When a runaway hot-air balloon reported to be carrying a six-year-old boy made headlines last week, many were surprised to find out it had all been a hoax. Admitted the six-year-old boy on live television, “We did this for a show.” Another hot-air balloon by the name of Lindsey Graham also made headlines last week by putting on a show of … [Read More]

It’s hard to imagine a Republican more useless than South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. Whether spearheading legislation that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, stumping for the $787 billion taxpayer theft known as “TARP,” being the lone GOP committee vote to confirm liberal Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor, or his recent joining with John Kerry to promote cap-and-trade—without shame … [Read More]

When Peter Brimelow was still at National Review, he wrote a piece entitled “Electing a New People” detailing how mass immigration is a disaster for the GOP. He opened with the line, “Demography is destiny in American Politics.” Few Republicans took him seriously at the time. And now when groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center smear Brimelow as a “racist,” … [Read More]

As was evident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it is deja vu, 1961, all over again. We have a young, cool, witty, personable president—and an adoring press corps. “I am Barack Obama,” the president introduced himself. “Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me. (Laughter and applause.) Apologies to the Fox table. (Laughter.)” What is also evident … [Read More]

I thought Elizabeth Hasselback, the Republican Party’s brain trust on The View, was a little simple. But, intellectually, she towers above the succession of vacuous, narcissistic, pig-ignorant panelists paraded on Sean Hannity’s “Great American Panel.” (Not to mention the surgically altered publicity whores.) Just as you thought American pop-politics could go no lower, a woman with real curb appeal appears on … [Read More]

For conservatives fretful over the future of the party to which they have given allegiance, How Barack Obama Won: A State by State Guide to the Historic 2008 Election reads like something out of Edgar Allan Poe. Co-authored by NBC’s Chuck Todd, it is a grim tale of what happened to the GOP in 2008, and what the future may hold. … [Read More]

Hats off to Larry, he broke your heart Just like you broke mine when you said we must part He told you lies now it’s your turn to cry cry cry Now that Larry said goodbye to you ~Del Shannon Arlen Specter is a detestable swine. Next to Teddy Kennedy, he, for me, is the most loathsome creature ever to lurk … [Read More]