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Meghan McCain is the epitome of a useful idiot. She’s the left’s favorite republican. They’re the only ones who take her seriously, and by seriously, they interview her. They allow her to put her idiocy on display for all the world to see. Here she is in an interview with Rachel Maddow. Warning: It’s so annoying I had to turn it off about half way through. She treated us to her insights into Sarah Palin, cuz, ya know, Meghan’s just so insightful. She went on to argue that the Republican Party needs to be more moderate (translation: more progressive) cuz,...

Red State reports that Google might be giving bogus results about maps and directions to Glenn Beck’s rally. "A reader emails that if you search Google today, on the eve of Glenn Beck’s rally, a search for Lincoln Memorial turns up, instead, the wrong address. And not just any wrong address either; it takes you to the FDR Memorial. Curious." I have to say, and this may not be popular, but I question Glenn Beck and his motives. Don’t yell at me. I don’t disagree with his message or the research he’s done. I just don’t like this whole cult...

A reader directed me to Big Oil: Corporate Welfare Queen Number One. Blue Gal on the liberal blog Crooks and Liars linked to Jim Hightower’s piece Big Oil’s Gusher of Subsidies. It appears what these two liberal bloggers are talking about are tax deductions and provisions available to all companies, not just oil companies. (No mention that Obama would like to give foreign oil companies tax breaks and subsidies while penalizing domestic producers.) So, who is the big corporate welfare queen? Is it really big oil, or is it big green energy? Look at this chart. [...] See the slice...

President Obama has his work cut out for him. Who can he blame for his wretched policies? The Democrats are the face of the federal government these days. They’ve run roughshod over the Constitution to implement their overwhelmingly unpopular policies. What to do? What to do? Go after anyone with an “R” after their name, that’s what Obama’s trying to do. [....] I’m not sorry to say that it probably won’t work. Sure, it may rile up the kookiest kooks in his base, but the majority of the American people despise his policies. He promised change, and change he delivered....

At a recent fundraising event, not only did President Obama state that prosperous Americans don’t “need” to keep so much of the money they earn, he also attacked the group Americans for Prosperity. It wasn’t just an off the cuff remark, either. He devoted several paragraphs of his speech to disparaging the group, trying to make them sound like the arm of shady foreign corporations out to destroy the American dream. He even threw in another dig at the Supreme Court. "Right now all around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running...

Now that I know I’m just a bigot for raising questions about homosexuality (among other things), I may as well just come out with it. Why is it that women who dig women prefer women who look like men, or some strange version of men? If they really like women, why don’t they look like women? Why is it that many homosexual men act like outrageous stereotypical versions of women in order to attract other men? Wouldn’t it make more sense if lesbians were all feminine and homosexual males were more masculine? Just asking. Really, I don’t understand it all...

What it is ain’t exactly clear…. That’s the impression I get when I talk to people of the 20 something generation. They know something’s not right. They know they are getting screwed, they just aren’t sure how or why. Blame the media for that. Blame our education system for that. Heck, we can even blame ourselves for that. But it’s all changing now. ....

Doesn’t Obama remind you of those depressing people – you know the ones – you see them approaching at a party and try to look like you’re deep in conversation with someone else to avoid talking to them. Or when their names show up on caller ID, you let it go to voice mail because you’d rather put a needle in your eye than listen to them. Talking to them is just so depressing. Mostly because they do all the talking, you’ve heard it all before, and when the conversation’s over you feel like you need to take a Xanax...

Do you remember hearing the disgraced John Edwards talking about the “two Americas?” Class warfare at it’s finest. According to Edwards and his ilk there are only two Americas – the haves and the have-nots. The progressives and their friends in the media like to propagate this myth. The myth being that in America there are those who are evil because they earn a lot of money (themselves excluded, of course) while taking food out of the mouths of poor children. Unfortunately, too many Americans have bought into this line of thinking. In fact, there are three Americas. The Ruling...

Can you imagine someone working in the private sector going to work one day and going off on a deadly rampage, murdering a number of his coworkers and then continuing to receive paychecks from that employer? That’s exactly what is happening in the case of Major Nidal Hasan. Hasan gunned down his fellow soldiers and he’s still receiving a paycheck from the United States. Good grief! At least the banks are doing the right thing. ....

Witness community organizers at work. We’ve heard about how these groups have shaken down banks for decades in order to get the banks to issue risky loans. Here they are, caught on video, storming a bank at the exact moment President Obama signed his disastrous Wall Street bill. ....

The Dodd/Frank Wall Street bill (oh, the irony) just passed the Senate and is headed to President Obama’s desk. Obama will be signing into law what Bob Belvedere calls the Fascist Take Over of the Free Market bill. To recap, it does nothing to address the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac problem that was at the center of the financial crisis. Nor does it do anything about “too big to fail” which, if I recall correctly, was the original intent of financial reform. What the Fascist Take Over of the Free Market bill does do is reward more of the...

This is completely insane. Europe is backing away from big government, socialist policies while the US just keeps spending and digging us deeper into a hole. European countries aren’t looking for free market solutions to their problems because their governments did a fine job at centralized control of health care and the economy. They’re looking for free market solutions because their policies have failed. They’ve run out of other people’s money! Take the United Kingdom. Obama just appointed, without any Senate hearings, a man who praised the British health care system as a model for the rest of us to...

Obama’s new campaign slogan: Yes we did! Seriously: President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan.“Yes, we did.” He didn’t say “Yes, we did take a wrecking ball to the economy and your liberty.” Oh no. He would never admit that. But he did go on to make fun of Republicans. ....

There’s an interesting post up at The Weekly Standard about President Obama’s odd (to say the least) behavior. The theory is that he’s trying to rev up his base so the Democrats avoid electoral disaster in November. [...] I don’t know. That could be part of it. But I think there’s more to it. He’s probably well aware that his party could lose the majority in Congress, so he’s in a hurry to fundamentally transform America while the window’s still open. He’s not your run of the mill politician who’s interested only in re-election. He’s a man on a mission,...

This story really tells us something about our culture today. Fox Nation: A New England school district has approved a measure that will provide free condoms to elementary school students and direct teachers not to comply with parental wishes to the contrary. .... But they can't pray in schools?

ABC's This Week. Donna Brazile said that the dividends British Petroleum pays to shareholders should be put in escrow until all of the oil spill claims are paid. Uber-statist Robert Reich chimed in that the United States government should take it further, and take over British Petroleum through temporary receivership. Disregarding the fact that the British might see that as a hostile act, someone needs to explain to these people that if the incompetent federal government takes over there won't be anything left to pay the claims. George Will did his best, but really, there's no talking to these statists.

This needs to go viral. Cry Freedom-Becca Brinkmann “I am one voice standing up for freedom” We will hold these truths deeper than you and me Today is the day to cry for America No Time for Sleepin’"

Here’s a little bit of good news. Well, I suppose it’s bad news that the PC crowd got as far as they did with this bill. But at least it was defeated, even if by only one vote. "NYCF: On June 8, 2010, by the narrowest of margins (12-11), the New York State Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reject a bill known as the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA or the “Bathroom Bill”)." .... The worst part of this story – I saw it mentioned on a message board and had to google the law to find out about it....

The liberals demanded that Dear Leader show some emotion over the Gulf oil gush. Rather than show real emotion, he instead chose language that I wouldn’t use in front of my children. How Chicago of him. Matt Lauer was reportedly thrilled, according to NewsBusters. "Williams announced Monday night: “Before we get to our correspondents, some late news tonight. Late today, Matt Lauer sat down with President Obama in Michigan for an interview to air tomorrow morning on Today. This is just into us. In this bit you are about to see the President showed some anger on the topic of...