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Big bad Barack flinches
2008-06-26 01:31:00 -By Michael M. Bates Democrat Senator Joe Biden described Barack Obama last year: ?I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that?s a storybook, man.? Biden received justifiable grief for his artless observation. Nevertheless, the view that Obama is a smart, eloquent ...
Media Fooled: ?Lost Tribe? Not so Lost as Previously Reported
2008-06-24 13:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Remember last month when the “amazing” photos of the “lost Indian tribe” in the Brazilian jungle were making the rounds? Remember how every single news agency in the world jumped on this “astounding” report? They were a “lost tribe,” they were an “uncontacted” people, they were shooting arrows at the “big bird” ... More About: Media , Lost , Tribe
Anti-Union Ads in Colorado Raising Ruckus
2008-06-24 13:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Looks like the union thugs in Colorado are getting a bit worried that the Center for Union Facts TV ads are making people aware of the sham the unions are trying to perpetrate on Coloradans with their opposition to Amendment 47. Even though TV 9 News’ report leans in favor of the unions, ... More About: Anti
Beware of Liberal Boondoggles
2008-06-24 13:30:00 -By Dan Scott Every taxpayer needs to brace themselves for the coming porkfest of the 2009 transportation budget with it?s associated earmarks. Liberal s will be pushing mass transit as the PC solution to our energy problems. Please, before you, the taxpayer, are forced to fork over yet billions more dollars down the pork ... More About: Beware
Obama?s Propagandistic Iconography: the Making of a Messiah
2008-06-22 19:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston A photographic essay of Obama propaganda and the Media’s willing assistance with it In America we have always been a skeptical people. One of our states even has a skeptical motto. Missouri calls itself the “Show Me State” proving that Missourians don’t imagine they’d be apt to have the wool pulled over their ... More About: Messiah
McCain Promises Hispanics He?ll Revive ?Comprehensive Immigration Reform? M
2008-06-22 19:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Last year, the so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (Senate bill 1348) went down to a resounding defeat thanks to the vigilance of talk-radio and the blogs. John McCain was a leading voice in favor of passage in the Senate. Since that defeat, John McCain has claimed that he has “gotten ... More About: Promises , Hispanics
American School Books Redefine ?Jihad? to Exclude Violence
2008-06-22 07:28:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In yet another example of why the west could be too weak to fight the sort of global terrorism that takes the form of Islamofascism, a textbook monitoring group is charging that American textbooks have been cleansed of mentioning the violence inherent in the Islamic “Jihad .” Now, our children will not ... More About: Books , School , Violence
Teachers Unions Succeed in Ending Scholarships
2008-06-22 07:28:00 -By Warner Todd Huston One would assume that everyone wants to see that our kids get the best education possible. I mean, who could possibly be against kids getting the best opportunities? Well, apparently the one entity that you’d expect to really care about kids is the one standing in the way of their education: teachers. ... More About: Unions , Ending , Teachers , Scholarships
Serving
2008-06-22 07:28:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton Being a Christian is more than attending church. And it’s not being selective in the ways you choose to follow Jesus. Sunday’s sermon at Black Rock-Long Ridge Congregational Church (North Stamford, Connecticut) was delivered by Pastor Steve Treash. His subject was “I Serve.” Christianity is more than just desiring to become a ...
English Paper Puts Self on Mt. Rushmore
2008-06-22 07:28:00 -By Warner Todd Huston I guess this is what strikes the English as amusing, but the Guardian Newspaper has decided it would be super neat to place their logo on Mt. Rushmore to advertise their coverage of the United States. This sort of disrespect for one of our most recognizable national monuments is a great idea ... More About: Paper
How to Speak ?Democrat,? By Representative Thad McCotter (R, Mich.)
2008-06-22 07:28:00 Class, now simmer down, class. We have a guest speaker today and an eminent one at that. I’d like to introduce Congressman Thad McCotter who will be giving us a lecture on how to speak Democrat . It’s very instructive and we’d like to thank Congressman McCotter for coming today. Now wasn’t that wonderful class? Let’s ... More About: Speak , Mich , Representative
What Passes for ?Journalism,? Giving Obama a Free Pass
2008-06-21 07:28:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Recently the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star subjected its readers to another fine example of sloppy journalism aimed at exalting the Obama candidacy. It is so bad, so pointless, so filled with empty platitudes and meaninglessness that one might suspect it was written by Barack Obama himself instead of a reputed journalist. But ... More About: Journalism , Free , Giving , Pass
CT ?Bad Boy Clause? Passes, Unions Oppose Punishing Criminal Public Employe
2008-06-21 07:28:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In an historic decision that I hope is duplicated in other states, Connecticut has finally passed the “bad boy clause,” a law that would find public employees (like elected politicians and state workers) who are convicted of criminal behavior having their pensions denied them as a result of that criminal behavior. Of course, ... More About: Public , Unions , Criminal , Clause
The Silence Is Deafening
2008-06-21 07:28:00 -By The Heritage Foundation The year 2008 is not just an election year. It is also the year that marks the beginning of a demographic transformation that threatens the fiscal stability of this country. Already, Social Security, More About: Silence
Figuring Out God, Prophecy and other scary words
2008-06-21 07:28:00 -By Resa LaRu Kirkland Reading some scriptures last night–that I’ve read a million times before–seemed to have new meaning with current events. Could this be what we are seeing happen right now? Here’s what I was reading, and what I thought of it. (Only the Prophet can speak with any authority about God’s direction for His gospel, ... More About: Words , Scary , Prophecy
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to Address Independence Day Rally
2008-06-21 07:28:00 -By Israel Teitelbaum Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, host of the daily national radio program, The Rabbi Shmuley Show on Oprah & Friends, XM Satellite Radio, and host of the award-winning national TV show, Shalom in the Home on TLC, will address a rally for school choice this coming July 3rd, 7:30 PM, at the Leon and Toby ... More About: Rally , Independence , Independence Day , Address
Jailed for Blogging
2008-06-20 12:21:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Bloggers are being arrested more and more as the importance of the Internet is realized by governments across the world, at least so warns the BBC. It seems an alarming report where community activists and democracy advocates are finding themselves being oppressed by government, arrested, and maybe even tortured because of their ... More About: Blogging
Transcript of Lecture on Google, Net Neutrality, Monopolies, Click Fraud, P
2008-06-20 12:21:00 -By Scott Cleland Unleashed: Transcript of Griffin/Cleland talk on Google , net neutrality, monopolies, click fraud, privacy For those who like the written format, here is the transcript of ChipGriffin’s interview of me on all things Google. The transcript is just below the podcast button to hear the interview. This interview turned out to be one of the most ... More About: Fraud , Click , Net Neutrality
Chgo Trib: Giving Away Obama T-Shirt With Subscription
2008-06-19 18:20:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Remember how the media claims they are fair and balanced? Remember how “journalists” say that all they do is “report the facts” and that their overwhelming lefitism is left at home when they ride their eco-friendly bikes to work? Remember how they claim that they are the “watchdogs” of politicians and don’t ... More About: Obama , Shirt , Giving , T-Shirt
Environmentalists Want us Cast Into Stone Ages
2008-06-19 18:20:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The talk of the country is the high cost of gasoline, we all know. At over $4 a gallon, the cost of gas is severely affecting the finances of every single American. From the costs of just getting around to the costs of food, the high cost of gas is reaching deep ... More About: Stone , Cast , Environmentalists , Ages
New Hollywood Film Casts Old West Cowboys as ?Imperialists?
2008-06-19 18:20:00 -By Warner Todd Huston What’s history for if Hollywood and our other entertainment industries can’t take it and warp it to fit a current, partisan political agenda? In yet another example of Hollyweird?s foolishness, we have a new Robert Downey, Jr. vehicle that casts the American Cowboy as an “imperialist”. Of course, they will dress it ... More About: Film , Cowboys , West , Casts
Hispanosupremacists Infiltrate Evangelical Movement
2008-06-19 18:20:00 -By Frederick Meekins Minority activists and other guiltmongers often whine that 11 am Sunday morning is often the most segregated hour of the week. I wonder what the we-are-all-one-big family agitators have to say about the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, which bills itself as the National Hispanic Association of Evangelical s. While prominent Christian ...
Direct Election v. Electoral College
2008-06-19 18:20:00 -By Nancy Salvato The constitutional amendment process is a complicated and lengthy affair. This is because we cannot be certain what consequences might arise from a seemingly minor alteration of the Constitution. To be sure, exchanging the electoral-vote system for direct election would adversely impact the entire constitutional and political structure of the United States. To begin, ... More About: College , Direct , Election , Electoral College , Electoral
Flight 93 Memorial Update?
2008-06-19 00:20:00 Who broke the circle? The Memorial Project claims to have an innocent explanation for why the central feature of the Flight 93 memorial is a giant Islamic shaped crescent. As architect Paul Murdoch has been saying since September 2005, the flight path breaks the circle, turning it into what was originally called the Crescent of Embrace. But ... More About: Update , Flight 93 Memorial , Flight 93
Associated Press-ing Bloggers
2008-06-18 18:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston I haven’t written anything about this one yet because, frankly, I don’t care what the AP thinks they are going to charge for using snippets of their stories. I will NOT abide by this nonsense of 5 words or $12.50 a word after no matter how many “rules” they claim to have ... More About: Press , Bloggers , Associated Press
A Lefty That Says ?Bush never lied to us about Iraq?
2008-06-18 18:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston James Kirchick, assistant editor of The New Republic, has come under my scrutiny for his bias before, of course. I see one of my roles as keeping an eye on the bias in the media and to document and analyze that bias. But while I naturally focus on when the media get ... More About: Bush , Iraq , Lied
Labor?s Voice Louder Than Public Support
2008-06-18 18:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Steve Peoples of the Providence Journal (Rhode Island) gives us a great reminder that the voice of the labor movement has far more power than it does public support. He details all the politicians, lobbyists and union reps intertwined in government in the State House and how, even if the people of ... More About: Voice , Public , Support , Labor
Change We Can Believe In
2008-06-18 18:19:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton You’d better believe it. Senator Obama and his supporters dislike traditional Americanism, preferring the Darwinian doctrine of evolutionary change expressed in moral relativism. Senator Obama’s army of followers are energized by inexperienced and immature students and by Baby Boomer anarchists eager to relive their activist days of the 1960s and 70s. ... More About: Change
Gore-ging on Energy, 1 Year Later Gore?s Home Energy Use Climbs 10%
2008-06-18 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In February of 2007 a small group named the Tennessee Center for Policy Research published an interesting little story that made Al Gore , the king of global warming alarmism, look a tad foolish. The report that TCPR sent out showed that Al Gore’s own home was an energy hog. The TCPR report ... More About: Energy , Home , Year
CNN: Obama Poll Advantage Over McCain ?Enormous? ? in Europe
More articles from this author:2008-06-18 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston CNN calls this serious news, apparently, but a recent report about a Pew Research poll of “more than 24,000 people in 24 countries” shows that foreigners favor Barack Obama over John McCain for president. Aside from the general “who cares” of it all, why is it news that people who wish the ... More About: Europe , Poll 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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