Written By : William Teach Who couldn’t love an animal like this? Isn’t he cute? Don’t you just want to hug him and kiss him and take him home where you can make Seal Flipper Pie or Seal Meat Hash? Well, sucks to be you, because baby harp seals are apparently being killed off by [...]
Written By : John Hawkins Thoreau was brilliant and Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions) is a classic book; so I was glad to finally get around to reading it. After reading the book, my conclusion is that Walden was quite uneven. In some places, you marvel at the wonder of Thoreau [...]
Written By : William Teach Personally, like Rush Limbaugh and Neal Boortz, I tend to avoid the abortion debate, mostly because it is not one of my core political interests. That said, watching Liberals go apoplectic, bat guano crazy, and spin like a neutron star is one of more core blogging interests, and this story [...]
Written By : William Teach And the results from Florida are (Fox News) Romney received 46 percent of the Florida vote. Gingrich had 32 percent, followed by Rick Santorum with 13 percent and Ron Paul with 7 percent. Romney won all 50 of Florida’s convention delegates. The Politico’s Maggie Haberman, who has done a pretty [...]
Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement threw condoms on Catholic schoolgirls, refused to allow a Catholic priest to give a closing prayer, and shouted down a pro-life speaker at a Rhode Island right to life rally on Thursday, according to its organizer. The event marked the third time protesters associated with the movement have [...]
Written By : William Teach What’s it looking like? (PPP) PPP’s tracking of the Florida Republican primary wraps up with Mitt Romney at 39%, Newt Gingrich at 31%, Rick Santorum at 15%, and Ron Paul at 11%. Our three days of tracking found very little movement in the race: Romney was at 39-40% every day, [...]
Written By : William Teach I’ll give Harry Reid some credit for bringing the legislation to the Senate floor and getting it passed, at least till we get an in-depth look at the legislation and see if it actually does what it says, but (The Hill) The White House and Democrats have seized on legislation [...]
Written By : William Teach Sustainability was one of the ideas the United Nations and the extreme environmentals and Warmists ran up the flag pole about a year and a half ago as a way of replacing what they had been attempting to do with “climate change,” namely, put massive amounts of control over people [...]
Written By : John Hawkins Right Wing News polled more than 250 right-of-center bloggers on which candidate they’d support if the 2012 Republican primaries were today. The following 68 bloggers responded: 101 Dead Armadillos, Advice Goddess, Alarming News, Alexa Shrugged, All American Blogger, All That Is Necessary, American Glob, And Rightly So, Argghhhh!, Atlas Shrugs, [...]
Written By : John Hawkins Right Wing News polled more than 250 right-of-center bloggers on which candidate they’d support if the 2012 Republican primaries were today. The following 68 bloggers responded: 101 Dead Armadillos, Advice Goddess, Alarming News, Alexa Shrugged, All American Blogger, All That Is Necessary, American Glob, And Rightly So, Argghhhh!, Atlas Shrugs, [...]
Written By : William Teach I’m sure somewhere this is because of raaaaacism (Washington Post) President Obama ran — and won — in 2008 on the idea of uniting the country. But, each of his first three years in office have marked historic highs in political polarization, with Democrats largely approving of him and Republicans [...]
Written By : William Teach I’m sure somewhere this is because of raaaaacism (Washington Post) President Obama ran — and won — in 2008 on the idea of uniting the country. But, each of his first three years in office have marked historic highs in political polarization, with Democrats largely approving of him and Republicans [...]
Written By : Craig Newmark “Six Quick-Start Careers: See how you could get into a hot career with just 1-2 years of education.” “What’s the Hottest Career Field? Health Care.” -1
Some people love cats, other people love music, and I love quotes. I mean, I REALLY love quotes. I’ve compiled more than 100 different collections of quotes, at one time I ran an all quotes website, and I have 5 different brand new Twitter accounts that do nothing but pump out quotes each day — [...]
Written By : William Teach You have to wonder if the Democrat big wigs are starting to get a bit nervous about the Occupiers, wondering if they will continue to be “mostly peaceful” up to the election, and particularly during the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. In many liberal cities, they have passed laws against [...]
Written By : Craig Newmark If you lived through the 70s, this is pretty cool. -1
Written By : William Teach The Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel and Alexander Burns are surely going to earn an expletive laden call from the White House for publishing this story (Politico) Democrats have seized on Republicans as the party of unlimited secret money. The only problem: so are Democrats. In recent days, Obama released an [...]
(NPR) For the first time, the Justice Department has made public a series of sensitive messages that passed to the highest levels of the agency within hours of an ambush that killed a U.S. border patrol agent along the Southwest border in December 2010, igniting a national scandal over a gun trafficking investigation gone wrong. [...]
Yonathan Melaku was sneaking through Fort Myer and Arlington National Cemetery, his backpack filled with plastic bags of ammonium nitrate, a notebook containing jihadist messages, and a can of black spray paint. The 23-year-old former Marine was heading to the graves of the nation’s most recent heroes, aiming to desecrate the stones with Arabic statements [...]
Written By : William Teach Quite obviously, there has to be a bit of narcissism in any person who wants to run for the presidency. Yet, with Barack Obama, everything seems to be all about himself. Does anyone get the feeling that Obama wants to be president to help anyone, to be a good steward [...]
Written By : William Teach Why? Because “There’s no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to ‘decarbonize’ the world’s economy.” After a few paragraphs describing how not every scientist is a Warmist, and the numbers who are opting out of previous held beliefs that Mankind is mostly or solely at fault, we get to (h/t [...]
Written By : John Hawkins Obama’s speech last night was a tedious laundry list of trivial programs mixed in with class warfare. It was a dull uninspiring speech from a failed President, made even more agonizing by the fact that at one time, people were comparing Obama’s human Hallmark card speeches from in 2008 to [...]
Written By : William Teach OK, I’ll admit, I only watched about 5 minutes of Obama’s SOTU speech. I’d been watching the NJ Devils lose in OT, and inadvertently hit the recall button on the remote, which took me to Fox News. A few minutes in, I decided that I really didn’t want to attend [...]
Written By : William Teach Here again we come to one of my original and main problems with how the Warmists push their cult: they take a real world problem and link it to a fake problem, which causes people to do a full eye and head roll. Case in point (Green Answers) Cambodia, an [...]
Written By : William Teach So says The Politico The surging Newt Gingrich has mastered debates — and disguise. The debate part is clear: The former Speaker of the House comes to play and owns the stage with an uncanny capacity to connect with the grievances of conservative voters. The disguise part is clear, too. [...]
Written By : William Teach I told you the other day about a new liberal fatwa against meteorologists because they aren’t following the doctrines of the Cult Of Gore. To recap (WCTV) A new campaign, Forecast the Facts (www.forecastthefacts.org), launches Sunday to pressure TV meteorologists to inform their viewers about climate change. The launch coincides [...]
Written By : Craig Newmark On average the stocks of companies that buy stadium naming rights don’t do well subsequently. (Well, at least from 1990 to 2001. Somebody needs to update this.) 0
Written By : Craig Newmark A brief introduction to the amazing Benford’s Law. 0
Written By : William Teach That is, if you a tourist coming from another country. If you want to create jobs through something like, say, the Keystone XL pipeline, well, sucks to be you. If you are part of the oil industry, Obama’s EPA will try and stop you. If you are a small business, [...]
Written By : William Teach In a bit of serendipity, the day after the big Internet protest against SOPA and PIPA the FBI acts on the powers already granted under the law to shut down a massive file sharing site (NY Times) In what the federal authorities on Thursday called one of the largest criminal [...]
Fred Thompson’s campaign is trying to take the much-touted health insurance program that Mitt Romney helped create as governor of Massachusetts and turn it into a liability with conservative Republican voters who dominate the party’s primary elections. The Thompson campaign, which has been playing up the former U.S. senator’s antiabortion stances, sent out this e-mail [...]
Written By : Kathleen McKinley If you haven’t heard, Newt Gingrich’s ex wife was interviewed last night where she said Newt had wanted an open marriage with her. We all knew Newt almost had as much of a sordid past as Bill Clinton, so this isn’t a big surprise. His past, both personal and professional [...]
Written By : William Teach Mostly, the Times writer, Craig Leisher, learns the pitfalls For our year living in the woods of Maine, I wanted a place where I could see and hear wildlife. Someplace both quiet and remote. In our part of Maine, quiet and remote means off the electrical grid. Our summer rental [...]
Written By : Kathleen McKinley I think this is important to address because this is a lie that the Democrats are more than happy to spread. Usually I ignore Sheila Jackson Lee because she sees all things through the lens of race. A sad way to go through life, I think. But here she is [...]
Written By : William Teach Via Mediate CNN political analyst Paul Steinhauser is reporting that Texas Governor Rick Perry is telling supporters that he will drop his bid for the GOP nomination Thursday afternoon, ahead of the South Carolina debate later Thursday night. Steinhauser said that CNN political reporter Peter Hamby has two sources that [...]
Written By : John Hawkins Newsweek has gotten a great deal of attention, most of it bad, for this insipid cover. This prompted Sarah Palin to give Newsweek the smackdown it deserves. When you’re claiming to be a serious news magazine and yet, you’re running obnoxious stories by a writer who has become a laughingstock [...]
Written By : William Teach Obviously, you can tell I’m not a big Sarah Palin fan anymore, but, putting that aside, I’m not so sure this sorta endorsement will help Gingrich. It may be the equivalent of John McCain endorsing Mitt Romney to Conservatives (CBS News) It wasn’t an endorsement, but Sarah Palin gave Newt [...]
Written By : William Teach Google “oil job creation” and you will find tons of stories how some states, such as North Dakota, are seeing such an influx of new employees that the housing market cannot keep up. That these new employees have money to spend. Oh, and that there are tons of new employees. [...]
Written By : William Teach We learn this in a The Hill article which suggests that liberals and leftists will not particularly like the Presidents proposed budget. Fortunately, the Democrat led Senate will never bother to pass it. Anyhow Top White House officials are warning liberal and labor leaders to brace themselves for President Obama’s [...]
Written By : John Hawkins A few Marines urinated on dead Taliban. It shouldn’t really be that big of a deal. 0
Written By : William Teach So says the Washington Posts Michael Gerson, who starts out calling Katharine Hayhoe, who had written the chapter in Newt Gingrich’s forthcoming book that ended up being whacked, a “moderate voice.” She’s anything but. A theory about the role of carbon dioxide in climate patterns has joined abortion and gay [...]
Written By : William Teach Of course, since so many liberals and liberal companies have already received waivers, it wouldn’t mean all that much to themselves (Politico) Think the Supreme Court is where the future of President Barack Obama’s health care law will be settled? Think again. The real verdict on the future of Obama’s [...]
Written By : William Teach Well, this is a surprise, he ran such a great campaign, what with him following the tried and true primary season plan where the candidate panders to independents and moderates….what’s that? They are supposed to pander to the base? Well, darn. Well, at least he went and attacked President Obama….huh? [...]
They’re occupying his home. Occupy Wall Street protesters announced with great fanfare last month that they moved a homeless family into a “foreclosed” Brooklyn home — even though they knew the house belonged to a struggling single father desperately trying to renegotiate his mortgage, The Post has learned. “They’re trying to take a house and [...]
Written By : Craig Newmark Another anecdote in support of the importance of non-monetary incentives. -1
Written By : TrogloPundit Expect updates, depending on the outcome of today’s game. Link: Trog. Link: Scotty Starnes. Link: Legal Insurrection. Link: John Hawkins. And: Go Pack! Previously: This Week in Automotivators, December 26-January 1 This Week in Automotivators, January 2-8 Make your own automotivators. 0
Written By : William Teach Saturday, the White House responded to two petitions asking that SOPA and PIPA be killed as legislation Right now, Congress is debating a few pieces of legislation concerning the very real issue of online piracy, including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the PROTECT IP Act, and the Online Protection [...]
(CBS News) Solar panel maker Solyndra received a $528 million Energy Department loan in 2009 – and went bankrupt last year. The government’s risky investment strategy didn’t stop there, as a CBS News investigation has uncovered a pattern of cases of the government pouring your tax dollars into clean energy. Take Beacon Power — a [...]