Oh look, a handy-dandy chart compiled by that bastion of right-wing-nut-jobs, NPR House Republicans investigating IRS targeting of groups for extra scrutiny say they have proof conservatives had it worse. A House Ways and Means Committee staff analysis of the applications of 111 conservative and progressive groups applying for tax exempt status found conservative applicants faced “more questions, more denials, more delays,” says committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich. That is,
August 4, 2013
“Obama isn’t actually out of bold ideas. They’re simply too controversial for him to discuss.” [Darleen Click]
Stanley Kurtz on Obama’s War on Suburbs The truth is, HUD’s new rule is about a great deal more than forcing racial and ethnic diversity on the suburbs. (Regionalism, by the way, is actually highly controversial among minority groups. There are many ways in which both middle-class minorities in suburbs, and less well-off minorities in cities, can be hurt by regionalist policies–another reason those plans are seldom discussed.) The new
August 4, 2013
Bloomberg’s Greg Giroux: Any disagreement with Obama is teh RAAAAACIST [Darleen Click]
Most mind-boggling, blatantly evil premise to judge people by their race, not their character or behavior, this year. And considering the unconscionable race-baiting and pro-lynch mob demagoguery surrounding the Zimmerman case, that’s a pretty high bar. The core group of Republicans who are pushing the House toward a showdown with the White House over the debt ceiling and government spending is made up of 41 members — all white men
August 3, 2013
#Benghazi — phony names to accompany ‘phony scandal’ [Darleen Click]
Most transparent administration EVAH! Rep. Trey Gowdy claimed in an interview on Fox News that the Obama administration is creating “aliases” for survivors of the Benghazi terror attack and “dispersing them” throughout the country. The allegation followed new reports about the lengths to which the administration is going to keep witnesses to the attack quiet. Fox News has learned that at least five CIA employees were forced to sign additional
August 3, 2013
When going vegetarian looks pretty darn awesome … [Darleen Click]
Yikes As the population grows, so, too, will its hunger for meat. By 2050, meat production will need to surge by 50% to quell demand. The only problem is, producing so much (red) meat is already an environmental nightmare. And we simply might not have the resources to scale. Meanwhile, Katharina Unger is planning to invite her friends over to an insect barbecue. (Really.) The University of Applied Arts Vienna
August 2, 2013
“Workman reveals gun control playbook”
A propaganda campaign organized by hucksters to take away the kind of natural right that would-be tyrants most fear, one that has always led to an increase in violent crimes, particularly in those urban areas where restrictions on rights are maximized, minorities are most adversely affected, and the law abiding majority is left as easy prey for the unscrupulous, opportunistic, and just place vicious and evil? Why, that could never
August 2, 2013
“Sessions Urges Colleagues To Not Be Swayed By Immigration Lobbying”
On deaf ears it falls. Not ours. Or even the majority of Americans, who stand opposed to amnesty. But rather on the ears of our betters. Who evidently rely on the self-styled GOP intellectual class and its complex political strategems and 3-D chess games for adopting policy positions. That then lose them election after election after election in what is a predominantly conservative country. But what the hell. It won’t
August 2, 2013
Fewer people looking for jobs leads to promising jobs numbers
You know, if you think this through, once we scuttle this experiment in capitalist free market republicanism and communism at long last arrives, leaving us all equal in every way, there will be no unemployment, as the state will take care of all of our needs. So. Since that’s the way we’re trending anyway, isn’t it time we got with an egalitarian and people-first political program that, everywhere else it’s
August 2, 2013
Moran to Visigoths: “Your Visigothery is so, like, insane and stuff!”
I don’t have much time, and frankly even less inclination, to deal with Moran’s latest attack on conservatives. But the fact is, he’s editor at American Thinker and is given column inches at Pajamas Media, meaning he’s a symptom of all that’s gone wrong with both the blogosphere and the Republican Party and its relatively few now centralized messaging centers since the birth of political blogging. Good. Got that off