NewsReal Blog Book Club: David Swindle’s Distractions From Moving


What to do after a long day of moving arrangements and packing?
NRB’s managing editor, David Swindle, described what’s been on his reading agenda the past few weeks:
While flying out to Los Angeles last week to find our apartment I finished Howard Bloom’s first book, The Lucifer Principle. (I’d previously raved about Bloom’s newest book The [...]

Stupak and Lessons Learned: Democrats Lie. Chronically


The second lesson that should be learned is that there is no such thing as a Pro-Life Democrat. Partisanship and agendas over-ride all for them. Thus, it should come as no surprise that Bart Stupak sold out for an Executive Order;  a piece of paper that holds absolutely no merit, particularly when coming from arguably [...]

Democrats Enraged by Pro-Life Threat to ObamaCare


She can’t be allowed to stand in the way of nationalizing America’s healthcare system.

In the battle over ObamaCare, pro-life Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak (MI) has pleasantly surprised many conservatives and infuriated many leftists for his insistence on torpedoing the entire bill if it funds abortion.  The success of his efforts remains to be seen, but [...]

NPR praises former Rep. for “voting her conscience” instead of representing her district


(Robert Siegel, liberal host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” behind the mics with NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.)
We need to come up with a new name for our left-wing members in the U.S. House of Representatives, for they’re clearly not Representatives of their constituents, accept by accident of a shared liberal agenda.
“Representatives” in the [...]

The True Face of J Street


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Is it really “pro-Israel” to call out for talks with Hamas?

The New Left and the New Right


David Brooks has a provocative column today likening today’s Tea Party movement to the New Left that emerged in the 60s counterculture. Brooks is right about some of the outward similarities: the populist rhetoric; the grassroots activism; the disdain for political elites; and, ultimately, the somewhat diffuse policy agenda defined more by what it stands [...]

Save a School–Fire a Teacher? Part 2


If you missed part one, you can catch up here.
When Central Falls, a “persistently low performing” High School in Rhode Island fired 74 teachers along with other union members, the teachers’ union called the action:
“Immoral, illegal, unjust, irresponsible disgraceful, and disrespectful.”
No, what is immoral, illegal, unjust, irresponsible and disgraceful is to promote a radical agenda [...]

Killing ManBearPig the Alinsky Way


Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) has been a man on a mission since 2003, when he embarked on his crusade to destroy the myth of ManBearPig and the Democrats’ associated agenda to redistribute wealth as a tribute to Gaïa. ManBearPig may have gone out with quite a bang, but Cap-’n-Tax went very quietly into the [...]

Manmade Global Warming: How a Lie Died


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Why does the spending of billions of dollars to fight a fraud continue?

The Lies of Duke


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Arrest of Duke rape accuser Crystal Mangum exposes the Left’s race-baiting immorality play.