Archive for January, 2009

He will be reporting from Israel, and I assume Gaza, if he is allowed by the Israelis. If he doesn’t go into the breach if he’s allowed, then it’ll be bull on his or Pajamas TV’s part, or both. For now I’m rooting for him, and applaud Pajama’s TV for sending him. Why not send [...]

WASHINGTON – Vice President Dick Cheney, warning against impulsive U.S. action in Iraq, says that whether the struggling nation backslides into a cycle of violence partly depends on how President-elect Barack Obama decides to pull out American forces. “An irresponsible withdrawal now is exactly the wrong medicine,” Cheney said in an interview Thursday with The [...]

On his way to Jenny-O’s? LOS ANGELES (AP) – A motorist with more than a dozen guns—two of them loaded—and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition in his pickup truck was arrested Friday at a vehicle checkpoint as he entered Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said. Phillip Dominguez of Orange was booked on suspicion of felony [...]

DOVER, Del. – A lawsuit that accused Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s youngest son and brother of cheating a business partner out of money has been settled, an attorney said Friday. A stipulation of settlement in the case against Hunter Biden, a former Washington lobbyist and son of Delaware’s senior senator, and James Biden, the senator’s [...]

“When Jack Ryan talked about creating Barbie, it was almost like listening to a sexual pervert.” The Independent: They’ve got blonde hair, blue eyes, and occupy a special place in the hearts of generations of schoolgirls from every corner of the globe. But for years, Barbie and Ken appear to have been hiding a guilty [...]

Times Online: A plan to create a new foothold in Gaza for the Palestinian Authority and to bring in international monitors was being drawn up by diplomats yesterday as a UN ceasefire call was dismissed by both sides. The plan would allow a return of the authority, led by the secular Fatah faction, to the [...]

Washington City Paper: Woman Offers Ovary For Inaugural Ball Ticket by Amanda Hess An ovary for a ball: Fair trade, no? A 27-year-old Cleveland lawyer and Barack Obama enthusiast thinks so. On Tuesday, Lisa F. posted a Craigslist ad offering her ovary—and that of a friend—in exchange for two tickets to an inaugural ball. “We’ve [...]

LA Times: Passengers pounce on man who made threats aboard L.A.-bound flight By Andrew Blankstein and Nathan Olivarez-Giles Chris Llewellyn was staring out the window of Delta Airlines Flight 110, watching the landscape of Los Angeles rise up toward the plane, when he heard the screams of a male flight attendant: “Help me! Help me!” [...]

Keith Ellison being sworn in on the Koran. Related: Minnesota Only State Represented By A Jihadi And Al Franken “It is the de facto arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S.,” said Steven Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. “The agenda of the MAS is to … impose Islamic law in the [...]

LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. is seeking to hire a merchant ship to deliver hundreds of tonnes of arms to Israel from Greece later this month, tender documents seen by Reuters show. The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) said the ship was to carry 325 standard 20-foot containers of what is listed [...]

WASHINGTON – Get ready for the in-law in chief. President-elect Barack Obama’s mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, is moving into the White House to join Michelle Obama and the two children, transition officials said Friday. That’s good news not just for late-night comics, but for 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha. During the campaign, Robinson retired from her [...]

Hiram Monserrate, girl-slashing Democrat ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Women’s groups are outraged that a freshman New York state senator was sworn in this week while facing charges that he slashed his girlfriend’s face with a piece of broken glass in a jealous rage. Hiram Monserrate was charged with assault and weapon possession after Karla Giraldo’s [...]

Member of original Navy SEAL team dies at 84 PUNTA GORDA — Roy Boehm, who helped start the U.S. Navy’s first SEAL team, has died. He was 84. Boehm, a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, died at his southwest Florida home Dec. 30, his son, Robert Boehm, said. “He was a true patriot, he was [...]

Related: Angry Dems Blame Obama, Durbin And Reid For Burrris Scandal The Swamp: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) asserts this evening that no one can fill the vacant seat of the former junior senator, President-elect Barack Obama, until the governor of Illinois is removed from office and his successor names a senator. Durbin, senior senator from [...]

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American Thinker: Despite the usual Islamically-correct gloss of denial in reportage, an ugly, uni-directional pattern of bigoted violence is once again clearly on display in Western Europe. Far removed from the current Gaza-southern Israel battlegrounds (“Hamas Says No To Permanent Ceasefire”) of the Middle East, European Muslims have attacked individual Jews, synagogues, and Jewish or [...]

Media Bistro on Round 1: When “Media Malpractice” filmmaker John Ziegler appeared on MSNBC to discuss the YouTube clips released yesterday of his interview with Gov. Sarah Palin, some fireworks could be expected. The interview did not disappoint. David Shuster interviewed Ziegler this afternoon, and the filmmaker took on MSNBC as a whole. “I believe [...]

American Thinker: By Ed Lasky George Soros is the biggest sugar daddy of the Democratic Party, and naturally wants to ensure that the Democrats have a monopoly of power in America. Recently, I wrote an article for American Thinker on the role that George Soros has played in helping the Democrat Al Franken in his [...]

Politico: Democrats angry over the botched handling of the Roland Burris imbroglio are putting the blame on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin and President-elect Barack Obama — even as new legal developments in Illinois throw the issue back to the Senate again. Democratic sources say that Reid and Durbin underestimated [...]