel to give that little nod to the First Amendment, as he waxes lyrically about this “gatekeeper” idea. You knew it was coming, folks. Shirley Sherrod is a perfect wonderful human being now, don’t dare say a word against her — call her “Saint Shirley” — and now that […]

AGW Today: Kerry And ABC News Use FAIL Tag

You do have to give John Kerry some props: he is using the old saying that there is no such thing as bad press to good effect. Witness his latest histrionics Speaking at a town hall-style meeting promoting climate change legislation on Thursday, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) predicted there will be “an ice-free Arctic” in […]

Cook County Board to Extort Suburban Drivers

Just a reminder of how Obama’s Chicago Way-style of politics works…. THIS is where he comes from: Oh, the games Cook County Board President little Todd Stroger plays. And they are always about sticking it to the taxpayers, aren’t they? Stroger and his Democrat co-conspirators have really proven that county Democrats are more like a […]

Tax cuts expiring, more unexpectedness on the way:

That’s “unexpected” in the Instapundit sense. The story: Democrats happy to let taxes rise. The Obama administration will allow tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire on schedule, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday, setting up a clash with Republicans and a small but vocal group of Democrats who want to delay the looming […]

Recess missing one key demand from the Obama/Pelosi Led House

: : : : : : : : : : :  The one thing Obama seemed to pride himself on was that his legislative majority, especially in the house, was behind him.:  When ObamaCare was signed into law, it was called a triumph by many of the liberal Representatives who supported it.:  However, when it came to actually supporting it on their land via health-care […]

Liberal Blockheads At Netroots Nation

It’s fair to say that some conservatives expect too much out of Republicans from liberal states or districts, but only the complete blockheads would go this far, Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos blog and an organizer of the first such annual conference five years ago, said he and his followers are disinclined to […]

May Day! Painting America Black

A few stills from The Decline: The Geography of a Recession sum up what is being done to this country. These represent unemployment rates by county: By the time this nightmare is over, the entire map will be black. If you think it’s an accident, name an Obama policy that can’t be expected to raise […]

Free Money: Federal Government Gets Into the Payday Loan Business

As America plunges headlong into socialism, it’s getting hard to keep track of all the industries that our collectivist rulers are in the process of nationalizing. Next up — payday loans: Deep in the bowels of Donk (DOdd-fraNK Financial abomination bill, whose 2315 pages nobody has read in their entirety), in Title XII: IMPROVING ACCESS […]

New Report: U.S. Vulnerable to a Nuclear Attack

See, “Report by the Joint Defense Science Board and the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee Task Force.” And the related discussion thread here: The United States is now woefully unprepared for any kind of nuclear attack … and the Obama administration has taken steps to further reduce the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The problem and the cause […]