By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  October 6th at 11:44 AM  | 

Perhaps you should have asked Barack Obama the same question you fired at Sarah Palin about the newspapers and magazines on the candidate’s reading list. Just sayin’… JP

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  October 5th at 03:24 PM  | 

Sen. Barack Obama’s website still insists that unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is just a “mainstream” college professor. Ironically, that whopper appears in a section of the site labelled “Fact Check” and as a quote attributed to the Associated Press. Don’t be surprised if it is scrubbed from the website soon. I recommend that one for caching just in case… Millions of mainstream Americans will | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  October 4th at 02:39 PM  | 

At a fundraiser today in Englewood, Colorado, GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin bared her Pit Bull teeth and bit Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama for his relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Palin said: “Our opponent though is someone who sees America it seems as being so imperfect, imperfect enough that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  October 4th at 11:12 AM  | 

I strongly protest recent allegations that in the vice presidential debates, Sen. Joe Biden appeared to have “Vulcan eyebrows.” The comment was not only racist in nature, but an affront to all Vulcans. Anyone who takes the time to review videos of the debate can easily see that Biden’s eyebrows are clearly Romulan: Vulcans do not lie. Romulans, however, are known prevaricators, as the record | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  October 3rd at 08:30 AM  | 

Agree, Mark. And your question begs another, “What will Kathleen Parker do now?” According to talk show host Mike Gallagher, she isn’t budging: “On my radio show today, Parker defended her column. Feisty and a bit combative, she reiterated her belief that Gov. Palin is a lightweight who wasn’t “properly vetted” and ought to fade away into the sunset, clearing the way, as she put | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  October 2nd at 06:43 PM  | 

The media elites of both the Left and the Right are trying so hard to define what Palin should say and do, and frankly it’s insulting to the average voter. Joe and Jane America couldn’t care less about what Palin reads, what Supremes ruling she dislikes the most or whether she’s familiar with all eight permutations of the Bush Doctrine. What the average American wants | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  October 2nd at 07:21 AM  | 

There are many twists and turns in the maze in which Poison Pelosi’s PAC-Man gobbles up the “fruits” of politics that are campaign cash: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband’s real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with political donations that she supported banning last year. Financial | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  October 1st at 11:24 PM  | 

After living a long and remarkable life, Journalism has passed away following a prolonged battle with illness. Doctors attribute the cause of death to abuse. No one really knows the precise age of Journalism, but it is believed to have descended from oral traditions that existed in the ages prior to the written word. The coroner has not been able to determine the time of | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 29th at 02:09 PM  | 

House GOP leaders Boehner, Blunt and Cantor just spoke to reporters about the failure of the bailout bill. Blunt said that at least a dozen Republican members who had been for the bill turned their backs on it after Pelosi delivered a very partisan speech on the floor of the House. In her speech, Pelosi blamed the nation’s financial problems on “failed Bush economic policies” | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 29th at 07:55 AM  | 

A lot of us like Mitt, too. But John McCain did not ask him to be his running mate. Please get over it. It’s just a month before the election, for Tom’s* sake! Meanwhile, your anti-Palin rants have been cut and pasted on virtual garbage dumps Democratic Underground, etc. Aren’t you just soooo proud? Regards, JP *(Please Google “Tom Eagleton”)

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 28th at 06:24 PM  | 

Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin has taken enough heat to melt the Artic Circle over this exchange with CBS’ Katie Couric: Couric: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that? Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 26th at 01:52 PM  | 

LA Times media scribe James Rainey mocks Sarah Palin for her pointing out, in the Katie Couric interview: It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. In his hit piece, Raines wonders: | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 26th at 12:44 PM  | 

“Mainstream media” (MSM) never was an accurate representation of what this country’s major print and broadcast news sources are and what they do. “Mainstream” is defined, when used as an adjective, as “representing the prevailing attitudes, values and practices of a society or group.” The media, as a group, certainly has a set of prevailing attitudes, values and practices, but they are not those of | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 24th at 09:44 AM  | 

In several debates with liberals, I have challenged them to produce any evidence of Barack Obama having run anything but his mouth. I maintained that he had no executive experience. The liberals countered by insisting that Obama had executive experience by virtue of having run his campaign for president. I responded that surely they couldn’t be serious. Obama doesn’t run his presidential campaign. His campaign | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 22nd at 12:15 AM  | 

On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson voiced confidence in the long term fundamentals of the U.S. economy. According to Reuters: Asked about the fundamentals of the U.S. economy, Paulson said, “I won’t bet against the American people … We will work through this.” John McCain has taken quite a beating from the Left and its captive media for saying essentially the | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 19th at 02:36 PM  | 

It seems that whenever I get to thinking that I’m getting pretty good at this writing thing, I read the latest… work (piece, article, column – those nouns are simply too trite to describe his creations) by Bill Whittle. The experience deflates my puffed up ego… It’s the proverbial “must-read” – and it’s here. JP

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 17th at 01:06 PM  | 

How qualified to be vice president of the United States could a Republican be who:

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 15th at 03:35 AM  | 

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), a non-partisan, non-profit organization on a mission to eliminate waste, mismanagement and inefficiency in the federal government, has published a background report on Alaska’s infamous “bridge to nowhere” which finally clears the air surrounding what has become the poster child for federal pork projects.

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 12th at 08:02 AM  | 

The nattering nabobs of nonsense are busy parsing Sarah Palin’s answers to Charlie Gibson’s questions in the first segment of the ABC News interview and proclaiming that she isn’t ready to be vice president, God forbid president of the United States. “She wants to start a war with Russia!” and “She didn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is!” they are sneering. Never mind that she | Read More »

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  September 10th at 12:37 PM  | 

One of my favorite Ronald Reagan quotes comes from my favorite Reagan speech. It is in his famous “A Time for Choosing” address where we find this memorable line: The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so. Like so many other things our 40th president said, that one has been proven to | Read More »