Are We Witnessing The Decline And Fall Of The American Non-Empire?
America, as Bill Whittle so eloquently pointed out, is not, and never has been an Empire builder. Still, America has been a world-power since almost her inception over 200 years ago. Today, we learn that America lost to the Swiss as the world's most competitive economy. Consider, too, MaxedOutMama's take on unemployment (read the whole thing): At this point one...
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President Obama's Speech, Rules For Conservative Radicals And More.....Podcast 37
Are the press, the mainstream media, now the alternate media? Lorie Byrd thinks the media ain't mainstream anymore. She says: Something happened last week that underscored this phenomenon. News outlets like the New York Times and NBC and ABC evening newscasts refused to cover the revelations surrounding President Obama's "green jobs" czar, Van Jones. When those revelations of Jones signing...
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MoveOn Peace Loving Vegan Bites Off Finger Of Right Wing Terrorist
So I'm making up the vegan part. Gateway Pundit reports the whole bloody mess. This probably shouldn't make me laugh, but how much do you want to bet that the MoveOn.org activist is a hippie vegan? He probably wouldn't eat meat. But human fingers? Yum! Moe Lane says it's the zombies: The Moveon.org zombie apparently then left. At a walk....
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Podcast: The President, Little People, The Press, Levi's
Palin Penis Johnson
Stephen Green joins me to discuss the Obama-Education talk controversy. He takes on AllahPundit with wit and style. [I would have asked AllahPundit to be on the show had I thought the man would come out of hiding.] We talk about Obama's cult of personality. We also discuss The Moment President Obama's presidency went off the rails. Brandon Vidrine also...
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Van Jones: "Republicans Are A**holes"
Van Jones plans on getting "uppity", according to The Hill: Jones, however, continued his casual rant. "And Barack Obama is not an a**hole. Now, I will say this: I can be an a**hole, and some of us who are not Barack Hussein Obama, are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity [to get things done]." President Obama...
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Levi Johnson Living The American Dream: Sleeping His Way To Fame
As a way into liberal prominence goes, nothing quite beats screwing literally, or metaphorically, a conservative to achieve fame. Levi Johnson has done both. He is, literally, a fame whore. Vanity Fair will be giving him valuable pages in the next edition. I have not given him any space because he is a complete knob. However, because he now has...
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2% Too Much: Federal Employees Should Get Pay Cuts, Not Pay Raises
Federal government employees make nearly 100% more, on average, per year, than the average American worker. With the deficit soaring, Nancy Pelosi suggested a 19% pay increase. President Obama is getting props for saying it should be 2%. Pardon me, but what the hell? Private sector employees are either taking a cut in hours, are laid off or have pay...
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News Fifty: A Drudge For Every State?
You know when you stumble across an idea online and wonder: Why hasn't this been done before? That's News Fifty. News Fifty is a state-by-state news aggregator. For all you news junkies, I think it's going to be a must-stop every morning. I just wanted to let you guys know about it. Here's the blurb: NewsFifty.com has one national homepage...
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Afghanistan, Arrogant Independents, Alcohol Taxes and Alpha Males
Steve Schippert of Threats Watch joined me for a furious segment about American policy in Afghanistan. Also, is President Obama a foreign policy genius? General Jim Jones thinks so. Steve has a quibble with that take. This is a must-listen to take on America's place in the world. It's super popular these days to call oneself a political Independent. I...
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Sarah Palin Is Proving Relevant Yet Again
Sarah Palin will be jetting to Hong Kong to talk finance: The former Alaska governor will visit Hong Kong to address the CLSA Investors Forum, a well-known annual conference of global investment managers, the host announced Monday. Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Alan Greenspan have spoken at the event, hosted by brokerage and investment group CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. "Our keynote...
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Dynasty American Style
Glenn Greenwald kvetches about one of the Bush twins getting a TV gig on NBC's Today show. There are dynasties in America wah! This wouldn't sound so ironic if his bellyaching didn't come on the heels of Kennedy's love fest. Will a Kennedy replace Teddy? The world waits with bated breath. Wait, no they don't. Glenn says: They should convene...
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It's A Dangerous World In Here
The internet ain't no place for the innocent. It's the wild west around these parts, with infrastructure still being built and social feedback loops yet to fully developed. There is little policing, few laws. At times, it can feel like an ominous town, with bad guys sizing you up from under their ten-gallon hat--just waiting for a moment of weakness....
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Inglourious Basterds: Part II
For another perspective on this movie, I suggest reading John Rosenthal's review titled "Inglourious Basterds: A German Fantasy, Not a 'Jewish' One". Rosenthal posits that the movie is written to make the Germans look sympathetic, and the joke is on the buffoonish Americans--who are neither cultured nor competent and barbaric to boot. The movie glorifies German fantasies of vengeful Jews,...
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Podcast 33: The Psychology Of Success & Happiness With Guest John Hawkins
Why aren't Leftists happy even when they run everything and get what they want? John Hawkins and I talk about that and much more on this podcast: Download MP3 To subscribe on iTunes, just click here! When Melissa isn't on the radio, you can find her at melissaclouthier.com and on Twitter. Her username is MelissaTweets....
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Obama As An Icon
It's been out for a while but, I want to draw attention to Bill Whittles video just in case you haven't seen it: Because President Obama reduced himself to an icon and a slogan, he became everything to everyone. Now, that he's been in the job a while and decisions must be made, he risks alienating everyone. I think that's...
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White House Pentagon Profiling Reporters
Uh oh: Contrary to the insistence of Pentagon officials this week that they are not rating the work of reporters covering U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Stars and Stripes has obtained documents that prove that reporters' coverage is being graded as "positive," "neutral" or "negative." Moreover, the documents -- recent confidential profiles of the work of individual reporters prepared by a...
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Inglourious
Bastards Basterds--UPDATED
Inglourious Bastards might be Quentin Tarantino's best movie so far. As expected, it's full of gruesome violence, gratuitous splattering blood, and revenge fantasies. For the subject, it's all to the good: Nazis die. Tarantino has some messages for everyone though and they aren't politically correct. First the trailer. Here are some of the lessons from the movie: 1. Enhanced Interrogation...
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Ted Kennedy Died After Living A Full Life
I can't say much nice, so I won't say much of anything--except to acknowledge that the man lived, died, served his constituents, and was rewarded and acknowledged for that service. Life is short. And we are all but a blink. Wealth, privilege, connections, power cannot give a person eternal life. They cannot give a person love. They cannot confer happiness....
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Podcast 33: Media Bias & Malpractice With Dan Gainor
Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center, Townhall, and Newsbusters joined me to discuss the media's bias--both covert and overt--and how it shapes public opinion. It does work. The media does shape opinion, even though most news organizations have moved to a British model of journalism. The difference is that a Brit journalist will admit his bias, whereas an American...
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President Obama's Campaign To Pervert 9/11 Truth
Islamofascists bent on destroying freedom, who hate Jews and Christians, and out of soul blotting envy murdered nearly 3,000 innocent Americans on 9/11 should be remembered for being soulless killers. Those lost to their evil should be remembered as individuals who lost their lives because they lived their lives as free men to the end. September 11, 2001 was not...
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Obama's Interrogations, Obama's War
Wow, is there nothing that President Obama can't do? With the move to control terrorist interrogations, President Obama no longer has plausible deniability. From the Washington Post: Obama signed off late last week on the unit, named the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG. Made up of experts from several intelligence and law enforcement agencies, the interrogation unit will be...
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People Telling Sarah Palin To Shut Up Should Shut Up
Sarah Palin is the only politician reflecting, in plain language, the will of the American people. Charles Krauthammer believes she should "leave the room". He is referring, specifically, to the concept of death panels and then goes into the provision in the House Bill about end of life counseling. He then comes out against, I think, the very counseling that...
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The Name Rule
Robert Stacy McCain wrote a slice of genius the other day. He writes of names and relationships and psychology: All Girls Named Tonya, the title of that childhood memoir no publisher will ever pay me to write, derives from a principle of human psychology first postulated by a genuinely evil little bastard who became one of my dope buddies in...
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President Obama's Moralizing
So, Barack Obama has gotten religion. How convenient. And he's gotten religion just in time to beat the bitter Bible-thumping, gun-clingers with it. Even better. Ann Althouse has the whole story: Bearing false witness? Breaking the 9th Commandment? So his opponents are sinners. I'm trying to imagine the separation-of-church-and-state freakout if George Bush had taken this approach to arguing for...
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Podcast: Chuck DeVore On Environmentalism Gone Wild [Hello Cap-n-Trade], I.O.U.'s, Prison Release & Other California Craziness--Like Barbara Boxer
Don't look now, but while the citizenry wrestles over the notion of Health Care legislation and what that all means, a big (literally bigger) pile of odious legislation sits in committee waiting to enslave Americans with taxes and limited lifestyle: Cap-n-Trade. To understand just how awful Cap-n-Trade is, one only has to look at California to catch a clue. Energy...
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