Archive for August, 2009

NY Daily News: President Obama’s health care “plan” is going down like a handful of tacks, and the Democratic Party, experiencing the political equivalent of a nervous breakdown, is poised to commence a civil war over health reform that could virtually tear the party’s leaders to shreds. The White House has made a series of [...]

Haaretz: BERLIN – The Obama administration has agreed to Israel’s request to remove East Jerusalem from negotiations on the impending settlement freeze. According to both Israeli officials and Western diplomats, U.S. envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell has recognized the fact that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannot announce a settlement freeze in East Jerusalem. [...]

Somali Pirates Fire On US Chopper

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Somali pirates holding a hijacked ship off the coast of Somalia fired at a U.S. Navy helicopter as it made a surveillance flight over the vessel, the first such attack by pirates on an American military aircraft, the Navy said Thursday.[...]The copter was flying on Wednesday over a Taiwanese-flagged [...]

<b>Graphic:</b> Video Captures Execution Of Tamil Tigers In Sri Lanken War

Embedded video from CNN Video

American Thinker: The Congressional Budget Office came out with an update to its predictions of the federal budget this week. For some reason, the CBO did not title its report “Hell In A Hand Basket.” It is difficult to put all these predictions into easily understandable apples-to-apples comparisons. But I will try. One thing that [...]

FOX News: The most dominant political dynasty of the 20th century has lost its youngest son, leaving many to wonder whether the next generation has what it takes to continue the Kennedy family’s legacy. At the peak of their power, the Kennedys scaled the highest political mountains and plumbed the depths of despair in near [...]

The LA Times Blog: An advertising boycott against Fox News host Glenn Beck has succeeded in keeping most major sponsors from running commercials on his show even as the controversial commentator’s viewership has grown. Beck attracted 2.81 million viewers Monday, his third-largest audience since his show launched on Fox News in January, according to Nielsen [...]

<b>Glenn Beck:</b> “Speak Without Fear”

This is, quote me on this: f-ing horrendous. Cigar smoke? Anything but cigar smoke! I’d rather have a power drill to the temple then tobacco to the nostril! CNS News: Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, according to the 9-11 commission report, was the mastermind of the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the U.S.S. Cole that killed [...]

<b>Scorn:</b> “I Cheated, This Is My Punishment” Sign
Madonna Booed In Bucharest For Defending Gypsies
Crop Circles Against Joker Care

National Review Online: Video has now surfaced of an event I noted here the other day, in which GOP Rep. Wally Herger of California praised a man who described himself as a “right wing terrorist” at a town hall, subsequently referring to him as a “great American.” Herger’s spokesman, Matt Lavoie, tells me that not [...]

Times Online: Just 150 Afghan voters dared to go to the ballot box in the area of Helmand province where British soldiers sacrificed their lives to secure a safe election day, it was revealed yesterday. The figures were released as the British Ambassador to Kabul admitted that troops could be engaged in combat in Afghanistan [...]

AHN: New York, NY (AHN) – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is recommending the voluntary teaching of sexuality education, including masturbation and aphrodisiacs, starting at age five to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. The recommendation is contained in the UNESCO report called “International Guidelines for Sexuality Education” released in June [...]

BigHollywood: by Patrick Courrielche I recently wrote a critique of the art community’s lack of dissent in the face of many controversial decisions made by the current administration. Entitled “The Artist Formerly Known as Dissident,” one of the key points argued in the article was the potential danger associated with the use of the art [...]

The Daily Mail: The number of jobless households has risen at its fastest rate since Labour came to power with almost five million people now living in homes where no one works. New figures reveal a massive 4.8million people of working age now live in a home where no one holds down a job. The [...]

John Stossel via ABC: “Choice, competition, reducing costs — those are the things that I want to see accomplished in this health reform bill,” President Obama told talk-show host Michael Smerconish last week. Choice and competition would be good. They would indeed reduce costs. If only the President meant it. Or understood it. In a [...]

Talk Titans Beck And Limbaugh Team Up To Slam Joker For Threatening Free Speech
<b>“Rape Of A Sacred Memory”:</b> Beck Denounces Joker’s 9-11 “National Day Of Service”