Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart recognized my brilliance. It’s been a long time in coming. He was interviewing Captain Richard Phillips, author of The Captain’s Duty, who is the man that was kidnapped by Somali pirates that only recognized that their business wasn’t working so well for them when they had bullets [...]
Most Awesome Billboard: Obama Worse Than Carter
March 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image Courtesy of Storyballoon.org
Poor Jimmy Carter, bless his bitter, old, anti-semitic heart. President Barack Obama has totally stolen his thunder. First, Obama had to horn in on Carter’s “I received a completely unwarranted Nobel Peace Prize” mantle. Now, this! What does Carter have left now? A few rancid cases of Billy Beer?
From Story Balloon:
It [...]
Facing New Voter Fraud Charges, ACORN Rebranding Continues
March 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Glenn Beck hasn’t been paying much attention to ACORN lately — and that’s too bad.
He’s done the nation a great service by helping to publicize ACORN’s crimes against the American people and for that we should be thankful.
But there are so many other corrupt practices ACORN is guilty of. We have only just scratched the [...]
How the Campuses Helped Ruin California’s Economy
March 12, 2010 By 29 Comments
Brain-dead demonstrations.
Don’t Underestimate the Power of Sanctions on Iran
February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Jonathan Schanzer and Mark Dubowitz of The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies argue in the New York Post that sanctions targeting Iran’s energy sector will cause the regime some very substantial pain. Material and political support for the opposition is necessary as well, but the impact of tough sanctions could cause the regime to [...]
Tea Parties in American History – RealClearPolitics
February 17, 2010 By 2 Comments
Are this year's “tea parties” really tea parties? What could today's protesters have in common with the “Indians” who dumped 90,000 pounds of tea in Boston harbor in 1773? Quite a bit, actually. What do today's tea partiers want? According to the Christian Science Monitor, the movement “is about safeguarding individual liberty, cutting taxes, and [...]
Collector Conservatism, Part Five: Divorce Debt – The Gift That Keeps On Giving
February 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
To read episodes 1-4 in the Collector Conservatism series, click here.
OK, OK, my buddy Steve’s ex-wife (the marriage was officially dissolved yesterday) isn’t nearly as goofy as the woman in the following YouTube video, who complains about eviction from a luxury apartment and the measly 750k settlement her husband is offering to settle their, um, [...]
The Closing of the Liberal Mind
February 11, 2010 By 39 Comments
The New Republic unleashes a vapid, mean-spirited, and indefensible attack on one of the most important intellectual figures of our time.
Citizen Ebert: Roger’s Culturally Illiterate Tweets
February 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As someone who was a working film critic for nearly 20 years—and, I’m pretty sure, the only Baptist to win 2 Catholic Press awards for movie reviews—I probably owe Chicago Sun Time film critic Roger Ebert (and his late partner Tribune critic Gene Siskel) a nod of tribute for popularizing such writing.
Siskel and Ebert were, [...]
