Telegraph: A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government’s art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back. The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold [...]
BBC: There could be one hundred billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, a US conference has heard. Dr Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Science said many of these worlds could be inhabited by simple lifeforms. He was speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago. [...]
KABUL – President Hamid Karzai and President Barack Obama’s special envoy said Sunday that Afghan officials will take part in a strategic U.S. review of the Afghanistan war, a hint of U.S.-Afghan cooperation in an otherwise awkward joint appearance. Obama has said turning around the war in Afghanistan is one of his top priorities, but [...]
NY Post: In 1978, Bill German, then a 16-year-old kid in Brooklyn, started a fan ‘zine about the Rolling Stones called “Beggars Banquet.” The band was so impressed by it, they let the teen hang around – and even advertised his ‘zine inside their album sleeve. For more than 17 years, German trailed the Stones, [...]
Axelrod is a senior White House adviser and functions as one of Obama’s top four spokesmen. Very often spokesmen are used to attack political opponents by the President, but indirectly, so the President seems above the fray, the target is not dignified by a direct attack, and the President can avoid being counterattacked directly. That [...]
The only information source the left doesn’t control is radio. They don’t want fairness. If they did, they’d be as up in arms about tv, newspapers and Hollywood as they are about radio. They want to control your and your childrens’ minds, period. Politico: Toward the end of David Axelrod’s interview on Fox News Sunday, [...]
I’m not sure how McCain squares away the concept of a crime against humanity as large as generational theft, with the concept that the perpetrator is not mentally ill. There are no sincere talks with a taqiyya-talking psychopath, John. Get with the program, or watch America die. WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain says President Barack [...]
7 Broken Promises: 1. Make Government Open and Transparent 2. Make it “Impossible” for Congressmen to slip in Pork Barrel Projects 3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public (republicans shut out) 4. No more secrecy 5. Public will have 5 days to look at a Bill 6. You’ll know [...]
All I remember is eating a candy bar on a park picnic table when one of those little MFrs jumped me and bit my thumb trying to get the candy bar. He didn’t get it, the little b*tch, but I got stitches. Those little MFrs are faster than an F-18, and if they want to [...]
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NY Times: WASHINGTON  The last time Congressional Republicans were this out of power, they turned to a college professor from Georgia, Newt Gingrich, to lead the opposition, first against President Bill Clinton in a budget battle in 1993, and then back into the majority the following year. As Republicans confronted President Obama in another [...]
Daily Camera: BOULDER, Colo.  When representatives of a Boulder High student activist group arrived at school Thursday, they were greeted with angry opposition to their proposal to rename the building after President Barack Obama. Many of the activists’ peers wore Boulder High gear, made posters calling for an end to the Student Worker group, [...]