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Earlier this week, I was pleased to get an opportunity to interview : : Rand Paul,: the: Republican: Party’s: nominee: for: the Senate: in: Kentucky.: : : What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Enjoy! To begin with, a lot of people assume you and your father have almost identical views. Can you give me a […]
Hmm, isn’t the Labor Dept., and arm of the UNITES STATES government, supposed to help, you know, AMERICAN citizens? Republican lawmakers are expressing shock over a Labor Department ad campaign that offers government assistance to illegal immigrants who think they’re getting shortchanged for their work — and at least one of them is planning to […]
As promised yesterday, here’s the clip of the Rose Garden announcement: Plus, at Glenn Reynolds, “VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: McChrystal’s Tragedy.” Cross-posted from American Power.
It’s good to see the State Run Media able to run a serious “look at how great our messiah is!” article for a change, rather than the normal “oh, crap, what has he done this time? Spinning this will be hawwwwwd!” story of late. I was getting worried that the stress of spinning would cause […]
At WSJ: Americans are more pessimistic about the state of the country and less confident in President Barack Obama’s leadership than at any point since Mr. Obama entered the White House, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The survey also shows grave and growing concerns about the Gulf oil spill, with overwhelming […]
That title? Yeah, it’s kinda off, I know. But consider the source: Libby Davies, Canadian Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party. Davies was caught in a recent controversy in which she denied Israel’s right to exist. At the American Spectator, Aaron Goldstein calls her “Canada’s Helen Thomas.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper “demanded that […]
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not take up the Senate’s “doc fix” bill, which passed through the Senate on Friday.: A letter from Pelosi reaffirms her position and scolds Republicans for blocking the jobs portion of the bill: “What is it that Republicans in the Senate and House don’t understand about the need for […]
President Obama firing General Stanley McChrystal today seems all rather anti-climactic after yesterday’s drama. Couple thoughts: 1. I wonder if the troops will be happy with this decision. 2. I wonder if the buttheads in the administration will get the ax? 3. I bet McChrystal is relieved to be out of that difficult situation. 4. […]
Well, I was kinda joking in my previous post, “Dems to Run on Joe Barton Campaign Platform.” But I guess it’s no joke to the DNC: And this is actually the Dems’ second Barton ad buy: Right. Well see how this works out amid massive Democratic fail. RELATED: See Peter Hannaford, “Joe Barton Was Right” […]
At NYT, “Obama Relieves McChrystal of Command“: President Obama removed Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander of American forces in Afghanistan on Wednesday, and tapped as his replacement the general’s boss, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the architect of the 2007 surge in Iraq. Mr. Obama, standing with General Petraeus and Vice President Joseph R. Biden […]
The one supposed benefit of socialism is the theoretical potential for full “employment.” In the USSR, two state slaves would be assigned to watch one cow graze all day for barely enough money to stay perpetually drunk, but no one could say they didn’t have a job. In the USSA, school crossing guards watch over […]
You can’t say our government-run schools aren’t teaching kids anything. They just aren’t teaching what we would want them to teach: Parents are outraged after young teenagers were instructed on graphic sexual acts during a Planned Parenthood sex education class at the local high school in Shenandoah, Iowa. “It was horribly inappropriate,” Colleen Dostal told […]
Columnist Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner, has found the enemy and he is us. During a recent episode of the Chris Matthews show, Tucker decided that because we are “addicted to petroleum” we are our own enemy just as much as communism was our enemy during the Cold War. […]
There has been a lot of anger over the inclusion of a statue of Joseph Stalin, Russia’s murderous WWII dictator, in our National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.As a result of that anger a petition has been started to remove the Stalin celebration from the National D-Day Memorial. Thousands of Americans feel that including a […]
Powerline reports this: Under Sharia law, it is forbidden to proselytize to Muslims, and no Muslim can leave the faith. Dearborn, Michigan, is home to a substantial Muslim population, and there is strong evidence that local authorities now enforce sharia in preference to the Constitution of the United States. Thus this Associated Press story about […]
In a move that was sure to devastate the coastal region even more, the Obama administration issued a six month moratorium on deepwater drilling. This would be like having a plane crash, and putting a six month moratorium on flying. Luckily for us, a judge in Lousiania has overturned this decision. The Obama administration is […]
As usual, Democrats and their media peeps focus on the personal, rather than the facts The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration’s six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports. He’s also a new member […]
Barack Obama is being smeared by baseless claims that he would dramatically raise marginal tax rates to levels not seen since the 1970s, or impose new taxes on everything from your child’s education fund to your water. These tired attacks are patently false and have been repeatedly debunked by independent fact check organizations. Below are […]
The NY Times Editorial Board provides a perfect example of Liberal World Thought: Cutting Off The Unemployed It was bad enough when the Senate left town for a long Memorial Day break without passing a bill to extend expiring unemployment benefits. It’s worse now. Back in session for nearly three weeks, the Senate still has […]
Yesterday was a great day for conservatives. Nikki Haley, who’s a strong conservative, easily won a run-off race for : governor in South Carolina. If she wins the general election, she’ll be the first female Indian-American governor in the country. The latest poll I’ve seen has Haley up by roughly 20 points over Democratic candidate Vincent […]
There has obviously been a tremendous amount of controversy surrounding the remarks Gen. Stanley McChrystal made to a Rolling Stone reporter about Barack Obama and other members of his administration. That’s understandable. Even the grunts know that they’re not supposed to publicly trash the Commander-in-Chief and McChrystal & his staff certainly knew it, too. So, […]
Eliot Cohen, who is not kind to Obama (and his strategic blunders in Afghanistan), puts the burden on McChrystal’s breach of civilian control, “Why McChrystal Has to Go“: It is intolerable for officers to publicly criticize or mock senior political figures, including the vice president or the ambassador (who is, after all, the president’s personal […]
Here’s the audio from Naked Emperor: Kerry Picket has the find and here’s the text: We have a system that is unfair to a lot of people. What I’ve suggested is we have to concentrate on is: ‘How do we secure our borders? How do we track individuals coming into this country who may be […]
When I heard that General Stanley McChrystal, the man running the show in Afghanistan, had mouthed off about Obama to Rolling Stone and could conceivably be fired, my first thought turned to the conflict between MacArthur and Truman that helped destroy Truman’s presidency. If you don’t remember, Truman ended up firing MacArthur after the general […]
The Republican National Committee has a new video out. Rather amusing in a grave sort of way, I think. Check out the RNC site at: www.gop.com/obamaschicagonetwork
The folks at the Hebrew language opinion and news site Latma have done it again. A new effort revealing the hypocrisy of the Palestinians and their slavish supporters across the world are skewered in yet another parody video. Based on Funiculi Funicula Sung by the Three Terrors: Erdogano Pavarotti, Assad Carreras and Ahmedido Domingo Erdogan. […]
One of the reasons windmills cannot generate energy efficiently is that the wind doesn’t always blow — and when it does blow, bureaucrats pay wind farms to shut down: Energy firms will receive thousands of pounds a day per wind farm to turn off their turbines because the National Grid cannot use the power they […]
Being an American, 72-year-old David Jungerman wanted to exercise his right to express himself politically. So he parked a trailer in his cornfield along US 71 an hour south of Kansas City painted with the message: Are you a Producer or Parasite Democrats — Party of the Parasites Hard to argue with that. Yet the […]
A really good video clip: And the source of all of this, Rolling Stone‘s interview, “The Runaway General.” RELATED: James Fallows, “Obama Has to Fire McChrystal.” (Via Memeorandum.) Cross-posted from American Power.
William Greider over at the Nation wrote a short, but wacky piece called Goodbye Keynes, Hello Hoover that’s just so off-the-mark it demanded a response, The first fundamental failure of Keynesian economics occurred forty years ago during the Vietnam War when the economy was overheating but the political system failed to take the corrective steps […]