As a general rule, Conservatives and those folks who tend to fall in the “Right of Center” category aren’t known for participation in or endorsement of pornography. Just the opposite, in fact. Much of the beating the Right takes, sometimes even from within its own ranks, is from those who [...]
UPDATED LINKS AT BOTTOM 11/22 at 09:32 CST
When discussing scientific things with a friend of mine, a scientist himself, the notion of Science as the dispassionate, neutral observer willing to fearlessly proceed wherever the evidence leads - even if it leads in a personally distasteful direction - colors his conversation. [...]
73Wire had this video up last Wednesday, the 11th. It would be hilarious if what she was bloviating about wasn’t so serious.
The Speaker of the House actually says it is UNFAIR for people not to have health insurance and pass on costs of POSSIBLE illnesses to the rest of [...]
New Orleans media is reporting that in the wake of his vote with the Democrats to pass House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Health Care Bill, Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao (pronouced “Gow”) is experiencing some backlash back home.
WGNO, ABC 26 News is reporting there have been two fundraisers canceled in the [...]
The Tennessean today reported that Tennessee 5th District Democrat Jim Cooper testified at a Senate hearing and said “… that the country’s huge debt is a “fiscal cancer.””
The Tennessean goes on to report that Rep. Cooper has authored a bill to address the issue and “… create a [...]
South Carolina GOP Senator Jim DeMint has just announced his introduction of a Constitutional Amendment limiting the amount of time a US Senator or Congressman can serve. He calls it “Term Limits for All” and proposes that Senators be limited to 2 terms and Congressmen to 3 terms.
The [...]
In my inbox this morning was an email from the President of the United States. He is a black man, or at least black enough that he feels compelled to cast his election in terms of America’s repudiation of racism. Obviously, such a position has its taproot sunk deeply into [...]
There is a lot to be excited about that has happened over the last week. There were two Governor’s races that were won and Doug Hoffman came within a Scozzafava of going to DC as the Congressman to represent NY23. There has been a lot to be concerned about as [...]
11/6 @ 15:50 BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Yet another reason for Blue Dogs to oppose ObamaCare. Pelosi’s version of the bill mandates fines and jail time for those who have the audacity to decide for themselves if they want to have the Government Health Care plan. Is that what Cohen [...]
Reprinted from Erick Erickson’s post at RedState.
I just got this from Doug over at National Right to Life. Please do read it ASAP:
Speaker Pelosi, Henry Waxman, and the White House are engaged in peddling another phony compromise. This is all theater. The “negotiations” are scripted ad phony. The language [...]
Dede Scozzafava is every bit the Liberal Republican the Grassroots has been warning about for weeks. Bowing to the political reality, reported in the Watertown Daily Times, “that Siena Research Institute poll numbers show her too far behind to catch up - and she lacks enough money to spend [...]
Not even the NYT can avoid reporting that on the last trading day in October, the Dow Jones dropped like it was pole-axed, completely erasing yesterday’s 2% gain, while other financial indexes posted a monthly loss for the first time in 7 months. Consumers still seem skittish despite news [...]
Two headlines jumped out at me this morning as I browsed my usual stops on the information superhighway. The first was the results of the most recent Gallup Poll indicating that more Americans identify themselves as Conservative than identify themselves as Liberal. The second was the results of [...]
Usually when I hear stories about a Governmental something-or-other trampling on the 1st amendment rights of Liberty loving Americans I think of national Democrats and their smarmy puling about the beat down they take on Talk Radio.
In what will no doubt be a visual aid for examples of “GOP behaving [...]
If there was ever a poster child for apparent wisdom and rational measured thought, House Democrat Chellie Pingree of Maine would be that child. The operative word there is “apparent”. She sounds so reasonable and even downright Conservative talking about lowering costs and competition. There’s just one problem, she seems [...]
The news is full, this morning, of accounts of the passing of the last surviving Kennedy brother. Not that there aren’t more Kennedys out there. But there is only one Kennedy family people think of when they think of that name.
He is the only one not to die at the [...]
Talk show host Ralph Bristol moderated a radio town hall today with 5th District Congressman Jim Cooper. It let Cooper make his case and gave voters the chance to ask questions. I was unable to listen to the entire event, but it turned out to be disappointing. I felt Cooper [...]
The blogosphere, Twitter, FaceBook and the MSM are abuzz with the reports today that Democrats are gearing up to “go it alone” on Health _______ Reform. Whether you fill that blank with “Care”, “Insurance” or what have you, one has to be impressed with the levels of testosterone needed [...]
In a stunning disclosure, Americans for Limited Government (ALG) released the results of a FOIA request it filed for material used as the basis for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo released in April and titled Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization [...]
Yesterday Mitch Stewart, the Director of Organizing for America sent me an email from info@barackobama.com encouraging me to go out and counter the efforts of “insurance companies and partisan attack groups [who] are stirring up fear with false rumors about the President’s plan”.
It’s really easy, too.
All this week, OFA members [...]
This statement was released earlier by John Boehner’s office commemorating the ultimate sacrifice offered by the men whose names appear in the first two places on the Viet Nam Memorial in Washington, DC.
Boehner Statement on the 50th Anniversary of the First U.S. Combat Losses in Vietnam
WASHINGTON, DC - House [...]
Yesterday, NewsComa broke a story about a GOP staffer who Forwarded an email containing a picture which she found racist and offensive. She broke the story at 10AM and, according to the timeline posted over at Silence Isn’t Golden, with a little help from the Lefty blogosphere, “in [...]
Barack Obama sent me an email today. It read in part,
Last year, millions of Americans came together for a great purpose. We gave everything we had to give — and then we gave some more. In November we won an election, an important first step, but that’s not why we [...]
Thanks to my buddy Doug at StixBlog for this one … This picture really is worth a thousand words!
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It’s said that when people fear their Government it’s a bad thing but when Government fears the people it’s a good thing. I agree with the first half of that statement. I’m not so sure about the second half. Government should fear what happens if they don’t serve the People. [...]
This morning, this headline appeared on the front page of USA Today, “Federal aid is top revenue for states”.
I wonder how many of my fellow citizens read that and absently nodded approval while sipping their coffee or crossed their fingers hopefully while scanning the “Help Wanted” ads?
The problems with [...]
The original and ongoing popularity of my post from from last year, Socialism’s Lying Promise, as well as the headlines that crop up every day it seems (see this for example) have led me to do two things.
I’m rereading “Atlas Shrugged” in its entirety as opposed to skimming [...]
Today I will either:
Have Breakfast
1 - Win the Lottery;
2 - Buy a Carribbean island;
3 - Found the nation of Muserica (or possibly The United States of Galt);
Have Lunch
4 - The Economy will be Capitalism and Free Market based;
5 - With minimal Taxes;
6 - Funding minimal Government;
100 [...]
Last week, Matthew Hurtt, a friend of mine and an excellent blogger, posted a story about Donna Rowland’s voting record and a portion of it he found curious. 173 times in 2009 Rowland had voted PNV or “Present, Not Voting”. He rightly wondered what that was all about.
When other state’s lawmakers give you such a low grade that they openly ridicule your efforts, to the unprecedented extent of naming a bill after your state, perhaps you should pay attention. Perhaps the other 48 states should pay attention, too. **polite cough** Perhaps that attention should extend to DC. [...]
This post is brought to you by the numbers “3″, “0″ and by the letter “D”.
Put together, that would be “30″ and “D”. As in that’s how many times the Ds were told about Enhanced Interrogation Techniques without any real objection. Or as another D famously put it, “I was [...]
This came in from a friend, via email. Thanks, James!
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountain pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses [...]
Those old enough to remember the days when the grip the major networks had on news dissemination was firm and confident also remember the rise of upstart CNN. Ted Turner dared to challenge the network Powers-That-Be for market share and influence and won.
I remember being starved for information during the [...]
Holy SMOKES, you guys are on this one! Fantastic linky-love for Tea Parties in Tennessee! Keep checking back for more as there are some bloggers out there who are writing as we speak and have not yet hit “Publish”!
On the Whole Tea Party Thing by Nathan Moore @ Moore [...]
We’ve all seen cartoons and comedies where people hilariously use colanders to bail water out of sinking boats. It’s funny because we know the folly of using the wrong tools to accomplish our objectives.
Common sense tells us most of the time. But not all questions are that simple. For [...]
Details are sketchy but are starting to emerge.
Earlier, Somali pirates seized the first vessel flying an American flag in almost 200 years. Political analysis from the Right is because they view the US as weak and vulnerable. Perhaps, perhaps not … but that opinion needs to be factored in. Call [...]
Thanks to my buddy Allen for pointing this out.
Remember a couple of weeks ago when Playboy came out with that ridiculous article that the Tea Party Movement was nothing but Right Wing astro-turfing being directed from the bowels of the VWRC and its various organs? That was so easily and [...]
I’ve watched, for the last few months, the discussion swirling around the interwebz about Barack Obama’s Messianic Complex. There’s even a name for him that goes along with it - ObaMessiah. I’ve stayed out of the discussion simply because I don’t care to dilute the title and work of the [...]
Video posted at Facebook by Celeste Brockup Burrell had me laughing hysterically. And then I realized this is exactly what Obama is doing to the Market. I guess it’s just more gallows humor …
Blue Collar Muse
Readers who liked this post also enjoyed:[...]Steve at Pax Parabellum posts on a tragic story from Nashville that might have been prevented if the good guys could go armed.
He makes the important point that the bad guys, who already don’t care about the law, are already armed. What are the options for law-abiding citizens who [...]
From my new blog friend Storm’n Norm’n comes this he received via email. It’s the first evidence I’ve seen that the Left is in touch with political reality on a national basis. Let me be among the first to congratulate the Left on their insight!
I hate to admit [...]
A friend sent me this video. It’s excellent!
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A National Geographic story on a study done by a female psychologist from Princeton reports the following:
Sexy women in bikinis really do inspire some men to see them as objects, according to a new study of male behavior.
Brain scans revealed that when men are shown pictures of scantily clad [...]
Absentee over at Redstate has a hilarious photo montage up on the subject. While I normally don’t pass on this sort of thing, this one picture got me laughing. Not sure why since there’s not much to laugh about these days. I guess it’s the right wing version of [...]
My friend Josh at American Dad Blog alerted me to this article at The American Thinker.
Missouri State Police have been alerted to be on the lookout for subversive drivers who may be domestic terrorists or members of militia groups. How can Missouri Law Enforcement know the car [...]
In 1995, the US Geological Survey (USGS) evaluated an area of the US in portions of North Dakota and Montana known as the Bakken Formation for its oil producing capability. That survey returned an estimated oil reserve of 151 million barrels of oil. Not too bad!
Drilling for oil in [...]
Wow … when you take a few minutes to look at what is happening inside your own state, your own country goes and changes into an unrecognizable banana republic in a heartbeat.
I have little to say about the matter except that I expected this from the Democrats. Raising taxes and [...]
The news is pretty much officially in. I’m hoping it’s not more of the same promise to adhere to Conservative principles on the stump and tuck them away in a drawer once elected. But the jury is still out on Tennessee’s GOP Senators when one considers the merits of [...]
Preston Taylor Holmes at Six Meat Buffet posted this. I must agree with his assessment. It’s not 100% - but it’s close … veeeerrry close …
Readers who liked this post also enjoyed:A Nation of Homeowners[...]Memphis and Nashville don’t have opposing professional sports teams so they can’t “play” one another. But the bloodsport of Government is an acceptable alternative and so Memphis and Nashville are set to square off. The issue? What else? Money … Specifically, minimum wage laws.
Memphis wants the right to set a [...]
Last night in Knoxville, The Tennessee ConserVOLiance hosted the third Candidate Forum with Zach Wamp for bloggers and activists across the state. As with previous meetings in Nashville and Jackson, it was well attended with excellent questions and answers. With 16 months to go to the 2010 primary and 4 [...]
Perhaps my most important relationship in the world, after Jesus and The Much Younger Trophy Wife, is with The Angry Professor (TAP). We have to be brothers from other mothers somehow. If for no other reason than that we fight about almost everything. About the only thing we seem to [...]
It’s not that the President and his policy minions have broken the bank and are busy about the business of decimating the Economy! Oh, no!
As Bill Clinton did before him Barack Obama feels the nation’s pain and is merely trying to assuage as much of it as is financially possible.
Earmarks? [...]
As usual, Michael Yon is on the job and has information regarding both sides of the question. As the focus of US military forces seems to be shifting from Iraq to Afghanistan, these sorts of reports become more important.
The Wall Street Journal notes Obama’s polling numbers are tanking at a record rate as his plans and promises find less and less support from those who must pay for them and even from those he says will benefit from them.
Overall, Rasmussen Reports shows a 56%-43% approval, with a [...]
So I said to him, “Barack, I know Abe Lincoln, I served with Abe Lincoln … and you are no Abe Lincoln!”
From a friend at Tennessee Firearms Association via email.
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Readers who liked this post also enjoyed:Random Conservative Observations [...]Robin Smith and Bill Hobbs, the Evil TN GOP Dynamic Duo of Dastardly Deeds, have gone and done it again!
No doubt the peeps that were apoplectic over Darth Hobbs’ Michelle Obama video and Robin Smith’s personal presiding over the summary ejection of Kent Williams from the TN GOP will be [...]
Bet you didn’t hear that emanating from the office of the President. But every fall in the Stock Market has been hushed up and blamed on a horrible Economy which the President inherited. The question becomes, “At what point does the Economy stop being the fault of GWB and become [...]
The American Princess has a fantastically funny, yet incredibly insightful, post up. With all the talk about how Southern states are out of step with the rest of the country and how we view things so very differently, perhaps the rest of the country ought to consider adopting our [...]
It’s amazing what a moment of passion can produce. I believe it’s one of the reasons blogs are so successful. Just a day or so ago one of CNBC’s live reporters, Rick Santelli, indulged in one such moment. That he was tapping into the feelings of everyday Americans was evident [...]
UPDATE: Jim asks in comments, “When do we overrun Washington?”
They are trying to sort out the different Tea Parties here.
65,000+ have already indicated they will attend. I’m one of them.
Looks like a good start!
ORIGINAL STORY:
My friend Bob Costello from Americans for Limited Government sent me a link [...]
Christian Grantham over at Channel 2’s Nashville is Talking posted Tennessee’s portion of the Stimulus Package swag. Keep in mind this is supposed to be spending that stimulates the Economy. This is a joke - and a bad one. The total amount Tennessee is to receive is $3,779,708,000 - [...]
There are any number of excellent politicians who do their job, represent their people and fight to keep citizens alive, free and in charge of their own lives.
Unfortunately, they seem to be in the minority. While politicians must be elected by voters, they often balk at being responsible to them. [...]
Just who are these “Life Long Republicans!” complaining to C-SPAN and talk radio from the squalor and desperation 8 years of GWB has reduced them to? The Rep, Stacey Campfield, wants to know and has some observations on the matter.
Readers who liked this post [...]Can anyone explain to me what Republicans like Lindsey Graham are thinking when they say incredibly stupid things like this? I thought it couldn’t get much worse after Arlen Specter, Susan Collins and Olympia Snow voted for destroying the Economy. Where are we living? Venezuela?
While visiting BCM, you might [...]Some of you may remember, a few years back, an athlete by the name of Bo Jackson. He was one of only two men that I remember from my adult lifetime (the other being Deion Sanders) who played two sports at the professional level. In both cases those sports [...]
Those of you who heard my interview a couple of weeks back with Andrew Riley and Duane Lester from RFC Radio have, no doubt, like me, been waiting for the debut. Well, wait no more! Today’s the day. If you just want to listen, click on the widget over [...]
There’s an old joke about submarines with screen hatches. Or maybe it was portholes. But given the current story, portholes might have been helpful.
Two days ago I noted a derelict Russian military satellite crashed into and destroyed a functional commercial satellite scattering debris across at least two states.
Just hours after ramming hundreds of billions of pork barrel spending down our throats with no debate and no time to analyze it by Chicken Little-ing any delay into the destruction of the Economy as we know it, the President now says it may be a while before we [...]
Yet another thing to be worried about. It’s not enough watch as the Left destroys the Economy with the help of 3 GOP Senators! O no, now there’s THIS.
A Russian military satellite, described as “derelict”, collided with a working privately owned satellite from US Iridium. The crash threw off tens [...]
In a startling move Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), who had recently accepted the President’s offer of serving in his Cabinet as Commerce Secretary, withdrew his name from consideration. Citing “irresolvable conflicts” between the administration and himself, Gregg is quoted in the NYT,
“It has become apparent during this process that [...]
It’s gratifying when a major company does what is right! CNS News reports that Social Media giant quickly reversed their decision to pull an ad by Conservative activists at Americans for Prosperity. According to the CNS report, AFP National Policy Director Phil Kerpen credits CNS reporting for bringing pressure [...]
Digg.com started as a place to promote stories ordinary people found newsworthy to see if others agreed. That was done by voting a story up or “Digg-ing” it. Another useful site feature if Digg users find duplicate, badly written or inaccurate stories, is “Bury”. A Bury cancels out a Digg.
The [...]
To the extent they fulfill their mission of reporting the news, newspapers are an incredible community resource. They provide an invaluable service in informing the community of Who is doing What and When and Where it took place. That’s news. There’s even a place for the Why of the story. [...]
OK, I don’t REALLY know if 80% of Economists oppose the Stimulus Package. But my choice for title beats The Much Younger Trophy Wife’s suggestion of “5 out of 2 (Liberal) Economists Support the Stimulus Package”.
In any event, there are any number of Economists willing to not only oppose [...]
Via RedState, the Congressional Budget Office - an officially non/bi/post partisan group - is reporting that the Economy should recover this year without the need for the spending in the Stimulus Package.
So much for needing the Stimulus “RIGHT NOW!!”. With that question settled, can we have the President’s promised [...]
Richard Viguerie of ConservativeHQ announced the publication of a new cartoon strip, ‘The Gentleman from Lickskillet’, available 6 days a week at ConservativeHQ.
In a very retro move, the strip is in black and white. Unfortunately, in a very retro move, there doesn’t appear to be an option to embed [...]
The Tennessee Eagle Forum passed along an excellent article this morning concerning Israel’s elections. The biggest threat facing Israel, and perhaps much of the world, today is Iran. Beyond blustering and threats, Iran recently launched a satellite into orbit using a missile which could also be used to [...]
Michael Silence takes up an interesting question. Now that the Tennessee GOP has ousted Kent Williams from the Republican Party, how will that sit with the voters back in Williams’ district in Carter County?
Michael writes that it seems “… a wee bit arrogant” in that Carter County voters elected [...]
Hat tip to Michael Silence for this hilarious story.
One of my favorite lines ever from Bob Dylan came from his song “Sweetheart Like You” off of the “Infidels” album. It goes, “Steal a little and they throw you in jail - steal a lot and they make you king!”Then [...]
From this morning’s Patriot Post, which should go a long way to demonstrating why Patriot Post should be required reading for all Americans, comes this quote from Reagan and this reporting on just one aspect of the Stimulus Package WHICH MUST BE PASSED TODAY, lest the country be destroyed! [...]
Join me at Don’t Go Radio at 6PM CST tonight when my guests will be Trace Sharp, better known to the TN blogosphere as NewsComa and Scott Adcox, another popular TN blogger, known as SadCox. These two bloggers, from opposite ends of the political spectrum, have demonstrated [...]
My friends at Louisiana Conservative have an excellent post up with a few quick observations and commentary …
My favorites?
Give him a read …
Readers who liked this post also enjoyed:[...]Glen Dean at Tennessee Free posts on a WSJ article quoting the Vice President as saying,
If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.
Herein lies one of the reasons confidence in the Stimulus Package is [...]
Loud Music is a $40 Fine has a fine piece of video up of one woman’s change of heart. Donna McDaniels, a self identified Obama voter and mother of one of the 17 sailors murdered on the USS Cole, talks about refusing an invitation to the White House after [...]
Crunchy Conservative has a link up to a great site that is tracking all of Barack’s 500 or so campaign promises.
The current totals are:
Promises Kept - 7 Promises Compromised - 1 Promises Broken - 1 Promises Stalled - 1 Promises in the Works - 18 Promises as yet Unaddressed - 482This one ought to [...]
I’ve taken the test. It says that I am.
I watched the video below … not much there to disagree with …
This is, of course, nothing new for me to realize about myself. Friends have been encouraging me to “take the plunge” and “Come out of my political closet” and [...]
The Tennessee College Republicans released the following statement concerning Kent Williams and his future with the GOP. It’s worth noting the statement is not from any single chapter, but from the entire TN College Republican Federation.
Contact: Jared Anderson FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(865)748-0016
chairman@tncr.org
TN COLLEGE REPUBLICAN FEDERATION DENOUNCES REP. KENT [...]
The challenge with principles is they only cut one way. I cannot insist another man live by mine and am within my rights to refuse attempts to make me live by his. Still, it is proper to point out someone violating a principle they are on record as holding. That [...]
Over at Post Politics, in a comment on ACK’s observations on one of my posts, Economist Martin Kennedy (at least I think it’s him - I don’t know any other “M Kennedys” commenting on blogs) observed, “I guess Tennessee could just leave the Union altogether but beyond that [...]
It would appear some in politics believe people are incapable of making good choices. I’m not quite so cynical. Still, when politicians offer up cures that are worse than the disease or diagnose sucking chest wounds as “boo-boos”, it’s up to calmer, cooler, wiser, not-worried-about-political-power-and-reelection-but-worried-about-paying-the-rent heads to prevail. Either that [...]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The views assigned to Senator Johnson in this post are incorrect and led to an incorrect characterization of both Senator Johnson and his views. For a full explanation, retraction and apology see, “Principles Can be Pesky, or, I Owe Jack Johnson anApology!”
Questions are powerful things.
Yesterday, at Nashville’s [...]
All politicians should have iPhones. You know, for when communication and idea sharing just can’t wait!
Thanks, Tom! I nearly ruined my laptop.
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Readers who liked this post also enjoyed:In response to an anonymous comment[...]From Erick Erickson over at RedState comes this short and sweet on the way Democrats in Washington have been making decisions. No wonder they’ve driven the approval rating into single digits!
Well, everyone has been saying she’s gotten on her high horse. In Washington, people have been referring to her [...]
What a difference an hour or two can make.
This morning I attended two meetings. The first featured WTN talk show host Ralph Bristol from Nashville’s Morning News and the second featured Jason Mumpower, the GOP Majority Leader for the TN House. The bailout and the Government’s role in influencing [...]
I feel so much a part of the workings of my Government. The President himself wrote me to tell me he needed my help! Below find excerpts from his letter and my extemporaneous comments.
Ken –
The economic crisis is growing more serious every day, and the time for action has come.
Last [...]
