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Michael Moore is releasing a new movie, and I’m sooo excited about it... More about me in a moment. First, the man who brought us Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9-11 is about to release a new film entitled Capitalism: A Love Story.Just as “Bowling” embodied Moore’s extreme left-wing view that gun rights are bad, and “Fahrenheit” embodied (among other things) the extreme left-wing belief that Iraqis enjoyed Saddam Hussein and President Bush made their lives worse, so also does “Love Story” advance another idea that is popular among American liberals today: capitalism is evil. “Trailers” and “promos” available at...

The resignation of Washington Post general manager of events and conferences for four months, Charles Pelton, comes some 10 weeks after the plug was pulled on $25,000 dinners to include Washington Post reporters, officials from Congress, the Obama admin, and industry executives at the home of Publisher Katharine Weymouth. Pelton proposed sponsors pay $25,000 for one to $250,000 for all 11 events. Weymouth and Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli later confessed they erred by not insisting on giving Post journalists the freedom to report freely on the event. Pelton, a former journalist, didn't mention the salon imbroglio in his resignation, "Given...

The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!

No one has been a more uncritical cheerleader for the Obama administration than liberal blogger Andrew Sullivan. Now, Sullivan has gotten his reward, courtesy of Obama's Department of Justice. Sullivan was caught smoking marijuana in a National Park and was prosecuted, consistent with the usual policy of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. But Sullivan's pull with the Obama administration got him a sweetheart deal: the U.S. Attorney decided to drop the charges, even though there evidently is no doubt about Sullivan's guilt. The issue here isn't whether marijuana possession should be illegal, or should be prosecuted. It...

Here is video of Ann Coulter ripping Gerlado Rivera last night for suggesting GOP Rep. Joe Wilson's "You Lie" outburst during President Obama's Health Care Speech had "racialist undertone." Coulter told Geraldo, "I thought I was on Geraldo. I did not know I was suddenly blasted into MSNBC where any opposition to Obama has to be racist." . . . (VIDEO)

Touring the country to peddle his collectivist schemes, President Barack Obama made stops in New Hampshire and then in Phoenix during the month of August. At several of these events, a handful of those who gathered outside the halls to protest wore firearms. No one got arrested, since no one brandished their firearms in a threatening manner. They just wore them, safely slung or holstered, which is still perfectly legal in both New Hampshire and Arizona. The fact that many Americans need to be re-acclimatized to the normalcy of an armed citizenry was quickly revealed by the nearly hysterical rantings...

I’m still debating whether I should waste your time with these guys (Revolution Muslim). In the end, I think that it’s always better to know the arguments of those who openly support al-Qaida here in the United States (in this case, from New York City)… I recommend that you just click play and let it play in the background while you read your morning paper.

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President Obama and congressional Democrats this week, following focus group testing, altered their rhetoric by beginning to refer to their proposed health insurance exchange as a the creation of a health insurance marketplace. The change in rhetoric is simple enough to understand, as the term marketplace is more soothing to a general public that has grown accustomed to more than 200 years of a capitalist based economy. But, the question remains as to whether the term marketplace is an accurate depiction of the proposed Health Insurance Exchange or rather just creative marketing designed to create a false perception...

For months the Old Media, President Obama, and the Democrats have been jabbing the GOP for being the “party of no” and for not offering any healthcare ideas of its own. Byron York of the Washington Examiner, however, reveals the facts behind this epithet and finds the attack to be false. The truth is, the GOP has offered all sorts of ideas and bills, not that the Democrats have bothered to entertain any of them. We learned earlier in the week that Obama hasn’t invited GOP leaders to the White House since April. And there’s been report after report that...

A recent report by the Sacramento based California Budget Project shows that two out of five working-age Californians are out of work. The jobless rate has not been this bad since 1977. California's unemployment rate is one of the worst in the country at 12 percent. Yet, union membership has grown in California despite the recession. And it's no wonder when looking at the CBP study. On page three, for instance, we see a notation that reports that unionization in government jobs has grown substantially and is also at a much higher percentage of the total sector workforce in California...

The National Center for Public Policy (nationalcenter.org) has assembled a compendium of horror stories of the "shattered lives" of 100 victims of government healthcare from all over the western world. This book serves as a warning to every advocate of the "free" healthcare that Obama is trying to sell like snake-oil from a traveling case. If government gets control of our healthcare, our entire system will be worse off for it. In "Shattered Lives: One Hundred Victims of Government Health Care," author Amy Ridenour presents us with 100 heartwrenching stories of healthcare victims from Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Japan and...

Iran will not negotiate about its nuclear "rights," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday, after the United States said it would focus on the Islamic state's atomic activities in upcoming talks with Tehran.

It's pretty clear we've arrived at a Maoist Moment in our history. A month or so ago, I asked in a column here, "What if They Don't Care?" The gist was that either a) Obama had promised "blue dogs" or Dems in tough districts that he would send in ACORN and ensure their re-election if they voted for "health non-care" (HNC) or b) would give them admin jobs if they lost. If they could just build the "doomsday machine," sure they might lose their seat in 2010 . . . but would have it back in 2012 and probably never...

It seems that Andrew Sullivan’s application for US citizenship hangs in the balance — but not really, and that is the issue. Gawker and other sites report that this past summer, blogger and columnist Sullivan was arrested on national seashore in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, for illegal possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor that would incur a $125 for Sullivan, if he was found guilty. No big deal — it happens a lot in that area of our country. The only stumbling block is Sullivan’s pending U.S. citizenship, which might have been adversely affected should he have been brought to court. Enter...

Britain in moral crisis, warns Bishop of Rochester The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali said that the rejection of Christian values is having a damaging effect on the country. Speaking at his farewell service, he expressed particular concern at the breakdown of the family and at growing calls for the legalisation of assisted suicide. Although he is stepping down as bishop, he vowed to continue to speak out on important issues and to fight for a return to Christian principles. "I believe that the Christian faith is necessary for the life of our country," he said.

September 13, 2009 The fine art of American protest By Alan Caruba There have been many mass marches on Washington, D.C., so the locals know how to make plans to anticipate the congestion and the police are polite and skillful in the science of crowd control. They can afford to be polite because the crowds, no matter how large, are too. Oh, sure, they shout a lot, but that's what a protest march is all about. Back in April 1894 unemployed workers known as "Coxey's Army" showed up to demand that Congress do something. It was the second year of...

...It was a giant, implausible lie. Yet the speech was smoothly delivered and well-turned, perfectly balanced to seem to empathize both with the grievances of blacks and with the concerns of whites. So most people seemed to believe it. This is what Obama's supposed gift for rhetoric amounts to: the ability to tell a smoothly polished bald-faced lie...

Eight years after the Islamic attack upon America the only thing that has changed is America’s divisiveness. There is still a hole in the ground where the twin towers once stood. There was supposed to be a new Freedom Tower there. It took four hundred days to build the empire state building, yet there is a hole in the ground where the Freedom Tower is supposed to be. Oh, and it will no longer be called the Freedom Tower, it will be called the “One World Trade Center Tower”. “One World”, isn’t that special? Combine this with B. Hussein Obama...

Delia, in response to your question, how much can Americans stomach? The answer is, a LOT! Way too much, in fact. Like you, I am chagrined by the dominance of the fast-food industry in America, and not just because their ubiquitous presence every few feet along urban highways is an architectural eyesore. Like you, I happily eat some of it, and for cost, consistency and speed (in this era where a wait of five minutes seems a gross imposition), it can hardly be beat. But when I really look at what I'm eating, I know it's wrong. And when I...