Sunday night humor from Marston, Maryland The smell. Skip Roach can’t stand it on days when the temperature nears 90 degrees and a neighboring farm has spread a commercial fertilizer substitute on a field. The rotting stench is suffocating, he says. He shuts his windows, but without air conditioning, the heat is too much. Sometimes, […]

Two stories to draw your attention to on this hazy Sunday evening: First, the Detroit News editorial board Friday slammed State Senate Democrat Mark Brewer for his suggestion about having proposals on the ballot next year that would likely kill what little bit of economy Michigan’s got left: Mark Brewer seems determined to prove that […]

Instapundit: REASON TV: Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie on Why The Obama Honeymoon Is Over. I’m sure it’s a good piece, but as long as I have to go to Reason TV to find it, the honeymoon still isn’t over. When Glenn links to ABC with this story, that’s when I expect to see rolling […]

As people put up solar panels, whether for the energy savings or because they are barking moonbat climate changers, they could run in to a wee bit of a problem Solar energy customers are worried a new fee proposed by Xcel Energy would punish new customers for getting solar panels. The monthly fee, which would […]

As we’ve reported here throughout the year, the White House has made no secret of its antipathy towards conservative talk radio. So Radio Ink magazine took note on July 24, when, discussing health-care reform at a "town hall" Q&A, President Obama said, "You know, all those folks who are out there saying, we can’t afford […]

Reading a Canadian Press article this morning that a friend had forwarded to me, I was struck yet again at how fawning the media have been toward this President, certain that because of his presences, his coolness, his rhetorical gifts and the singular nature of his election (the first black man elected president in a […]

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For the very first time, Barack Obama’s approval rating has gone upside down! According to Rasmussen, Barack Obama’s approval rating is at 49% and his disapproval rating is at 51%. Guess that’s what happens when you push big, unpopular liberal policy after liberal policy in an effort to take advantage of a crisis, talk about […]

A peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Geophysical Research confirms what anyone who isn’t drunk on Kool-Aid has already figured out: fluctuations in the climate are not caused by capitalism. Via Climate Depot: According to this study little or none of the late 20th century global warming and cooling can be attributed to human activity. […]

Nothing could be more American than hot dogs. So naturally, progressives oppose them. First they told us that hot dogs could make us choke. Bureauweenies called for warning labels, a first step toward a ban. Then they went after them on the grounds that hot dogs oppress animals. Moonbats tried to end the hallowed tradition […]

Evidently, the term “Government Run Health Care” doesn’t poll so well. I know it’s the only term I use for the health care debate because “Obamacare” sounds snipey and non-descriptive. So this is what is being reported by Human Events’ Connie Hair: Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), the secretary of the House Republican Conference and a […]

Evidently, the President’s remarks about the Henry Gates arrest are the media’s fault. A Fox News reporter spoke off-camera with press Secretary Robert Gibbs who felt the media blew up the remarks about the arrest: Says Patrick Hynes, “So the cops are stupid and it’s all the media’s fault. Got it.” [Video courtesy Patrick.] And […]

Republicans remember how the last election was made into a referendum on President George W. Bush. It looks like the same thing might happen with President Obama. Far from the uniter he campaigned on being, his words and deeds while delivered in a measured way, have proven to be very divisive:

While we wait for the researchers who feed at the federal trough to produce something, anything, from embryonic stem cells that does not include teratomas (monster tumors,) non-embronic stem cells are continuing to be super A middle-aged leukemia patient has became Chile’s first patient to receive stem cells from an umbilical cord in a radical […]

In an interview campaign stop with ABC News, Obama had this to say “The country has to reform its health care system or else not only are you going to continue to have people really going through a hard time, we’re also going see a continuing escalation of our budget problems that can’t get under […]

* We live in a perverse society when the most obnoxious people and biggest bullies are usually treated as if they’re victims. * The American people have a natural and sensible aversion to radical change. Big changes, coming fast, scare them. * DC Gov’t in 3 steps: 1) Pass a bill now! No time to […]

Right Wing News emailed more than 260 right-of-center bloggers and asked them several questions. The following 67 blogs responded, 101 Dead Armadillos, The Absurd Report, All That Is Necessary, American Diva, And Rightly So, The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Atlas Shrugs, Axis of Right, Bad Example, Basil’s Blog, Bookworm Room, Bright & Early, Bull Moose Strikes Back, […]

During the (Iranian) service, worshippers traded competing chants with some hard-liners in the congregation. When the hard-liners chanted “death to America,” Mousavi supporters countered with “death to Russia” and “death to China,” a reference to Ahmadinejad’s alliance with both countries. — Associated Press Trig is a reminder of our fierce ambivalence over disability. Every mention […]

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I‘ll leave it to you to read the health care fact check. But this was of particular interest to me: The president continued to take credit for deficit reduction by making a claim that has been challenged by many experts. “If we had done nothing, if you had the same old budget as opposed to […]

Earlier this week, I wrote a couple of posts (See here and here) about a scandal involving the American Conservative Union. According to the Politico, they went to FedEx, asked for 2 million dollars to go to work on their behalf on a key regulatory issue, and when FedEx declined their offer, the ACU’s chairman, […]

The latest Fox News Opinion Dynamics poll is out (though, of course, Liberals will poo-poo it while they themselves watch it on TV and read it on the ‘net), and Obama keeps dropping A new FOX News poll finds that while 49 percent want Congress to pass health care legislation this year, about the same […]

Who’s the bigger moonbat: a middle-aged hippie who lives in a cave, or the poodles who glorify his mental illness in a glossy magazine? You decide: Daniel Suelo lives in a cave. Unlike the average American — wallowing in credit-card debt, clinging to a mortgage, terrified of the next downsizing at the office — he […]

What a coincidence — another one of Chairman Zero’s “Czars” just happens to be a totalitarian screwball. Cass Sunstein is the Moonbat Messiah’s pick for Regulatory Czar. Considering the mountains of extraneous regulations that accrue in the District of Criminals with each passing day, he’ll have many opportunities to apply his ideology. Knowledge Is Power […]

Reaction Summary: The deepest irony of Obama’s presser is that it was supposed to be to promote health care, but his inflammatory comments about doctors and police officers actually drew more attention than what he had to say about health care. Igniting a new controversy that distracts people from his main message may not have […]

Atlas Shrugs reports that three Muslim men have been arrested for drowning their female relatives: Zainab Shafi, 19, and her two sisters, 17-year-old Sahar and 13-year-old Geeti, were found inside a black Nissan Sentra submerged in water, near a Rideau Canal lock northeast of Kingston. Another 50-year-old family member, Rona Amir Mohammed, was also inside […]

Hi guys, Dan Riehl of Riehl World View and my co-blogger John Hawkins join me. We discuss the news of the day. The third segment might be interesting to those who wonder about the future of the Right online. Why don’t we have a Kos on the Right? That question and more gets answered there. […]

Last night during his health care teleconference, Barack Obama was asked a question about the arrest of his friend Henry Louis Gates. Long story short, Gates is a professor at Harvard. He came home, found the door to his house jammed, and busted it in. A neighbor who saw the door being smashed in called […]

In the 1960’s, the popular surgery was to remove tonsils (sometimes, as in my mom’s case, it was even necessary). In the 1970’s, the popular surgery was to have perfectly functioning ovaries and uteri removed. In the 1980’s, the popular surgery was to have a knee “scoped”. And, at one time, bloodletting and frontal lobotomies […]

Lynn Sweet’s question about the Henry Gate’s arrest (white officers arrested a black Harvard scholar breaking into his own home) at the press conference seemed coordinated and purposeful and at first glance, strange. The press conference was regarding nationalized health care, why would a reporter talk about the Henry Gate’s arrest? As Yuri says over […]