The Discerning Texan

iowahawk updates a Christmas classic ! (after the last couple of days I needed the laugh)

Watch this again .  It is critical.

Mark Steyn at his most astute .

When even the left of left BBC starts to "get it" about the Global Warming fraud, well...

Eric Scheie on the distortion by the media of "free markets" and "deregulation" . Good stuff.

Glenn Reynolds on Hollywoood, Roman Polanski and defending the indefensible .

Many of my more "progressive" friends have long argued that the desirability of public funding of "the Arts" outweighs t...

Excellent visual journey through the 'Cult of Iconography' , courtesy of Bill Whittle.

iowahawk GOLD : Lion of Leinenkugel laid to rest.

Great read here about the cesspool of lies and corruption that Rep. Charles Rangel is swimming around in. Once upon a time men like Dan Ros...

Airbrushing (out) Mary Jo: a Mark Steyn "must read" : You can’t make an omelette without breaking chicks, right? I don’t know how ...

What works (and what doesn't ).

An absolutely sensational exploration into morality, economics, and political theory. This is a must read .

Props to Tim Pawlenty for issuing two of the best lines I have heard in a while ( emphasis mine). I think these should be added to the repe...

I'm glad I am not the only one who gets irked by this stuff . Message to the GOP: Elections are serious matters; is it too much to ask ...

Ah, sweet irony. Introducing Eugene Green: Texas Democrat who voted against a law that would require a valid Photo ID to vote for him--as I...

Why allow the " newly-formed Stasi " the pleasure of turning us in to flag@whitehouse.gov when we can write our own "confess...

Iowahawk: a Public Service Message from your Federal Government Mob Watchdogs .

Mark Steyn: the Mob is restless .

Even as the Obama Administration was busy trying to create a sequel, i.e. "The Lives of Others II: Taking Names" -- or something ...

Just when you think you have seen it all, THIS comes out today on the WHITE HOUSE BLOG : There is a lot of disinformation about health insur...

Bill Whittle: The Destruction of Sarah Palin . A must read.

ACORN has been busy organizing their forces to stop any anti-Obamacare protests , or any other protests by their perceived political opposit...

It was impossible not to chuckle when I saw this from Mark Steyn . By common consent, the most memorable moment of Barack Obama’s otherwise ...

Surprise! Obama delays the release of his 2009 budget performance-to-date numbers which were expected today. Ahhh... not so much. Think we...

RINO hunter Mark Levin defends his book and Liberty itself .

Headline today: Ted Kennedy suggests "rationing" health care . You mean like he "rationed care" for Mary Jo Kopechne ?...

Cartoon by Chip Bok (click to enlarge)

Are doubts drifting into the Magic Kingdom ?

WTF?? Obama's Commerce Secretary is now saying that the US should pay for China's greenhouse emissions (in addition to our own ,...

BHO wants to NEGOTIATE with these monsters ?? I don't want to hear any more whining, wailing or moaning about "human rights" ...

Victor Davis Hanson: Why Obamanomics is failing . A must read.

Betraying Eastern Europe . Mr. President, have you no shame?

RIP California (1849-2009). Iowahawk provides the obituary.

Cartoon by Michael Ramirez (click to enlarge)

Obama v. Obama

Mark Steyn on Canadian Health Care: " Why Do you Leave the one you Love? "

I guess they like their new digs: Freshman Dems revolt against heath care tax increase .

Terror in St. Louis . The horror... the horror .... (Coming soon to a Thought Police Station near you.) More on PJTV .

Whoa. Watch out: you are on NOTICE now .

Doh !

The Chicago Way .

There is a reason why things are getting worse . He is sitting in the White House. The definition of insanity is following the same course ...

Doing their fair share .

Yeah right . Trust me, it is the "player to be named later". And that "player" is going to completely demolish all of t...

So what if you have murdered a few thousand innocent students... We want to give you the legitimacy you so richly deserve !

An idea whose time has come .

Outstanding commentary from SMU's own Ben Voth : A public figure openly called for Palin to be raped during the campaign. Months after ...

Day by Day by Chris Muir (click to enlarge)

Ann Coulter titled her column this week " Forgetting Sarah ". But what I think what the column is really about is "Getting...

Matt Welch goes yard over at Reason (h/t Glenn Reynolds ): That ugliness has made the California budget, like those in most of the other 49...

With apologies to the Governator and the aparatchiks in the rotten-to-the-core California Assembly: Back to the drawing board ! (Don't b...

The new, "improved" socialized medicine bill is advertised as less expensive--but in reality it is even more dishonest and equally...