Remember: Ronald Reagan Wasn’t a Hater

By Nichole Hungerford

I lost my cool in an argument with a friend over Cap-and-Trade.  My points had morphed into angry diatribes.  I hadn’t yet gotten to explicit insults, but my tone was surely at the point of communicating, “What are you, stupid?” to my old, dear friend.

When I realized my inadvertent emotional escalation, I [...]

Soviet Style Information Control…In the American Congress!

By Nichole Hungerford
You may have already heard some scuttlebutt about this.  Thanks to Smart Girl Elizabeth Henson for bringing this to everyone’s attention.  Yesterday, Republican Congressman from Texas, John Carter, addressed the Congress on serious censorship and information control by Democrats and the House Franking Commission.  The Franking Commission is a bipartisan committee consisting of [...]

Americans Are the Real Naysayers on Healthcare

By Nichole Hungerford

“For those naysayers and cynics who think that this is not going to happen, don’t bet against us…We are going to make this thing happen because the American people desperately need it.” Emphasis not added!

This threatening statement made by President Obama comes amidst a Rasmussen poll demonstrating that as of Monday, 49% of Americans now at least somewhat oppose the Democratic healthcare reform proposal while 46% are at least somewhat in favor of it. This is a fairly dramatic change from a poll taken just two weeks ago where 50% were for, and 45% were against the proposal.

Sotomayor Extravaganza!

By Nichole Hungerford

Yesterday began the hearings of judicial nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, and not a moment too soon for the liberal hate-writers who now have something to spew their baseless vitriol about besides Sarah Palin. In fact, I can give you the format of each pitifully predictable op-ed piece in advance: They will proceed with a brief introduction of sanctimonious, verbal love-making to Sotomayor, and devote the remainder of the article to irrelevant grandstanding against Justice Roberts. Sad, but formulaically true. The hearing will also be the first official capacity in which we will see comedian Al Franken (a.k.a., Stuart Smalley the fictional self-help guru) as he ascends his newly purchased Senate seat. . .

Show Me The Jobs

By Nichole Hungerford
Apparently, the new White House economic strategy involves repeating delusional falsehoods to themselves in the hopes that by some cosmic operation of the laws of attraction, those falsehoods will suddenly become true. The Obama administration clings to the hope that their mega-spending bill and other championed spending measures (Cap & Trade and Healthcare) will defy laws of economics and somehow prevent or reverse rising unemployment ranks. June saw a job loss of almost a half-million people and the global stock markets fell as investors around the world seriously begin to doubt the bafflingly roseate White House rhetoric. The administration has seemed to come to terms, however, with the fact that the unemployment rate will certainly reach 10% in the next several months. There is all the reason to believe that this figure will also be surpassed.

Biden Indicates U.S. Won’t Stand in Israel’s Way

By Nichole Hungerford

Remember back when Obama tap danced around the question of direct engagement of Iran with no preconditions and you could almost envision him and Ahmadinejad sharing a milkshake at the In-N-Out Burger? Yeah. Now, following the brutal crackdown of Iran’s own protesting citizens, the White House still intends to engage the oppressive regime with respect to their nuclear ambitions. They seem so open for dialogue, don’t they? Remarks from Vice President Biden demonstrate that the U.S. will not stand in the way if Israel attacked Iranian nuclear facilities. He said that as a sovereign nation Irsrael can determine for itself what is in its best interest. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has indicated that they may take action if Iran does not respond to offers of engagement by year’s end, at which time Iran’s interest in diplomacy should be clear.

How Was Your TEA Party?

How Was Your TEA Party?

By Nichole Hungerford

A great message of appreciation to all of the concerned patriots who took time from their 4th of July holiday to raise some cane and attend a TEA party. At a time when our nation seems to be racing away from our founding principles faster than ever, there is nothing more poignant, or more hopeful, than Americans gathered on the celebrated day of the birth of those principles to take a stand against encroaching tyranny. Perhaps CNN learned their lesson from the first TEA party event, where one of their vicious reporter famously attacked April 15th protesters. Their coverage of last week’s protest was much less combative, and dare I say, fair. Hopefully, we will continue to see protests in reaction to heavy overreach by Washington liberals and their phony conservative accomplices.

Boehner’s Stand

By Nichole Hungerford The problems associated with what is charitably called “Cap and Trade” (but more accurately called “Tax and Regulate”) was capture most succinctly in Congressman Boehner’s halting question, “Is there anything that we’re not regulating in this bill?” Indeed, with the inherent energy requisite for every American-made product, unprecedented Orwellian intrusion into our homes, and millions of jobs to be sacrificed at the alter of climate change, the answer is not optimistic.

Weighing in at approximately 1200 unread pages, it seems as though the final straw for Boehner was the 300 plus page amendment incredibly submitted at 3:09 am the morning before the historic vote took place. Fortunately, the univocal outrage over this subterfuge found voice in the gentleman from Ohio following the narrow passage of the bill. Boehner used the opportunity afforded to the Minority Leader of the House to express an extended remonstrance on behalf of not just his party, but the jilted American public, who may soon find themselves yoked under this uniquely Californian quagmire.

In Case You Missed It . . .

By Nichole Hungeford

Supreme Court Overturns Sotomayor Decision

Hooray!  The Supreme Court overturned the ruling in the Ricci v. DeStephano case!  Perhaps justice isn’t dead.  The decision translates to an admission that the New Haven, CT firefighters were indeed denied promotions based on their race.  For those of you who don’t know the details, basically what happened [...]

An ACORN by Any Other Name

By Nichole Hungerford

I think Michelle Malkin put it best: The story of the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now is tremendously convoluted because “of course, ACORN runs a vast network of affiliates across the country that facilitate its money-shuffling racket.” My guess is that this is also how it maintain its superficial “grassroots” street cred despite its access to resources from on high.

The chapter of the recent ACORN International name change is similarly confusing. To be clear, ACORN proper has not changed their title, only ACORN International, now, Community Organizations International. ACORN International was founded by disgraced ACORN founder, Wade Rathke who was ousted from the main organization after it was revealed that his brother, Dale Rathke , embezzled a small fortune and Wade conspired to conceal the transgression for nearly a decade.

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