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Once Again Unions Find a Pliant Judge to do Their Bidding

In another example of why unions are antithetical to good government, a pliant, left-wing judge in California has ruled that the Schwarzenegger Administration cannot furlough state workers that belong to three powerful public employees unions. Governor Schwarzenegger has been battling to cut his over spent state budget for several years now and one of the […]

Dems Look To Finalize Health Bill In Secret

Shocking, eh? Democratic leaders are looking to forgo a formal, public conference to merge the House and Senate’s health care overhaul bills, giving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House free rein to hammer out the final measure behind closed doors and thwart Republican efforts to stymie it. Not […]

How Cold Will It Be? Think Antarctica

I wonder what the climate alarmist talking points will be about this Friday’s forecast low at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, near where Robert Scott launched his fatal expedition to the South Pole in 1911, is 21 degrees. It will probably be colder in Houston. Forecasters say Houston should see its coldest weather in more than […]

How The Mighty Fall

It took George Bush eight years and two wars to get here: (via Wizbang) Liberals may be forgiven for looking at the latest public opinion surveys and wondering if they somehow stumbled into the Valley of Death instead of Obama’s promised paradise. The president remains somewhat popular personally, but, as Matthew Continetti of The Weekly […]

The 20 Biggest Stories of 2009

20) Michael Jackson Dies: A weird reclusive pop star who was way, way, way too interested in young boys kicked the bucket under strange circumstances. Despite the fact that his last concert tour was in 1996, people went crazy. 19) Barack Obama Wins a Peace Prize for Nothing: Obama was given a Peace Prize not […]

The American Air Travel Nightmare

Honestly, I HATE flying. I hate the confusion when you’re getting in and out of a strange airport. I hate showing up a couple of hours early at the airport to make sure I don’t miss my flight. I hate the obtrusive security checks. I hate the way they pack you in like sardines in […]

Global Warming? Give It Up

It may seem that if they could pass off FDR as a great president, Hitler as a conservative, the Tet Offensive as a grand victory for communism, and Barack Obama as qualified to run the country, there is absolutely no lie too preposterous for our liberal elite ruling class to ram down our throats. But […]

Another Obama Program FAIL?

It appears a number of economists and financial experts see it as a failure. Not only a failure but an impediment to recovery. The Obama administration’s $75 billion program to protect homeowners from foreclosure has been widely pronounced a disappointment, and some economists and real estate experts now contend it has done more harm than […]

Another Example of Obama’s Radical Leftist Agenda

Over at the American Thinker, Jay Schalin has another example of the radical leftist agenda that Obama is trying to pull over on the American people. This time we see it in the extremist agenda for education that Obama is trying to implement by revitalizing the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), […]

America Rising: Tea Parties, Health Care And NO More….

Want to capture American frustration in three minutes? This video has great production value and really makes the point: [via Dan Riehl] A couple weeks ago when Tab Hale was visiting, I watched a review copy of the Tea Party, The Documentary Film [get video at the link]. In a word, the video was spectacular. […]

Effigy Of Obama Hung In Jimmy Carter’s Hometown

I’m waiting for the Typical Liberal “Blame The Right” Fest to start (BBC, which also has video) The US Secret Service says it is investigating after an effigy of Barack Obama was found hanging in the home town of former President Jimmy Carter. TV footage showed the doll hanging by a noose in front of […]

Brookings Institution: ‘States of Conflict: An Update’

From Michael O’Hanlon, et al., “States of Conflict: An Update.” And from the conclusion: In Afghanistan, 2009 was the year of decisions – by President Obama, of course, by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal and by the Afghan people as they re-elected Hamid Karzai as president. Afghanistan had a bloody year, with more than 300 Americans […]

Pres. Obama Is No Different

Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano’s appearance on a Sunday talk show after the attempted terror attack, assuring the traveling public that the system had “worked,” will no doubt be one of the low points of this administration. And this is an administration full of low points in just it’s first year. It was a decidedly absurd […]

2010: Year of the Citizen

So here we are in 2010. I’ll be the first to say that I am not the least bit sorry to say goodbye. As painful and crazy as it was – both personally and politically – it was in many ways the start of something bigger than I could have imagined… as well as a […]

The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2009

40) But it is really not easy to make fun of the Obamas, because they’re really – they’re kind of really perfect, aren’t they?” — Joy Behar 39) Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Beyonce has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos […]

Very Skeptical About Scott Brown’s Chances

All across the right side of the blogosphere people are hopping on the Scott Brown bandwagon. Who’s Scott Brown? He’s the Republican candidate running in a special election to replace Ted Kennedy later this month. Brown seems like a solid candidate who’s running a good campaign and he’s probably the best candidate we could get […]

Abortion Rates Rose in Illinois 2008

United Press International is reporting that abortion rates rose five percent in Illinois in 2008. Illinois doctors performed 47,717 abortions, the most in five years. The state Department of Public Health reported 47,717 abortions in 2008, the latest year for which it has figures. In 1998, there were 49,403. There is a law on the […]

Why Is Coakley Hiding Out?

My introduction to the less superficial elements of the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat in the Senate came via the blogging efforts of Sissy Willis. The notion that we can strike a blow against ObamaCare with this race was interesting. Today, I came upon this. What’s the deal? Sign on to the party of […]