Florida is Working
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 7th at 01:09 AM |
Conservatives are disappointed of late with Governor Rick Scott’s decision about Medicaid, but we should not let it overshadow the fact that he is otherwise doing an excellent job as Governor. On Tuesday, Gov. Scott gave his state of the state address to the Florida legislature pointing out his agenda has been pro-family, pro-life, and pro-business. During Charlie Crist’s Governorship, Florida lost 825,500 jobs, but | Read More »
Guy Who Called Romney a Douche on TV Thinks Obama is a Racist
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 6th at 08:16 PM |
Roger Ailes says Barack Obama is lazy. The media has blown it into a big story with the facts not on the media’s side. Van Jones, who on live national television called Mitt Romney a douche, was outrageously outraged by Roger Ailes’s assertion on CNN and even hinted that it might be racist for Ailes to say so. The media is yet again willfully choosing | Read More »
BREAKING: Colorado Anti-Second Amendment Legislator’s Criminal Record Exposed
By: Kyle Forti (Diary) | March 6th at 08:00 PM |
According to a Colorado Bureau of Investigations report obtained by Media Trackers, State Representative Rhonda Fields (D-Aurora) was arrested in 1976 on a charge of larceny and again in 1991 on a charge of shoplifting.
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A very contrarian view of Aaron Swartz that will do me no favors.
By: Moe Lane (Diary) | March 6th at 06:00 PM |
Sorry for that. But I read this New Yorker piece about Aaron Swartz (short version: was being prosecuted by the government for illegally downloading JSTOR archives; recently committed suicide), and this is the narrative that I take from it: Once upon a time there was a very bright, but easily bored boy who spent his entire life not having to do anything that he didn’t | Read More »
Mike Lee Will Join Ted Cruz Opposing the Continuing Resolution
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 6th at 01:48 PM |
Ted Cruz will not stand alone. He’ll be joined by the Senator from Utah. Here’s a statement from Senator Lee’s office: “I will join Senator Cruz in objecting to Senate consideration of any Continuing Resolution without a vote on delaying funding of Obamacare. Defunding Obamacare is essential to restoring economic growth. At this time of fiscal turmoil, Congress shouldn’t borrow more money to pay for | Read More »
Restore Growth First – Defund Obamacare
By: Senator Ted Cruz (Diary) | March 6th at 01:14 PM |
For the last four years, our economy has grown at just 0.8% per year. As a result of this anemic growth, 23 million Americans are struggling to find work, and millions more are being denied a fair opportunity to achieve the American dream. Economic growth these past four years has been a small fraction of historic levels: since World War II, our economy has averaged | Read More »
Fight Club
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 6th at 12:40 PM |
Sixteen Republicans voted against the rule on the continuing resolution. Sixteen. I actually thought we would get about eight. Sixteen is a good number. Several of them have other ambitions. Two who surprised me were Phil Gingrey and Jack Kingston of Georgia, who I suspect did not want to get beaten up on the radio tonight on the nation’s most listened to talk station, which | Read More »
Liberals in Denial About Obamacare’s Impact on the Deficit
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 6th at 12:25 PM |
Liberals are in absolute denial about what Obamacare will do to the deficit. More troubling, many of the liberals who attack conservatives for ignoring facts are having to ignore facts to get there. The General Accounting Office has released a report showing just how devastating Obamacare will be to the deficit. Instead of looking at the fact, liberals, like Jonathan Chait, have closed their eyes, | Read More »
Hugo Chavez Esta Muerta
By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) | March 6th at 12:00 PM |
Time Magazine amazes me this morning. It prints one of the most intelligent and thoughtful descriptions of who and what Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez was during his brief, frightening and frenetic life.
Chávez called himself a “21st century socialist.” In reality he was a throwback to the dogmatic and authoritarian 20th century socialism of Castro, Cuba’s former dictator, and to the 19th century caudillo tradition of Chávez’s demigod, South American independence hero Simón Bolívar. Chávez hoped that being democratically elected would obscure the fact that he didn’t govern all that democratically. It didn’t. So it’s tempting to dismiss him as an anachronism, a vulgar populist famous for gratuitous yanqui bashing — for calling then U.S. President George W. Bush a malodorous “devil” at the U.N. in 2006 — an erratic and messianic retro-revolutionary whose country’s vast petrowealth let him indulge his Marxist nostalgia.
For many, Hugo Chavez was a living, breathing throwback to the Cold War Era. A fitting reminder of how dead, backwards and bereft of original thought the so-called Progressives truly are. This was their icon, their Homo Universale. Ecce Homo! That man was Hugo Chavez.
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Today, House Conservatives Will Prove They Are the Problem
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | March 6th at 04:30 AM |
Yesterday, the White House announced it would stop White House tours in response to sequestration. Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas responded by offering an amendment to the pending continuing resolution that would prohibit federal dollars spent to cover the costs of President Obama’s golf games. Speaker John Boehner and the Republican Leaders ruled that Congressman Gohmert’s amendment was not relevant to the continuing resolution and | Read More »
Obama’s Machiavellian Sequestration Pain Game: Putting Politics Over Public Safety
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | March 5th at 10:30 PM |
“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.” Niccolò Machiavelli
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Just Say No to Funding Obamacare
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | March 5th at 06:53 PM |
On Wednesday morning, the House will vote on the Continuing Resolution (H.R. 933) to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year. This is the last opportunity to defund Obamacare before the health exchanges are implemented on October 1. Conservative lawmakers, Jim Bridenstine (OK) and Tim Huelskamp (KS), submitted an amendment to the Rules Committee today to defund Obamacare. The amendment was rejected. | Read More »
Planned Parenthood Clinic Faces Lawsuit Claiming Negligence, Battery
By: Precious Watson (Diary) | March 5th at 05:00 PM |
A doctor at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains allegedly performed an abortion with no anesthesia against the will of Colorado Springs resident Ayanna Byer, according to charges in a lawsuit Byer filed on February 6. Byer’s suit brings claims of negligence, battery, uninformed consent, false imprisonment, extreme and outrageous conduct (emotional distress), and breach of fiduciary duty against the Planned Parenthood facility and a doctor identified | Read More »
Medicare Trustee Cautions States on Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | March 5th at 02:00 PM |
Medicare Board of Trustees member Charles Blahous released a Mercatus Center report on March 5 recommending states take advantage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2012 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ruling by mostly rejecting the law’s Medicaid expansion. Blahous concluded that states “all appear to face one common, powerful incentive arising from the court’s ruling: to decline to cover childless adults at | Read More »
Progressive Group New Era Colorado Uses Sex To Sell Voting To Youth
By: Kyle Forti (Diary) | March 5th at 12:00 PM |
New Era Colorado, a progressive youth-oriented political activist group known for its crude marketing tactics last election cycle, is now using sex to market to potential college-aged voters.
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