FOX News: House Republicans succeeded Thursday in eliminating federal funding to ACORN, the community organizing group that has come under heavy fire in the wake of damaging undercover videos that purport to show counselors giving advice on tax fraud to a “pimp” and “prostitute.” The House voted 345-75 to strike ACORN funding from a student [...]
Financial Times: Barack Obama’s decision to scrap Bush-era plans for a missile defence shield on Thursday triggered dismay in central Europe and among Republicans on Capitol Hill, amid claims that it amounted to a major security concession to Russia. Unveiling one of the biggest reversals on national security since coming to office, the US president [...]
All the better to protest you with! PajamasMedia: On Monday, PJM published my piece titled “March on Washington: How Big Was the Crowd.†It contained several estimates of the actual number of people who attended the mach on the Capitol on September 12. The legacy media seems to have converged on an estimate of 60,000 [...]
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Washington Post: The House Republicans’ top campaign chief strongly denounced Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments that appeared to question whether today’s angry conservative protests were similar to anti-gay rallies in the late 1970s that preceded the assassination of two San Francisco political leaders. Rep. Pete Sessions (Texas), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said Pelosi [...]
Time Magazine: On Sept. 12, a large crowd gathered in Washington to protest … what? The goals of Congress and the Obama Administration, mainly — the cost, the scale, the perceived leftist intent. The crowd’s agenda was wide-ranging, so it’s hard to be more specific. “End the Fed,” a sign read. A schoolboy’s placard denounced [...]
CBS: NEW YORK – The student who alleged she was gang raped by five men inside a Hofstra University dormitory bathroom on Sunday has admitted to making the entire story up, the Nassau County District Attorney’s office confirmed on Wednesday night. Charges against the four men arrested have since been dropped. Nassau County DA Kathleen [...]
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Hot Air: I can’t do better than Karl’s summary so I’m going to steal it: “A Soros hack, an SEIU thug, someone who pleaded to lying to the FBI, and a Kennedy.†All that’s missing are a few pimps and prostitutes for “technical expertise.†Hardest-hitting internal investigation evah: In a press release, ACORN CEO Bertha [...]
Hot Air: She finally decided to crawl out of the bunker and hit some cable shows this afternoon. Not surprisingly, Blitzer’s segment is the more informative of the two: Watch her thank O’Keefe and Giles for helping weed out the very few bad apples in the ACORN system before (a) threatening to sue them, (b) [...]
PajamasMedia: The liberals were crazy angry while George W. Bush was president. Part of it was that for a time after 9/11, they were made completely irrelevant — when people are dying, who is going to listen to a liberal? But another part of it is that it’s much easier to hate a person than [...]
FOX News: We’re about to show you some absolutely stunning video, but here’s what I hope you’ll keep in mind on this story: Everybody has this story wrong. While it obviously involves ACORN, it’s not about, ACORN. We have been telling you for months now, that, as citizens, we need to be focused on the [...]
Politico: Seizing on an issue that has been trumpeted by conservative media, Republican congressional leaders have launched an all-out campaign to choke off any federal dollars from going to ACORN, the scandal-plagued anti-poverty group. After the Senate voted on Monday to bar any new federal money for ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for [...]
News Busters: “Meet the Press” interim moderator Tom Brokaw sits on the board of a liberal foundation that has given radical left-wing group ACORN $821,000 and that in turn is funded by liberal uber-donor George Soros, research reveals. Conservatives have long considered Brokaw’s political views to be somewhere on the left, but these revelations raise [...]
North Star National: I’d like to thank Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) for his calling President Obama a liar during his fake State of the Union address meant to salvage his failing health care plan. Not because he was right on the substance of it or because he’s the first Republican not named Sarah Palin to [...]
