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Bill Roggio reports on the consequences of Obama’s Afghanistan waffle: Within 24 hours of the leak of the Afghanistan assessment to The Washington Post, General Stanley McChrystal’s team fired its second shot across the bow of the Obama administration. According to McClatchy, military officers close to General McChrystal said he is prepared to resign if [...]

Watch as White House senior adviser David Axelrod stumbles and bumbles his way through an incoherent explanation of why President Obama favors more consumer “choice” by opposing greater choice through increased health insurance competition across state lines: Hat tip: Cato, CfG, and News Alert

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti I said last week that the ACORN funding cut-offs on the Hill were just the beginning. Good news: The ball is rolling. DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine has launched an internal probe. I covered Fine’s extensive work on immigration enforcement lapses during the Clinton and Bush years. He is meticulous, thorough, [...]

The Astroturf gang’s all here.

This Friday, Sept. 25, the organizers of “Islam on Capitol Hill” hope to bring thousands of Muslims to Washington, D.C. The program for the “Day of Islamic Unity?” *The Athan will be chanted on Capitol Hill, echoing off of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and other great edifices that surround Capitol Hill *Thousands of [...]

I am sure Eric Holder and his racial preference-mongers (not to mention the “social justice” purveyors at Obama’s Department of Education) approve: Tucson schools create race-based system of discipline by Doug MacEachern – Sept. 19, 2009 08:22 PM The Arizona Republic …The board is calling for a two-tiered form of student discipline. One for Black [...]

When the White House Tax Czar says so.

Gird your loins, taxpayers and ratepayers. Sen. Barbara Boxer is readying her cap-and-tax monstrosity, and she is hoping to soften opposition among Climate Change Republicans. E&E News reports on the latest maneuvering, via Matt Dempsey at the US Senate Cmte on Environment and Public Works: The Senate climate debate has largely been in standby mode [...]

Misdiagnosis.

On Friday, SEIU thug-in-chief Andy Stern published a screed titled, “Working Women and Men Will Not Be Silenced by Right Wing Attack Dogs; We Will Win the Change America Needs.” He carped about “an insidious and coordinated effort on the part of the extreme right to target individuals and grassroots community groups as a way [...]

Did the National Endowment for the Arts subsidize actress Victoria Rowell’s dress at the Emmy Awards? (h/t Allahpundit) Blech: (Full-size photo at TMZ)

Last month, Big Hollywood’s Patrick Courrielche broke news on how the NEA was rustling up artists to help “serve” the White House political agenda. Big Government’s Mike Flynn and John Nolte have a follow-up here. (Updated: Courrielche has posted audio from the call contradicting the NEA’s spin here.) And the Washington Times — which reported [...]

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti Channeling clueless Charlie Gibson and Nancy Pelosi, President Obama is playing dumb about ACORN. Here’s what he said on ABC’s This Week this morning: STEPHANOPOULOS: But have your — have some of your allies made it easier for — handed your opponents some ammunition, like ACORN, for example… OBAMA: Well, look, [...]

Glad to be home after a long week of travel. Had a fantastic time at the lakefront Tea Party in Milwaukee. Talk amongst yourselves.

Ever since the “American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009″ kicked in, it was obvious that a major part of the stimulus would be paying people to design, manufacture and put up signs alerting taxpayers where their “stimulus” money was going. You’d have to spend a fortune on an investigation to find a better example [...]

“Crushed.”

Football plays politics, but the opposite isn’t always recommended

The Weekly Standard reports that conservative scholar, author, and Commentary magazine founder Irving Kristol has died. R.I.P.

I’m in Nashville today for the inaugural Smart Girl Politics summit. These ladies were instrumental in the Tea Party movement and are organizing limited government activists across the country at the local and state level. It’s an incredible story — and you’ll never hear/read about it in the Washington Post Style section or on The [...]

Cronies.

On August 26, my syndicated column blasted the ACLU for its spying operation on undercover CIA agents. The pictures of covert American CIA officers – “in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes” – were shown to jihadi suspects tied to the 9/11 attacks in order to identify the interrogators. The ACLU responded to my [...]

My column today blasts ACORN Housing Corporation’s criminal-enabling home loan program for illegal aliens. To paraphrase Jon Stewart: Where the hell is everyone? AHC is one of the endless non-profit arms of ACORN. Their response to the BigGovernment.com sting videos hasn’t received as much attention as the national ACORN flagship’s. You can read AHC’s CYA [...]

Better late than never. Prepare to be called a RAAAAAAACIST, Jay:

Good. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal today cut off state funding for the community activist group ACORN. Jindal has also blocked any state agency for entering into contracts with the organization. The executive order also cuts off any future state funding of ACORN, on the heels of a series of embarrassing incidents for the organization. The [...]

Better late than never: The US House today joined the Senate in voting to defund ACORN, the community advocacy group beset by allegations of voter registration fraud and videotapes apparently showing employees advising conservative activists posing as a prostitute and pimp how to break the law. The measure, offered as part of a motion on [...]

Huh? What? Duh? The Senate de-funded ACORN? Nancy Pelosi says she didn’t know: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she is clueless about an amendment to prohibit government funds for embattled ACORN, although it overwhelmingly passed the Senate Monday and the White House is calling for the group to be held accountable. “I don’t even [...]

Nancy Pelosi just sent out the following fund-raising e-mail through the DCCC: If this summer proved anything, it showed how urgently we must stand together to restore civility to our politics and help President Obama seize this historic moment for health insurance reform in America. You have already taken a stand against the Republicans’ attempt [...]

Don’t worry, be happy: The Obama administration will scrap the controversial missile defense shield program in Eastern Europe, a senior administration official confirmed to CNN Thursday. The U.S. has been testing the ability of ground-based interceptor missiles to hit long-range ballistic missiles. The comment followed similar statements from officials in Poland and the Czech Republic [...]

(Photo source: 2008 ACORN slideshow presentation) Good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read the Politico headline about Team Obama trying to run away from ACORN: “W.H. distances from activist group” Choking. Up. With. Laughter. Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow. He IS ACORN. And ACORN [...]

All the President’s “Point People.”