Apparently, President Neophyte is not enjoying the look of things right now. His poll numbers are slipping, John McCain, among others, made a powerful speech on Iran, and it appears as if the election result will be left to standand Ahmadinejad will be reinstalled as the Iranian president. All while Iranians plead for the U.S. […]

Liberals care about the poor: Almost every program the Left supports to “help” the poor in this country is surreptitiously designed to de-motivate them and keep them dependent on the government. The Left saps their will to work with welfare and food stamps, the Left reduces their income and puts them out of jobs by […]

With six states allowing homosexuals to marry, and New York’s Governor insistent on it being the seventh state to allow such unions, the definition and legality of marriage has come under more introspection than ever before. During the 1960s with the rise of modern radical feminism, marriage as an institution was discouraged by the left […]

Frankly, that’s precisely what’s going on with the developing situation in Iran. Our President is both inexperienced and naive, and in the world of foreign relations, that can be a fatal mix. As I previously pointed out about Gitmo, the president hadn’t done his homework when he announced his pre-election decision to close the prison […]

Moonbat insanity has now guaranteed that terrorists fighting our troops in Afghanistan will hide behind civilians: The top U.S. general in Afghanistan will soon formally order U.S. and NATO forces to break away from fights with militants hiding in Afghan houses so the battles do not kill civilians, a U.S. official said Monday. … Gen. […]

A few years ago Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity movement that rebelled against communism in Poland, published a grateful editorial entitled “Remembering Reagan“: When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can’t be said often enough by […]

CHURCHVILLE, VA–It was only a matter of time before First Lady Michelle Obama sprang to the wall of the White House Organic Garden and demanded more organic food–a heartfelt campaign fully as sincere as her husband’s ongoing demand that the affluent countries fight off man-made global warming by taxing away most of their energy. However, […]

Back on April 10th, I ran a story called, “An Indication At Walgreens That Obama’s Honeymoon May Be Just About Over.” That indication was that Obama collectible plates had plunged in price, Notice what we have there: loads of Obama kitsch, discounted down from $19.99 to $5.19. Let me tell you something, folks: You don’t […]

My co-blogger Melissa Clouthier tweeted out an article called The Dark Side of Twittering a Revolution. The alarmism of it intrigued me enough to write about it. From the author, Jamais Cascio, The emergence of Twitter as a heroic enabling technology for the pro-democracy demonstrators in Iran this past week has been a thrilling reminder […]

From the New York Times, David Rohde, a New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban, escaped Friday night and made his way to freedom after more than seven months of captivity in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mr. Rohde, along with a local reporter, Tahir Ludin, and their driver, Asadullah Mangal, […]

Resisting yet another Obama post (this time, the NY Times gently calls him a liar). It’s difficult. Guy gives a constant stream of copy. So, let’s jump into the realm of global warming hysteria, shall we? First up, the Sun, that big ball of nuclear fire that, according to most Climahysterics, can’t possibly have anything […]

A lot of people think China is destined to be the world’s next great super power. They have the world’s largest population, a thriving economy, a huge cash surplus, a large manufacturing base, and one of the world’s strongest militaries. China certainly does have plenty of advantages — but, and this is a huge but […]

Will he answer? Or, is it time for another photo-op trip to get a burger with Joe, frozen custard with the kids, or maybe a round of golf? This is what North Korea had to say regarding the U.S. trailing a Nork ship that could possibly be carrying materials banned by a U.N. resolution passed […]

The notorious “Chicago Way” of political corruption seems to have arrived full-force in Washington, as both Michael Barone and John Kass observe in regard to the inspectors general who seem to be dropping like flies these days. Meanwhile, good-government activists are “dismayed” to discover that Barack Obama’s promises of “transparency” were just so much more […]

Read this: TEHRAN, Iran — Students disrupted a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday at a major university in Tehran, setting fire to photographs of him and throwing firecrackers. The protesters chanted “death to the dictator” and demanded the resignation of Alireza Rahai, a conservative and the chancellor of the institution, Amirkabir University, the […]

If ever there was a text book example of a false premise wrapped in an absurd ‘moral’ analogy, Glenn Smith at Firedoglake provides it: The gravity of America’s health care crisis is the moral equivalent of the 19th Century’s bloody conflict over slavery. This is not hyperbole, though the truth of it is often lost […]

Iran has erupted into full-scale chaos. Former Iranian President Rafsanjani has been slaughtered and his family arrested. Thousands of protestors crowded the capital yesterday, where police met them with batons, water cannons, and… tear gas. Injured protestors are being arrested and detained when they go to hospitals for treatment, to the point where they have […]

Obama, it turns out, isn’t even different about being different, especially as regards the… different: “When a president tells you he’s going to be different, you believe him,” said John Aravosis, a Washington-based gay activist. You do? What if he says, “This time it’s for real” or “I’ll call you”? In fact, it turns out […]

You know, it’s not so much that Obama is on the wrong side of history, regarding Iran. He’s on no side of history. Even the BBC is getting rather cynical vis a vis Obama’s reticence to become engaged The White House has so far resisted calls to speak out more forcefully in support of Iranian […]

People of Iran: Traditionally, the president of the United States has been the spokesperson for the people of the United States — or, at least, for a majority of the people of the United States. For the first time in modern history, however, we have a president who appears incapable of giving voice to the […]

Please watch this only if you have a strong stomach and a true desire to see what life is like in a totalitarian regime. This is not about watching a snuff film (although it felt like it). This is a reminder to Americans about the government Barack Obama is currently backing. Obama may be a […]

Here’s the article from an extremely Progressive San Francisco blog. Here’s my distillation: 1. Liberals truly care about freedom, because they protested their hearts out over the illegal U.S. war in Iraq. 2. For all that screaming against the evil U.S. government, American liberals really weren’t risking anything because, unlike the Iranian people, they don’t […]

No Democrat has ever won the White House running against Ronald Wilson Reagan. Walter Mondale tried, but barely won his own state. Michael Dukakis tried to make the 1988 election about competency instead of ideology, but George H.W. Bush made it about Ronald Reagan and Michael Dukakis. The Gipper’s Vice President won forty states that […]

Nothing bothers me quite as much as a troll. It is one thing to argue about politics. It is something else — something evil — to hijack somebody’s bandwidth and use it dishonestly to attack them, their friends and everything they believe in. Wednesday, I posted an essay at the Hot Air Green Room, which […]

In 1992, the New Republic ran a piece, I believe it was by Jacob Weisberg (check spelling) on then-presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, reporting something the candidate’s mother (as I recall) had said about her son. If Bill Clinton entered a room with one hundred people, ninety-nine of them loving him, but one opposed to him, […]

I wonder how long it will take partisan critics to dismiss Kevin Jackson‘s ideas because his upbringing was so unusual. But while Diff’rent Strokes was a silly sitcom, you might say Jackson lived a real-life, "lite" version of the show, and it gave him a truly unique perspective on race and class in America. An […]

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We may be getting ready to see a repressive regime underestimating the power of the people or we may be on the cusp of another Tiananmen Square. Ayatollah Khamenei didn’t budge an inch in his speech today: Addressing Friday prayers at Tehran University, the bearded septuagenarian offered no concessions to the millions of irate Iranians […]

Over at The New Republic, a post by Jonathan Chaite entitled “Will the Conservatives Please Attempt An Argument? ” President Obama has taken a cautious tone toward the demonstrators in Iran, with his stated reason being that more open support would discredit their cause. This strikes me as a sensible position. The revealed preferences of […]

Over at Time, Kevin O’Leary asks, “Can the U.S. Afford to Let California Fail?,” States across the nation are suffering the effects of lost tax revenue in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. California’s woes are similar and different in kind, played out on a grand scale in a state that boasts the […]