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Soon to be the new mascot of the Democrats’ cap-and-tax push, Disney’s Tinker Bell was tapped by the United Nations this week to serve as an “Honorary Ambassador of Green.” This is not an Onion parody: The United Nations Monday named Disney character Tinker Bell an “Honorary Ambassador of Green” to help raise children’s environmental [...]

Doug Powers takes a closer look at Harry Reid’s state opt-out sop. There’s no there there: I haven’t seen this section of the bill, but one thing is certain: It will be easier to get Michael Moore through the eye of a needle that for states to opt out of Obamacare. There will be countless [...]

The Working Families Party, an ACORN front group whose ballot line Newt Gingrich-endorsed radical leftist Dede Scozzafava has embraced on multiple occasions, is up to no good again. The NYPost reports: The labor-backed Working Families Party has engaged in “an audacious scheme to violate the law” to help the party’s favored political candidates get elected, [...]

Two helicopter crashes in Afghanistan took 14 American lives earlier today. In Colorado Springs today, Staff Sgt. Glen Hale Stivison Jr. was laid to rest. He was killed on Oct. 15 when a roadside bomb exploded, killing him and three other soldiers: Six-year-old Andrew Stivison stood tall to receive the folded flag, returned the general’s [...]

Final Jeopardy.

Capitol Hill awaits a 3:15pm Eastern press conference from Harry Reid, who is reportedly set to announce his public-option plan amid uncertainty over Democrat support: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this afternoon will announce his decision to include a government-run health care plan, or “public option,” in the health care bill he brings to the [...]

Newt and Dede sitting in a tree, erasing lines between “R” and “D” (TobyToons via RedState): The latest Club for Growth poll on NY-23 shows conservative candidate Doug Hoffman continuing his surge over the liberal Democrat and the radical leftist “R” in the race. (Caveats: Sample size is small and CfG is pro-Hoffman. Still. Hoffman’s [...]

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, desperate for cash to prop up his bankrupt and broken city, will lease anything. Parking meters. Airports. Now, water. A constituent asks: “Why are we having a fire sale on everything in the city?” Because everything’s for sale in the city… If the parking meter deal put a bad taste [...]

“News.”

Here’s the First Lady’s latest video pitch for Obamacare aimed at women: Nope, still no mention of the mother of Dontae Adams, one of the minority patients on Chicago’s southside shipped out of the University of Chicago Medical Center under the patient-dumping program spearheaded by Mrs. Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and David Axelrod. FLOTUS skates again. [...]

The most prominent GOP endorser of radical leftist NY-23 congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava is openly musing about running for president in 2012. No, thanks: Callista and I are going to think about this in February 2011. And we are going to reach out to all of our friends around the country. And we’ll decide, if [...]

At the annual American Banking Association conference this weekend in Chicago, the SEIU army spearheaded an angry mob protest against major financial institutions who have taken federal bailout funds. It was the usual left-wing Kabuki theater. If the protesters were sincerely mad about the government bailouts, they’d be yelling on Capitol Hill and in front [...]

On ABC News this morning at George Stephanopoulos’s This Week roundtable, fellow Fox News contributor and conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham took Charlie Gibson to task for his ignorance of the ACORN scandal (which, you’ll remember, a condescending Gibson said he thinks the MSM should “leave to the cables.”) Brava. Keep calling them [...]

Traveling. Talk amongst yourselves!

Call them out.

Photoshop: Ray D. Know your failure, Nancy. And own it: Speaker Nancy Pelosi counted votes Thursday night and determined she could not pass a “robust public option” — the most aggressive of the three forms of a public option House Democrats have been considering as part of a national overhaul of health care. Pelosi’s decision—coupled [...]

Hey, just what we and future generations of taxpayers need: Vast new opportunities for out-of-control government health care fraud! Philip Klein at the American Spectator reports: Guillermo Denis Gonzalez was released from prison in Florida in 2004 after serving 12 years for murder. By the end of 2006, he owned a health care business officially [...]

So, the GOP leadership is waking up to Team Obama’s “Chicago-style politics.” Here’s GOP leader John Boehner condemning the White House heavy hand. I was in the Windy City last night for the United Republican Fund’s 75th anniversary. URF is committed to electing conservatives to office and I was impressed with the number of fresh, [...]

Fuzzy math.

Whenever I have noted illegal alien mortgage fraud over the years, I’ve been smacked with the RAAAAACIST card. Wonder if the Inspector General for Tax Administration is going to get mau-mau-ed by the open borders lobby, too. Shhhhhh: The rush to implement a tax credit for first-time home buyers opened the program up to potential [...]

It’s time for the GOP to cut bait on radical leftist Dede Scozzafava. Dump Dede and quick. I repeat: Can the Republican establishment hear conservatives now? NRO’s Campaign Spot RedState Washington Times Washington Examiner The Conservatives Big Govenrment Red County Ace of Spades More voices piling on. Stay tuned. Get involved. Rescue conservatism from capitulation. [...]

Scroll down for updates…Palin endorses conservative Doug Hoffman… From reader Barnaby, who sent back his crossed-out Republican solicitation forms with a “NO RINOS” sticky note for Newt Gingrich: From reader K., a message to GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling’s office: As you’ve hopefully figured out by now, your boss really stepped in it with the endorsement [...]

What could possibly have been discussed in President Obama’s meeting with left-wing opinion journalists that required secrecy? What is being kept from the American public about the two-and-a-half hour confab? Goodbye, watchdogs. Hello, bootlickers. How about a full list of those who attended the off-the-record meeting? Where’s the openness and sunlight and disclosure? Quis custodiet [...]

From GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra’s office, a demand for transparency from the Obama administration on its Gitmo relocation plans: [Hoekstra,] the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, used a rare, open hearing of a House Intelligence Subcommittee to highlight the fact that nine months to the day after President Barack Obama signed an Executive [...]

Judge the Margaret Sanger award winner by the company she keeps: Fundraising reports for all the candidates in the New York special election are due today, but the candidates have been required to report all donations above $1,000 in the final weeks of the race. And, to get a sense why conservatives have been so [...]

Just imagine the coyote howls of “RAAAAAAACISM” that would be resounding right now if this gaffe had occurred on Fox News instead of “Real News” Network MSNBC. Where are the demands for a “diversity council” to ensure that such “insensitivity” does not occur again? Priceless moments: 1) When Jesse Jackson’s eyes bulge out so far [...]

It looked like the fix was in. The “Doc Fix,” that is. As the Heritage Foundation has been reporting, the White House and Dem leaders scurried today to try and pass a $247 billion payoff to doctors groups as an enticement to support Obamacare. Surprise: The fix failed. The cloture voted on S. 1776 failed [...]

President Obama has nominated the SEIU Purple Shirts’ associate general counsel, Craig Becker, to a slot on the National Labor Relations Board. Today, the Senate HELP Committee cleared him through on a 15-8 vote without a hearing. GOP Senators Mike Enzi (for whom Becker served as a labor counsel) [correction: the GOP NLRB nominee Brian [...]

Stuck on stupid.

And the hoax crimes just keep on piling up. The latest recanting took place in West Virginia: Seven people pleaded guilty for their part in abusing Megan Williams — but now Williams says that abuse never happened. She will hold a press conference Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, to recant her claims of abuse, attorney Byron [...]