Monica Conyers (aka Rep. John Conyers' wife) gets schooled by an 8th Grader!

I've seen this woman screaming over others enough to know she deserved the full wrath of this young girl. Bravo! (hattip Hotair.com)



Who knows? Maybe I'll receive a threat too!

America's new Nazi Hunter: Barack Obama?

Don't worry American Jews, Barack's got your back! Even with anti-Semitism overflowing in his church, in his inner circle, and amongst his supporters, Barack says "nobody has spoken out more fiercely on the issue of anti- Semitism than I have." Yeah, and nobody has spoken out more fiercely on the issue of racism than Michael Richards, I'm sure.

White people love free health care!

Haha! I've seen this site, and it's many alternates like www.stuff[*]peoplelike.com, but this critique on white people's love for free health care was awesome! It reminded me a lot of this article on identity politics.

Oh No She Didn't!

Today's "Quote of the Day" comes from the woman whom has never been proud of her country until her husband was running for POTUS, and who seems to have him by the short and curlies, as we would say if we lived in Texas. And no, I'm not talking about Hillary, but the other socialist:

“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”

Head over to the link to see a full deconstruction of why "universal health scare" is a crock, just like most government run programs. Man, do I hate socialists with a vengeance. And yet, these are the same people who scream at people about excersizing choice over their bodies. Sure, you can choose to have an abortion, but you won't be able to pick the doctor and you'll get stuck with some government subsidized and educated hack who couldn't make it in the "real world" nicknamed Dr. Hook. By all means, keep the state out of one decision and give them the power over the rest. Brilliant.

Why listening to NPR makes you depressed

Everyday I'm on the road, I listen to the archaic car radio and always catch a news cycle from National Public Radio. Known to have a very liberal slant, I have always listened intently from the days of my own college liberalism, all the way through my move towards the center, and slightly past into conservatism/libertarianism. I listen to the local Christian radio station as well if the topic is good and I think both are equally amusing and at opposite ends of the political spectrum. I find I agree with some of the opinions of both, but definitely not all, and I'll find myself laughing out loud most of the time at both. However, I'm always left thinking about the vast difference in their target audience's perceptions of the future, which brings me to a topic I have been wanting to write about, but was beaten to the punch by two great posts from HotAir.com, one of my daily reads.

It was always my assumption that the Mainstream Media (MSM) lives by the motto, "bad news is good news", but my opinion was validated by a Pew poll about how the media stopped reporting on Iraq when things and news began improving. For me, this is the main reason I rely on the blogosphere for my news rather than the old brick and morter news media that assumes what you need to know and usually has an agenda.

My main hypothesis has been that liberals are way more pessimistic than conservatives, but I hadn't had a chance to get down in the gritty analysis of why this is. Just listening to the depressing state of our economy, country, culture, war, etc. over at NPR and jumping over to Christian radio to hear about how simple faith and prayer will solve all of the world's problems and bring about paradise is one example, but mainly based on the differences between atheists and true believers. Since I'm neither, I consider myself generally happy, but I'm tired of hearing bad news and overly unrealistic, blissful news at the same time. Lucky for me, the Economist had a great article about this topic that focused more on political perspectives and was featured as the Quote of the Day at HotAir.

Old funny: McCain trades jobs with Streisand on SNL

This is old, but the first time I have seen it. It's a great example of people doing jobs they are unqualified for and a statement on today's extremely opinionated entertainers that assume people respect them equally for their political opinions as their talents.



(hat tip HotAir.com)

Down goes Kwame! Down goes Kwame!

There's probably a saying somewhere that goes, "If you want to clean up a city, start with it's dirty leaders" but I think it's pretty self-explanatory for (metro-)Detroiters by now. Well, after years of shady business, affairs, corruption, strong armed tactics, cronyism, unsolved murders, etc., the Hip Hop Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, "was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages surfaced that appear to contradict his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide". For many of us, it's about damned time. Some will argue that Kwame finalized the casino deals and cleaned up the downtown waterfront, but hey, even Mussolini made the trains run on time. Detroit needs a lot of things, but bad PR is not one, so for that I say, good riddance.