It’s time for conservatives nationwide to rise up and stand with Wisconsin Republicans against the enraged union-fed beast they stung earlier this week.
Do Republicans Get the Stakes, or Have the Guts to Fight?
May 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Last night, Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich sat down to discuss the former House Speaker’s new book, To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Regime. For the most part, the conversation consisted of pretty standard fare for conservative commentary: the Left’s ideas have failed, Barack Obama poses a dire threat to the nation, and so on. [...]
Gubernatorial Candidate Jerry Brown Tells Labor Unions to “Go on The Attack”
March 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Los Angeles Times reports that “‘Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown spoke to a labor group Tuesday and urged them to go on the offensive.”
“We’re going to attack whenever we can, but I’d rather have you attack,” Brown said at a gathering of the California delegation of the Laborers’ International Union of North America in [...]
George Will and the Left’s Hypocrisy over Citizens United
January 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
With the SOTU already well-covered here at NewsReal, we will take a narrower focus. George Will’s column in today’s Washington Post must have been written before the President’s speech, but it delivers a stinging rebuke to one of Obama’s talking points, as well as the leftist media’s phony outrage over the recent Citizens United v. [...]
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A Victory for Free Speech
January 22, 2010 By 95 Comments
The Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro explains why the Supreme Court’s ruling this week was a win for free expression and democracy.
Victory for the First Amendment
January 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
An update on yesterday’s post regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on campaign finance reform:
UPDATE: Victory for the First Amendment!
The Supreme Court has today removed the spending limitations on corporations who wish to spend on federal campaigns, so long as it is done independently of candidate organizations’ control.
“The censorship we now confront is vast in [...]
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Supreme Court May Strike Down Campaign Finance Regulation Tomorrow
January 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled a special sitting tomorrow. It usually does so only when a very important decision is announced.
The betting is that the Court is poised to announce its decision in the critical Citizens United campaign finance case. The result could be a major re-affirmation of the First Amendment, overturning precedents that had [...]
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Bob McCarty Goes Undercover: Leftists Talk Socialized Medicine
January 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
On his increasingly popular Fox News show yesterday, host Glenn Beck talked about labor unions, “Cadillac Health Plans” and socialists. As usual, Beck explained wonderfully what these people are trying to do and why you should be worried about it.
Shortly after Beck’s show, conservative blogger Bob McCarty published videos he made last year of some of [...]
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Media Matters defends Kevin Jennings with “scare quote-fu”
October 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
On the left, using so-called scare quotes has become a favored polemical trick. You know what I mean: they put quotation marks around words or phrases, either to denote sarcasm and cynicism, or to engender doubt about a concept’s value and accuracy.
Scare quotes are a kind of hipster secret handshake — a shorthand way of [...]
