When you lose the New York Times . . .
Once upon a time, you could count on the New York Times to have President Obama’s back no matter what what he or members of his administration did. Not anymore. In its 14 May 2012 edition, the New York Times published an editorial that starts with the following statement: The Obama administration, which has a [...]
Gov’t Obtains Phone Records of 100 Associated Press Reporters
In the newest overreach perpetrated by the Obama administration, the Associated Press has discovered that some 100 of its Washington-based reporters have had their phone records–both personal and business–secretly obtained by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. The AP reports that the phone records were subpoenaed as a result of a DOJ investigation into who inside the [...]
Liberal Groups Finally Discover that Deregulation is good for Consumers
The Democrats and the media are always claiming that Republicans want dirtier air, more polluted water, and fewer people with health insurance. Here’s Obama in Real Clear Politics a year before the last the presidential election on 10/17/11: The Republicans plan, Obama says, boils down to this: ‘Dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health [...]
Angelina Jolie: “I Made A Decision To Have A Preventive Double Mastectomy”
Angelina Jolie, one of Hollywood’s biggest and most visible stars, writes in a New York Times editorial about a very private medical decision she managed to keep secret. MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold [...]
Obama’s Rogue Union Board Dealt Major Setbacks
Upon coming to office, President Obama began using the obscure National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to give big payoffs to unions at the expense of business and to the detriment of our economic recovery but at last his incredible abuse of this agency is under scrutiny. By and large, NLRB is not one of those [...]
The IRS Targetting Of Conservative Groups Was No “Low Level” Operation
ABC News has more details on the IRS inspector general report about the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS. Mary Katherine Hamm at HotAir detailed the intrusive questioning last week. The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS [...]
Weekend Caption Contest™ Winners
This week’s Weekend Caption Contest™ was another smashing success. The assignment this week was to caption the following picture: Here are the winning entries: 1) (John H) – “Obama visits the US-Mexico border and gives his “Tear down this wall” speech.” 2) (fustian24) – “One has to wonder. How’s he planning to get back across [...]
Last Weekend’s Caption Contest™ Winners
Last week’s Weekend Caption Contest™ was another smash hit. The assignment last week was to caption the following picture: Here are the winning entries: 1) (sarahconnor2) – “And the lesson from this week in the MSM: Announcing you are a homosexual makes you a hero. Announcing you are a Christian and pro-life makes you a [...]
Inside the mind of a liberal
There’s been lots of doings transpiring at stately Von Ottomatic manor lately. You may recall that I entered into an unwanted period of funemployment a few months back. Rather than hop right into a job search I took the opportunity to invest a little time, along with some severance and my two plus months of [...]
Mom of Slain Son Bids Hillary Clinton a Happy Mother’s Day
Pat Smith’s son, Sean, was murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya (9/11/12) thanks to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s negligence. On Sunday, she has a message for Obama and Hillary. “I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother’s Day,” Smith said. “She has her child. I don’t have mine because of her.” Mrs. Smith appeared [...]
Last Year, Media Ridiculed Claims IRS Targeted Conservatives
During the 2012 presidential campaign, many conservatives complained that the IRS was targeting them for harassment, some even claimed that Obama had an “enemies list.” During that time the progressive media complex ridiculed these claims but now the IRS itself has come forward to “apologize” for just the sort of behavior that conservatives accused it [...]
3D-Printed Gun Plans Downloaded 100,000 Times in Two Days
The 3D-printable gun craze is just beginning as the blueprint plans for the new “Liberator” plastic gun were downloaded nearly 100,000 times in just a two-day period this month. Cody Wilson, founder of the 3D-Printed firearm company Defense Distributed, announced the creation of the first fully printable gun on May 3 and in only a [...]
New ‘Explosives’ License Impinges on Gun Owners that Load Own Ammo
Before the smoke had cleared after the terror attacks during the Boston Marathon last month, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg employed Obama’s favorite axiom of never letting a good crisis go to waste by immediately proposing major changes to federal laws pertaining to loose gun powder and explosives. Reports quickly emerged after the bombing that [...]
Union Thuggery: AFL-CIO Speaks Out Against… Our Military Vets?
Apparently, the haters at the AFL-CIO decided that military veterans shouldn’t be allowed to take jobs offered by Walmart. Recently Walmart announced a program to hire 100,000 military vets as a “welcome home” gift when they return from service. This brought the anti-veterans at the left-wing, anti-business union to the height of pique. In a [...]
Store Owner Installs $350K of Surveillance to Stop Frivolous Lawsuits
Supermarket owner Rafael Cuellar from Passaic, NJ, reports that he had to spend $350,000 to install 69 surveillance cameras, recording devices, and video storage banks in order to stop fake “slip and fall” insurance claims against his store. It’s a cost that just adds to the cost of living for everyone and is a perfect [...]
The United States of America is once again a Net Exporter of Oil
The watermelons said it couldn’t be done; they have been proved wrong, yet again.
Salafi Jihadism and US Grand Strategy Part II – The Grand Illusion
We live in an age of morons. Unfortunately, many of them now hold high office. As an example of this foolishness at the top, consider articles like this nonsense from Foreign Policy magazine. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/01/09/a_new_US_grand_strategy Arrogant socialists imagine that key strategic goals for US foreign policy in the coming decades will depend on impractical economic whims, [...]
Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Enter your best caption for the following picture: Winners for last week’s contest and this week’s contest will be announced Monday morning. Update: Winners announced. Click the link to read the winning entries. The contest is now closed.
AP Claims Official House Benghazi Hearings Just ‘GOP Hearing’
The Associated Press on Wednesday mischaracterized the Benghazi hearings as merely a Republican event even though it is an official House investigation. In the headline of its report, the Associated Press downplayed the official hearings of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee–that has both Democrats and Republicans on it–into the failures surrounding the 2012 [...]
MSNBC’s Toure: Let all Muslims into the US Because Muslim Poverty ‘Threatens Our Security’
MSNBC talker Toure thinks he has discovered a key security flaw in our nation’s policies and has suggested a solution. Poverty in the Muslim world, he says, is a key threat to U.S. security and to nullify that threat we should open the borders wide and let all Muslims come here to get jobs so [...]
#BENGHAZI Hearing: “The YouTube video was a non-event in Libya.”
Greg Hicks: The YouTube video was a non-event in Libya.” The hearing on Benghazi today shed a bit of light on what did and did not happen the night our mission in Libya was attacked by terrorists, killing four Americans. The proceedings opened up with Representative Cummings launching an attack on the witnesses before they [...]
Slate: Claims of Benghazi Cover Up is ‘Pure Fiction’
As the Benghazi hearings begin anew on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, it is worth remembering that Dave Weigel of Slate.com, the former Journolist member who delights in attempting to debunk conservative narratives, declared in December that Republican suspicions of a Benghazi cover-up by the Obama administration were “pure fiction.” Weigel cited the report on the [...]
Republican Party Minorities Beware!
Once upon a time in United States history, the expression “racist Democratic Party” would have been considered redundant, because it was a given that the Democratic Party was a bastion of racism. After all, back during the antebellum period of the 19th Century, it was the Democratic Party that resisted the end to slavery, that [...]
Infidelity Advocates Ashley Madison Uses Mark Sanford on Billboard Ad
Hook up site AshleyMadison.com is again courting controversy after debuting a new billboard campaign south of Columbia, South Carolina, that uses a photo of ex Governor Mark Sanford to sell its tryst-arranging services. The ad appears on Interstate 26, 25 miles below South Carolina’s state capital, Columbia, and takes up two, stacked billboards. The top [...]
My New Favorite Person
Charles Ramsey is a hero. He, with other local residents in a section of Cleveland, helped rescue three young women and a 6 year old from 10 years of captivity by a trio of perverts. Though the substance is serious, Mr. Ramsey’s account of what happened is quite animated. Someone needs to give this man [...]
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