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Original post at 73wire.com
This is getting even more interesting.  Last week, I reported that Hillary promised more aid to Pakistan to the tune of $500 million, totaling about $1.5 billion of taxpayer money, and the next day she accused someone in the Pakistani government of knowing where Bin Ladin is.  Terrific, right.  Well, it gets [...]

The race between Democratic incumbent Bob Etheridge and Republican Renee Ellmers in North Carolina’s 2nd district has garnered national attention thanks to Etheridge’s taped outburst on a Washington D.C. sidewalk. It also has personal significance for me.  An interview I had with Ellmers was my very first and my friend and distant cousin, Lorie Byrd, works with [...]

This comes to you without so much as a trace of novelty, if you’ve been living anywhere apart from another planet, or at the bottom of the Gulf, for the last ten years. But the people in the United States — indeed, all of the civilized countries across the globe — have been bitterly fractured [...]

At least we’ve learned our lesson, and the Fanny/Freddy debacle that caused the economy to collapse in 2008 has been put behind us… Say, what’s that jutting up out of the ocean just ahead?
For American taxpayers, now on the hook for some $145 billion in housing losses connected to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans, [...]

Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed that she was indeed using our doctors as political leverage by not passing the Senate version of the doc fix—triggering a 21.2% pay reduction in the Medicare fee schedule.  When Pelosi said she would not vote on the standalone version of the doc fix and blamed the Republicans, I [...]

By now we all know that Comrade Obama is in very tight with the unions — so tight that he discarded the rule of law to favor the UAW at the expense of secured creditors when he seized control of Chrysler. If he is able to ram Card Check through Congress, unions will have an [...]

Zev Chafets is the author of Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. Chafets wrote the book with Limbaugh’s cooperation and it gave him a fascinating window into Limbaugh’s world. So, as someone who has been a Rush fan since college, I was really looking forward to talking to Chafets.
What follows is a slightly edited [...]

Marc Theissen has an excellent piece today about Afghanistan and President Obama’s deadlines:
The deadline is more than a tactical error; it is a strategic miscalculation that undermines almost every element of our efforts in Afghanistan. A withdrawal date undermines the very premise of a counterinsurgency strategy — that by protecting the population, you can earn [...]

Many on the left cannot stand that Sarah Palin has strong opinions, and is expressing them across this country. It amazes me what they will do to stop free speech when they don’t agree with it.
You may have heard about Palin speaking at California University for a fundraiser for their 50 yrs anniversary. Palin [...]

UPDATE:  The Hill reports that Scott Brown (R-MA) will vote against the bill due to the $19 billion of fees (taxes) on financial firms.
The Hill is reporting some interesting developments regarding the financial market takeover regulation reform bill:
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) said Monday he would vote against advancing Wall Street overhaul legislation.
The move raises pressure on Senate Democrats [...]

In the wake of the new Supreme Court decision on the 2nd Amendment, we have this illuminating story from Ohio and if this isn’t the perfect example of why American gun owners fear detailed firearm owners registration records in the hands of government officials there isn’t one to be had. Ohio’s State Democrat Party recently [...]

It’s time once again for some more left-wing hand wringing over the supposed rise of “white militias” in the era of Obama. This time it is the blather of Metro Columnist Courtland Milloy claiming that white-based hate groups have increased substantially because we have a black president. Milloy also rails about the “racial double standard” [...]

Once again, Los Federales are nickle and diming the security of our nation. Bush was disappointing, and Obama has continued this alarming trend
The Texas and Arizona governors criticized the Obama administration’s border security plans Monday, saying not enough National Guard troops are being deployed to their states.
“What we heard wasn’t anything what we hoped to [...]

My latest column for Townhall is called, Five Ways the Obama Administration Has Made the Gulf Oil Crisis Worse. Here’s an excerpt from the column,
The oil spill in the Gulf AKA Obamatrina has been a disaster for everyone involved. Millions of ordinary people who did nothing wrong are taking a huge economic hit, it’s a [...]

It seems that that at least one person took exception to a certain billboard
A billboard that was put up by an atheist group that purposely omitted references to God has been defaced — and had the words ‘under God’ added.
The billboards were put up in Charlotte and across North Carolina the week [...]

Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal
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Mark Morford’s San Francisco Chronicle column is what a leftist’s diary might look like — if that leftist was a horny 14-year-old with a man-sized crush on Obama and a predilection for verbally abusing conservative women. Hmm. Scratch that. Morford’s column is exactly what a leftist’s diary would look like.
You [...]

It sure seems like President Obama despises Republican states. The industry remains dormant in the Gulf. Like the dry fields of California, acres and acres of livelihood being destroyed by Democrat mismanagement, so to the Gulf states see their fields dying and they’re lives destroyed. From CNN:
The offshore drilling ban imposed after the BP disaster [...]

Ann Althouse has been raising some big questions about the secretive JournaList. For example, “The entire Journolist archive needs to be made public.”
Now there’s an initiative to raise money and buy the JournoList archives so Althouse can open up that can of worms.
Meanwhile, Weigel offered a “weasely” explanation for the affair at Big Government this [...]

I was actually surprised about the holding in the recent Supreme Court decision. After the previous 2nd Amendment case, I thought for sure that the 2nd Amendment would protect an individual right to bear arms. But, I didn’t think it would apply to the States as well. Well, it turns out today [...]

It’s rather shocking that this Democrat Congress — well known by now for their spend-and-borrow tactics — would fail to produce even a budget outline for the coming year. Do the American people not deserve a little direction on where their hard earned taxpayer dollars will be going, and in what vague amounts? The most [...]

In case you need another reason to take anything you read on Wikipedia with a grain of salt:
Chat room posts show a clear effort by pedophiles to use Wikipedia, which can be accessed unfiltered in public schools across the country, to further their agenda. Message board posts often include links to specific Wikipedia articles that [...]

Top Note: See also Ed Driscoll’s earlier entry, “Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Dead at 92.” Thought this was worth cross-posting, in any case.

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God rest his soul.
At the video, former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, in a 2007 floor speech, decries as barbaric Michael Vick’s dog-fighting operation.
Byrd was 92 and the longest serving member of the [...]

Arizona’s Congressional District 7 is run as a fiefdom by Raul (formerly Ralph) Grijalva, a militant moonbat who has actually called on the rest of the country to boycott his own state for attempting to enforce federal immigration law with SB1070. Grijalva presides over an extensive political machine, which with the help of Tucson’s wacky [...]

At long last the 2nd Amendment has been considered a personal right per the Supreme Court of the United States. In McDonald v the City of Chicago the Supreme Court has ruled in a 5 to 4 decision that Chicago’s gun banning laws are not in keeping with the right to self-defense as enshrined in [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Constitution’s “right to keep and bear arms” applies nationwide as a restraint on the ability of the federal, state and local governments to substantially limit its reach.
Just as in as with the Washington, DC Heller case in 2008, the ruling was 5-4.
The voting fell [...]

This is an incredibly telling admission that should embolden people who’re serious about fighting against illegal immigration,
Rep. Luis Gutierrez let the cat out of the bag Thursday by acknowledging that the Democrats’ 77-seat majority in the House wouldn’t be enough to pass comprehensive immigration reform this year. The next Congress will look even worse:
A [...]

Every year, some woman justifies her decision to bottle feed her kid and uses some form of the logic, “It makes no difference anyway.” Every year, I write a response that consists of, yes, you’re free to feed your newborn fried eggs and ham, or pureed lima beans, or formula if you want, and the [...]

If they were endorsing him for President I’d understand, but no Republican in the Senate has done more damage to the conservative cause in the last decade than McCain and yet, we’re still getting this from the editors at NR?
That this magazine has not always agreed with Sen. John McCain’s judgments is an understatement. For [...]

If they were endorsing him for President I’d understand, but no Republican in the Senate has done more damage to the conservative cause in the last decade than McCain and yet, we’re still getting this from the editors at NR?
That this magazine has not always agreed with Sen. John McCain’s judgments is an understatement. For [...]

If they were endorsing him for President I’d understand, but no Republican in the Senate has done more damage to the conservative cause in the last decade than McCain and yet, we’re still getting this from the editors at NR?
That this magazine has not always agreed with Sen. John McCain’s judgments is an understatement. For [...]

Another Monday! Time to get busy, shift a few paradigms, brow-nose the bosses. How ’bout a beer?

You just know those beers Obama shared with British PM Cameron after losing a soccer bet went right to his head
President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would follow through on a pledge to rein in soaring U.S. [...]

Another Monday! Time to get busy, shift a few paradigms, brow-nose the bosses. How ’bout a beer?

You just know those beers Obama shared with British PM Cameron after losing a soccer bet went right to his head
President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would follow through on a pledge to rein in soaring U.S. [...]

Another Monday! Time to get busy, shift a few paradigms, brow-nose the bosses. How ’bout a beer?

You just know those beers Obama shared with British PM Cameron after losing a soccer bet went right to his head
President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would follow through on a pledge to rein in soaring U.S. [...]

It’s been awhile since we talked about President Chumps outsourced “historic” legislation. Since it has been passed, there have been stories, but, they have been low key, and tend to be somewhat buried. Like this one
Three months after the $940 billion health care bill was signed into law, questions abound about whether the Obama administration [...]

It’s been awhile since we talked about President Chumps outsourced “historic” legislation. Since it has been passed, there have been stories, but, they have been low key, and tend to be somewhat buried. Like this one
Three months after the $940 billion health care bill was signed into law, questions abound about whether the Obama administration [...]

It’s been awhile since we talked about President Chumps outsourced “historic” legislation. Since it has been passed, there have been stories, but, they have been low key, and tend to be somewhat buried. Like this one
Three months after the $940 billion health care bill was signed into law, questions abound about whether the Obama administration [...]

It’s no surprise that a guy like David Frum would be defending Dave Weigel, who resigned from the WAPO after his private comments mocking conservatives went public and proved exactly what conservatives have been saying all along – that he is hostile to the right and had no business writing a blog called  ”Inside the conservative movement and Republican [...]

Well, at least Obama can likely take credit for creating or saving one job: that of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Once floundering, she is now enjoying a 55% approval rating and is likely to be re-elected. This is partially based on the fact that she, like many conservative women [...]

Get ready for the mother of all narrative struggles: the left will be eager to whitewash Byrd’s horrific legacy, which includes a stint in the KKK, filibustering the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and opposing both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas

Shakespeare would likely describe the latest major legislation winding its way through Congress as a piece of legislation crafted by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.  Rather than address the systemic distortions created by prior government policies, and which caused the financial meltdown, policy makers are now “[putting] a lot of faith in [...]

Shakespeare would likely describe the latest major legislation winding its way through Congress as a piece of legislation crafted by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.  Rather than address the systemic distortions created by prior government policies, and which caused the financial meltdown, policy makers are now “[putting] a lot of faith in [...]

Newsweek, owned by the Washington Post, famously screamed on a cover story early last year that “We Are All Socialists Now.” In contrast, the conservative Hot Air blog recently noted the correlation between the leviathan socialist state virtually all Beltway journalists begged for when they endorsed Obama in 2008, and the state of journalism itself. You wanted East Germany on the Potomac, MSM? The paranoia over who leaked faux-conservative Dave Weigel’s incendiary emails on the Journolist goes hand in that hand with that big of a government

Ken Marrero alerted me to this video of Florida Senator George LeMieux alerting the world that there are hundreds of oil skimmers across the country and the federal government has refused to allow them to be transferred to the Gulf to help in the cleanup because — get this — there may be an oil [...]

But that’s not all our gaffetastic Vice President had to say:
Vice President Joe Biden served up a zinger at a Milwaukee, Wis., frozen custard shop Friday, telling the manager to stop “being a smart a- -” after he asked for lower taxes.
When Biden went to pay for his vanilla cone with chocolate flakes at [...]

Yet another embarrassing moment for the United States as President Obama had this to say as he exited his helicopter:
When U.S. President Barack Obama stepped off his helicopter in Huntsville on Friday, the first thing he said was, “You’ve got a lot of golf courses here, don’t you?” Industry Minister Tony Clement told the National [...]

It’s not hate mail, actually (but close enough). It’s a STFU Tumblog, “STFUSexists.” And I guess that includes me, and I’m targeted for extra STFU-ing for my neocon-ishness. See, “Another neo-con with a woman problem → …“:
Now, I’m not expecting much from someone with a No-Bama icon who thinks that Melanie Griffith has written [...]

When Matt Drudge had the nerve — unlike the mainstream media — to remind the world that not only BP’s CEO, but the federal government’s Chief Executive, too, was enjoying high-class leisure last weekend instead of donning sackcloth and ashes (or using them to wick up some of the oil in the gulf) I think he [...]

In a city during a meeting where the Left’s favorite incompetent leader (more on that at The Telegraph) is pushing to continue big spending and deficits (most of the other G20 countries have realized that continuing big spending and deficits might turn them into the next Greece), much of which helps those on the Left [...]

Originally posted at NewsReal:

Earlier this week, a group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid boasted that the Pride Toronto organizers had voted to reverse a decision which would now let them march in the Gay Pride parade. They proudly touted it as a blow against censorship and then issued this [...]

At Moonbattery, “Meanwhile, Back at the Joe Biden ‘Recovery Summer’ Tour,” and Gateway Pundit, “Eat Up… Joe Biden Gets Gets Custard in Face When Business Owner Tells Him: “Lower Our Taxes”” (via Memeorandum):

Joe “Bite-Me” Biden traveled to Wisconsin yesterday to campaign with far left Progressive Russ Feingold (D-WI). Smokin Joe ordered a custard at a [...]

Readers will recall this morning’s post, “Most Illegal Immigrants Smuggling Drugs, Says Gov. Jan Brewer.”
Well it turns out Gov. Brewer’s standing firm. See Fox News, “Arizona Gov. Stands by Claim That Most Illegals Smuggle Drugs Into Country.”
Additional responses to today’s immigration posting here.

If there’s a theme that ties this week’s events together, it’s to assume that all mics are hot, all emails risk becoming public, and all information captured by journalists no matter how off the record will eventually escape, whether your last name is McChrystal or Weigel, or you’re covering a Sarah Palin speech for a local Fox affiliate

So I’ve been keeping vague track of global economic news lately. In particular, like so many others, I’ve been kind of watching – catch as catch can – the Greek economic…thing. Their bond market, in particular, is doing poorly.
I know that, because I read this:
Greek Bond Risk Jumps to Record on Signs of [...]

Phew!
President Barack Obama has signed a bill that temporarily spares doctors from a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments.
One could also say it “temporarily spares” patients from that 21 percent cut. Doctors will lose business, naturally, if they stop taking Medicare patients because of the low pay, but they’ll still have business. [...]

My new Talk Radio Watch column is now up at WND!
Check out FREE audio and webcam highlights from the week in talk radio…

Rush Limbaugh denounced twice this week in Congress (and responds by posting a clip from his old TV show)
Glenn Beck mocks JD Hayworth
Mark Levin explains what’s wrong with that new [...]

Well, this is getting to be an Arizonapalooza weekend!
See, “Mexico Represents Single Biggest Drug Trafficking Threat to U.S.,” and “Most Illegal Immigrants Smuggling Drugs, Says Gov. Jan Brewer.”
And here’s this awesome clip from Gov. Brewer:

Cross-posted from American Power.

No, really. Seriously. That is what their headline says: “In Week Of Tests, The President Reasserts His Authority.” Question for the Times: when did he actually assert his authority in the first place?
After two months in which an oil gusher seemed to underscore the limits of his powers, President Obama spent the last week [...]

The president of the Seafarers International Union’s Gulf Coast District, Dean Corgey, recently penned an op ed in which he noted an interesting fact: deepwater oil drilling rigs are “100 percent non-union.” With this in mind one of union bought president Barack Obama’s major decisions — in fact, one of his few actual decisions — [...]

The Arizona Guardian reports that, “Brewer advisor says “missteps” were made on immigration claims”
Still, anything Gov. Jan Brewer says will “ignite controversy.” As long as any official speaks bluntly and honestly about the crisis, media types will repudiate those remarks as extremist.
At NYT, “Arizona: Governor Ignites Controversy With Remarks on Drug Mules.” (Via Memeorandum.)

RELATED: [...]

And, of course, by concerned, I mean “bat guano crazy and nasty.” The story
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital Friday after experiencing discomfort, the latest health scare for the 69-year-old Republican leader who has a long history of heart disease.
And the DUmmies! (Language warming, as if I need to warn you)

Who.The.Fuck.Cares. [...]

…I mostly took to Twitter!
And it’s funny how when you think you have a pretty high-impact post and it gets little love after all. Or maybe it wasn’t that hot to begin with. Folks can check it out, “World Cup Gives Leftists (Another) Chance to Root Against America.” (I’ll be rooting for USA tomorrow, of [...]

(William Teach talked of this one earlier today, but the video he posted has been pulled. So, I am posting my little take on it adding a new source for the video…)
Wisconsin Democrat Peggy West says that we shouldn’t accept Arizona’s anti-illegal immigrant law because Arizona isn’t a border state. If it were, West apparently [...]

Needless to say our traffic increased exponentially after John posted his Top 20 List of Hottest Conservative Women in New Media. With the traffic came a wonderful barrage of hate mail, emphasis on the word hate. So we decided to share some of the more colorful and “tolerant” messages from our lovely liberal fanboys (or [...]

One of the more irritating things about mainstream media outlets is that they love to hire liberals, but then, for “balance,” they like to hire a matching “conservative,” too, but not just any conservative. No, they want to hire a supposed “conservative” who tells liberals whatever they want to hear about conservatives.
Because the Left controls [...]

The campaign to introduce children to the appallingly depraved homosexual lifestyle marches on — with continued support from Home Depot:
The home-improvement giant has sponsored yet another “gay” pride event and provided children’s craft workshops “in the midst of loud and boisterous gay activities” at the 2010 Southern Maine Pride Festival in Portland, Maine, according [...]

Given that he has not only done next to nothing to fulfill his duties and protect the Gulf Coast from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but has actually exacerbated the crisis by shutting down drilling and presiding over a bumbling bureaucracy that has prevented the competent from using skimmers and sand berms, it’s hard to [...]

Since Chris Matthews of Hardball on MSNBC no longer has that tingle up his leg for Pres. Obama, he has to find something else to tingle about. He is now counting the days until a Republican will come on his show and denounce Rush Limbaugh. No takers yet.
I doubt Chris Matthews will ever see [...]

On June 24 the House of Representatives passed by a bare minimum number of votes the DISCLOSURE Act, a law that is supposed to be a new effort to get around the recent US Supreme Court decision that struck down parts of Congress’ campaign finance law. Bare minimum or no there is no doubt that [...]

The Hill is reporting that Iowa’s leading Democrat, Senator Tom Harkin, is promising that the lame-duck Senate will again take up Big Labor’s favored Employee Free Choice Act, (EFCA), the famous card check act that is neither good for employees nor one that facilitates “free choice” of any kind.
Apparently, what’s bad for the nation is [...]

Yes, Democrat Paul Kanjorski is irritating, liberal, and out of touch, but it seems like a huge stretch to interpret these remarks, as some conservatives have, as a slam at the poor,
We’re giving relief to people that I deal with in my office every day now unfortunately. But because of the longevity of this recession, [...]

I never trust the estimates of impending fish population collapse, considering how little respect for truth environmentalists so eminently demonstrate. Still, this article’s pretty interesting. At NYT, “Tuna’s End“:
THERE ARE TWO reasons that a mere fish should have inspired such a high-strung confrontation reminiscent of Greenpeace’s early days as a defender of whales. The [...]

What with city councils and such getting on the bandwagon to boycott Arizona, you would have thought some people would have looked at a map, alas, no. Liberal stupidity is so rampant that it should be traded on the commodities market
The Milwaukee County Board spent part of the day debating a measure that would [...]

Interestingly, all of a sudden the Left is quiet about this shocking display of attack politics. A quick check of the liberal sites finds that none of them are bothering to mention and decry what is happening to Judge Feldman
While many Americans undoubtedly agree with the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman [...]

The story about [McChrystal] voting for Obama is not contrived. He is a political liberal. He is a social liberal. He banned Fox News from the television sets in his headquarters. Yes, really. — Marc Ambinder
On the other side stands Obama — solid and sober, rooted in the belief that his way is the right [...]

I in no way condone acts of violence or threats of violence toward Census workers, or anyone else, but this article over the weekend really got to me.
An unexpected result for some census takers: the wrath of irate Americans
Since they began making follow-up house calls in early May, census takers [...]

I’ve posted this viddy before, but considering the ongoing debate, it’s even more hilarious.
Check KOLD News 13 Phoenix, “Brewer to Obama: Let’s See Specifics on Border Plan“:

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is telling President Barack Obama that she’s anxious for details on how his administration’s plans to tighten border security will apply to
Arizona.
Brewer tells Obama in [...]

I think I’ll just provide the link to my entry on this story, “What’s Up With David Weigel? Now We Know.”
Right Wing News is a pretty big place, well-established. Don’t know if some of my co-bloggers here are friends with David Weigel, etc. It’s nothing over the top, but until I know otherwise … well, [...]

Originally posted at NewsReal:
The Anchoress, over at First Things, is one of my favorite bloggers. She has a way of cutting right to the chase, yet in a thoughtful and intelligent manner. Her recent post, in response to an article in The New York Times, is a perfect example [...]

Al Gore invents the internet, becomes Vice-President, wins an Oscar AND a Nobel Prize, then saves the world from manbearpig and he can’t even get a random masseuse to help free up his chakra. Meanwhile, Justin Bieber is probably in the middle of an orgy right now. What kind of world is that?

The Illinois State House News service has some very revealing audio from the Rod Blagojevich trial from the June 23 court sessions. It shows Blago’s scheming to get some payback for his ability to appoint someone to fill Obama’s vacated Senate seat. It also shows the Obama administration’s complicity in the whole mess.
WARNING: The “F” [...]

File this one under “Militant Liberals Snatch Candy From Laughing Babies’ Mouths”:
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a liberal consumer advocacy organization, has announced it will sue McDonald’s unless the fast-food franchise stops using toys to market its “Happy Meals” to children.
“This morning, CSPI notified McDonald’s that we will file a lawsuit [...]

One of the most fascinating things about our unbiased, call ‘em as they see ‘em, right down the middle pals in the mainstream media is how often their completely neutral reporting seems to lead them to cover stories in wildly different ways depending on the political party of the people involved.
For example, how much hard [...]

It must have been a slow news day for the Washington Post’s Adrian Higgins. Either that or someone made him upset that day and he wanted to take some anger out on someone and get paid for it at the same time. Catharsis doesn’t come free from a journalist, you know? So, looking for some [...]

(Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal)
I generally ignore the irrelevant bint known as Miss Gloria Steinem, but Katie Couric interviewed her on Tuesday and thrust her back into the mock-worthy spotlight.  Plus, I’m sick fed up with her and “feminists” like her. The emergence of conservative women to the [...]

     Whether we like to actually admit it, the youth of our nation voted en masse for President Barack Obama.  Exit polls indicate he won as much as 66% of voters under 30 years old.  Enchanted by the word “change” entering into the prospective definition of their future, Obama calmed this worried, young sector of [...]

Buds for life?
Well, it would be unsurprising. Good buddies old Rod and the Prez. And look at President Obama’s willingness to trade influence for a desired action.
The Sun Times has some interesting news: (via Cubachi on Twitter):
A top aide to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he believed Barack Obama knew of Blagojevich’s plot to win [...]

It must be tough to be a left-wing feminist these days. For so long, they got away with essentially defining feminism as “being a liberal woman.” Then along came Sarah Palin. Granted, she’s not the only conservative woman who deserves to be treated as a feminist icon. For example, I’ve long said that Michelle Malkin [...]

While they like to think of themselves as “nuanced”, they’re really unprincipled and thrown hither and thither by every trendy wind of expert opinion. This makes a mess for the Market and for the American people trying to make business decisions in an already unstable environment.
When people know what to expect, they can plan their [...]

The issue of gay marriage has been on my mind quite a bit lately. For one, it comes up regularly in the news cycle.
There was California’s Proposition 8. It was fondly given the moniker “Prop H8”, (pronounced hate), by various groups of pro-gay marriage supporters. In Iowa, gay marriage was made legal without a [...]

Life isn’t always a bowl of cherries, even for zillionaire climate crusader Al Gore. Sure, he’s got a vast new mansion and a carbon footprint any 19th century industrialist could take pride in, but his marriage has fallen apart, he has been exposed as a philanderer, global warming is now recognized by most anyone who [...]

If you haven’t checked out CNSNews.com, it is a great place to find stories not widely discussed in the Old Media. Often CNS hits stories before anyone else and the Old Media has to play catch-up to report what CNSNews already reported. Recently CNS had an investigative story detailing millions in federal funds that went [...]

Both Los Angeles and the Governing Board of Cook County Illinois, home of the City of Chicago, have vented their outrageously outrageous outrage at what they contend are the Nazi tactics of the state of Arizona for having the gall to try to insure the sovereignty of its borders and uphold America’s immigration laws. They [...]

Earlier this week, I was pleased to get an opportunity to interview   Rand Paul,  the  Republican  Party’s  nominee  for  the Senate  in  Kentucky.    What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Enjoy!
To begin with, a lot of people assume you and your father have almost identical views. Can you give me a couple [...]

Hmm, isn’t the Labor Dept., and arm of the UNITES STATES government, supposed to help, you know, AMERICAN citizens?
Republican lawmakers are expressing shock over a Labor Department ad campaign that offers government assistance to illegal immigrants who think they’re getting shortchanged for their work — and at least one of them is planning to write [...]

As promised yesterday, here’s the clip of the Rose Garden announcement:

Plus, at Glenn Reynolds, “VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: McChrystal’s Tragedy.”
Cross-posted from American Power.

It’s good to see the State Run Media able to run a serious “look at how great our messiah is!” article for a change, rather than the normal “oh, crap, what has he done this time? Spinning this will be hawwwwwd!” story of late. I was getting worried that the stress of spinning would cause [...]

At WSJ:
Americans are more pessimistic about the state of the country and less confident in President Barack Obama’s leadership than at any point since Mr. Obama entered the White House, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
The survey also shows grave and growing concerns about the Gulf oil spill, with overwhelming majorities of [...]

That title? Yeah, it’s kinda off, I know.
But consider the source: Libby Davies, Canadian Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party. Davies was caught in a recent controversy in which she denied Israel’s right to exist. At the American Spectator, Aaron Goldstein calls her “Canada’s Helen Thomas.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper “demanded that her [...]

That title? Yeah, it’s kinda off, I know.
But consider the source: Libby Davies, Canadian Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party. Davies was caught in a recent controversy in which she denied Israel’s right to exist. At the American Spectator, Aaron Goldstein calls her “Canada’s Helen Thomas.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper “demanded that her [...]

Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not take up the Senate’s “doc fix” bill, which passed through the Senate on Friday.  A letter from Pelosi reaffirms her position and scolds Republicans for blocking the jobs portion of the bill:
“What is it that Republicans in the Senate and House don’t understand about the need for jobs [...]