Archive for April, 2010

WAPO: Daniel Almond, a three-tour veteran of Iraq, is ready to “muster outside D.C.” on Monday with several dozen other self-proclaimed patriots, all of them armed. They intend to make history as the first people to take their guns to a demonstration in a national park, and the Virginia rally is deliberately being held in [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban are moving fighters into Kandahar, planting bombs and plotting attacks as NATO and Afghan forces prepare for a summer showdown with insurgents, according to a Taliban commander with close ties to senior insurgent leaders. NATO and Afghan forces are stepping up operations to push Taliban fighters out of the [...]

John McCain Continues His Strange Denial Of His Former Maverick Self

Once again, Gates has to try to clean up this idiot’s mess, and thereby preserve our national security…we have a Pentagon that needs to operate independently of Obama, and then leak things and such in order to force him into the right actions… WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates is disputing the characterization of [...]

Fox News: Don’t call it a comeback. At least that’s what former President Clinton is saying about anticipated Republican gains in the November elections. Despite growing discontent among conservatives, the former president told ABC’s “This Week” that he doesn’t think Republicans will be able to pull off the kind of congressional takeover they engineered under [...]

NEW YORK, April 18 (Reuters) – The nation’s top military officer said on Sunday that a U.S. strike against Iran would go “a long way” to delaying its nuclear program but that he considered doing so his “last option” right now. “Military options would go a long way to delaying it,” Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman [...]

<b>“They Called Me Everything But My Name”</b>
Comcast Launches Conservative Television Network

“On television, through partners including Comcast, RIGHTNETWORK delivers programming on demand that enables our audience to watch what they want, when they want. Everything Right, at the click of a remote. The lineup focuses on entertainment with Pro-America, Pro-Business, Pro-Military sensibilities — compelling content that inspires action, invites a response, and influence the national conversation.”

Fox News: With the Obama administration kicking its push for a Wall Street crackdown into high gear, both sides of the debate are turning to familiar strategy. Just like with health care reform, Republicans are ripping the package and telling Democrats to start over. And just like with health care reform, President Obama is tearing [...]

<b> Dashcam:</b> Tennessee Cops Charge Man Riding Lawnmower With DUI
Dr. Drew Gets Publicity For Lindsay Lohan Statements
Rove On Bookstore Confrontations: ‘These Are…Sad And Pathetic People’

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the supreme leader of the Taliban The supreme leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has indicated that he and his followers may be willing to hold peace talks with western politicians. In an interview with The Sunday Times, two of the movement’s senior Islamic scholars have relayed a message from the [...]

Rolling Stones Release Lost “Exile On Main Street” Track

(Newser) – The Speakeasy blog at the Wall Street Journal is pretty excited about the Rolling Stones’ release of an unheard track from the 1970s. “Plundered My Soul” didn’t make the cut for the seminal Exile on Main Street album of 1972, but it will be part of the reissue next month. “Speakeasy would basically [...]

L.A, Times: Reporting from Oklahoma City In the 15 years since a truck bomb blew apart the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building here, the determined people of Oklahoma City have remodeled the local airport and opened a new “Bricktown” area of shops and restaurants. They lured a professional basketball team, and they crowned the state [...]

Cass Sunstein, Communist Revolutionary Operative “People do not want to be hit over the head with issues, but including aspects in the programming makes it resonate more successfully with viewers,” said Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC.

New York Times: The Arizona Legislature has just stepped off the deep end of the immigration debate, passing a harsh and mean-spirited bill that would do little to stop illegal immigration. What it would do is lead to more racial profiling, hobble local law enforcement, and open government agencies to frivolous, politically driven lawsuits. Skip [...]

New York Times: FORT HANCOCK, Tex. — The giant rusty fence of metal bars along the border here, built in recent years to keep illegal immigrants from crossing into the United States, has a new nickname among local residents: Jurassic Park Gate, a nod to the barrier in a 1993 movie that kept dangerous dinosaurs [...]

Glenn Beck Testing Waters On Future Presidental Run?

New York Post: Wall Street is more than a little suspicious of today’s charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has accused Goldman Sachs of lying to investors about who was really behind junk mortgages securities it sold to clients. Barclays banking analyst Roger Freeman comes right out and blasts the SEC effort as [...]