Fascist and fascist fetishist The Live Feed: TCA — Director Oliver Stone’s upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries “Secret History of America” promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler “in context.” “Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy — these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history,” Stone told reporters at the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual [...]
Reuters: While commercial products with so-called pico projectors are still relatively rare, Microvision and rivals such as Texas Instruments Inc and 3M Co were promising strong prospects for pico at the Las Vegas show which ends on Sunday. Microvision showed off a stand-alone projector that looked like a big bar of soap and projected crisp [...]
Gibbs: Worldwide Record Cold Result of Climate Changeby hotairpundit
BEIJING (AP) – Already the biggest auto market and steel maker, China edged past Germany in 2009 to become the top exporter, yet another sign of its rapid rise and the spread of economic power from West to East. Total 2009 exports were more than $1.2 trillion, China’s customs agency said Sunday. That was ahead [...]
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) – From the very first play, Ray Rice and the running Ravens made the team of the last decade look like the pushovers of the new one. Rice burst up the middle for an 83-yard touchdown with frigid fans still settling into their seats, Tom Brady turned the ball over three times [...]
Wall Street Journal: President Barack Obama’s bid to shift his focus to employment and the economy took on more political urgency Friday with news the U.S. shed an additional 85,000 jobs last month. But a message blitz that was supposed to dominate the opening days of 2010 has instead been swamped by the issue that [...]
Christian Science Monitor: President Obama has been lauded for quickly and directly addressing the attempted Christmas Day bombing of the Northwest Airlines passenger jet headed for Detroit. Even most Republican comment has been muted in its criticism. But taking personal responsibility for US intelligence agencies’ failure to detect and prevent an alleged attacker from nearly [...]
New York Post: He’s America’s Osama bin Laden — and we let him go. Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim imam who ministered to at least three 9/11 hijackers, the Fort Hood shooter and the crotch-bomber, was taken into custody at JFK Airport on a felony arrest warrant in 2002. Even though Awlaki had been on [...]
Politico Republican leaders called on Harry Reid to step down as Senate majority leader, Sunday, after the Nevada senator apologized for calling Barack Obama as a “light-skinned” African-American who lacked a “Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” “The reality of it is this, there is this standard where Democrats feel they can say [...]
Politico: One of the enduring mysteries of the 2008 campaign was what got Ted Kennedy so mad at Bill Clinton. The former president’s entreaties, at some point, backfired, and the explanation has never quite emerged. I’ve finally gotten my hands on a copy of Game Change, in which John Heliemann and Mark Halperin report: [A]s [...]
Harry Reid gives his formal response to Michael Steele Fox News: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Sunday called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for describing Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as “light-skinned” with “no Negro dialect” unless he wants to have one. Steele also accused Democrats of hypocrisy on the [...]