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Four Questions For Climahysteric Cap ‘N Taxers

With the passage of the massively insane Waxman-Markey cap and tax bill, here are four questions to ask those who support it, particularly the politicians who voted for it and AGW leaders such as Al Gore 1. Did you read the bill before throwing your support behind it? Did you read the 300 page dead […]

Profile of Jenny Sanford

The New York Times has a suprisingly good profile on SC First Lady Jenny Sanford, the “woman scorned” in the Gov. Mark Sanford affair scandal. The piece talks about how she was and is arguably the woman “behind the man” – the one who perhaps had more influence on his decision-making both inside the office […]

Paul Krugman – Climate Expert

Here’s a perfect example of why Paul Krugman should stick with writing about economics: One of the favorite arguments of climate-change deniers is “but it was warmer in the late 90s.” In fact, the odds are good that I’ll get that argument from George Will on This Weak tomorrow. I basically know the answer: temperature […]

Axelrod Discusses Breaking Yet Another Obama Pledge

Not that the Democrat Congress and the Obama administration hasn’t already broken their pledge to not raise taxes on those making less than $250k a year already (cigarette tax, cap and tax bill, among others), but, we all a saw those of us who were not hypnotized by Obama saw the taxes increases coming, and […]

Selling Dumb Ideas

Inspired by the post immediately previous, and the realization that our President has revived a campaign slogan for unthinking dolts to sell a dumb idea that He knows He cannot sell by appealing to reason and common sense — I decided to retitle the page called How To Make Large Numbers Of Some Reasonable People […]

Big Brother is blogging

Media Bloggers Association president Bob Cox is all over the story regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s brand new Guides on Endorsements and Testimonials, which, as Bob explains, will certainly affect bloggers. In fact, one of the examples given of a testimonial in the proposed revisions, found here, is of a product review written by a […]

AGW Today: Losers, Compromise, And Censored EPA Report

Who were the losers in the cap and tax bill? Anyone who pays an electric bill would likely feel the impact of climate legislation. Utilities will try to raise rates as they invest in cleaner-yet-more-expensive energy sources. Some have already announced plans to do so. Petroleum companies also may try to import more of their […]

GOOD NEWS! Arlen Specter
Heading to Certain Defeat

Once you’ve proven you can’t be trusted, not even becoming a Democrat can save your hopless RINO butt: Sen. Arlen Specter continues to pick up support from Democratic party leaders across Pennsylvania. However, a new poll indicates that the five-term incumbent has not convinced a majority of Pennsylvania voters that he should be re-elected. According […]

A Great Writer Gets that the “Great Satan” is Necessary to the Mullahs’ Tyranny

It is incredible how prescient was the nineteenth century novelist George Eliot (née Mary Anne Evans), who died approximately one century before Iran’s Islamic “Revolution, was about the driving force of this tyranny. As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashes out at President Obama for interfering in Iranian affairs, it becomes increasingly clear to all but […]

All violence is equal, but some violence is more equal than others

Movie review one: The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise. [snip] Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind of hyperbolic realism, distills the […]

Right Wing Radio Week in Review: June 22 – 26, 2009

* It was a week marked by celebrity deaths. On Monday, Dennis Miller remembered Ed McMahon, who’d hosted Star Search when Miller had appeared as a young contestant. Years later, McMahon called Miller to ask if he’d appear on a Star Search retrospective, having apparently forgotten that Miller had actually lost. McMahon was flabbergasted, and […]

A Nothing Masquerading as a Something

Blog sister Daphne would like someone — anyone — to explain eco-feminism to her. It’s a pretty tall order. Eco-feminism is inherently incoherent because as a collection of alternative values and scruples, it is designed to oppose something else. And it isn’t willing to admit this. This is why it consists of so many things […]

I Need Forgiveness From God, Not From You

It all comes down to apologies for being. Not apologies for doing, but apologies for being. Surely you’ve noticed, haven’t you. Anytime an issue comes up that has something to do with belief in a Capital-C Creator — it happens just as simultaneously and just as suddenly as if someone yelled “Go.” We line up […]

AGW – “Worst Scientific Scandal In History”

I understand that everywhere else today it is “Michale Jackson is dead” day – I suspect days such as this must be infinitely boring to most news junkies because the news is dominated by a single topic. Meanwhile Democrats are doing their best to rush cap-and-trade through the House today while the pseudo-science that supports […]

“Powers That Be” Squash Investigation Into ACORN

What a surprise: House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying “powers that be” put the kibosh on the idea. Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, earlier bucked his party leaders by calling for hearings on accusations the Association of Community Organization for […]

Keith Olbermann: Far Below Mark Sanford

Pretty much everyone is disgusted with Mark Sanford’s appalling weakness and irresponsibility. But the disgraced governor has a long way to go before he hits bottom. At least Sanford was in love with his mistress, in contrast to Bill Clinton, who has always been known to chase anything in a skirt with no more affection […]

Q&A Friday #102: The Jerome Ersland Case

Question: “Have you been paying any attention to Jerome Ersland case here in Oklahoma, and if so, do you have any thoughts about whether his actions crossed the line into murder or not?” — President_Friedman Answer: For those who are unfamiliar with it, here’s a succinct wrap-up of the Jerome Ersland case, Ersland, of Chickasha, […]

Q&A Friday #102: Will Atlas Shrugged Come True?

Question: “Did you ever expect Atlas Shrugged to really come true? How additionally disturbing do you find it that entitlement and sloth seem to have replaced “The Strike” as the sleeper hold on productivity that is accelerating the looter/moocher death spiral?” — Mike_M Answer: The actions the Bush Administration in its last days and Barack […]

‘I’m Going to Beat You Today’

There is no human quality I admire so much as the courageous force of determined persistence. And I learned that from old No. 27: When he was 16, Bill McCain told his mother, “You won’t ever have to worry about me again.” He left the family farm in rural Randolph County, Alabama, and moved 40 […]

This Week In Quotes: June 19 – June 25

“Moreover, if the better part of valor is for America to stand neutral between freedom and Islamic oppression, why are liberals trying to credit Obama’s ridiculous Cairo speech for emboldening the Iranian protesters? The only reason that bald contradiction doesn’t smack you in the face is that it is utterly preposterous that Obama’s Cairo speech […]

North Korea: Missed Opportunities for Two Decades

Yesterday, June 25, to commemorate the day North Korean soldiers invaded their southern neighbor and began the Korean War, an anti-America rally was held in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Approximately 100,000 citizens were present as the communist regime stated there would be a “fire shower of nuclear retaliation” for any attack led by […]

Lobbyists And IOUs

I couldn’t decide which story to post, so, a double shot of silly government goofiness, starting with Turning The Camera Around: Health Care Stakeholders When 22 senators started working over the first health care overhaul bill on June 17, the news cameras were pointed at them — except for NPR’s photographer, who turned his lens […]