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“Doesn’t really make a lot of sense”

**Written by Doug Powers Rest assured, Mike Huckabee will aggressively defend this practice ASAP. From J.P. Freire at the Washington Examiner: With a schedule as hectic as President Obama’s it must be hard to stick to a training regimen without help — but why does he insist on having his old trainer fly out from [...]

**Written by Doug Powers For those of you keeping score at home, this amount of money is the equivalent of about 1.2 million packages of Ramen noodles. Jim Geraghty at NRO: In Mike Allen’s morning newsletter, we learn Planned Parenthood will spend $200,000 on television ads, urging Congress to not cut federal funding for Planned [...]

Mob rule.

It’s not about the “children.” It’s not about “fairness.” It’s about agitation and community organizing and ginning up hatred against political enemies. For the union radicals in Wisconsin, as I reported in my column on Friday, those enemies include the Koch brothers, the Tea Party movement, minority conservatives, female Republicans, independent citizen journalists…and Fox News. [...]

The upper hand

**Written by Doug Powers As you would expect in Chicago politics, all potential Team Rahm transition co-chairs were subjected to stringent background checks… except for the ones who weren’t: (CNN) – A co-chair of Chicago mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel’s transition team resigned from her new post Friday after it was revealed that she left her high-level [...]

**Written by Doug Powers At least they didn’t make his first name “Adolph.” From Fox News: The CBS drama “The Good Wife” has raised a few eyebrows by naming Gary Cole’s character, a ballistics expert, Tea Party member, and Sarah Palin supporter, “Kurt McVeigh,” a not so subtle comparison to Timothy McVeigh, the man behind [...]

**Written by Doug Powers If this guy didn’t have the White House’s ear on a daily basis it might not be worth mentioning, but unfortunately, that’s not the case: What’s the best way to get Americans back to work? Raise taxes, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Specifically, he wants to raise the federal gas [...]

This is economic stimulus you can believe in! Rockford, IL produced a clever tourism video enticing Fleebagger Democrats to “hide away in Rockford.” Love it! (h/t Sean Hackbarth)

**Written by Doug Powers The gavel is gone, but the conceit lives on… From Politico: The Democratic National Committee wanted to honor Nancy Pelosi Thursday — but its praise wasn’t good enough for the House minority leader. When the DNC’s Resolutions Committee brought up a resolution commemorating Pelosi’s years as speaker of the House, Pelosi’s [...]

This moronic attack started percolating on the blogs and Twitter over the past week: Fox News hosts and contributors including Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, yours truly, and others are greedy, union-bashing hypocrites who are card-carrying members of AFTRA. Here’s a typical rant: “FOX talking heads are all card carrying union members. Funny, they [...]

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. Eager to boost their rent-a-mob numbers, the Communications Workers of America (yes, the same union linked to the attack on FreedomWorks employees) in New Jersey are bribing union members to protest GOP Gov. Chris Christie. Via Newark Star-Ledger h/t Chris Wysocki: There appears to be efforts from unions to [...]

Projection. My new syndicated column today does the reporting the Tea Party-bashing national media won’t do on the rabid outbreak of progressive incivility and violence at Big Labor protests across the country. On Saturday, the grievance convergence will descend on all 50 state capitols spearheaded by the smear merchants of MoveOn.org — who will stoke [...]

Global rumors that Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi has been shot roiled the markets this afternoon. Oil prices tumbled $2 a barrel. The White House says it has “no reason to believe” Gaddafi is dead. But given how CIA director Leon Panetta gets his intelligence — quick, get him the TV remote control! — there’s no [...]

Tea Party senior citizens: Menaces to society!

**Written by Doug Powers As the Obama administration’s response to the situation in Libya stampedes decisively toward “strongly worded letter addressed to nobody in particular” territory, Aaron Klein has written about Barack Obama’s longtime paster, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and his connection to Muammar Gaddafi. Wright is quoted as saying the following the year before [...]

Stay classy!

Darkness falls.

Yesterday, I posted on public school teachers speaking truth to prog power — a topic I’ve been reporting on since the late-1990s, when I covered the battle of brave dissident educators who challenged the Washington Education Association’s misuse and abuse of forced dues for Democrat politics. Tonight, another public school teacher shared his thoughts with [...]

“Get a little bloody.”

**Written by Doug Powers I’m going to side with Seton Motley on Reid wanting to outlaw Nevada prostitution — ol’ Harry just doesn’t want the competition, even if it is merely metaphorical (politics differs greatly in that its practitioners pay for favors with somebody else’s money and full consent of all involved parties isn’t required). [...]

“Ya got a permit for that, Abe?”

“The Tea Party is a bunch of dick-sucking corporate butt-lickers who want to crush the working people of this country.” And he’s just getting started. This profanity-clogged union rant brought to you courtesy of the citizen watchdogs at Truth About Bills. New tone…same as the old tone. Be careful out there.

A left-wing website that specializes in pranking celebrities, pundits, and politicians — a la Howard Stern — is doing a Snoopy dance over a fake call its operatives made to GOP Gov. Scott Walker. The hoaxer pretended to be David Koch, the progs’ favorite capitalist target. I’m not going to give any direct traffic to [...]

Thuggery? What thuggery? Oh, yeah. That thuggery: A Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is raising the stakes in the nation’s fight over the future of public employee unions, saying emails aren’t enough to show support and that it is time to “get a little bloody.” “I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s [...]

In 2007, Johnson County, KS DA and former Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline brought a 107-count criminal complaint against a Planned Parenthood operation. In response to his whistle-blowing investigative work, Kline was put on trial and faces disbarment. NRO’s Kathryn Lopez reports on the witch hunt: He has been portrayed as a nutty prosecutor with [...]

Fleebaggers: The New Cut-and-Run Democrats by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 First lady Michelle Obama said, “Let’s Move!” Who knew Democratic politicians in Wisconsin and Indiana would take her literally? Faced with stifling debt, bloated pensions and intractable government unions, liberal Midwestern legislators have fled those states — paralyzing Republican fiscal reform efforts. Like [...]

“Giddy.”