A full blown debate has broken out over whether or not Ricky Gervais was too mean last night when he hosted the Golden Globes.

His rhetoric was undoubtedly harsh. I thought the crack about Robert Downey Jr. was pretty insulting. That said, I didn’t have any tears of sympathy to waste on a room full of pampered millionaires with fragile egos.

Ricky’s problem last night wasn’t that he was too mean, it’s that he wasn’t very funny. It’s a problem Ricky seems to have anywhere he opens his mouth.

If you look up “overrated” in the dictionary, you’ll likely find a glossy picture of Ricky Gervais there.

When Ricky takes a break from being unfunny on stage he likes to make the talk show rounds where he’s even less funny. He usually espouses typical left wing views and brags about his Atheism. He doesn’t seem to realize we’ve seen the Atheist left winger shtick a thousand times before. It’s a tired cliche. Nobody except perhaps Bill Maher is impressed.

It’s time to be honest about this once and for all. Ricky Gervais sucks as a comedian. I’m told he’s quite popular back in Britain. I’m sure they would love to have him back. It’s time for him to go home.

As you may have heard, Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico just got back from a trip to North Korea as a “private citizen.” Yeah, right.

North Korea once again threatened the world, attacked South Korea, and got us to the negotiating table. We’re like a battered wife. No matter how many times North Korea beats us we just keep coming back.

Barack Obama knows he cannot hold direct talks with the DPRK, because it would destroy him at home politically. So he sent a corrupt governor as his surrogate and then trotted out the “private citizen” canard. I don’t buy it.

North Korea didn’t see a private citizen paying them a visit. They saw Gov. Bill Richardson as a representative of the US (with Wolf Blitzer in tow no less) and they made the most of it. They agreed to let IAEA inspectors into their nuclear plant at Yongbyon, in return for God knows what.

This is what they always do. They make agreements in return for aide, and once the aide give us the middle digit.

Then they detonate nuclear weapons, sink South Korean ships, shell South Korean villages, kidnap South Korean fisherman.

All the violence causes us to beg them to negotiate which they finally do and the process begins all over again.

We already have Jimmy Carter flying around the world conducting his own foreign policy against the best interests of the US, we don’t need another one.

Frankly, just the thought of handing even a single kernel of corn or a grain of rice to the North Korean regime is morally repugnant. The people starving to death see nothing

Kim Jong-Il is without a doubt the most vicious and brutal dictator alive on this planet. I’m not a fan of Hitler comparisons, but North Korea is more like Nazi Germany than you can imagine. The crimes the Kim family have committed against their own people are unspeakable in their horror and unimaginable in scale.

Millions and millions of people have died and are continuing to die of starvation in North Korea. Hundreds of thousands of people are being worked to death in concentration camps. There really is nothing you can compare it to besides the Holocaust.

The government has no food and private industry is illegal. Entire families die one by one of starvation. North Koreans are 4 to 6 inches shorter than South Koreans on average. They are permanently stunted as a result of chronic starvation. Meanwhile, South Korea is one of the wealthiest nations on earth. Only a fence and a minefield separate the hungry from the full.

The government of Kim Jong-Il is the personification of evil. The English language simply does not have words that adequately describe the monstrous nature of his regime. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was Disney Land compared to North Korea.

The only talks we should have with North Korea are through the barrel of a gun.

Giving anything to those thugs in Pyongyang is a stain on this nation. After the Holocaust we promised “never again,” but we weren’t telling the truth.

It’s happening again. It’s been happening. And we’re doing nothing to stop it.

The far left is at it again. Trying to silence people they disagree with. Now, they’re trying to do it to our military.

Gen. James Amos,  the Marine Corps commandant, was asked by Congress to give his honest opinion about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Should it be repealed? What would it mean for the military? How could we do it? How do Marines on the front lines feel about repeal?

Because Gen. Amos is a man of integrity he answered those questions honestly. In his view, repeal of DADT has the potential to disrupt unit cohesion. It could cost lives. Amos outlined practical concerns as well. Given the close proximity his Marines are to one another in remote outposts in Afghanistan, repeal of DADT could be problematic. Sometimes Marines have to huddle together at night to stay warm. Having an openly gay Marine could cause problems.

Left wing kook Richard Cohen from The Washington Post doesn’t want to hear any of that. Damn the consequences, he just wants DADT repealed. And repealed it was.

Now Cohen is calling Amos “one step short of being a bigot” and wants him fired.

His subordinates know what he thinks of gays. They know he has not an iota of sympathy for what might be their difficulties or any tolerance for their lifestyle. If I were gay, I would not want to work for the man – or serve under him. He is one step short of being a bigot.

That sounds like a great lesson for our military leadership to learn. Tell policy makers what they want to hear or you risk being fired.

Our military is already so painfully politically correct that a Muslim terrorist was able to rise through the ranks while saying publicly that Muslims had a right to kill US soldiers. That terrorist was Major Nidal Hassan and he went on to murder more than a dozen of his fellow soldiers. Nobody wanted to appear “Islamophobic” by reporting the radical Muslim in their midst.

Gen. Amos was asked for his honest assessment and he gave it. Now liberals who didn’t like his answers want him fired. What a disgrace.

Gen. James Amos has spent the last 40 years serving in the United States Marine Corps. He’s been awarded numerous citations and medals including the Bronze Star. He is a hero who deserves our gratitude.

Richard Cohen is a left wing hack columnist who had an affair with the late Peter Jennings’s wife back in 1987. In 1998, he was accused of sexually harassing a female co-worker at The Washington Post. He is a jackass who deserves nothing but scorn.

I’ve long advocated for religious profiling at airports. We need to quit pretending that everyone has an equal chance of being a terrorist. It’s Muslims who we’re on the lookout for. Let’s profile for them.

But don’t take my word for it. Muslim journalist Asra Nomani is calling for the same thing. She worked with WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan before he was murdered.

As an American Muslim, I’ve come to recognize, sadly, that there is one common denominator defining those who’ve got their eyes trained on U.S. targets: MANY of them are Muslim—like the Somali-born teenager arrested Friday night for a reported plot to detonate a car bomb at a packed Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, Oregon.

We have to talk about the taboo topic of profiling because terrorism experts are increasingly recognizing that religious ideology makes terrorist organizations and terrorists more likely to commit heinous crimes against civilians, such as blowing an airliner out of the sky. Certainly, it’s not an easy or comfortable conversation but it’s one, I believe, we must have.

Here’s the best part:

“Profile me. Profile my family,” because, in my eyes, we in the Muslim community have failed to police ourselves. In an online posting of the Intelligence Squared video, a Muslim viewer called me an “Uncle Tom.”

Thank God for people like Asra. She’s willing to put aside Muslim grievance mongering and left-wing political correctness and recognize the problem we have.

Profiling doesn’t have anything to do with racism or bigotry. It’s about common sense. The common thread that links the people trying to kill us is Islam. They want to murder us in the name of Islam. Why should that fact not be relevant?

Why should Mohammad get screened exactly like an 87-year old man named Bob from Wisconsin? It doesn’t make any sense.

A favorite canard of the left is to bring up Timothy McVeigh. Damn him. Had McVeigh not blown that building up liberals would have nothing to point to. Anyway, The Oklahoma City bombing was 17 years ago. The last attempted Muslim bombing was last Friday. There have been literally hundreds of Muslim bombings since Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh was an outlier while Islamic terrorism is the statistical norm.

When Mormons or Catholics decide to go on a murderous rampage across the world we’ll profile them too. Until then, we should keep our eyes peeled for Muslims.

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If you haven’t read Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s Wars — you’re missing out. I don’t know what he does, but Woodward gets access like no other journalist on earth. I read all of his books about the Bush presidency and they were excellent, but I think this might be his best one yet. I couldn’t put it down once I started reading it. The little details about squabbles between the various personalities in The White House and the competing factions are fascinating.

We see a lot of faces on television associated with the Obama administration, but you don’t really know them. Bob’s book really fleshes these characters out and you get a sense of their agenda and what kind of personalities they have.

There’s plenty of red meat in the book for Obama critics (like myself) as well. It’s quite clear from reading the book that Obama really does take a professorial and intellectual view of everything. He’s completely devoid of any emotional reactions.

One of the more concerning things in the book is the way Obama seems to put purely political operatives in places where they don’t belong. He likes to stack the deck in his favor with political cronies from Chicago and elsewhere.

There really is so much information in “Obama’s Wars” that you’ll keep thinking about it long after you finish it. I think it’s safe to say Barack Obama is the most mysterious president we’ve ever elected. Due to media corruption we know nothing about the man or what really makes him tick. What Woodward’s book does it pull back the curtain and put you inside The White House. You get a sense of how and why decisions are being made.

If you haven’t read it — get it!

David Frum has been predicting the demise of the GOP and conservatism itself ever since the election of Barack Obama. On his website that nobody reads, Frum Forum, David has spent the last two years attacking conservatives like Sarah Palin and vilifying Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

Here’s Frum supporting the idea that the Tea Party is racist and hateful:

Naturally, this has made him a popular figure on MSNBC. Playing the useful idiot role to perfection, he give assurances to Olbermann, Maddow, Scarborough, and others that Republicans will never hold power again unless they moderate. All that small government stuff is just so outdated. Cutting taxes is so 80’s. Americans are way beyond all that now, according to Frum. Sarah Palin is an idiot and shouldn’t be taken seriously by anyone!

But while Frum was running his mouth on MSNBC, conservative principles began taking root again. The Tea Party exploded onto the national scene. Glenn Beck became a superstar. Sarah Palin became a kingmaker. Rush Limbaugh is more popular than ever. Best of all, Republicans may take back the House and Senate.

Much to Frum’s chagrin, the new GOP takeover is not going to be filled with phony ass moderates like him. It’s going to be packed with real conservatives like Marco Rubio, Jim DeMint, Sharron Angle, and possibly Christine O’Donnell.

Frum is beginning to realize that he’s been exposed as a moron and a hack. His opinion means nothing. He’s a broken down, discredited little man.

Like a wounded animal that finds itself cornered, Frum is once again lashing out. He’s attacking Todd Palin over the Joe Miller email. He calls the email a “temper tantrum” and then calls Sarah Palin’s character into question.

What Republicans need to keep in mind is that David Frum is not on our side. He would love for the GOP to lose in November so he could claim victory for his failed ideas. He’s an elitist RINO hack with sinister intentions.

I can’t be as charitable as Ian over at Conservatives4Palin who says we have a big tent party with room for phonies like Frum. I’m all about the big tent, but there’s no room under the tent for people who want to burn it down.

As long as Frum continues to undermine and attack conservatives he can go to hell.

Some on the right have begun a hysterical campaign to demonize video game maker Electronic Arts for their latest installment of the popular first-person shooter “Medal of Honor.” The game is set in modern day Afghanistan and puts the player right in the middle of the current conflict. I’m just glad EA finally had the balls to make a video game that’s relevant.

As an avid player of the “Medal of Honor” series I’ve grown tired of waging war against Communism. Political correctness has sadly infected the video game industry right along with every other segment of our society. We’ve been waging war against radical Islam now for close to 10 years, but in our video games we’re fighting the Russians. It’s bizarre.

Electronic Arts finally stepped up to the plate and grew a pair by setting the game in modern day Afghanistan. You get to battle against the Taliban in an incredibly realistic environment. However, both for political correctness and improved game play they added one controversial element to the game.

Players can choose to wage war as a US soldier or as a member of the Taliban. So some on the right are outraged that players can fight as the Taliban and “kill” American troops.

First of all, this is very reminiscent of the witch-hunts that took place in the 90’s over violence in video games, music, and movies. Video games and music are not the boogie men. “Medal of Honor” is not real. American troops are not being killed — it’s just a game. A very fun game.

Critics of the game like the Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell, whom I respect very much, are making the same tired argument about poisoning children’s minds as they always have.

Video games are amazing technological products, but they are not “stories” like a book or a movie. Parents don’t worry about their kids reading Taliban books. I don’t know of any movies where the Taliban are the heroes. It’s only video games where children enter an imaginary (but most realistic and therefore, dangerous) world in which they are the main characters.

In a video game, every player is the author and the movie director. The game maker only sets the parameters, and lets the player finish the story. In this case, EA has created a plot in which children can be absorbed for hours in the virtual reality of killing American solders, the best and most honorable product our nation has to offer.

That argument simply doesn’t hold up. Children shouldn’t be sitting in front of the TV playing video games for hours no matter what the game. Video games should be played in moderation like anything else. But video games don’t kill people, people kill people. To suggest that children are going to become terrorists or anti-American in some way because they play “Medal of Honor” is just plain silly.

A couple of years ago “Grand Theft Auto” was a popular and controversial game. Children endlessly played a character who could shoot innocent people, rape women, and steal cars. Did this lead to an epidemic of children stealing cars and committing murder? No, of course not.

Secondly, I actually don’t think too many kids are going to want to play as the Taliban anyway. The US military has the coolest weapons, uniforms, and equipment. Politics doesn’t enter into it at all. Kids just want to blow stuff up with the coolest weapons.

Conservatism is on the rise in this country. The majority of Americans like what we’re saying about fiscal responsibility, strong national security, and freedom. Let’s not muddy the message by vilifying video game makers and other such silliness. Let’s stick to the issues.

Here’s a trailer for the game. I think you’re going to find this game particularly popular with US troops.

This has to be one of the most manufactured controversies I’ve seen since global warming. Mexican TV sports reporter Ines Sainz known for her provocative dress and large breast implants is now whining about how he she was treated in an NFL locker room.

Is is really a surprise to anyone that an attractive, provocatively dressed woman might be on the receiving end of some locker room talk inside an actual locker room with dozens of sweaty NFL football players?

Maybe instead of crying about how she was treated we should examine the wisdom of letting attractive, provocatively dressed women into NFL locker rooms with dozens of sweaty football players.

In Ines’s defense, it sounds like the liberal media turned this into a bigger story than she did. According to her it wasn’t a big deal, but other reporters were offended on her behalf.

If guys can’t just be guys in a locker room we’re all doomed.

Here’s an interview she did on Fox News today:

(hat tip The Blaze)

I have to give a lot of credit to Richard Cohen for his latest piece in the Washington Post. He had the courage to stand up to his hypocritical leftist friends in the media and remind them that even Terry Jones has rights.

Jones is neither a great man nor the leader of a great cause. But what he wanted to do was both permissible under our system and, in a sense, valued. He was attempting to make a statement. It was chaotic and bigoted, but it was a political statement nonetheless, and he had every right to make it. Still, President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Afghanistan War commander Gen. David Petraeus urged him to stand down — the lives of American soldiers were at stake. Jones stood down.

This was not the first time the threat of violence in the Islamic world has had a chastening effect here — nor will it be the last. I have yet to see the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published originally in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The one drawn by Kurt Westergaard and considered particularly objectionable generated riots and, ultimately, an attack on Westergaard himself. The violence, actual or threatened, intimidated the Western media.

Westergaard survived the attack, a horrific home invasion, summoning the police from his panic room. As the novelist Salman Rushdie once did, he lives under police protection. Rushdie, of course, had his life threatened for his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses," which was characterized as insulting to Islam. As with Westergaard, Rushdie was condemned both by certain Muslims and by certain non-Muslims. More frequently, the fatwa was greeted by a studied indifference — a pox on both their houses, that of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who ordered Rushdie’s death and the insensitive Rushdie who did not understand that post-colonial peoples are always right.

I said from the beginning that it wasn’t a good idea for Terry Jones to burn the Koran. However, it also gave me a sick feeling to watch the government apply ever increasing amounts of pressure on a private citizen exercising his freedom of speech rights.

I can promise you if Jones had wanted to desecrate a US flag, a Holy Bible, or an effigy of George W. Bush the media would have ignored him or even praised him. Had the government tried to pressure him not to do any of those things the media would have howled about his rights.

Muslims have been considered a protected class by the liberal media ever since 9/11. Any perceived infringement or slight towards Muslims is immediately confronted. That is wrong.

As repugnant as it is, Terry Jones has the right to burn as many Korans in protest as he wants. The way he was bullied and pressured by the government is a disgrace. Not only did the Secretary of Defense call Jones personally, but the FBI visited his home for a “chat” on two different occasions. If that’s not chilling to free speech I don’t know what is.

The hypocrisy of the left simply knows no bounds. The ACLU should have been all over this thing to protect Jones’s right to protest, but they were nowhere to be seen. Instead they were probably working hard to make sure a Muslim could get a foot bath at their work site.

Cohen is also right about the intimidation factor. One reason the media is quick to defend Islam is because Muslims threaten to murder people who insult them. Bowing to their threats is no different than negotiating with terrorists. If you do it once, they’ll know you’re soft and keep coming after you. The fact that Muslims threaten to kill people who burn the Koran should give people all the more reason to burn it.