It’s time for me to rank my favorite blogs for the 2nd quarter of 2009. Do keep in mind that as the quarter has progressed, some blogs have, of course, moved up and others have dropped, based on how often I visit them, how much I like what I see when I get there, how […]

When I made fun of President Obama’s Czar craze, libs on Twitter gave me a hard time saying that all presidents have Czars. Uh, not so much. No. Tabitha Hale has a great blog post about the czar differences. Go look at her list. She concludes: Let’s talk a little more about this. Know how […]

“If you allow yourself to be slapped around like a punk, whose fault is it that you’re treated like a punk?” Just some friendly family advice to conservatives tired of being disrespected by Republican “leaders” who try to curry favor with the liberal Moe Greens. Matt Lewis is not Fredo, and he’s not going to […]

Other then grasshoppers, is there anyone who really wants the government providing health insurance? As the health care debate heats up, the American Medical Association is letting Congress know that it will oppose creation of a government-sponsored insurance plan, which President Obama and many other Democrats see as an essential element of legislation to remake […]

How many people have read the book F.I.S.H.? If you haven’t, and you work in an office, a retail store, with lots of people, you really should, whether you are a supervisor or at the bottom of the food chain. Make your boss read it. Live it. Love it. It creates the atmosphere which sales […]

Who is to blame for today’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum? As Michelle Malkin and Donald Douglas observe, many are rushing to blame “right-wingers.” But you guys are blameless, because it’s all my fault. Why? Because I suck, that’s why. Dan Collins was the first to connect the dots of this theory. Not everyone gets […]

It comes from James Delingpole of the UK Telegraph: Modern China cares about as much about “anthropogenic global warming” as Chairman Mao did about providing his population with five-course steak dinners. AGW’s only use, as far as the Chinese are concerned, is as an ingenious device to suck up money and power from the gullible […]

Kevin Hassett at Bloomberg.com has figured out Obamanomics: President Barack Obama and his team have been having so much fun wielding dictatorial power while rescuing “failed” firms, that they have developed a scheme to gain the same power over every business. The plan is to enact policies that are so anticompetitive that every firm needs […]

When I first heard this tragic story of a mother and her daughter mowed down in broad daylight in Brewster, New York by a drunken maniac, I made the natural assumption regarding the driver’s immigration status. Now we have confirmation: A drunken driver struck and killed a mother and her young daughter as they were […]

Here’s the information about the shooter, James Von Brunn: James is a Gentleman I have great admiration for. From his biography: “James W. von Brunn holds a BachSci Journalism degree from a mid-Western university where he was president of SAE and played varsity football. During WWII he served as PT-Boat captain, Lt. USNR, receiving a […]

I didn’t want to do it, but in the spirit of lists and since everyone loves them, here’s the hottest guys on the right. There is no particular order. Really it’s all about what’s your type. Women are not as driven by looks as men. We all know this. They look at the whole person. […]

Of course, everyone remembers how the media ran with a silly comment from actress Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live, vis a vis “I can see Russia from my house!” It was goofy and light hearted, but, somehow, that almost became reality, as if Palin herself actually said it. Turn the page. Now we have […]

In a private e-mail exchange, one very shrewd financial analyst used the phrase “the current weirdness” to describe the economic moment we’re in. “[T]he overall story in the media is wrong, which isn’t unusual,” said my correspondent. The problem is that our situation is so unprecedented, even the most astute observers are somewhat mystified. What […]

Long have I maintained that the majority of the anthropogenic global warming craze is like some sort of political pet rock love. Let’s compare and contrast statements, shall we? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is widely regarded in the media as the ultimate authority on climate change. Created by two divisions of the […]

“Could Specter Face A Democratic Primary He Can’t Win? Oh Yeah… …The reality is that the liberal activist groups have a lot of reason to primary him — and if they find a credible challenger to do so, he’s highly likely to lose. Then, even if he doesn’t, Republicans will be howling to pay him […]

I’m from the school of thought that says those who went through an Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan should either have their brains blown out or should spend the rest of their lives in a cell. For us to get our hands on these terrorists and then release them? It’s madness. ….Which brings us to […]

I’m not buying another car from Chryser or General Motors for the foreseeable future, despite the fact that I currently own a Dodge. There are good reasons for taking that position. At Chrysler, the UAW now owns more the 50% of the company and the sad fact is that union is run by people hostile […]

30) Brent Bozell

Ezra Klein discusses what has commonly become known as the “public plan” in the emerging “health care reform” legislation. Put simply it is “public insurance” which is supposed to compete with the private insurance industry and, as Paul Krugman claims, keep them “honest”. Klein lays out the various flavors being floated out there concerning this […]

Today’s lawsuit of the day: A federal judge in California has dismissed a complaint filed by a San Diego woman who had bought “Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries” for four years believing the cereal contained real berries. Janine Sugawara cried fraud when she learned the “berries” were only colored cereal balls flavored with strawberry concentrate. She […]

Bureaucrats are planning to seize control of the healthcare industry and finance the power grab by taxing lifestyles. The Senate Finance Committee is considering raising taxes on alcohol and imposing a new levy on soda and other naturally sweetened drinks to help pay for overhauling health care. The committee calls them “lifestyle tax proposals,” saying […]

Over at Confederate Yankee, Bob Owens has written a post that touched on a pet peeve of mine. It’s not a particularly egregious example of it, but it’s still worth writing about. From Confederate Yankee, “I Did Not Vote to Lower My Standard of Living” Michael Jones of PoliGazette voted twice for Barack Obama last […]

Sometimes, a quote is just too juicy to hold until Friday for This Week In Quotes. Newt uttered such a line last night, Hat tip to Gateway Pundit for the story.

It’s a health-care palooza over at American Issues Project today, my column included. Here’s a snippet: Here is my concern about the health care legislation: While people will start sifting through the details of the legislation, the most important message of all will likely get lost: With fewer employed people, with less tax revenue, America […]

My latest Pajamas Media column practically wrote itself this last weekend and could have been twice as long. The column discusses how feminists are a-ok with misogyny as long as conservative women are the recipients. It’s summed up nicely in the bumper sticker, “They’re not women! They’re Republicans!” I’d like to add a few more […]

Unlike many conservatives, I think polling is extremely useful — provided you understand how to use it. You have to know which polls are reliable and which ones aren’t, be on the lookout for bias, pay more attention to trends than single polls, and understand that polling numbers are snapshots in time, not statues, forever […]

As the country continues to hemorrhage jobs, President Obama, leader of the Party who whined incessantly for 8 years that George Bush would never admit when he was wrong, refuses to admit he was wrong, and, instead, presses the reset button on the Generation Theft Act President Barack Obama assured the nation his recovery plan […]

Jane “Lieberman-In-Black-Face” Hamsher, web mistress of Firedoglake, gives us the news According to sources on the Hill, the Lieberman-Graham detainee photo suppression amendment is out of the conference report of the supplemental. For everyone who made phone calls — pat yourself on the back. Yes, liberals/progressives/surrender monkeys, pat yourself on the back. Do it every […]

The moment I first heard my co-blogger Melissa Clouthier use the phrase “Party of Yes,” I knew a column would eventually come out of it because that phrase so perfectly describes today’s Democratic Party. No matter how bad the idea, the Democrats are willing to say, “yes, yes, yes” and throw a few billion dollars […]