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  • Sarah Palin and the Haters of American Normal (Elite "Left" & "Right" are the problem)

    12/13/2010 7:10:39 AM PST · by Bigtigermike · 41 replies
    American Thinker ^ | Monday December 13, 2010 | By Stuart Schwartz
    We are just south of Christmas, and the nation's insiders -- self-proclaimed blue-bloods by birth and/or worldview -- have declared open season on Sarah Palin.  Crazed left and sclerotic right have united in common purpose -- "hellbent," as Politico put it -- to rid this nation of the possibility of a presidency that would most assuredly end in "apocalyptic disaster" after which "the survivors will envy the dead" (or so says that fading leftist icon, The New Republic).  Stop her now -- or we may end up with a normal American at the helm. Sarah Palin is just too dumb...
  • ‘F*** the Rich’: Cape Cod Arsonist Targets Homes of the Wealthy

    12/13/2010 7:15:11 AM PST · by combat_boots · 80 replies
    The Blaze ^ | 13 Dec 2010 | M. Jessup
    Upscale towns in Massachusetts are on alert as police and fire officials are investigating another fire in which an arsonist scawled a “f*** the rich” graffiti message at the scene. The latest incident in Sandwich follows another suspicious incident in Barnstable. On Dec. 2, the local news reports that “incendiary devices” were found in the charred ruins of a home in Marstons Mills, along with the spray-painted expletive left spray-painted on a fence. In a phone interview Saturday, Joe Vaughn, who owned the Trotter’s Lane house for 22 years but moved about 10 years ago to Sandwich, said he talked...
  • Is Envy More Important than Prosperity?

    12/13/2010 5:30:06 AM PST · by Kaslin · 45 replies · 2+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | December 13, 2010 | Star Parker
    New York Congressman Anthony Weiner is making a name for himself. He wants taxes raised on wealthy Americans and is one of the more vocal opponents to the deal that would retain current tax rates for everyone. “An estate tax cut for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires – virtually none,” says the congressman. But what does Weiner know about job creation, about work, about being an entrepreneur? Looking over his resume, you see he’s never held a private sector job. Right out of college, he went to work on the staff of then-Congressmen Chuck Schumer,...
  • Updated: Two black Democrats bolt party for GOP

    12/11/2010 8:31:01 AM PST · by Hotlanta Mike · 69 replies
    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | December 9, 2010 | Aaron Gould Sheinin
    Two African-American Democrats on Thursday announced that they were joining the Republican Party. Hall County Commissioner Ashley Bell and former state executive committee member Andre Walker said the Democratic Party had grown too liberal and they are finding a new home with the Republicans.
  • The Care and Feeding of Progressives

    12/01/2010 1:03:17 AM PST · by Rashputin · 15 replies
    American Thinker ^ | December 1, 2010 | Robin of Berkeley
    The Care and Feeding of Progressives By Robin of Berkeley I've had to ask readers of my blog to register in order to post comments. There are three reasons why: 1. Trolls 2. Trolls 3. Trolls (By the way, I often tell clients that there are three rules for dealing with the character disordered: "Boundaries, Boundaries, and Boundaries." Not surprisingly, the same can be said about extreme progressives.) When I started my little blog, it didn't occur to me that trolls would come out in droves. Why would leftists expend their energies on me? And why would they subject themselves...
  • Homeless problem lingers as S.F. spends millions

    09/27/2010 7:55:19 AM PDT · by SmithL · 18 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/27/10 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross
    Since Mayor Gavin Newsom took office, he and the city of San Francisco have spent more than $1 billion on the homeless. But is it helping? This year, the city spent $150 million on health care and social services for its estimated 13,500 homeless on the street or in city-funded housing. That comes to about $11,000 per person. The city has spent another $176 million, mostly in federal funds, on permanent housing for the homeless since 2004. Newsom said at a recent Chronicle editorial board meeting that since implementing his Care Not Cash program, the city has taken 12,000 people...
  • How the Environmental Movement Became Just Another Washington Power Bloc

    09/27/2010 5:43:22 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 10 replies
    Pajamas Media ^ | September 27, 2010 | Charlie Martin
    It’s not just a band of flannel-shirted environmentalists any longer; it’s become a big-money, major player in Washington power politics and American elections. Starting today, the Washington Examiner is publishing a five-part special report in association with Pajamas Media on “Big Green”: the alliance of the Democratic Party, environmental groups, and activists in the progressive movement. It’s not just a band of flannel-shirted environmentalists any longer; it’s become a big-money, major player in Washington power politics and American elections.In this first of our five-part series in coordination with the Examiner, we consider how the consensus for environmental regulation in the...
  • The Catholic Tea Kettle Continues to Boil

    09/27/2010 6:17:29 AM PDT · by markomalley · 30 replies
    Inside Catholic ^ | 9/23/2010 | Deal Hudson
    Over the past two weeks, I've had extensive discussions with a wide group of Catholic leaders about the state of the Church in the United States. The frustration and impatience among Catholics, which I discussed last February in "Is It Time for a Catholic Tea Party?," continue to grow.The occasions for this discussion were the Catholic Leadership Conference held in Philadelphia earlier this month, immediately followed by the Faith & Freedom Coalition Conference and the 15th Annual Partnership Dinner benefiting InsideCatholic, both held in Washington, D.C.The broad background for this discontent is well known: Lay Catholics cannot understand why,...
  • TV Host Maher Shows Another O'Donnell Clip

    09/25/2010 6:37:13 AM PDT · by srmorton · 183 replies · 1+ views
    Yahoo ^ | September 25, 2010 | Randall Chase
    DOVER, Del. – TV comedian Bill Maher is taking another jab at Republican Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, who as a conservative Christian activist was a frequent guest on his "Politically Incorrect" show in the 1990s. After O'Donnell won last week's GOP primary in Delaware with the help of tea party activists, Maher played a 1999 tape in which she said she had dabbled in witchcraft while in high school. Maher threatened to show more old clips of O'Donnell unless she appeared on his current cable show, "Real Time with Bill Maher." On Friday night, Maher made good on his...
  • Bill Maher’s Anti-Christian Shtick

    09/18/2010 9:12:57 AM PDT · by illiac · 13 replies
    Human Events ^ | 10/29/2009 | A.W.R. Hawkins
    Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” is either a comedian masquerading as a political commentator or a commentator masquerading as a comedian. Either way, it’s not working.
  • Bill Maher: Obama Would Be A Better President 'If He Was Fully Black'

    Bill Maher on Friday said Barack Obama's problem is "he's only half black." He'd be a better president "if he was fully black." In the season premiere of HBO's "Real Time," while chatting with former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich, the host said, "Isn't Obama's big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it's because he's only half black." As if that wasn't enough, "There's a white man in him holding him back because everything is half-assed."
  • Shock: O'Donnell Says Masturbation and Abortion are Sins

    09/16/2010 12:25:22 PM PDT · by marcbold · 72 replies
    Creative Minority Report ^ | 9-16-10 | Matt Archbold
    This has to be one of the most unintentionally funny pieces ever written by a news organization. If you want to know why the mainstream media is dying, check this out. CBS News certainly believes they have the goods on conservative Christine O'Donnell. I'm sure to them the news that Christine O'Donnell is pro-life and believes masturbation is a sin will paint her as an outlier and a crazed extremist. And who does CBS have as their voice of reason to counter the crazed Puritan O'DOnnell in the piece, former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders who was so wacky in saying...
  • Ann Coulter slams Farah as 'swine,' 'publicity whore'

    08/19/2010 10:43:44 PM PDT · by StrangeFeathers · 238 replies
    WND ^ | August 18, 2010 | Joe Kovacs
    MIAMI – Conservative superstar Ann Coulter launched a verbal assault on WND Editor Joseph Farah today, calling the veteran journalist "swine" and a "publicity whore" after she was dismissed as a keynote speaker for the news site's upcoming "Taking America Back National Conference" here. "[F]arah is doing this for PUBLICITY and publicity alone," Coulter wrote in an e-mail to the Daily Caller, a political site founded by journalist Tucker Carlson.
  • Why on earth is Drudge linking to a revolution-happy article on a fringe website? I smell a rat...

    08/17/2010 3:50:52 PM PDT · by starczar66 · 95 replies
    Under the headline "'Without a revolution, Americans are history'..." Drudge has currently linked to a kooky article on Infowars.com which is accompanied by a somewhat violent illustration. Has Drudge gone loco? Is he just trying to increase the traffic on his website by posting something off-the-wall? Something is odd here, I smell a rat...Thoughts?
  • First Rush, then Coulter, and Now Glenn Beck ... What’s Happening?

    08/14/2010 4:09:18 AM PDT · by GonzoII · 856 replies
    Life Site News ^ | NEW YORK, August 12, 2010 | Commentary by John-Henry Westen
    Friday August 13, 2010 First Rush, then Coulter, and Now Glenn Beck ... What’s Happening? Commentary by John-Henry Westen NEW YORK, August 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Appearing on The O’Reilly Factor yesterday, famed conservative Fox News host Glenn Beck may have shocked many Americans by noting that he was not very concerned about homosexual 'marriage.'O’Reilly asked Beck, “Do you believe that gay marriage is a threat to the country in any way?” Beck replied, “No, I don't,” adding sarcastically, “Will the gays come and get us?”  After being pressed again on the question, Beck said, “I believe -- I...
  • The left is unpopular, undisciplined and ill-tempered

    08/16/2010 8:17:45 AM PDT · by Nachum · 53 replies
    Weekly Standard ^ | 8/16/10 | William Kristol
    The left has collapsed. Its political support has collapsed. Public opinion polls point to a historic repudiation of the president and the Democratic party this fall, something on the order of a 60-seat Republican gain in the House. The GOP has an outside shot at taking the Senate as well. Its claim to intellectual integrity has collapsed. Paul Krugman, Ivy League professor, New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate (the holy trinity of the liberal establishment), has humiliated himself with a startlingly dishonest attack on Paul Ryan's budget proposal. Krugman, called out by Ryan, rebuked by honest analysts and unwilling...
  • Where all the oil went

    08/02/2010 3:08:49 AM PDT · by Scanian · 39 replies · 2+ views
    NY Post ^ | August 02, 2010 | Editorial
    The New York Times devoted a big chunk of its front page one day last week to noting that much of the spilled BP Deepwater Horizon oil has "dissipated." Most of it, in fact. And to scant noticeable ill-effect -- at least so far -- relative to the apocalyptic rhetoric attending weeks of televised video footage that showed oil rushing from the ocean floor. It's not clear how much oil actually spilled; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute expert Dr. Judy McDowell estimates that between 96 million and 184 million gallons made its way into the Gulf before the leak was capped...
  • Science Turns Authoritarian

    07/28/2010 8:32:48 AM PDT · by jpl · 27 replies · 2+ views
    The American ^ | Tuesday July 27, 2010 | Kenneth P. Green and Hiwa Alaghebandian
    Science is losing its credibility because it has adopted an authoritarian tone, and has let itself be co-opted by politics. In a Wired article published at the end of May, writer Erin Biba bemoans the fact that “science” is losing its credibility with the public. The plunge in the public’s belief in catastrophic climate change is her primary example. Biba wonders whether the loss of credibility might be due to the malfeasance unearthed by the leak of emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, but comes to the conclusion that malfeasance...
  • Why the Left Hates Conservatives: Liberals don’t just hate conservatism; they hate individuals

    07/27/2010 1:20:38 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 45 replies · 6+ views
    The National Review ^ | July 27, 2010 | Dennis Prager
    Of all the recent revelations to come out of JournoList, an e-mail list consisting of about 400 liberal/left journalists, perhaps the most telling is the depth of their hatred for conservatives. That these journalists would consult with one another in order to protect candidate and then President Obama and in order to hurt Republicans is unfortunate and ugly. What is jolting is the hatred of conservatives on display, as exemplified by the e-mail from a public-radio reporter expressing her wish to personally see Rush Limbaugh die a painful death — and the apparent absence of any objection from her fellow...
  • Whoa! New Journolist Documents Show How Liberal Media Formed Plan of Attack to Destroy Sarah Palin

    07/22/2010 5:45:16 AM PDT · by radioone · 56 replies · 2+ views
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 7-22-10 | Jim Hoft
    THE DEATH OF JOURNALISM– The criminals in the state-run media planned to destroy Sarah Palin. We all knew they did. There was even a movie made on how these leftist cranks obliterated the popular Governor of Alaska who enjoyed an 80% approval rating when she was selected by John McCain to be his running mate for Vice President. “Media Malpractice” reported on how the liberal media destroyed Sarah Palin: