One of the most successful (and loved and hated) conservatives of all-time, Newt Gingrich, stepped into the spotlight once again by presenting a conservative alternative to Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan. The president signed the ‘porkulus bill,’ as conservative bloggers quickly dubbed it, into law yesterday.
Gingrich’s plan is based on conservative values and supplyside economics.| MORE ›
Next time your child disobeys you and continues to send his / her friend text messages after you told him/ her to stop it for a while, you should just show him / her this news item:
A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl who refused to stop texting during a high school math class was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, according to police. The teenager was busted last Wednesday at Wauwatosa East High School after she ignored a teacher’s demand that she cease texting.| MORE ›
As Michael Merrit wrote recently, fellow Muslims who wish to improve Islam’s image in the West are wise to refrain from beheading their wife.
It’s something Muzzammil Hassan doesn’t understand. He was recently arrested; police suspected him of killing his beloved wife by beheading her. CNN now reports that the suspicions are correct. Muzzammil has reportedly admitted to interrogators that he beheaded her.
The reason Muzzammil killed his wife, Aasiya Hassan? She filed for divorce earlier this month.| MORE ›
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By Rodger Baker
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is making her first official overseas visit, with scheduled stops in Tokyo; Jakarta, Indonesia; Seoul, South Korea; and Beijing. The choice of Asia as her first destination is intended to signal a more global focus for U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, as opposed to the heavy emphasis on the Middle East and South Asia seen in the last years of the Bush administration.| MORE ›
It’s not so surprising to me that this might have happened. I suppose the real question is what would have happened had Burris been appointed by Pat Quinn and then all this came out? It seems to me that the Democrats were ready to accept Burris with open arms…had he been appointed by someone else.| MORE ›
Automaker Chrysler has asked the federal government for yet another loan. This time its requests are modest; it only wants to receive $5 billion in government aid which it will, of course, pay back when, well, when its envisioned utopy becomes reality.
It is logical for Chrysler to ask Washington for support. After all, Washington is busy bailing out everyone who asks for it (and those who don’t). Additionally, automakers yield tremendous influence in the Democratic Party, which is controlled by Unions after all.| MORE ›
The Wall Street Journal published two good columns about Britain’s refusal to let Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders into the country. The main point of the columns is that Britain sold out to Islamists, which is probably correct. The country in which political liberty as we know it was born, gave up freedom in exchange for artificial social stability.| MORE ›
A conservative student is suing Los Angeles City College over an incident in which a professor refused to let him finish a speech against gay marriage, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The student, Jonathan Lopez, told the Times that the professor, John Matteson, called him a “fascist bastard” and refused to let him finish his speech during a public speaking class last November, weeks after California voters approved Proposition 8 banning gay marriage.| MORE ›
In what can hardly be called a surprise, the British newspaper the Telegraph reports that Israel has launched a coert war against Iran. The goal of the covert operations is to delay the country’s nuclear project. Several important scientists have already been assassinated by Israeli agents, others will face the same fate.
A former CIA officer on Iran told The Daily Telegraph:| MORE ›
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