First Drudge tried to make it seem like Obama is forcing a news station to not report a story about people who don’t want the Olympics to come to the Chicago…
…and now John Boehner jumps on the pile…
House Minority Leader John Boehner torched President Barack Obama Wednesday for his European trip to pitch the Chicago [...]

First things first….obviously most conservatives don’t believe this. However, Ann Coulter has said something very similar.
The audio…

And here’s a partial transcript…
DERBYSHIRE: Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But I’ll say this – if it were to be, I wouldn’t lose a minute’s [...]

“The role Glenn Beck is playing is harmful in its totality. My hunch is that he is a comet blazing across the media sky right now—and will soon flame out. Whether he does or not, he isn’t the face or disposition that should represent modern-day conservatism. At a time when we should aim for intellectual [...]

Numerous reports are surfacing in the mainstream media that Obama is giving a speech to America’s students that will somehow brainwash/indoctrinate/cast magical spells over them.
Why? Because the lesson plan asks the kids to think about what the President means by his speech. Basically, the White House is posing completely open ended questions designed to make [...]

Anti-reform advocates are the gift that just keeps on giving. Take the case of David McKalip, who sent the above image out to his email list.
Does he genuinely not understand the implications of distributing trash like this? Because not only is it guaranteed to get out to the broader media, it also seriously undermines any [...]

Now this is true free market capitalism if I’ve ever seen it.
Apparently the American Conservative Union offered FedEx their support if they’d sign off on a costly outreach campaign. FedEx said no and the organization backed UPS.
More at True/Slant.

“I just wish everyone would take a step back from this extremist brink. It can’t lead anywhere good. At best, it will bring the right-wing blogosphere into disrepute, and at the worst it could lead to violence if you encourage these real nuts out there.”
- Charles Johnson, founder and lead blogger at Little Green Footballs
Gee, [...]

Nate Silver compiles the numbers and makes a pretty good educated guess…as he often does…
based on news accounts of 306 “Tea Party” protests in different cities across the country yesterday, I get a cumulative attendance of 262,025, with a fair number of (probably mostly smaller) events still unaccounted for.
These figures, wherever possible, are drawn from [...]

Andrew Sullivan highlights a reader’s recounting of Easter weekend with his far-right family.
From Daily Dish…
1. Total insulation from MSM
Everyone refuses to read the New York Times or Washington Post. Sunday morning while getting ready for Church I put on “Meet the Press” and my father looked on with disgust and changed the channel to Fox [...]

“We can only turn the page from recession to recovery if we watch every single taxpayer dollar the way families watch every dollar in their budget.”
Who said this? A fiscal conservative appalled at the unrestrained level of spending coming out of congress? Nope. It was the estimable Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid opposing a decrease [...]

I’ve given up trying to point out examples of Obama Derangement Syndrome because it’s so acute right now. People literally think he’s ushering in a police state and how do you respond to that?
But NY Times columnist Charles Blow is hearing similar things and notes that it’s troubling at best.
From NY Times:
Lately I’ve been consuming [...]

For those who thought that Kristol wouldn’t be replaced with a true conservative, well, that would mean that you thought Kristol was a true conservative in the first place.
But I digress…
This is a MASSIVE win for Douthat and a fantastic win for conservatives too. Because now they don’t have to worry about Kristol embarrassing them [...]

I think it’s fair that people are nervous about Obama’s plans. I am too.
But what I don’t think is fair are comments from folks claiming that they’re certain he’ll destroy the economy, that he’s declaring genocide against entrepreneurs and other assorted nonsense.
That brings me to Christopher Buckley, whose father was the late, great conservative thinker [...]

Kyle’s post yesterday the other day about the need for the GOP to stop focusing on “how” it was going to come back from the wilderness if it ever wants to get back to relevance made a lot of sense to me. The political reality is that the GOP, despite its recent defeats, continues [...]

John Derbyshire has a great article in the current issue of The American Conservative discussing the impact of conservative talk radio on conservatism as a whole:
[A]re there some downsides to conservative talk radio? Taking the conservative project as a whole—limited government, fiscal prudence, equality under law, personal liberty, patriotism, realism abroad—has talk radio helped or [...]

The PJM Ad Network is no more, and when you do the math it doesn’t really make sense.
First, to understand why people are so upset right now you have to know that PJM forced their bloggers to accept NO other advertising dollars if they wanted to be part of their ad network. So BlogAds, AdBrite, [...]

President-elect Obama and McCain meet in Chicago
Wth his Inauguration three days away, Barack Obama continues to talk, plan and act as if he’s every one’s President and intends to govern from the center — with respect to both domestic and foreign affairs.  He has been aggressively courting Republicans and conservatives, inviting their input and working hard [...]