Forbes: The Fisker Karma electric car, developed mainly with your tax money so that a bunch of rich VC’s wouldn’t have to risk any real money, has rolled out with an nominal EPA MPGe of 52 in all electric mode (we will ignore the gasoline engine for this analysis). Not bad? Unfortunately, it’s a sham. [...]
Shameless. Excerpted from Paul Wison’s piece in News Busters: On Washington Post’s On Faith blog, Daily Beast contributor Lisa Miller teased a piece about Occupy Wall Street with a worthy question: “What would Jesus think about Occupy Wall Street?” Her answer was simple, and predictably liberal: “The Jesus of history would love them all.” In [...]
Washington Times: LAS VEGAS — The good news continued for Herman Cain Friday, as the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO won the Western Republican Leadership Conference straw poll of GOP presidential contenders, edging out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — and leaving Texas Gov. Rick Perry in a distant fifth [...]
H Hot Air: The group responsible for this Occupy-esque populist pander is Priorities USA, which was founded by former White House staffers Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney. Which means, if you’re wondering how the Plouffe/Axelrod brain trust is planning to target Romney in a general election campaign, you need wonder no longer. Remember, in fact, [...]
The Council on American Islamic Relations New York Chapter (CAIR-NY) led by Imam Aiyub Abdul Baki holds Friday prayers with Demonstrators with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ continue their protest at Zuccotti Park in New York on October 21, 2011. The encampment in the financial district of New York City is now in its second month. The [...]
The Telegraph: Moments after he was pulled out of a drain where he had been hiding, fighters shouted “You dog! You dog!” as others tried to stop them lynching him, saying: “Don’t kill him, we need him alive.” Fresh eyewitness accounts of Gaddafi’s capture suggested he tried to reason with the rebels, demanding his legal [...]
CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – Chris Crane, president of a union that represents Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, testified in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration last week that ICE agents have been told by ICE headquarters not to arrest illegal aliens who do not have a prior criminal conviction even if they are fugitives who [...]
Huffington Post: Got problems? Tell Barack Obama. He can help. He might even give you money. On more than one occasion, the president has cut personal checks to struggling Americans who’ve written to the White House, according to an excerpt from a new book by Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow about the ten letters the [...]
Al Jazeera: Libya’s National Transitional Council has delayed the burial for Muammar Gaddafi in order to arrange a secret location and allow for an investigation into his death, officials say. The UN has raised concerns over the possibility that Gaddafi was executed On Friday, as videos continued to surface showing the fugitive deposed leader being [...]
Fox News: President Obama announced Friday that all U.S. forces will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2011, saying the troops “will definitely be home for the holidays.” The announcement, in the White House briefing room, came after the president completed a secure video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The discussion [...]
Copenhagen Post: A fundamentalist Islamic group wants to set up zones in Copenhagen where Islamic Sharia Law should be upheld. The group, ‘The Call to Islam’, belongs to a branch of Islam called Salafism, whose followers in the UK attempted to introduce similar Sharia zones in London earlier this summer. According to Jyllands-Posten newspaper, the [...]
