http://amerpundit.com Conservative Commentary on American Politics Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:03:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I didn't cover the first few because North Korea launching a couple of missiles isn't really major news anymore. But we're already on our fifth -- yes, fifth -- missile launch of the night. Clearly these are developments out of the ordinary. Each and every one of the middle-range missile tests ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/04/breaking-north-korea-fires-fifth-mid-range-missile/ Governor Sarah Palin has announced that she will resign the office she occupies, and Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will be inaugurated on July 25th. More: Hot Air, Michelle Malkin. Update: I honestly don't know what to say about this. As far as political imagery goes, it doesn't get much worse than this ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/03/breaking-palin-will-resign-parnell-inaugurated-on-july-25/ According to Fox News, CNN, BNO News, and other outets. Why is she limiting herself to one term? Many, including myself, believe it has something to do with her presidential aspirations. She's likely taking the next three years off to raise money, read-up on policy stances, and build a national apparatus. ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/03/multiple-reports-sarah-palin-not-running-for-re-election/ I'm hearing from a few friends in the immigration community that Congressional Democrats are looking at a push for amnesty. While you should probably take that for a grain of salt, it would seem to match-up with rhetoric from the administration and earlier reports that high-ranking Democrats sought an immigration ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/03/prepare-for-a-push-for-amnesty/ In which the boy king once again exposes his complete naivete when it comes to foreign policy. There was a time when Russia and China were the biggest roadblocks to pushing Iran into submission; now it appears to be the administration in Washington. The United States is opposed to enacting a ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/03/good-news-obama-now-opposing-sanctions-on-iran/ Democrats in Washington have discussed the removal of President Ronald Reagan's name from Reagan National Airport, the Washington Examiner reports. Apparently they wish to return the airport to its previous name, National Airport. At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/02/report-dems-want-to-remove-reagans-name-from-airport/ If President Obama's response to the Honduran coup is any indication of his future foreign policy goals, we should all be very concerned. According to Bloomberg, Washington has suspended some of its aide to Honduras following the recent removal of leftist thug Manuel Zelaya from power. Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/02/us-continues-support-of-honduran-leftist-thug/ Remember the days when Congressional Democrats were promising that putting them in power would bring about a new era of honest, open, and ethical government? Yeah, you can pretty much forget about all of that. Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/02/congressional-junket-costs-have-risen-50/ Thank God for that Obama stimulus package, huh? We were warned that unemployment could hit 9% if we didn't pass it immediately and without reading the contents. Now the national unemployment is only, er, 9.5% and growing. *launch confetti cannons* WASHINGTON – Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June and ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/02/unemployment-hits-9-5-highest-in-26-years/ The Washington Post has cancelled a service it planned on providing to offer lobbyists face time with Obama Administration officials for a fee. Here's what the legendary paper would've done for the price: For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off the record, non-confrontational access ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/02/wapo-cancels-service-to-offer-lobbyists-time-with-us-officials/ The Obama Administration continues its reckless policy of supporting a deposed leftist leader with dictatorial visions this evening, suspending military relations with Honduras after the government there removed Manuel Zelaya from power by court order. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration said Wednesday it has suspended joint military operations with Honduras ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/01/us-suspends-military-relations-with-honduras/ Well, this year certainly hasn't turned out the way Arlen Specter expected. Today came the latest bad news for the senator, as a prominent Democrat in Pennsylvania jumped into the party's primary: A congressman from the Philadelphia suburbs will challenge U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic Senate primary. In an interview ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/01/arlen-specter-gets-democratic-primary-challenger/ The Supreme Court's overturning of lower court judges, including Sonia Sotomayor, has hurt the nominee's support for confirmation amongst the general public. That's what a new poll from Rasmussen Reports released today shows. A heavily publicized U.S. Supreme Court reversal of an appeals court ruling by Judge Sonia Sotomayor has at ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/01/poll-support-for-sotomayor-slides-after-ricci-decision/ The American private sector alone shed 473,000 jobs during the month of June despite projections of 395,000 jobs by most economists. It was fewer new job loss filings than the month of May, but obviously worse than economists predicted. While the ADP report for June was not as dire as the ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/07/01/stimulus-at-work-june-job-losses-worse-than-expected/ Glenn Garvin on The Miami Herald has an interesting question for all of these new defenders of democracy in Honduras: Where were you last week when Manuel Zelaya was holding an illegal election and ignoring his country's constitution? As has been said on this blog a half-dozen times, Zelaya wasn't removed ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/30/miami-herald-where-was-the-obama-administration-on-honduran-democracy-before/ I couldn't really give a crap about his political career at this point or whether he even remains in office, but when is enough heart-ache for the wife and kids enough? Now Sanford is talking about other women with which he's had run-ins and how Maria is his soul-mate. South Carolina ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/30/someone-should-tape-sanfords-mouth-close/ Despite insisting that reacting strongly to the stolen Iranian election would be seen as meddling, the White House is making sure the world knows exactly where it stands on the Honduran coup. First of all, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that the only acceptable outcome is the return ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/30/us-keeps-up-rhetoric-regarding-honduras/ The Minnesotan Supreme Court has ruled that Al Franken is the new junior senator from Minnesota, essentially ending a challenge by former Senator Norm Coleman. It's official: The crude clown is a senator. It is U.S. Sen. Al Franken. The Minnesota Supreme Court today decided that Franken, a Democrat, won the highest ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/30/breaking-minnesota-supreme-court-rules-for-franken/ The setting is Albany, where Democrats have forcefully attempted to take back the Senate chamber despite losing a democratic leadership vote there not long ago. They don't like the fact that they lost the vote in the chamber, so they're attempting to grab back the leadership seat by locking themselves ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/30/video-democrats-refuse-to-stand-for-pledge-of-allegiance/ There's a new poll from the World Public Opinion firm in Washington, D.C. that shows Barack Obama as the most trusted world leader. Here's the heart of it: An average of 61 percent express a lot or some confidence in Obama to do the right thing in world affairs, across the ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/30/michelle-obama-served-on-board-of-polling-firms-partner/ Karen Bass isn't some far-left loon in the activist community. No, she's the California Speaker of the Assembly and third-term Assemblyman from the 47th district. So you can imagine the shock when someone in her position would compare free speech -- on of the tenants of our republic -- to ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/30/good-news-ca-dem-leader-compares-free-speech-to-terrorism/ I always got a kick out of the libertarians and even moderates who supported Barack Obama because they were tired of Republicans bringing religion-based morals into public policy. I never understood how they could possibly imagine that a President Obama would interject his morals, often based in junk science, any ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/30/obama-seeks-to-regulate-lighting-in-homes/ I'm sure there are members of the media and left (but I repeat myself) who will attempt to credit this to Obama's plan for Iraq, but the military is actually meeting a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) negotiated and approved back in 2008. It's quite remarkable, really. As James Joyner says, ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/29/america-hand-baghdad-iraqi-cities-over-to-iraqis/ Funny thing is, the Honduran Supreme Court believes otherwise. In fact, the military was acting on a court order in response to Zelaya violating the constitution and the high court's ruling. And how exactly did this move not adhere to democratic values? Zelaya was the one acting undemocratically, holding an illegal ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/29/uh-huh-obama-says-honduras-coup-was-illegal/ Despite Barack Obama insisting that the United States shouldn't be involved as the Iranian regime was killing its own citizens in the streets, the White House hasn't hesitated to come out strongly against the military coup in Honduras this past weekend. The president is jumping right into the fray: In an ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/29/was-the-honduran-coup-warranted/ Discover the Networks has a great briefing on the Cloward-Piven Strategy, a plan set forth by leftists in 1966 to hasten the collapse of capitalism and bring about the age of socialism in America. The strategy was to overload the governmental bureaucracy with demands impossible to meet, thus forcing it ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/29/suggestion-for-reading-the-cloward-piven-strategy/ Mark McKinnon floats the idea in his column over at The Daily Beast today. McKinnon predicts that Obama would be re-elected if things remain the way they are now, but notes that a continued recession or foreign policy crisis can send voters looking, once again, for change. And when voters ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/29/haley-barbour-for-president/ The United States Supreme Court has overturned a decision made by Obama nominee Sonia Sotomayor during her time as an appeals court judge. The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/29/supreme-court-overturns-sotomayor-in-ricci-case/ Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was arrested by soldiers shortly before a vote was set to begin on a constitutional referendum that the Honduran Supreme Court had ruled illegal and his own party's members had opposed. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -More than a dozen soldiers arrested President Manuel Zelaya and disarmed his security guards ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/28/honduran-president-arrested-by-soldiers/ Cap-and-tax passed the House of Representatives today by a margin of 219-212. How did they get that number? Fourty-four Democrats decided not to sell out the United States, while eight Repubicans decided to join the majority of Democrats in supporting the horrific legislation. The following eight Republicans understood how harmful this ... http://amerpundit.com/2009/06/27/introducing-the-treasonous-eight/