Supreme Court Justice David Souter has announced he will retire at the end of the current term. The biggest mistake John Sununu ever made was vouching that Souter would be a "home run" for conservatives. Now, we'll get an out liberal as opposed to a stealth one. Is it Harold Koh's lucky day? Gah.
Drool Bucket Award.
And now, for our Drool Bucket of the Day Award. Almost gave it to the SWAGGA crew at CNN. But this one inched them out. He asked the moronic question about what has "enchanted" President Obama the most about being in the White House. He could have, I dunno, pressed Obama for details about how...
Read MoreOpen thread for all of you intrepid rightwing extremists with strong enough stomachs to endure President Obama's 100-day television extravaganza this evening. I will be drinking SWAGGA juice and waving my tea bag at the television set. *** Fun fact: A reporter for the financially ailing New York Times gloats that the Fishwrap of Record...
Read MoreYou know, I thought that slavering piece about Barack Obama's "hipness" was rock-bottom. I was wrong. In case you ever have a need for an emergency emetic ASAP, just watch this CNN "report" on Barack Obama's "SWAGGA:" Via TVNewser. Can't wait for the Obama SWAGGA-thon tonight. How long before someone calls me RAAAAACIST for saying...
Read More"Happy day."
Our new "national values:" Reckless spending, massive government expansion, and the continued saddling of future generations with untold debt. Plundering is patriotic!
Omri Ceren takes a look at CNN's tally of Obama's gaffes and finds -- surprise! -- that there are many, many items missing. Attention, CNN: Meet Don Surber. And meet Bob Newman.
(Photoshop credit: Nice Deb) My syndicated column commemorates Barack Obama's 100 days with the Scare Force One story as a take-off point. Imagine if this fiasco had happened under George Bush's watch. It would have made the Left's incessant carping over the "fake plastic turkey," Mission Accomplished banner, and My Pet Goat incidents look like...
Read MoreOh, Canada.
Antonia Zerbisias is a columnist and blogger for the Living section of the Toronto Star. Just thought you (and her editors) might be interested in what this "mainstream" journalist wrote on her Twitter account tonight: Zerbisias lives and works in Canada, where they put critics of sharia law on trial for hate speech. But you...
Read More"The auctioneer, who had a pacemaker according to associates, began to collapse and was later taken to a local hospital."
Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti They're baaaaack. The housing entitlement mobsters of ACORN menaced a Sacramento foreclosure auction event today -- and helped send an auctioneer to the hospital with chest pains. Homeland security alert, Ja-No? Left-wing extremism is on the rise: A large crowd of protesters disrupted several foreclosure auctions today on the Sacramento County...
Read MoreShe was yet another in a long line of tax-troubled Obama nominees. Worse, she lowballed the amount of campaign cash she received from infamous abortion doctor George Tiller. And yet, the two, pro-life GOP Senators from Kansas both voted for her confirmation. Kathleen Sebelius is your new HHS Secretary by a vote of 65-31: GOP...
Read More...three non-residents pleaded guilty to voter fraud charges in Ohio today. The Palestra.net, which did incredible work documenting all the election shenanigans, has the story. More from the Columbus Dispatch. Sorry for the "distraction." Move along...
I wrote two weeks ago about transparency killer, Ron Sims, who has been tapped by Barack Obama for the No. 2 position at HUD and said that I hoped "someone on the committee is talking to the folks who have fought the real Ron Sims in his own backyard." Last week, blogger Stefan Sharkansky of...
Read MoreDLTDHYOTWO.
Well, it appears that the head of the Turncoat Caucus is finally making it official. Arlen Specter, we have just 10 words for you: Don't let the door hit you on the way out. The readers at Human Events give Specter a nice send-off. *** The Hill reminds us of the value of Specter's word:...
Read MoreWhat a way to cap off 100 days in office, huh? Using military resources for a cheap photo-op. Scaring the pants off the public. Exploiting 9/11 imagery for self-aggrandizement. Keeping secrets and causing mass panic. Um, can you imagine if a GOP administration did this? Can you imagine?! Here is what President Obama said about...
Read MoreSorry to interrupt all the liberal blogosphere's unhinged GOP-bashing over conservative opposition to flu pandemic funding in the porkulus bill, but... Well. Just an inconvenient reminder: "Porky things." Er, a rather unfortunate choice of words then. And now. Leaves a bad taste in your mouth, doesn't it? *** Wow. There is actually one sane person...
Read MoreWell, it didn't take long for partisan Democrats to blame the swine flu outbreak on the Republican Party. Here's the line: Since House Republicans all opposed the trillion-dollar-porkulus, which included funding for pandemic preparations, it's all. Our. Fault. No, really: When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment...
Read MoreA powerful manifesto from renowned composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who fears an exodus of talent from Britain in response to high taxes: Time for a U.K. Tea Party movement! Yes, it's a strange spectacle. Liberty Belle says: What goes around comes around. ***
US journalist Roxana Saberi turns 32 today in an Iranian prison. After an hour-long trial, she was sentenced to eight years behind bars for "espionage." She was initially told she was arrested for buying bootleg wine, and then because she was working as a journalist without a license. She's now on day five of a...
Read MoreD'ohbama.
The NYPost commemorates Barack Obama's milestone with 100 days, 100 mistakes. Seems like it has been a hell of a lot longer than 100 days, hasn't it? *** Whoops: The contribution attributed to Sarah Palin was actually written by Meghan Clyne.
Scroll for updates... The deadly flu strain sweeping across Mexico and into the U.S. has world health experts sounding the alarm bells. Mexico City has been shut down. Officials are advising citizens there to wear masks. There's talk of a pandemic. California and Texas have seen several reported cases, but no deaths in the U.S....
Read More...just read this stupidity-inducing analysis of Barack Obama's "hipness." Also works well as an emergency emetic.
Busy today! What's on your minds?
I wrote two weeks ago about transparency killer Ron Sim, the King County WA bureaucrat nominated to the no. 2 spot at HUD by supposed transparency savior Barack Obama. Those in his backyard who know him best know the lengths Sims has gone to in order to obstruct public disclosure and stop taxpayers from finding...
Read MoreEd Morrissey has the scoop, and also reports that the American Legion "believes that Napolitano will withdraw that report in favor of a better, more specific, and narrower report on actual threats." Ja-No is scheduled to testify about DHS immigration enforcement policies (or rather, the lack thereof) on May 6. The Foundry's got questions.
Results from the latest Rasmussen poll show a public more in tune with Dick Cheney than George Soros: Thus, Obama has backtracked on his openness to a Truth Commis
Zzzzzzzzz.
I've been pulling late nights on an offline project and Doug Powers is pitching in with guest-blogging the next few days while I try and wrap up. But couldn't help popping in real quick to offer my prescription for Larry Slumbers -- er, Larry Summers. He fell asleep on the job again today at the...
Read MoreWell, DHS isn't going to be issuing alerts about it any time soon. But it's here: the resurgence of left-wing extremism. Data point - MoveOn.org wailing about torture and indulging in Cheney Derangement Syndrome: Data point - Hillary cackles at serious questions about the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation. Data point - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
Read MoreNo, they haven't learned. And yes, it is time for UNC-Chapel Hill administrators to turn the mirror on themselves and ask how they fostered this pathetic climate of intolerance. After driving Tom Tancredo off campus, student mobsters again attempted to shut down a pro-immigration enforcement advocate, Rep. Virgil Goode. He was to speak on the...
Read MoreFrom the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a human-centered Earth Day public service announcement: Make sure to share the vid with your children and help immunize the next generation against enviro-nitwit-ism. Meghan Cox Gurdon surveys eco-fear-mongering in children's literature: If you have somehow missed the fact that April 22 is Earth Day, it's probably because you are...
Read MoreGaffestastic Janet Napolitano is at it again -- this time earning the partially justified derision of Canadians after suggesting that 9/11 terrorists entered the U.S. through the northern border: It was, of course, lax policing at our overseas consulates in Saudi Arabia (hello, Visa Express) that opened the door to the 9/11 jihadis. And it...
Read MoreDavid Kellerman, 41, the chief financial officer of troubled government-sponsored enterprise Freddie Mac, reportedly killed himself sometime last night or early this morning. Family members contacted police before 5 am after discovering the body in his Fairfax VA home. Lots of speculation and wild-eyed conspiracies already taking off. Yes, Freddie Mac is in financial meltdown....
Read MoreBloat.
We have Jabba the Hut taxing and spending in Washington -- and Jabba the Hut politicians huffing and puffing their way through the halls of Congress. Fitting: (Via Politico) Bloated is as bloated does. Inflating the deficit...and causing global warming, too!
Pants on fire!
The MSM relied on Politifact to "debunk" the GOP's claim that the Obama cap-and-trade plan would cost American families an estimated $3,100 a year. The debunkers were wrong. The Weekly Standard's John McCormack busted their fuzzy math: It’s just another inconvenient truth: If Americans want any of the government remedies that would supposedly save a...
Read MoreMy syndicated column today looks at the outbreak of Obama-esque discourse across the country. Couldn't even mention some of the misogynist sleaze prompted by the Tea Party movement because newspapers wouln't print it. And they call us an "unhinged mob?" *** Civility and tolerance in the Age of Obama by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright...
Read MoreEarlier this month, left-wing groups mau-mau-ed Texas GOP state rep. Betty Brown into apologizing for musing out loud about the bureaucratic difficulties associated with transliterated Asian-American names. Remember? Well, now comes news that another government shares Rep. Brown's concerns and which -- unlike Rep. Brown, who merely suggested that Texans of Asian descent consider changing...
Read MoreNot just "noise."
It's not just about protesting in the streets. It's about demanding accountability from your government at all levels -- and getting it. In Woonsocket, RI, Tea Party activists swarmed the City Council and stopped massive new supplemental tax hikes to bail out the public school district. The tax measure, which had been expected to pass...
Read MoreMore Obama backtracking that will not surprise you, via ABC News: President Obama suggested today that it remained a possibility that the Justice Department might bring charges against officials of the Bush administration who devised harsh interrogation policies that some see as torture. He also suggested that if there is any sort of investigation into...
Read MoreYou'll remember President Obama's aggressive lobbying for the porkulus package at a Caterpillar plant in February. Obama grandly promised that if the stimulus passed, Caterpillar would rehire laid-off workers -- a claim that was refuted by Caterpillar's CEO. How's it all working out for Caterpillar? Not so well: Caterpillar Inc., the world’s largest maker of...
Read MoreThe community organizer-in-chief will sign the $6 billion GIVE/SERVE legislation today. Just a reminder that only 14 Republican Senators voted against the massive national service expansion. And some good perspective from John Miller:
I can't even keep count anymore, can you? Meet the newest left-wing journalist rescued from the ailing newspaper industry by the Obama administration: former LA Times columnist Rosa Brooks. She's the daughter of liberal writer Barbara Ehrenreich and an acolyte of George Soros. And she's working in the...Pentagon. Not a joke. Nile Gardiner gives you...
Read MoreShe said this on CNN over the weekend: KING: A lot of Democrats in Congress want to you investigate [Joe Arpaio]. They think he is over the line. He says he is just enforcing the law and the problem is the federal government. NAPOLITANO: Well, you know, Sheriff Joe, he is being very political in...
Read MoreHere's your follow-up to the vulgar gossip blogger Perez Hilton's attack on Miss California USA Carrie Prejean. On MSNBC (natural habitat of slimers), Hilton says he takes back his apology for calling Prejean a "dumb b*tch" and then pours on even more slime by laughing that while he called her that epithet he was really...
Read More"We will resist socialism."
Just watch. Katrina Pierson, a young mother who spoke at the Dallas Tea Party, sends a clear message to race-card playing twits like Janeane Garofalo: "Not all of us are hypnotized." Amen:
The government of the Northern Mariana Islands is applying for federal stimulus money that would go to foreign welfare recipients. The money would pay for food stamps and job training: The CNMI government, through the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, has filed an application for a $3 million grant that would allow the inclusion...
Read MoreDisgrace.
Well, here's your liberal tolerance for you. Gossip blogger/barrel-scraper Perez Hilton was a judge at the Miss USA pageant last night. He asked Miss California, Carrie Prejean, whether she supported legalizing gay marriage. Prejean answered respectfully that she disagreed with the legalization movement, but supported states' rights to put the question up for a vote....
Read MoreAttention, Tea Party people!
State governments -- now suffering from spending binges, fiscal mismanagement, and exploding budgets -- are starving for new tax revenue. Brick-and-mortar stores and the commercial real estate lobby -- reeling from the bad economy -- are desperate for a leg up on online competition. They've teamed up to renew their years-long push for Congress to...
Read MoreUnhinged CNN reporter Susan Roesgen is on "vacation" after scrapping with Tea Party protesters last week, but her bosses are still hard at work trying to stifle Tea Party voices of dissent. As many of you know, CNN forced the takedown of behind-the-scenes video shot by Andrew Marcus of Founding Bloggers and posted to YouTube....
Read MoreIf even half of what's in Jeff Stein's CQ exclusive is true, this is a blockbuster scandal of historic proportions. It makes all of the pay-to-play scandals to date look like kindergarten games. Here's the upshot: Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA...
Read MoreEd Morrissey at Hot Air has been tracking President Obama's grovel tour and pitches a perfect idea for a T-shirt design contest after watching him bow and scrape to the dictators in Latin America: We're thinking a cartoon of Obama bowing to King Abdullah on the front, and a list of cities in Europe and...
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