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Is the GOP Worthy of Governance?

The Democrat Party’s “40 year majority” will come to a close 38 years early. The unbearable trinity of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama has managed to alienate a nation desperate to support new leadership. They accomplished this by an insistence on

Google May Pull Search Services Out of China

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Reuters: “Google could pull out of China over a hacking attempt…The company said it found evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the

Google Satellite Images Show Devastation After Haiti Quake

CNN: Updated satellite imagery of Port-au-Prince has helped to reveal the full extent of the widespread devastation caused by Tuesday’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake. Search engine giant Google updated its Google Maps imagery of Haiti on Thursday in the hopes it

The Left Goes to War Against Science, Surrenders on Terror

Two ongoing trends I chronicled during 2009 highlight an ironic situation: Leftists remain tough on their domestic political opponents, while lax when it comes to our real common enemies. As we recently saw with the Christmas airplane-bombing attempt, leftists seem

Levi Johnston: A Hollywood Cautionary Tale

Fame is that place where character is rarely able to sustain itself. I don’t know how much character Levi Johnston had as a boy, but as a young man in the grips of the Hollywood culture machine he’s lost it

Google: Openness for Thee, But Not For Me

In the ongoing fight over proposed rules that would institute net neutrality, a major proponent of the policy is taking fresh heat from critics. Google, arguably the world’s biggest name in tech, a major source of campaign donations to President

Red Pill vs. Blue Pill: Defense of Hollywood Fails Reality Test

Over the weekend at Townhall.com, Carl Horowitz took Big Hollywood and everyone else he sees as “reprehensible … dyspeptic … insufferably smug, moralizing antiquarians” to task for lacking the “elementary logic to understand” that “the ‘agenda’ of today’s American filmmakers,

Leftist Elites Trash Sarah Palin For…Being Kind

So the Left-o-sphere is all excited over more evidence of Sarah Palin’s rube-osity found in the video below. Mediaite does a good job exposing how sites like HuffPo, Raw Story and the usual suspects are “presenting this video clip as

Giving Thanks For The Internet

Tis the season to be thankful, and this year one thing stands out as something to be particularly grateful for…the Internet. Thanks to the Internet, and the Army of Davids it has empowered, the mainstream media no longer possess a

Seeing Red Over Palin Parody

From the New York Post: A parody of Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue: An American Life” has been causing huge confusion — forcing Palin’s publishers HarperCollins to take out ads to direct buyers to the official version. The rival book,

Cartoon: Global Warming Gets Hacked

The case for global warming alarmism continues to take a major hit after sensitive documents were lifted from the Hadley Climate Center. Enjoy our latest cartoon: Learn more here: Climate Change Skeptics Get to Say ‘I told you so!’ The

Obama Stimulus Numbers: The Return of Enron-Style Accounting

The Sarbanes-Oxley Law was rushed through Congress in the wake of an enormous corporate accounting scandal that shook Wall Street and investors across the country. CEO’s and officers at several large companies were found to have “cooked the books”; i.e.

Medicare Paid $47 Billion in Suspect Claims Last Year

From the Associated Press: The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient’s condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year. Excerpts of a

'The Demands of Political Correctness'

In reply to a recent political and cultural controversy involving “Sesame Street,” Sesame Workshop Executive Vice President Miranda Barry wrote: Jim Henson, Jon Stone, Frank Oz and others set a witty and silly tone for Sesame Street that our current

Pork Report November 13th: End of the World Edition

Why ask why? National Science Foundation and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study why children ask so many “why” question Harvest time: The Washington Apple Commission receives federal funds to educate retailers in China, Russia and other

'Sesame Street': Habitat for Political Correctness

Having received some criticism for my last post about “Sesame Street,” I would like to briefly respond to some of the questions and assertions in the comment section. What’s so bad about saying “we share common humanity despite ethnic/religious/linguistic differences?”

Rammstein: Teutonic Metal Gods Conquer America?

For most non-Teutons the idea of German rock is not very appealing. The fatherland of Bach and Beethoven may well have produced many interesting experimental groups (Kraftwerk, Einstürzende Neubauten etc) but on a global, top 40 level it’s an entirely

Disney's 'A Christmas Carol': Charity Vs. Big Government

Generally after a story has been told as a book, play, musical, numerous animated, live, made-for-TV films, and Muppets movie, its content is completely exhausted. But Disney’s latest, “A Christmas Carol,” by writer-director Robert Zemeckis of “Forrest Gump” and animated