BREAKING–Liberal Feminist Loves Her Some Palin.

I’ve always been confused with the rejection by “Big Feminism” of the eminently strong, independent and powerful Sarah Palin. Perhaps it’s because I just don’t understand what it means to be a feminist. I’m sure that’s what some feminists will tell me, but I don’t buy it. I’m sort of smart and good at figuring [...]

Obama, Jack and Squat.

In the world of SNL, life often imitates art.  NBC’s darling President Obama was not spared this weekend, and this opening sketch sums things up somewhat nicely.  I say somewhat because despite the mocking of what little our President has not done, the unbelievable spending, lack of promised transparency, and general dividing of our nation [...]

Latest ACORN sting video – Part II

Why isn’t this group a criminal enterprise? Why are they still receiving federal money? Why did Barack Obama once work for them? Why do they continue to play such a large part in his political agenda?

Latest ACORN sting video – Part 1.

There are no words.

In which Thomas Friedman gets it exactly wrong.

Here’s Thomas Friedman in yesterday’s NY Times: One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in [...]

Pickled.

From Camille Paglia’s latest column over at Slate: Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers (one reason for the hypocritical absence of tort [...]

The wild side.

And the liberals go ‘do d-do d-do do d-do’…. Like clockwork these people try to deligitimize debate by calling conservatives Nazis. “Don’t you care about people?” they wonder. “Are you a monster?” they ask. “I don’t want to live in a country that doesn’t take care of it’s own.” they bleat. Conservatives care about people. [...]

Grand old flag.

Further to my ‘Air Dancers’ post, can you imagine how the Left would have reacted if Bush had announced a plan for his constituents to rat out non-conforming leftists at an official White House complaint box? But Obama can do it without anyone batting an eye? Where’s the ACLU? Where’s the outrage? Looks like we [...]

Air dancers.

Remember the anti-war movement? Not too long ago, the Democratic party’s most loyal voters passionately opposed the war in Iraq. Democratic presidential candidates argued over who would withdraw American troops the quickest. Netroots activists regularly denounced President George W. Bush, and sometimes the U.S. military (“General Betray Us”). Cindy Sheehan, the woman whose soldier son [...]

The scorpion and the frog.

It’s actually sort of amusing how everyone’s so shocked (Shocked, I say!) about Obama’s “sudden” lurch to the left.  It’s like the proverbial frog being surprised to find that–halfway across the river–the scorpion that he’d been so kind to carry on his back has bitten him. As the poison courses through his body, the incredulous [...]

Face value.

Just as Obama intensifies his efforts to fulfill a campaign promise and reach an agreement with Congress on health care reform, the number of Americans who say they trust the president has fallen from 66 percent to 54 percent. At the same time, the percentage of those who say they do not trust the president [...]

The party of no.

Senate Finance Chariman Max Baucus (D-Montana) has issued a warning to lobbyists and stakeholders not to go over to the Republican side of the cafeteria: Russell Sullivan, the top staffer on Finance, and Jon Selib, Baucus’ chief of staff, met with a bloc of more than 20 contract lobbyists, including several former Baucus aides. “They [...]

Who do you love?

Can’t you hear Lonesome George Thorogood growling the good news? Voters now [love] trust Republicans more than Democrats on six out of 10 key issues, including the top issue of the economy. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% now trust the GOP more to handle economic issues, while 39% trust Democrats [...]

Act now!

We’ve all seen the infomercials. The hucksters claiming that their extra special product “won’t last” or that their “supplies are limited” They tell us that their offer is only available “for a limited time” and as an extra incentive to get us to open our wallets, tell us that the “first 100 callers” get a [...]

Politician.

As the anniversary of D-Day fast approaches, we can begin to become accustomed to the hoopla surrounding President Obama’s carefully choreographed appearances in and around Europe in the coming weeks. This from the Timesonline on Friday, describing the possible motives Obama may have in visiting certain strategic locations (because, you know, it isn’t enough to [...]

Empathy.

Obama finds it necessary to spend time thinking about the race, gender and ethnicity of the next Supreme Court appointee. Does any of that matter? How is race, gender or ethnicity relevant to the application of law to facts? You’d think that it’s not, but you’d be wrong. To Obama, the law isn’t as important [...]

Bleeding a stone.

Megan McCardle from The Atlantic, on why Obama’s unprecedented spending plans will simply run out of gas. So far, Obama’s only proposal for dealing with the funding shortage is a tax increase on high earners, leaving “95% of working families” untouched. But the math doesn’t work. In 2006, the latest year for which data are [...]

What is a Republican?

Does Specter matter? Whether he calls himself a Democrat or a Republican won’t change how he votes. If you’ve forgotten, he voted FOR the stimulus package, so what kind of Republican is he? The answer, unfortunately is that he’s the type of Republican that’s really not much different than a Democrat anyway, so what’s the [...]

Spot on.

Via Professor Bainbridge, an extremely relevant political cartoon from 1934: Sound familiar?

Newt jerks the chain.

It was fairly nauseating watching President Obama make nice with dictator Hugo Chavez last week, wasn’t it? Newt thinks so too: Appearing on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Gingrich said: “This does look a lot like Jimmy Carter. Carter tried weakness and the world got tougher and tougher because the predators, the aggressors, the [...]

The indispensible Jonah Goldberg.

Are we Republicans a bunch of hypocrites for suddenly caring about deficits? Well, maybe. But then so are liberals for suddenly not caring about deficits. (That part always gets left out.) Moreover, I don’t get it. Republicans didn’t care enough about the deficit when it went up a “little” under Bush (to pay for a [...]

Take the quiz.

Remember, it’s your job as a voting American to stay informed, but it’s also the job of the American media to report the information accurately. We’re not in Washington. Or the Middle East. We work at our own jobs and pay these institutions (in the form of cable bills and newspaper/magazine cover prices, etc.) to [...]

Susan Roesgen.

In case you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look now because my blood is boiling and I can’t hold it in anymore: Lots going on here so let’s take them one by one. First, isn’t she supposed to be a reporter? For any of you holding out hope that CNN (substitute MSNBC, NBC, [...]

Remember, he was the smart one.

Not that this means a whole hell of a lot. He obviously meant “piracy”. But it’s time we cut GWB some slack on his “misspeaks”, OK. Either the mistakes mean the speaker is dumb and the anti-Bushies are right (which means that Obama too, regrettably, is dumb), or the mistakes don’t mean a thing and [...]

Indefensible.