Who will defend women against misogynistic attacks?
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | April 9th at 05:16 PM |
In this video, Bill O’Reilly and Tammy Bruce excoriate feminist groups for refusing to defend Sarah Palin and other women who don’t adhere to radical leftist views from misogynistic attacks: h/t: The Conservative Xpress And at The New Agenda, Cynthia Ruccia has an excellent post up about how common sexism has become in our society and how only a few have been willing to stand | Read More »
Palin has ‘no intention’ of challenging Murkowski
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | April 8th at 01:08 PM |
The Alaska Daily News is reporting that, according to a spokesperson for Gov. Sarah Palin: “The governor has no intention of running for the senator’s seat in 2010. She thinks the senator is doing a great job and that’s why she’s looking forward to hosting a fundraiser for her.” Meg Stapleton also told ADN yesterday speculation that Gov, Palin might challenge Sen. Murkowski in the | Read More »
It’s Alive: The First of the Sarah Palin Defense Funds
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | April 7th at 10:11 PM |
The Sarah Palin Blog has broken the news that a Defense Fund for the Alaska governor is up and running: A defense fund to help Sarah Palin pay her mounting legal bills is now up on the web and operational… According to the organizer,the defense money raised will go directly to Thomas Van Flein, Governor Palin’s private attorney. The fund is managed by Clayton Paslay, | Read More »
American President thinks ‘Austrian’ is a language
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | April 5th at 05:50 PM |
President Barack Obama made a world-class gaffe in front of the entire planet’s press during his news conference in Strasbourg, France. The transcript was released by the White House on April 4:
Iowa court decision may affect 2012 GOP primary
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | April 4th at 09:52 AM |
According to the Votemaster, the recent decision by the Iowa Supreme Court striking down a state law which defines marriage as the legal union between one man and one woman, “immensely complicates” the 2012 race for the GOP…
Dr. Frankenbama: Death Tax Re-Animator
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | April 2nd at 10:54 AM |
Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn’t be related. - J.C. Watts, Jr. President Bush’s tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 lowered the death tax from 55 percent to 45 percent this year and would have eliminated them entirely next year. But Dr. Frankenbama’s budget drags the rotting corpse of the death tax from its intended grave by keeping it at its 2009 level next year. The doctor | Read More »
AP: Obama tax pledge up in smoke
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | April 1st at 05:25 PM |
I’m savoring the sweet irony here, because the AP was so tucked away in Obama’s hip pocket during the campaign, dissing Sarah Palin and all. Now their reporter Calvin Woodward files this story:
Obama Orders GM and MOPAR Out Of NASCAR
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | April 1st at 09:53 AM |
In a stunning move, the Obama White House announced today that GM and Chrysler must end their involvement in NASCAR stock car racing at the end of this season to remain eligible to receive additional financial aid from the government.
For Dems, Sarah Palin is their next Rush Limbaugh
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | March 30th at 05:22 PM |
We learned from Greg Sargent’s blog The Plum Line that Democrat strategists have plans to increasingly elevate Gov. Sarah Palin as a leader in much the same way they have done with Rush Limbaugh in recent weeks. Sargeant reveals that James Carville, who mapped out the Limbaugh strategy, told him that Dems will be increasingly elevating Palin, because she’s “an identifiable person who has a | Read More »
It’s easy not being green
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | March 28th at 03:11 PM |
The watermelons (green outside, pink inside) on the left continue to FAIL to get a handle on the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Punish the charitable
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | March 28th at 10:34 AM |
During the Tuesday night press conference, Politico’s Mike Allen and the president had this exchange: Allen: Are you reconsidering your plan to cut the interest-rate deduction for mortgages and for charities? And do you regret having proposed that in the first place? President Obama: No, I think it’s — I think it’s the right thing to do. Where we’ve got to make some difficult choices | Read More »
TX GOV: KBH Mocks Perry for Palin endorsement
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | March 27th at 04:27 PM |
Lone Star Times reports that U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s website has posted a copy of a Texarkana Gazette editorial mocking Gov. Rick Perry for having received Sarah Palin’s endorsement: Palin has a certain cachet among conservatives. … But Lord, have mercy, she is an outsider with an opinion about Texas politics and government. And she sounds like the Yankee she is, if we use | Read More »
Former staffers ‘angered’ by Gov. Palin’s remark
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | March 26th at 08:05 PM |
Pete Hanby of CNN reports that some former McCain-Palin staffers are upset with their former vice presidential candidate for her recent remark, in a speech to the Alaska GOP Lincoln Dinner: “So I’m looking around for somebody to pray with, I just need maybe a little help, maybe a little extra, and the McCain campaign, love ‘em, you know, they’re a lot of people around | Read More »
EU: Obama has U.S. on the road to hell
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | March 25th at 08:02 PM |
The Telegrah reports: Mirek Topolanek, who is running the EU presidency despite the collapse of his government in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, highlighted European splits over the fiscal stimulus plans promoted by President Obama… Mr Topolanek warned the European Parliament that the Obama administration’s stimulus package and financial bail-out “will undermine the stability of the global financial market”. “All of these steps, these combinations | Read More »
Barack Obama’s Bankrupt States of America
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | March 22nd at 11:48 AM |
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) knows more than a little about sound fiscal policy. He was elected in 2005 to chair the Senate Budget Committee, and he has been a proponent of spending restraint and lower taxes. No small wonder that he chose not to accept the cabinet post of Commerce Secretary recently offered to him by President Obama, whose thinking on fiscal matters is the | Read More »
Calling BS on a bogus poll
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | March 21st at 12:10 AM |
“Poll Finds Obama Would Trounce Palin” reads the headline on AOL News. “2012 Election: Sarah Palin Crushed by Barack Obama” screams the head on Associated Content. In a hypothetical contest, the poll ”found” that President Obama would defeat Alaska’s governor 55 percent to 35 percent. There are a few problems with the poll, however…
Palin rejects nearly half of federal stimulus funds
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | March 19th at 05:03 PM |
Governor Sarah Palin announced today that she is proposing legislation which will allow Alaska to accept only a little more than half of the federal stimulus funds for which her state is eligible. Palin gave several examples that underlined her reasoning for wanting to reject the funds. In total, if the bill were passed, $515 million (55%) of the nearly $1 billion would be rejected by the | Read More »
“I always will come down on the side of life”
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | February 11th at 10:13 PM |
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin released a statement today, responding to an e-mail campaign started in September by pro-abortion activists calling for donations to be made to Planned Parenthood on Palin’s behalf. The former GOP vice presidential candidate is a staunch opponent of the grisly practice of abortion.
S.P.E.C.T.E.R.
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | February 10th at 01:29 PM |
He did it again. But no Republican should have been surprised. Sen. Arlen Specter has a long history of stabbing his party’s conservatives in the back. Ronald Reagan was one of the first to feel the point of his blade: At the end of his first term, he voted against the Reagan Administration in two bitter, losing battles: to make William Bradford Reynolds associate attorney general, and Jefferson Sessions | Read More »
Obama’s inexperience painfully obvious
By: Josh Painter (Diary) | February 9th at 08:15 AM |
After two weeks on the job our new president’s inexperience is painfully obvious. The words of his political rivals from the primaries and the general election seem almost prophetic in retrospect. Hillary Clinton, warned on the campaign trail in Knoxville, TN in November of 2007: “There is one job we can’t afford: on-the-job training for our next president. That could be the costliest job training in history. | Read More »