Open Thread
2009 August 26
4 Responses
leave one →
Maggie Gallagher's War on Trollops
by Jenn Q. Public
National Organization for Marriage president Maggie Gallagher has made a career out of protecting marriage from The Gay Menace. But now, another threat to marriage has captured her attention: homewrecking sluts. These selfish hussies aren't just enticing husbands into extramarital affairs, says Gallagher. Women like John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter are profiting off their homewrecking ways. Here's what I think: There's something wrong with a society that permits adultery to become a pathway to commercial success. Adultery involves twin offenses: (1) the violation by a married person of his ...
Frances Townsend's Interview With NRB: Hear No Islam, See No Islam, Speak No Islam
by John L. Work
I was fascinated by Elise Cooper’s excellent two-part War On Terror interview with former Bush Administration homeland security advisor Frances Townsend. Cooper asked questions that opened some doors for enlightening responses. But Townsend's rhetoric and dancing around the one unmentionable word reflected the Bush Administration’s view of our Big Problem, too perfectly. She opened with this: “NewsReal Blog: You recently visited Saudi Arabia. What were your impressions? Frances Townsend: They are very worried about regional security issues. They are surrounded on all sides: Iraq to the North, Yemen to the South, ...
Houston Chronicle pushes Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups as moderate
by Robert Spencer
Naivete. "Moderate Muslims speak, but they are rarely heard," from the Houston Chronicle, March 18: Recently two events have occurred that describe opposing views of how some Muslims see the world. The reactions of Muslims in the United States to these two events will affect how their non-Muslim fellow citizens view this new and growing minority.One of the events occurred March 7 when Adam Gadahn, an American-born "spokesman" for al-Qaida, called for terrorist attacks on American targets, including "mass transportation systems." Many ...
Most Awesome Billboard: Obama Worse Than Carter
by Lori Ziganto
Image Courtesy of Storyballoon.org Poor Jimmy Carter, bless his bitter, old, anti-semitic heart. President Barack Obama has totally stolen his thunder. First, Obama had to horn in on Carter's "I received a completely unwarranted Nobel Peace Prize" mantle. Now, this! What does Carter have left now? A few rancid cases of Billy Beer? From Story Balloon: It looks like we have another winning billboard making fun of the current administration. This time they an ad to point out how people have compared Obama to Carter’s horrible ...
Would You Buy a Used Car From Nancy Pelosi?
by Elena Ives
Like a used car salesman, giddy at the prospect of unloading an old Ford LTD, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is flaunting yesterday’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score as proof that Utopia costs nothing. The tragedy is that many will believe her – at least until the interest rate resets to 39%, the baling wire in the transmission gives way, and it’s too late to do anything about it. Indeed, in their zeal to sell the Healthcare Takeover, Pelosi and Co. must have burnt through several calculators ...
Texas Board of Ed Refuses to Be Bullied By Academic Elite
by Suzanne Venker
When I was at college -- at Boston University, in the mid to late eighties -- I took an education course that required students to give a mock lesson to the rest of the class. An aspiring social studies teacher chose a controversial topic (I don't recall what it was) for his lesson, and the rest of us sat mesmerized. It was clear this classmate of mine was going to be an excellent teacher -- because by the end of the lesson, I had no idea what ...
Clinton Joins World Powers for Wannsee Conference Part II: Condemnation is Final Solution to the Israeli Question
by Jeanette Pryor
When I was nineteen years old I sat in a classroom in France and was taught that the Jews control the entire world. My conservative teacher was deeply influenced by far-right French extremists and Holocaust Deniers who hated America and, of course Israel. I had always been interested, more like obsessed, with the history of the Holocaust. The Diary of Ann Frank was a favorite childhood book. I read The Hiding Place at least 100 times, no Irish exaggeration. My easy repudiation of an accurate, open-minded world-view for ...Misunderstander of Islam actually understands Islam well enough
by Robert Spencer
In this article, David Pugliese does his best to portray Ghulam Rasol as an illiterate, manipulated naif, operating (no doubt) according to a twisted, hijacked version of Islam -- a classic Misunderstander of the Religion of Peace™. In reality, however, what Ghulam Rasol did was entirely in accord with Islamic law. His going to Afghanistan to fight the Infidels was in line with the Islamic doctrine that jihad becomes obligatory upon all Muslims whenever a Muslim land is attacked. (Provocations ...
Did We Fight the Good Fight, or Were We Just Pwned?
by Chris Rowan
Looks like the fix is in and Obamacare will be signed into law, if not tomorrow (Sunday, March 20) then soon thereafter. I haven't done as much in opposition as many others, but I've done some - Lots of emails, phone calls, endless FB postings, innumerable tweets, website posts, a few local Republican candidate livestreams, a few protests. I've made my opposition to Obamacare known, put it that way. I haven't been silent on the issue. And it didn't amount to a hill of beans. I'm left wondering if it ...
Today's Exploitation of Religion for Political Purposes Fail, Brought to You By Nahhhncy Pelohhhsi
by JE Tabler
Dear Nancy Pelosi, Your nonsensical and transparently socialist diatribe this morning, during which you chose to call us to pray to Saint Joseph, was neither here nor there. When it is instantly apparent to a Jew that you chose the wrong saint to invoke then it's pretty obvious you have no idea what you're talking about. Saint Joseph is the patron saint of carpenters, social justice, and fathers, so a bill which kills the babies of human parasites with the tax dollars of harder-working people is exactly the last ...
Today's Hot Posts
Fourth
&h=230&w=275&zc=1" alt="Yes, Mr. President, Some of Us Will Have to Go Without Health Care" width="275" height="230" />Yes, Mr. President, Some of Us Will Have to Go Without Health Care
Today's Featured Series
Third
Fourth
- Brought to you by:
David Horowitz Freedom Center
Recent Posts
Maggie Gallagher’s War on TrollopsNational Organization for Marriage president Maggie Gallagher has made a career out of protecting marriage from The Gay... »
Hey Congress! Perhaps You Should Know How a Bill Becomes a LawI blogged about this last week, but after my trip to DC today it's apparent Congress has not paid attention. If a child can... »
Nancy Below-C
The Democrat.....to be Concluded Sunday........ »Is Health Care Reform Constitutional?An interesting article was just published in the Washington Post (Sat, 3.20.10) about the likely legal actions that will follow... »Stupak Axes Presser, Fueling Abortion Provision Speculationby MB Snow Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) canceled a planned press conference Saturday morning on abortion, fueling speculation... »
HCR and the Long Retreat from MoscowJim DeMint famously characterized the Health Care Reform bill as President Obama's Waterloo, a statement that earned him... »Waging Jihad Through the American Courtsby Daniel Pipes On March 20, 2002, officers from the FBI, customs, immigration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms... »
Democrats Drop Deem and Pass. Good News or Bad News?This is breaking news: Democrats in Congress have abandoned deem and pass (or the slaughter house rule). After thinking... »
Dagwood Sandwich: Kinetic whimsy – Rube Goldberg would be proudRube Goldberg designed inventions of fantasmagoric wackyjabber. Along comes “Ok Go,” an indie rock band that kicks up the... »
Search
Subscribe
I will not say anything derogatory about Ted Kennedy in this open thread. There has been plenty of time for that before so no need to go further. What I will say is that I do think it will be quite a mistake for the left to use Kennedy’s death to try to “rally the troops” as it were in order to try to pass dreadful “healthcare” legislation. However, I read at the Corner today where Pelosi has already made such statements. These kinds of things are known to backfire. Does anyone remember the backlash in 2002 after the plane crash that killed a “progressive” senator (his name escapes me at the moment) that caused a serious backlash before the Congressional elections of that year?
That’s right…Paul Wellstone. Thank you.
Thanks Brent and very good points. It was Paul Wellstone btw.
It’s gone beyond rallying, they are now blaming Teddy’s absence form the Senate over the past few months and of course his death on the stalled healthcare plan…
gees