Michelle’s new book is coming out tomorrow. Since you can get to this page via ‘cultureofcorruption.org‘ I thought I would plug her book.
Buy it here:
Michelle Malkin: Culture of Corruption
More from Michelle’s blog:
Michelle’s new book is coming out tomorrow. Since you can get to this page via ‘cultureofcorruption.org‘ I thought I would plug her book.
Buy it here:
Michelle Malkin: Culture of Corruption
More from Michelle’s blog:
I’ve been bothered for a long time when I listen to Barry’s speeches. I’d rather read a transcript or excerpt than listen to him speak. The reason is the annoying tonal modulation and meter that he uses when he speaks. I hadn’t been able to put my finger on just [...]
AdvertisingAge magazine (online) reports that Google is discussing it’s ranking algorithm with members of the mainstream media. They seem to think that with Google on their side they’ll recover from the lost advertising revenue that resulted from decreased circulation. But I [...]
King country seems to be putting pressure on Key Bank over one of their customers’ labor dispute. I’m not surprised that a union would resort to treachery and heavy handedness. I am surprised that a county government would act as union thugs in a labor dispute.
The Business Examiner Daily reports [...]
For capitalism to succeed, individual businesses must be allowed to fail. Just as in nature the weak must give way so that others may survive, a failing business that is consuming resources must cease to exist as a body so that others may be fed by it’s remains and by [...]
For those of you who refuse to question popular theories of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming, maybe you should reconsider. I’m not asking anyone to accept my view without question, I’m asking you to question both sides of the issue. If you’re a liberal who claims to be open-minded that should [...]
Now that Barry has been in office for 53 days, let’s look at his track record.
Don Surber has a list of 52 mistakes that Barry made in his first 52 days in office. Oh, and don’t forget [...]
I was troubled by a post on the TNT blog recently that talked about ACORN members showing up at a city council meeting in Tacoma and asking for government support and funding for their agenda.
ACORN members spoke during Citizen’s Forum, a once-per-month [...]
From NewsBusters.Org:
It is quite sad that it takes a lawsuit for the New York Times to at least sort of admit their wrong doing in publishing the disgrace to professional journalism that article is. And it [...]
The Public Disclosure Commission, responsible for investigating violations of the state’s campaign laws, has dismissed a claim that Bruce Dammeier (R-Puyallup) had violated ‘in-kind’ disclosure laws. The problem is that it wasted tax dollars to investigate this unsubstantiated claim and probably confused some voters needlessly. As usual, it appears to [...]
It’s the only name that seems to fit. I’ve heard it called the ’swindulus’ package, the ‘porkulus’ package and the ’spendulus’ package. No matter what you call it, it’s a bad idea. And now you too can protest this irresponsible legislation.
Monday (tomorrow) on President’s Day in Seattle there will be [...]
There are two very important facts left out of the calculation that supposedly ends with the $789 Billion price tag on the spending package just passed by congress.
Those facts are:
Debt financing is not included in that number Congress will never cut spending from these levels to the pet projects that were [...]It seems that Norm Dicks has received $59,500 in campaign contributions from a defense lobbyist group that, in turn, received about $100 million in defense contracts for it’s clients
In case you hadn’t guessed already, I didn’t vote for him. It does remind me of one of the funniest campaign stickers [...]
I just finished watching the Dateline interview of the Octuplet’s mom. My opinion of this woman has grown tremendously. My opinion of the interviewer, Ann Curry, has diminished significantly, which I didn’t think was possible considering how low it was to before the interview.
In the interview this new mom came [...]
There’s a guy I run into once in a while that has come to illustrate to me the mentality of liberal commenters. He’s made so many ridiculous statements that I can only laugh at how much he resembles the liberal commenters that have visited this site.
I just wanted to take [...]
I’m sick and tired of wasting time dialoging with liberals and feeling obligated to respond to their stupid, ill-conceived, narrow-minded rantings. So, I’m closing the site to unapproved commenters.
If you would like to be able to comment on this site, just send me an e-mail at ‘moderator’ at this site.
I [...]
Global warming alarmists who want us to spend all of our hard earned money on yellow dim-bulbs (CFLs) and higher energy costs are a little red in the face. They’re not embarrassed at how ridiculous they sound, they’ve just been out in the cold weather too long.
The Tacoma News Tribune has a one-sided article about the Bush Administration’s decision to give a $1.5 million grant to Federal Way based World Vision to help fund it’s anti-gang program.
The article makes no effort to provide any type of balance. It would [...]
I’ve downloaded a copy of the report from the Alaska investigation. I started reading the testimonies of the people who were witnesses to the issue. They all say the same thing. Todd Palin was the one pushing the issue.
The report says that Sarah Palin handled the firing of the public [...]
I guess Joe Turner wants to keep me busy. In a post today he shows his ignorance of conservatism and family values in his post entitled “Family values group handing out 500,000 voter guides.”
The Family Policy Institute of Washington says it’s [...]
Follow these links and compare the wording:
U.S. Rep. Adam Smith has a new flack: Michael Amato
Washington Republicans get a new spokesman: Matthew Lundh
In the announcement about the new communications director for a Democrat Joe Turner stoops to [...]
The title of the blog is ‘Republican Governors knock Gregoire for homeless offenders; but Rossi voted to lower supervision of ex-convicts‘ which is misleading. What about it is misleading? It’s talking about two completely different groups.
Parents are concerned about homeless sex offenders, and that’s [...]
When I talk with people about the presidential candidates I usually end up asking what experience Obama has running anything even close to the U.S. government’s executive branch (in so many words.) The only answer that ever comes close to an answer is “he’s running a campaign.” (Since most of [...]
The Washing Policy Center (WPC) has come out with a list of pork added to the Wall Street… er… I mean the mortgage bailout bill.
By the way, did anyone notice what happened in the stock markets around the world today? They tanked. Ours. Theirs. All [...]
This week an award was given to the President of the Czech Republic by a Puget Sound think-tank known as the Washington Policy Institute. The organization’s primary goals are to support democracy free market principles. The award was given to [...]
Tonight I watched the Vice Presidential debate with other Tacomans at a gathering in the Walker Building, mostly upstairs from Maxwell’s. It was a hoot.
I enjoyed commentary from people around me almost as much as I enjoyed Sarah Palin’s gracious domination of the debate and Joe Biden’s flustered expressions and [...]
In this post on TNT’s Political Buzz, Oregonian editorial tells Washington: Don’t go there on assisted suicide, death with dignity ballot measure, the blogger, Joe Turner, says this:
I’m posting this just to add to mix of debate. Oregon has had an assisted suicide law [...]
Tuesday at the West End Neighborhood Council meeting we were blindside by the executive committee with a variance issue. We heard from one side, but the other side wasn’t told that there would be a vote. That one pushed me over the top in my tolerance for manipulative politics. More [...]
It’s hard to tell what’s happening in King County but the elections office says it may break records for new voter registrations. Apparently this isn’t just the people who want to vote for Sarah Palin since this trend was going on before the announcement was made naming her as McCain’s [...]
I’m getting sick and tired of the Tacoma News Tribune and what passes for journalism in that rag.
I’ve been relatively quiet about the garbage they print, but I’m to the point where I can’t keep quiet about it.
What pushed me to reconsider giving them a pass was their [...]
First there were claims that Tall Ships Tacoma was a success, although turnout was lower than expected. Then it came out that the event lost money. Now a report has come out that shows some successes for the event. I think there’s something to [...]
There’s no doubt that Sarah Palin has changed this election. Other than the occasional October surprise that grows legs I don’t think I’ve seen this big of a shift in my life. It’s taken a little time to settle out, but we can finally start measuring the actual effect she’s [...]
The Tacoma Club was once more than just ‘An Unparalleled Business & Social Club’. For years it was the place to be if you wanted to do business in Tacoma, especially if your company was business-to-business play.
Tacoma’s business community has a lot of unwritten rules. But if you want to [...]
Amazing. Oprah created the empty suit’s popularity but now doesn’t want her show to be political. She created the liberal obsession over Barry, but when the first woman GOP candidate for VP comes along she wants nothing to do with her. I guess her political bias trumps her support for [...]
Did you notice that little puff of smoke rising in the distance? It was Barry’s last hope of winning this election going up in flames.
I listened to some of the RNC speeches tonight. Rudy skewered Barry and had a lot of fun doing it. But the highlight was Sarah Palin.
At [...]
I guess the anti-war activists who staged a protest on Tacoma’s Ruston Way waterfront didn’t check the news. There was a ceremony scheduled for today in which the U.S. military turned over control of Iraq’s Anbar province to the province’s elected leaders.
If that protest had actually been the tribute they [...]
Typical of liberals, they’re pretending to be something they’re not. Whether they’re pretending to be Republicans or claiming to support the troops, their disingenuous rhetoric knows no limits.
On the Ruston Way waterfront in Tacoma this weekend there are thousands of poster-board grave markers put up by an anti-war group called [...]
I’m continually frustrated by groups that call themselves Republicans, but really aren’t. They’re actually wolves in sheeps clothing. I had a discussion on this site a few months ago with one of them. I think they have a great idea, but they’re working in the wrong direction.
I think we need [...]
Once again a Tacoma merchant is burned by the pipe dreams of local liberals. Tall Ships Tacoma finished their events with a loss of half a million dollars. That’s right. The “International Financial Services District” isn’t the only pipe dream still catching the fancy [...]
I guess someone had to say it. But it wasn’t those dastardly Evangelicals. It was CNN and a liberal who runs an anti-Christian Web site.
His Web site, beliefnet.com, promotes just about any religious belief you can [...]
A recent article in the News Tribune described the events leading up to the non-event protests in the Port of Tacoma as Stryker Brigade vehicles are off-loaded from ships. The army refused to pay for added security at the ports where military vehicles and supplies are being loaded and [...]
A record 377,616 people showed up at McChord AFB this weekend to take in the sights illustrating the power of the U.S. military. Compare that to the number that showed up to protest the Iraq war at [...]
As I’m reading a post on the Washington Policy Center’s blog I found myself somewhat stunned at the simplicity of the statement in this paragraph:
During our annual transportation event, Dr. Ronald Utt, a transportation and economics expert from the Heritage [...]
The first energy crisis, back in the 70’s, was created by foreign interests who hate America. It was people from the ilk that took American embassy workers hostage in Iran and blew up a marine barracks in Lebanon. And along came a Democrat U.S. President and Congress and made the [...]
After several employees of the Tacoma ACORN office were indicted in Seattle, with the help of Tacoma prosecutors, we’re now learning more about corrupt practices within their organization.
Despite raking in a troubling 40 percent of its revenue from taxpayers over the last three [...]
I’m not sure if this is a sign of improvement, but Puget Sound is ranked only 9th worst in the nation for drive time congestion in a recent report by Inrix of Kirkland. Some other lowlights from the report puts us 10th worst in overall congestion, 6th [...]
Liberals are attacking the platform adopted by the WA GOP Convention in Spokane over the weekend. Some of their attack is based on misrepresentations and some is based on values that differ greatly from the people who actually adopted the platform, the WA GOP grassroots voters.
The WA GOP Convention
I’ve been [...]
I’ve been reading some of the posts over at TheNextRight.com. It covers the spectrum of Republican opinion with a majority of the posts being relatively conservative.
There’s a pretty good article about the Ron Paul campaign. It puts it into context fairly well. I’m not [...]
Tacoma has been implementing policies that are touted as eco-friendly for a while now. Some of them have come around to bite them, mostly in the form of higher costs or lost revenues (for the city and for businesses in the city). Another consequence of their il-conceived policies has reared [...]
Wired magazine, known for it’s zealous focus on the latest crazes, takes a look at the latest environmental craze and what people think they should do about it. They don’t actually look at the validity of the anthropogenic issue [...]
I just want to take a moment in grateful remembrance of those who have fallen in defense of our country and our freedom. For those who have loved ones who have made the ultimate sacrifice to keep all of us free and safe I hope you know that most Americans [...]
A couple of important posts on NewsBusters.Org.
First, a post about negative media coverage hurting the economy:
BMI’s Gainor: Media Negativity on Economy Hurts Consumer Confidence
Dan Gainor, Vice President for [...]
Recently a commenter on this site asked me how I defined ‘a conservative’. I didn’t respond because it’s not up to me to define it.
Something liberals seldom understand is that words have meaning. If we try to change the meaning of a word we end up misrepresenting something or someone, [...]
There’s another conservative in Western Washington who has entered the blogosphere.
Living in this area with a vocal liberal minority can be tough on conservatives. Liberals have trouble understanding that conservatives are not the drooling idiots portrayed by liberals on television. Those are a figment of the imaginations of intolerant leftists [...]
There’s a lot to be learned from economic bubbles. Have you ever stopped to think about who it is that actually blows the bubble in the first place?
Whenever there’s money to be made the ‘used car salesmen’ show up trying to get their mitts on some of the cash that’s [...]
Is this what conservatives have needed? A few techno-conservatives have banded together to create a new site called ‘The NextRight‘ that they hope will shift the center of gravity on the Internet back toward the political right (h/t NewsBusters.Org). Here’s what they [...]
Tacoma’s city council, Economic Development Board and some special interest groups continue to cling to failing fantasies of a financial district in downtown Tacoma. All the while they’re wasting taxpayer money and letting opportunities slip through their fingers.
There have been so many warnings they can’t even be referred to as [...]
MoveRed.org, a group of young Seattle Republicans (sponsored by KCGOP) captured these dramatic, life-changing events in Bellevue, WA at the offices of Sen. Patty Murray.
Funny Video: MoveOn.org vs. Senator Patty Murray
If you watch closely you might see [...]
Union workers shut down the Port of Tacoma today for an illegal protest of the war in Iraq.
What do unions have to do with foreign policy? The short answer is nothing. So why do they think they can protest on company [...]
They actually got to paragraph two before going way, way wrong:
With RTID?s failure at the polls last November, we threw out highway expansion as the answer to our congestion problems.
No we didn’t. ‘We’ threw out an expensive and massive [...]
Miley Cyrus, singer and actress known for her role as ‘Hannah Montana’ in the Disney conglomerate, is the most recent victim of the exploitation from the entertainment industry.
The vultures at Vanity Fair sent their sleazy photographer Annie Leibovitz to shoot Miss Cyrus for an upcoming issue. As per usual, Leibovitz [...]
The Puget Sound Regional Council today released what they called a study. I guess in some definitions it would qualify as a study, but in the truest sense, it’s a piece of agitprop. Their goal was obviously to find out if [...]
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is an idea that liberals support to justify exorbitant expenditures on mass transit projects. It starts when they spend a bunch of money on a mass transit (usually rail) claiming that it will bring more development to the area around train stations and bus transit centers. [...]
Earth day. In the 70’s it was a bunch of aging hippies trying to fight their growing insignificance. Now it’s a political firestorm being used as a way to gain support for raising taxes and stripping land owners of their property rights.
In case you are too young to remember, the [...]
Frank Rogers, a long-time Pierce County Republican and active member, has written an open letter to the state party chair, Luke Esser, regarding the handling of a vote at the convention last week.
I’ve been mulling over some concerns about that vote for the [...]
Terry Bergeson, WA State Superintendent of Public Instruction, spoke at the Pierce County GOP Convention on Saturday. Now we find out that she approved an effort to bring children from public schools in 25 counties to see the Dalai Lama. When asked whether she would do the same for the [...]
It’s a good way to show appreciation for what these soldiers have sacrificed. It’s a small gesture, but I’m sure it will be appreciated. They’re accepting donations at the Lakewood City Hall.
TNT has details: Lakewood seeks donations for returning [...]
In an opinion piece in USA Today the writer blames the Republican Party’s association with conservative Christians (one of the main reasons) for the GOP losing young voters. And, of course, liberal Republicans buy [...]
In January of 2007, the Tacoma City Council redrew the boundaries of what they refer to as ‘downtown’. But the new boundaries don’t make sense to me.
Map of area designated as ‘downtown’ for the purposes of the Angelou study
Here’s a[...]
A summary of the reasons that I think Tacoma’s offer to Russell is bad for the city:
I just got back from the presentation by a consulting firms hired by the city of Tacoma to (supposedly) help them figure out what to do about the floundering downtown area. I was encouraged by a few things, discouraged by some others and I can still smell Freighthouse Square on [...]
A TNT article reveals details about the meeting between the ‘Tacoma Partnership’ and Russell consultants regarding their potential move in five years. The title of the article is telling,”Will Russell catch Tacomas Hail Mary pass?”
The first thing I noticed in the article [...]
As usual, the Tacoma News Tribune comes out on the side of tax and spend politicians in University Place with this headline: City cuts traffic fees, but developers still complain.
Toward the bottom of the article the writer states the real issue:
The [...]
Dan Gainor in Investors Business Daily shows more evidence that negative talk in the media about the economy can actually convince people to hold of spending and cause a downturn in the economy.
Major downturns aren’t just caused by economic circumstances anymore. The news [...]
What a disgrace. The American flag is a rallying banner for everyone who loves this nation and all the good it has done for its citizens and for freedom around the world. The same flag that symbolizes their right to free speech.
Eli Sanders at the Stranger [...]
I’ve been trying to find the right time to approach this issue on 5views.com. With the changes that I’ve mentioned are coming, I think it’s best if I take the time to spell out where I stand on the issue. Generally speaking, as a white, male, conservative Christian [...]
And there’s the pitch…
Project Destiny, now known as the Tacoma Partnership, unveiled their sales pitch to Russell Investments Group to keep them in Tacoma. How much will it cost taxpayers? $140 million. That’s right. $140,000,000. Just to keep one company [...]
There’s something brewing over at TheReaganWing.com. Doug Parris, an outspoken critic of the Washington State Republican Party’s (WSRP’s) methods in the recent past, has assembled a list of articles that he [...]
When I started 5views.com in January of this year I had hoped to focus on the city I live in, Tacoma, WA. So I listed with a local feed aggregator and started blogging on issues that would interest people living here. I decided to be as nice as I could, [...]
I guess I’m not the only one concerned about the media’s portrayal of economic news. I was first impacted by it a decade and a half ago.
Since then I’ve watched a clear pattern of the media misreporting economic news based on the party of the current administration. Under a Democrat [...]
Finally, a plan to keep Russell that I think I might like. The reason? It’s mostly private and less public.
There’s a plan described in a Dan Voelpel piece from last week (The future of Russell Investments in downtown Tacoma) that sounds [...]
A recent resolution by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which represents about 600 of Tacoma’s longshoremen, at a West coast meeting. The resolution calls for an 8 hour work stoppage to protest the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
There [...]
Tacoma police lieutenant Alan Roberts is suing for $500,000 claiming he was harassed by two superiors. The story ran in the Tacoma News Tribune and was the source of stories in several other area papers and media outlets.
There weren’t a lot [...]
It turns out that in addition to the now public disagreements between state Senate Republicans, they’re also having trouble raising money and finding candidates for the this year’s election. Big surprise there.
I guess it confirms what [...]
I wasn’t able to be at the protests in Lakewood, just outside Tacoma, today. I’m sure pictures will be showing up over the next few days so I’ll post links to them as I find them.
Local nightly news coverage is beginning. The Fox channel (Seattle) focused on the ‘unfairness’ of [...]
I’m never satisfied with summaries like Forbes Best Places For Business And Careers. I wanted to see how Tacoma really stacked up against others and I also wanted to see if Tacoma had really improved, and in what areas.
Here’s a summary that I put together ([...]
The fight against giving the USS Ranger a home in Tacoma
Several years ago a group was trying to give the decommission aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV61) a new home in North Tacoma. Several liberal groups, some of whom the city council looks to for [...]
There’s an ongoing feud between state senator Pam Roach and the WSRP leadership. I don’t know the senator and I don’t have the inside information on this issue, but I don’t trust the GOP leadership in this state.
Here’s what I don’t get. If Sen. Roach did something wrong, why is [...]
For several years there has been a group of people from the other side of town showing up on Tacoma’s beautiful Ruston Way waterfront once a week, setting out and holding signs that show how little they know about the world we live in.
They’re with a group that calls itself [...]
