Right Wing Nation

Everybody needs to read this. Now. I didn’t read the comments, but I’m sure Ace is taking a lot of shit for it.

etc., etc., etc.
Most importantly, “purges” are not the key to winning national elections.

With 2 million participants, yesterday’s protest is the largest event ever held in the capitol.

Write up and more pictures here.

The Tea Party movement goes to Capitol Hill. List of buses (leaving from all over the United States) here. Story here.

Baron Hill’s latest display of arrogance at a townhall in Bloomington is probably the best news Mike Sodrel has had all year (video here, if you haven’t seen it). Seriously, when a Democrat gets trashed for his arrogance in the IU college newspaper editorial page, it’s time to hang it up.

Definitely the quotation du jour:
Self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals in all 50 states of the union, according to the Gallup Poll. At the same time, more Americans nationwide are saying this year that they are conservative than have made that claim in any of the last four years.
Hat tip: Insty

I guess Arlen didn’t get trashed enough in Philly (the video is great, and follow the links). I got a postcard (haven’t seen anything about it online, so no link) saying he’ll be here in town for a town hall.
Wednesday August 12
8:30 am
President’s Hall 4 in the Penn Stater
215 Innovation Blvd
Mitch gets his wish! Get […]

First, a quiz. Which American car company did not take a government handout?
Surely, you know, right?
Ford.
And which American car company posted a quarterly profit of over 2 billion?
In recent months, the carmaker has claimed market share from its American rivals, General Motors and Chrysler, while those companies struggled to restructure their operations in bankruptcy court.
Ford […]

and he has a couple of great articles, first here, then here.

He hits is right out of the park. Courtesy of Frugal Hoosiers, Mitch gives the GOP National Address.

Rock star.

Dedicated to the memory of Jack Kemp, who passed away May 2, 2009.
2004: Terry Schaivo
This is a perfect example of how good intentions can backfire. Glenn Reynolds noted shortly afterwards that public opinion of Congress began to nosedive when Congress tried to intervene. Supporters of the intervention saw themselves, or rather, Congress, as saving a […]

I’m not the only one (thanks to Uncle for the link).

New Evidence Suggests that Cavemen Were More Compassionate Than Average Ivy League Ethics Professor. And read the article. Hat tip to Cranach.

H/T to Maggie’s Farm for this 20-minute talk by Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs and narrator of Deadliest Catch. Although he doesn’t say it, what he does say is the best argument against the “everybody needs to go to college” line I have seen.

From Damian Thompson’s blog:
Peter51: you are a homicidal liar out to confuse what is sufficiently clear. The Catholic Church did not “force” a nine-year-old girl to have twins; the Catholic Church does not have a penis and does not produce fertilizing sperm. The child’s stepfather had and did. Sorry to have to introduce you to […]

This clip has been viral for the last couple of days, but since I’ve been sick, I missed it. Oh, and miss it, I did! Nobody can gut and filet with so much poison and finesse quite like a Brit. You really need to watch this. I grabbed it from Jeffrey, but the clip is […]

No Sheeples Here.

in addition to gun and ammo sales, suddenly, Atlas Shrugged sales are booming. i wonder why that is?
h/t dr helen

From Fr Z (a link to the text of the bill is in the comments).
Yesterday, Connecticut Judiciary Committee of the Connecticut State Legislature
introduced bill #1098/2009 that directly attacks the Roman Catholic Church (please see attached copy of it). Should it pass, the bishop and pastors will be deprived of any administrative, financial and legal […]

A conservative with horse sense. Go read it. Now! (H/T Joubert).

Especially Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio, but every state in the midwest, read this, and follow the links.
Unless you like being bankrupt, of course. In that case, continue happily in oblivion.

Via Ace, this rather startling bit of news:
Senate Democratic leaders conceded yesterday that they do not have the votes to pass the stimulus bill as currently written and said that to gain bipartisan support, they will seek to cut provisions that would not provide an immediate boost to the economy.
And we find further down that […]

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No more spam from Ken Blackwell — Steele won the RNC race

Happy Australia Day!
Yeah, yeah, I should have posted this yesterday, because of the International Date Line and all that, but late is better than never. So tour Australia:
Andrew Bolt Blog
Australian Diggers Blog
Dogfight at Bankstown
Fortress Australia Outpost
Jane Albrechtsen
Kerplunk
Qohel
Radical Cross Stitch
Tim Blair
Top 100 Australian Blogs
Fortress, which was up yesterday, seems to have disappeared. I sincerely hope this […]

Mitch Daniels, the State of the State Speech, Jan 14. Can we say never-ending applause?

Long, but well worth the time, at Big Hollywood: The Awakening of a Dumb Gay American.

Ice cream — and poop on the patio!

It’s that medication again (oddly, it makes me drowsy, but keeps me from sleeping at night). So here’s an article I published several months ago, and may elaborate on later (but not today).
Unacknowledged. Quiet. Subtle. There is a revolution happening on cable television.
Discussions of out-of-touch network television producers and Hollywood moguls abound, but while housewives […]

Darren is channeling me:
In previous times the practice of mobilizing children to police their parents’ behavior was confined to totalitarian societies. Authorities who attempted to harness youngsters’ simplistic views of good and evil are reminiscent of Orwell’s Big Brother. But who needs Big Brother when the then-prime minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, can […]

Wait. I thought perennial nutcase Richard Viguerie (who, by the way, has been sending me email for the last several years, and will not stop) and Bob Barr bought the LP. But now, he seems to be a Republican again. Which is it? Am I the one who’s confused, or is it Viguerie?
And has anybody […]

Here’s another reason to eat at MickeyD’s.

An interview with Theodore Dalrymple, and a blog of his works.

Plymouth Colony was the world’s first failure of socialism. From El Rushbo’s description:
“The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store,’ when they got here, ‘and each member of the community was entitled to one common share. All of the […]

Mitch did better than even I thought he would:
Daniels not only won re-election but far outpaced his showing four years ago.
In fact, he won more votes — roughly 1.56 million — than any other candidate for any office in Indiana history.
Not by running away from conservatism, either.
As others debate the direction of the party, Daniels […]

I got caught up watching the Bruins gig the Frogs and completely forgot about that conference call with Michael Steele.
Damnit.

Scroll down for updates.

Joe’s website.

From the “They’re just now noticing?” files, first, Newsweek editors think there’s something creepy about Obama’s personality cult.
MEACHAM: You know, they don’t let him out. And have you ever seen a victory speech where there was no one else on stage?
ROSE: Mmm.
MEACHAM: No adoring wife, no cute kid. He is the messenger.
THOMAS: There is a […]

Bob Krumm posted his message to Republicans. I will now post mine.
I am an American conservative because I believe fervently in American Exceptionalism, and in the principles upon which this nation was founded. Whether or not an election goes my way does not change that. We held an election yesterday, and the voters spoke.
Barack Obama […]