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WTH on Right Balance Radio in 2008
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 ...
Why I Quit The Reporter
2009-02-02 08:25:00 -By Michael M. Bates The Reporter , a suburban Chicago newspaper, included on its commentary page last week this editorial announcement: ?The Reporter newspaper regrets to inform our loyal readers that columnist Michael Bates has chosen to discontinue his services after nearly 20 years writing for our commentary page. ?Mr. Bates is a polarizing commentator beloved by some readers ... More About: Quit
50 Years After His Death, The Boy Finally Meets his Father
2009-02-01 14:23:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The boy that was born two months after his famous father died in a tragic accident saw his father’s face for the first time fifty years after the fatal day that stole the elder from our world. How is that, you ask? Well, it may seem like one of those riddles or ... More About: Death , Finally , Years , Father
Another Obama Foreign Policy Failure? Or Is It?
2009-02-01 14:23:00 -By Warner Todd Huston During the campaign, Barack Obama maintained that he would focus on intervening between Pakistan and India over their disputed Kashmir region. Obama repeatedly claimed that settling the Kashmir question was a “critical task” for the next administration and floated a lot of conjecture about how his administration would step in to solve ... More About: Policy , Foreign Policy , Failure , Foreign
US Professors Attacking Israel and YOUR Tax $$ Fund It
2009-02-01 14:23:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Sadly, we are used to the anti-Semitism of Europe. After all, that is where anti-Semitism has historically thrived in a most virulent form and does still today. We are also used to the Jew hatred of the illiterati of Europe’s universities having seen so often the petitions they’ve raised to denounce Israel ... More About: Fund
Unions Gain Heavy Among Government Workers
2009-02-01 14:23:00 -By Warner Todd Huston As we reported a few days ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported its newest stats on union membership for 2008. These stats show that union membership has increased for the second straight year. But where it has increased is of key importance. The report shows a gain of 428,000 members, the largest ... More About: Government , Workers , Unions , Heavy
Pittsburgh Schools: Superbowl More Important Than Teaching
2009-02-01 14:23:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Adding yet another chapter in that ever growing book The Decline and Fall of American Education now being written by our teacher’s unions and failed administrations nation wide, Pittsburgh Public Schools will be delayed two hours this Monday. It is assumed, it appears, that teachers will be too tired to make it ... More About: Teaching , Superbowl
Letting the Evidence Speak for Itself
2009-02-01 14:23:00 -By Nancy Salvato In a letter recently submitted to Education Week CITATION Ste09 l 1033 (Stephen Krashen, 2009) Stephen Krashen, Professor Emeritus, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, draws attention to the Reading First final impact study which showed that children following an intensive decoding-based curriculum do well on tests of decoding but not ... More About: Evidence , Letting , Speak
40% Increase in Brit Gun Crime? SINCE Gun Ban
2009-02-01 14:23:00 Gun banner’s failure is murdering Brits by the thousands per year. Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, American History, Founders, Constitution, Guns, Second, Amendment, 2nd, AmendmentBookmark this story to your favorite service: More About: Crime
Heartbreak! Obama Not Enough to Sustain Hollywood Lovefest
2009-01-31 20:22:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Sing it…. “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, I feel Obama in the air he makes us all friendly, he’s the real thing” …. OK, maybe that wonderful sentiment can’t last. But, as Andrew Breitbart reports, this emotional high has only lasted the Obamagassed Ashton Kutcher a ... More About: Hollywood , Heartbreak
Arkansas Dems Say USA ?Founded By Slaveowners? ? Were ALL Founders ?Slaveow
2009-01-31 14:21:00 -By Warner Todd Huston To answer the headline: NO. According to the historically illiterate Democrats in the Arkansas legislature, the USA was “founded by slaveowners,” and so they said in a resolution celebrating the election of Barack Obama. Not surprisingly, a few Arkansas Republicans objected to this stilted and historically misleading language and voted against the thing ... More About: Founders
A How-To Lesson For Left-Wing, Old Media Bias
2009-01-31 14:21:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Once in a while there is a short piece spewed forth by some Old Media outlet or another that is so perfect as a primer of left-wing bias 101 that I just have to share it. In this case we have the Telegraph writing on the story, covered at NewsBusters a ... More About: Media Bias , Bias , Left , Wing
What do Obama and Unions Have in Common? Communists!
2009-01-31 14:21:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Michael Richardson of the on-line news group the Examiner wrote recently about some revealing quotes about the modern American Communist Party by a Richard Winger of Ballot Access News. Speaking about how the Communist Party in the US has for the most part ceased trying to run candidates for office, Winger points out ... More About: Obama , Common , Unions , Communists
Why Government Is The Problem
2009-01-31 14:21:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton As Friedrich Hayek noted (A Free-Market Monetary System), government monopoly of the right to issue currency is the ultimate source of our economic miseries. President Reagan, in his first inaugural address, famously said: In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. In 1981, when he said it, ... More About: Government , Problem
Obama?s WH Chief of Staff Holds Daily, Secret Calls With Pals in Media
2009-01-30 20:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Politico reports that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel holds daily chit chat sessions with several Old Media pals every morning to start his day. Apparently Emanuel has for years been involved with daily bull sessions to plan media coverage and ideological strategy with CNN’s James Carville and Paul Begala, as ... More About: Daily , Obama , Calls
Time Mag Photographer Works as Both a ?Journalist? AND Team Obama Employee?
2009-01-30 20:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The old joke about CNN in the 1990s was that it stood for the Clinton News Network. The current joke about the anti-Israel Associated Press is that AP stands for Allah Press. In the 70s, people joked that NBC really meant National Broadcasting for Communists. We’ve all heard the various joke acronyms ... More About: Time , Obama , Team , Works , Photographer
Equal Pay
2009-01-30 20:19:00 -By Dan Scott To hear the AP story of President Obama signing the Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act one would think a new page in civil rights has been turned. However, like all things liberal Democrats foist upon the public these days using their salesmanship it?s the details they gloss over that are particularly problematic. ... More About: Equal
Crossactionnews podcast for 1/27/09
2009-01-30 08:18:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Here was Tuesday’s CrossActionNews.com Podcast with Jason Weis. Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, PodcastBookmark this story to your favorite service:
Flight 93 Update
2009-01-30 08:18:00 Caught on video: shameful cover-up of the crescent-topped Tower of Voices Background For three years, the Flight 93 Memorial Project has been relentlessly dishonest, publicly denying damning facts like the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent while making excuses for these facts in private. Tags: Publius Forum, Flight 93 Bookmark this story to your favorite service: More About: Update
Text Of Obama?s Letter to Iran Leaked
2009-01-30 08:18:00 -By Warner Todd Huston I was shocked to see the text of Obama ’s letter to Iran leaked. But, I guess even The One has a few insiders that will leak things. Dear Iran, Yo, yo, yo waddup, fellas? It’s me, Hussein. You know, the guy that just became president of the USA? Yeah, that one. So how’s it hangin’? ... More About: Letter , Text , Leaked
I Don?t WANT Rush Limbaugh as the Voice of Republican Party
2009-01-30 08:18:00 -By Warner Todd Huston I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of Old Media people like columnist Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post and liberals like Pelosi and Obama who keep claiming that talk show host Rush Limbaugh is the only voice of the Republican Party . Imagine. A mere radio guy. Our voice! I ... More About: Voice , Republican Party
Obama to Force HIS Moral Standards on YOU
2009-01-30 08:18:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Just a reminder that Barack Obama still has the inaptly named Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) on his plate. During the campaign Obama promised to work on the act as one of his first efforts as president. For those unaware, this law would take away the rights of parents to be notified ... More About: Standards , Force , Moral
Obama Appoints Collectivist to Chair NLRB
2009-01-30 08:18:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The National Labor Relations Board (nlrb.gov) is a federal agency created to monitor and administer federal laws that govern the relationship between labor unions and business owners and corporations and to this board, Barack Obama has appointed as its chair a woman that does not seem to believe much in individual freedom ... More About: Chair
Christmas Responses Taken To Extremes
2009-01-30 08:18:00 -By Frederick Meekins At one point in its history, one could argue that the West was too sure of itself as the foremost of civilizations. However, such is no longer the case today. In theory, pluralists and multiculturalists contend that no way of life or culture is better than any other. Thus, one would think ... More About: Christmas
Obama?s Election Leads To Societal Trivialization
2009-01-28 14:15:00 -By Warner Todd Huston There is a long human tradition of celebrating the lives of great men by naming buildings and institutions after them. Men that were consequential to their age — or a later one, for that matter — are memorialized by their progeny and held out as the pinnacle of human achievement. Brave, ... More About: Leads , Obama , Election
King Uncorks Clunker: The Cell Phone Clicky Noise Act
2009-01-28 14:15:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In a what-was-he-thinking move, Representative Peter King (R-NY) has recently introduced H.R. 414, the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act which is aimed at preventing “predators” from taking illicit photos of others in public with cell phones. The bill will force cell phone manufacturers to make the camera feature of a cell phone ... More About: Cell Phone , Cell , Noise
CNN STILL Pushing Lie of Rev. Wright/Rev Hagee Comparison
2009-01-28 14:15:00 -By Warner Todd Huston ALSO, America apparently the land of permanent racism I am wondering if CNN was out of the country last November 4? Maybe it missed that McCain lost the election because, once again, CNN trotted out an Old Media campaign lie aimed at making John McCain “as bad as” the Reverend Jeremiah “God Damn ... More About: Comparison , Wright
Taxpayers of America Unite!
2009-01-28 14:15:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Now that a tax cheater, I mean former tax cheater, Timothy Geithner has been officially confirmed by the Senate to become Secretary of the Treasury, we, the taxpayers, have the poster child of government fiscal irresponsibility. President Obama?s particular choice of this flawed person gives us a valuable insight ... More About: America
Pro-Abortion ?Republican? Group Cheers Demise of Mexico City Policy
2009-01-27 20:14:00 -By Warner Todd Huston With the disingenuous premise that the majority of Republican voters are actually pro-abortion, Republican Majority for Choice is celebrating President Obama’s repeal of the policy that prohibits federal money from flowing to foreign abortion mills — variously called the Mexico City Policy , the family planning gag rule, or the global gag rule. ... More About: Abortion
Biden Claims He Will be ?Obama Confidant,? Obama Says Nothing
More articles from this author:2009-01-27 20:14:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Joe Biden has decided that he is going to serve Barack Obama as a sort of senior advisor that will be “the last guy in the room when he makes these critical decisions.” At least that is how the BBC is reporting the matter. Biden also assures the BBC that his vice ... More About: Claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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