The BoldBlog
Silencing Ann Coulter
About nine years ago when I first started securing my favorite columnists for my various political web sites, several turned me down. They presumably looked at my site (before BoldColors.net existed it was NotNaked.com, way back then, and in Canada, ProudToBeCanadian.ca), and possibly felt that I and my other politically conservative-minded columnists and guest columnists may be writing in "bold colors" that were, well, too bold. And they chickened out. But the chairman of writing in bold … [Read More...]
What it is, stupid.
Two columns by two thinkers, who are thinking the same thing today: David Limbaugh: It's Not the Same-Sex Marriage, Stupid Scott Rasmussen: It's the Economy, Stupid ("Stupid" is Team Obama and its sycophantic mainstream media division. Yes, the "evolve" was a FAIL. Stupid.) EXTRA STUPID: And here's a lesser effort from MotherJones.com: It's the Inequality, Stupid Sentimentally, over at Business Standard: It's only the sentiment, stupid! Energybulletin.net says, … [Read More...]
Most gov “job-training” cash just pays gov “job-training” staff? Wow! Shocka!
Imagine my surprise when I found that after a U.S. Senator (a Republican -- imagine!) actually bothered to look into how taxpayer dollars are being spent -- sorry, "invested" -- by the giant government, the study uncovered waste and idiocy! Senator questions $18B for job training, as study suggests rampant waste, abuse A study commissioned by Sen. Tom Coburn is casting doubt on whether taxpayers' $18 billion annual investment in federal jobs training programs is paying off. "The … [Read More...]
Newsweek hits bottom of ditch, keeps digging.
I detect a child-like giddiness in the editorial room at the left-wing's so-called news magazine Newsweek, and from their editor's big office. Wait. They do still have grown-up editors over there, right? I'm not real sure. Anyway I'm thinking the editorial discussion about this week's cover, or at least the out loud thinking, went something like this: Hey groovers, Obama came out in favor of gay marriage. So, yay. We live for these moments. Not because we give a crap about gay marriage other … [Read More...]
U.S. jobs-added number punches way below its weight
This is not necessarily a sound economic comparison, but it's interesting anyway. Canada, which already has an unemployment number below that of the U.S., added 58,000 jobs in April. You'd expect the U.S., which has ten times the population and an economy more than ten times the size of Canada's, and which, under Obama and the Democrats, has "invested" (scare quotes accompanied by a huge eye-roll) tons more taxpayer cash in corporate and crony labor union bailouts and so-called "stimulus" … [Read More...]
Michelle Obama is running
This confirms it. It's the Obama/Biden/Michelle ticket. I wonder if Michelle will assert, during her Twitter campaign, that she saved America's children on account of her eat your veggies campaign. Misfit Politics has a new take on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJVg11upt_0&feature=uploademail … [Read More...]
Joel Johannesen saved the internet
Imagine using your own Twitter account, which is of course named after you (like mine is @JoelJohannesen), and tweeting this: "[your name] saved [the entire ...whatever]". Like imagine if I tweeted: "Joel Johannesen saved the internet," and used what remained of my 140-character limit to provide a link to a video glorifying myself even further, describing, over music and a slick voice-over, how, in my delusion way, I figured I'd saved the entire internet and so much more. The entire … [Read More...]
Question left-wing charities & their *political* activities. That’s more than fair. It’s the law.
Vivian Krause, a Vancouver researcher and writer (her blog is fair-questions.com; on Twitter, she’s @FairQuestions) has taken it up a notch after me and other conservatives dared to question some of the lobbying and "community organizing" and those questionable claims of pure altruism being made by some well-known charities and activist groups. By carefully researching and asking all the right, fair questions, Krause in particular has done great work bringing public attention (and even media … [Read More...]
Big Brother to Ban Tanning for Under-18? Bad Request.
Sometimes stories about the government (a.k.a. big brother, nanny-state, big sis, progressives, liberals, totalitarians...) meddling more and more into our lives and removing all semblance of personal responsibility such that we become totally reliant upon the state for our very existence, write themselves. To wit: I swear I didn't set this up. I simply clicked on the link. Here's the link: And here's the response after clicking it: Exactly. … [Read More...]
This “Julia” fits much better
Misfit Politics has a much better take on Barack Obama's "Julia," whom Team Obama touts as a useless, helpless woman who can't make it on her own and has to rely on Obama's benevolent state welfare and entitlements and sundry state handouts for her very survival -- much as a good North Korean gal might. (But don't worry, Obama and the Democrats love women! And think they are "empowered" to do anything!...with tons of government help throughout their entire lives...) Yes, even as Julia "decides … [Read More...]
Slayer of liberal cliches watches as Piers Morgan unwittingly slays himself with cliches
I missed it on purpose because being the caring, sympathetic type, I can't stand watching the failing CNN's Piers Morgan implode whenever he has another smart conservative on. Luckily, columnist David Limbaugh watched. His take on Morgan's interview with that slayer of the liberal clichés, Jonah Goldberg, is great. And it served as a reminder for me to buy Goldberg's latest book, sure to be his next NYT best-seller, The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. (UPDATE: which … [Read More...]
Demagogic Hypocrisy like Obama’s
I enjoyed the surprise ending in the Wall Street Journal's James Taranto piece today. Read the article (first section) -- takes just one minute. Beware the Demagogues - They're "already on the loose," one warns. ...Reich has a point. All over the country, dangerous demagogues are inspiring acts of politically motivated violence. ... … [Read More...]
Fox News Channel strengthens against faultering CNN, MSNBC
CNN's ratings are tanking again, while further left MSNBC also dipped, last month. The number one rated Fox News Channel, however, held its own and even rose a little. CNN Has Lowest-Rated Month In More Than A Decade In April It’s no April Fool’s joke — last month CNN delivered its lowest-rated month in total day in over a decade, since August 2001, the month before the September 11 attacks. The once-dominant cable news network posted decade-lows among both total viewers (357,000) and … [Read More...]
Left-wing think tank survey: Are you Female, Male, … or fill in the blank?!
The far-left think tank with the indicant name Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (where the unspoken "Alternative" is actually full-on socialism, kind of like Barack Obama's promise of "fundamentally transforming America"), beckoned me in their latest newsletter to complete their survey, and this part caught my attention (see picture at right). Apparently the "Alternative" they advocate isn't just socialism. … [Read More...]
(VIDEO) The Catholics: a force for Obama/Dems to reckon with
Actually, I guess it's a force larger even than "the Catholics." Right? "Can I get an Amen?" as President Obama paradoxically asked his um... followers(?)... the other day at a campaign speech at a state-funded public University. This is a great reader-submitted video I thought I'd help disseminate. As a Protestant I share the sentiment. Actually I figure most Americans do, regardless of faith. (Here's the YouTube addy for iPad users -- crazy huh?) … [Read More...]
Columnists
Obama panders to Hollywood on gay marriage
President Barack Obama has changed his mind about same-sex marriage again, partly after discussing the issue with his daughters Malia, 13, and Sasha, 10. Nice. Now we wait for the Congressional … [Read More...]
Women stand to lose most in Arab Spring
The monthly journal Foreign Policy recently published an essay by Mona Eltahawy titled “Why Do They Hate Us?” Eltahawy is an American of Egyptian origin, a graduate from the American University … [Read More...]
Gay Marriage Will Make Future Mother’s Days Quite Perplexing
I think I speak for most heterosexual males when I say I’m not homophobic but chick-o-centric. Let’s keep it positive, okay? It’s not that we dislike gays … it’s just that we really like … [Read More...]
Obama’s Angels
Independent sassy ladies, make way for Obama’s government dependent gal … Julia! For the double X chromosomes who’ve yet to meet Julia, she’s Obama’s dream girl: a needy chick who’s … [Read More...]
Prosperous Israel in perilous times
As Israelis mark the 64th independence day of their country, Jews in Israel and outside also watch with apprehension the increasingly volatile situation in the region. Jews as a people are … [Read More...]
The Price is Wrong
There is an enormous free speech controversy that is pitting an outspoken North Carolina faculty member against a public university administration. For once it isn’t me (so keep on reading … [Read More...]
Avoiding Arab-Muslim heart of darkness
The bloodletting in Syria should end any further romanticizing of the so-called “Arab Spring.” There is more ugly reality yet to see as Egypt’s experiment with the Islamist version of democracy … [Read More...]
Deport the GOP Establishment
On no issue is the elite/American divide so great as on immigration. For decades, a majority of Americans have wanted to decrease immigration. Not just illegal immigration -- all … [Read More...]
Young Voters: Obama’s a Cool President, and You’re a Broke Clod Living with Mommy
Obama appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s show this past week and did a slow jam with Fallon and his house band—a brilliant move by the Entertainer-in-Chief. I thought it was both funny and smart. From … [Read More...]
The Old Rubber Cross
Dear President Ransdell: As a supporter of Hilltoppers for Life, I am deeply concerned at the way its pro-life display was vandalized on April 20, 2012. I am perhaps more concerned with the way … [Read More...]
The modern heretic
The world has changed a great deal. The divisions are now less about right and left than about freedom and oppression. Do you support the right to believe, speak, even offend, or do you want … [Read More...]
Lesson from Iraq for Syria
In a recent Wall Street Journal column, Fouad Ajami laments America’s abdication of Syria as the country slides ever deeper into the morass of a bloody civil war. Ajami is the pre-eminent … [Read More...]
Romney Doing the Job the Republican Establishment Won’t Do
The actual Republican Establishment –- political consultants, The Wall Street Journal, corporate America, former Bush advisers and television pundits -- are exhorting Mitt Romney to flip-flop on his … [Read More...]
Black Panics and White Hispanics
In my many years of serving on faculty hiring committees, I have often heard the statement “minorities and women are encouraged to apply.” It usually follows in close proximity to the statement … [Read More...]
Did Obama’s EPA relaunch Tuskegee experiments?
Which do you find more shocking: that the Environmental Protection Agency conducts experiments on humans that its own risk assessments would deem potentially lethal, or that it hides the results of … [Read More...]
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Whole lotta shakin’ and cryin’ going on
I know I shouldn’t, but I just can’t help it. Last Saturday I received an e-mail from a fellow named Jon Allen, the lead organizer of the robocalls demonstration that took place in Toronto on Sunday. His e-mail was headed, “Egyptian revolutionary leader to speak at Toronto rally against your voter suppression,” and explained, “Sherif [...]
#cdnpoli – People aren’t as stupid as leftists seem to think
If only the political establishment and the chattering classes were as sensible and considerate as the Canadian people. The mass response to the so-called robocalls scandal has been one of drowning indifference. Eager pollsters have rushed to the electorate to fulfill their hopes and dreams that the possibility of a few people making dumb phone [...]
Afghanistan determined to stay in Dark Ages
After nearly a decade of much blood and treasure spent in rescuing Afghans from their Dark Age, it is now well past the time for the Canadian government and its allies to end their mission in Afghanistan and depart. It should be left to historians to assess how wise or mistaken was the effort to [...]
Socialist Member of Parliament Pat Martin, NDP, is blocking me on Twitter. Boo hoo hoo.
Socialist MP Pat Martin doesn’t follow me on Twitter, even though I fancy myself an ever so witty and informative Tweeter. But then conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter doesn’t follow me either, and I pay her for her column every week! Wait. I help pay Pat Martin’s salary too. Maybe my Twitter handle should [...]
Lust for scandal
Good Lord, it’s the most repugnant and shocking political scandal since Louis-Napoleon carried out his coup in 1851, and President Nixon made a vicarious visit to Watergate. Yes, a few low-ranking Tories totally unknown to anybody around the prime minister may or may not have made some phone calls to potential Liberal voters giving them [...]
