In what surely will go down in history as the stupidest meaningless gesture of all time, the Milwaukee Brewers’ Class-A minor league team — the Brevard County Manatees — has just announced that they will no longer conduct batting practice. Batting Practice. BP. Get it? The Manatees have banished Batting Practice from their lexicon in order to show that they are "deeply concerned and hurt | Read More »
According to The New York Times, on Saturday evening the President of the United States used a thoroughly disgusting gay-baiting slur to refer to people that previous presidents might have called “My Fellow Americans”. Speaking with congressional Democrats, our situationally unaware, amateur-night chief executive asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care?” Call | Read More »
Someone named Michael Casey at the Associated Press has written a collection of paragraphs concerning the so-called Climate Negotiations. Someone else needs to follow along behind Mr. Casey with a broom, because he has apparently "gone native" in his capacity as an ’environmental writer’ and now speaks with the voice of some sort of eco-nut. Since the Sunday night football game contains teams that I | Read More »
Today has not been a good day for our president in terms of his coverage overseas. In an analysis piece entitled Why everyone is saying no to Obama, Amir Mizroch at the Jerusalem Post recounts the many ways that foreign leaders — the Saudi royals, Dear Leader Kim, Mahmoud Abbas, the Iranian Mullahs, even friends like Benyamin Netanyahu — are beating our president like a | Read More »
Today brings news that the government is investigating a major insurance company. What’d they do this time? Rescind the coverage from an old lady while she was falling down the stairs? Collude with a competitor to fix prices? No, according to the Associated Press, the government is investigating Humana for sending out a mailer that could be construed as opposing Democratic Party policy. You probably | Read More »
Among the many Americans rendered ignorant about current events by too much dependence on mainstream media we must now count one Charles Gibson, anchor of the ABC World News. Michelle Malkin tells the story: Several Chicago readers and Twitterers report that ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson told WLS-AM Chicago talk show hosts Don Wade and Roma this morning that the reason he hasn’t covered the | Read More »
Hope Yen is an Associated Press writer. That’s as opposed to a "reporter", or a "journalist", or indeed anything at all except a propagandist for the Democratic Party and its friends. Writing about the Census Bureau severing its ties with ACORN, Ms. Yen tells Associated Press readers that ACORN… has been hit with Republican accusations of voter-registration fraud Imagine that. Just a little partisan bickering, | Read More »
Most of us here on Red State, regardless of our religious convictions or lack of them, are familiar with the contempt with which secular liberals say they regard Creationism and those who profess it. To hear them tell it, only yahoos from the all-white, all-male, rural South could possibly believe such a thing. Well, they and Sarah Palin. We are therefore greatly indebted to Mr. | Read More »
For all the flack that President Obama gets here on Red State, he does propose some amazing things that deserve recognition. Today, for example, he said concerning his health care reform plan, “You will not be waiting in any lines.” Let’s be honest: we Republicans would not know how to do that. If we added 47 million more people to the health care system, there | Read More »
On the eve of the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, the Review Journal there did a roundup of recent polling on the subject, concluding that the Political climate for energy policies cools. The combination of a bad economy and continuing evidence that the Earth is simply not warming has led an increasing number of people to either dismiss the Global Warming alarmists’ claims | Read More »
Every so often the leftish bent of the news media causes its fellow members of the Democratic Party to believe their own bullroar. Their own talking points are echoing from all their trusted news sources. This can put Democrats, especially Democratic Party office holders, into a kind of frenzy not unlike that of a dog chasing its own tail. They come to believe that they | Read More »
Even though the government and its friends in the United Auto Workers now own General Motors, the class warrior in Obama just can’t stop thinking of “Cadillac people” as The Enemy. In a PBS interview last week, President Obama talked of "penalizing insurance companies who are offering super, gold-plated, Cadillac plans." Ditto the Democrats in Congress. Kent Conrad (D-ND) is among those on the Senate | Read More »
Any Republican who peeks in on the pages of a left-wing web site like Daily Kos or Politico is immediately struck by how strongly our friends across the aisle believe that opposition to their ideas stems from racism. To hear a Democrat tell it, all Republicans are racists. Furthermore, virtually the entire Republican Party consists of white males from the Southern states. One wonders how, | Read More »
Salesman, entrepreneur, capitalist There will be no tribute to Billy Mays today at the American Enterprise Institute. He won’t be on the cover of Newsweek with a halo on his head. The Wall Street Journal gave him barely a mention. We need to do better. If we who celebrate free enterprise, capitalism, and The American Dream will not pay attention to his passing, why should | Read More »
Josh Gerstein, a front page contributor at the liberal blog Politico, today trots out the old “some say” trick to spray veterans and conservatives with the acts of notorious racist James von Brunn, who yesterday shot up the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, killing security guard Stephen T. Johns. Gerstein reminds us that Republicans roundly criticized a recent “report” from the Department of Homeland Security | Read More »
The Ministry of Hope invites all members of The Party to celebrate Two Minutes’ Hate against the following enemies of the people: Sunday, March 22: Executives of AIGThe Attorney General of Sector R has uncovered evidence that AIG paid bonuses Monday, March 23: Rush LimbaughAn enemy of The Party and The People, he wants The Party to fail Tuesday, March 24: CEOsThe hereditary class of | Read More »
Shame on you. Every time you use Google, you are helping to destroy our planet. So says Alex Wissner-Gross, a no-good physicist from Harvard who is one of those annoying people who wants to take the fun out of everything. He has researched the carbon footprint of operating the Internet and now threatens to publish his results. According to the Sunday Times, Performing two Google | Read More »
Opinion Research Corporation has just announced a poll which tells us that 77% of Americans blame the media for making the economic crisis worse. No surprise there. It’s been nothing but "We’re All Gonna Die!" for virtually the entire eight years of the Bush presidency. What’s new is the idea that media organizations could potentially be held liable for some of the damage they’ve caused: | Read More »
If you’re a Republican and you haven’t yet cancelled your newspaper, you are missing out on the opportunity of a lifetime. Between the Internet and the gathering clouds of recession, most newspapers today are in serious financial difficulty. A few thousand more angry Republicans canceling the paper might not have had much impact a few years ago. Today you might have the distinction of participating | Read More »
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