"I’ve never visited a democracy where more people whom I interviewed asked me not to quote them by name for fear of retribution ...
Barack Obama has staked the energy future of this country on wind energy:"Some say" Obama is obsessed with wind energy: Obama's speech: There's a pipe spewing a gazillion gobs of oil into the gulf, so let's build more windmillsAs with Obama's dream for socialized health...
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:A reader suggested this video as a follow-up to last week's post about how the NAACP thought a Hallmark talking graduation card said "Black Ho" or "Black Whore" when...
The Islamist-Leftist Anti-Israel Coalition has found its most successful tactic -- the use of human shields in the form of Western Useful Idiots backed by Islamist Martyrs-in-Waiting to confront Israeli soldiers in the hope that Israel will be forced either to weaken its defenses or...
As those of you who have been following this blog for a while know, I have long contemplated changes to the blog to make it more user friendly.Every time I try to think through a change, I put it aside because I really, really have...
Alan Simpson, unlike Bob Etheridge, stayed and answered questions during a hostile ambush interview, and gave the questioner, Alex Lawson of Social Security Works (filming for Firedoglake's "live stream") an earful about the fallacies behind left-wing attacks on reforming Social Security and lowering the deficit.Lawson...
Harry Reid crafted Obamacare without a Doc Fix built into the legislation so that Reid could get the CBO score he wanted. Now Reid admits that without additional spending, the legislation will create havoc:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had warned Thursday night of the “havoc”...
The pathetic, lie-infested legislation known as ObamaCare was based on phony numbers and unrealistic assumptions so that Democrats could sell the package to themselves and their delusional Democratic constituents.Those of us who followed the legislation called the Democrats out on it, but since Democrats had...
The world learned that the go-ahead had been given for the execution by firing squad of Ronnie Lee Gardner when the Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff sent out this tweet: Was this the first Death by Twitter?--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Arkansas Primary Result in 28 CharactersIsraeli Embassy Tweets...
The Times of London and the Sunday Times are among my favorite sources of news, and I have linked to them very frequently.But now I must say good-bye.Beginning a couple of days ago, The Times group turned off the free TimesOnline and went behind a...
North Carolina Democratic Representative Bob Etheridge's muscling of a student who asked whether Etheridge fully supported the Obama agenda has gone viral, and has helped propel Renee Ellmers into a small lead in the polls.Prior to this incident, I had not heard of Etheridge.In doing...
Thanks to Solomonia for posting this 1956 cartoon about Israel's aggression. (Added) The cartoon shows Egyptian Gamal Abdel Nasser repeatedly taunting Israel's David Ben-Gurion, and in the last segment Ben Gurion finally hits back. The cartoon appears to be an allusion to the 1956 Suez...
Headline: "Payments from BP settlement slow to arrive in Gulf"Subheadline: "Unexpected bureaucratic snafus snarl claims system."--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...
I think the man holds grudges. I would not steal his yard signs, if I were you:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GabMEHfCjT0](h/t Ben Smith)--------------------------------------------Related Post:Why Is Gail Collins Afraid of "Illegals"?Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...
I previously posted about the nomination of John J. "Jack" McConnell, Jr. to the federal district court in Rhode Island.The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote today. The Providence Journal sums up the controversy over McConnell, a mass-tort lawyer who donated hundreds of thousands...
There is so much wrong with how Barack Obama has handled the Gulf oil spill, it's almost hard to know where to begin.Put aside the ineptitude of the approval process and clean up response. For today, I'm focusing on the tentative settlement with BP. While...
Shouted an unnamed reporter chasing Sharron Angle through the halls of Congress.Maybe it is because you are incredibly biased people who call yourselves reporters, but simply are looking for a sentence or clause in a sentence which you can twist for fit your preconceived agenda...
