“With Clinton we got high taxes (bad) but balanced budgets imposed by the spending caps in Congress (good). With Bush we got tax cuts (good) but deficits (bad). With Obama we get tax hikes (bad) and astronomical deficits (bad).” — Victor Davis Hanson

Before Obama was elected, when Obama was promising a rainbow in every pot and a kitten riding a unicorn for every child, posters bearing his visage and words like “hope” and “change” seemed appropriate. Why, once he was elected, everything was going to be wonderful in America by sheer virtue of his wonderfulness! The reality […]

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A scheme that Bernie Madoff probably approves of (Wall Street Journal) Jim Rogers is not happy with the Obama administration. Ever since the White House unveiled its costly climate program, the CEO of Duke Energy has been arguing the proposals amount to nothing more than a tax. Indeed. Mr. Rogers belongs to the U.S. Climate Action […]

Barney Frank has gotten very full of himself. So full, in fact, that his memory isn’t working as well as it probably should: House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is pressing state and federal authorities to seek criminal and civil penalties on financial actors that helped cause the current crisis. “Rules don’t work if […]

David Frum’s feelings are hurt: …I’ve received a great deal of e-mail. Most of these e-mails say some version of the same thing: if you don’t agree with Rush [Limbaugh], quit calling yourself a conservative and get out of the Republican Party. There’s the perfect culmination of the outlook Rush Limbaugh has taught his fans […]

Good news: Former first lady Barbara Bush was transfered out of ICU yesterday and into a private room, two days after having heart surgery to replace her aortic valve. The video below is from a news segment NBC’s Today Show did on Mr. and Mrs. Bush’s special relationship. It includes old and new footage, the […]

On Facebook last week I sent a message to 100 or so politically-engaged FB “friends” along the lines of, have you ever noticed that on the Internet there’s almost nowhere to breathe if you’re a conservative but not a libertarian? In fact I did a search of “groups” on Facebook using the word “libertarian” and […]

Harold Meyerson: Take it from a democratic socialist: Laissez-faire American capitalism is about to be supplanted not by socialism but by a more regulated, viable capitalism. And the reason isn’t that the woods are full of secret socialists who are only now outing themselves. Judging by the failures of the great Wall Street investment houses […]

I know, I know, it’s a shocker. Oh, OK, you’re probably saying to your computer screen “well, duh!”, particularly regarding the last word of the headline. Barack Obama ‘too tired’ to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown But, hey, those are the excuses used to say why Obama treated Gordon Brown, PM of Britian, basically […]

If you ever watch Keith Olbermann, you know that he loves to bash people for what he apparently sees as an inferior education. And I guess he can, because he went to an Ivy League school. Oh, wait, Ann Coulter busted that wide open: Indeed, Keith is constantly lying about his nonexistent “Ivy League” education, […]

The gal who started the Marin conservative gatherings that I’ve had the pleasure of attending sent out a broadcast email reminding all conservatives, especially those trapped in blue communities, that it’s not enough to sit at home, read the blogs and complain. We have to work towards a change in 2010. If we wait to […]

Here’s the Right Wing News guest blogger line-up this week-end. Saturday ——– Bookworm from Bookworm Room Cassy Fiano Kathy Shaidle Five Feet Of Fury Morgan from House of Eratosthenes B. Daniel Blatt from GayPatriot Gina Cobb John Stephenson from Stop The ACLU Little Miss Attila Cassandra from Villainous Company Sunday ——- Ron Coleman from Likelihood […]

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday They draft the white trash first,’round here anyway I done two tours of duty in Vietnam — “Copperhead Road,” Steve Earle Songs like “Copperhead Road” and CCR’s “Fortunate Son,” not to mention numerous award-winning Hollywood movies, perpetuate stubborn Vietnam War myths about the American soldiers who fought […]

Hillary Clinton has inadvertently stumbled on a rallying cry for the Obama Administration: GENEVA–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened her first extended talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by giving him a present meant to symbolize the Obama administration’s vow to “press the reset button” on U.S.-Russia relations. She handed a palm-sized box wrapped with […]

David Brooks, 3 days after a semi-courageous, “what-the-heck-is-going-on” column, received calls from the senior staff at the White House and quietly got back in line: In the first place, they do not see themselves as a group of liberal crusaders. They see themselves as pragmatists who inherited a government and an economy that have been […]

…We’re thrilled that the American people are suffering because it’s allowing us to scare people into implementing our agenda in the false hope that it’ll fix their problems. The Republican Party should be saying exactly that and publicly excoriating Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for these remarks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an audience […]

We can hope. Michelle Malkin notes the tightening of belts everywhere (except Congress and the White House): Team Obama’s image experts, perhaps hung over from all the Camelot-recreating Wednesday cocktail parties that are now a signature of the new administration, have fallen down on the job. The man who scolded Americans for wasting energy and […]

There’s a first time for everything — except when it comes to firing lazy guards who let murderers escape: The guard who failed to stop the escape of murderer Malcolm Kysor has been reinstated to his job at the state prison at Albion [Pennsylvania]. The guard, Bryan Ruf, a sergeant and a member of the […]

More government is intrinsically bad. With every law that passes, petty tyrant bureaucrats become a little more powerful, and the rest of us have a little less air to breathe. As an example of how awful it’s gotten already, a bait shop in Clearwater, Florida has been fined for painting this tasteful mural on its […]

Sometimes, a reader expresses things so beautifully, I feel compelled to share: I’m sixty-four, long-married, retired, and heartsick about my adopted country. I came from England as a boy. If I hadn’t been brought here by my American flyboy old man and my Brit mum I would have come over eventually anyway, I’m certain. As […]

Over at Big Hollywood, John Nolte wrote a piece called, Top 5: Superhero Moments. That’s a great concept for an article, but I only agreed with one of his selections. So, I thought I’d put together my own list. Enjoy! X-Men: The last stand at the end of the movie brawl that featured the X-Men […]

The hottest new movie in America is “Watchmen,” which is based on Alan Moore’s graphic novel “of the same name.” Watchmen is often referred to as the best graphic novel of all time, but it doesn’t quite live up to hype. The graphic novel is a bit disorganized, hard to follow at times, jumps around […]

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“I just want to make one thing very clear. Folks need to understand what’s happening here, Sean. You’ve already talked about it. This is a systematic effort, I think, very well planned out to distract. They’re saying, “Oh, yeah, prices are going up for everything you have to pay for. Oh, let’s talk about Rush… […]

With the stock market collapsing and a depression looming, our tax cheat Treasury Secretary is grappling with weighty concerns. Foremost among them: the apocryphal global warming crisis. U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to global warming, U.S. Treasury Secretary […]

Stephanie Gutmann brings up something I’ve noticed. She starts with an Orwell quote: “The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor…All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang […]

Not all college students are shuffling socialist sheep. Last October, John Wahlberg and two classmates at Central Connecticut State University gave an oral presentation for a communications class taught by Professor Paula Anderson. The assignment was to discuss a “relevant issue in the media,” and the students presented their view that the death toll in […]

As irked as I am with the DC smarty-pants set (Frum, Brooks, Parker), I get where they’re coming from. They inadvertently hit on a truth, because they themselves reflect the new truth: Americans are now, more than ever, influenced by the superficial and emotional, the form and the packaging. The smarty-pants set loved Obama because […]