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In the brief age of Obama, we have had “truthers,” “birthers,” Tea Party activists, and town-hall dissenters.
Comes now, the “Oath Keepers.” And who might they be?
Writes Alan Maimon in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Oath Keepers, [...]
Filed under: Politics
Before President Obama even landed at Andrews Air Force Base, returning from his mission to Copenhagen to win the 2016 Olympic Games, Chicago had been voted off the island.
Many shared the lamentation of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, “What has become of America, when [...]
Filed under: Politics, environment
I promised when I returned from my blogging vacation (a little longer than I had anticipated) to address Richard Spencer’s critique of my TAC article “Breaking the Bank”, back in August, specifically his question “What then?”:
“A more fundamental problem with Scallon’s essay is that he never informs us what he wants to take the place [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics
September’s unemployment figures were not only disappointing — they were grim. For the 21st straight month, Americans lost jobs. Fifteen million are out of work — 5 million for more than six months.
But as the Washington Times asserts, “America’s jobless crisis is much worse [...]
Filed under: Economics, Immigration, Politics
I hate to say it, but David Brooks is right. Or at least partly right. Even the kingpins of talk radio are electorally negligible, for a reason Brooks doesn’t go into: when you divide up a core listenership — not just casual dial-surfers, but devoted listeners — of a few million people among the 48 [...]
Filed under: Politics, Uncategorized, media
Just had a call from friend of mine who is a literary agent. He told me that a friend of his at Harper Collins confirmed that Sarah Palin has received an advance “in excess of $7 million” for her memoir “Going Rogue.” The book will come out in the middle of November and was written with [...]
Filed under: Politics
Freddy, fears about what Congress might do to the money supply if the Fed is audited are understandable but misplaced. Contra Bartlett, you’re more likely to get Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation under the Fed than with Congress dictating the money supply — politicians, for all they are in bed with Wall Street, are still more vulnerable to [...]
Rand Paul, running for the Kentucky U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim Bunning, has raised over $100,000 so far today in a money bomb to beat the $500-a-plate Washington fundraiser being held tonight by his Republican primary opponent, Secretary of State Trey Grayson. Meanwhile Peter Schiff, eying Chris Dodd’s Connecticut Senate seat, picked up [...]
God save me from my friends - I can take care of my enemies.
So President Obama must be muttering today.
Ten days ago, the president played his ace of trumps.
He went before a joint session of Congress to lay out his health care plans, confront the “demagoguery” of critics who had resorted to “distortion,” “misinformation” and [...]
There’s a new issue of The American Conservative going to press today, and it includes a story that will make more than a few congressmen and foreign lobbyists intensely uncomfortable: an in-depth interview between Phil Giraldi and FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. She tells us exactly how Turkish intelligence have penetrated national secrets, suborned government officials, [...]