So, Barack Obama has gotten religion. How convenient. And he’s gotten religion just in time to beat the bitter Bible-thumping, gun-clingers with it. Even better. Ann Althouse has the whole story: Bearing false witness? Breaking the 9th Commandment? So his opponents are sinners. I’m trying to imagine the separation-of-church-and-state freakout if George Bush had taken […]

Don’t look now, but while the citizenry wrestles over the notion of Health Care legislation and what that all means, a big (literally bigger) pile of odious legislation sits in committee waiting to enslave Americans with taxes and limited lifestyle: Cap-n-Trade. To understand just how awful Cap-n-Trade is, one only has to look at California […]

Before he lost the presidential nomination in 2000, John McCain was a fairly reliable conservative vote. After McCain lost, he became a squish. Thus, you see John McCain’s all too typical of late ACU rating of 63% for 2008, but his lifetime rating of 81%. My theory about that has always been fairly simple: Because […]

AGW Loony Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) in an interview with the Detroit News in mid-August 2009, said: “Climate change is very real.” She endorsed cap and trade’s massive tax increase on Michigan industry, saying it would not lead to an increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. “Global warming creates volatility,” said Senator Stabenow. “I feel […]

Can people who are paid by and work for the government be considered “private citizens?” In my mind, yes. While they are government bees, they are not elected. And, the President shouldn’t be trashing American citizens in the first place. So, when a president comes a slurring, they have every right to get upset U.S. […]

The New York Times is reporting that Congressional Democrats and the White House are now completely abandoning the claim that they want a bi-partisan healthcare “reform” bill thereby confirming conservative claims that no compromise is coming from the left with healthcare policies. The spin from Democrats is that Republicans are at fault for the lack […]

The NY Times tells us this morning that we’re likely to get health care reform whether we want it or not. Frankly I’m not sure why that should be a surprise to anyone. Democrats know that they have to pass something or they’ll effectively, to use Howard Dean’s phrase, “kill the presidency” of Barack Obama. […]

Nothing is worse than a writer who takes the reader’s interest for granted. This mistake is particularly common in political writing: “I am a conservative, expressing a conservative viewpoint on an issue of interest to fellow conservatives. Therefore, why bother trying to make it interesting?” Bland, boring writing — however sound the political principles or […]

Early in June The New York Times was all aghast that overwhelming debt from medical bills will cause “nearly two out of three bankruptcies” in the US. Since then the White House has also used the statistic as a way to sell Obamacare policies and frighten voters into accepting a nationalized healthcare system. But is […]

While Obama and the Donkeys are working on ways to “go it alone,” meaning, “forget those troublesome Republicans, we need to spend our time wacking our Blue Dogs,” I wonder what is going on in the Wonderful World Of Single Payer? A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was […]

Could you imagine a nightmare dystopia where corrupt ACORN troglodytes would be charged with monitoring your lifestyle and dietary habits on behalf of an all-powerful federal Leviathan that officially owns your very body? The statist goblins that wrote the ObamaCare bill sure can. From Fox Nation: The health care reform bill approved by the Senate […]

The Moonbat Messiah must have had an epiphany: the economy requires energy, and it won’t be coming from windmills or pixie dust. Shifting emphasis from the draconian drilling restrictions demanded by antihuman environmental extremists, he is actually underwriting oil exploration with tax money that would normally be devoted to salt marsh harvest mice and payoffs […]

In my latest AIP column, I imagine the American public watching a disaster movie and being helpless to stop the disaster: It’s not being said out loud much, but many think it: It was a big mistake to give the government into the hands of Democrats in the House, the Senate and the Executive Branch. […]

There was a ballot initiative in environmentally conscious Seattle that tells you a lot about the American people’s real attitude towards environmental issues: Seattle voters have rejected a 20-cent fee for every paper or plastic bag they get from supermarkets, drug stores and convenience stores. The city’s incumbent mayor didn’t fare much better than the […]

On Twitter, there’s a hilarious “#obamacarefacts” tag that has started getting a lot of attention. I’m not sure if it started as a pro-Obamacare trend or not, but now it’s chock full of hilarious tweets ripping on Obamacare. Here’s are some of the best of the bunch: @jephjacques under ObamaCare, Twitter will be replaced by […]

While politicians and policy wonks get lost in minutiae, it’s important to remember the essential truths about the health care debate: 1. The Democrats control the House, the Senate & the Executive Branch. They can do whatever they want. Republicans are window dressing designed to give political cover for bad policy. 2. America cannot afford […]

Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft posted this video of the Democrats giving themselves a standing ovation for blocking George Bush’s attempt to reform Social Security: From there, Hoft goes on to note this story: Social Security could face a deficit within two years,” U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus predicted here Tuesday. “The situation is much […]

It would make sense that Feminists would oppose burqas because they are a tool of oppression for women: that is, burqas are specifically made to make a woman persona non grata. A burqa’s very purpose is to hide the woman and make her invisible as an individual. She is just not there. But feminists, and […]

It seems that every time Howard Dean shows up on the national stage, there is an impulse to tell him “dude, chill. You are losing you mind.” But, then, everyone reflects for a second or two and realizes that happened long ago. He’s like your Mom’s brother, who never got married and shows up every […]

It has to be the ultimate hypocrisy, but the Democrat Party has been touting its support for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a bill that would eliminate the secret ballot for potential union members, but recently decided that a secret ballot for Senators on whether or not to vote in committee chairmen is quite […]

Byron York wonders where the anti-war movement has gone since GW Bush is gone. He notes that Cindy Sheehan is protesting this weekend at Martha’s Vinyard where President Obama is vacationing, but wonders if the left cares or whether the media will cover that. As York demonstrates in his piece, the answer to both questions […]

It’s a controversial issue because it involves a debate over what is moral and immoral, but the argument for government-ruled compassion toward illegal immigrants is one that is dangerously deceptive (as just about all liberal arguments tend to be), unbeknownst to even some bleeding-heart liberals themselves. I know it’s nothing new, but I’m particularly peeved […]

Burkinis may be banned in France for health and safety reasons, but not in more Islamoconquest-friendly Britain — and in a country run by liberals, that which is not forbidden is mandatory. [A]cross the UK municipal pools are holding swimming sessions specifically aimed at Muslims, in some case[s] imposing strict dress codes. For example, Croydon […]

According to Gallup, conservatives outnumber liberals in all 50 states. In 2009, 40% percent of respondents in Gallup surveys that have interviewed more than 160,000 Americans have said that they are either “conservative” (31%) or “very conservative” (9%). That is the highest percentage in any year since 2004. Only 21% have told Gallup they are […]

I’m trying to figure out the point of this article, headlined “Man carrying assault weapon attends Obama protest.” (By the way, “assault weapon” is an utterly meaningless term invented by anti-gun propagandists, used to make plain old rifles sound scarier.) The story is actually about several people who displayed guns on holsters at protests, which […]

I met Bob Novak once at the RightOnline conference in Austin. I quickly walked up to him and asked him for a picture. I got the impression he wasn’t wild about the idea, but he graciously smiled for the camera anyway: My friend Emily Zanotti had been standing with me when Novak walked up and […]

“You can almost feel the conventional wisdom shifting, day by day, from more Democratic gains in 2010 to big GOP gains in 2010.” — John Hawkins, April 2010 That shift I mentioned back in April? It’s now fully in place. At Netroots Nation, they were telling people to expect to lose 20-50 seats. Now, the […]

There have been a spate of stories about people bringing guns to Townhall meetings. Most people on the Left have been treating it like an outrage, while on the Right, it has generally been shrugged off with a “It’s their right” and left at that. In my view, it’s a bit more of a complex […]

Many of you still don’t see the point of Twitter. This is why I Twitter: Imagine you could gather 200 of the smartest people in a room and they had access to areas of expertise you had no time or hope of gathering. Those people would sift through information and bring up the best stuff […]

More networking and more fun at the Right Online conference sponsored by Americans For Prosperity. John Hawkins and I also talk about scary hotels–hello Newark, N.J.–and my first apartment where I had to be the only unsubsidized renter in a subsidized housing complex. We also discuss dog fighting and Michael Vick. And much more! Download […]