Archive for November, 2009

John F. Harris writes a great piece for Politico today outlining the seven “stories” that Obama does not want told, i.e., the seven growing “buzzphrases” that he is (or should be) desperate to contain and remove from the public’s rhetoric. He thinks he’s playing with Monopoly money Too much Leonard Nimoy That’s the Chicago Way He’s a pushover He... »

This whole Climategate scandal is just getting better and better. What started with some leaked emails showing a few scientists in cahoots with one another to thwart opponents (sometimes with physical violence) has now turned into disgraceful revelations of scientists and entire research centers and networks cooking the books to artificially support their ill-supported... »

I love to laugh at those global warming hypocrites. You know the ones I mean: those idiots you read about in the news or see on TV preaching about global warming, only to then head off stage into their waiting private jet. The most famous one is probably Al Gore, who came out with a... »

When most people think of Dubai, they think of the six-star hotels, the man-made islands, the indoor ski slopes… essentially the life of luxury. Of course, that life of luxury has a price and apparently, based on the recent stories coming from the international news wires, that price is way too high for Dubai... »

Michael W. Schwartz, a semi-retired attorney with the prestigious Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz firm, has penned a great opinion piece in today’s New York Post, explaining why the government could lose the case against Khalid Sheik Mohammed, why it was idiotic of Attorney General Eric Holder to “guarantee” victory, and what Holder’s motives... »

National Review had this gem in last issue’s The Week: If you think you can’t use the word “black,” and must use “African-American” instead, you may find that you can’t talk straight. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, an American woman won a gold medal in the bobsled. She was the first black woman ever to win... »

Demonstrating an absolutely disgusting and appalling lack of sportsmanship, a European fencing tournament held in Austria (Hitler’s birthplace, I might mention) refused to play Israel’s national anthem when the Israeli fencing team won both the gold and the bronze medals (beating out everyone else in the 28-nation European tournament), claiming that “they only have... »

Apparently AP stands for more than just “Associated Press” these days. I recently posted about James Taranto’s critique of the AP’s critique of Sarah Palin’s new book. Actual critique aside, FOXNews points out that the AP, the “Anti-Palin”, has dedicated eleven reporters to fact-checking Sarah Palin’s new book, whereas they never at all bothered to fact-check recent... »

Should I start worrying about myself?  After all, for the second time in just 4 months I am actually agreeing with an issue PETA has raised! (See my post on Ringling Bros. Circus Abuse for the first such occasion.) Now, PETA has come out very strongly against a video on YouTube showing what is apparently... »

This story is almost too crazy to believe, but knowing how psychotic Qaddafi is, it’s really hardly surprising. Reuters is reporting on a “party” that Qaddafi had arranged with 200 Italian women, having recruited them with an ad asking for women “between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 foot, 7 inches)... »

Politico has been all over a story today regarding the news that the White House is finally granting an interview to FOXNews. First, it was leaked, then passively denied by the White House, then confirmed by FOXNews, then admitted by the White House. Sure, it’s an interview conducted in a series of interviews being granted... »

ABCNews is reporting on another JSOC (jobs saved or created) load of crap being fed to the public. We’ve seen already how the White House has been bending the rules of mathematics by reporting numbers of JSOC at some companies that actually exceed the number of total employees at that company, as well as how... »

James Taranto writes a great piece today in his “Best of the Web” on a recent review of Sarah Palin’s new book, Going Rogue, by a whole slew of AP reporters: It’s said that Sarah Palin had help writing her new book, “Going Rogue.” Not nearly as much help, though, as the Associated Press’s Calvin... »

In the last 15 years, your tax dollars has pumped $2.4 billion to the Palestinians for programs that supposedly “reduce poverty, improve health and education, create jobs and advance democracy.”  This is all done through a program called “USAID”. Of course there is the obvious fact that there has been zero improvement in terms of... »

Perhaps not surprisingly, the Red Cross was caught red-handed in an attempted land-grab for the Palestinians. The sheer audacity of the incident, compounded with their utter disregard in explaining themselves is absolutely unbelievable. Here’s Arutz Sheva’s report. The last paragraph is the part that really gets my blood boiling: The International Committee of the Red Cross... »