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Mid-East Double Shot: Israeli Tells Obama “NO!”/Mystery Rockets

Yet again, Obama has failed on the world stage. Copenhagen, Chicago Olympics, his Iran policy (let’s be honest, everyone has failed), despised by the British press, annoyed a large number of leaders in American ally nations……and now Israel has said no. Again Aides to Israel’s prime minister said Thursday that he has officially rejected President […]

The Circular Reasoning Behind Manmade Global Warming

Over at National Review, global warming true believer Jim Manzi lands on Mark Levin with both feet because the Great One treats the theory of manmade global warming with the scorn it deserves. Here’s Manzi: Levin argues that human-caused global warming is nothing to worry about, and merely an excuse for the Enviro-Statists (capitalization in […]

This Week In Quotes: April 16 – April 21

The problem isn’t that things are collapsing. It’s that not enough things are collapsing. General Motors, AIG, and the government of California have committed enough errors to merit immediate extinction, but there they still are. Yet the political establishment continues to argue that the market needs to be prevented from delivering rough justice to sinners. […]

Explaining The GOP’s Fund Raising Hole

The fact that the Republican:  Party is having a hard time raising money has been much remarked upon. So has the amount they’ve been spending to do it: Both the national Democratic and Republican party committees spend about two-thirds of the money they take in on the care and comfort of committee staffs and on […]

Massa To Get Full Probe

Seriously. Here’s the headline from NPR: House Ethics Panel Announces Full Massa Probe And the contents of the probe are too disgusting to imagine, but here it is: The House ethics panel has announced it is starting a “full and complete” investigation into the actions of lawmakers and staffers related to former Democratic congressman Eric […]

Dem Rep Raul Grijalva Calls for Boycott of His Own State

Nothing could be more profoundly self-destructive than moonbattery, as shockingly demonstrated by Arizona Congresscrumb Raul Grijalva, who wants the rest of the country to boycott his own state to punish it for trying to do something about the illegal immigration crisis. An Arizona congressman urged businesses on Tuesday to boycott his state if the governor […]

GEICO Drops Obnoxious Moonbat D.C. Douglas

Teacher Jason Levin isn’t the only moonbat to let Tea Party Derangement Syndrome threaten his career: Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 21, 2010 — Los Angeles actor, D.C. Douglas, says he was dropped from the upcoming GEICO “Shocking News” campaign after a group of Tea Party members harassed him and the insurance giant over a […]

Unsafe Sharia Healthcare Coming Your Way, America

Recently the British health services ruled that Muslim nurses and doctors didn’t have to wash their hands before handling patients. Why did they reverse a hundred years of sanitary medical practices? Why, because the Brits didn’t want to upset their Muslim citizens who think that washing themselves is some sort of crime against their religion. […]

How Unions Are Destroying California

Steve Malanga of City journal has a great piece detailing how California’s public employee unions are destroying that once great state. Malanga starts by repeating the ominous warning to the politicos at the state capitol in Sacramento made by a Service Employees International Union chief. “We helped to get you into office and we got […]

SIGTARP Report Confirms: Homeowner Bailout Program Won’t Fix Housing Crisis

Connie Hair at Human Events reports: A new report released yesterday (.pdf) by Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) warns that Obama administration efforts to bailout homeowners through the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) are ineffective and will not stem the sweeping tide of foreclosures. The $75 billion HAMP […]

Facts Have No Place in a Liberal’s Argument

I commented on my Facebook page earlier today that I enjoy a good debate. Here’s the problem. Often, an argument with a liberal results in their use of hyperbole, emotion and the creation of a logic vacuum. Let me give you an example of how logic and facts have no place in a liberal argument. […]

AGW Today: Free Light Bulb Night At The Ball Park!

I’m not quite sure whether to be appalled or amused, to laugh out loud or do a double face palm Xcel Energy is giving away compact fluorescent light bulbs to every person attending Wednesday’s Minnesota Twins home game, and four of those bulbs come with free tickets to future home games this season. The energy-efficient […]

Obama Homeowner Bailout Program A 75 Billion Dollar Bust

The government has no business using taxpayer money to prevent foreclosures in the first place. As Jeb Hensarling has said, We must remember that 93.6% of households rent, own free and clear, or are current on their mortgages…Programs…that force the responsible majority to subsidize the irresponsible minority should be rejected. That brings us to Obama’s […]

Special Report: A Briefing On All The Key Republican Senate Primaries

This year there:  is : a surprising number of competitive Republican primaries. All in all, that’s a good thing because it gets more Republicans involved, it makes the establishment Republicans respect the base, and it encourages Republicans in D.C. : to pay close attention to their constituents. That being said, at the end of the day, if […]

Abortion, Again: Do Babies Feel Pain?

Nebraska heats this topic up again. Embarrassed about being the late-term abortion capital of the United States, Nebraska changed the law: Can an unborn child feel pain? That question will dominate the abortion debate in America for the next several years thanks to Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska. Last week, Heineman signed the Pain Capable […]

Moonbat Anti-Macho Manifesto

Funny thing about politics: you can be a conservative and be all woman, but how can you be a moonbat and be any kind of man? Germany’s Green Party offers a glimpse of what progressives think you should be instead: A new manifesto from the German Green Party aims to banish macho men for good. […]

Grotesquely Overpaid Illinois Teachers Demand Tax Hikes

The staggeringly greedy criminal racket known as public education has gotten so far out of control in the state that gave us Comrade Obama that taxpayers are on the hook for $1 BILLION in pension liability for just the top 100 educrats. But at least the teachers unions have figured out how to pay for […]

Those Delusional ‘Coffee Party’ Lefties

The self-delusional world in which liberals wallow truly is amazing. It takes an Olympic gymnast’s level of agility to warp your logic enough to think like one of them and a recent report on the left-wing blather site Newsvine is yet one more example of the backbreaking contortions that liberals must indulge to make themselves […]

The Latest “Right:” Traveling

One point conservatives have made again and again is that you don’t have any “rights” that someone else has to pay for. That’s why it may be moral for our society to provide health care to people who can’t afford it, but it’s not a “right.” If health care is a “right,” then why not […]

A “Take Murtha’s Seat” Moneybomb

The biggest race in America next month is going be Tim Burns (R) vs. Mark Critz (D) for “John Murtha’s seat.” Burns is a solid conservative who’s come out in favor of repealing Obama’s health care reform. It’s also worth noting that he’s winning. The latest numbers from Public Policy Polling look good: Buoyed by […]

Why Would Dems Worry About 2012 If Their Policies Are So Popular?

Remember when Democrats opined that Americans would love health care reform once it passed? Remember how Republicans wondered why in the world Democrats were so content to commit political suicide given the Scott Brown victory? Evidently, all is not well and so incumbent Dems are hoarding cash–not for the impending climate apocalypse–for the impending electoral […]

Obama And Chris Dodd Lay The GroundWork For More Bailouts

If Barack Obama came up to you and told you the sun is shining outside, you’d be wise to grab an umbrella because not only does he incessantly lie, as a general rule, whatever he says is:  the:  exact opposite of the truth. He talks about slashing the deficit, even as he’s spending like no […]

Nanny State To Regulate Your Salt Intake

Aren’t you thrilled that the Government is just looking out for your best interests, since you are obviously to incompetent to make your own decisions? FDA takes aim at salt content in processed food The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying […]