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Got the news from my publisher this afternoon that Culture of Corruption will top the New York Times best-seller list at #1 for the 4th week in a row. You can catch me tonight around 9pm-ish Eastern on Hannity on FNC, where I launched the book a month ago. Reminder that you can buy shattered [...]

The more the Democrats deny it, the more obvious it becomes that Obamacare will of course cover illegal aliens. I said so last month. And now… GOP Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, citing a new, non-partisan Congressional Research Service report, says it again: “Democrats can keep claiming all they want that illegal immigrants will not [...]

My opinion of Mark Sanford is well-known. So is my repeated call for him to go away and quick. It’s taken too long, but South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has finally asked the lying liar to step down — and state House Republicans are meeting this weekend to discuss impeachment: Lt. Gov. [Andre Bauer] [...]

Last year, I introduced you to self-proclaimed bank terrorist and housing entitlement shakedown artist Bruce Marks of the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA). Reminder: Over the years, as part of his permanent campaign to browbeat banks into giving fair loans to low- and moderate-income people, Marks and his yellow-T-shirted followers have swarmed shareholders’ meetings [...]

I’ll let these speak for themselves: Kennedy’s Death Spurs Calls to Pass Health Legislation House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office sent an email to reporters at around 2:30 a.m. today, just hours after his death, calling for the passage of health care overhaul. “Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made [...]

War on watchdogs.

Have you heard a peep from ACLU supporters about the group’s special spying project on undercover CIA agents? Me neither. It’s the subject of my syndicated column this week. IBD has an excellent editorial. Few other MSM papers have weighed in. ACLU: Spying for America’s enemies by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009 Savor the [...]

The U.S. Senator from Massachusetts succumbed to brain cancer at the age of 77 tonight. Put aside your ideological differences for an appropriate moment and mark this passing with solemnity. There is a time and place for political analysis and criticism. Not now. Yes, there will be a nauseating excess of MSM hagiographies and lionizations [...]

Egad, hasn’t he done enough damage already? Apparently not. Via the Boston Globe, Rep. Barney Frank can’t wait to meddle even more in the marketplace. Keep an eye on the grabby hands: As chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Frank is busy assembling a complex bill to give the federal government unprecedented control over [...]

Guy Benson asks them: One gentleman told me he’d emailed Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.) to register opposition to the House health care bill. He received an email response from Bean’s office the next day (entirely appropriate), followed by the Axelrod email a few days later. Another caller said she’d contacted Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s (D-Mich.) office [...]

Nabbed: Left-wing Obamacare supporter Maurice Schwenkler, not Obamacare foes, arrested in attack on Denver Democrat HQ I called out GOP fake hate crime perpetrator Ashley Todd last year and have documented a long list of hoax crimes across party, racial, and gender lines for nearly two decades. So, the latest case of so-called progressives vandalizing [...]

Man, the updates to Culture of Corruption just keep piling up. Here’s another one for my Clinton and Money Men chapters: The U.S. attorney in New York on Tuesday charged a New York investor and major Democratic fund-raiser with a $74 million scheme to defraud Citigroup Inc (C.N). Hassan Nemazee, 59, was charged with one [...]

Just in this afternoon after eight days of trial against the first defendant in the Christian/Newsom kidnap/murder case. One guilty verdict down, three to go: Jurors this morning convicted Letalvis Cobbins of first-degree murder in the torture-slaying of Knox County couple Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. The verdicts were announced before a packed crowd, including [...]

Just to recap: Cash for Clunkers. Cash for Kitchen Appliances. Cash for Coiffures. And now…Cash for Convicts. Really. The feckless feds are begging prisoners to give the money back. Really: Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent [...]

When you can’t stand the heat, surround yourselves with Purple Shirts. The latest congressional fugitive to take sanctuary at a union office is Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Chaka Fattah. Via PA Water Cooler and Panzramic: MEDIA ADVISORY: Coverage Invited TUESDAY Rep. Fattah Will Address Healthcare Forum PHILADELPHIA — Congressman Chaka Fattah, a strong advocate for President [...]

“Hell to pay.”

Last month, I reported on how the Obama science czar’s office stonewalled my questions about John Holdren and his warm relationship with intellectual mentor and colleague Harrison Brown, a leading eugenics enthusiast who referred to the world population as a “pulsating mass of maggots.” Investigative blogger Zombie provided an in-depth look at Holdren and Brown [...]

GOP Sen. Kit Bond voted to confirm crime-coddling Attorney General Eric Holder on February 2, 2009. Sen. Bond cluelessly explained that Holder was “a good listener.” As I reported at the time, 19 Bend Over Republicans joined the majority to install Holder as head of the Obama Justice Department. Let me refresh your memories: Alexander [...]

Last week, I reprinted a boycott flyer sent to me by a Whole Foods employee who asked readers to support the company, which has been targeted by leftists because CEO John Mackey opposes a government takeover of health care: The union brass at the UFCW are living high on the hog. Mitchell Blatt shines some [...]

Can’t say I’m getting all wee-weed up about the DOJ disclosure today that Bush/CIA interrogators threatened 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s family (info that isn’t even new.) Nope. No tears. How about you? Flashback: 9/11 Children Flashback: Angels on loan from God Via Sgt. Tim Sumner, photos of the angel children murdered on 9/11: Lan [...]

Cash for Clunkers. Cash for Kitchens. And now…Cash for Coiffures: Arguing in favor of President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in January Democratic Congressman and senate candidate Paul Hodes claimed the stimulus act would “Reduce Soaring Unemployment.” It hasn’t worked out that way. Instead, according to a report issued by the New Hampshire [...]

Washington just doesn’t get it. Spending beyond our means is what got this country into trouble in this first place. Political gimmickry like Cash for (fill-in-the-blank) only exacerbates the root cause. Government has no business encouraging people to take out car loans or home loans — or buy new refrigerators or dishwashers — when they [...]

All wee-wee’d up.

Matthew Vadum reports that Obama’s left-wing allies are preparing plans to re-brand 9/11 as a national service/eco-zealot propaganda day. Really: The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of [...]

Democrat Obamacare Astroturfing? What Democrat Obamacare Astroturfing. Ohhhh, that Democrat Obamacare Astroturfing.

A New York Times headline yesterday read: “Obama’s Team Is Lacking Most of Its Top Players.” Yes, so much for the Greatest Transition in World History (a point expounded on in the introduction to Culture of Corruption, where I note that for all the hype about Obama’s brilliant, efficient, amazingly genius transition team, Obama failed [...]

“Resource.”

Old commies never die. They just keep turning up on state-run TV… Former leader Fidel Castro appeared on Sunday on Cuban television for the first time since June of last year in a video of him chatting with students from Venezuela. Castro, 83, appeared to be in good condition as he spoke with the students [...]

Signs of real Hope and Change from Nevada! Via the Las Vegas Review-Journal: It’s the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada [...]