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Yes, Rush, I hope Obama Fails, too
2009-02-07 14:42:00 -By Selwyn Duke Ever since President Obama (PBUH) dropped Rush Limbaugh’s name recently, the talk-show host has figured prominently in the news. And now he is being attacked by the mainstream press ? and truly odious entities such as MoveOn.borg ? for saying that he wants Obama (PBUH) to fail. It is being portrayed ... More About: Hope
Questionable Judgment
2009-02-07 14:42:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton The OECD Secretary-general seems not to understand the first and foremost responsibility of banks. The Wall Street Journal carries the following brief interview note: Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, says the economic crisis will hit bottom in the last quarter of 2009, with a meager recovery starting in ... More About: Judgment
The Man the Left Wants Hanged for Tax Cheating
2009-02-06 20:39:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Tax troubles were all the rage for certain folks recently. ABC News screamed in a headline about one fellow that was, “America’s Overnight Sensation… Owes $1,200 in Taxes.” Huffintgon Post was all up in arms over the same story. The San Francisco Chronicle was tsking the fellow for being “concerned about ... More About: Cheating , Left
Cash for the ?Arts? In Obama?s Stinkulus Bill: A Caviar Feast on a Cheesebu
2009-02-06 20:39:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Obama has called the economic worries facing Americans a “continuing disaster” and an “economic crisis,” one verging on a “catastrophe.” It will all “turn crisis into a catastrophe and guarantee a longer recession,” he says, unless we pass the stimulus bill now. There is no time to wait. It’s an emergency. We’re ... More About: Arts , Cash , The Arts , Feast
Czar Schmar
2009-02-06 20:39:00 -By Warner Todd Huston We have here an excellent lesson in just why it probably won’t work to have a “czar” or other countless outside groups attempting to advise the president at the same time that duly constituted, federal agencies are attempting to do the same thing. They will all jealously fight for turf and, in ...
Tax Cheats, Unethical Lobbying, Now Porn Pushers for Team Obama?
2009-02-06 20:39:00 -By Warner Todd Huston That Obama fella knows how to pick ‘em, I have to say. First we get a former governor of New Mexico that has to bow out over possible participation in illegal pay-to-play scams. Then we get a series of tax cheats offered up for various positions on Obama’s cabinet and in his ... More About: Cheats , Team , Unethical , Lobbying
Reporter Arrested by Sec. Service, Jumped Rope Line Seeking Obama Autograph
2009-02-06 20:39:00 -By Warner Todd Huston A reporter apparently couldn’t resist the siren call of The One yesterday, so, like a star struck 15-year old at a Hannah Montana concert, he jumped the rope line separating the press from the president and ran up to him seeking Obama ’s autograph. Needless to say the Secret Service was not amused, interdicted ... More About: Arrested , Reporter , Line
ABC?s Tapper: Doesn?t the President Want Transparency? What About His Nomin
2009-02-06 02:37:00 Jake Tapper cremates the struggling White House Press chief, Robert Gibbs. Tapper asks when we will ever get that supposed “transparency” that Obama keeps talking about. He also wonders why we still have not all been informed of the speaking fees and tax problems of Obama’s nominees to various offices. Press Sec. Gibbs just ignores ... More About: President , Transparency , The President
Pelosi Says No Earmarks?
2009-02-06 02:37:00 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is claiming that there will be no earmarks in the economic recovery bill that passes the House. Well, she’s on record. Will she live up to the claim? Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, Government, Congress, EconomyBookmark this story to your favorite service: More About: Earmarks
Publius Podcast: Why I DON?T Want Rush Limbaugh as Our Voice
2009-02-05 20:36:00 -By Warner Todd Huston My Latest Podcast : Feel free to visit the Publius Forum TalkShoe page to see my past podcasts. New podcasts appear approximately monthly, or whenever the mood strikes me to do one. Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, PodcastBookmark this story to your favorite service: More About: Voice , Rush , Rush Limbaugh , Limbaugh
Yeah, Let?s Cap Salaries. Start With Harvard!
2009-02-05 20:36:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Since Barack “Giant Killer” Obama thinks it’s his business how much CEOs and captains of business should be paid predicated on receiving federal money one has to wonder why this principle is not being applied fairly across the board? If receipt of federal money is enough to constitute total government control over ... More About: Harvard , Start , Yeah
Obama Gearing up for Union Payoffs
2009-02-05 20:36:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Last week, president Obama signed several executive orders that he claimed would “level the playing field” for the unions. By that he means, of course, that he expects to take away more power from business and the individual as a payoff to big unions. As the AP reported, Obama signed three orders that ... More About: Union
Washington Times Quotes Me
2009-02-05 20:36:00 As I do sometimes when I find myself used as a source in a story in the media, I run back here and toot my own horn. Shamelessly focusing on me, me, me! No ego here, baby. Anyhoo, Candace de Russy, writer for the National Review, had an Op Ed in the Washington Times this week ... More About: Washington Times , Quotes
Muslim Grannie: Jihadi By Day Rape Coordinator by Night
2009-02-05 14:35:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Folks, this is the kind of sickness we are facing with the world wide Jihadi assault on civilization. Here we have the heartwarming story of kindly grandma Um al-Mumenin. She’s just the local little old lady that all the kiddies love, that’s all. She bakes cookies, loves the kids and instructs all ... More About: Muslim , Night , Rape , Coordinator
Newspapers Launch PR Campaign Pleading for More Readers
2009-02-05 14:35:00 -By Warner Todd Huston A large grouping of newspaper publishers have joined together and launched a public relations campaign to inform readers that, yes, newspapers are still relevant — despite the financial hardships and layoffs of thousands of employees industry wide. Unfortunately, the PR campaign does not seem to recognize that one of the main problems that ... More About: Newspapers , Readers , Campaign , Launch
Why Inventories Matter
2009-02-05 14:35:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton The latest GDP figures showing a rise in 4th quarter inventories is not good news. In the recently released estimates of 4th quarter Gross Domestic Production (GDP) numbers, the less-than-expected 3.8% drop is not evidence of business strength. In fact it’s the opposite. Higher inventories ordinarily result from production increases, which add to ... More About: Matter
NRCC Updates Its Website
2009-02-04 20:33:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The National Republican Congressional Committee has upgraded its website and unveiled it today at nrcc.org. The catch phrase they wish us to take away from the new site is: Regaining America’s Trust Begins in the House. I hate to say it, but that seems a bit defeatist and gives the impression of ... More About: Website , Updates
Crossactionnews Podcast for Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
2009-02-04 20:33:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Here’s the latest Crossactionnews.com Podcast : Feel free to visit the Publius Forum TalkShoe page to see my past podcasts. New podcasts appear approximately monthly, or whenever the mood strikes me to do one. Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, PodcastBookmark this story to your favorite service: More About: Tuesday , February
Obama?s Terrorist Renewal Act
2009-02-04 14:32:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Release Them and They Will Come… Right Back to al Qaeda. Now Even MORE Proof of Obama ’s folly! Obama has long said he wants to close the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He even made a play that he will do so by signing an executive order that says ... More About: Terrorist , Renewal
The Growing Privacy-Publicacy Fault-line ? The Tension Underneath World Dat
2009-02-04 14:32:00 -By Scott Cleland Given that January 28 was World Data Privacy Day, its instructive to examine why there is such increasing tension underneath the surface of the Internet over the issue of privacy. I believe there is a growing “fault line” between two opposing tectonic forces — one that believes in online privacy and the other ... More About: Tension , Growing , Line
Obama Porn Arrives on Ebay
2009-02-04 08:31:00 -By Warner Todd Huston **Images Unsuitable for Front Page Below the Fold** (Warning, not safe for work.) It’s art, man. And it’s for sale. A naked Obama with a unicorn smearing suntan lotion on his back. An explicit “Madonna.” Another Naked Obama on a unicorn as a giant, bloated — and naked, of course — Rush ... More About: Ebay
To Commemorate the Day the Music Died
2009-02-03 14:29:00 - By Warner Todd Huston Today is the 50th anniversary of the terrible plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Jiles “The Big Bopper” Richardson. There is quite an interesting story about The Big Bopper’s son that I discuss in today’s podcast. Feel free to visit the Publius Forum TalkShoe page to ... More About: Music , Died , The Music
Chi.Trib: Labeling One Group ?Conservative? But Not IDing the Liberal One
2009-02-03 14:29:00 -By Warner Todd Huston We have here a classic case of liberal bias in the Old Media. It isn’t as dramatic as may others that we have seen since The One came onto the national scene, but it is the sort of bias that has been endemic in the Old Media for a very long time. ... More About: Conservative , Liberal , Group
Paper Editor Alters Column To Say Writer is ?Bitter Conservative? That ?Can
2009-02-03 14:29:00 -By Warner Todd Huston This is why newspapers deserve to be buried in the dust bin of history, at least unless they clean up their act. For well over 20 years a southwest suburban Chicago newspaper called The Reporter has employed a columnist named Michael M. Bates. He has been the local conservative columnist for many ... More About: Conservative , Column , Bitter , Paper , Writer
Bigot, Marxist, Tenured Professor
2009-02-03 14:29:00 -By John Armor A movement has begun among American college professors to boycott Israeli universities and professors and Israeli culture, over the ?oppression? of Palestinians by Israelis. I read some of the press accounts of this academic movement, and decided to investigate its leader. David Lloyd, Professor of English at the University of Southern California, is ... More About: Bigot
Petition drive launched for civil rights in education
2009-02-03 14:29:00 -By Israel Teitelbaum Parents representing a cross section of society have launched a petition drive on behalf of proposed federal legislation dubbed the Civil Rights Act for Equal Education al Opportunity (CRA for EEO). The text of the petition reads as follows: ? ??The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; ... More About: Drive , Civil Rights , Petition
NBC: Obama Calls Singer Jessica Simpson Fat
2009-02-02 20:27:00 -By Warner Todd Huston **Video Below the Fold** Apparently, President Barack Obama thought that Jessica Simpson ’s weight was something he needed to make fun of during his pre-Super Bowl interview with Matt Lauer on NBC Sunday. Seriously. Obama called Jessica Simpson a fatty on national TV. Lauer displayed for the audience the cover of a recent issue ... More About: Calls , Singer
It?s About The Change Yet Lobbyists and Tax Cheats Abound in New Administra
2009-02-02 14:26:00 -By Warner Todd Huston From the early days of his campaign, Obama made with the flourish that, should he be elected, lobbyists would not be welcome in his new tone Washington, his Washington of change and hope. Soon after the election, Obama’s spokesman John Podesta made a great show of announcing that Obama was insisting on ... More About: Change , Cheats , Lobbyists
CNN Sells Obama T-Shirts, Propagandizing for The One
2009-02-02 14:26:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Remember the days when news agencies claimed they were the fourth estate? Remember when they claimed to be “objective” and pretended at being separate from the controlling power in Washington D.C.? Apparently that whole claim has proven somewhat chimeric if the several stories we’ve detailed this week are any indication. And now, ... More About: Shirts , Obama , T-Shirts , T shirts
WTH on Right Balance Radio in 2008
More articles from this author:2009-02-02 14:26:00 Here is one I did in early 2008 with the Right Balance Radio show on the accent radio network. Feel free to visit the Publius Forum TalkShoe page to see my past podcasts. New podcasts appear approximately monthly, or whenever the mood strikes me to do one. Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, PodcastBookmark this story to ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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