Via CNSNews At a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign to end childhood obesity in the United States, an epidemic she said is costly and a threat to national security. “A recent study put the health care cost of obesity-related diseases at $147 billion a year,” Mrs. Obama said. “This epidemic also | Read More »
From CBS News: Unannounced, President Obama took to the lectern in the White House briefing room today to give a personal readout of his meeting earlier with congressional leaders of both parties. “Despite the political posturing that often paralyzes this town, there are many issues upon which we can and should agree, he said. It was more a plaintive plea than a political observation. His | Read More »
Angela McGlowan, a FoxNews political analyst and candidate for Congress in MS-01 gave a well received speech at the recent National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. In an August appearance on The Gallo Show she evinced some fairly exotic opinions on gun ownership. Such as: “I think the government has the right to know what guns are in the homes ….” The whole segment is | Read More »
Yesterday Haystack took issue with deputy national security advisor John Brennan and his rather silly assertion that criticism of Obama’s policy of allowing the United States to be used as a piñata by terrorists forwards the goals of al Qaeda. While Haystack rightfully points out the utter hypocrisy of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and other democrats in their relentless hammering of the Bush Administration all the | Read More »
People are policy and while much attention has been focused on the profusion of buffoons and poltroons Obama has installed at the cabinet and sub-cabinet level positions in his administration, the real work of radically changing the character of our government has been entrusted to anonymous apparatchiks. Some of these have bubbled to the top and have resignd: green czar and self identified communist Van | Read More »
In his Meditation XVII, known to most of us as No Man Is An Island, John Donne opined that any man’s death diminishes us all. As Mr. Donne preceded Jack Murtha by nearly four centuries he can be forgiven the broadness of this statement. Jack Murtha was a profoundly destructive force in American politics. His legislative efforts were limited to lining the pockets of himself, | Read More »
Why is this family smiling? They just received political asylum. From Germany. No, it isn’t 1933.
Back in 2005 the pro-life movement took a hit when judge after judge decided that an incapacitated woman could be killed by dehydration. At the time, we on the pro-life side were lambasted as some kind of mindless Neoliths who were incapable of understanding even the simplest biological concepts while those in favor of this abomination patted themselves on their all too often white- and | Read More »
If you haven’t met Californian Senate candidate Carly Fiorina’s “demon sheep” attack (the hilarity can be followed on Twitter @demonsheep) on rival Tom Campbell, take a few minutes to view the film and then take this simple quiz.
The library of the University of Virginia is in the process of transcribing diaries of civil war soldiers in blog format. Drop by and check it out. On a related note, the Library of Virginia is also a great institution and runs two listservs: VA-ROOTS for genealogists and VA-HIST for academics and others with an interest in the history of the most important state in | Read More »
(h/t Gabriel at Ace of Spades) For the life of me I really don’t understand what in Heaven’s name is going on here. When I first encountered it at Ace of Spades I thought they were pulling my chain. But the AP cut line makes clear what is going on: U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base | Read More »
Today’s Washington Post carries an op-ed by Marc Thiessen, author of Courting Disaster, concerning Nancy Pelosi‘s ever morphing story over what she knew about waterboarding. Before we go farther, in order to keep Media Matters or some other lefty from having an aneurysm let me stop and advise everyone that Courting Disaster is published by Regnery Publishing, a division of Eagle Publishing which is the | Read More »
While we were all caught up in the furor of Obama’s tragicomic State of the Union address, or STFU address as some have called it, Howard Zinn, fabulist, historical vandal, and America basher used the opportunity to die unnoticed. For those who don’t know of him, Zinn has probably done more damage to the ancient academic discipline of history than any other person or group | Read More »
The background University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow won U.S. college football’s highest honour 10 Dec 07. If his mother had followed her doctor’s advice when she was carrying him, he would be just another abortion statistic. Tim’s parents, Bob and Pam Tebow, moved to the Philippines in 1985 to conduct a Christian missionary outreach. While pregnant with Tim, Pam contracted amoebic dysentery through contaminated | Read More »
Today the Senate will take up legislation which will notionally create a bipartisan commission empowered to develop a solution to the ballooning deficit that is a direct result of fiscal malfeasance by the Obama Administration. The Senate, Republicans and Democrats alike, should vote against this truly bad idea for a number of reasons. Two, however, stand out as primary. First, we are a representative democracy | Read More »
Last evening PBS’s Jim Lehrer interviewed Barack Obama in the hard hitting, and presumably award winning, style that has characterized the press’s relationship with the Administration. What we learned from this interview is two things. First, Obama thinks he is very, very good and it not reticent about sharing that view with anyone who cares to listen. Second, he is obsessed with having his way | Read More »
I don’t know what it is about center-right politics that makes people ignore defeating the left in favor of being punctiliously correct and “fair minded,” even when that behavior has the effect of helping the other side out. When given the choice between giving the left a vigorous knee to the groin or pushing someone on their own side down a flight of stairs, our | Read More »
Today Dr. Michael E. Mann, professor of meteorology at Penn State and apparent fraud, takes to the op ed pages of the Washington Post to attempt to defend what might be the most significant scientific fraud since the Piltdown Man from its critics. He does so by attacking the leakers, not answering the allegations, and attacking… wait for it… Sarah Palin. Full disclosure up front, | Read More »
The murder of thirteen US soldiers and the wounding of thirty others at Fort Hood, Texas, yesterday is an unprecedented even in the history of the US military. It marks the first time in the history of the republic that a commissioned officer in the Armed Forces has turned his weapon on American troops. Probably the closest thing the US Army has experienced prior to | Read More »
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