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You do have to give Obama high chutzpah marks for pulling this stunt, though Seeking to show he is serious about reining in soaring budget deficits, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will kick off the work of a panel he created to try to solve the nation’s fiscal woes. Obama has given the independent, 18-member […]
Jim Bunning and Tom Coburn have, unsuccessfully, tried to force the Democrats in Congress to pay for extensions of unemployment benefits. This has ultimately failed each time. That’s not because it’s a bad idea;: it’s because it’s an easily demagogued position. “You don’t want to extend unemployment benefits? That means you have no compassion for […]
As you may have heard, after more than a year of giving little more than lip service to illegal immigration, the Democrats have suddenly become extremely interested in pushing comprehensive immigration reform. This is quite curious in that the bill almost assuredly cannot pass. A year ago, when I interviewed Roy Beck, head of Numbers […]
I swiped this from someone on Facebook today…
In light of GeicoGate and the recent accusations from the media regarding the violent rhetoric of the conservative movement, I’ve taken the liberty of editing together the voicemails and emails we’ve received as a result of DC Douglas’ call to contact FreedomWorks. Here’s the result. WARNING: This is intense. Violent language is an understatement. I […]
I was driving to St. Joseph, Missouri to buy some new windows at Lowe’s, when I noticed this billboard. The billboard is next to an overpass, and it would be dangerous to get a closer picture. It reads: The Current Administration Underestimates The Will of We The People. Vote Them OUT in November. I think […]
Good news, everybody! Barney Frank says that there’s no bailout in the Democrats’ financial reform bailout bill: On MSNBC a few minutes ago, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) criticized Republican claims that the Democrats’ financial reform bill is a “bailout bill,” calling that assertion “triply phony.” “There is the issue that the Republicans tried to say, […]
Back in 2006, I did a post on how dumb it was for human beings to try to capture the attention of space aliens, Consider this: if there are actually aliens out there and a message from Earth reaches them, we don’t have the slightest idea what would happen. If they get the message, they […]
Go over to The Anchoress and watch the ostensibly offending joke. Then come back. Was it offensive? Text here: “I’d like to begin with a story that I think is true, a Taliban militant gets lost and is wandering around the desert looking for water. He finally arrives at a store run by a Jew […]
There aren’t many corners of our culture that haven’t yet been corrupted by moonbattery. Now even Archie comics — which have been around since the Depression — promote normalizing homosexual depravity. In a move that is generating a lot of buzz on the Web, the publishers of Archie Comics recently announced that they are bringing […]
When Michael Steele ran for the Senate in Maryland in 2006, the Rightroots fundraising group that I led enthusiastically supported him. Then, when Steele ran for RNC chairman, I backed him for that, too. There were a lot of qualified candidates who could have done a good job: Saul Anuzis, Ken Blackwell, Katon Dawson — […]
By now anyone who doesn’t live in a cave is aware at some level that the President of the United States is a guy whose long-time friend, associate, and political mentor waged a terror war against the USA. But somehow the full import of this fact doesn’t seem to have sunk in. Maybe bombing Americans […]
Until recently, Andy Stern was the President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a union that has served as one of President Obama’s biggest donors as well as filling the ranks of his ground troops. In a surprise move, Stern resigned his post this month and no one is really sure why at this […]
Rush Limbaugh and a few other radio hosts have made it a center piece of the attack against President Obama, the Tea Partiers have often put such sentiment on their protest signs, and the conservative chattering classes have been abuzz with the question: does Barack Obama want to destroy the United States? The only real […]
At LAT, “With little money to spend, Chuck DeVore puts his faith in his message: Running third in a three-way race for the GOP’s U.S. Senate nomination, he is a strict “tea party” conservative.” As usual, the piece is one of those balloon poppers LAT‘s so famous for. Note especially the quote from political scientist […]
As you have probably heard, Arizona’s Governor has signed a tough new law targeting illegal immigrants. Both sides have done their usual barking from the far side of their political agendas. We are sick of it. I find myself agreeing in part with a liberal columnist for The Arizona Republic: From one side, we heard […]
I do not believe this for one minute: In the two-minute and 42-second video released Monday, Obama emphasizes that the key to victory for Democrats in November will be convincing the people who helped fuel his 2008 White House bid – first-time voters – to head to the polls for the second time in two […]
And by “warm and fuzzy,” I mean they threaten his life Hamas released an animated film Sunday bearing a grisly message for Israel: If it doesn’t meet the Islamic militant group’s demands, an Israeli soldier it has held for nearly four years could return home in a coffin. The short but sophisticated cartoon – which […]
A general mish-mash of news, starting with CNN, which called the demonstration Sunday “largely peaceful.” Does that mean that there were acts that were not peaceful, too? They don’t say. They do say this Chanting “Yes we can,” waving American flags and holding signs reading “We have rights” and “We are human,” demonstrators kept up […]
I finally got to finish Karl Rove’s book “Courage and Consequence.” What I would like to do is run through a couple of the false narratives the left has always pushed about Karl Rove. The first, and perhaps the most vicious, is the story that Karl Rove was behind the pushpolling against McCain in South […]
CHURCHVILLE, VA – The shale gas industry’s boom is creating 100,000 jobs in Pennsylvania during 2010, according to Penn State University. Only a few of these new jobs are on drill rigs; many of those jobs go to highly-skilled oil patch veterans from out of state. But the gas industry’s expansion has created jobs by […]
Michael Ledeen and PJ O’Rourke agree: the secret to understanding Obama is that he is typical politically correct apple-polishing teacher’s pet of a student that was insufferable in school, and remains so today.
I have a lengthy (and spoiler-packed, for better or worse) review of the third season of Mad Men (now out on DVD) over on the Pajamas’ main page. Topics discussed include the show’s slightly skewed politics and history of the Kennedy-era 1960s, amongst other things.
The dude’s banned at the University of Wyoming, and you gotta love these “security threats” : Attorneys cite security threats as the only reason for the University of Wyoming barring University of Illinois-Chicago Professor Dr. William Ayers, according to court documents filed in federal court for UW and UW President Tom Buchanan on Saturday. Four […]
From NASA on Flickr (full-size is here, and be sure to cruise around a bit while visiting there … incredible stuff): Also at The Big Picture: The most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth created to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land […]
Talk about “scandalous and offensive” trademarks!: [P]hrases containing some form of “God” have been trademarked [sic] more than 3,400 times in the United States: “God answers knee-mail” and “All God’s Children Got Issues” and, of course, “T.G.I. Friday’s,” the restaurant chain. But where you have trademarks, you also have trademark infringement. Which is how Megan […]
It’s simply amazing that a piece of legislation that was unread by the people who voted for it, and is over 2,400 pages, should cause confusion. I mean, seriously, “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means […]
I know. I had forgotten that show was still on the air, too. Well, I suppose even Michael Moore needs a show to appear on where he is actually slightly more attractive than the host. Anyway, Larry “I literally am older than dirt” King is at it again. Not content with just exposing his serial […]
Did anybody else know that November 5th is “widely known” as “Guy Fawkes Night?” Those are Benen’s words. “Widely known.” Guy Fawkes was a British wannabe terrorist. He planned to blow up Parliament, but was arrested before he could bring the plot off. Much more recently — and much more relevant to Western cultural references […]
For the Washington Post’s Post Partisan Blog Charles Lane’s somewhat irreverent, perhaps even dismissive treatment of the admittedly quixotic Senate campaign of journalist Mickey Kaus painted the would-be candidate as a union fighter. Interestingly, he isn’t far off the mark, which is odd for the fact that Kaus is a pretty straight down the line […]