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Heard anything about Cindy Sheehan lately? Wonder why? The last person to have “absolute moral authority” (AMA) granted to her by the mainstream media, Sheehan is no longer a useful tool now that the target of her ire would be a Democratic president. Sunday, on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Salon.com (does anyone actually read that site?) […]
Britain’s Guardian newspaper held a debate a couple weeks back over the Climategate scandal. The panel featured Steve McIntyre, proprietor of ClimateAudit.org and debunker of the infamous hockey stick graph. You can find a brief summary of the debate here. The audio of the entire debate is here at the Guardian site and certainly worth […]
As a follow up on the post immediately below this one, Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz takes on the Journo-list scandal and includes this line: But there is no getting around the fact that some of these messages, culled from the members-only discussion group Journolist, are embarrassing. They show liberal commentators appearing to cooperate […]
I must confess that I haven’t spent enough time writing about the Journo-list and the downfall of Washington Post “conservative” blogger Dave Weigel and today’s Daily Caller article on an effort by members of the Journo-list in 2008 to brand conservatives interested in the controversy over President Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright as racists. […]
The worst thing about gerrymandering is that you get districts created that are weighted in such an incredibly partisan fashion that blithering idiots can be re-elected time and time again. This week’s evidence, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who by the way has a degree in political science from Yale. Yes, this woman sits on the […]
The National Right to Life organization came out Tuesday with a press release noting that the plan for high risk pools in Pennsylvania – mandated by Obamacare – would allow taxpayer funding of abortions for any reason except sex selection. Examination of the detailed Pennsylvania plan, reveals that the "much more" will include insurance coverage […]
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally got the treatment at the White House that the U.S. usually gives to its friends. When Netanyahu was last at the White House, the United States’ best ally in the Middle East was denied a press conference, photo op and even a handshake and a meal as […]
Nope, not me, Scott Nicholson, 24, of Grafton, Mass. After breakfast, his parents left for their jobs, and Scott Nicholson, alone in the house in this comfortable suburb west of Boston, went to his laptop in the living room. He had placed it on a small table that his mother had used for a vase […]
Number 1 dumb thing: RNC Chairman Michael “The Disaster” Steele: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is once again caught in the crosshairs, this time over comments he made regarding the war in Afghanistan in which he calls it “a war of Obama’s choosing.” He adds: “This is not something the United States had actively […]