American Thinker By Jeffrey Folks As more information becomes available, we are able to form a clearer impression of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. She is an intelligent, well-educated individual with broad experience in both corporate and judicial law. According to the White House and to her own statements, she is a person whose “compelling life story” [...]
By Scott Harper The Virginian-Pilot WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher was in a froth, and his audience loved it. The California Republican was talking about global warming and could barely contain his disgust. “Al Gore has been wrong all along!” Rohrabacher yelled into the microphone. “This is outrageous! All of this is wrong! The people [...]
Breitbart By ERICA WERNER WASHINGTON (AP) – A Republican Senate chairman whose involvement is key if there’s going to be a bipartisan health care deal is responding angrily to President Barack Obama’s latest comments on the issue. Obama, after months of standing back and leaving the details of health care legislation to Congress, inserted himself [...]
familysecuritymatters Micah Sifry reports that an effort at government openness seems to have been swamped by questions about Obama’s birth certificate: Right now, the Open Government Dialogue created as part of the Obama administration’s new initiative to engage the public in a participatory discussion of ways to make the federal government more transparent and collaborative [...]
A Lebanese woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her ballot at a polling station in Beirut’s Christian sector of Ashrafieh, Lebanon, Sunday, June 7, 2009. Lebanese streamed to their hometowns on the Mediterranean coast and high up in the mountains Sunday to vote in crucial elections that could unseat a pro-Western government and install [...]
The Sunday Times Sarah Baxter in Washington and Uzi Mahnaimi BARACK OBAMA’S special envoy to the Middle East is to visit Syria this week after the president said “the moment is now†to push for peace. Former senator George Mitchell’s expected visit follows a fortnight’s intensive diplomatic wooing of Syria in the hope of splintering [...]
Townhall by George Will WASHINGTON — “I,” said the president, who is inordinately fond of the first-person singular pronoun, “want to disabuse people of this notion that somehow we enjoy meddling in the private sector.” He said that in March, when the government already owned 80 percent of AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “When [...]
CHICAGO – Cell phone video of a suburban Chicago girl’s beating was released Friday that showed the teen being punched and kicked while another girl cut her hair off. Breitbart:
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Breitbart WDAF: A homeless man who told police he was “tired of being out” and wanted to go back in jail, groped a receptionist at State Farm Insurance in Kansas. The woman fought back by clocking the man on his head with her desk phone. .
Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) – The Taliban said on Saturday that U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world was full of “deceptive slogans” and did nothing to change relations between America and Muslims. The speech, which Obama delivered at Cairo University on Thursday, “had nothing substantial in terms of content in order to reduce [...]
Americasright Excerpt: June 6, 1944 For the most part, this is something I posted last year on this day, and I feel it should reappear. God forbid we ever forget what happened during that day in 1944, and all the days surrounding. – Jeff Sixty-five years ago today, approximately 130,000 unfathomably brave soldiers stormed the [...]
Politico By AMIE PARNES House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer and Reps. Chris Van Hollen and Daniel Maffei have circulated this letter today … … to Obama expressing “growing concern†with the closures of GM and Chrysler dealerships across the country. The lawmakers say they’re asking for a “compelling justification as to how closing healthy [...]
Newsbusters By Tom Blumer Even if they ultimately lose their last-minute court battle, the Indiana pension funds defending their rights as secured first-lien creditors of Chrysler have done a valuable deed. We have learned, among many other things, how at least one government lawyer characterized the funds’ lawyer, Thomas Lauria. A $10,000 Democratic Party donor, [...]
pajamasmedia Excerpt: Obama Versus the Way of the Universe I wish the President well, but he is butting up against human nature. And that is a fight one cannot win. If one runs up nearly a $2 trillion annual deficit, and then persists in such red-ink to the point of adding another $9 trillion, all [...]
Examiner Anthony G. Martin In yesterday’s column the vital necessity of a boycott of all products made by ‘Government Motors’ (GM, Chrysler) was emphasized. Today it is important to examine the growing momentum of such a boycott. Little did I know when I wrote yesterday’s article that the bandwagon had already begun rolling on the [...]
BBC Officials in New York have found the decomposing body of a man inside a van parked for weeks beneath a busy highway overpass, gathering parking tickets. The city’s medical examiner said George Morales, 59, had died naturally of heart disease. His body was found in the back seat only when the vehicle was being [...]
Breitbart RECIFE, Brazil (AP) – A Brazilian military official says searchers found two male bodies in the Atlantic Ocean near the area where an Air France jet is believed to have crashed. Air force spokesman Col. Jorge Amaral says the bodies were recovered Saturday morning. They were picked up roughly 400 miles (640 kilometers) northeast [...]
By EAMON JAVERS Politico Since Congress passed President Barack Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill in February, administration officials have traveled to at least 66 events across the country to tout the massive spending program or hand out stimulus cash to grateful local officials. But a POLITICO examination of the travel reveals a distinctly political [...]
