Archives for June 2007
Tonight
We’re talking about Ann vs. Edwards with the White House vs. The Senate as a mid card match and also Glasgow is bombed.
I’m going to do a big post later tonight or tomorrow and I don’t think anyone is going to like it.
Clip Day
The shamnesty aftermath, Coulter vs. the more masculine of the Edwards, the shamnesty aftermath, Jenber, and if there’s time, the shamnesty aftermath.
1PM Eastern/Noon Central
Giuliani Jumps The Shark
As president he’d become the Rudynator?
Mayor Giuliani is telling California voters wondering what kind of president he would make that they need to look no further than their popular Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“I governed very much like your governor does,” Mr. Giuliani said as he described his tenure as mayor of New York from 1994 […]
Thursday Hard Starboard Recap
“Shamnesty” is dead - again. Which left me to clean up some loose ends after the victory party, and get a leg up on the “Darn, this was a good week for conservatives!” retrospectives now pouring forth today.
I’ll certainly be discussing this at greater length tomorrow. What better way to prepare for tomorrow’s live blog? […]
Ed’s right - a little common sense please…
Morrissey is so reasonable that it is clear he’d never make a good lawyer and an even worse judge.
Aren’t you glad you never went to law school, now?
Seriously, Ed raises some good points - and one that I would disagree with. I would not say that the last 40 years of race based legal […]
New Court Puts Its Stamp On Race Relations
The Roberts court made its first stamp on the volatile area of race relations yesterday in ruling that most state education plans that considers race as a basis of assignment are unconstitutional. Critics have howled that the court has thrown back desegregation efforts by decades, while supporters wonder why it took so long for […]
A few reasons why many Hispanics didn’t want the immigration bill
Immigration Report: The Hispanic View:
A few reasons why many Hispanics didn’t want the immigration bill
My latest article is up at Pajamas Media, along with Rick Moran’s Immigration Report: The Gringo View:
The fallout from the immigration fiasco spells trouble for the GOP
I’ll be on the road today. My Fausta’s blog.com doesn’t seem to be working right […]
Bleep Happens
The Democrats fear Mitt Romney. Or so I judge from their endless attempts to fearmonger his Mormonism and smear the “religious Right” as being bigoted against him because of it when it is they who seem to harbor the revoltingly robust prejudice. Or their endless attempts to try to “Kerryize” him as a flip-flopper. Or this scatological […]
Brownback or Switchback?
Not that the Kansas GOP senator was a serious contender for the 2008 presidential nomination, but this ought to earn him a seat in the nosebleeds right alongside Ron Paul.
On the other hand, Brown/Switchback is bound to be asked about this pirhouette in courage in Saturday’s “debate,” which should spice up the live-blog here….
THANK GOD!!!
53 TO 46
“The American people spoke up and not only shut down the Senate switchboard, but also shut down an irresponsible amnesty bill. I want to thank each and every Floridian who voiced their concerns and buried this bill. I will continue my efforts to make sure that amnesty does not rear […]
Wednesday Hard Starboard Recap
The Dems are really going to try to put talk radio out of business. And Harry Reid rolled out their template yesterday.
If these exercises in brazen thuggery don’t defibrilate the GOP base out of its counterproductive, inward-focused post-2006 disgruntlement toward re-engaging the Democrats for the party’s - and country’s - very survival, to say nothing of […]
Mismanagement At DHS, Again, And For The Same Reason
Remember the debate on the formation of the DHS in the months after 9/11? Advocates of consolidating many federal agencies, including FEMA, the INS (now ICE) and others, claimed that centralized management would improve efficiencies across the range of agencies involved. Opponents warned of the potential for mismanagement and incompetence in a vastly-expanded […]
BURSTING WITH BLOWBACK ON BLOGTALK
“The Republican Party is no longer the party of the Conservatives. The Republican Party is beyond repair… A tectonic shift in American politics has already begun. Both the Republicans and the Democrats are controlled by people that adhere to the globalist agenda. Both of the Big Two parties are advancing globalist […]
Tuesday Hard Starboard Recap
My Saturday prophecy proved to be teeth-clenchingly accurate. With cloture on whether to revive Bush-McCain-Kennedy-Kyle-Etc. achieved, it’s onto the amendments, which will change little or nothing fundamental about the amnesty bill but will fill skittish GOP senators with that nice, warm, fuzzy “process” feeling (kind of like the warmth hypothermia victims feel before they drift […]
Digging Deeper
The controversy over the Vice President’s compliance with rules governing classified material continues, with Dick Cheney still ignoring the first rule of holes. His office sent a reply to Senator John Kerry arguing that the executive order exempts the President, and therefore also the VP:
Vice President Cheney’s office offered its first public written explanation […]
WHAT FRED THOMPSON KNOWS ABOUT HER ROYAL PANTSUIT
Jack Cashill writes that barring the calamitous, former United States Senator from Tennessee Fred Thompson will be the next president of the United States.
In 1997, then Senator Thompson chaired a committee that investigated what he rightly called “the most corrupt political campaign in modern history.” Hillary’s fingerprints were all over that campaign.
Beginning early in 1995, […]
Another Rudy Flip-Flop
This time it’s on campaign finance reform.
If I didn’t know better, I’d say America’s Mayor is simply telling the GOP nominating electorate exactly what it wants to hear (on everything OTHER than abortion).
Monday Hard Starboard Recap
How can the Western Left and Islamic Fundamentalists have so much in common? Particularly when the latter is the embodiment of the smears the former hurl at Christian conservatives?
Ooops, sorry, just gave it away. Ah, well, you know the old saying: haters of a feather flock together.
Elsewhere, the Roberts SCOTUS nibbled at the edges of […]
Amnesty wins
The great sellout…..
the Senate got 64 for cloture.
“The Senate voted Tuesday to jump-start a stalled immigration measure to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants.
President Bush said the bill offered a “historic opportunity for Congress to act,” and appeared optimistic about its passage by week’s end.
The pivotal test-vote was 64-35 to revive the divisive […]
Memo To Sally
TO: Sally Quinn, Washington Post
FROM: JASmius, Hard Starboard (C’mon, Sal, I’ve seen those hits from the Beltway, I know you’ve heard of me)
RE: The Great Cheney Switch
Don’t have a whole lot of time, so I’ll just toss this out there and see if it sticks. How about Bush and Cheney switching jobs? Free and clear? […]
Help Wanted: Temp Job, Good Benefits, Poisonous Atmosphere
Looking for a high-visibility position with few real responsibilities? Good benefits, high salary, and access to the most comfortable offices you want? 18-mo. contract job available immediately. Experience in deferring to party poobahs and shining on media inquiries preferred, but can train for compliant candidates. Good presentation skills a must, especially […]
Sally Quinn for Vice President
Since no Republican in their right mind would take the job, Quinn may be the only person in Washington who could advocate replacing Cheney and thus making her the prime candidate to join an Administration with a 27% approval rating pushing a wildly unpopular immigration bill, prosecuting a war becoming even unpalatable to leading Republicans […]
A Charming Naiveté At The Washington Post
Sally Quinn indulges in a fantasy on the opinion pages of today’s Washington Post, one that some Republicans have indulged for the last three years in various forms. We can call it the Great Cheney Switch, the deposing of the Vice President in order to benefit Republicans in the next election cycle. Like […]
WITH ANDREA SHEA KING TONIGHT - BILL ROGGIO, EMBED
Bill Roggio’s extensive experience as an embed reporter in Iraq and Afghanistan has brought us a unique perspective of the Long War that you’re not likely to see or read in the mainstream media. He posts at his website The Fourth Rail.
Tonight he joins me to bring us up to date about the situation […]
Weekend Hard Starboard Recap
When it comes to the Middle East, U.S. foreign policymakers evidently will never, EVER learn that there’s no such thing as a “peace-loving terrorist”. Kind of like Democrats will never, EVER stop being paranoid about Dick Cheney.
We’ll never accept reality about the Iranian mullahgarchy, either. A pity we can’t all be Australians now.
At this point […]
States Form The Front Line On Immigration
Frustrated by twenty years of inaction by the federal government and angry over having to bear the costs of that failure, states have begun taking immigration policy into their own hands. The amount of pending immigration-related state legislation has doubled from last year, and most of it consists of punitive measures to deny illegals […]
Political Pistachio Radio is now a featured show!
Blog Talk Radio, in their infinite wisdom, has decided due to the rising numbers, and excellent content, Political Pistachio Radio deserves to be a featured show! Tune in to find out what the ruckus is all about! Tonight’s guest is Jeff Edwards, Author of Torpedo.
Friday Hard Starboard Recap
Nothing by day, a bunch by night. Kind of like if the Bradys had been the Incredibles.
The Fairness Doctrine’s resurrection could very well be the Clinton machine’s latest open conspiracy. Amazing how skillful they are at hiding their machinations in plain sight.
Lindsey Graham may not be realizing the jeopardy into which he’s put his senate […]
Hard Starboard Radio Rolls On
Tune in at 10 AM for the weekly Republican Forum Roundtable as we (or I) discuss Trent Lott, Lindsey Grahamnesty, war developments, and three senators in an elevator. (However long it takes.)
Don’t miss it!
American Workers Being Purposefully Defrauded by Companies Looking to Hire Only Illegals
A little something to get you angry this morning…
Still think immigration isn’t a problem?
Political Pistachio Gets Torpedoed!
Jeff Edwards is a retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and an Anti-Submarine Warfare Specialist. He chased Soviet submarines during the Cold War, and launched cruise missiles in the Persian Gulf. His twenty-three year career spanned the globe. He is now an expert civilian consultant to the Naval Space Warfare Systems Center and the Fleet […]
Charity Begins At Home
….which is, um, “rich” when that home boasts 28,000 square feet of floor space.
Thursday Hard Starboard Recap
It was a quiet day on the blog, as Jenber has jury duty and I was snowed under at work.
But I did manage, before collapsing on the couch last night, to marvel at the unabashed Democrat culture of corruption and what such a steroidal level of brazenly avaricial cynicism is having on the public’s civic […]
RE: CAP Report
My post here,
But a recap is in order:
“Here, for the Business 101 clueless, the fact is that radio is a listener/revenue generated business. Radio stations will play animal farting sounds 24/7 if it brings in revenue, it’s that simple.
Face it, liberal/progessive radio for the most part sucks. No, for all parts it sucks. I […]
SSGT Tim Chambers on The Front Line Tonight!
You’ve seen this amazing Marine holding a salute for hours at the annual Rolling Thunder rallies as thousands of bikes roll by, saluting back in respect.
Tonight you can talk to him live, and you’ll find there is much more to this man than just a solitary figure standing in the median on 23rd and […]
Why The CAP Report Is Nonsense
The Center for American Progress released a report Wednesday on the imbalance between conservative and liberal voices in traditional talk radio, and the liberal organization has found the reason, or so they claim. CAP insists that the poor performance of liberal talk radio comes from a failure of government to regulate political speech:
There are […]
Who’s The Flip-Flopper?
It’s sure looking like “America’s Mayor” at the moment, as Ed posted yesterday. First abortion (and by implication, judicial appointments), now the line item veto. At worst that would put Rudy a pirhoutte ahead of the Mittster.
It’s a more serious matter for Giuliani, though. Romney was an abortion moderate and became fully pro-life and can […]
Wednesday Hard Starboard Recap
Jen has jury duty. A fate that I narrowly, and as it turned out, entertainingly, averted a while back.
Who the devil keeps letting The Teeth out? Why can’t he be dragged away to a Gaza rest home and fitted for a Hannibal Lector mask?
And I’m not the only one who considers war with Iran to […]
The Openness Deficit
Democrats have slowly formed its open-government effort, and only in certain areas that have less effect on their ability to raise funds and entice lobbyists. They have eschewed earmark disclosures, resulting in a humiliating floor defeat to the minority Republicans in the House last week. Now their work on expanding ethics challenges may […]
The Battle To Be The Next Perot
With this David Frum analysis of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s party registration change in mind, would anybody else besides me be surprised if it comes out between now and November 5, 2008 that Bloomberg is in secret cahoots with the Clinton machine? And where does this leave John McCain on the independent run you just […]
P.V. Radio ‘Live’ Tonight At 6PM PST
BREAKING NEWS!
Michael Linn Jones of the ‘Michael Linn Jones Blog‘ has accepted our invitation to come onto Political Vindication Radio! Frank and Shane will be interviewing him tonight at 6pm Pacific time. Michael is going to tell us about his thoughts on the second immigration bill that is being pushed in the United States Senate. […]
Tonight: Haditha Exposed
Tonight is a very special edition of The Front Line. I will have three guests in an explosive roundtable on the Haditha incident. Throw out everything you think you know, everything the media has told you. Court testimony is out there, NCIS is on the record as incompetent and dishonest, and even […]
Rudy & The ISG
Personally I’m of no particular mind about the circumstances of Rudy Giuliani’s departure from the so-called Iraq Study Group thirteen months ago. What ought to disturb GOP primary voters is that he was ever a part of the ISG at all.
This sentence from the Newsday story says it all:
Giuliani left the Iraq Study Group last […]
Tuesday Hard Starboard Recap
The “lesson” that disgruntled right-wing purists intended last November’s election drubbing to “teach” the Republicans in Congress doesn’t appear to have taken hold. Just the opposite, in fact.
Not quite so at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, however. If you can ignore the Godzilla-sized immigration rumble hiding in every cubic centimeter of the room you’re […]
Two For The Price Of One, Redux
Everything 1992 is 2008 again. Remember the famous offer that Bill Clinton made to American voters in his first presidential campaign? He said that a vote for him would get us “two for the price of one,” promising a more-or-less joint presidency. Carl Bernstein tells the London Telegraph that Hillary’s renewing the […]
Latchkey Kids
Over at OTB, I round up some thoughts on the latest “these kids today” meme, the idea that our children don’t spend enough time outside.
Are our neighborhoods genuinely less safe than they were a generation ago? Or are parents just too overprotective? And is it really that big a deal?
OTB Radio Debut
OTB Radio had its debut on BlogTalkRadio at 7 Eastern yesterday in what I believe will be our weekly time slot.
Ed Morrissey of Captain’s Quarters and political director here at BTR was kind enough to join me and help make the launch go more smoothly. We talked about the 2008 race, especially why John McCain […]
Why Opie’ll Never Be President
His indiscretion:
“What if we took the $500 billion we’re spending in Iraq, and suppose we decided to make primary school education available to 100 million children around the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America? What if we took the lead in sanitation, providing clean drinking water - by itself, that would have enormous impact on […]
Palestinian Caveat
Regarding the Hamas move to “kiss & make up” with Fatah, Ed writes this morning:
Khaled Mashaal has seriously miscalculated this time. In one fell swoop, he alleviated Abbas of all the baggage in the Palestinian Authority He no longer has the responsibility for dealing with the catastrophe in Gaza after the Israeli withdrawal. Hamas has to […]
Here He Comes
….Arthur Branch, that is. And there may be no stopping him. Even Mittsters aren’t denying it.
McCainiacs probably still are. But their collective mental Straight Talk Express rolled out out of Reality Station a long time ago.
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