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“The Coming Insurrection” in Greece

March 4, 2010

Last week I posted on the violence in Greece due to the first signs of the collapsing of the Bismarckian welfare state, which has been the norm in Europe for a hundred years.  The significance of this and the rest of the PIIGS in Europe is that the trends facing Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and [...]

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Brighton (UK) Tea Party Update

March 1, 2010

Well, keep in mind that they’re British and they do mean well.  Saturday’s Brighton Tea Party managed to attract around 300 people (some having to be turned away due to room occupancy issues) in what turns out to be a very “Green” (read: “Red”) locale.  As Daniel Hannan said on his blog:
“If you can run [...]

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Paul Ryan’s “Two Futures”

February 2, 2010

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan is a budget wizard.  You don’t mess with him.  As the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, he’s got the numbers, the intellect and the talent to flatten many opponents.  In a way he’s the 2000s version of Jon Kasich, who back in the 1990s was the major contributor to [...]

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Tea Partying the National Tea Party Convention?

January 23, 2010

Seeing the widespread grassroots power of the amorphous Tea Party Movement it should come as no shock that some have sought to create an exclusive national leadership as an attempt to coalesce the movement around certain people, events, and message.  The catch is trying to be the first ones to do it so that your [...]

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Jack Bauer vs. Santa

December 20, 2009

Getting in the Christmas spirit and looking forward to 24: Season 8 coming in January, I found this entertaining clip which melds the two together:

Hat tip: Hot Air.

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Safe School Czar Kevin Jennings’ New Game at Recess

December 9, 2009

This is one of my more explicit posts… you’ve been warned!!!
I was recently tipped off about a story that has to be read to be believed.  Apparently “Safe School Czar” Kevin Jennings had once advocated some controversial recommendations for updating existing curricula across the nation:  let’s try to teach our students as early as pre-school [...]

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Stepping Back to Look at the Health Care Debate

October 18, 2009

Jay D. Homnick writing for the American Spectator had a clever article this week where he steps back and takes a clear-eyed view at the health care debate.  The following day, the Glenn Beck Show had dozens of doctors on to talk about their view of what Washington’s poised to do.  One of the similar criticisms between them was [...]

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The Drive-By Media Campaign Against Rush

October 15, 2009

Rush Limbaugh is a threat to liberals.  He has always been a threat to liberals.  Now, the state-run media is engaged in a drive-by smear campaign against Rush to prevent him from realizing a lifelong dream, becoming an owner of an NFL franchise.  And it looks like their campaign of lies has succeeded.
Limbaugh single-handily began [...]

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How Should The Tea Party Movement Treat the GOP?

October 12, 2009

Conservatives have been frustrated with the GOP for years, and rightly so.  Conservatism is an ideology of freedom and limited government, and the GOP has many elements in it that are basically conservative but bigger government conservative (witness compassionate conservatism).  Conservatives are rightly frustrated with the GOPs endorsement and support of RINOs over viable Conservatives [...]

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Rick Moran’s “Right Wing Nut House” Should Be Renamed “Nut House”

September 18, 2009

I’ve counted Right Wing Nuthouse as one of the blogs I read on a regular basis for the past few years now (as noted by the fact that it is in our blogroll).  I’ve always found Rick Moran’s articles to be interesting and thought provoking, even if I often disagreed with him (as he is [...]

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Jimmy Carter Joins the “Racist” Chorus

September 16, 2009

Jimmy Carter is a bitter old coot and much of what he says either makes most people roll their eyes or remind them bitterly of those dark years before Reagan.  However, sensing a kindred mess in Obama and feeling very comfortable with the Obamabots at NBC, Carter plays the race card as blatant as one can:

A [...]

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Political Antics at Kennedy Funeral

August 30, 2009

With all that’s been said and done since Ted Kennedy’s death about using his death politically to promote a socialized health care  monstrosity, I can’t believe this actually happened at his funeral services yesterday:

What an absolutely shameless crew!  Talk about mixing church and state (which I thought Libs didn’t like), using the high-profile bad Catholic’s funeral as a [...]

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Trying to Score Points on Kennedy’s Death

August 27, 2009

Ted Kennedy’s body is not even cold yet and some are trying to win political points, shamelessly using his death to advance their political agenda.  The most obvious are those, like Robert Byrd, who want to put Ted Kennedy’s name on the health care bill in an attempt to use the spirit of mourning and [...]

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Congressman Baird Gets a Town Hall Schooling!

August 24, 2009

When asked by a liberal friend what I think of the town hall activism (though he didn’t use the word “activism”), I jokingly answered simply that it was like Christmas all month long!  It’s August 24 and people are still speaking out against their elected officials — my own liberal Congressman Frank Pallone gets his own town hall [...]

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(un)Happy “Cost of Government Day!”

August 12, 2009

I did a lot of driving today.  So, I listened to a lot of radio from such people as Laura Ingraham, Andrew Wilkow and Rush Limbaugh.  Well, not everyone gets to listen to their shows regularly and a common thread seemed present throughout them all (of course fit in between the Town Hall/Health Care thing): 
August 12, [...]

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Smears And Intimidation: How Chicago Thugs Take Out The Opposition

August 6, 2009

Much of Obama still remains a mystery to me.  Yes, he is a far-left radical who is a thug from the Chicago Political Machine.  Yes, he wants to remake America in his own image.  Yes, he is an egotistical maniac who wants nothing but adoration from throngs of followers.  Yet I keep vacillating back and [...]

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Obama as “The Joker”

August 3, 2009

This poster has been seen all over LA since Saturday and the Lefties are quite upset.  I’m a little upset that such a picture gives this “Joker” satire such a run for its money!  Since it’s getting the Left all bent out of shape, I thought it must be reposted wherever possible, though a hat tip [...]

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Obamacare Down but Not Done

July 30, 2009

I was bothered beyond the normal bits of agita which this Administration tends to summon when word came yesterday that the Blue Dogs were in a meeting designed to compromise with Pelosi on Obamacare legislation. OK… Mylanta, Maalox or Tums…hmm…  Blue Dog or not, a Democrat is still a Democrat most of the time.
However, when [...]

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Paul Ryan on Health Care

July 23, 2009

Congressman Paul Ryan wrote this article for the American Spectator today.  It’s awesome and definitely worth a read!  Page one, two, and three. 
It’s thoughtful, harkening back to our Founders, history, and American character in context of today’s debate.  We, as a nation, have failed miserably in educating ourselves on the concept of freedom and the [...]

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A “Right” to Health Care

July 22, 2009

That seems to be the mantra from the Left as we go through this first of the many Obamacare battles:  health care is a “right.”  Let’s be real about this:  until at least January 2011, Obama and the Left will not stop until something crosses his desk.  Our challenge is to slow them down or shrink [...]

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The Obamaprompter Flatlines

July 14, 2009

Sick and tired of doing the bidding of President Obama, the Obamaprompter called it quits in a supreme act of televised karma yesterday:

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A Snapshot of Two Polls

July 9, 2009

It’s the first full week of July and there are some political trends worth checking out.  Usually the summer is very slow news time since so many people are on vacation or otherwise busy enjoying what summer has to offer.  However, with Cap-and-Trade, Obamacare, and Tea Parties galore, both June and July have already been [...]

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Obama Out of the Atmosphere

June 23, 2009

Most Beneficent Exalted High King Barry I is nothing of the sort.  Scott Rasmussen, whose polling is amongst the most trusted in America, has developed the “Presidential Approval Index.”  The PAI gauges the difference between those who “Strong Approve” and those who “Strongly Disapprove” of the President. 
Well, yesterday it reached zero.  Here’s the chart from [...]

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Latest New Jersey Gubernatorial Race Poll: Christie Up Big on Corzine

June 5, 2009

I’ve followed a simple rule in NJ politics since arriving here in 2001:  in the primaries, you vote your conscience; in the general election, you vote against Corzine.
Thusly, I voted in last Tuesday’s Republican primary for Steve Lonegan.  I met him last summer and know where he stands on the issues, so I was convinced [...]

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Dick Morris on ObamaCare

May 16, 2009

Here’s a video clip of Dick Morris talking about Obama’s health care proposal – a proposal short on details about how the extra $1.5 trillion in short-term expenses will be paid for.  I think Morris makes a great point on one of the many things Obama and the Lefties don’t seem to understand about the potential impact of ObamaCare:

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The Pirates Call Our Bluff

April 11, 2009

To paraphrase Rush from yesterday, America’s reaction to the taking of Captain Richard Phillips Wednesday by Somali pirates is the foreign policy equivalent of voting “Present.”
Now, due to the US waffling and inaction the four Somali pirates on a powerless lifeboat are demanding $2 million for Phillips while a second ship has been hijacked by other pirates.  This [...]

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Top 10 List of Annoying Millennial Habits

March 27, 2009

Quin Hillyer from American Spectatorhas been spot on lately.  Here’s his latest piece ripping on the bad habits of Millennials and late X-ers (or as he calls them, the “under 30” crowd).
I teach Millennials and laughed out loud most of the way down the page!  Millennials, as the “Baby Boom Echo” or ”Echo Boomers,” suffer from some [...]

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Daniel Hannan Speaks Truth to Brown and the EU

March 25, 2009

The kind of political chutzpah that “Prime Minister’s Questions” junkies have experienced for years on C-SPAN finally made it to the floor of the EU.  British MP Daniel Hannan wrecks on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a classic Tory beat-down of bad Labour policies, this time on an international forum which everyone could see!  Check it out:

“Brezhnev-era apparatchik [...]

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Job Fairs at Strip Clubs — Gotta Love Obamanomics!

March 23, 2009

Everybody in the Rhode Island area has either heard of or been a client of the Foxy Lady — a place of ilrepute in the midst of a town called Providence, known for all sorts of things including a “Legs and Eggs” special, while being as classy as Southern New England can do a public strip club.  [...]

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Lia Mills on Abortion

March 22, 2009

I taught Roe v. Wade in class this week and was shockingly objective.  It’s really hard when you’re a pro-life Catholic teaching in a public school, being morally opposed to abortion as a form of birth control — I just think it’s sick.  I felt like I needed a bath and confession afterwards.  I NEVER say “fetus”; [...]

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