Capitol Hill goes gaga over Brad Pitt WASHINGTON – First of all, no, Brad Pitt is not short. Yes, he’s handsome enough to stand out in any crowd. And, sorry, Angie wasn’t with him. From the moment he stepped into the Capitol on Thursday, sunglassed and goateed, Pitt’s star power transformed congressional business-as-usual in a [...]
LA Times: by Andrew Malcolm First Lady Michelle Obama showed up Thursday as a surprise and welcome volunteer at Miriam’s Kitchen, a soup kitchen for homeless poor people not far from the White House. She brought with her some food donated by White House staff. The first lady served up mushroom risotto and broccoli to [...]
CNN: The 66-year-old Chilean man had an actual fracture of two bones below the knee, but the police suspect that he, or accomplices, may have intentionally fractured it, so that the cocaine cast could be applied. Embedded video from CNN Video
FOX: Study: Dow’s Decline Is Fastest for a New President in Nearly a Century The Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen 20 percent since President Obama took the oath of office. Bloomberg: ‘Obama Bear Market’ Punishes Investors as Dow Slumps President Barack Obama now has the distinction of presiding over his own bear market. The [...]
A gimmicky snack bearing a caricature of US President Barack Obama making a peace sign has gone on sale in Indonesia, but worried consumer activists are already calling for it to be banned. The “Obama” snack packet shows a grinning Obama making a peace sign with his right hand and spinning the globe like a [...]
Caption: A man convicted of attempted murder and assault for firing at a SWAT team and wounding an officer in Washington state has been sentenced to 120 years in prison. Clark County Superior Court Judge John Wulle handed down the sentence after 30-year-old Matthew Hastings yelled at the judge and taunted officers in the courtroom. [...]
But Steph, sweet cl*t, they haven’t finished burying all those bodies who committed actual “treason” under the Bush Administration … and during a time of war … DIRECTED at said war and troops. “Shovel Ready Projects” n`nat you know … Stay classy and f***ing asleep, Larry King … you old fart.
“The more I tell journalists I am getting a camera in my head, the more journalists ask if it is worse than surveillance society. We are sleep walking into a surveillance society and nobody cares. But if I say I am getting an eye camera people say it is ethically tricky.” EYEBORG– The Two Week [...]
Rush: “Mark Levin on his radio show last night just savaged David Frum. I mean, he sliced David Frum up, chewed him up and spit him out. Frum knew it was bad, but didn’t know how bad. I got e-mails from people last night, “You ought to hear what Levin is doing to Frum.” I’m [...]
Great Minds Quotes: In 2000 Years of Disbelief by James A. Haught, Lincoln is mentioned on pages 125 through 127. From the material presented it would seem that Lincoln as a young man was an avid anti-christian and most likely an atheist. In his later years, he came to believe in God, but still was [...]
The following is a letter written by Karl Marx to Abraham Lincoln, congratulating him on his re-election. Address of the International Working Men’s Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America Presented to U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams January 28, 1865 [A] Written: by Karl Marx between November 22 & 29, 1864 [...]
Politico: President Barack Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his TelePrompter. The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks. Resting on top of a tall, narrow pole, they flank his podium during speeches in the White House’s stately parlors. They stood next to him on the floor of a [...]
CNN: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, has withdrawn his name from consideration as surgeon general of the United States, an administration official said Thursday. “Sanjay Gupta was under serious consideration for the job of surgeon general,” the official said in an e-mail. “He has removed himself from consideration to focus more on his [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The person Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wanted as his chief deputy withdrew from consideration Thursday, dealing a setback to the understaffed agency as it struggles to address the worst financial crisis in decades. Annette Nazareth, a former senior staffer and commissioner with the Securities and Exchange Commission, made “a personal decision” to [...]
Politico: By PATRICK O’CONNOR After tip-toeing around the popular new president for months, House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has shifted gears and gone directly at President Barack Obama and the budget blueprint his White House unveiled last week. “Look, it’s the president’s budget,” Boehner said. “He sent it to the Hill.” “The president [...]
An earmark, an earmark, my kingdom for an earmark…come Freddie Mac, come Fannie Mae, my kingdom for an earmark! Politico: House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is pressing state and federal authorities to seek criminal and civil penalties on financial actors that helped cause the current crisis. “Rules don’t work if people have no [...]
LA Times: President Obama’s czar system concerns some He has ‘super aides’ for healthcare, the economy, energy and urban issues, with more to come — prompting some lawmakers and groups to worry that he may be concentrating power and bypassing Congress. By Tom Hamburger and Christi Parsons Reporting from Washington — As President Obama names [...]
Auditors: ‘Substantial Doubt’ GM Can Survive General Motors Corp.’s auditors have raised “substantial doubt” about the troubled automaker’s ability to continue operations, and the company said it may have to seek bankruptcy protection if it can’t execute a huge restructuring plan. The automaker revealed the concerns Thursday in an annual report filed with the U.S. [...]
Unlike the U.S. Press … Yesterday: Black President continues to on anglo saxons here. NRO: Barack Obama’s UK PR Disaster by Nile Gardiner Not content with throwing out a bust of Sir Winston Churchill from the Oval Office, President Obama did his best to keep the British press corps out as well from yesterday’s White [...]
