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Mayor Berry For School Choice? You Bet!
2008-05-18 00:00:00 -By Israel Teitelbaum Former Mayor of Washington, DC and current Councilman Marion Barry’s article in favor of school choice represents an enormous opportunity to bring this issue into the national election debate (see article below). Although it has been over 50 years since the late, great Milton Friedman first proposed school choice, his proposal has never ...
Obama?s Excremental Economics
2008-05-18 00:00:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton As prolongation of the 1930s Depression and stagflation in the 1970s demonstrated, Senator Obama’s announced policies are a prescription for economic disaster. Keynesian economic doctrine, not under that name, but in substance, is back in the news in a truly menacing way. Senator Obama proposes to repeat the policies of Franklin Roosevelt’s ...
SacBee: Anti-War Bias Hidden in Tale of Iraqi Girl Getting New Legs from U
2008-05-16 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Here is a sad example of the subtle anti-war bias that the MSM constantly hides in stories even when they are heartwarming tales of the great things our soldiers do for the people of Iraq. In this case, it is the Sacramento Bee putting in some almost ... More About: Girl , Anti-War , Legs , Bias , Hidden
Anti-Conservative Hollyweird Update ? BDS and Globaloney Galore
2008-05-16 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston They make anti-American films that bomb at the box office and lose money. Then they make more films that make fun of the conservative base of the country, they lose more money. They make films that attack, belittle and infantalize our men and women at arms -- ... More About: Conservative , Update , Anti
SEIU/CNA Fight Still Roiling
2008-05-16 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) suffered a stinging rebuke when nearly 47% of the nurses at three St. Rose Dominican hospitals in Nevada voted to join a rival union this week. It wasn't enough to decertify the SEIU -- 50% was necessary -- but with nearly ... More About: Fight
Why the EU?s concerned with a Google-Yahoo pact?Google is close to monopoly
2008-05-16 00:00:00 -By Scott Cleland A Yahoo-Google search outsourcing pact arguably faces even more problems with European antitrust authorities than with the reported U.S. DOJ antitrust investigation, for two reasons: First, this Yahoo-Google pact represents a horizontal market problem of collusion between leading direct search competitors; this is very different from the recent ... More About: Close
Vote ?yes? in November to constitutional convention
2008-05-14 00:00:00 From the Southtown Star: A poll taken earlier this year for the University of Illinois' Institute of Government and Public Affairs and released last week shows overwhelming public support for legislative term limits and recall of elected state officials. The poll of about 1,000 Illinois residents taken in January found that 70 ... More About: Vote , Convention
Obama, Wright, Farrakhan, Together on 2006 Church Newsletter Cover
2008-05-14 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston My friend Tom Blumer over at the bizzyblog found an interesting image showing an advertisement that appeared in the February 12, 2006 edition of the Trinity United Church of Christ's newsmagazine, The Trumpet. It depicts Barack Obama along with other -- um, shall we say "notable"? -- ... More About: Newsletter , Cover
Toledo Blade Article Gets University Employee Fired
2008-05-14 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston We are certainly used to seeing the MSM causing trouble for conservatives and this one is no different at least on that level. But the interesting thing here is that the trouble a social conservative discovered was as a result of what she wrote in the MSM ... More About: University , Article , Fired , Blade , Employee
Border Fence Ruins Mother?s Day for Mexican Families
2008-05-14 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston If you are looking for an eyerolling, maudlin Mother 's Day story, you don't have to go any farther than the pages of the Washington Post to get a doosie. You see, Ashley Surdin of the WaPo gave us a tear-jerker of a tale about how the border ... More About: Mexican , Families
Dept. of Labor Tightening Unions Financial Disclosure Rules
2008-05-14 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Dept. of Labor (DOL) has announced that it is changing the requirements for internal financial disclosures of unions requiring more details on finances and spending, the AP report on the 8th. Unions are required annually to submit forms to the DOL detailing their financial information, but ... More About: Financial , Rules
Questioning Pagan Gospel
2008-05-14 00:00:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton A few things for the high priests of environmental paganism to ponder when they next forgather to worship their own egos. Barton Bennett sent me a link for Dr. Walter Williams's column reminding us how far from the truth is the junk science that flourishes like maggots in ... More About: Gospel , Questioning , Pagan
Who Is Really Responsible For The High Prices You Pay For Gasoline?
2008-05-13 00:00:00 Investor's Business Daily has a great piece on why gas is so high these days. I need to pass it to all of you. ******* For the last 28 years, Democrats in Congress and a few Republicans have again and again opposed our drilling for oil in Alaska's ANWR area when we ... More About: Gasoline , High , Prices
AP: Military Hits Recruiting Goals Despite ?Slow Economy,? and ?Unpopular W
2008-05-13 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Don't you just love the MSM? They can't even report good news without interjecting their doom and gloom, agenda driven verbiage into any report. This time it is the Associated Press with the good news that the Marines and the rest of America's armed forces have reached ... More About: Economy , Military , Recruiting , Goals , Hits
Nonsense ?Survey? Says Americans ?Struggling in Life?
2008-05-13 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston But this is just another so-called survey that is reported backwards. It turns out that, even by their unscientific criteria, 49 percent of the Americans they surveyed said that they were "thriving, with few health or money worries." So, why is this reported as if the preponderance ... More About: Life , Survey , Nonsense
Obama Keeping Enemies Close? Hardly, He?s ONE of Them!
2008-05-13 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Abe Greenwald over at Commentary Magazine had a blog post today that I couldn't disagree with more. With the recent news that Robert Malley finally exited the Obama campaign over his past anti-Israeli ideology. Greenwald correctly states that the sort of anti-Jewish rhetoric that Malley and his ... More About: Enemies , Close
Government of the People or By the Faction?
2008-05-13 00:00:00 -By Frank Salvato Now comes news that George McGovern has called for Hillary Clinton to withdraw from the Democrat?s primary race. Pardon me for my raised eyebrow but how much of a fool would someone have to be to take campaign advice from the man who got slaughtered by Richard ... More About: Government , People , The People
Newsweek: Republicans ?Successfully Scaring Voters Since 1968,? Obama?s ?St
2008-05-12 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Here is a perfect example of the sort of wild-eyed leftism that is so infused into the very souls of every journalist that claims the mantle of the fourth estate. It's also a perfect example of how they are in the tank for their messiah, Obama . Newsweek 's ... More About: Republicans , Voters
Sun-Times: To Heck With Clinton, Obama ?Our First Woman President?
2008-05-12 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston We can all painfully recall when back in 1998 New Yorker columnist Toni Morrison obsequiously called Bill Clinton our "first black president," can't we? I suppose it isn't surprising that Morrison is now supporting Barack Obama since she is all about race, of course. It should be ... More About: President , Woman , Times
Get Ready? Barack Obama Win Means the End of Democracy in Unions
2008-05-12 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston There will be dark days ahead for American business and the economy if Barack Obama becomes the president. Especially if his coattails brings an avalanche of Democrats into Congress. All because the first order of business for the next Congress will be passage of the "card check" ... More About: Democracy , Unions
Only love can drive out hate: just words?
2008-05-12 00:00:00 -By Marie Jon' Barack Obama first appeared on the national political scene as a uniter with hope and promise in his words. In 2004 when he gave his now-famous keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, Americans saw Obama emerge as someone special and unique. He was young and oozed ... More About: Love , Drive , Words , Hate
I just love Fox News
2008-05-11 00:00:00 -By Michael M. Bates In fact, I don?t really love Fox News . I do, however, love saying that I just love Fox News . Simply expressing that view is enough to drive many liberals to rabid, foaming at the mouth frenzy. I mean, even more than their typical rabid, ... More About: Love
No more do-overs for terrorist memorializing architects
2008-05-11 00:00:00 Defenders of the crescent design keep accusing Tom Burnett Sr. of trying to get an improper ?do over? after failing back in 2005 to sway the design-competition jury. But who is really seeking the do-over? The American people rose up in protest in 2005 when they saw that the Memorial ... More About: Terrorist
SPJ Suggests ?Omitting Race? in Crime Reporting
2008-05-11 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Society of Professional Journalists has decided that it is best to leave a suspect's race out of crime reporting except for "extraordinary" reasons. Of course, to the SPJ, "good reporting" means race info in a story about crime isn't "useful to people in the community" even ... More About: Crime , Race
Sunday Funnies New Offer: 57 State Lapel Pin
2008-05-11 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston A few days ago it was reported that Barack Obama was ever so proud to have visited all "57 states" on his campaign swing. But, I noticed that he still avoids wearing that U.S. flag lapel pin, just the same. Well, I have finally found out why ... More About: Funnies , Sunday , State , Offer , Lapel Pin
The Next Right Project
2008-05-10 00:00:00 -By Warner Toodd Huston Last October, Patrick Ruffini wrote a piece for Hugh Hewitt's blog titled Information Gaps on the Right wherein Ruffini reminded us that most news outlets unsurprisingly lean leftward. He pointed out that this is one of the serious disabilities for the conservative viewpoint getting a wider hearing. ... More About: Project
Misleading AP Headline: Comedy Daily Show Just Like O?Reilly
2008-05-10 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The Associated Press today wins first place for the most misleading headline in the MSM by saying that a study shows that Jon Stewart's Comedy Central "The Daily Show " show is somehow "a lot like" Bill O'Reilly 's "The O'Reilly Factor." The Thursday May 8 report is flippantly ... More About: Daily Show
Paying Teachers NOT to Teach in NY
2008-05-10 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston And for another perfect example of why teachers unions is antithetical to the welfare of the kids AND the budget of the state, we have a union that has forced the State of New York to spend $81 million dollars to pay teachers NOT to teach! The New ... More About: Teachers
Senator Obama?s Friends
2008-05-10 00:00:00 -By Thomas E. Brewton How indicative of his character and beliefs is Senator Obama 's having launched one of his political campaigns at the home of his friends Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers? Who are Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers? And why would Senator Obama wish to associate his political beliefs with ... More About: Friends
Outrageous: McClatchy Praises Terrorist?s ?Charity Work?
More articles from this author:2008-05-10 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston McClatchy News -- the paper chain that likes to claim they speak "truth to power" -- is pleased to show us "another side" to the Iran backed Iraqi militia leader Muqtada al Sadr and that other side is his supposed "charity work." It has been a common ... More About: Charity , Work , Terrorist , Outrageous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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