February 4, 2010

Obama: 'You tighten your belts' while we spend you into oblivion

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January 19, 2010

Martin Luther King and Today

In 1963 Martin Luther King was sitting in a Birmingham, Alabama jail cell staring at a statement issued by other members of the Christian clergy who were pleading with King to exercise more restraint in his struggle against injustice. King's profoun...

December 16, 2009

Chuck Schumer calls flight attendant 'Bitch'

Politico is reporting that Sen. Chuck Schumer, (D-NY), called a US Airways flight attendant a “Bitch” Sunday after a dispute regarding cell phone use prior to take-off.According to a GOP aide on the same flight from New York to Washingto...

December 9, 2009

Dick Cheney is more compassionate than Nancy Pelosi

Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton has penned what should become known as the most devastating exposé regarding the decades-long but self-deceptive liberal claim to the mantle of “compassion.”In other words, Scruton’s is...

November 6, 2009

Obama on Fort Hood Massacre: Don't Jump to Conclusions

"We don't know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts."  So said President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden today in reference to Nidal Malik Hasan’s savage massacre of...

October 30, 2009

'The People of this Country are Suffering'

Organizing for America – the organization that gift wraps and sells Barack Obama to the American public – is sponsoring a “Health Video Reform Challenge” in order to stimulate creative filmmakers into packaging Obama’s...

October 27, 2009

Let Them Eat Veal

Immanuel Kant once observed that “he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.”  I thought about Kant when I recently learned that the Obamas had graced their dog ‘Bo’ with a dog house shaped b...

October 24, 2009

Klein: Fox's 'hateful crap' borders on 'sedition'

For a fascinating glimpse into the seething and completely unhinged liberal mind check out Joe Klein’s dark and disturbing rant over at Time Magazine. The first line of the piece reads:Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of ...

October 23, 2009

Obama: Republicans 'Do what they're told'

During a fundraiser in New York Barack Obama let loose with probably the most laughable claim so far during his faltering presidency:“Democrats are an opinionated bunch . . . y’all are thinking for yourselves. . . The other side [i.e. Rep...

October 10, 2009

Castro Praises Nobel Prize for Obama

When Confucius was once asked about being praised he made sure to qualify his answer by noting that he’d prefer to be admired by the good people and hated by the bad.News is emerging from Cuba that the communist dictator Fidel Castro has prais...

October 3, 2009

Come See the Blood in the Streets

Chicago’s vitriolic West Side Catholic leader and one time Obama spiritual mentor Father Michael Pfleger is known by some as the “white” Jeremiah Wright.  Pfleger, who has called Louis Farrakhan a “great man” and Re...

September 25, 2009

America's Relativist in Chief

The task of unpacking just one portion of President Obama’s recent convoluted speech at the UN is eerily reminiscent of Winston Churchill’s famous description of Soviet foreign policy: “a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma....

September 14, 2009

Where's Sarah?

Despite some estimates the September 12th march on Washington approached a record 2 million American citizens, Rasmussen is reporting today that President Obama’s approval index has experienced a stunning turnaround over the past week.From an ...

September 9, 2009

Something's Rotten at the State Department

Last week on Thursday the Miami Herald carried a story with the following headline from AP: “US cuts aid to Honduras in support of ex-leader.”  The story described the outcome of meeting last week between ousted Honduran leader Man...

September 7, 2009

Axelrod's Disturbing Revelation

When asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether Barack Obama had ordered the resignation of green czar Van Jones, White House senior advisor David Axelrod retorted: "Absolutely not -- this was Van Jones' own decision.”Axelro...

September 5, 2009

Obama Should Release His Transcripts

In a nationally televised educational address next Tuesday Barack Obama is scheduled to, according to the Department of Education, “challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning.”Concer...

August 28, 2009

NY Times Magazine Editor: Kennedy Joked about Chappaquiddick

Barack Obama recently called Ted Kennedy “the greatest Senator of our time.”  Time Magazine has recently begun a campaign to highlight Kennedy’s “quiet Catholic faith.”One can only wonder however about a man who was...

August 23, 2009

Obama's Karmic Freight Train

Confucius once remarked that a state rests on three pillars: food, military, and trust.  If a leader were forced to give up one of the pillars, asked a disciple, which one would it be?  Confucius answered: "Military."  Compel...

August 8, 2009

Will Obama Condemn Racist Union Thugs?

The attorney for Kenneth Gladney, the young African-American man brutally beaten by at least three SEIU members at Democrat Russ Carnahan’s town hall meeting in St. Louis, has called on President Obama, the SEIU and Rep. Carnahan to condemn the...

August 8, 2009

Obama and Public Debate

At a town hall meeting in Chester, Va. back in August last year candidate Obama had this to say about the important value of public debate regarding health care:"People say, 'Well, you have this great health care plan, but how are you going to ...

August 6, 2009

Republican Senators: La Raza is Watching You

Senate Republicans wishing to exercise a principled opposition to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor better be careful according to Janet Murguia of the National Council of La Raza.  Appearing at a news conference on Capitol Hill, Murguia had...

July 25, 2009

Every White Man's Nightmare

“Every black man’s nightmare” is how Massachusetts’s governor Deval Patrick recently described the controversy surrounding the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  While speaking to a throng of reporters i...

July 25, 2009

Nearly All His Professors are Democrats

“Nearly All My Professors Are Democrats. Isn’t That a Problem?” is the title of a wonderful opinion piece at the Christian Science Monitor by University of Oregon journalism student Dan Lawton.Lawton’s investigation into the ...

July 24, 2009

Obama's Empathy Backfires

Despite a recent Rasmussen Poll showing Obama’s disapproval rating topping 50% for the first time since his election last year, the president has refused to retract his assertion that the Cambridge police acted “stupidly” by arrest...

July 21, 2009

Cynthia Tucker: Sotomayor opponents are racist

According to Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Cynthia Tucker, the Republican Party is being held hostage by a cadre of bigoted, conservative white people who refuse to acknowledge a simple truth:"Sonia Sotomayor represents the future, not Sarah ...

July 17, 2009

Why Democrats Win, Why Republicans Lose

Barbara Boxer’s rude and imperial treatment of Black Chamber of Commerce head Harry Alford has been igniting a refreshing intellectual uprising in the conservative media.  A glaring spotlight has now been fixed on Boxer’s ugly attem...

July 16, 2009

Sonia Sotomayor's Troubled Eyes

Is anyone else sick and tired of listening to Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee cower in the face of Sonia Sotomayor's sex and ethnicity?  Reports out of Washington describe the Republican Senators tiptoeing ever so gin...

July 16, 2009

Barbara Boxer Exposed as 'Racial'

See also: Why Democrats Win, Why Republicans Lose, by George JoyceSpread the video you are about to see far and wide.  It contains an honest, gut level outburst from an indignant black man who has obviously reached the limit of his patience with...

July 11, 2009

Peggy Noonan Rips Sarah Palin, Again

Why does Peggy Noonan find Sarah Palin so distasteful?  Presumably, I am told, it's because Noonan worships at the altar of Ronald Reagan, and Palin is no Reagan.  Female friends of mine tell me of a deeper hatred: Noonan is troubled by Pal...

July 7, 2009

Choosing Che in Honduras

Liberals in the media have been trying over the past few days to nuance the Honduran situation.  For example, over at the Washinton Post Edward Schumacher-Matos grudgingly extends support for those who ousted the Chavez-clone Manuel Zelaya but a...

July 3, 2009

Colin Powell Jumping Ship?

Add Colin Powell to the ranks of Americans waking up from the Obama induced stupor.  The Washington Times is reporting that Mr. Powell has voiced serious reservations in a CNN interview about Obama’s big government agenda and its conseque...

June 30, 2009

Obama and the Bad Villagers

The U.N. General Assembly has just condemned the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. In addition, the world body insisted that the 192 U.N. member states shun recognition of any replacement government in Honduras.On Monday, President Barack O...

June 29, 2009

Bush's Domino Effect

Today's liberal press has made digging for a hot story quite simple.  The secret is to take any domestic or international event or crisis, wait a few days, and then note the singular and glaring omission -- the unremarked elephant in the room in...

June 18, 2009

After Obama Fails

A failed presidency for Barack Obama could turn into liberalism's worst nightmare. Barely six months into his term, the 44th president has succeeded in generating the most widespread and serious discussion of secession since the Civil War.  Desp...

June 16, 2009

Our Breathless President

Polling experts around the world and in Iran are weighing in on the impossibility of counting over forty million paper ballots and declaring President Ahmadinejad victorious in only a few short hours.  It's highly questionable in other words to ...

June 16, 2009

Our Pathetic Media

An AP television reporter by the name of David Bauder represents yet another sign that the American media is chock full of the infantile and clueless.  Last weekend Bauder gloated in his column that the audience-challenged David Letterman was ex...

June 11, 2009

Prominent Rabbi Blasts Obama

Claiming that “some Jews may be naïve, but we are not stupid” former Navy and Marine Corps officer and Chaplain Rabbi Dr. Morton Pomerantz has blasted Barack Obama for “creating a climate of hate” against Jews.  In a...

June 7, 2009

Betrayal of the Democratic Party

The "righteous wind" that has propelled the American left to unprecedented success over the last year has forced most of the American right into an underground bunker.  Those few conservative politicians like Dick Cheney who remain top...

June 4, 2009

Obama to End Affirmative Action?

In his much anticipated speech in Cairo on Thursday, Barack Obama signaled his willingness to consider scrapping the entire divisive edifice of affirmative action in America.  While discussing the record of “human history” as one in ...

May 31, 2009

Oppression Liberators Need not Apply

This is a job announcement from the website of one of America’s top inner-city public charter schools located in Oakland, California (no kidding):“AIPCS is always in search of teachers and staff who are smart, ambitious, and motivated to...

May 30, 2009

Judge Sotomayor and Higher Learning

Ever wonder why young Americans graduate from college without ever having read Alexis de Tocqueville, Edmund Burke, Descartes, Goethe, Cervantes, Gibbon or Tolstoy?  Well, you can thank young campus crusaders like current Supreme Court nominee S...

May 29, 2009

Democrat Empathy

Credit Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal for knocking the wind out of Barack Obama and his cohort of empathetic Democrats.  In probably the most damaging essay to appear regarding the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the high court, ...

May 19, 2009

The GOP's Prejean Moment

She's young, beautiful, articulate, patriotic, Christian, and most importantly, courageous.  To many on the left however Carrie Prejean, the current Miss California, is a bigoted, shameful, and intolerant homophobe.  What Carrie Prejean rep...

May 16, 2009

Axelrod: Prejean is a dog

On Thursday evening’s NPR quiz show “Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me” senior Obama advisor David Axelrod made reference to Miss California Carrie Prejean as a dog.  Politico is reporting that when Axelrod was asked on the s...

May 11, 2009

Of Golf and Politics

Popular CBS Sports golf commentator David Feherty let loose with a zinger in his “D Magazine” opinion piece concerning George Bush’s recent relocation to Dallas.  Feherty, who has visited the troops in Iraq, obviously heard an...