Today marks the 135th anniversary of the birth of the greatest man of the century concluded now nearly a decade ago. On November 30, 1874, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace. His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, his mother the former Jennie Jerome, the second daughter of [...]
The Central American country’s long national nightmare should now be over.
First, the leftist President Manuel Zelaya tried to rig a referendum in defiance of his nation’s constitution to hold onto power. Then, when the nation’s judiciary removed him from office, world leaders, including our own President, refused to recognize this [...]
. . . er, at the bottom of that dumpster.”
So, sayeth Jim Treacher (via Instapundit).
(His trenchant commentary on this piece of news: “SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global [...]
As per this post, the problem with the way Katie Couric interviewed the vice presidential candidates last fall was not that she asked tough question of the Republican while tossing softballs to the Democrat, it was that she did so while masquerading as a non-partisan purveyor of news.
If she [...]
With 4,000 tea party patriots rallying against big government and higher taxation in St. Louis yesterday, it’s becoming increasingly clear that this phenomenon is here to stay.
This is not some flash in the pan movement. Americans have been protesting the Administration’s spendthrift policies at least since February. And [...]
While I have long compared Sarah Palin’s communication skills as well as her ability to connect with Americans to those of Ronald Reagan, I have also long noted that she lacks his (self-)education in the ideas of conservatism and free markets. To achieve his status as a leader of [...]
As I finished Sarah Palin’s book earlier this morning, I wondered if she were the right person to spearhead a Republican Renaissance in the United States. She clearly understands why our party has lost its way, but remains a controversial figure, even a divisive one. The mere mention of [...]
Every now and again, I support a candidate for public office, only to find that the more I study his (or her) record, the more I find he (or she) has a firm grasp on the issues of greatest concern to me. This is not to say I agree with [...]
If you have not already, please let me know if you’d like to attend our brunch today in San Francisco. (Details provided with confirming e-mail).
[...]In our media age, if a politician does not recognize the importance of his image, he’s either never going to get the seat to which he aspires or will lose it soon after he does. John McCain probably lost as many votes last fall from his erratic behavior at the [...]
Folks, this is the original “hockey stick” graph that was so compelling in Al Gore’s movie “Inconvenient Truth.” This graph, and much of the other data Gore hawks, came directly from the computer models from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in eastern England.
This graph has [...]
Just caught this in Fred Barnes’s WSJ piece on why Obama isn’t changing Washington
“Change must come to Washington,” Mr. Obama said in a June 2008 speech. “I have consistently said when it comes to solving problems,” he told Jake Tapper of ABC News that same month, “I don’t approach [...]
It seems every now and again this idea for (what seems to be) a brilliant post on Climategate flashes across my mind and then fades before I have a chance to write it down or otherwise record it.
When I try to recall those thoughts or call them up by [...]
I would like to wish our readers and their families & friends the most blessed and happy Thanksgiving today. We are so fortunate to live in the freest and most prosperous nation in the history of mankind. In that spirit, I would like to reprint President George Washington’s First Thanksgiving [...]
Yesterday, my gal for the race to unseat Ma’am Boxer, Carly Fiorina, took to the pixels of BigGovernment.com to take on Obamacare, calling it a “fiscal albatross for our already ballooning federal budget deficit“:
This proposal will cost taxpayers up to $2.5 trillion, create a massive new entitlement, raise taxes, [...]
We’ve fixed a location for our brunch this coming Saturday in San Francisco. Drop me a line if you’d like to attend.
[...]Well, at least, Howard Dean, Rachel Maddow’s guest host on her eponymous MSNBC show, reported that the death of Bill Sparkman was rule a suicide. He noted only that the show has reported the story, without referencing the hysterical assumptions Miss Maddow made. Wonder if she, when she returns [...]
Sister Toldjah took the words right out of my mouth. Discussing coverage in the New York Times and Washington Post (home base of the Democratic gusher Sally Quinn) of President Obama’s first state dinner last night, she writes, “Both pieces go in depth as to how ‘hip’ and [...]
When I first heard Carly Fiorina’s name batted around as a potential candidate to replace our state’s ineffective junior Senator, I was optimistic about her bid. I believe we need more people from the private sector in government, those who know what it is like to keep an enterprise afloat [...]
Well, the thrill may no longer be running up Chris Matthews’ leg, but over at CNN, his less partisan counterpart, seems to have gotten whatever thrill the MSNBC host lost. Just got back from doing cardio at the gym and was treated to three-quarters of an hour of breathless [...]
Carly Fiorina’s conservatism notwithstanding, Chuck DeVore is bound and determined to make the contest for the opportunity to defeat perhaps the most partisan U.S. Senator one between a conservative and liberal Republican. To do that, his campaign has had to twist the former HP CEO’s positions so they match those [...]
On George Eliot’s birthday, Glenn Reynolds linked a Maureen Dowd column which showed that while the New York Times columnist does have a jaundiced view of the GOP, she does at least understand part of Sarah Palin’s appeal, what she calls the “visceral,” her ability to connect with [...]
Clearly, this is the blogosphere-story-of-the-year (if not decade). It matters not that the Mainstream Media is covering up this scandal, the free-wheeling democratized Internet is getting the information out.
Here’s another great summary from Robert Tracinski at RealClearPolitics:
For more than a decade, we’ve been told that there is a scientific [...]
Wow…. it seems that all of the liberal lies are falling apart this week ….
A U.S. Census worker found dead in a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but tried to make the death look like a homicide, authorities have concluded.
Bill Sparkman, 51, of London, might have tried [...]
While I have long counted myself as one of the skeptics of the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), I don’t believe advocates of the theory invented it out of whole cloth. Aware of efforts to “seed clouds” and create rainfall, I know human activities can impact the environment Indeed, [...]
Sometime late last summer shortly after John McCain announced he had tapped Sarah Palin as his running mate, a reader e-mailed me a comment from Andrew Sullivan where that former conservative had kind things to say about the then-Alaska Governor. ”Even Sullivan likes her!” ran the e-mail.*
Soon thereafter not only [...]
Perhaps it was because I caught sight of my print-out of Katie Couric’s inteview, with the CBS Anchor’s questions highlighted, after my phone interview yesterday with Carly Fiorina that I linked the two exchanges in my mind. In both cases, individuals with a bias interviewed accomplished women running for federal [...]
As I read Dan Riehl’s impassioned plea for Republican elitists to stop denigrating grassroots conservative favorites (like Sarah Palin), I recall how, a few years back, many such elitists of a previous generation had similar concerns about a conservative politician beloved by the grassroots, a man who could communicate [...]
Earlier today, I had the chance to interview Carly Fiorina on her campaign for the Senate; I expect to devote at least two posts (including this one) to the conversation.
Given that one of my readers had wondered whether the former HP CEO had backed the $787 “stimulus,” that has failed [...]
Slowly reading Sarah Palin’s books amidst various obligations and amusements (taking a friend to Disneyland yesterday for her birthday), I’ve now completed slightly over half the book, just getting to the part where John McCain’s has announced the successful Alaska reformer as his running mate on the Republican ticket in [...]
Jus’ wondering ’cause this headline now appears on its mainpage: Palin limits crowd interaction at NC’s Fort Bragg.
[...]I enjoy Michelle Malkin’s blog and find that while her rhetoric is sometimes a bit overheated, she always gets her facts right. During the 2008 campaign, for example, when other conservative bloggers breathlessly covered the “Drudge-promoted story of a McCain volunteer claiming to have been attacked by a black [...]
So says a reader at Instapundit about the latest revelations regarding the firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. The reader’s comment comes in response to Byron York’s reporting today on the Friday info dump by the White House on the brewing AmeriCorps scandal.
The new documents support the [...]
I’m glad Dan did a post on “Climategate” earlier this morning. As usual, he took the words right out of my head.
I wanted to add my thoughts but then got my daily email from the Wall St. Journal Online. James Taranto sums it up better than I:
What the [Washington] [...]
Last week, I wrote two posts questioning Newsweek’s cover story calling global warming crusader Al Gore “a thinking man’s thinking man.” I held it was wrong to consider him a thinking man because the former Vice President refuses to debate those who contest his theory of anthropogenic global warming. Not [...]
It is perhaps fitting that my youngest nephew celebrates his first birthday today (three days before the actual event) on the 113th anniversary of the birth of his great-great Aunt Ruth and the 190th anniversary of the birth of the greatest English novelist who ever lived, Mary Anne Evans Cross [...]
Among the sixty Senators voting to begin debate on Harry Reid’s 2,074-page health care bill were thirteen from states which voted for John McCain last fall, five of them from states which haven’t voted for a Democrat for President in forty-five years. Alaska’s Mark Begich (who wouldn’t be in [...]
Having used creative bribery (with our tax dollars), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apparently has all sixty Democrats on board for a cloture vote to begin debate on his 2,074-page health care bill. While this vote will bring the legislation one step closer to passage, we still have a [...]
As Sarah Palin once again finds herself in the national limelight, largely due to the publicity surrounding the release this week of her bestselling book Going Rogue: an American Life, many of us have been reviewing the events of last fall’s campaign as well as contrasting her record to [...]
This morning, I read the first 100 pages (about one-quarter) of Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue: An American Life. And despite the “narrative” that this book is whiny, with the former Alaska Governor portraying herself as a victim trying to settle scores, there is no trace of that in [...]
If, in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 election, you had asked me to put together a broad-based panel on reviving the right, I would surely have chosen to include David Frum. Yeah, I know he had been strongly critical of John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running [...]
Long before the 2008 presidential campaign, I found CBS News Anchor Tracy Flick Katie Couric annoying. Like Reese Witherspoon’s character in the 1999 flick Election, Couric comes across as smug and self-righteous. It seems she believes that her prominence means she knows better than the rest of [...]
When a reader sent me an e-mail on how Sarah Palin’s ex-son-in-law-to-be was not made welcome at a swank Hollywood Party this weekend, I begin to feel sorry for the teenager:
Levi Johnston flew first class to LA for the party and calls himself “Ricky Hollywood,” but he was barely [...]
While I’m up in San Francisco spending Thanksgiving with the most important person in the state, I’ll be organizing a brunch for our readers next Saturday, November 28. Given that reader Leah will also be in the Bay Area and wants to see the Asian Art Museum (one of [...]
Maybe those climatologists who had predicted ever-increasing temperatures wouldn’t be puzzled by the failure of global temperatures to keep rising had they not relied on doctored data. When someone hacked into “a major global-warming advocacy center in the UK [and had] the data published on line“, we [...]
With his “stimulus” boondoggle going bust and unemployment at its highest rate in a quarter-century, in California at its highest rate since Barbara Boxer was in Kindergarten, the president is at his wits end; he doesn’t know what to do.
So, he’s holding a jobs summit at the White House and [...]
So says meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. He is also one of Germany’s best-known climatologists. The facts have begun to overtake the fiction (NBC’s shrill Green Week was undeterred, however).
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are [...]
When I read last night that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released his healthcare proposal, I was all but certain that no matter what was in the bill, California’s junior Senator, Ma’am Barbara Boxer, would vote for it, given how she marches in lockstep with her party. But, now that [...]
Last night, when I heard Sean Hannity ask former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin what she would do to get the economy growing again, I hoped you would reply in the same manner as former HP CEO Carly Fiorina did when Greta van Susteren asked her a similar question.
In one minute [...]
B. Daniel Blatt, GayPatriot, Average Gay Joe
