If you watch the “fiscal cliff” debate play out across the mainstream media landscape, you would think that taxing the rich is the solution to all our deficit problems. Though we’re going to rack up somewhere around $10 trillion in
“We’ve lost the battle in Washington” for now, says Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), echoing the sentiments of conservatives watching the fiscal cliff negotiations in the U.S. capital. As a guest on “Istook Live!,” DeMint agreed with talk show host Ernest
In an interview last week on Heritage Foundation’s Istook Live!, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) said that the Obama administration “actually wants to steamroll what’s left of the Republican Party here in Washington.” During a discussion with host Ernest Istook about
When the conservative movement has a summit of its wealthy donors and supporters, the mainstream media frantically hyperventilates. Coverage of Mitt Romney’s donor retreats and summits associated with the Koch brothers are portrayed as deep, dark, secretive meetings where plots
On Friday morning, an Iraqi refugee used an improvised explosive device (IED) to bomb a Social Security office in Casa Grande AZ — the mainstream media remains silent. The explosion took place before the office opened for the morning, so
I’m enlisting to fight in Andrew Breitbart’s war. The political class in Washington has degraded America. Republicans and Democrats blame each other, and nothing gets done. The media exacerbates the problem, fans the flames and encourages false notions of “civility”
A few months ago, 85 members of Congress sent Attorney General Eric Holder a letter about the swatting of four conservative bloggers, but the story got little traction in the mainstream media. However, when former American Idol judge Simon Cowell and
“Politics is the art of the possible.” The quote is attributed to Otto von Bismarck, a man not known for warm and fuzzy relations with political opponents. First as a Prussian general and later as Germany’s first Chancellor, he dominated
No sooner than conservatives began achieving electoral wins in the storm of abysmal Obama failures with the US economy and foreign policy, mainstream media began to focus on something other than the norm.They began to focus the nation’s attention on
At the risk of angering his base, House Speaker John Boehner opened the fiscal cliff negotiations with an immediate offer to raise taxes on the wealthy — maybe not raise them in the way Obama would like (tax-rate increase), but
The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin rounds up some media criticism Obama’s facing over the politics he’s so obviously playing in the face of the oncoming fiscal cliff. Rubin’s correct about this: Obama’s conduct so far bespeaks of a man still determined to
After President Barack Obama’s reelection, more conservatives are calling for Republicans to attack crony capitalism in Washington, D.C., as shown by the new film “District of Corruption.” Sarah Palin first railed against crony capitalism on both sides of the aisle
Mainstream film critics have trashed “Red Dawn” for daring to show patriotic Americans battling against a foreign invader. That’s a no-no in politically correct circles. Now, The Wall Street Journal joins the fray, attacking the remake of the 1984 cult
In the fall of 1997, I joined Harvard’s environmental science and public policy program. In the introductory class, co-taught with the Kennedy School of Government, we were encouraged to think of politics as a process of social learning, in which
Last week, Rush Limbaugh said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is being “Romneyed” by the mainstream media because they see him as a threat and warned Republicans about the dangers of playing along with liberal and mainstream media organizations leading up
The Big Labor thugs continue toshow their true colors by attacking one of America’s most sacredholidays, Thanksgiving. The Big Labor Bosses have their own selfish interests at heart, working to save theirlifestyle, political influences and ultimate power. These tenacioustactics all
Rush Limbaugh last week blistered Republican establishment consultants like Mike Murphy and Steve Schmidt for getting “rich no matter who wins or loses” and enhancing their profiles with the mainstream media and the permanent political class by publicly denigrating conservatives.
The United States has led the world in reducing carbon emissions over the past six years largely due “market forces” and “technological advances” that have allowed for more domestic natural gas exploration and use. According to a report from the International
The Army uses the term “BLUF” – bottom line up front. The BLUF on Jake Tapper’s new book on Afghanistan, The Outpost, is that you need to read it. If you are a civilian, you need to do so
Buzzfeed’s McKay Coppins claims that “conservative media lost the election.” He echoes an emerging theme in the mainstream media and the Republican establishment, arguing that conservative outlets were wrong about the polls, and that we failed to make our narrative
Democrats and the mainstream media have tried to paint Republicans as a regional — and predominantly Southern — party of white males, but nearly 30 percent of Democrats in the House will come from just two states — California and
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is going to take criticism from the mainstream media, which hates him and is no friend of Israel, for tweets he made regarding the Israel-Gaza war. Murdoch, a staunch supporter of Israel, first tweeted: Why Is
This year proved an exemplary one for conservative documentaries. “2016: Obama’s America” properly scrutinized the sitting president and became a sleeper hit for its efforts; “Occupy Unmasked” set the record straight when it came to the misguided Occupy Wall Street
In yet another Daily Beast column that trains her fire on the Right, Meghan McCain hits Republicans with yet another set of MSNBC talking points that she swears are only for our own good. But this time she’s making threats:
Diversion, distraction, smoke-screen obfuscation … one thing you can say about our newly re-elected President, he has more moves than an NFL open-field running back. Some scandal rears its ugly head, and bada-boom they launch flack and flares to divert
As the scandal between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell continues to unfold, we need to remember one thing — Petraeus may be one of the few people who actually knows what happened in Benghazi. Not only was he CIA Director
Last week, as the Petraeus sex scandal broke, The Mighty Charles Krauthammer said something that got a lot of play in New Media. He seemed certain that “sex” and the fact that Barack Obama was safely reelected would be the
Just as President Obama used Hurricane Sandy to wash away his sins of incompetence, the Occupy movement has also found an opportunity for reviving their image in the wake of the disaster. The movement has spawned “Occupy Sandy,” a relief
One week before the presidential election, a Congressional committee released Obama administration emails that showed a pattern of political pressure from President Barack Obama and others in his administration. The emails indicate favoritism toward Democrat politicians and donors in the
In late 2011, long before the first caucuses and primaries of the 2012 election, I had the opportunity to speak with someone high up in Mitt Romney’s finance world, and warned him that the conservative base wasn’t warming to the
The conservative movement took it pretty good on the chin earlier this week. President Obama and his liberal allies mobilized their vote and got it out very effectively in the key states. On Tuesday night, as I went to bed,
Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) rebuked House Speaker John Boehner for pledging to the mainstream media on Thursday to commit to various immigration reforms without even first speaking to House Republicans. “I’m urging the Speaker to talk with House Republicans before
Conservative Republicans had three obstacles to overcome in 2012: Barack Obama and the Democratic Machine, the mainstream media, and the Republican Establishment. The establishment has selected the candidate they felt was best for the party and forced him down conservatives’
Fox News is reporting that a House panel plans on holding closed door hearings with intelligence officials from the Obama administration on the September 11, 2012 attacks on the American mission in Benghazi, Libya that left our ambassador and three
With Mitt Romney’s projected defeat in the presidential race tonight, Americans are very clearly divided into two camps. The first camp is those who want a country of unending bailouts, of free giveaways, of government-provided goods and services – a
President Barack Obama’s supporters and the mainstream media have been perpetuating two pieces of false conventional wisdom heading into Election Day — that demographics alone will power Obama to victory on Election Day and Democrats are assured of a long-term
The Romney landslide I predicted back on May 30th, and in the media virtually every day since then, is materializing. The signs are everywhere that Obama is enjoying his farewell tour. These are the last days of his political career.
Some optimistic predictions about the fate of the CorruptMedia from Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel. Here’s the rub, but you’ll want to read it all: The point is that many in the press are every bit as corrupt as conservatives
One of the more memorable “gulp” moments for Republicans in ’04 was the Friday before Election Day when John Kerry and Bruce Springsteen brought together a massive crowd of 70,000 to 80,000 in the liberal stronghold of Madison, Wisconsin. Today,
Taking a page directly out of the DNC’s 2004 election manual, liberals and the mainstream media have worked in concert to preemptively target non-liberal watchdog groups like True the Vote. True the Vote has mobilized and are intent on preventing
