Investors now view a default by the U.S. Treasury as more likely than a default by the Coca-Cola Company. Tweet This Post
America Rising — An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians
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Michael Savage — Dana Loesch Fills In — Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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How do you deal with a neighbor who believes he is obliged to kill you and sell your children into slavery? Read Sharia’s Dominion, a review of two books arguing that repression, cruelty, and fear are central to Islam. Tweet This Post
Kim Strassel in the Wall Street Journal: For an administration that claims to know its political history, the White House appears to have misread at least one decade. FDR was re-elected in 1936 for many reasons, but among them was his fiery denunciations of “economic royalists,” “economic tyranny,” and “economic slavery.” Business knew it was [...]
Congressional Budget Office officials forecast official unemployment averaging above 10 % this year and in 2011. Actual unemployment, including people who have stopped looking for jobs, is close to 17%. Annual budget deficits, already at unprecedented high levels, will be greater than $1 trillion for years to come. The president’s recently proposed budget freeze will [...]
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Tom Emerson emailed this op-ed article by his Carnegie Mellon colleague, Professor Allan H. Meltzer: The Fed’s Anti-Inflation Exit Strategy Will Fail: Sooner or later the pressure to lend out excess bank reserves will be unstoppable. Tweet This Post
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Even the liberal-progressive co-chairmen of the 9/11 commission are distressed by the president’s dismantling interrogation procedures for terrorists and treating them as if they were no more than domestic muggers in need of Miranda rights. Tweet This Post
Senator Hatch is a pretty level-headed guy. He used to be a boxer, and if pushed — and I mean really pushed — the guy will come out swinging. And boy, have the Dems pushed on ObamaCare. So, when Senator Hatch makes the kind of threat he made recently, well, you’d have to be a [...]
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As noted earlier, I had the opportunity to attend much of the GOP Retreat in Baltimore today. I interviewed several Members about the session with President Obama, and I interviewed Congressman Pete Sessions about the upcoming midterm elections. Here they are, unedited: Tweet This Post
(H/T: @andylevy) Amazing what one Senatorial election can do. Like, say, make a Presidential administration pay attention to local political concerns for a change. The Obama administration has abandoned its plan to put Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, on trial in Lower Manhattan, according to administration officials. The [...]
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Today I attended the House GOP retreat in Baltimore, at the invitation of House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence. I got to play at reporter, and to chat with some Members of Congress and staff. I also got to attend the speech with the President, and the subsequent question-and-answer session. As others have noted, the [...]
Full disclosure: this is all going to be as-I-think-of-it-opinion, I have no interest in interrupting the narrative flow by looking for links, and so I freely admit that it would be fair to discount or dismiss the results accordingly. The Democrats are in for a bad election cycle, to the point where people are actually [...]
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Watch as the leader of the Jonestown Brigade mixes the latest batch of Kool-Aid, guaranteed to politically kill off more than one in ten Dems in the U.S. House: Even the NYT is poking fun at the Dems: No Plan Yet, But Democrats Remain Confident on Health Care. Meanwhile, Senator-Louisiana-Purchase says ObamaCare “is on life [...]
As people are noting, Jon Stewart seems to be having quite the career monopolizing Blue-on-Blue comedy these days. Said monopoly is probably going to abruptly change. Open thread. Crossposted to Moe Lane. Tweet This Post
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Much has been written and said about James O’Keefe’s incursion into Mary Landrieu’s office in Louisiana. It is interesting to me how Landrieu, through MSNBC and the mouth of David Shuster, made sure to get its spin out quickly before O’Keefe could get out of jail and to a microphone. More interesting to me is [...]
One of the biggest criticisms of George Bush by the far left fringe during the good economic times the country enjoyed until the liberals took Congress in 2007, was that the rich were getting richer, while every one else was falling behind. "Stagnant wages", was the rallying cry of many a left wing blogger, when [...]
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Harry Reid spent $2.1 million for ads in his home state of Nevada to shore up his image among voters ahead of this year’s election. But, according to a recent poll, his popularity has dropped to 36%. It’s emblematic of his leadership in the U.S. senate. America has virtually nothing to show for all of [...]
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Rewarding failure seems to be the liberal way in D.C. The huge banks that failed, got bailed out. And, the liberals running our country into the ground are rewarding themselves like kings and queens. For instance, Judicial Watch has obtained documents showing that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent two million dollars over the last [...]
London’s Daily Mail ripped into Barack Obama today for his decision to budget for $370 million more than George Bush did in his final year to maintain America’s nuclear arsenal. As you may recall, Obama won the Nobel Peace prize because he pledged to rid the world of the weapons. That is literally nothing the [...]
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Check out this picture of Barry O! He’s waiting for instructions from M [RICH MEDIA REMOVED FROM RSS FEED CLICK HERE TO VIEW ENTIRE STORY] Tweet This Post
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A British commission has ruled that the data on global warming from East Anglia University was hidden from the public. You can read more here. Tweet This Post
The world turns. In Indonesia, the principal of a Muslim boarding school in Tangerang who is accused of impregnating a 15-year-old student says the DNA test will prove that a malevolent genie is the real father. In New Zealand, a German tourist, Herr Hans Kurt Kubus, has been jailed for attempting to board a plane [...]
The Obama administration has begun to back away from its plans to bring the 9/11 plotters to trial in New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an erstwhile supporter of the trial, changed his mind on grounds that it would be too risky and too costly. Lawmakers from both parties began voicing opposition. Sen. Lindsey Graham [...]
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Kingsley Amis didn’t stick to friendly territory. The English novelist, poet, and essayist lampooned university elites but taught at Swansea, Cambridge, and Princeton. He criticized Dylan Thomas’s poetry but served as trustee of Thomas’s estate. He blasted conservatism in his youth, leftism afterward. The man truly knew his targets. It shows to great effect not [...]
The economy has strengthened some in recent months — helped by inventory building and excess monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve — while payroll employment is finally stabilizing. But the economic forces that are working in favor of GDP growth in the short term are not creating a longer-term reason for businesses — small firms, [...]
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David Bossie irritates President Obama. Bossie did not get the usual upturned chin or expletive-riddled call from Rahm Emanuel this week after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Citizens United, his non-profit corporation, in a landmark free-speech decision. Rather, Obama decided to take a potshot through a sharp-edged rant tucked into the State of [...]
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Fox News is Americans’ most trusted source of news: That’s what Public Policy Polling reported earlier this week. ABC’s director of polling disputed the poll’s findings largely because of its use of “robopolling.” But now a second poll using a different methodology — and human callers — has reached a similar conclusion. In a poll [...]
In 1964, Barry Goldwater gave an uncompromisingly conservative and liberty-loving speech to the Republican National Convention. A reporter in the audience couldn’t believe his ears. “My God! He’s going to run as Barry Goldwater!” I had a similar reaction to President Obama’s State of the Union address. For all the talk of how he needed [...]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact: kfsreprint@hearstsc.com, or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246. Justice Samuel Alito let a pained expression pass his face and muttered, “Not true.” His reaction to Pres. Barack Obama’s demagogic attack on the Supreme Court’s Citizens [...]
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Via the Austin Daily Herald | Home schooling provides an alternative Cindy Stevens, mother of 3, and Lisa Jewett, mother of 5, have taught their children all that they know — well, not exactly everything. But, the two women aren’t just mothers. They are teachers. Stevens and Jewett teach their kids at home, taking on [...]
All these slice of life homeschool stories mention the kitchen table. Via Postbulletin.com: Rochester, MN. Cindy Stevens’ three children study at the kitchen table, but it’s also where they get their daily lessons about math, science, history — you name it — from their mother. Their day starts at 7:30 a.m. and is usually done [...]
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The German Spiegel Online (English Edition) has a piece on the case of the German homeschool family granted asylum in the U.S.. There is not much by way of German reaction but some interesting background on the case. The decision on the family’s political asylum could still be overturned if the US government appeals the [...]
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The Reality Check Blog asks the question why this isn’t being covered in the media. I have seen the AP wire story published in the Washington Post. The Conservative Washington Times has their own report. Beyond this, there’s not much real independent coverage of this in the U.S. Sadly, about the only people reporting on [...]
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