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Name That Party: He?s a Mayor Accused of Soliciting Sex From Child? But is
2009-01-17 19:53:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Mayor Gary Becker of Racine, Wisconsin received some unwanted attention from the Old Media and the local police today because of his arrest for using a computer to solicit sex from a child. According to the Associated Press, Becker is “tentatively charged with attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child, child enticement, ... More About: Party , Child
Seductive ideology takes over Jan. 20
2009-01-17 19:53:00 -By David Huntwork The modern political persuasion called Liberalism can be compared to a beautiful seductive temptress. Alluring and destined to feel good for a while, but after a fling with this wily ideology one is left realizing that the intoxicating goddess was more like a cheap prostitute. This seducer of the mind and soul leaves ... More About: Ideology
President Kennedy and the Mob
2009-01-17 19:53:00 -By Michael M. Bates Plans are moving forward to complete the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement. Known also as the Mob Museum, it will be an interactive attraction ?dedicated to the history of organized crime and law enforcement.? One of the displays, in the organized crime section of the museum ... More About: President , Kennedy , President Kennedy
Time Takes Swipe at Joe The Plumber (Now Joe The Reporter)
2009-01-17 07:52:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Time magazine got a twofer on a recent screed headlined “Is Israel Losing the Media War in Gaza?.” Not only did Time use its article to take a few swipes at Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher (known as Joe the Plumber) but it also took the opportunity to once again blame the Jews for ... More About: Reporter
Obama Inaugural A CO2 Disaster About to Happen! Will Green Loving Media Rep
2009-01-17 07:52:00 -By Warner Todd Huston It ain’t easy being green, and in the case of Barack Obama ’s inaugural, it seems like he’s not even trying to green it up. According to the Institute for Liberty, the Obamathon in Washington will produce about 575 million pounds of CO2 emissions. In a study titled Carbon Bigfoot, the IFL concludes that ... More About: Media , Disaster , Green , Loving
Does Time Mag Think Politics is Unnatural?
2009-01-17 07:52:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Apparently, Time Magazine doesn’t think that politics is a proper subject for social-networking sites such as FaceBook. In fact, one almost gets the feeling that Time thinks the Internet would be wholly free of passion and even vitriol were it not for politics making its evil presence known in cyberspace. And whose ... More About: Politics
The Net Neutrality debate has narrowed ? Why the recession may narrow it fu
2009-01-17 07:52:00 -By Scott Cleland The reality is that the net neutrality debate has narrowed greatly over the last three years, and could narrow further as the recession puts a public policy premium on growing the economy, creating jobs and promoting investment. That was my general conclusion in preparing to participate in the CES Open Internet panel yesterday as ... More About: Debate , Net Neutrality , Recession
King?s Papers Prove He Was Not a Scholar or a Christian!
2009-01-17 07:52:00 -By Don Boys, Ph.D. A person is not a Christian because he professes to be or because he belongs to a ?Christian? Church or because he was baptized. One becomes a Christian when he or she repents, believes in the death and resurrection of Christ. King , according to his own words was not a ... More About: Papers , Scholar , Prove
Left Doesn?t Mind When Gov?t Takes Over Art? When Dems Are In Charge
2009-01-15 13:50:00 -By Warner Todd Huston So, what sort of hue and cry do you think would have been raised if President Bush had proposed that he develop an “art czar” like Obama is proposing? Do you think that the left would have eagerly agreed with the idea that a President Bush should be in control of art ... More About: Charge , Mind , Left
?Crunchy Cons? Rod Dreher Thinks Republicans Will Lead Populist, Anti-Busin
2009-01-15 13:50:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Rod Dreher, author of the “crunchy cons” definition of that certain sort of “Birkenstock wearing, environmental, gun-loving” Republican has weighed in on the economic crisis the US faces and is attempting to further expand his factional theory of the conservative side of the political aisle. This time Dreher is claiming that the ... More About: Republicans , Anti , Cons , Lead
Georgia Legislator Wants ACORN?s Tax Exempt Status Revoked
2009-01-15 13:50:00 -By Warner Todd Huston NBC Augusta is reporting that State Senator Jeff Mullis (R- Chickamauga) is sponsoring legislation to revoke the tax exempt status of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) because of the wide spread voter fraud that the group has been perpetrating over the last few years. ?An organization that chooses to ... More About: Georgia , Status
Lies and Plenty of Them
2009-01-15 13:50:00 -By Marie Jon’ In Southern California, we have one of the largest county fairs, where there is always someone demonstrating a miracle knife that slices and dices. As people watch the demonstration, it looks pretty good. Look at all the fruits and vegetables that knife can cut. We’ve all seen the guy on TV who sells products ... More About: Plenty , Lies
Two More Entertainment Icons Pass Away
2009-01-15 13:50:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Two more of my favs from 60’s TV have passed today. Patrick McGoohan of “Secret Agent Man,” and “The Prisoner,” and Khan Noonian Singh himself, Ricardo Montalban have died today. These guys were everywhere on TV in the 60’s and were icons of their day (and mine). McGoohan was 80 and Montalban was ... More About: Entertainment , Icons , Pass
1 in 131 billion: the movie
2009-01-15 13:50:00 Set to another Ennio Morricone masterpiece. Synopsis Architect Paul Murdoch split his giant Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 into two separate arcs at the top, in effect creating two separate crescents: Tags: Publius Forum, Flight 93Bookmark this story to your favorite service: More About: Movie , The Movie , Billion
Illinois County Auditor Launches Promising Transparency in Gov?t Effort
2009-01-14 19:47:00 -By Warner Todd Huston OK, we all know how corrupt and venal the various governments in Illinois are, right? Well, let’s talk about some good news in the Land of Lincoln for a change. Republican Bob Grogan, County Auditor of DuPage County, Illinois (The populous county just to the west of Chicago’s Cook County), has launched an ... More About: Transparency
Unions Decide THEY Should Say Who Gets Taxed
2009-01-14 19:47:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In the military it’s called “mission creep.” That is when you start out doing one thing and end up doing something that has nothing at all to do with what your main function is supposed to be. More About: Unions
Journalists Being Shut Out by Obama
2009-01-14 13:46:00 -By Warner Todd Huston According to Sun-Times columnist and long-time Chicago journalist, Carol Marin, journalists at Barack Obama news conferences have come to realize that Obama has pre-picked those journalists whom he will allow to ask him questions at the conference and many of them now “don’t even bother raising” their hands to be called upon. One ... More About: Shut , Journalists
Undermining Our Sovereignty from Without & Within
2009-01-14 13:46:00 -By Nancy Salvato The first amendment to the United States Constitution expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws that infringe on the freedom of the press. While it should be expected that those elected to the legislature have at least a basic understanding of the Bill of Rights, this is not necessarily the case. ?Those ... More About: Sovereignty
Martin Luther King Was a Thief!
2009-01-14 13:46:00 -By Don Boys, Ph.D. One of the easiest charges to prove against King is that he stole much of his material from the time he was 15 years old! King preached his first sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church but it was taken from Harry Emerson Fosdick?s ?Life is What You Make it.? You will note that ... More About: Martin Luther King , Martin Luther , Luther , Thief
Congress Comes to YouTube (again)?But it Almost Didn?t Happen
2009-01-13 19:43:00 John Boehner, GOP Minority leader, reports on a new venture… Today marks the launch of a new collaborative effort between The U.S. Congress and YouTube.com. The House Hub and Senate Hub have been developed to make it easier for visitors to find their elected officials and their YouTube channels. YouTube and other popular technologies ... More About: Youtube
LA Times Celebrates Communist ?Art? Show
2009-01-13 19:43:00 -By Warner Todd Huston So, picture this… you are a refugee from the fall of Saigon, or, after it fell and in the midst of the many millions murdered by the communist oppressors that overtook the country in the 70s and 80s, you were lucky enough to escape with your life. Let’s say you finally move ... More About: Show , Times , Communist
Chinese Humvee? er, Mengshi, we Mean? Outperforms American Humvee
2009-01-13 19:43:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Don’t you just love it when other nations have such grand successes in the realm of science, technology, and engineering? Isn’t it great when, all on their own without any help from anyone, a backwards country such as China can produce a battlefield transport vehicle that is far better than our poor ... More About: Chinese , American
Blagojevich?s Mea Culpa
2009-01-13 19:43:00 -By Dan Scott The recent vote of 114 to 1 to impeach Governor Blagojevich was a seeming triumph of bipartisan political will or was it? Governor Blagojevich?s response was by all accounts a non sequitur citing Tennyson, claiming he was doing good with implementing Health Care and quoting the Bible or was it? ...
Bloggers Get Press Creds From NY Police Dept.
2009-01-13 19:43:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In a turn of events that should and will be used by bloggers all across the country, three news bloggers have prevailed over the New York City Police Dept. and received their press credentials despite being denied previously without explanation. The New York Times City Room Blog reports that that Rafael Martínez Alequin, ... More About: Press , Bloggers
Today?s Podcast: Accountants Demand Bailout
2009-01-13 07:42:00 -By Warner Todd Huston I have been doing podcasts for a while, now, and from here on in they will appear here when posted at TalkShoe. I am finally getting around to being a bit more proactive in alerting you all to the podcasts. This one is a reading of my satire posted several days ago, ... More About: Podcast , Today , Accountants , Demand , Bailout
Refreshing Change of Pace: Boston Herald Attacks Sarah Palin
2009-01-13 07:42:00 -By Warner Todd Huston I admit it. My headline was a sarcastic slam on the Boston Herald. But, then again, for her latest Palin slamdance Margery Eagan deserves no less than all the opprobrium that can be visited upon her poor, hate-filled, blackened, grinch-like little heart. In hers headlined “Unbearable Mama Grizzly clawing way to Oval ... More About: Change , Sarah , Pace , Boston Herald
Disgruntled ACORN Employees ? Loose Nuts Strike back at the Tree
2009-01-13 07:42:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Last year a scandal rocked ACORN when it was revealed that the brother of the founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Dale Rathke, was caught by the ACORN board embezzling one million dollars in the organization’s operations cash. For eight years founder Wade Rathke hid the theft ... More About: Employees , Back , Tree , Nuts , Strike
Barbara Boxer, the Automaker Bailout and the Three Headed Dog
2009-01-13 07:42:00 Tags: Publius Forum, Warner Todd Huston, Government, Congress, EconomyBookmark this story to your favorite service: More About: Barbara , Barbara Boxer , Boxer , Bailout
The Silence of Snow
2009-01-13 07:42:00 -By John Armor Whenever there is a decent snow storm at night, as there was in the Blue Ridge this week, the following morning reminds me of a handful of perfect days in my life, fifty years ago in Salisbury, Maryland. Salisbury was then a very small town. Located on the Eastern Shore, it was ... More About: Snow , Silence
Anchorage Daily News Claims Own Anti-Palin Story Wasn?t Paper?s Fault
More articles from this author:2009-01-11 13:40:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Remember when you were a kid and you and your best friend got caught doing something you two weren’t supposed to be doing? Remember the first words blurted from your mouth was, “Well, it’s HIS fault?” It’s a common reaction for a kid trying to avoid the wrath of Mom that he ... More About: News , Daily , Story , Daily News , Paper 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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