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Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Amherst MA? Amherst leaders are backing a resolution offering the Massachusetts college town as a possible resettlement home for two Guantanamo detainees if they are released from the military prison. The board voted 2-1 yesterday to endorse a warrant article filed on behalf of the two men by [...]

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti The volunteerism scandals Hollywood won’t be broadcasting by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009 Hollywood hearts Obama. Obama hearts government-directed national service. That is why you won’t be able to change the TV channel all week without getting lectured about the need to get off the couch and Do Something. (After [...]

As if there weren’t enough reasons to oppose radical leftist Dede Scozzafava’s GOP candidacy in the NY-23 special election, add one more to the list: She’s a liar. The Albany Times-Union reports: Police questioned a reporter from a conservative publication after receiving a call that he harassed a Republican candidate for Congress who refused to [...]

Attorney General Eric Holder’s old pals at Gitmo detainee-repping Covington & Burlington give this latest news two thumbs up. Way up: Congress took a step toward President Barack Obama’s goal of closing Guantanamo Bay prison on Tuesday when it cleared a measure allowing foreign terrorism suspects held there to face prosecution in the United States. [...]

So, Newt Gingrich is invoking Reagan to defend his endorsement of radical leftist Dede Scozzafava in the NY-23 special congressional election? Triple-gag: “If you seek to be a perfect minority, you’ll remain a minority,” says Gingrich. “That’s not how Reagan built his revolution or how we won back the House in 1994.” Let’s quote Reagan [...]

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti ACORN is a criminal enterprise. It took decades to build up its massive coffers and intricate web of affiliates across the country. It will take months and years to untangle the entire operation. And it will take time, money, and and relentless sunshine to dismantle the government-subsidized, partisan racket. It can’t [...]

A reader just sent this fresh missive from the Fox News Deranged-foot soldiers at MoveOn: From: Noah T. Winer, MoveOn.org Civic Action moveon-help@list.moveon.org Subject: Stay off FOX [Recipient name redacted] Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 2:05 PM Dear MoveOn member, All year, FOX has worked 24/7 to block President Obama’s agenda—repeating lies about “death panels,” [...]

A tipster e-mails: “Keep up the good work. Thought you’d like to see what Maryland teachers are being sent today (during school hours, school e-mail).” Dear XXXXXXX [redacted] We’ve waited long enough. Right now, everyone is paying for the cost of our broken health care system. People with “pre-existing conditions” are being denied coverage by [...]

The criminalization of conservative speech has been a recurring theme on this blog. In particular, I’ve spotlighted the efforts of open-borders groups to marginalize, criminalize, and demonize those of us who have raised our voices for years about lax immigration enforcement — and to impose a Fairness Doctrine-style policy on amnesty opponents. Keep all that [...]

What do you expect from a crime-coddling crony Attorney General? Real justice and equality under the law? Ha: Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters [...]

Transparency my foot. In its typically bass-ackwards way, the Democrat majority has released the 1,500-plus Baucus health care bill…a week after passing it in committee. Here it is in PDF form. But don’t invest too much time reading it. Because in the Dems’ typically non-transparent way, it’ll be melded, molded, and amended behind closed doors: [...]

What happened when the unfailingly polite John McCormack of The Weekly Standard tried to nail down pro-abortion, pro-card check, tax-hiking GOP NY-23 candidate Dede Scozzafava on her radical leftist positions? She affirmed her support of the union power grab and refused to answer whether the government health care takeover proposals should cover abortion. She refused [...]

Oh, crikey. I’m cramping up. From. Laughing so hard. Ouch. Ow. Stop the pain! The administration’s new two-pronged initiative, operating under a law passed by Congress last year, will consist of a bond purchase program to support new lending by these agencies, and a temporary credit and liquidity program to boost agency access to credit [...]

Over the past two weeks, I’ve reported on the grass-roots revolt by home health providers against the SEIU and rival AFSCME in Illinois. SEIU-endorsed Gov. Pat Quinn signed an executive order in June approving collective bargaining by “individual providers of home-based support services” — effectively busting open the doors of private homes for the Purple [...]

Tough times at the NYTimes: October 19, 2009 , 2:49 pm Times Says It Will Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs By Richard Perez-Pena The New York Times plans to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs – about 8 percent of the total – by year’s end, offering buyouts to union and non-union employees, and resorting to layoffs if [...]

The WSJ spotlights tax code affirmative action for golf club carts: We thought cash for clunkers was the ultimate waste of taxpayer money, but as usual we were too optimistic. Thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama’s stimulus plan, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to [...]

The latest in Commie Chic: “Oba Mao” t-shirts! Nope, not manufactured by RAAAACIST Tea Party protesters. Manufactured in China and sold by the Chinese for the rest of the Citizens of the World. Mao-cheerleading White House communication director Anita Dunn has already put in a special order (via Breitbart TV): *** On a related note, [...]

Plus: Reuters punked. And a Balloon-Boy/media conspiracy?

Plus: Anita Dunn on getting around the “filter.”

Blowing smoke.

Here is Al Sharpton fuming over Rush Limbaugh calling him out on his poisonous career of racial demagoguery: “He doesn’t have the right to lie and accuse people of crimes,” Sharpton said. Yes, Al Sharpton, perpetrator of the Tawana Brawley racial hoax crime, is braying about false criminal allegations. The charlatan knows no shame. Sharpton [...]

“What is the truth?”

Busy with family. Throwing out a couple discussion topics: * What good is an “opposition” party that wants to elect its own worst opponents? Related: Where is Sarah Palin? * Rush shreds the RAAAAAAACIST card. Related: First newspaper retracts fake RAAAACIST Rush quotes. * Out: Dissent is patriotic! In: Fox News Channel’s dissenting anchors are [...]

“It’s time for conservatives to show the Republican establishment who’s in charge.”

Conn Carroll at Heritage’s Foundry blog breaks down the stimulus spin from the White House today: The Obama administration released the first hard numbers on how many jobs their $787 billion stimulus package has created or saved on Recovery.gov today. The number: 30,383 jobs from roughly $16 billion worth of stimulus contracts awarded directly by [...]

What up?!

If you have given to the NRCC, RNC, or Newt Gingrich under the impression that they are using the money to support conservatism, you might want to ask for your money back. As I mentioned in my column post on the NY23 special election, the NRCC is using conservatives’ money to back a radical leftist [...]

We chuckled the other day about the San Francisco Chronicle item on the White House angst over possible protests during President Obama’s visit yesterday. Well, the protesters came out in full force — on the left AND the right. The City Square has photos of the eclectic Tea Party — which won’t be featured on [...]

Another must-read from Diana West.

Yes, it’s time for the upside-down elephant. The Stupid Party is at it again. The subject of today’s column: An abomination in the NY23 special congressional race to replace former GOP Rep. John McHugh, who accepted President Obama’s Army Secretary position. Way to go, Beltway GOP establishment. Grass-roots fiscal conservatives are fired up over ACORN, [...]