As you’ll see, as notable as the content of this Mediaite piece, is the content’s author, Tommy Christopher, a Leftist with a seemingly obsessive-compulsive desire to defend the Obama administration against every detail of every attack, no matter how minute or irrelevant those attacks or their details may be. (Basically, he’s the White House’s point-propagandist [...]
Daily Mail: A young Saudi Arabian man was questioned by police after he created panic on a commercial flight by trying to open the exit door while the plane was still in mid-air. Passengers aboard American Eagle flight 4305 from New York to Indianapolis rushed to pull Abdulaziz Mubarak Alshammari, 20, away from the door [...]
Boston Herald: President Obama spun a work of creative nonfiction yesterday in his latest pitch for his jobs plan, fudging the facts of a Boston schoolteacher’s White House visit as he cast the man as a poster boy for the hot-button bill. “I had a chance to meet a young man named Robert Baroz,” the [...]
Daily Caller: A liberal organizer told the Daily Caller on Thursday afternoon that he paid some Hispanics to attend “Occupy DC” protests happening in the nation’s capital. TheDC attended the protest event, an expansion of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in New York City. Some aspects of the protest, it turned out, are [...]
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The “Occupy Wall Street” movement came to the Big Easy on Thursday, but its expression of varied and often clashing political messages quickly turned difficult. As about 500 New Orleans protesters marched, complete with a small brass band, from Orleans Parish Prison to the Federal Reserve and then inside City [...]
The Hill: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) described Wall Street protestors as a mob on Friday and implied Democrats were egging them on. In a speech to the conservative Value Voters Summit, Cantor said he was “increasingly concerned by the growing mobs” and criticized Democrats who have showered praise on the protestors in New [...]
Financial Times: George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager, has lost a case at the European Court of Human Rights to have his criminal conviction for insider dealing quashed. The failed appeal in a 4-3 decision by the Strasbourg-based court is the latest twist in a nine-year battle by the 81-year-old Mr Soros to clear [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is taking on a crucial new role in the nation’s health care, designing a basic benefits package for millions of privately insured Americans. A framework for the Obama administration was released Friday. The report by independent experts from the Institute of Medicine lays out guidelines for deciding what to [...]
Fox News and Bloomberg: Payrolls climbed by 103,000 after a revised 57,000 increase the prior month, Labor Department data showed today in Washington. The median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey called for a rise of 60,000. The gain reflected the return to work of 45,000 Verizon employees. The jobless rate held at 9.1 percent. [...]
by Jeffrey T. Kuhner in The Washington Times: President Obama’s shock troops are marching in the streets. Occupy Wall Street – a movement composed of communists, anarchists, socialists and anti-globalization student radicals – is spreading. Protests have swelled in cities including New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver and Philadelphia. The protesters are gaining influence [...]
Zero Hedge: A week after the BBC exploded Alessio Rastani to the stage, it has just done it all over again. In an interview with IMF advisor Robert Shapiro, the bailout expert has pretty much said what, once again, is on everyone’s mind: “If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way [...]
Daily Caller: Steve Jobs was a capitalist by any measure, having retaken control in 1997 of the company he co-founded in 1976, and remaking it into the technology giant it is today. According to CNBC’s Darren Rovell, if you had bought 100 shares of Apple stock (NASDAQ: APPL) on July 9, 1997 it would have [...]
