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Cave-in Watch

Posted:Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:28:28 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Ohio Democrats Charlie Wilson and John Boccieri have caved. Nevada Democrat Dina Titus is a yes. Six pro-life Democrats led by West Virginia Democrat Rep. Nick Rahall are getting ready to sell out for a chump promise. Fox News asks: One down, one to go? On the no side: Mass. Democrat Rep. Stephen Lynch. NY Democrat Michael Arcurri is [...]

The Demcare bribe list, Pt. III

Posted:Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:08:12 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Greasing the skids.

Taxpayer march on Washington: Saturday high noon

Posted:Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:19:54 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Yesterday, I told you about the Tea Party protest scheduled for high noon at the Capitol tomorrow. More groups are joining in. Update: I’m told the rally will be on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Take note. GOP congressional leaders, activists, and actor Jon Voight are scheduled to speak: WASHINGTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — An unprecedented [...]

The Deem-o-crats’ towering deception

Posted:Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:13:39 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- “When statistics are not based on strictly accurate calculations, they mislead instead of guide. The mind easily lets itself be taken in by the false appearance of exactitude which statistics retain even in their mistakes, and confidently adopts errors clothed in the forms of mathematical truth.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, volume 1, [...]

Darwish, Pipes, & Sultan Joint Statement

Posted:Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Daniel Pipes Columns:- A person calling himself Muhammad Rahuma announced on the Free Copts (Al-Aqbat Al-Ahrar) website (click here) that the three of us will be addressing a conference he will hold in Washington on May 1 on the subject of converting Muslims to Christianity.

Pope Benedict's German Diocese Ignored Abuse Warnings

Posted:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:52:15 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- Every day seems to bring ever more horrifying new revelations about the German Catholic school child abuse scandal. Today we learned that the German archdiocese headed by Josef Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) ignored a psychiatrist’s repeated warnings about a priest accused of molesting children, and simply let the priest continue preying on young boys for many years: German Diocese Ignored Abuse Warnings, Doctor Says.

GOP fights again: Cantor introduces privileged resolution challenging Slaughter Solution; Dems move to table the motion, 232-181

Posted:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:27:50 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- GOP Rep. Eric Cantor is on the House floor right now introducing a privileged resolution challenging the Slaughter Solution and condemning deem-and-pass. The clerk is now reading it into the record. Democrat House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer moves to table the motion. Boos break out on the House floor. Recorded vote underway. Stand by… Here is [...]

Video: Democrat Rep. Perriello admits, “If you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing”

Posted:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:37:20 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- A congressional thief makes a true confession. Watch Democrat Rep. Tom Perriello of Virginia rat out his profession. Put it on a bumper sticker. If we don’t tie their hands, they will keep stealing — from us, from our kids, from our grandkids. And so on. And so on. And so on. (Via Welborn Freedom [...]

Speed-readers unite! House Rules Committee finally releases Wreckonciliation bill; Hoyer announces weekend schedule

Posted:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:18:32 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Full speed ahead.

The House vote on the Slaughter Solution: Update: Constitution-butchers prevail, 222-203; Roll call vote added; Calling out Dems Altmire, Lynch

Posted:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:56:40 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Deem-o-crats.

Pamela Geller Goes Nuts Over 'Census Stalkers'

Posted:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:43:16 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- Newsmax columnist and wingnut blogger Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller is losing her marbles today over being contacted by census workers, calling them “Census Stalkers.”

Take the Town Halls to Washington; Update: Obama postpones Asia trip to June

Posted:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:40:11 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- If you can make it to D.C. this Saturday, there’s a Tea Party effort to “Take the Town Halls to Washington:” More info here. Bring a Constitution Butchers sign! (Get yours here.) Photoshop exclusive: Big Fur Hat at iowntheworld.com and Applecross Media *** Update: Just announced…White House press secretary Gibbs says Obama is postponing Asia trip to June. Now is the [...]

Hang in there, Rep. Stupak

Posted:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:31:05 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- "It's been a living hell."

CBO: Covering the Backsides of Obamacare-pushers?; Update: House Ds conjure up $940 billion price tag; GOP united in opposition; Dems “giddy;” Pelosi: “I love numbers. They’re so precise.”

Posted:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:13:30 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Scroll for updates…9:54am Eastern…Boehner vows to do “everything we can to make sure this bill never, ever passes.”…Democrat whip James Clyburn announces the majority is “giddy” over the $940 billion price tag… The CBO scoring of the House Demcare bill that the American people have not seen will be released this morning. The poor number-crunchers have been [...]

Hawaii is Fed Up With the Birthers

Posted:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:42:30 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- Hawaiian public service officials are normally the most laid-back public service officials in the country; to get on their last nerves you really have to work at it.

If there were a Nobel Prize for Gaffetastic-ity…

Posted:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:25:35 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Ed Morrissey has done a terrific job at Hot Air chronicling President Obama’s malapropisms, blunders, fantasy math, and history-flubbing with his “Obamateurisms” series. It’s a gaffe-a-minute with the supposedly silver-tongued emir of eloquence. If there were a Nobel Prize for Gaffetastic-ity, Obama would be a deserving recipient (for once). Now comes this bizarro statement from tonight’s interview [...]

Landmark Legal Foundation to Slaughter House butchers: Not without a fight; Update: The states’ revolt

Posted:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:29:43 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Photoshop exclusive: Big Fur Hat at iowntheworld.com and Applecross Media (Get your Constitution Butchers poster here.) Not without a fight, Deem-o-crats: Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact [...]

Wednesday Afternoon Metheny

Posted:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:30:02 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- Here’s a midday music break with the Pat Metheny Group, from a 1992 performance at Japan’s “Live Under the Sky” music festival.

Holder: 'Reading Miranda Rights to a Corpse'

Posted:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:00:43 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- Attorney General Eric Holder is turning into quite a rambunctious cowboy: If bin Laden is found, he’ll be killed, Holder says.

In response to amnesty stooge Dick Armey

Posted:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:43:03 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- I have wonderful, grass-roots friends at Freedomworks. Dick Armey is not one of them. He’s a clueless promoter of bailout-happy, big government Republican Sen. John McCain. And Armey’s a blowhard-y Beltway dinosaur who can’t resist shooting off his mouth and alienating the Tea Party base while criticizing other conservatives of alienation. At the National Press Club [...]

Obama, Pelosi on a money-grubbing mission

Posted:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:48:23 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Demcare is not a done deal. They haven’t even released the House version to the public yet, but plan to ram it through on Saturday. Those pesky little details aren’t getting in the way of what’s really important, though. Within 30 minutes of each other, two money-grubbing solicitations in President Obama and Nancy Pelosi’s names [...]

The 11 Senate Republicans who voted for the $17 billion Porkulus II jobs bill

Posted:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:48:39 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- The tax breaks and projected jobs in the Senate jobs bill are illusory. The $17 billion package circumvents pay-go rules. But no matter. The Senate passed the Porkulus II today by 68-29 — with support from 11 Republicans. Here’s the roll call vote: The Republicans who sided with the endless spending-spree Democrats: Alexander Bond Scott Brown Burr Cochran Collins Inhofe LeMieux Murkowski Snowe Voinovich *** GOP Sen. Gregg wondered on [...]

The Krazy Kucinich Kickback Contest

Posted:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:44:21 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Krazy Denny Kucinich (D-Outer Space) basked in the spotlight this morning upon announcing his switch from “no” to “yes” on Demcare. He still doesn’t think it goes far enough and says he didn’t like the process, but he’s signing on, anyway. Selling out his progressive principles is worth the 15 minutes of fame. Plus, ooh, [...]

The slaughter on the southern border

Posted:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:18:25 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- My column this morning looks at the continuing chaos on our southern border. Displaying her fabulous sense of timing, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano chose to announce amid all the bloodshed that she’s scrapping the doomed Fence to Nowhere project. The system is not working. *** The slaughter on the southern border by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 At a joint press [...]

The Worst Crisis in 35 Years?

Posted:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:00:00 -0400

Daniel Pipes Columns:- On the surface, that the Obama administration decided one fine day to pick a fight with the government of Israel looks like an unmitigated disaster for the Jewish state. What could be worse than its most important ally provoking the worst crisis

Hitchens: The Great Catholic Cover-Up

Posted:Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:50:32 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- The investigations into child abuse in Germany’s Catholic schools are continuing to widen, now getting close to Pope Benedict himself, as his brother Georg Ratzinger has been implicated in covering up the systemic child abuse (with the now well-known Catholic Church practice of moving priests around to different parishes) — and he is also accused of physically battering children himself.

Doing the health care anecdote-vetting the Left won’t do

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:27:44 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Here is Larry Scary O’Donnell — who can usually be seen frothing at the mouth with bulging neck veins as he melts down on MSNBC — sloooowly reading a teleprompter as he chastises me, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck for “attacking” 11-year-old Marcelas Owens. Nice to see your Valium working, Larry: As usual, he gets basic [...]

What are Pelosi and the House Democrat women up to now?

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:55:20 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- The gender card is the first and last refuge of House Scoundrel Nancy Pelosi. She’s played it since Day One of her reign of error. She wielded it last week when she surrounded herself with kiddie human shields. And it appears she may be plotting it to use it in the Demcare end game. Via Roll [...]

Wreckonciliation Tweet of the Day

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:47:52 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- From @johnthune2012, a perfect summation of the last year in the Age of Obama/Pelosi/Reid: *** As noted below in comments by Dan, our Texas blogger friend Kathleen McKinley said it first last week: “We’ve Moved From Passing Bills Without Reading Them to Passing Bills Without Voting On Them.”

Tuesday Afternoon Music: Bruce Hornsby, 'In The Low Country'

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:24:02 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- Here’s Bruce Hornsby with an excellent solo version of “In the Low Country,” from his latest album Levitate.

Onion: New Initiative by US Bigots

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:03:52 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- The Onion reports on an initiative among the nation’s bigots to develop new state of the art slurs to keep pace with rising numbers of multi-racial births.

Get the cameras into the House Rules Committee hearing room

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:27:43 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Open the door.

Clinton Pledges 'Unshakeable Bond' with Israel

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:36:30 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- Hillary Clinton dialed down the diplomatic confrontation with Israel this morning, pledging that the US has “an unshakeable bond” with Israel, and dismissing suggestions that the relationship between the US and Israel was at its worst point in decades.

House Republicans to force vote on Pelosi’s Slaughter House solution; Update: Democrat condemns “deem and pass”

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:23:10 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Deem this.

When you’ve lost MSM newspaper editorial boards…

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:25:25 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Pull the plug!

CAIR Attacks the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0400

Daniel Pipes Columns:- The Council on American-Islamic Relations is up to its usual assault on the discussion of Islam. Its Philadelphia chapter is holding a press conference on March 17 at which it plans "to announce the launch of a nationwide campaign to challenge anti-Islam

Making their voices heard: Protesting Demcare on Capitol Hill

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:58:49 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- They only had a few days to mobilize, but bus loads of Tea Party protesters from across the country have descended on Washington today to make their voices heard on the Demcare cramdown. Time: March 16, 2010 from 9am to 6pm Location: Cannon House Office Building Street: Independence Avenue SE and New Jersey SE City/Town: Washington, DC More info. As of [...]

America's Shiny New Palestinian Militia

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:13:35 -0400

Daniel Pipes Columns:- "The stupidest program the U.S. government has ever undertaken" – last year that's what I called American efforts to improve the Palestinian Authority (PA) military force. Slightly hyperbolic, yes, but the description fits because those efforts enhance

Onion: Kentucky Violated NCAA Rules

Posted:Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:13:51 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- [Video]

Video: Flogging the Scientists

Posted:Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:42:22 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- Environmentalist Peter Sinclair fires off some pretty good snark at the climate change denial community in his new video, “Flogging the Scientists.” The title comes from denial mob leader Marc Morano, who said about climate scientists, “They deserve to be publicly flogged.”

Nanny Nancy lines up the kiddie human shields

Posted:Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:07:32 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Cradle to grave.

Monday Afternoon Music: Gorillaz, 'Stylo'

Posted:Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:18:24 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- [Video]

Liveblogging the House Budget Committee wreckonciliation mark-up

Posted:Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:09:17 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Photoshop: Leo Alberti The hearing is just underway. I’ll blog the shell game. Stay tuned for updates… 3:13pm Eastern. Democrat Rep./House Budget Cmte Chairman John Pratt opens up the hearing. Says they will be there until midnight to finish the mark-up or “turn into pumpkins.” If only… He admits the shell game: Whatever they end up with today [...]

Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder and his terror-coddling DOJ, Pt. 9,899

Posted:Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:51:23 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Three must-read items following up on themes and stories I’ve been covering for you since day one of the reign of corruptocrat AG Eric Holder at Obama’s DOJ: In August 2009, I reported on the ACLU’s spying project: Operation CIA Paparazzi and hit again on the story here. The Washington Times reports today that the DOJ [...]

Fox News vs. Glenn Beck

Posted:Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:18:28 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- There is growing tension within the ranks at Fox News over the Glenn Beck Clown Show: Howard Kurtz - The Beck Factor at Fox: Staffers say comments taint their work. (Ya think?)

Reverse Midas Touch: House Democrat won’t attend Obamacare Road Show in Ohio; Update: Protesters line streets, video added

Posted:Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:53:05 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- Photoshop: Mr Right Cue The Police: Don’t stand so, don’t stand so, don’t stand so close to me… Representative John Boccieri, Democrat of Ohio, whose vote on major health care legislation could be crucial to the outcome, will not be attending President Obama’s health care rally on Monday in Strongsville, Ohio, not far from Mr. Boccieri’s own [...]

J. D. Hayworth: I Am Schtoopid

Posted:Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:33:08 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- May I be blunt? The idea that legalizing same sex marriage will lead to bestiality is one of the most stone-dumb reactionary talking points of the religious right. Do these people really think the only reason humans don’t “marry” animals is because it’s against the law? Good grief.

Pew Research: Outlook Grim for Pay Walls

Posted:Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:46:25 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- As mainstream news organizations increasingly find it difficult to turn a profit in the Internet Age, Pew Research has been studying the attitudes of news consumers toward some of the proposed solutions; and the prospects are pretty grim for news organizations to convince consumers to pay for something that they now get for free: Online economics and consumer attitudes.

Valerie Jarrett: Hurray for Obama’s “womanly leadership”

Posted:Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:00:37 -0400

Michelle Malkin:- It’s moronic exchanges like this one between White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and rambling Indian magazine editor Shoma Chaudhury — who slobbers all over President Obama for his “womanly” leadership — that should make every rational woman cringe. First, there’s the nauseating gender identity politics pandering. Second, there’s the snort-worthy detachment from reality (the [...]

Sunday Night Music: Steely Dan, 'Gaslighting Abbie'

Posted:Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:45:39 -0400

Little Green Footballs:- I like this version of Steely Dan’s “Gaslighting Abbie” even better than the one on Two Against Nature. Ricky Lawson is an ultrafunky metronome in this one, Walter Becker squeezes out some nicely twisted licks, and the arrangement is more fully developed.