CNN Trying to Saddle GOP With Their Choices for 2012 Nominee

Via HotAir, this is the second poll published in which most of the names put forward for the next GOP presidential candidate sound like they came out of a liberal journalist’s recycle bin.  
In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey out Friday that serves as an early measure of potential support for the next GOP presidential [...]

UAW Travel Agency for Guilt Trips

Via HotAir, text from the UAW web ad ostensibly aimed at Congress:
We are not bankers.  We don’t work on Wall Street or for big insurance companies. We build quality cars and trucks. But we’ve been hit by the same financial crisis. If we go out of business, so will thousands of other businesses. If we lose our jobs, so [...]

Barack Obama to Deliver the Keynote Speech at This Year’s Hajj?

A fascinating proposal from The Wall Street Journal’s Jim Taranto that has the audacity of Barack Obama written all over it:
“President-elect Barack Obama’s aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office,” the New York Times reports. Problem is, where?
Clearly it would [...]

Atwitter About Twitter

I am still trying to figure this Twitter stuff out.  I haven’t yet determined if it is of any value to me at all, but the idea of getting on a Top Conservatives list is intriguing…
So, pretty please

go to http://twitter.com/home
sign in
register to follow me, Jane Q. Republican.  

It’s easy, painless, and free!  :)
You will now be [...]

Megyn Kelly Explains the First Amendment to Bill O’Reilly

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Regardless of the offense O’Reilly takes at Atheists besmirching Christmas in the Washington State Capitol, he has no reasonable position from which to argue that the government should render judgment on the relative appropriateness of holiday displays. The authority the government has is to either allow holiday [...]

Doing the Obama Side-Step

AP via Right Voices-
Democrats are growing impatient with President-elect Barack Obama’s refusal to inject himself in the major economic crises confronting the country. Obama has sidestepped some policy questions by saying there is only one president at a time. But the dodge is wearing thin. “He’s going to have to be more assertive than he’s been,” [...]

Democrats Demand Bailout Money for Automakers

Last night, the Democrat representatives in Congress sent a letter to the President in an effort to force him to support a federal bailout of the American auto industry.  
ABC News’ Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Democrats sent a clear message to the White House [Thursday night] – make some of the $700 financial industry bailout [...]

Broadcast Networks: Good News Is No News

USA Today yesterday -

U.S. combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan last month dropped to the lowest combined level since the United States began fighting the two wars more than five years ago.
Eleven American servicemembers died in combat in the conflicts in November. Seven others died in non-hostile incidents. The highest monthly total for combat deaths in [...]

New York Times To Large Families: Walking Is Good For You!

Apparently the editors at the New York Times have no five-person families in their number.  Anyone who has ever tried to make more than two federally approved child safety seats fit into a vehicle smaller than a mid-sized military personnel carrier can attest, this sentence is stunning in its naivete:
Congress could consider demanding that Detroit [...]

Misplaced Outrage

A range of Lego-style fighting figurines – including an Islamic terrorist militant – has sparked outrage among Muslims. The toy mini-figures, made by American Will Chapman, includes a masked terrorist bandit with an assault rifle, grenade launcher and belt of explosives.

Shocked by the playthings, British Muslim organisation the Ramadhan Foundation has branded the figurines “absolutely [...]