“People have been calling for national dialogues and conversations for decades. It usually works something like this: Liberals say we need a frank discussion about race (or class or gender) in this country, and then they proceed to bludgeon any conservative stupid enough to take them up on their offer.” — Jonah Goldberg The latest […]

On a day when bank nationalization, the stimulus, hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending, and the Roland Burris scandal were all in the news, it was a bit of a surprise to head over to the Drudge Report and see the “killer chimp” story as the headliner. However, this is one of those […]

Last night, I was thinking about doing a post today predicting that Obama’s approval rating would drop into the 50s by next month. However, after taking a look at the RealClearPolitics poll numbers, I noticed that depending on the poll you look at, it has already happened. Two things. #1) The reason Rasmussen and Democracy […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Ann Coulter: Why we don’t celebrate ‘historians day’ Oddee: 10 most bizarre arrests Cracked: Photoshop contest: 20 moments that would have improved great movies COED Magazine: 77 sexy suicide girls Also, you’ll want to see these vids on Right Wing Video, Bakwa, […]

Normally, I save the videos for Right Wing Video, which incidentally, just cracked 3000 daily uniques for the first time yesterday (Are you hitting RWV every day? If not, you should be). However, this video and the snarky comments that went with it on YouTube were so good I just had to talk about it […]

I was delighted to get an opportunity to do a phone interview with one of my favorite columnists and economists, Walter Williams, about his new book, Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. A lot of Americans have been confused about the mortgage crisis. Conservatives tend […]

You can listen to my short appearance today on Cross Action News, here. — At 4:07 PM EST, I’m going to be on the Jaz McKay show. Click on Stickam in the left corner to listen to the show.

They say if you put a frog in a pot and bring it slowly to a boil, it will fail to jump out to safety, unable to perceive the incremental rise in temperature. Until recently, Marxists used this concept as a guide to imposing socialism on America, although they have recently grown arrogant enough to […]

Hopey Change has taken us down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass, into a Jabberwocky world where a Russian strongman warns America to preserve what’s left of its economic liberty. Vladimir Putin at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: Although additional protectionism will prove inevitable during the crisis, all of us […]

Immediately after rolling out a $1.2 trillion dollar “stimulus” plan, Obama is already planning to spend another 275 billion dollars and the Big 3 want billions more of your money and oh, and by the way, they may need ANOTHER stimulus if the trillion dollars of your money that Obama just flushed down the toilet […]

If you haven’t been following what has been going on in Cali, let me give you a quick rundown: They have an enormous budget shortfall (Ah-nold campaigned as a fiscal conservative and social moderate, but he’s actually just a tax-and-spend liberal with a (R) beside of his name) and Democrats have a large majority in […]

Matt Lewis poses the question, since references to FDR and The Depression seem all the rage now that Obama is in office. It’s disturbing that the Left thrills at the notion of economic devastation just so their guy can have a platform to shine. If it’s not bad enough, make it worse! President Obama will […]

California crisis explained by Ed Morrissey: Democrats . . . refuse to consider large-scale rollbacks of state government programs. Doing so would jeopardize their standing among key constituencies, especially public-sector unions like AFSCME and SEIU. Instead, they want to bulldoze Republicans into jacking up taxes even higher, making the state that much less competitive and […]

In one of the more bizarre legal twists that has been seen in a long while, trespassing illegal aliens have been awarded $78,000 because a rancher detained them, on his property, until the U.S. Border Patrol arrived, A federal jury found Tuesday that a southern Arizona rancher didn’t violate the civil rights of a group […]

A friend sent me this article last week and I am just now getting around to it. Evidently, the Standard Achievement Test (SAT) is unfair and so a “fair test” must replace, or better yet eliminate testing altogether. Before even reading, I had pictures in my head of dullards finally having self-esteem because the test […]

Our power mad President has now set his sights on taking over the US banking system and John McCain’s sidekick Lindsey Graham seems to be toying with the idea of helping Obama jam a knife into the back of American capitalism, Long regarded in the US as a folly of Europeans, nationalisation is gaining rapid […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Cracked: 5 things you think will make you happy but won’t (really outstanding) MailOnline: Tycoon’s beauty contest for his FIVE mistresses ends in tragedy – when spurned woman drives him and four rivals off a cliff New York Post: More big ethics […]

The thing that struck me coming up with this list is that it’s woefully short. Here’s my list, though: @JimDeMint–Senator DeMint knows engagement. He mixes helpful links with the personal. He’s doing a good job. @KarlRove–This man is a machine. He has embraced the Twitter technology. He joined Twitter a couple weeks ago, but got […]

Of course part of the huge and porky “stimulus” bill was billions to Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) program. Of the the past beneficiaries of that program has been our old buddies at ACORN. But, you say, the election is over – ACORN can’t collect taxpayer money for fraudulent voter registration anymore. Never fear, ACORN […]

In a brainwashing project that ought to tug on liberal heartstrings, schoolchildren have been encouraged to address prayers to Chairman Zero. A touching example: I would appreciate it if you would try to make this a greener planet and try to bring home the troops and end the war. I am very luckey because I […]

Dissident Chinese blogger Xu Lia has been knifed: Xu Lai, the writer behind Pro-State in Flames, was speaking at the One Way Street bookshop in Beijing on Saturday afternoon when he was attacked, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported. He had been speaking for a couple of hours and was answering questions when a fracas erupted. […]

“Genuine bipartisanship,” he wrote, “assumes an honest process of give-and-take, and that the quality of the compromise is measured by how well it serves some agreed-upon goal, whether better schools or lower deficits. This in turn assumes that the majority will be constrained — by an exacting press corps and ultimately an informed electorate — […]

Since our foolish, weak President who believes he can solve all problems simply via his sheer wonderfulness took office, there have been some extremely alarming developments that may have an enormous impact on the war in Afghanistan. A couple of weeks ago, I noted that, “The “Stans” Side(d) With Russia Over Obama. The timing of […]

Despite what some people seem to think, because it’s so complex, economic issues tend to be very non-intuitive and difficult to predict. You could easily put together four Nobel prize winning economists and not only find that none of them agreed with each other on certain real world issues of extreme significance, but that none […]

If we want to fix what ails the Republican Party, it’s worth taking a few moments to diagnose what went wrong for the Party while acknowledging what the Democrats did right. In other words, once we’ve diagnosed the disease and figured out how another patient overcame similar problems, we can start to get the GOP’s […]

My latest Townhall column is up and it’s called Six Reasons Deficits Will Doom The Dems In 2010. Here’s an excerpt from the column, Throughout his first term, Obama will be constantly pushing truly massive new spending projects. More banking bailouts, the auto bailout, bailouts for other industries, socialized medicine, pork ridden budgets, global warming […]

As the NY Times reports today in an article about Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke’s trip to the Middle Eastern region: Mr. Obama has said that he will reach out to Iran for direct talks, and last week the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said that Iran was ready. The two nations have not spoken directly since […]

Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of the Speaker of the House, has an HBO film deal — I mean, wow, what a coicidence, huh? Time/Warner has only given $7.1 million to Democrats since 2000, making 82% of their donations to Democrats in the 2008 election cycle. So HBO pays Alexandra to make a documentary about the election […]

Obama’s Venezuelan prototype is now potentially dictator for life: President Hugo Chavez says a referendum victory that removed limits on his re-election is a mandate to intensify his socialist agenda for decades to come. Opponents warn of an impending dictatorship. … With the courts, the legislature and the election council all under his influence, and […]

…this is what they’ve been reduced to publicly crying about. The head of the Colorado Springs NAACP is crying foul after a picture of President Obama was removed from a sign at the Peterson Air Force Base commissary. …The Defense Commissary Agency, which oversees the store, says employees took it down after customers complained that […]