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?…
Conservative Comedy 7/19/13
It’s Conservative Comedy Friday at the Strident Conservative. Get ready to laugh at some of the best Conservative political satire on the internet. Egypt is in chaos, our economy is a mess, there is still no accountability for the successful…
Obamacare and the civil rights of minorities: Two peas in a pod
At least that’s what HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius claimed in her speech at the NAACP convention this week. In an amazing coincidence of timing—her statement came just a few days following the not-guilty verdict in the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case—Sebelius told the audience…
Mitt Romney: Senator Graham sounds like Jimmy Carter
O.K. Mitt didn’t really say this, but in a moment of political karma, he could have. During the Republican primaries in 2011, John McCain’s BFF criticized the Republican presidential field’s ambivalence about the war in Afghanistan, and accused front-runner Mitt Romney of promoting a weakness…
New CBO report provides another great reason to murder unborn babies
The left is always on the lookout for another reason to promote their extreme position on abortion—a position overwhelmingly opposed in recent polls—and they are taking heart in a newly released Congressional Budget Office report on the financial implications of H.R. 1797, the Pain Capable Unborn…