Regular readers of my weekly column may be shocked at my suggestion: “please don’t frack.” But, bear with me. The terms “frack,” “fracking,” or “frack job” have become a part of the vernacular. “Frack” is short for “fracturing.” It generally…
Category: Politics
Conservative Comedy 8/2/13
It’s Conservative Comedy Friday at the Strident Conservative. As I do every Friday, I’m happy to bring you some of the best Conservative political satire I’ve found on the internet. It’s Obama’s birthday today, and the Conservative Comic at Hope n’ Change…
Chris Christie Enshrined In The G.O.P. Hall of Shame
As Republicans wrestled with finding a candidate to run for President in 2012, many in the party, including avowed Conservatives such as Ann Coulter and Bill Kristol, thought that the Governor of New Jersey was the man who could beat Barack…
CAGW Names Reps. Donna Edwards and Eddie Bernice Johnson Porkers of the Month
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is over the moon about its July 2013 Porkers of the Month: Reps. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), who co-sponsored H.R. 2617, the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act,…
Ethanol, high gas prices, and the dirty politics behind clean energy
Gas pump signage declaring “contains up to 10% ethanol” is so ubiquitous, most of us probably don’t even see it anymore—let alone think about why it is there, what it really means, or how it impacts the price of the…
Conservative Comedy 7/26/13
It’s Conservative Comedy Friday at the Strident Conservative so it’s time to laugh! As I do every Friday, I’m happy to bring you some of the best Conservative political satire I’ve found on the internet. The Whitehouse press room’s grand old lady…
Why is Obama lying on climate change?
The fact that President Obama has been spreading lies about climate change to support his actions directing the Environmental Protection Agency to impose costly new restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions was exposed last week at a Senate hearing. The lie?…