The Going Rogue Index

Nov 18, 2009 - Sarah Palin didn't put an index in her book. So we made one for her.     By Christopher Beam Posted Tuesday, Nov. - 13 Comments

Obamanomics' Backlash Stimulus

Nov 10, 2009 - Obamanomics' Backlash Stimulus By Ralph R. Reiland What the Democrats should have learned from their losses last Tuesday is that the advice given by political strategist James Carville to candidate Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential campaign is still valid -- "It's the economy, stupid." More specifically, what hurt Democrats at the polls is the lack of new jobs and the flood of red ink -- plus the doctor-bashing as a strategy to enact Obamacare, the push to cancel a worker's right to a secret ballot during unionization drives, the promise of skyrocketing utility rates via cap-and-trade mandates, and the prospect of higher taxes, more regulations and less liberty by way of an ever-increasing intrusion by government into every aspect of our lives. - 0 Comments

A challenge to an article defending Acorn in the L.A. Times

Oct 24, 2009 - My Letter to the Editorial Page Editor of the L.A. Times Regarding That Fact-Challenged Pro-ACORN Op-Ed Written by the ACORN Consultant A recent op-ed in your paper defending ACORN makes at least two factual misstatements: 1) that ACORN staff offered to help shield an underage prostitution ring at only two offices, and 2) that no voter fraudulently registered to vote by ACORN had ever actually cast a ballot. Furthermore, your paper failed to disclose that the author of the op-ed, Peter Dreier, has been a (presumably paid) consultant for ACORN in the past . - 0 Comments

The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy.

Oct 09, 2009 - Decline Is a Choice The New Liberalism and the end of American ascendancy. by Charles Krauthammer The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch. - 0 Comments

Read it and weep, Obama and the border.

Sep 26, 2009 - Administration Will Cut Border Patrol Deployed on U.S-Mexico Border Thursday, September 24, 2009 By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer is seen from Mexico's side of the San Ysidro port of entry guarding vehicles involved in a shooting in Tijuana, Mexico, Sept. - 2 Comments

The Blue Dogs have a dilemma

Sep 14, 2009 - Blue Dogs Turn Red By W. James Antle, III BEFORE CONGRESS ADJOURNED for the summer recess, Republicans stood on the House floor, faced C-SPAN's cameras, and asked one by one: "Where are the jobs?" It was part of a sustained attack against the president's stimulus program, a $787 billion behemoth opposed by every Republican in the chamber, which had failed to meet its targets for job creation and unemployment. - 3 Comments

Former GOP Majority Leader: I'd Vote for Health Care Bill

Oct 02, 2009 - by Karen Tumulty http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/02/bill-frist-on-health-bill-id-vote-for-it/ Or so the former Senate Republican Leader, a surgeon who has written a new book on health care, told me a few minutes ago in an interview. Were he still in the Senate, "I would end up voting for it," he said. "As leader, I would take heat for it. - 2 Comments

Apparently the right has learned well from the left.

Sep 26, 2009 - Rules for Counter-Radicals Andrew Breitbart, Internet juggernaut. By Kathryn Jean Lopez The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything. That was Democrat Joe Trippi’s 2004 manifesto. - 2 Comments