Surprise! “Obama Town Hall Questioners Were Campaign Backers”: […] while the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National

Jimmie Bise, Blogger of The Sundries Shack, considers what’s behind the amazing popularity of British MEP Daniel Hannan, whose pantsing of (one-eyed, unelected Scottish asswipe) Gordon Brown has become a viral sensation in the US, and reading the tea leaves, sees a solidification in the ranks of American conservatives, if not their elected representatives. Go read the whole thing. Things have gotten so bad for Gordo that even Fausta’s begun

For your amusement and edification: Sometimes the threat of a cockslap is just the threat of a cockslap. Freud said that, I think.

Afraid not. Maybe next week, though — provided I don’t make the mistake of leaving an entire tray of hash brownies on the counter again, where it turns out any little bastard with curled toenails and access to a step stool can can reach it. — On the other hand, the pantry is suddenly filthy with bags of Cheese Doodles and those single-serve packets of peanut butter and pretzel Combos,

Welcome to the New World Order, to be introduced using AGW and “climate change” as it’s Trojan Horse: A United Nations document on “climate change” that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for

Andrew McCarthy, NRO: Saul Alinsky, Obama’s community-organizing inspiration, wrote at length about words in Rules for Radicals, about their power to inspire and to enervate. “In communication as in thought, we must ever strive toward simplicity” when it is our purpose to inspire. Such a purpose calls for “a determination not to detour around reality.” An opposite purpose, Alinsky writes, calls for an opposite approach. Avoid the “force, vigor, and

While the “Freedom Tower” is evidently too Toby Keith for the Cognac set at the NY Port Authority, paying the way of some enemy combatants released inside the US is, remarkably, soon to be the responsibility of every US taxpayer. From the AP: During his news conference, Blair also said the Obama administration is still wrestling with what to do with the remaining 240 detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval

Courtesy of Howard Dean: “[The Republicans] are going to have to figure out how to reach the moderate middle, and you don’t do that by calling people fascists and all this other kind of business.” Certainly Mr Dean has the best interests of conservatism / classical liberalism at heart — after all, why wouldn’t he be looking to help the “evil,” “corrupt,” and “brain-dead” to regain power — but on

Look, guys . . . Colorado’s being socked by a major OUTLAW storm. So, if you’re waiting around for Jeff to post again, you may be waiting for some time. So . . . I don’t want “YOW!!!” to be the last comment of the evening. So . . . you know . . . find something to comment about. UPDATE: Meh. So I was wrong. UPDATE x2: Meh. So,