James Joyner writes that he reads books less, now, and non-fiction at that, because he is reading all day in front of the computer: I read non-fiction almost exclusively and have gone from being a book person to an article person. The efficiency of getting 85 percent of the point in eight pages that I […]

I have found myself saying, in conversation, “I’m afraid Obama is going to kill me.” Now, I’m not picturing him or one of his minions coming over to murder me, but I am afraid that as I get older and need expensive care to keep me alive that I will be told I cannot have […]

The White House cannot delete communications, nor keep information about citizens exercising their free speech rights. Linda Douglass admits the White House is Breaking the law.

One of the persistent, shallow global food myths is that the world could feed more people if we gave up eating meat. Ezra Klein wrote another misguided column about this–“The Meat of the Problem”–in the Washington Post of July 29. Klein cites as his authority a naïve “study” by the kids at Carnegie-Mellon University. Klein […]

This is a scene from my living room last night: Yes, my cat-hating Jack Russell mix, Patton, is happily chowing down next to a kitten. That kitten was running around on the porch, ran in the house past Patton, and started eating his food. Then Patton just started eating next to him like it was […]

You know what stinks? What stinks is that the Tea Party and other Right leaning activists are totally unfunded. They get no money….AT ALL. I’m just bitter because while the no-talents on the left get paid $16 an hour to show up, act bored, block doors, [New: Punch people] and wave a sign, activists on […]

Anyone ever notice that some of the biggest supporters of anthropogenic global warming seem to be the biggest CO2 offenders? Traveling all around the globe in private jets, taking limo’s, staying at fancy hotels, having power hog homes, and, oh, let’s not forget all great vacation locations and other areas of interest they head to. […]

At one point, the Obama voters were grassroots. But, ever since he started gaining traction during the primaries, the organization has grown stronger and more controlling, especially when you add groups such as ACORN and SEIU into the mix. I’m just wonder if Pete Wallsten of the LA Timeseven read what he wrote. We all […]

The L.A.Times’ Dan Neil is confused. He thinks that the so-called progressive movement is right on all the issues, but he just cannot understand why they can’t win the public debate, especially on healthcare. Neil laments that they have all the “English majors” on their side but cannot win “any war of words.” Just what […]

“Gryphen” a/k/a Alaska blogger Jesse Griffin, decides apparently at random to unload on Trig Palin again: Sarah Palin has used this heartrending diminutive prop with such careless abandon, that even people who once supported her are embarrassed at her apparent disregard for the well being of this baby. Leaving behind all of the questions about […]

After four decades of urging students, hippies, communists, and agitators to come out en masse to protest the U.S. government, protests that commonly turned to violence, Democrats are at last finding a protest they don’t like because, with the healthcare debate, this time it is a protest of them and not by them. Amazingly, Democrats […]

Back during the presidential campaign, I signed on to Barack Obama’s website to receive email “alerts”. As an avid blogger, I wanted the info firsthand. Obviously that information is now part of a coordinated astroturfing campaign: Friend — I wanted to send you an urgent invitation to an important town hall with Rep. Hank Johnson […]

Via Jake Tapper: In yet more disappointing news for Democrats pushing for health care reform, Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, offered a skeptical view Friday of the cost savings that could result from preventive care — an area that President Obama and congressional Democrats repeatedly had emphasized as a way health […]

If the pharmaceutical companies have been paying protesters to come out against Obamacare, as the President and his Democratic buddies sorely want us to believe, then they’re doing something very wrong. The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama’s health care overhaul, beginning […]

You just have to trust Barry, cause he is just so cute and fuzzy! The ACLU said in a statement to FOXNews.com that the White House blog is a “bad idea that could send a troublesome message.” But the organization added, “While it is unclear at this point what the government is doing with the […]

One thing I have been saying and writing for a long is that no one is actually saying exactly HOW any of the Democrat plans, particularly Obama’s, will reduce health costs. I’ve emailed my Dem Congress Critters, Brad Miller (NC-13) and Senator Kay Hagen. So far, crickets. None of the grasshopper upporters of the plans […]

This is absolutely awesome! “When I watch the news people stand here and tell me that I am a member of a hired mob, that I’ve been called up by the Republican Party, they only wish they could have done something like this. I’ve never been contacted by any organized group.”

Pregnant, are you? Gonna have a baby? Why? Do you hate the planet that much? For people who are looking for ways to reduce their “carbon footprint,” here’s one radical idea that could have a big long-term impact, some scientists say: Have fewer kids. A study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in […]

So some SEIU members beat up a protester in St. Louis last week, and the internet – at least, parts of it – noticed. But all the blogs and columns and coverage and punditizing seem to be missing one important word. Again. As in: SEIU members got violent at a protest…again. Remember this, from last […]

Since this wasn’t about issues. I added timers so we could see who talked the longest.

Rush Limbaugh just can’t win. For years, almost every liberal critique of Limbaugh has included the word “fat.” (The word even made it into the title of one of Al Franken’s books.) So – presumably after his weight was widely remarked upon following his televised address to CPAC – Rush Limbaugh went on a diet. […]

Irony, as we’ve all learned, is not something with which the left is well attuned. For instance, until the Obama administration unleashed the unions, the townhall meetings were a little raucous, but not violent. But now that the White House has all but explicitly condoned the demonization and thus the marginalization of those who disagree […]

The St. Louis Tea Party movement is incensed that thugs from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) beat up an African-American conservative that had come out to a recent anti-Obamacare protest. The attack sent the man to a local hospital. In response to this unprovoked attack, the St. Louis Tea Party folks are going to […]

Question: “Name 10 books every young man should read before his 18th birthday.” — President_Friedman Answer: Great question, but tougher than you’d think to answer. Still, let me give it a shot — although I am only giving out 8 books. (My right hand girl, Melissa Clouthier, already did a list, but since we only […]

Question: Name 10 books every young man should read before his 18th birthday. Posted by President_Friedman Here’s the deal. There are so many books that could be read. I decided to include children’s books and kinda “grow up” through them. The Bible should be read to a child, there are great childrens’ versions, from the […]

Question: “The utter humiliation of the Secretary of State (NK made fun of Hillary when she asked for their release) and inflating Kim Jong Il’s ego by sending an ex-President to chat with him is a *good* thing? It is good for Clinton’s legacy and reputation as Worldwide Pimp Daddy and smoothtalker (and the hostages […]

Question: “President Bush, while lacking conservative credentials in many areas of his presidency, was a good man who was disparaged and drug through the muck by a bunch of people with no integrity. Conservatives, due to their moral values, take the high road. I see many conservatives starting to resort to name calling and blatant […]

Question: “Do you think running up trillion dollar deficits within months of taking office is a deliberate attempt on Obama’s part to destroy the United States as a superpower? Liberals have always hated American power.” — CoolCzech Answer: There are definitely some liberals who would like to see America laid low, but most of them […]

The Left, exasperated by being thwarted both without and within, have taken to distortion, demonizing, and violence. Discussion not allowed. This is expected. Conservatives and small government types, have had it. The press has been in the business of painting those on the Right as psychotic, baby-killing, meanies. If you doubt the bias, tell me […]

Revelations just keep coming regarding Comrade Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren. First we learned that he’s an ecofascist opposed to free markets; then that he wanted to put sterilants in our drinking water; next that he doesn’t regard babies as human until after they’ve been socialized. Now we discover that his role model is eugenicist […]