IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD: “An imaginary Islamic student is not entitled to a heckler’s veto on a teacher’s passive, popular or unpopular expression about God’s place in the history of the United States.” - Judge Roger Benitez of California's Southern District, in his rejection of arguments by a school district attempting to force a teacher to remove long-standing, patriotic religious banners from his classroom. 03/01/2010
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama’s State of the Union address was “very troubling” and the annual speech has “degenerated to a political pep rally.”
Responding to a University of Alabama law student’s question, Roberts said anyone was free to criticize the court, and some have an obligation to do so because of their positions. ”So I have no problems with that,” he said. “On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances and the decorum.
“The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the court — according the requirements of protocol — has to sit there expressionless, I think is very troubling.”
Roberts told the students he wonders whether justices should attend the speeches.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not accustomed to the word she’s been hearing far more frequently in recent days: “no.”
Over the past two weeks, Pelosi has faced a series of subtle but significant challenges to her authority — revolts from Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Blue Dog Coalition and politically vulnerable first- and second-term members.
The Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works issued an urgent email late Monday claiming the DRUDGE REPORT is ‘responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate.’
The committee ordered hill staff: ‘Try to avoid’ the DRUDGE REPORT ‘for now’.
On Monday DRUDGE served over 29 million pages with NOT ONE email complaint received about ‘pop ups’, or the site serving ‘viruses’. The site was seen 149,967 times since March 1st from users at senate.gov and 244,347 times at house.gov. [10,825 visits from the White House, eop.gov]
First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.
Penn, appearing on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday, defended Chavez during a segment in which he detailed his work with the JP Haitian Relief Organization, which he co-founded.
“Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it” said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. “And this is mainstream media, who should — truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies.”
“Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill,” Massa, who on Friday announced his intention to resign, said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. “And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.”
Reporting from Jerusalem – Vice President Joe Biden was due to arrive Monday in Israel on a mission to mend U.S.-Israeli relations after a rocky first year for new administrations in both countries. Obama’s approval ratings in Israel are among the lowest for any U.S. president in recent memory.
Comment from Max: This is historical. President Obama has soured U.S. – Israeli relations so badly that we are now engaging Israel in Goodwill trips that have traditionally been reserved for Communist regimes.
Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested Adam Gadahn, the American-born spokesman for al-Qaida, in an operation in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday.
The arrest of Gadahn is a major victory in the U.S.-led battle against al-Qaida and will be taken as a sign that Pakistan is cooperating more fully with Washington. It follows the recent detentions of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi.
Gadahn was arrested in the sprawling southern metropolis in recent days, two officers who took part in the operation said. A senior government official also confirmed the arrest.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
Gadahn, who is also known by various aliases, including Yahya Majadin Adams and Azzam al-Amriki, grew up on a goat farm in Riverside County, California, and converted to Islam at a mosque in nearby Orange County.
Gadahn moved to Pakistan in 1998, according to the FBI, and is said to have attended an al-Qaida training camp six years later, serving as a translator and consultant for the group. He has been wanted by the FBI since 2004, and there is a $1 million reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction.
He has posted videos and messages calling for the destruction of the West and for strikes against targets in the United States. The most recent was posted Sunday, praising the U.S. Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas.
In an interesting turn of events this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced by her caucus to pry Rep. Charlie Rangel’s D-NY Ways and Means gavel out of his hands and throw Rep. Pete Stark D-CA under the bus. Then, she cut Rep. Eric Massa D-NY loose late Friday afternoon, pressuring Massa to step down just days after allegations surfaced against the one-term Congressman. Rep. Massa will resign his House seat effective Monday, March 9 at 5pm.72001311CS003_War_Veterans_Through all of the months of drama of Rangel’s ethics violations, tax evasion, and abuses, Pelosi has stood by Rangel–up to the very end–even being quoted as saying: After huddling with Rangel for 45 minutes, Pelosi initially said, “No comment” when asked if Rangel remains panel chairman. She later added, “I guess he is still chair of Ways and Means…”
Communist Party chiefs led a procession of largely elderly people across Red Square on the 57th anniversary of Stalin’s death, laying flowers at his grave by the Kremlin wall.
The solemn visit is an annual tradition for communists steeped in nostalgia for the Soviet era. But this year, it comes as Russia’s bitter debate over Stalin’s legacy sharpens ahead of May 9 celebrations marking 65 years since the Nazi defeat.
For the first time in decades, Stalin’s image may appear among the banners and posters that Moscow authorities put up for Victory Day, which will draw foreign leaders to Moscow as guests of the government.
City plans to set up 10 information stands describing Stalin’s role in the war have deepened animus between Russians who loathe him and their compatriots who love him.
“Today … the greatness of Stalin’s era is self-evident even to his most furious haters,” Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said after laying flowers at Stalin’s grave.
“We liberated the whole world, … we built a nuclear shield, we were the first to fly into space, and we created this (nuclear) parity that ensured stable peace for nearly 50 years.”
Critics call Stalin a murderer for the millions of deaths in his forced collectivization and Gulag prison camps. They say victory in the war came despite mistakes that contributed to the devastating death toll of some 27 million Soviet citizens.
Three people were killed when a parked car rigged with explosives blew up Saturday in Najaf on the eve of parliamentary elections, the Interior Ministry said.
At least 54 others — 17 Iraqis and 37 Iranians — were injured in the attack near the Imam Ali Holy Shrine, which houses the tomb of Ali, cousin of the Prophet Mohammed.
Two of the dead were Iranians, the interior official said. Najaf, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, is frequented by Shiite pilgrims from Iran.
Iraqis will go to the polls Sunday to choose a 325-member parliament. The election has been marred by violence despite heavy security.
It is Iraq’s fifth nationwide vote since 2003, but only the second for a full four-year-term parliament.
Karl Rove, often described as President George W. Bush’s brain, defended the former president in a new book against claims that he lied to the American public in order to invade Iraq in 2003.
“[D]id Bush lie us into war? Absolutely not,” Rove wrote in his 516-page book, “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.”
The book highlights Rove’s life and career and his time working for Bush.
Rove, a long-time political advisor who joined Bush in the White House after the 2000 campaign, said the U.S. wouldn’t have gone to war with Iraq if the administration knew that weapons of mass destruction wouldn’t be found.
“Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it,” he wrote. “Congress was very unlikely to have supported the use-of-force resolution without the threat of WMD. The Bush administration itself would probably have sought other ways to constrain Saddam, bring about regime change, and deal with Iraq’s horrendous human rights violations
If the job market doesn’t improve soon and in a big way, the fallout will continue. Though the U.S. jobless rate held steady at 9.7% in February, the portion of workers who classify themselves as underemployed is inching up, according to a Gallup survey.
Some 30 million Americans, or 19.8% of the work force, say they aren’t working to their full potential because they are either unemployed or working part time but wanting full-time jobs, according to Gallup. See story on government jobs data and unemployment rate.
“Despite indications that the U.S. economy may be recovering, underemployment remains high,” Gallup said in its study.
Democratic Rep. Eric Massa will resign from Congress on Monday, only days after reports first surfaced that the freshman New York lawmaker was under investigation by the House ethics committee for allegedly sexually harassing a male staffer.
Massa was preparing the news in the Corning Leader, his local newspaper, but several media outlets were already reporting the news Friday afternoon.
Top advisers to President Obama are close to a decision recommending that the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks be prosecuted in a military tribunal, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing unnamed administration officials.
According to the report, the president’s advisers have grown increasingly wary of bipartisan opposition to the planned civilian federal trial in New York City, mere blocks from where nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in the spectacular attack on the World Trade Center.
The growing threat of a stealth tax on the rubbish we throw away was exposed by startling figures yesterday.More than 2.5million homes now have wheelie bins fitted with microchips to weigh their contents.This is an increase of nearly two-thirds in just a year. The bins, which can be electronically identified and weighed, are designed for ‘pay-as-you-throw’ rubbish tax schemes.
It looks like Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is on track to win another endorsement from ACORN!
This week, Hynes announced that “no criminality has been found” after his investigation of the videotapes made by investigative journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, which show ACORN employees counseling the pair on getting a mortgage for a house of prostitution.
(They got a choice of government loans: Phat Fannie Mae, Prince Freddie Mac or Barney Fresh Daddy Frank … aka “Sir Fix-A-Lot.”)
I’m just glad to know that Hynes conducted a thorough “investigation” first. Who did he have screen the videotapes, Gov. Paterson?
If his investigators had actually watched the videotapes, they would have found ACORN employees apparently advising a pimp and prostitute on how to defraud mortgage lenders, deposit prostitution money in a bank, hide money from the government and avoid detection while running a whorehouse with teenage girls from El Salvador.
I’m not a lawyer — oh, wait, yes, I am — but I count approximately a half-dozen state law crimes being discussed on those tapes, from money laundering to advancing prostitution.
The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains, was first filed just weeks after the August 2005 storm hit.
“The plaintiffs allege that defendants’ operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming,” say the documents seen by the AFP news agency.
Amy Oztan is one of thousands of parents who got a letter from school bluntly pointing out that her son is fat. She promptly threw the letter away.
Dr. Andrew Baldwin on how you can help America’s kids get healthy and slim down.
“My son, who is very tall for his age and is a little husky, but fit, brought home a piece of paper from his school listing his BMI and stating that he was obese,” said Oztan, a New York City mother of two
A dozen House of Representatives Democrats opposed to abortion are willing to kill President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plan unless it satisfies their demand for language barring the procedure, Representative Bart Stupak said on Thursday.”Yes. We’re prepared to take responsibility,” Stupak said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” when asked if he and his 11 Democratic allies were willing to accept the consequences for bringing down healthcare reform over abortion.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada’s single-payer system.
… she and her family once found it more alluring than, at the very least, the coverage available in rural Alaska. Up to the age of six, Palin lived in a remote town near the closest Canadian city, Whitehorse.
The first misstatement of fact is that Canada wasn’t under a single payer system when Palin was six years old. The Canada Health Act wasn’t passed until 1984. Prior to that, Canadian Medicare only covered 50% of medical costs which wasn’t passed into law until 1966.
Stein hasn’t the courage to explain why the Palin family crossed over into Canada. The Palin family lived in the rural southeast Alaska town of Skagway. Their town had no Doctor and the closest medical facilities were located in neighboring Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The time period was in the 60’s, and according to Palin’s father they had little choice, given their location in Skagway. “There was no road out of there at that time,” said retired teacher Chuck Heath, reached by phone in Wasilla. “The ferry schedule was very erratic. We had no doctor in Skagway. The plane schedule was very erratic. The winds dictated whether the planes could come in or not.”
And they only went twice for emergency treatment. According to Palin’s father, his family probably boarded the train for the Whitehorse hospital only twice – once when a daughter had rheumatic fever, and once when his son, also named Chuck, severely burned his leg and an infection set in.
So Stein is a liar, the Palin family did not find Canada ‘more alluring’. They found it necessary in times of emergency.
Stein illustrates the problem with amateur journalism on the far left. They do absolutely no reporting on their own, instead they troll the internet for articles, steal the information and regurgitate the parts they like in a pathetic attempt to twist the story in order to dumb down their readers.
And here I sit, a novice journalist with an English 1A class under my belt, who with five minutes to spare on conducting my own credible research (Courtesy AP), has called out a cheap shot rookie who is a total discredit to the values that journalism requires. Because anything else is just sloppy tabloid journalism.
Yesterday I emailed the White House on the subject of heath care. It started out, “Dear Mr. President”, and went on to discuss the issue of Presidential legacies, specifically that great leaders write their own legacies, and that if the President is insistent upon ramming obamacare down our throats ‘at all costs’, to include imploding the democratic party, well that isn’t a very good legacy at all.
This isn’t the first time I have emailed the White House, perhaps over the past year this would be my 10th piece of correspondence asking them what the heck is happening to our country, with strong conservative overtones. I have always checked the block ‘Do you want a response?’, but this is the first response I have ever received. These days with health care hanging by a thread, I guess any email the White House gets on health care merits a response to ALL Americans, not just liberal messages of support. Granted, the President didn’t read my email. In fact, no one did. I know this because the response didn’t address any of my concerns (especially the one recommending Obama fire Rahm Emanuel on behalf of all decent Americans who are disgusted by Chicago Mob-style politics in the White House). Despite not reading it, Barack Obama replied. Well, his name is on it anyway…. cranked out by some lowly staff member with the painful job of sending out White House spam.
And this is President Barack Obamas response to my email;
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Dear Friend:
Thank you for writing. I have heard from countless Americans struggling to afford health insurance, as well as health professionals striving to provide care, and I appreciate your perspective.
I recently released my proposal to reform our health insurance system. To learn more about this plan, please visit:
www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting and www.healthreform.gov
Reform must provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance; give those without insurance affordable options; and lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government.
I share the sense of urgency that many Americans have voiced to improve health care in our country. Together, we will fix it.
Sincerely,
Barack Obama
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Does the spin ever stop? ’Together we will fix it’…. without any Republicans or the majority of Americans who disapprove of this partisan Bill? My only response to this is Washington is broken, starting with the President. He possess the power to bring both sides together to initiate bipartisan reform that uses the best ideas from both parties. If he truly loved capitalism, he would allow private insurance companies to compete across state lines, he would reduce government red tape instead of adding to it, he would allow our health care system to breathe freely under a free market system, he would insist on it being a voluntary program encouraged with tax credits. He would understand the necessity of keeping government out of the health care business in order to preserve it as the best (albeit not perfect) system the world has ever produced. The USA leads the world in medical technology for a very good reason, and none of it due to government.
Mr. President, tear up the partisan bill that is headed to your desk and start over with bi-partisan reform. That is what most Americans want. If it means showcasing your leadership by eating a slice of Humble pie, well sir, thats what leaders do sometimes, and that would be 100% better than serving most Americans a plate of crap.
Only 49 days after making a pledge that could only rival God of the Old Testament, “You will not be forsaken, you will not be forgotten,” President Barack Obama told the people of Haiti. “In this, your hour of greatest need, America stands with you. The world stands with you” (said on January 15th), the President is now withdrawing a large majority of U.S. troops from Haiti. A move that has some Haitians fearing the departure of American troops as a sign of dwindling international interest in the plight of the Haitian people following the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake.
Now that is impressive, in a record 49 days the U.S. has largely accomplished its mission in Haiti, after an earthquake leveled the capital city killing 230,000, injuring another 300,000, and leaving an estimated 1,000,000 homeless. Good Job Mr. President.
Now we can refocus our energy and hope and pray that the Lord God hasn’t accomplished His mission here on planet Earth…
Zoom in on the doctors standing behind President Obama (White House briefing on Obamacare; 3 March 2010) and you will see three letters embroidered on the white coat right breast pocket: GHC. On the Seattle based GHC website, Group Health Cooperative describes itself as follows; ”Founded in 1947, Group Health Cooperative is a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system that coordinates care and coverage. Based in Seattle, Wash., Group Health and its subsidiary health carriers, Group Health Options, Inc. and KPS Health Plans, serve more than half a million residents of Washington state and Idaho.” In addition to Seattle, other GHC’s operate throughout the country as non-profit managed health care providers, e.g. (GHC-SCW) (GHC-Eau Claire).
It comes as no surprise that non-profit health care providers would support Obamacare since a sizable share of their funding is paid by MEDICARE, MEDICAID, and government grants. However, what is somewhat surprising is how a healthcare provider can qualify as a non-profit organization under IRS Section 501(a), operating as a TAX-EXEMPT charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3), and be allowed to invest government dollars in Marketable Securities.
According to GHC-Seattle consolidated financial statements for 2008, this “Charity” collected over 2.5 million in annual premiums, $680,000 of which came from MEDICARE and MEDICAID. They received $32,000 in Government Grants. GHC-Seattle also deals in Marketable Securities totaling $757,569 representing investments in Government Securities, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mutual Funds, Commercial Paper, Equity, and Corporate Debt Securities.
How is it legal for a non-profit, operating as a charity, to collect MEDICARE and MEDICAID premiums, government grants, and then use that money to invest in Mutual Funds, Mortgage Backed Securities and Government Securities? Is this some type of government bonus for not paying any Federal Tax?
No wonder why GHC is lining up behind the President rooting for Obamacare. Under Obamacare, multiply the size of GHC by a factor of 10 (10 X the investments… 10 X the tax exempt status…. 10 X the government grants… 10 X the MEDICARE, MEDICAID and OBAMACARE premiums… 10 X the bureaucracy) and this is the transformation that will improve everyone’s Health Care in America?
This is a socialized health care scam, that by all appearances, funnels government money through healthcare providers and out the other end to buy government securities. The implications are huge, representing hundreds of billions under a single-payer, public option system.
Exactly how big is this government shell game? I don’t think we’ll ever truly know the answer to that question. All we can be sure of is information is being withheld from the public through layers and layers of intelligible legislation. And the deeper we dig, the uglier it gets.
Another oddity is how small GHC really is. Yet they are big enough to stand behind the President in order to make the photo-op appear much bigger than it really is. Small potato’s on a big stage. Now that would be really funny if it weren’t so pathetic and troubling for this great nation that we still call home.
Russia’s fifth-generation jet fighter, the T-50, is to undergo more than 2,000 flight tests before full-scale production starts, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday. “Before the jet’s serial production is launched, it should complete over 2,000 test flights,” Putin said. Russia has been developing its newest fighter since the 1990s. The current prototype was designed by the Sukhoi design bureau and built at a plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in Russia’s Far East.
A word from Max: This development in Russian Fighter technology places Russia on an equal footing with U.S. Fighter capability. What makes this truly ALARMING is President Obama’s decision to halt F-22 production, cease all funding, and cap the USAF inventory at 187 aircraft. A decision that was soundly criticized by Retired Gen. Merrill McPeak. There is a real danger here, and that is we are surrendering air superiority to those who would challenge it. Bad idea? You can count on it.
This comes after President Obama scrapped the Bush Missile Defense Shield in Europe (Poland and the Czech Republic) because the plans had infuriated the Russians. Prior to its scrapping, the Pentagon was working up a deal with Turkey as a potential site for Advanced SM-3 U.S. Missiles to target potential Iranian missile threats. However, in an embarrassing repudiation to White House foreign policy, Turkey rejected the offer leaving the U.S. with no place to base its missiles. Subsequent talks with Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic to accept a scaled down version of the Bush Missile Defense Shield by basing ship-based SM-3 Interceptors are ongoing. Poland and Romania have accepted the new plan amidst stiffened Russian opposition who believe that any system threatens their security.
Good news America only 36,000 people lost their jobs. It was quote “a big day in America”. Are you joking? What about those 36,000 people who lost their jobs?
This is the type of thinking that makes me wonder who and why anyone would vote Democrat. Reid, Pelosi, Obama should be working on fixing our unemployment epidemic, not a fake health care epidemic. While Americans are wondering when they will be put back to work people like Reid, Pelosi and Obama push an unpopular and pricey health care plan
I hope this is the nail in the coffin for Reid and his ilk although I doubt Democrats will change their stripes no matter how dirty this crop of Democrats do them. Let’s hope enough Independents and Conservatives step up to beat back this type of ridiculous thinking.
It often strikes me how Government failure attracts liberals. It’s like watching flies circling fly-paper. That no matter how big the disaster, the solution is always bigger government. And isn’t that the problem of big government, that when government becomes so big it becomes highly bureaucratic and insanely ineffective?
We should learn a few lessons from Katrina, whose aftermath was largely created by big government. The above Katrina poster hangs on my office wall as a constant reminder to me of government inefficiency, that metaphorically, government created the conditions that stranded those people, and the people willingly placed themselves on that bridge. Big government didn’t save them, and it won’t save you. Our government has already failed Social Security, Medicare, and VA health care. Politicians have spent your unborn children’s tax revenue, and have created the worst economic disaster since the great depression (while pointing fingers at everyone else). They have mortgaged your future to the Chinese, and they have bestowed Constitutional rights upon foreign terrorist. And now liberals are claiming government run health care is the best solution to health care reform?
To liberals everywhere: Government won’t save you.
To MSNBC and other so-called news outlets insistent on linking Joe Stack to the Tea Party movement: obviously MSNBC supports child rape and incest. There must be a connection because I know that several MSNBC hosts oppose parental notification laws for pregnant teenagers and espouse the same views as the adults who impregnate them.
Sounds as ridiculous as their approach to Stack and the Tea Parties.
First off, let’s make this clear – Stack, in his eyes, was a victim. Victims of the economy and the tax system represent all walks of life and those loners who would become suicide bombers over it do not have any kind of mainstream support.
Secondly, in his letter, Stack railed against organized religion, Catholicism and big business – these are not views shared by most Tea Party members. He was also motivated by class warfare and railed against the rich as well as the notion of an American dream. None of this is reflected in the Tea Party movement. We might as well link him to the leftist radicals empathized by moveon.org or the Huffington Post.
This is the same game the MSM played by trying to tie a violent extremist like Scott Roeder to the entire pro-life cause.
I think anyone who ever doubted Obama and his relationship with ACORN was lying to themselves. Here is a video showing Obama admitting “I’ve been always a partner with ACORN.” Now the question is whether or not ACORN is as corrupt as some say they are.
I Have no doubt in my mind had ACORN been a Conservative group in support of Bush not only would the left be screaming for an investigation of Bush, but also ACORN would be shut down with many of their leaders facing investigations.
In my opinion, this all shows the hypocrisy of the left and just what they think of our country. That said, I doubt anything happens to ACORN and Democrats will dismiss Obama’s past with the group as being inconsequential.
My question is really why is Obama and the Democrats not up front about their dealings with ACORN is there something to hide? Tell us the truth and then prove ACORN is innocent of whatever they are accused. Otherwise many will consider Obama and the Democrats dishonest. I think it is important that Americans find out whether or not a group our President associated with is or isn’t’ corrupt. Why not give us the truth on this. Remember a little truth will go a long way.
I seriously am wondering what is so bad about this commercial. Not only was it not controversial, but there was no mention of abortion, God, or any of the things that tend to get liberals unhinged. I actually thought the commercial was nice (probably the best thing about the Superbowl IMO). The sad fact is I think these people look for reasons to come unhinged. Other than the words “Who Dat” and bringing up Katrina whenever the Saints where brought up the complaints about this commercial where probably the most annoying facet of this years Superbowl. It will be interesting to watch today to see what the pro-abortion crowd says about the ad.
MSNBC has exposed the real power behind Sarah Palin – her own Cheney if you will. The most sinisterly powerful First Dude in American history, Todd Palin. This was exposed after MSNBC obtained Palin-related e-mails via Alaska’s public record laws that showed among other things that Todd Palin had access to the internet. It also frustratingly demonstrates that Todd Palin may not be the knuckle-dragging fish-sniffer they were hoping he was.
Assuming MSNBC provided the most scandalous examples up-front, it appears that Todd…well, played a role in his wife’s gubernatorial apparatus (I thought Hillary Clinton was the most powerful ‘First Dude’ in history). The AP, commenting on MSNBC’s expose, acknowledges that the vast majority of what MSNBC calls “e-mails that Todd Palin exchanged with state officials” were received by Todd or copied to Todd. E-mails sent by Todd appeared to be general questions or acknowledgments on various matters, not representing some kind of fiendish shadow-power behind Sarah Palin.
The Power Behind The Sarah
In one example that MSNBC touts as Todd receiving “background checks on a corporate CEO” (muhahaha!), if you actually read the e-mail the scarce information appears to be mostly public information anyway.
The real scandal is that he used Yahoo! for his e-mails…
Here is what I want to see while watching the Superbowl next weekend.
As with most anything I must say there is something I really don’t want to see this year during the Superbowl.
As you might know this years Superbowl and CBS is not without controversy. People have complained about CBS and their choices in what commercials to air. People have had issues with an CBS airing an alleged Pro-life commercial being aired, and others are upset at the decision by CBS to not air a video by gay dating site ManCrunch.com. To be quite honest I am a bit shocked by how CBS is handling this situation and find it a bit refreshing that they have decided this. Maybe my shock is off track and the people at CBS realize family values are still important to many people who will watch the Superbowl. And in the whole scheme of things no matter how much it upsets these fringe groups it is CBS’s call on what they will and will not air. In the end as with many things people will be upset and will complain about the decision too bad it is not their decision to make.
For those of you sick to death of the sickening crush MSNBC has for President Obama take a look at Chris Matthews as he once again awkwardly shows his love for President Obama.
First off only a Liberal would get away with such a comment without the disgusting howl of the race baiters beating down the door. Next most Americans I know don’t look at this as a black or white thing anymore. In fact that novelty, to most I know, wore off before he was sworn into office. The fact of this is MSNBC and Matthews to be specific seem intent on injecting race into everthing they cover. He used the word “post-racial” my question to Matthews is how in the world can we become this “post racial” utopia when we are constantly being reminded by the MSM that race is an always issue? Once again a host on MSNBC says something stupid and once again I am reminded just why I would rather have my eyes burned out by a hot poker or even better water boarded than spend more than 3 minutes watching these tools. Hey Matthews after I watched this video “I forgot you where a reporter/newsman”…
Here is my problem with this. First off, “pro choice” should be just that pro choice. By choice I mean they should show all sides of the issue and should have no problem at all with this commercial of one woman “choosing” to not have an abortion. She chose to have Tim and isn’t that what pro-choice should mean? It is apparent there seems only one choice these groups want to push and that choice is abortion. I applaud both CBS and the Tebows on their choosing to run this add. All the “pro-choice” crowd is to me and many these days is pro-abortion.
SCOTUS this week finally found their copy of the US Constitution and did what George W. Bush predicted they would do several years ago: strike down McCain-Feingold campaign finance ‘reform’. Putting aside all of the theoretical whining from the legislation’s supporters, what this does in real terms is help bring the money and the wheeling and dealing out of the shadows and back into the open.
McCain-Feingold did nothing to stem corporate and other special-interest influence in Washington. Nothing. It seemed that while we didn’t want Microsoft influencing the very political process that was attempting to destroy it time and time again, private citizens with unlimited wealth like George Soros and Mark Cuban were funding armies of 527’s and other political organizations whose sole purposes were to run propaganda wars against candidates they wanted to defeat.
Who, under this system, had more influence? George Soros or the tens of millions of Americans who work for corporations that were barred from representing their employees via their own interests?
Meanwhile, President Obama pretends that special-interests were a thing of the past until this SCOTUS ruling.
Corporations represent us far more accurately than incumbent bureaucrats in Washington – empty political rhetoric is not a substitute.
I could write a long politically charged article, sure to raise the hairs on the back of the necks of many liberals.
But I think the headline says it all.
Even before the first vote was cast, the liberal machine started pointing fingers to get a head start on the blame game should Coakley lose. And as the votes were being cast, the White House liberal lap dog Gibbs began the “play it down” regurgitation, looking much like Baghdad Bob (”There are no Marines in Baghdad!”) or a South Park Officer Babrady (”Okay folks move along, nothing to see here, move along!”), playing down the impact on the President’s agenda should Brown win.
Excuses are being made, published, expounded upon, analyzed, and argued. They’re blaming this loss on everything except the truth: Voter Anger.
You can call them “Tea Baggers” if it makes you feel good. But they just served it to you piping hot with all the steam of an angry voter. And they just showed the rest of the nation that it can be done. Look for this historic event to be repeated.
Earl Gray. One lump of sugar, with a touch of lemon.
TIS: My Email From President Obama on Health Care: I think it's odd that correspondence from BHO Headquarters doesn't start with:"Dear Folk"....... Couldn't resist. Odder still is that hard hitting political journalist Sam Stein...
Democratic Rep. Eric Massa will resign from Congress on Monday, only days after reports first surfaced that the freshman New York lawmaker was under investigation by the House ethics committee for allegedly sexually harassing a male staffer.
The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains, was first filed just weeks after the August 2005 storm hit.
Amy Oztan is one of thousands of parents who got a letter from school bluntly pointing out that her son is fat. She promptly threw the letter away.
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