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  • About Those E-Mails

    Do they reveal indefensible behavior by a few climate scientists? Absolutely. Do they do anything to undermine the case for global warming and the effects of human activity on that warming? Not so much. If these e-mails somehow discredit everything climatologists have to say about global warming, then the Luntz memo [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:50pm EST
    by tgirsch

  • Circling the global warming wagons

    Number of comments: 1
    This report linked at National Review’s The Corner blog–about Global Warming wagon circling, is hilarious: “The Perils of Groupthink, Cont'd” - Jonah Goldberg. Also at WisdomisVindicated. [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:56pm EST
    by Ned

  • An Inconvenient Peer Review, cont’d

    Number of comments: 15
    Findings - Fracas Over Hacked Climate E-Mail Shows Peril of Spinning Science - NYTimes.com: “In fact, one skeptic raised [a concern about drawing conclusions from two sets of data grafted together] in a comment posted in 2004 on RealClimate, the blog operated by climate scientists. The comment, which questioned the propriety [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:53am EST
    by Ned

  • The New Environmental World Order

    Number of comments: 6
    Fixing capitalism for good, the goal of the UN. We really need to be careful of the UN. Bold new goals from the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) show their desire to take over great amounts of power from all nations concerning the environment. Environmentalism should be regarded on the [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:05am EST
    by Number 9

  • The next Holder outrage

    Number of comments: 3
    While George Bush’s administration put this nation through trying times it pales in comparison to the Barack Obama administration. U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel David Barron, of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s office, has written a five page memorandum that “the Obama administration can lawfully pay [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:32pm EST
    by Number 9

  • Denying climategate

    Number of comments: 15
     A new word has entered the lexicon, it is climategate. The deliberate fraud to fool the world so a new age of energy sources could be developed for profit and a new set of taxes called cap and trade could be implemented to further that profit. Think of it as [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:54am EST
    by Number 9

  • Got cap and trade?

    Number of comments: 8
    Now that the credibility of the socialists masquerading as saviors of the Earth has been blown to hell and damnation you have to wonder what else has our Federal government lied to us about? The same question should also been asked of the United Nations. Is this Global Warming lie the [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:10am EST
    by Number 9

  • Texas vs California

    Number of comments: 8
    Great article comparing and contrasting Texas and California. If the states are considered to be laboratories, then modern liberalism, as practiced in California, should obviously be deemed a failure. On the other hand, Texas, a much more conservative state, is thriving. Knowing this to be true, guess which state the Obama administration [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:31am EST
    by glendean

  • Occasionally They Slip Up And Tell The Truth. Thanks Howard Dean.

    Click here. This disaster, along with the Porkulus Plan, is a heck of a legacy for this Congress. The damage done to our future by these crooks may be unfixable. [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:09am EST
    by glendean

  • The Real Story of Thanksgiving….

    Number of comments: 1
    …as told once again by Mark Rose. Happy Thanksgiving! [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 3:01pm EST
    by glendean

  • Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents

    Number of comments: 6
    Just great. How’s that change working for you now? President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents — spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history. In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 11:25am EST
    by Number 9

  • Al Gore brutally raped by the truth

    Number of comments: 15
    Karma is a bitch. If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:05pm EST
    by Number 9

  • Voting For Health Bill Requirement of Blackness

    Number of comments: 3
    Apparently Jesse Jackson is trying to reel in his remarks about Alabama Democrat Artur Davis. If you remember, Jackson in an obvious reference to Davis, said that “You can’t vote against health care and call yourself a black man.” So why would Jackson say such a thing and who does it [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:32am EST
    by glendean

  • Could Al Gore be wrong?

    Number of comments: 7
    Houston, we have a problem. Do not underestimate the danger of man-bear-pig. We were all supposed to be dead by now but a funny little thing happened with Global Warming. It stopped. How could the greatest “minds” in the world be wrong? Maybe they were just full of shit to begin with?  Global warming appears [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:50pm EST
    by Number 9

  • Kelsey’s controversialness

    Number of comments: 4
    In a fundraising email this evening, the Tennessee Democratic Party goes after “the very right-wing and controversial politician Brian Kelsey” (that’s right, very right-wing) because, among other things he • supported politicizing the judicial selection process by electing judges to their positions, from the state supreme court down to the local [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:10am EST
    by Ned

  • Yep . . .

    Number of comments: 15
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:32pm EST
    by Ned

  • The supression of news in Knoxville?

    Number of comments: 10
    In Knoxville the daily paper is the Knoxville News Sentinel, known locally as the KNS. Its editor is Jack McElroy. Most people in Tennessee know of the horrific double murder torture case that was recently tried in Knoxville known as the Christian Newsom murder trial. In the second trial alleged and [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:12pm EST
    by Number 9

  • Waging Obama’s non-war

    Number of comments: 12
    BBC NEWS–”US warned on deadly drone attacks”: The US has been warned that its use of drones to target suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan may violate international law.UN human rights investigator Philip Alston said the US should explain the legal basis for attacking individuals with the remote-controlled aircraft. He said the [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:03am EDT
    by Ned

  • Boycott Church’s Chicken

    Number of comments: 14
    Earlier this month we relayed an email from Buford Tune about the Church’s Chicken in Murfreesboro, Tennessee posting the following sign: “NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC” CHURCHES BELIEVES THAT ITS CUSTOMERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO DINE WITHOUT INTERFERENCE OR DISCOMFORT FROM ANY SOURCE. ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED: SOLICITING, CANVASSING, DISTRIBUTION [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 12:10am EDT
    by Steve in TN

  • Pup Tent Dems

    Number of comments: 4
    Interesting email from my inclusive friends at Democrats.com: Dear Ned, After months of debate, an overwhelming majority of Americans support a “robust public option” similar to Medicare. And thanks to the heroic efforts of progressive activists, we have almost enough votes in the Senate and House to pass it. The Democratic majorities in the [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 12:13pm EDT
    by Ned

  • Under moral siege?

    Number of comments: 5
    Somer Thompson Body Found: Sheriff Matches Birthmark, Clothing - ABC News: As investigators examined a child’s body found in a Georgia landfill, they hoped they wouldn’t find what they were looking for. But a birthmark and clothing told them that they had, indeed, found 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who disappeared Monday while [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 11:30am EDT
    by Ned

  • Ayn Rand Could Not Have Even Imagined The Time We Live In

    Number of comments: 6
     I find it shocking that we live in a time when the majority of Americans polled, believe it is good for the federal government to have a pay czar that limits what a corporation’s shareholders are allowed to pay their executives. When will people ever get a clue that the end means [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 7:19am EDT
    by glendean

  • “Unprecedented” Criticism of the Media?

    Number of comments: 2
    Hardly: “Working the refs” like this is as old as television itself. And probably older than that. [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 2:19pm EDT
    by tgirsch

  • Obama The Demagogue And His War On Dissent

    Number of comments: 15
    What could the Obama administration possibly be thinking in attacking a member of the press? Also, do they really think that favored news outlets like CNN enjoy having their assess publicly kissed by the Obama-ites? How embarrassing they must feel being told “we love you because you are nothing like [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 9:16pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Ramming “reform”

    Number of comments: 4
    Yesterday while leaving the post office, I was targeted for a scam by two conmen (I’ll share more about that in another post), and one thing that I realized as I interacted with these guys is how valuable a perception of haste is when scamming a “mark.” I’ve been ruminating over [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 3:20pm EDT
    by Ned

  • Way to go TNRtL

    Number of comments: 4
    It is intriguing to read Tennessee’s Left (and Squishy Right) decry the TNDP’s (a) failure to appreciate that “the Man” is more important than the party (”Why didn’t they recruit a better $?%&@# Candidate?!?!?) and (b) failure to choose a candidate who was strong on their (Democratic) Principles while simultaneously [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 4:34pm EDT
    by Ned

  • Bernanke and Paulson Should Be Thrown Under The Jail

    Number of comments: 3
    I wrote about this back in April. Thankfully the store hasn’t gone away, in spite of an amazing lack of interest. Washington Times: Executives at several of the nine institutions said they were reluctant to accept TARP funds - and the strings attached to them - but told auditors that federal officials forced [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 9:06pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Iron[ies] of Ironies

    Number of comments: 15
    While reading about Ahmadinejad’s Jewish heritage, I happened upon a photo album on the Telegraph’s (UK) website. The album’s introductory copy reads: When Lennart Nilsson’s pictures of developing embryos were published in Life magazine in 1965, they caused a sensation. Within days, the entire print run of eight million had sold [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 12:05pm EDT
    by Ned

  • Media Get’s In A Tizzy Over SNL Obama Skit

    Number of comments: 9
    Every President, up until now has been parodied on Saturday Night Live. It’s no big deal, right? Well, not until now. Not until the comedy show had the nerve to make fun of the Messiah. Oh dear! We can’t have that. After all, this is not any President. This is [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 9:01pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Obama Bends Over Once Again

    Number of comments: 10
    He sells out Eastern Europe to appease the Russians. He ignores the plight of the Iranian people to appease their murderers. And now, after eighteen consecutive years of Presidents meeting with the Dalai Lama, President Obama gives him the snub, in order to appease his Chinese oppressors. From the Washington Times: Mr. [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 8:54pm EDT
    by glendean

  • World to Obama, no thanks we like Rio much better

    Number of comments: 15
    Is the honeymoon over? WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama’s politically risky Olympics gamble failed to bring home the gold on Friday, with the Olympics committee’s refusal to grant the 2016 Summer Games to his hometown Chicago. The president, whose even-tempered personality has earned him the nickname [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 2:49pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Nashville blogging, so sensitive and sensible

    Number of comments: 3
    Such sensitive people. ACK at Post Politics wrote a satirical metaphor and all heck breaks lose. Having blogged on the original NIT and Music City Bloggers I have experienced the Nashville sensitivity and sensibility. After much hand wringing ACK apologizes.  Peace has been restored. Or has it? In the comment section Sean Braisted writes, [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 2:41pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Buyer’s remorse for Obama

    Number of comments: 2
    Gore Vidal says mea culpa. Also covered at ACK. Last year he famously switched allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama during the Democratic nomination process for president. Now, he reveals, he regrets his change of heart. How’s Obama doing? “Dreadfully. I was hopeful. He was the most intelligent person we’ve [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 2:51pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • You have to be kidding

    Number of comments: 2
    Terrorism takes an ugly turn. (CBS)  Al Qaeda has developed a new tactic that allows suicide bombers to breach even the tightest security, as CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports. Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing Prince Mohammed [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 1:46pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Whose pro-life priorities?

    Number of comments: 7
    Adam Kleinheider pronounces Tennessee Right to Life unwise in endorsing the more pro-life candidate (Post Politics: Right to Life makes wrong choice endorsing Democrat): So why, on the cusp of victory for the political party that carries it’s legislative portfolio, would the premier pro-life organization in Tennessee endorse the Democratic candidate? [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 10:56pm EDT
    by Ned

  • A Chicago School Economist Embraces Keynesian Economics

    Number of comments: 5
    Believe it or not, it’s Richard Posner. As they say, read the whole thing. H/T: Publius [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 5:09pm EDT
    by tgirsch

  • Bill Haslam panders on self defense

    Number of comments: 6
    A.C. Kleinheider at the Nashville Post shows the worst three minutes of Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam’s political life. The three minute YouTube may cost Haslam the Republican Primary. Mayor Haslam begins by defending the Second Amendment only to take away the right of self defense in Knoxville public parks. The Knoxville News [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 12:24pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Obama’s Gives Disgrace Of Speech…. As Expected

    Number of comments: 14
    Very accurate article from the UK, that ends with this statement. The Obama administration is now overseeing and implementing the biggest decline in American global power since Jimmy Carter. Unfortunately it may well take another generation for the United States to recover. Indeed! This decline is not accidental either. The destruction [...] [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 9:21pm EDT
    by glendean

  • President Open To Newspaper Bailout, Not Concerned With First Amendment (charter of negative liberties)

    Number of comments: 4
    If the following statements from the President of the United States do not shock you, then you might as well put Obama’s picture up in every room of your house with the words “Big O is watching you”. “I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 7:37pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Michael Moore Hating Capitalism All The Way To The Bank

    Number of comments: 13
    I saw a trailer today for the new Michael Moore movie “Capitalism, A Love Story”. Apparently he reveals how capitalism is evil. But honestly I don’t get the guy, or why so many buy into his nonsense (emphasizing the word “buy”). I mean, he uses capitalism, the market, to promote a [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 6:49pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Sweden Cuts Income Taxes To Promote Growth

    Ever notice how the leftists always pull Sweden out of their ass, when arguing how well welfare states work. Heh! Sweden experimented with the nanny state, learned that it was devastating to the economic and moral health of its people, and is moving back toward individualism. Here in the U.S., we had [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 6:25pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Hitchens On Jimmy Carter

    Number of comments: 3
    Great column, as usual, from left winger Christopher Hitchens. It was because, whether in Afghanistan, Iran, or Iraq—still the source of so many of our woes—the Carter administration could not tell a friend from an enemy. His combination of naivete and cynicism—from open-mouthed shock at Leonid Brezhnev’s occupation of Afghanistan to [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 8:22am EDT
    by glendean

  • The United States Betrays Eastern Europe On Behalf Of General Electric

    Number of comments: 4
    Lech Walesa once wrote that Poland owed their liberty to Ronald Reagan. Today the words “Betrayal! The U.S. sold us to Russia and stabbed us in the back” headlined a popular Polish daily. Yes President Obama is certainly “transformative”, transforming the United States from a strong power, a “shining city on [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 10:06pm EDT
    by glendean

  • The Case For Disenfranchising, Constitution Edition

    Number of comments: 10
    I have written many times about the need to deny certain people the vote. Yes I know that may shock some people, but I believe that the unlimited franchise may be the worst idea ever conjured up in our republic experiment. Of course I am not talking about a repeal of [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 9:28pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Hope For Wyden-Bennett?

    Number of comments: 3
    This is great news. The meeting late Wednesday afternoon with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and GOP Sen. Bob Bennett was not on the President’s public schedule, but senior administration officials confirmed it took place and characterized it as being part of Obama’s ongoing effort to reach out to lawmakers in both [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 8:31pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Celebrity Entitlement

    Number of comments: 9
    Bigger jerk, Serena Williams or Kanye West? It’s a tough one. Let’s take them in order. First Serena. At five foot ten and 165 pounds Serena is a formidable tennis opponent.  On Saturday she delicately says to a tennis lines-woman who is not even five feet tall, “I’m going to take the [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 11:32am EDT
    by Number 9

  • The Woman Is Evil

    This is funny. I don’t care who you are [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 9:30pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Insurance Companies Are Not Evil Enough

    Number of comments: 9
    In a comment to this brilliant post, written by yours truly, Jeffraham Prestonian thought he got me. Here is the exchange. Glen Dean- “They are parasites JP? Oh yeah, and doctors are chopping off limbs and removing tonsils for no reason. You libs always need a villain to point to, don’t [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 6:09pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Why We Should Leave Afghanistan

    Number of comments: 4
    Bill Kristol made a good point this morning on FoxNews Sunday, essentially saying that if the United States were to lose Afghanistan, the home of the Taliban on 9/11, it would send a bad message to the rest of the world. So you might ask, if I agree with that statement, [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 5:28pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Maureen Dowd racist

    Number of comments: 15
     Maureen Dowd continues her racist tunnel vision that if any American challenges President Obama they do so only because they are racist bigots. Maureen Dowd is a racist. I’ve been loath to admit that the shrieking lunacy of the summer — the frantic efforts to paint our first black president [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 12:25pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Idiots at CNN create a panic on 9/11/09

    Number of comments: 12
    You have to wonder about CNN. How incompetent can they be? This morning CNN reported of intercepted radio transmissions heard by a local citizen that originated from the Coast Guard. Not knowing this was a training exercise, and wanting to scoop Fox and MSNBC, CNN created a panic. CNN is reporting [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 12:29pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Paging Al Gore

    Number of comments: 5
    Summer temperature below average for U.S. The average June-August 2009 summer temperature for the contiguous United States was below average – the 34th coolest on record, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. August was also below the long-term average. The analysis is based on [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 10:16am EDT
    by Number 9

  • The subject no one wants to talk about

    Number of comments: 15
    So we will. Last night South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson made a Freudian slip. He called the President of the United State a liar. It was poor form and Rep. Wilson admitted so quickly and apologized to the President’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Wilson’s outburst came after Obama said extending health [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 10:18am EDT
    by Number 9

  • Bizarre Video of the Day

    Number of comments: 3
    Protect your chicken from Dokken! [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 5:32pm EDT
    by tgirsch

  • Re. Obama’s classroom speech: loco parents or in loco parentis?

    Number of comments: 7
    One last thing (maybe) about Obama’s homeroom assembly for public school kids K-12. The Left’s response to criticism about the speech and accompanying lesson plans has been intriguing. Sure, some of the outrage was from people who see a socialist plot behind every Obama-era tree. But a lot of the [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 12:24pm EDT
    by Ned

  • I Pledge

    Number of comments: 3
     allegiance to the Flag and the Republic for which it stands. And to kick these lousy Socialist out of power in 2010. Meanwhile in the USSA, Socialist from Hollywood pledge to be a SERVANT to this President. Seriously, they really did. And they are very proud of it too. Have you seen that [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 10:52am EDT
    by Number 9

  • Oliver Stone Exemplifies the Term “Useful Idiot”

    Number of comments: 8
    Oliver Stone is such an anti-American dipshit. Meanwhile, Chavez says that he and other socialists must “help” the American President that shares his political and economic ideology. Do you really think that Van Jones wasn’t “vetted”? Are you an idiot? And what about Michael Moore, the man that sat beside former Democratic President [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 12:17am EDT
    by glendean

  • It’s The Left That Isn’t Logical On Healthcare

    Number of comments: 15
    “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”- Barack Obama. On June 23rd, when asked if the public option would drive private insurance out of business, our genius President said “Why would it drive private insurance out of business? If private insurers say that [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 5:10pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Van Jones quits

    Number of comments: 15
    I seriously doubt that. But one socialist community organizer is gone and that is a start. WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday. Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs” with the [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 9:37am EDT
    by Number 9

  • Obama murdering innocent people of color?

    Number of comments: 8
    Gee, I wonder what Obama advisor Van Jones (along with Liberal peaceniks) thinks about the Afghan incident? [...]
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    Posted: September 05, 2009, 6:31pm EDT
    by Ned

  • Never let â€em see you back pedal

    Number of comments: 15
    It’s thickly ironic to hear the Bush-is-Hitler Bunch (read: Liberals and Obama supporters) mocking concerns about plans by the Obama administration to speak directly to every school-aged child in America. But even though Democrats are flooding the media with fresh claims that the message was “to be about the need [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 5:22pm EDT
    by Ned

  • The sickness of the Obama administration

    Number of comments: 7
    Got racial harmony? I didn’t think so. This clip comes from remarks Van Jones gave in 2008 to the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. Thanks a bunch tgirsch, JP, William, Javier, JTF, Clark, and fellow travelers. Good luck with your socialist revolution. [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 2:45pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • If you don’t agree with Harry…

    Number of comments: 15
    then Harry Reid says, “I hope you go out of business.” Harry Reid wasn’t a peach to begin with since Chicago Obama moved in the White House it seems Harry is a bit of a bully.  So now even in Nevada, it’s the Chicago way. Such behavior cannot go unchallenged. You could call [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 11:44am EDT
    by Number 9

  • “It ain’t [America] no more, OK?”

    Number of comments: 15
    Sadly we learn today that America ain’t no more. This video was taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran’s (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on Obama Deathcare (Howie Dean was there too) held at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA. Many people were left outside when the school filled [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 5:55pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Obama tries to control the Internet

    Number of comments: 9
    But only in the case of an emergency. Is anyone in America still fooled about his intentions? We’ll wait for that answer. Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 5:01pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Obama tries to control the Internet

    But only in the case of an emergency. Is anyone in America still fooled about his intentions? We’ll wait for that answer. Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 5:01pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Still Waiting…

    Number of comments: 8
    …for Glen’s obligatory post about how the IG report is no big deal, and how blindfolding someone and holding a power drill up to them, or threatening to rape their wives and children while they watch, doesn’t constitute torture, and is no worse than what he had to deal with [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 4:00pm EDT
    by tgirsch

  • The explosive PSA from Britain on texting and driving

    Fortunately, this is a simulation. Sadly, this was not. Two people died. Don’t text and drive. [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 1:50pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Life without parole

    Number of comments: 15
    An important news story that has been under reported. This has been a case study in what has happened to journalism in America. Journalism is broken in America. It has been replaced by a subtle liberal progressive bias that omits information based on liberal progressive ideals and objectives. Were you aware [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 1:23pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Ted Kennedy, A Good Man He Most Certainly Was Not

    Number of comments: 15
    I’m sorry, but a person’s death does not automatically erase who they were in life. Folks, Ted Kennedy was not a good man. In fact, he might not even have been worthy of being called a man. A man does not leave his mistress to drown in a few feet [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 8:45pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Civil War?

    Number of comments: 14
    Oh snap, Hollywood is looking at the President in a different light. Jon Voight says: “There’s a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?” Mr. Voight tells Inside the Beltway. “We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 3:38pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Got government job?

    Number of comments: 14
    While the private sector is responding to the economic down turn by trimming staff  the government sector doesn’t seem to care. Why should they care? It isn’t their money, it’s ours. Governments have added about 110,000 jobs since the recession began, according to the report by the Rockefeller Institute, which is [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 10:46am EDT
    by Number 9

  • Got government job?

    Number of comments: 1
    While the private sector is responding to the economic down turn by trimming staff  the government sector doesn’t seem to care. Why should they care? It isn’t their money, it’s ours. Governments have added about 110,000 jobs since the recession began, according to the report by the Rockefeller Institute, which is [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 10:46am EDT
    by Number 9

  • The Anti-War Movement Died When Obama Was Sworn In, Yet Wars Rage On

    Number of comments: 4
    Byron York makes a good point. Remember the anti-war movement? Not too long ago, the Democratic party’s most loyal voters passionately opposed the war in Iraq. Democratic presidential candidates argued over who would withdraw American troops the quickest. Netroots activists regularly denounced President George W. Bush, and sometimes the U.S. military [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 9:38pm EDT
    by glendean

  • In Defense of Congressman Eric Massa

    If you don’t know what I am talking about, the video and a short summary can be seen here. The criticism of this guy really bothers me. Now of course I don’t agree with his position on the health-care bill, but I also disagree with those who say he has some [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 9:15pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Obama Retreats On Public Option

    Number of comments: 15
    Tell me what is wrong with this paragraph from the AP. Facing mounting opposition to the overhaul, administration officials left open the chance for a compromise with Republicans that would include health insurance cooperatives. Such a concession is likely to enrage his liberal supporters but could deliver Obama a much-needed win [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2009, 12:49pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Tell them how you feel

    Number of comments: 6
    I don’t know what a mack daddy is, but I do know that this video will become viral quickly. This is Rev. James David Manning of Harlem New York, and he has a few things to say about President Obama. He basically states that we may race a Patrick Henry style [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 9:18am EDT
    by Number 9

  • Again, the second dumbest man in America

    Number of comments: 15
    Paul Krugman. A self admitted social democrat who won a Nobel Prize in 2008, boy those aren’t worth what they used to be, yesterday proclaimed that the government is the solution sometimes and aren’t you happy the people running the government now don’t hate the government. We all know the dumbest [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 5:12pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Finally, a partial victory over pseudoscience and superstition

    Number of comments: 15
    Never quit, never give up. Americans are beginning to see the problems with the  pseudoscience and superstition of Global Warming. More Americans than ever now believe Global Warming has been exaggerated. And it’s not a moment to soon. With two foreign wars, an economy in peril,  widespread unemployment, serious health reforms, [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 4:09pm EDT
    by Number 9

  • Soylent Green is old people

    Number of comments: 15
    If the Obama health care socialism keeps going the way it is going,  don’t be surprised if Granny and GrandPa and their rowdy friends start disrupting more Town Halls. Meanwhile over in Progressiveville, we are being told, there is no Left in America. That only right wing thugs are protesting this [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 9:17am EDT
    by Number 9

  • Some Quick Thoughts On The Economy

    Number of comments: 2
    No hyper links here folks. I just want to run through some things right quick. I believe that when the data from this quarter is compiled, we will see some modest growth. In other words, the economy is growing at the present time. I have always held that we didn’t [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2009, 7:46pm EDT
    by glendean

  • I’m Proud As Hell of Rowdiness At Town Hall Meetings/ A Bill I Support

    Number of comments: 15
    “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.“- Thomas Jefferson This post written by “conservative” blogger Katherine Coble, has been bothering me ever since I read a snippet of it at Post Politics. Not only am I bothered by the “I’m [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2009, 7:22pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Push back against Socialism

    Number of comments: 15
    Progressive websites are lamenting what is happening at Town Halls across America. Americans are standing up and saying NO to Socialism. And Progressives are none too happy about it. How dare Americans stand up and defend their rights? So the call has been made to the Progressives, i.e. social democrats, i.e. [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 10:36am EDT
    by Number 9

  • Remember Irwin Allen?

    Number of comments: 6
    They called him the “Master of Disaster”. Allen produced the hugely successful The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974), which he also co-directed. He directed-produced The Swarm (1978), and produced/directed Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) and When Time Ran Out (1980). In the never ending madness to stop Global Warming [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 10:06am EDT
    by Number 9

  • So Now The Federal Government Is Going To Outlaw Texting While Driving

    Number of comments: 8
    This story is shocking to me. Not because I think it is a good idea to text while driving. I mean, every time I’ve tried it, I misspelled a bunch of words. It was horrible. What shocks me though is that this is coming from the federal government. Good grief! Why [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 8:49pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Linda Douglas Willingly Makes An Ass Of Herself

    I could play you a video of Obama lamenting the dishonesty of those who claim that the Democrats are trying to backdoor a single payer system. Then I guess I could play a video of Obama saying, in his own words, how that is exactly his plan. I could even [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 8:39pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Barack Obama in Heath Ledger-style Joker make-up

    Number of comments: 15
    Is this satire, political expression, or racism? There is a t-shirt available. That was quick.  The poster above is appearing all over Los Angeles.  [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 10:59am EDT
    by Number 9

  • Geithner Won’t Rule Out Raising Taxes On Middle Class

    Number of comments: 5
    Here we go. I mean, we who have a brain, knew this was coming. To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a “This Week” exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, “We’re [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2009, 9:11am EDT
    by glendean

  • When Will They Pay Their Fair Share?

    Number of comments: 15
    Over the last thirty years, the tax burden of the awful, horrible, top 1% of earners has doubled. Meanwhile, their tax rate has been cut in half. Currently, the top one percent pay more than the bottom 95%. Okay, let’s examine the last thirty years. Over that time period, the Internet and [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 4:29pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Obama Obviously Thinks We Are All Stupid

    I mean seriously. When unemployment numbers came out, the Democrats correctly pointed out that only a small portion of the porkulus had been spent, which proved that the “stimulus” wasn’t really a stimulus, but a long term pork bill. Now that the economy is growing at a staggering -1% (woohoo!), the [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 4:07pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Cash For Clunkers, Heh!

    Number of comments: 2
    The government has suspended Cash for Clunkers. Several bloggers have opined. Steve in TN writes: If you wanted to trade in your Obama designated Clinker for up to $4,500 in cash on a new car you can’t. It’s over. They ran out of money. Trust the government and you’ll get the shaft… From Sadcox: Don’t [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 12:10pm EDT
    by glendean

  • From Health Care Reform To Health Insurance Reform

    Number of comments: 4
    When the history of 2009 is written, Barack Obama’s first year in office, the name Douglas Elmendorf will be honored above all others. If it were not for the CBO and Elmendorf, an economist appointed by Democratic leadership, the term citizen may very well have been replaced with comrade. Krauthammer has written [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 11:30am EDT
    by glendean

  • The science on Global Warming is wrong

    Number of comments: 7
    According to Randy Neal of KnoxViews that is. You may panic now. Science predicted that sea levels could rise 16 inches in this century due in part to glaciers in Greenland being melted by global warming. It turns out the science was wrong. Glaciers in Greenland are melting at an accelerated rate, and sea [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 9:59am EDT
    by Number 9

  • Race in America

    This is easily the most intelligent, thoughtful, and accurate commentary I’ve seen on the state of racism in America in quite some time: The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 11:40am EDT
    by tgirsch

  • So They Had That Beer

    Number of comments: 11
    When I heard that the three beers were Bud Light, Blue Moon, and Red Stripe, I just knew that the two Ivy League elitists chose the crappy expensive beer, and the regular guy cop picked the Bud Light. I was wrong. I can’t believe it. Obama drinks regular guy beer! Who [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 8:57pm EDT
    by glendean

  • Yelling at cops and stuff

    Number of comments: 15
    I hate to keep revisiting the Gates arrest story, because it will lead some people to assert or conclude that I’m piling on or that I’m a racist, but I think–like Gates purports to believe, that this is a teachable moment on this issue of race in America. Here’s the best [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 5:04pm EDT
    by nedwilliams

  • Thoughtful Commentary on the Gates Affair

    Number of comments: 6
    Part of the reason Glen invited me to blog here is to bring some balance to this blog. And I can think of no better example of why such balance is needed than Glen’s recent excruciatingly embarrassing, simplistic, and naive analysis of the Skip Gates affair. For that, we turn [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 9:21pm EDT
    by tgirsch

  • Making Sense of Palin’s Farewell Speech

    Number of comments: 6
    Via LGM, which correctly identifies this as being nothing short of genius: Secondary H/T: Yglesias UPDATED: To use official NBC video. [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 12:16pm EDT
    by tgirsch

  • More Opposition to Health Care Reform

    Number of comments: 3
    I wonder how long before the GOP picks up this line of argumentation? Study: Most Children Strongly Opposed To Children’s Healthcare [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2009, 4:51pm EDT
    by tgirsch

  • The Angelic, Innocent, and Untouchable Black Man

    Number of comments: 8
    No topic in everyday conversation conjures up more emotion than race. White people in this country are so afraid of being labeled racist that they end up tip-toeing through any and every issue involving the government and the media’s most beloved group of people, the black person. Personally, I think [...]
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    Posted: July 26, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
    by glendean
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