By: conservativecurmudgeon (Diary)  |  February 10th at 11:42 PM  | 

Modern American Conservatism IS a political philosophy. This cannot be mistaken. In my heart, I want desperately to concur with LisaDe’s interpretation of what Conservatism is at its most basic, first-principles, bedrock core: That we conservatives stand for the individual, and that oftentimes we become a tad frightened of the unknown (and unknowable) components of what resides in the hearts of these same individuals. And | Read More »

By: conservativecurmudgeon (Diary)  |  February 8th at 09:04 AM  | 

Two things that make a toxic combination: Arrogance and naivete. Barack Obama is an arrogant, churlish, petulant man. You can usually take this sort of behavior from a John McEnroe, or a Joe Namath, or a Ben Hogan, or Donald Trump because there are so very few human beings that make it to the top of their chosen fields of endeavor. As Dizzy Dean said, | Read More »

By: conservativecurmudgeon (Diary)  |  February 4th at 12:46 PM  | 

Politics, Bismark was said to have declared, was the Art of the Possible. Well, I guess that depends on which army you send out to enforce the "Possible". Since 1973, after the debacle in Texas that resulted in the most wide-ranging and flawed Supreme Court decision ever, in which an anonymous and pregnant "Jane Roe" was plopped in front of the Justices like a cardboard | Read More »

By: conservativecurmudgeon (Diary)  |  February 2nd at 10:48 AM  | 

“The Reagan-Kemp-Roth tax cut that the Governor is proposing is so inflationary that most independent economists that have studied it have concluded that it will result in 30 percent inflation..” -President Jimmy Carter, during the 1980 Presidential Debate The left has never gotten Ronald Reagan. All through the 1980 campaign, President Cardigan tried his darnedest to present Reagan as a senile twit, clearly out of | Read More »

By: conservativecurmudgeon (Diary)  |  February 1st at 12:02 AM  | 

Well, now, aren’t we just all a-dither and in high dudgeon over the tyrannical, bloodthirsty regime of Hosni Mubarak? That, that…DICTATOR! Ruthlessly suppressing the religious minorities like that, running his iron-fisted economy on the backs of 80-hour work weeks, and the hopeless poverty of the underclass… No, wait, that’s China. It’s hard to tell all these countries apart without a GPS-enabled Blackberry. Now, admittedly, Barack | Read More »

By: conservativecurmudgeon (Diary)  |  January 25th at 11:26 PM  | 

So, this is the New and Improved Obama! New Lemon-Scented Obama! Obama 2.0! I’m sure the swells in Georgetown get really geeked for the State of Union Speech. Out here in the provinces, though, it sure has taken on the air of an Infomercial held at the Sheraton Suites: The carpeting looks nice, the furnishings have that deeply polished patina, and the well-tailored suits and | Read More »

By: conservativecurmudgeon (Diary)  |  January 23rd at 11:46 PM  | 

Editors Note: While the Leak gave no indication who actually won the Presidential election, it did have the entire text of the Inaugural Address. It is up to us to figure out who delivered it: Mr. President, Mr. Chief Justice, honored guests, and my Beloved Fellow Citizens: On March 4th, 1865, Abraham Lincoln stood on the steps of this very Capitol, resplendent in its newly | Read More »

By: conservativecurmudgeon (Diary)  |  January 21st at 05:17 PM  | 

From the diaries by Erick It all began, according to the Starr Report, on November 15, 1995. This is when, according to President Clinton, he Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman, Miss Lewinski. Well, the pronouncements have finally come down from on high, despite his protestations, that when the ever-game Miss Lewinski fellated the President, he was, in fact, engaged in a "sex | Read More »

By: conservativecurmudgeon (Diary)  |  January 17th at 11:10 PM  | 

On October 14th, 1964, The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King became the youngest man to ever be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace; he was only 35. Oftentimes we forget how much Rev. King accomplished during his tragically shortened, truncated life. In fact, by the time he’d gone back South to lend a hand to the striking sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968, King was | Read More »

By: conservativecurmudgeon (Diary)  |  January 15th at 11:31 PM  | 

Have you noticed that the nut-job murderer in Tuscon isn’t a "Gunner", or "Gun Wielder" or "Gun Criminal"? Just like the recent rioters and various restive sorts in Tunisia, he’s been openly called a "GunMAN ". Not only does the Tuscon Nut Job have a built-in mistrial so generously pre-packaged for him courtesy of the oily-jawed Local Sheriff, I think by enlisting the help of | Read More »