As I was running an errand earlier today, I was listening to a local talk show host interview my congresswoman, Lois Capps. It was the typical softball interview you expect from a small-town talk show host. But there was one statement made by Capps that I’d heard peddled before, but I couldn’t believe anyone other […]
Shirley Sherrod, who was reflexively fired by the USDA a week or so back has announced she intends to sue Andrew Breitbart. No lawyer with half a brain – or working on a contingency basis – will take the case. Why? Well, a week later Chris Matthews figures it out. The Newsbusters transcript: CHRIS MATTHEWS: […]
I must confess that I haven’t spent enough time writing about the Journo-list and the downfall of Washington Post “conservative” blogger Dave Weigel and today’s Daily Caller article on an effort by members of the Journo-list in 2008 to brand conservatives interested in the controversy over President Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright as racists. […]
The worst thing about gerrymandering is that you get districts created that are weighted in such an incredibly partisan fashion that blithering idiots can be re-elected time and time again. This week’s evidence, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who by the way has a degree in political science from Yale. Yes, this woman sits on the […]
The National Right to Life organization came out Tuesday with a press release noting that the plan for high risk pools in Pennsylvania – mandated by Obamacare – would allow taxpayer funding of abortions for any reason except sex selection. Examination of the detailed Pennsylvania plan, reveals that the "much more" will include insurance coverage […]
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally got the treatment at the White House that the U.S. usually gives to its friends. When Netanyahu was last at the White House, the United States’ best ally in the Middle East was denied a press conference, photo op and even a handshake and a meal as […]
Number 1 dumb thing: RNC Chairman Michael “The Disaster” Steele: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is once again caught in the crosshairs, this time over comments he made regarding the war in Afghanistan in which he calls it “a war of Obama’s choosing.” He adds: “This is not something the United States had actively […]
Justice Sonia Sotomayor lied in her confirmation hearing to be a Supreme Court justice. Gary Marx presents the evidence. On the use of foreign law, Justice Sotomayor stated, “I will not use foreign law to interpret the Constitution or American statutes. I will use American law, constitutional law to interpret those laws, except in the […]
In all likelihood, in the coming weeks the Justice Department will announce that they are suing to overturn Arizona’s illegal immigration law. One of the arguments that the department will almost certainly put forward is that Arizona’s law usurps federal authority with regard to immigration law. Hold that thought in your head for a moment. […]
It wasn’t unexpected today when President Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of command of the Afghanistan war effort. The president had every right to do it, and few will fault him for making the decision he did. At the same time, Obama “demoted” Gen. David Petraeus from his perch as head of U.S. Central Command […]