Liberals hope the economy tanks so they can blame Republicans.

Liberals hope we lose in Iraq so they can blame Republicans.

Liberals hope the housing crisis worsens so they can blame Republicans.

Now, liberals hope New Orleans is flooded by another hurricane so they can blame Republicans for having a party in Minneapolis during the storm.

This time, it's Ohio.

There's the made-up vote fraud that the left always accuses us of. Everyone seems to know about that.

Then, there's the REAL vote fraud that the left is so often committing. No one seems to know about that . . .

It's not so much that we, or more specifically the protesters, can't take it. Sticks and stones, and all that. But how is it that we have Speaker of the House who is this childish, and this easily drawn into name-calling . . .

. . . Someone please remind me, though, when the last time we did something like his was?  The stations running SBVfT ads were threatened. Bill Clinton and Harry Reid threatened ABC for running the Path to 9/11; Reid actually threatened their broadcast license. According to the left's clumsy definition . . .

By Christopher Cook

The derangement of the left knows little bounds. John McCain isn't even particularly far to the right, which one might think would be a criterion for the left before one of them would defecate all over Godwin's Law. But that isn't the criterion at all. All you have to do is stand in their way. In the 1960s, centrist liberals were treated by the hard left with savagery. Before that, it was the Trotskyites whose "names were named." The left will . . .

According to this article in the Chicago Sun-Times, Michelle Obama and three of her husband's advisers were "involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who . . .

And not just campaign finance laws, either, but also actual CRIMINAL laws. How on earth do people on the left manage to get away with . . . wait, never mind—don't answer that.

ACORN Watch, Pt II: Obama hid $800,000 payment to ACORN through “Citizen Services, Inc.” . . . .

Just like good guys—The United States and Australia, for example—tend to stick together, so do the bad guys. China and Hamas may have nothing else in common, but they do have the fact that they're . . .

About ten years ago, I learned something: Anti-Semitism has a comfortable home on the left. I didn't work it out myself; I simply heard Dennis Prager talking about it. It sounded shocking at the time—why would a group align itself in such overwhelming percentages with an ideology so liberally peppered with people . . .

Do not rest for a moment. Never assume that it cannot happen in America. It is happening all over.

. . . I'm sorry, remind me again, because I forgot—which people are for "peace"?

Watch this video. It is 8:00 minutes, but it is eight minutes of non-stop education. What's the lesson? That people on the hard left are really sick.

Why does that matter? Why should we care about some loons on the fringe? Because it's not the . . .

It can't be that the Dalai Bama just stunk, because the Dalai Bama is infallible. His opponent must have . . .

This unattributed email forward arrived in our inbox; there does not appear to be a web version, so we will post it in its entirety.

One could look at this short post as humorous. But in this pivotal election, with a media that has joined the throngs of adulating acolytes of the Obamessiah, it actually is quite serious. There is a cloak around . . .

In many ways, the West has tried to make nice with Russia since 1991. Not in ALL ways, and understandably so, but in many. Membership in international economic bodies, a seat at the table in a number of places to which the West was under no obligation to admit Russia. Much of that make-nice is probably going to . . .

Obama would be wise, if he wants to win, never to play the race card again. And he doesn't have to, because he has surrogates and the media to do it for him. This time, it was Howard Dean . . .

Scandal over Britain's military echoes critique of murdered journalist Steven Vincent
By David Paulin

Three years ago this month, American freelance journalist Steven Vincent was kidnapped and murdered in Basra, Iraq, a port city then under British military control. His murder occurred as Britain's military – as Vincent had earlier reported -- was turning a blind eye to the rise of menacing Shiite religious groups, including those of bellicose rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr.

Now, three years later, the ineptitude of British forces in Basra has boiled over into a full-fledged scandal in Britain, as today's Wall Street Journal notes in an editorial, "Basra and the Brits.” The scandal concerns...

For the first time this glorious year, no new albums have graced my ears since my take on Paul Westerberg's 49:00.

Instead, due to the tireless work of Modern Conservative's Christopher Cook and Michelle Malkin to expose Sen. Barack Obama for the wannabe fascist dictator he truly is, I got inspired and humbly offer my latest song parody, to the tune of Queen's "Radio Ga Ga."

"Does he share the increasingly vocal calls of his fellow liberals that Americans should not just apologize to Osama and his followers but pay reparations as well?"

Where you stand on Georgia says a lot.

By Christopher Cook

First, consider the presidential candidates.

McCain has taken a strong stand against Russia's crushing of a sovereign nation. Obama, not so much...

Georgia a Blank Country on Google Maps

Is there a possible conflict of interest in Nancy Pelosi's investment in T. Boone Pickens' windfarm/water grab...

As usual, Michelle Malkin is all over it. She also posts these links: 1, 2, 3.

Check out Matt Lauer in numbers one and two—fawning over his Chicom minders, allowing them to...

. . . Meanwhile, the left is dreaming up new ways to erode the gains of American civilization (in this case, free speech) in its never-ending quest for power at all costs.

Please, someone find me the equivalent action coming from the right. If it's out there, I really want to know . . .

That the leftist Hollywood establishment would lash out at Jon Voight after he wrote his article (wherein he expressed—gasp—conservative beliefs) should not be a surprise.

What is surprising is just how brazenly some of them admit that they will now blacklist Voight for daring...

From USA Today:

"Our goal is to see a crowd of 75,000 people at Obama's nomination speech holding their hands above their heads, fingers laced together in support of a new direction for this country, a renewed hope, and acceptance of responsibility for our future,"
...
"We want to see it everywhere, but more importantly we want this sign to take the world..."

Pundits who are fixated on a particular subject can start to sound cranky. Often, though, the fixation is a correct one: Our world is so complicated, and many of these issues deserve far more attention than most of us are able to give. None of us is able to devote ourselves adequately to every subject that deserves devotion. Thus, those among us who focus on these issues do us a great service. Islamist terrorism, entitlement reform, gun control . . . whatever the issue is, we know we can count on these pundits to get us the latest.

Those whose focus is on the left as a political movement are up against a challenge: use the word....

It's a meme we've hit before. Americans have it so good, we don't even know how good we have it anymore.

We hit the topic hard in What a bunch of whiners we are! and What a bunch of whiners we are, Part 2. We also hit a related theme in a thorough essay on the perils of jealousy in I really don't care if someone has more money than I do.

These themes cannot be stressed enough. If you're sick of 'em . . . if you already "get it," then forward . . .

An appalling abuse of court power and environmental laws . . .

Is it Barack Obama's skin color, or something else?
By Christopher Cook

Juan Williams, author and FOX commentator, is a decent fellow. He's a liberal, of course, but he's sincere and thoughtful. He's also expressed some very sensible opinions on problems facing the black community—among them, the notion that personal responsibility is a necessary (and often lacking) element among too many. Though conservatives may disagree with a large percentage of what he has to say, this position, and his general sincerity, earn him a hearing—even if we end up largely disagreeing.

And so it was after reading his piece in the Wall Street Journal titled The Race Issue Isn't Going Away.

His contention therein, while admittedly nuanced, does boil down to this: there is a hidden racist vote...

I promise that I will write a music column/review this week. The new Paul Westerberg album, an internet-only phenomenon that keeps getting better and better, deserves as much.

In the meantime, I humbly present my latest distraction, set to a tune from another 80s fave ...

Just how pathetic is Mexico?
By Christopher Cook

You can add legislators from the Mexican state of Sonora to the people whose sense of irony has been surgically removed at birth. It didn't make very big news when it happened (two weeks ago), but for those who...

The point is—or ought to be—obvious: regulating dangerous devices will not change the underlying problems of human violence and general risk.

The key is not to try to regulate objects, but to change the human equation: to make better people, to...

An American company dropping Labor Day? Sounds crazy, right? How about an American company dropping labor day in favor of a Muslim holiday...?

"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying ... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism ... [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to...

By Christopher Cook

I am a conservative. I am a Republican.

Among other things, this means that—based on no evidence whatsoever—I have been called a racist exactly one million times.

• I have been called a racist as a collective slur of all Republicans, by hundreds of thousands of lefties...

People are talking about the inappropriate and reprehensible new Ludacris song, and well they should.

However, it's not just Ludacris. It's Kanye "inappropriate BDS Katrina rant during a telethon" West. Last I knew, they are planning to have West perform at the DNC. Let's check out some of HIS lyrics...