Pinch Happened: Republicans should celebrate Abramson’s promotion because if they look closely at it — and at the growing effectiveness of conservative media — they will see two freight trains running toward each other that will collide spectacularly next year
John McCain, who has few fans in grassroots conservatism and even fewer in the MSM, was excoriated in the media over his recent remarks that the Arizona wildfires were started by illegal immigrants. Jon Stewart, of course, mocked McCain on
Jon Huntsman’s presidential announcment was met with resounding approval from those who wish to see four more years of the Obama Administration. Among the rest of America, the reaction ranged from ennui to observations like “It’s good to see the
The key to the ultimate effectiveness of a documentary like “The Undefeated” is more than just how many people see it or even who those people are. Certainly that matters to some degree, but so does how the very existence
When Arnold Schwarzenegger burst onto the political scene a couple of decades ago, he was a Republican pol’s dream: an icon of mostly liberal Hollywood willing to admit he had conservative convictions. But in the ensuing years, Schwarzenegger trampled on
When Arnold Schwarzenegger burst onto the political scene a couple of decades ago, he was a Republican pol’s dream: an icon of mostly liberal Hollywood willing to admit he had conservative convictions. But in the ensuing years, Schwarzenegger trampled on
Democrats are celebrating their victory yesterday in the special election in New York’s 26th congressional district by touting it as a repudiation of House budget committee chair Paul Ryan’s proposal for Medicare reform. Never mind that, as in NY-23 in
Congratulations to President Obama for the gutsy call regarding the killing of Osama bin Laden. I didn’t know he had it in him. His campaign pledge of going into Pakistan unannounced – once met with derision by John McCain and
Smitten by her blonde curls and still blissfully unaware of how cruel the world could be, at the age of eleven I called my first crush on the phone fully confident it would end with the beginning of a lifelong
I’m not a birther, but the left is not helping their cause by hysterically mischaracterizing anyone who disagrees with the President on policy – or even asks why it took him three years to release a birth certificate – as
When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker curtailed collective bargaining privileges for public sector workers (formerly known as public servants), it resulted in all-out political war in Madison. Walker won the showdown, and now the state can get its financial house in
Individual earmarks may have swum upstream for the winter, but there’s still something very fishy going on with Congress in terms of spending. Despite all the discussion about austerity and countless campaign promises to cut spending, the crafters of the
The folks who warned us John McCain would die of cancer in office are back. This time they are targeting the Koch brothers with an 8-part film series designed to warm the hearts of liberal paranoiacs everywhere. Step one seems
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch: Why do I defend Palin in this case? I don’t agree with her political philosophy: She is an arch conservative. I am a liberal with sanity. I know that I am setting myself
America’s public education system is a lot like the Chicago Cubs: both have become so accustomed to failure that it has become an accepted way-of-life. While there might be something loveable and comical about a continuously lousy baseball team, there
To the families of those we’ve lost; to all who called them friends; to the students of this university, the public servants gathered tonight, and the people of Tucson and Arizona: I have come here tonight as an American who,
On March 23, 2010 at 6:41pm, Sarah Palin’s infamous “cross-hairs” map was posted to her facebook page. It instantly sparked controversy. On March 26, 2010, at a rally for Senator John McCain, Palin clarified her intentions with the map and
On March 23, 2010 at 6:41pm, Sarah Palin’s infamous “cross-hairs” map was posted to her facebook page. It instantly sparked controversy. On March 26, 2010, at a rally for Senator John McCain, Palin clarified her intentions with the map and
Kathy Griffin is a disturbed individual who spends less and less of her time doing “comedy” and more and more of her time personally attacking people with whom she disagrees politically. For instance, last year she referred to sitting Senator
In a truly hateful Newsweek interview, “Glee” star Jane Lynch and sex columnist Dan Savage, both a couple of real class acts, lash out at anything within reach different from them: Savage: F–k John McCain–put that in NEWSWEEK. Lynch: Yeah,
And I really like Jane Lynch, too. I’ve yet to see a role in which she wasn’t great. The interview in which she and Dan Savage participate about being gay and bullying and gay bullying is pure comedic awesomeness in
Sen. John McCain snubbed a U.S. military study on gays as flawed and said letting them serve openly would be dangerous in a time of war. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
Like some sort of hack zombie, former Wyoming senator Alan Simpson has stumbled back onto the political stage, basking again in the media limelight and sounding off after putting his name on President Obama’s debt commission’s liberal dream prescription –
From Syracuse.com: Ann Marie Buerkle will be Syracuse’s next representative in Congress, its first woman in the U.S. House. U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei, the Democrat, called Buerkle today to concede, ending three weeks of ballot inspections, recounting and court wrangling.
In the past 15 years, I’ve debated in favor of a national sales tax, testified before Congress on the merits of a national sales tax, gone on TV to advocate for the national sales tax, and spoken with dozens of
Most pundits agree John McCain ran at best a lackluster and at worst a completely feckless 2008 presidential campaign. Yet if the GOP does in fact gain control of one or both chambers of Congress this November, its members should
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Arguing doggedly against returning Republicans to power, President Barack Obama told Iowa voters Wednesday that the GOP has been dishonest about what needs to be done to revive the economy and restore middle-class dreams. “We
If, in a county where President Obama won 69% of the vote less than two years ago, the President cannot fill a Community College Recreational Center with a scheduled event, you might consider that to be newsworthy. Apparently the Mainstream
Writing for Time Magazine, compromised JournoList hack Michael Scherer has one of the most schizophrenic pieces of political analysis I’ve seen for quite a while. In his piece, Scherer can’t quite seem to figure out exactly whom he thinks is
Many members of the radical left in this nation have spent every decade since the 1960s seeking positions of power and influence by which they might remake America in their own image. Such people are normally found in judicial positions,
Raw footage of CBS News anchor Katie Couric recording voice overs for news segments about Gov. Sarah Palin on the day she was named as John McCain’s running mate.
Q. The name of your new book is To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine. Are things really that dire? Yes. America is not merely a genetic or geographic identity. Our country was founded upon a set of principles clearly
One of the nastiest episodes in American journalism occurred in the immediate aftermath of John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate during the 2008 election. It was a potential game-changer and, for a moment, it rocked the
At Thursday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony on the side of a new battery manufacturing plant being built in Holland, Michigan President Obama proved yet again that his smashmouth politics knows no limits. Using $150 million of Obama’s “stimulus” bill money, Compact Power
The patriotic immigration reform movement lost one of its most creative warriors last week. Terry Anderson, the self-described “prisoner of South Central,” an African-American Los Angeles talk show host, succumbed to pancreatic cancer and died on July 7. Anderson was
I have a request for Whoopi Goldberg. I wish that she would go back to using her birth name Caryn Johnson, at least the Johnson part. Because of her adopted last name, some people may think she may be Jewish.
[Ed. Note: Not having seen the upcoming critically-acclaimed documentary “The Tillman Story,” and not being familiar with the story, I asked Jim Hanson of Big Peace if he would lay it out for us. Since making that request both Kurt
In an fascinating development for Sarah Palin fans, readers of People magazine, and people who think it’s best to believe a woman when she claims the infant she’s carrying is her biological child, Levi Johnston has publicly apologized to the
Pat Tillman left one of the most sought after jobs on Earth as a star in the NFL to join the Army and volunteer as a Ranger. It was a noble, patriotic and selfless act that deserves to be his
The General was answering Sen. John McCain’s question during his confirmation hearings.