May 30, 2009 30 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
"The White House refused to say how much the trip was costing taxpayers." Fox News: His public schedule listed no official events, so President Obama had plenty of time to devote to being a weekend dad and spouse. The president and first lady Michelle Obama watched daughter Malia's soccer game for an hour Saturday morning in the Palisades ...
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Times Online: THE first thing Sadaffe Abid did when she heard Wednesday’s massive bomb rattling the windows in her office four miles away was, like most residents of Lahore, to telephone to check on family and friends. However, what she did next was more surprising. “I told them we should come out on to the streets to ...
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President Barack Obama will offer a "personal commitment" to bridge US differences with Muslims in his long-awaited speech to the Islamic world next week in Egypt, aides said. But White House advisors said Friday that Obama would not shy away from addressing "tough issues" in the speech on Thursday at the University of Cairo which will ...
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The New York Times: WASHINGTON - The selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court has opened a new battle in the fight over affirmative action and other race-conscious remedies for patterns of inequality, with each side invoking the election of the first black president in support of its cause. Judge Sotomayor, whose parents moved to ...
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Contrarian Commentary: (NEW YORK)(May 29, 2009) Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin has scheduled a Monday news conference to deliver his latest column, "The Secret Life of Sonia Sotomayor." Martin's column is expected to cause a firestorm and may torpedo her nomination. Martin also plans to release a letter to President Obama. "Everyone has been looking in the wrong ...
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A Blue Angels flight demonstration exhibits choreographed refinements of skills possessed by all naval aviators. It includes the graceful aerobatic maneuvers of the four-plane Diamond Formation, in concert with the fast-paced, high-performance maneuvers of its two Solo Pilots. Finally, the team illustrates the pinnacle of precision flying, performing maneuvers locked as a unit in the ...
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Pravda: It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people. True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past ...
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http://www.foxnews.com/ http://online.wsj.com A federal immigration judge denied bail Friday to a 23-year-old engineering student from Tampa who has been charged by the U.S. government for engaging in terrorism. The defendant, Youssef Megahed, has already been acquitted by a federal jury of related charges. But now, he faces essentially the same charges again in an immigration court, where if ...
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Live Leak: Back to Business as Usual Roll Call is reporting that during the typical Friday afternoon document dump -- a practice used to hide actions that might prove somewhat embarrassing to the White House -- the administration quietly announced that some of the former restrictions on lobbying ballyhooed about during the late campaign have been lifted. ...
Continue ReadingMay 30, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
by Gary Graham http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ Call me paranoid, but… I was wondering when the government was going to make its move on the Internet. There’s a whole lot of commerce going on, a lot of communication, a lot of people talking to each other, building their businesses and enjoying their lives. So naturally, they’re ...
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H/T Barb (My Wife) By Ben Smith http://www.politico.com/ On his trip to get a burger with Brian Williams at Five Guys this afternoon, the president appears to have learned of the existence of a Defense Department intelligence arm, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, from an agency employee also at the burger restaurant.
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BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS Homosexual group founder handed federal Education Department post By Bob Unru WorldNetDaily The founder of the homosexual activist group GLSEN, which promotes homosexual clubs in high schools, middle schools and grade schools and is the driving force behind the annual "Day of Silence" celebration of homosexuality in many districts, has been handed a federal appointment ...
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Scott Rudin's a Marxist piece of . Mike DeLuca's fine. Dana Brunetti is some guy named Dana Brunetti, I don't know him. Given that there has been some controversy about Obama's response to the situation, this will be interesting. Fox News: The dramatic story of the hijacking and rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips and ...
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"I'm sure she would have restated it," Obama flatly told NBC News, without indicating how he knew that. WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday personally sought to deflect criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who finds herself under intensifying scrutiny for saying in 2001 that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a better ...
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H/T James Hooker New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is supporting efforts by the Saudi royal family to defeat a long-running lawsuit seeking to hold it liable for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The Justice Department, in a brief filed Friday before the Supreme Court, said it did not believe the Saudis could be sued in ...
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Continue ReadingMay 29, 2009 27 Comments ›› Erik Wong
http://www.breitbart.com/ . The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery Using borrowed money for a band-aid bailout of the economy should seem backwards to most people. However, it likely is a planned strategy to promote radical change. Those naively believing that President Obama is simply rewarding his far-left base, and will then move to the political center, must wise up. Read ...
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Big Hollywood: I am not a magician. Many news cameras were there! Obviously, it was on the radio and I wasn’t in prison. I’m also not a radicalized Muslim terrorist. But it was not a hoax! I repeat: NOT A HOAX. We kept telling management, the insurance companies, and the local Chicago cops we weren’t ...
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. EDITORIAL: Protecting Black Panthers Washington Times: Imagine if Ku Klux Klan members had stood menacingly in military uniforms, with nightsticks, in front of a polling place. Add to it that they had hurled racial threats and insults at voters who tried to enter. Now suppose that the government, backed by a nationally televised video of the event, had ...
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Detroit Free Press: It was his first major speech addressing his presidency and the state of the country since he left the presidency. Often joking about his retirement, Bush, 62, mused about being commander-in-chief, the fog of war that followed the Sept. 11 attacks, the danger of mixing politics and religion, and his unstinting belief ...
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