Rasmussen: Despite winning a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his work in the global warming area, most voters don’t consider former Vice President Al Gore an expert on the subject. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that just 24% of voters consider Gore an expert on global warming. Fifty-nine [...]
Politico: In advance of the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress tonight, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), fresh of the CBC’s national jobs tour, is demanding that Obama make clear what he’s going to do to help communities suffering through the worst of a bad economy. In very clear terms, she challenges the president [...]
Associated Press: LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha. Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more [...]
Fox News: PHOENIX – Authorities confirm a weapon from the failed ATF program ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ was found at a violent crime scene in Maricopa, Ariz. in 2010. This is the latest in a series of cases where Fast and Furious guns have been linked to violent crimes across the U.S. and Mexico. The [...]
Politico: Mitt Romney’s campaign leapt just now on Rick Perry’s restatement of his view that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” and that promising to maintain it in its current form is a “monstrous lie.” “PERRY DOES NOT BELIEVE SOCIAL SECURITY SHOULD EXIST,” read the headline of Romney’s press release. Romney adviser Stuart Stevens emails: [...]
Florida Sun-Sentinel: The South Florida leader of the Council on Islamic-American Relations said Wednesday that Congressman Allen West’s comments about Islam are inaccurate and irresponsible. Nezar Hamze, executive director of Pembroke Pines-based CAIR in South Florida, faulted West for “participating in basically an Islam bashing or propagating his twisted views or understanding if Islam.” Hamze [...]
Poll closes at midnight tonight. You will not be able to vote more than once.
Excerpted from The Guardian: In his 2003 Oscar acceptance speech, Michael Moore denounced President Bush and the invasion of Iraq. Overnight he became the most hated man in America. In an exclusive extract from his new book, Here Comes Trouble, he tells of the bomb threats, bodyguards and how he fought back. The ex–Navy Seals [...]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed into law a stricter, four-year lifetime limit on cash welfare benefits, prompting advocates for the poor to warn that tens of thousands of residents will find themselves without cash assistance on Oct. 1. Michigan’s first-year Republican chief executive said the state will offer exemptions to [...]
The Telegraph: The Hurun rich list, which has been tracking China’s tycoons since 1999, on Wednesday said it had counted 271 dollar billionaires in China last year, up from 130 in 2009. China now has the second most billionaires in the world, after the United States with more than 400. “The numbers are growing much [...]
Fox News: The head of the U.S. Justice Department launched his strongest personal defense yet in the growing furor over Operation Fast and Furious, the controversial sting targeting Mexican drug cartels and American gunrunners. On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said for the first time that not only he but also other higher-ups at the [...]
The Leftist propagandist with his questions likely provided by Media Matters is Politico’s John Harris. Later in the debate, he twice took time to issue two non-sequiters, and both were condemnations of George Bush’s foreign policy, specifically naming Bush in both. And that, plus the line of questioning in the video, are all just the [...]
Fox News: White House aides over the past week have said that President Obama’s new jobs plan will be paid for in full, and now details are trickling out on how they intend to do that, and it’s with proposals they were unsuccessful in getting over the summer. Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said in an [...]
Clearly, given the security issues at hand, this is as solid of ground for the impeachment of Barack Obama as the country could ever have. And keep in mind, “comprehensive immigration reform is code for illegal alien amnesty. Illegal alien amnesty is a key goal of the left, as the vast majority of those given [...]
Let’s not lie to one another. He called him an “abject liar”. Doing that was the whole point of the absurd second choice, which is Obama having “the poorest intel”, which he does not. Any attempt to claim that Perry did not call Obama an “abject liar” about border security is nothing more than a [...]
