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Thousands of open “enthusiasm gaps”

To the rescue?

**Written by Doug Powers Comedy Central’s coverage is underway. Oprah and Arianna paid for hundreds of buses to ship people in, because if there’s one thing that makes a rally really hit home, it’s extra astroturf. The AP has perhaps the most hilarious repetition of the organizers’ talking points: WASHINGTON – People assembled by the [...]

Soon-to-be lame duck Harry Reid is promising yet another vote on the perpetually rejected DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout. Univision host Jorge Ramos crowed about it on his Twitter page, promoting an interview with Reid scheduled to air this Sunday. The Huffington Post confirmed: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has promised to bring [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Hillary Clinton’s State Department is getting tough on Iran, as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip Crowley demonstrates: If that doesn’t convince Mahmoud, the State Department’s Teddy-Gram with the “Bear-hugs for you if you start being nicer” note should do the trick. This is being reported as a [...]

They’re baaaaaaack. Before the Philly New Black Panther Party radicals showed up at a voting booth in 2008 with billy clubs and racial epithets at the ready, my old nemesis Malik Shabazz — the NBPP thug-in-chief — put out a nationwide warning. Remember? “We will be at the polls in the cities and counties in [...]

Betting on the Stealers

Scroll for updates… Looks like there has been a coordinated attack on UPS planes worldwide today. Reports are breaking on a Yemen-Chicago plane stopped in London with a bomb on board. Planes also pulled over in Newark and Philadelphia. Wild guess: It wasn’t planned by a Catholic or Mormon network. (Sarcasm off.) Which MSNBC host [...]

The wall-to-wall campaign coverage has distracted me from noting several terrifying shootings in the Beltway area — all targeting the military and specifically, the Marines. The shooter is apparently on the loose with a high-powered rifle. Earlier in the week, there were three incidents: he FBI said on Thursday that it has linked a shooting [...]

My column today pays tribute to some of the conservative women on the campaign trail who have not only weathered the nastiest ad hominem attacks, but who have risen above them with amazing grace. Is it any wonder that women are abandoning the Democrat Party? Readers of this blog have known that women played a [...]

**Written by Doug Powers John Kerry’s list of significant epochs in world history: –Upper Cambrian –Lower Permian –Middle Jurassic –Paleocene –Gigolocene –Know Nothing (Late 2010-?) Thurston Heinz III’s swift boat has sprung a leak in the deep end again. Strange — just a couple of years ago the country was brilliant, progressive and in a [...]

If you’re a longtime reader of this blog, you know all about the Gawker smear machine and its misogynist war on conservative women. Under Gawker Media boss Nick Denton, barrel-scraping blog Wonkette published racist, sexist crap like this: And manufactured smears like this. In 2008, it was lying Gawker that published Sarah Palin’s hacked private [...]

Not enough Kool Aid to go around this year

There is no “apology.” So I’m not sure why Mediaite headlines its latest Joy Behar video, “Joy Behar Apologizes For Calling Sharron Angle ‘Bitch;’ Says It’s ‘A Term Of Endearment.’ In fact, the non-”apology” shows that in addition to being a foul-mouthed, spewing shrew, Behar is also an inveterate coward who won’t take responsibility for [...]

Post-racial America, we hardly knew you. On the heels of California Democrat Rep. Loretta Sanchez screeching about “the Vietnamese” and GOP challenger Van Tran trying to “take away” her seat in the year’s most embarrassing ethnic card implosion, you would think other California minority politicians would forsake such poisonous identity politics. Nope, not a chance. [...]

Old logo: New logo: Photoshop credit: Commenter jeffjackie Via Dan Collins, did taxpayer bailed-out Bank of America give the Democrat Party a sweetheart election-year loan? Richard Pollack raises the question in a PJM exclusive: Shortly after Labor Day, as polls continued to sink, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) realized it needed a cash infusion for [...]

“Mr. Watson, come here and look what the government invented!”

Photo credit: Leo Alberti The Boxer for Senate campaign in California is brazenly recruiting public school students through the teachers’ union. Jon Coupal at FlashReport has the scoop and a copy of the solicitation: Today the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association notified the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles Board of Education today [...]

No more bets, we have our winner

Photo – Jon Humbert After Joy Behar’s “bitch” session on The Spew yesterday, Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle struck back…with flowers and a cheery note. Via Elizabeth Crum at NRO Battle ’10: No one can accuse Team Angle of not having a healthy sense of humor. In response to Joy Behar’s vicious remarks on [...]

Colorado Democrat Senate candidate Michael Bennet has been getting plenty of help from the liberal media in his tight race with GOP upstart Ken Buck. But not everyone in the media is willing to play along. The hosts of KOA’s morning show in Denver, Steffan Tubbs and April Zesbaugh, made public an e-mail from the [...]

Richard Trumka is at it again. Via the Labor Union Report, the AFL-CIO is attacking 10th amendment activists for their “cultish beliefs” in constitutional government. Their partners in slime? Soros-funded Think Progress, of course: Most cults are based in some sort of skewed spiritual vision or the worship of a charismatic leader, but there is [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Conversation coming soon to a prison cell near you: “What are you in for?” “Grand theft auto. You?” “Butter.” BALTIMORE — The Baltimore City Health Department issued its first environmental citation for repeat violations of the city’s trans fat ban. The Health Department issued Healthy Choice, a food facility in the [...]

My column today builds on Monday’s voter fraud round-up and spotlights left-wing efforts to demonize citizen election watchdogs. New developments since I filed the piece yesterday: Dingy Harry turns to election bribery. Guess who’s operating Las Vegas voting booths? Rhymes with S-E-I-U. Chicagoans are plagued by a botched vote-by-mail system. In Minnesota, charges are still [...]

No illegal alien voter left behind.

**Written by Doug Powers At the White House website, photographer Pete Souza has chosen his ten favorite photographs on the one-year anniversary of the “Photo of the Day.” Clearly many congressional Dems up for re-election this year weren’t allowed a vote to suppress: Is Souza a Republican? In any case, thanks for the extra motivation, [...]

“Please disperse! Nothing to see here!”

I’ve blogged before about Colorado Springs Derangement Syndrome (see here and here). Liberal elites across the country have targeted my adopted hometown and its city government for daring to cut public services instead of imposing knee-jerk tax hikes to cope with economic strain. As city councilman Sean Paige points out, private philanthropy thrives in this [...]

I’m already a member of the club. So is Sarah Palin. And so is Michele Bachmann. Now, Joy “If you disagree with me, you’re a BITCH!” Behar is trashing GOP Nevada senate candidate Sharron Angle as a “bitch” who is “going to hell” because of her staunch opposition to illegal immigration and the cult of [...]

Here in my home state of Colorado, the Tom Tancredo Surge continues. Polls consistently show Tancredo’s independent gubernatorial candidacy within 1-5 points of vulnerable Democrat opponent John Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver. The latest poll from Democratic pollster PPP shows Tancredo within 3 points. Hickenlooper is still drawing under 50 percent. It’s Hick at 47, [...]