How I learned to stop worrying and love the OWS protests
“Has there been any more egregious double standard towards the right over the last five years than the commentariat’s treatment of OWS versus the tea party?” At the first whiff of popular discontent on the right, Obama’s brain trust went full demagogue about “angry mobs.” Fast forward two years and you have leftist protesters fighting [...]
Occupied Wall Street, Unoccupied Brain
Pretty much everyone has seen or heard about the mob of malcontents camping out near Wall Street. Well, attention was their goal, so far as I can tell. The mob was not very strong in working for any specific change, and their communication skills were and are execrable. The people saying these ‘occupy’ stunts are [...]
Dissent Is Patriotic. Bitching Isn’t.
From the “We Are the 99%” website: “We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we’re working [...]
Writing Himself Out Of A Job
Yesterday in Washington, DC, there was a protest by a bunch of vaguely unhinged leftists. First reports tied them to the “Occupy Wall Street” nuts, then it was Code Pink, then some generic anti-war types, now I dunno. Anyway, they were quite unhappy that the Smithsonian Air And Space Museum was holding an exhibit on [...]
Tea Time
As the worthless vermin who call themselves “Occupy Wall Street” spread (much like certain social diseases) across the nation, the Left is doing its level best to spin and cover for them and grant them a shred of respectability — which they clearly don’t deserve. Top-ranking Democrats are saying kind things about them and cutting [...]
I FOUND CODEPINK!!!
After the US has gotten itself into two more wars Kinetic Military Actions™, where was our brave Codepinkos, the patron saints of stopping evil, unjust wars? I found ‘em! At…a…
Olbermann Skewered By Stephen Colbert
Like, skewered skewered. Like, conservative skewered. Money quote: Are you man enough to say O’Reilly won? Vintage answer by Olbermann. He still believes he’s never done nothin’ wrong. And that…
Bill Maher On New Hampshire Debate, And Dick Cheney's Lust For Avian Blood
You know, in a way, he did make one point. I thought this myself, and heard Rush Limbaugh say the same thing on Tuesday: compared with the current president,…
In which I join The Blogfather in rubbing it in
Before Operation Iraqi Freedom, and early in our operations in Afghanistan, I participated in a heated debate as to what the goals of such military operations should be.The argument eventually…
Michael Moore on Wisconsin GOP maneuver: "This is war"
Known communist and socialist sympathizer Michael Moore, whose hatred for capitalism is offset by the fact that he makes good money engaging in that hatred, is calling Wisconsin's dumb masses…
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