Times Online: Images scroll across the computer screen: crowds lining the streets of Wootton Bassett, coffins draped with the Union Jack and the faces of British soldiers killed last week in Helmand. Above them a banner reads “Voice of Jihad†and a ticker tape entitled “Hot News†announces a stream of alleged military successes. This [...]
Reuters: Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg, formerly of Merrill Lynch, thinks the unemployment rate is going to at least 12 percent, maybe even 13 percent. Optimists, Rosenberg explains, underestimate the incredible damage done to the labor market during this downturn. And even before this downturn, the economy was not generating jobs in huge numbers. If [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday. That stance comes in the midst of [...]
Land Of The Free: More so than any other time in our history, Americans are beginning to believe there are no solutions to the many crises that we are experiencing. Even on a local level, which is often cushioned from the national difficulties of excess spending, a drastically increasing deficit and a larger percentage of [...]
NewsBusters: Confirmed: Lou Dobbs announced his resignation from CNN on his Nov. 11 broadcast. Transcription at bottom. Has Lou Dobbs been forced out at CNN by the left-wing attack machine and other forces on the left? Quite possibly. According to New York Times reporters Brian Stelter and Bill Carter, CNN’s Lou Dobbs will announce his [...]
The Weekly Standard: The Center for American Progress has released a white paper calling on the administration to establish a new deadline for closing the detention facility at Gitmo now that it’s clear the administration has no hope of meeting the original January deadline. The report recommends: Push back the closure deadline to July 2010. [...]
Politico: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Wednesday called the Fort Hood killings an “act of terror†and joined a parade of GOP critics in suggesting that “political correctness†might have been a factor in not preventing the shootings. “We ought to make sure ‘political correctness’ never impedes national security,†McCain said in a speech at the [...]
National Review Online: From a press release from NPR: NPR NEWS REPORTS: WALTER REED AND USUHS OFFICIALS DISCUSSED WHETHER NIDAL HASAN WAS “PSYCHOTIC†DURING SERIES OF MEETINGS BEGINNING IN 2008 November 11, 2009; Washington, D.C. – NPR News has learned that key officials from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University of [...]
American Spectator: The very next paragraph is going to make the nut jobs on the far left excitable beyond belief. I am not referring to all Democrats or even a majority of liberals. I am singling out the “they’ve-lost-all-touch-with-reality” crowd. This includes Media Matters for America led by the admitted hit-and-run, drunk-driving serial liar. The [...]
Hillbuzz: We know absolutely no one in Bush family circles and have never met former President George W. Bush or his wife Laura. If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya†nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our [...]
Big Government: We’ve just started to lay the groundwork on the Kenneth Gladney story and the shameful failure of the county prosecutor Bob McCullough to pursue criminal prosecution of SEIU assailants. Left wing blogs, mainstream newspapers, and of course SEIU, having concluded a smear the messenger campaign, have now resorted to a blackout strategy. The [...]
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant faithful, one hundred percent. Not a donkey, mind you. An elephant. The Washington Examiner: Perhaps you haven’t heard about California’s big screen television ban. This plan has been hatched by the unelected California Energy Commission, which will decide on Nov. 18 whether [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are coalescing around a proposal to send 30,000 or more additional American troops to Afghanistan, but President Obama remains unsatisfied with answers he has gotten about how [...]
