Tuesday, February 8, 2011
At Least He Brings Name Recognition
It is our duty to report that ex-MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has found a new job at Al Gore's Current Media, according to Glenn Beck's The Blaze.
Tea Party Movement to Start New Magazine
USA Today has an article about a Tea Party magazine, Tea Party Review, that will be published by Higher Standard Publications.
Katrina Pierson of the Dallas Tea Party, who will be national grass roots director for Tea Party Review, says that the magazine is aimed at "reflecting the values" of the small-government, anti-tax movement.
"This magazine is a response to demands from Tea Party members across the country for a magazine that we can call our own," Pierson says. "People are weary of the distorted version of the Tea Party movement that we see in most of the media."
The new magazine will be launched at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) later this week in Washington.
Katrina Pierson of the Dallas Tea Party, who will be national grass roots director for Tea Party Review, says that the magazine is aimed at "reflecting the values" of the small-government, anti-tax movement.
"This magazine is a response to demands from Tea Party members across the country for a magazine that we can call our own," Pierson says. "People are weary of the distorted version of the Tea Party movement that we see in most of the media."
The new magazine will be launched at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) later this week in Washington.
Monday, February 7, 2011
An Amazing Purchase by AOL
In the Los Angeles Times we read that AOL will be purchasing the Huffington Post for $315 million! At that rate this smaller but much more civilized blog must be worth at least $50 million. ;-)
In a bid to make itself relevant again, struggling Internet pioneer AOL Inc. announced late Sunday that it would buy the Huffington Post, the well-known news and opinion site, for $315 million in cash and stock.
As part of the deal, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington will oversee a new group responsible for bringing together all editorial content from both companies including news, technology, music and local media websites....
In a bid to make itself relevant again, struggling Internet pioneer AOL Inc. announced late Sunday that it would buy the Huffington Post, the well-known news and opinion site, for $315 million in cash and stock.
As part of the deal, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington will oversee a new group responsible for bringing together all editorial content from both companies including news, technology, music and local media websites....
Sunday, February 6, 2011
5 Best, 5 Worst Places for Conservatives to Live
Megan Fox at NewsRealBlog explains why these 10 states are suitable or unsuitable for conservatives. The picture above is reason enough to link to her article.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Obama's Reaction to Egyptian Crisis
Source: Michael Ramirez at IBD Editorial Cartoons.
Gov. Sarah Palin taunts Obama by saying that the "3 a.m. phone call went to an answering machine."
Once Again, Controversy Sells: "Tiger Mom" Becomes a Conversation Piece
The Time Magazine article has this to say:
Even before Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Chua's proudly politically incorrect account of raising her children "the Chinese way," arrived in bookstores Jan. 11, her parenting methods were the incredulous, indignant talk of every playground, supermarket and coffee shop. A prepublication excerpt in the Wall Street Journal (titled "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior") started the ferocious buzz; the online version has been read more than 1 million times and attracted more than 7,000 comments so far. When Chua appeared Jan. 11 on the Today show, the usually sunny host Meredith Vieira could hardly contain her contempt as she read aloud a sample of viewer comments: "She's a monster"; "The way she raised her kids is outrageous"; "Where is the love, the acceptance?"
One reader made this comment:
"TR WR"
1. You can have a social life and good academics at the same time.
2. Most Chinese parents are stricter and emphasize academics, but few I know go to Amy Chua's extremes.
3. None of the successful Asians I know, including myself, was brought up with these abusive measures. I'm fairly certain all of us make more money than her pianist daughters.
4. Amy Chua is not "China" or "Chinese mom". She's a Filipino-American with Chinese roots married to a Jewish husband with half-Jew kids. The 1.4 billion people on the mainland are nothing like this.
5. Amy Chua just made a ton of money with this controversy because Americans can't see the middle ground between two extremes.
Even before Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Chua's proudly politically incorrect account of raising her children "the Chinese way," arrived in bookstores Jan. 11, her parenting methods were the incredulous, indignant talk of every playground, supermarket and coffee shop. A prepublication excerpt in the Wall Street Journal (titled "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior") started the ferocious buzz; the online version has been read more than 1 million times and attracted more than 7,000 comments so far. When Chua appeared Jan. 11 on the Today show, the usually sunny host Meredith Vieira could hardly contain her contempt as she read aloud a sample of viewer comments: "She's a monster"; "The way she raised her kids is outrageous"; "Where is the love, the acceptance?"
One reader made this comment:
"TR WR"
1. You can have a social life and good academics at the same time.
2. Most Chinese parents are stricter and emphasize academics, but few I know go to Amy Chua's extremes.
3. None of the successful Asians I know, including myself, was brought up with these abusive measures. I'm fairly certain all of us make more money than her pianist daughters.
4. Amy Chua is not "China" or "Chinese mom". She's a Filipino-American with Chinese roots married to a Jewish husband with half-Jew kids. The 1.4 billion people on the mainland are nothing like this.
5. Amy Chua just made a ton of money with this controversy because Americans can't see the middle ground between two extremes.
Friday, February 4, 2011
“Après Moi le Déluge”
In an interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt said he intended to retire, but not right away. This will not be enough to appease the crowds that are demanding his immediate resignation. He said he had no plans to run his son for the presidency, and wanted to "die on Egyptian soil."
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Having Solved All of New York City's Problems, Mayor Bloomberg Goes on a Fishing Expedition in Arizona
Here's what Van Helsing of Right Wing News has to say:
New York's Mayor-for-Life Michael Bloomberg's lust for totalitarian control over other people's lives knows no bounds, so you could hardly expect him to limit himself to attacking the Second Amendment liberties of those unfortunate enough to live under his jurisdiction. Now that all problems have been resolved in NYC, he has been conducting sting operations in Arizona:
Weeks after the shooting in Tucson, sellers at an Arizona gun show allowed undercover investigators hired by New York City to buy semiautomatic pistols even after they said they probably couldn't pass a background check, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. …
Bloomberg has authorized similar sting operations around the country as part of a push for tougher federal laws to help keep guns off the streets of New York.
But in the sensitive aftermath of the shooting Jan. 8 that killed six people and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the mayor was questioned about the time and place of his hidden-camera investigation, a $100,000 operation conducted almost clear across the country....
New York's Mayor-for-Life Michael Bloomberg's lust for totalitarian control over other people's lives knows no bounds, so you could hardly expect him to limit himself to attacking the Second Amendment liberties of those unfortunate enough to live under his jurisdiction. Now that all problems have been resolved in NYC, he has been conducting sting operations in Arizona:
Weeks after the shooting in Tucson, sellers at an Arizona gun show allowed undercover investigators hired by New York City to buy semiautomatic pistols even after they said they probably couldn't pass a background check, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday. …
Bloomberg has authorized similar sting operations around the country as part of a push for tougher federal laws to help keep guns off the streets of New York.
But in the sensitive aftermath of the shooting Jan. 8 that killed six people and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the mayor was questioned about the time and place of his hidden-camera investigation, a $100,000 operation conducted almost clear across the country....
Monday, January 31, 2011
Obama Healthcare Law One Step Closer to Supreme Court
Reuters ran a story about how U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson in Florida declared the Obamacare law (particularly its individual mandate provision) unconstitutional. With a majority of states filing suit against this legislation it appears to be only a matter of time before the highest court in the land will have to lay this matter to rest. We believe that this country urgently needs healthcare reform - but not on the terms being imposed upon us by Congress and the President.
At the Risk of Providing TOO MUCH INFORMATION...
Because of our blatantly conservative bias, we don't often link to the Guardian (U.K.), but our commitment to reporting the latest in toilet technology has prompted us to do so.
Between the internet, mobile telephony and TV, it's possible to endure relatively few moments in life when you're not being actively entertained. Getting rid of those last fleeting media-free black spots is an important focus for science and Sega's most recent announcement presages the closing of one such gap. Using specially designed pressure-sensitive urinals with LCD screens, Toylets will make interactive entertainment out of peeing. Controlled by direction and flow rate, games include Mannekin Pis that benchmarks the power of your golden shower, the self explanatory Graffiti Eraser, Milk From Nose, which transposes the strength of your stream into a jet of nasal milk directed at opponents representing previous users of the urinal and The North Wind And Her, where urinary pressure is translated into a breeze, gently lifting the skirt of an anime maiden.
Between the internet, mobile telephony and TV, it's possible to endure relatively few moments in life when you're not being actively entertained. Getting rid of those last fleeting media-free black spots is an important focus for science and Sega's most recent announcement presages the closing of one such gap. Using specially designed pressure-sensitive urinals with LCD screens, Toylets will make interactive entertainment out of peeing. Controlled by direction and flow rate, games include Mannekin Pis that benchmarks the power of your golden shower, the self explanatory Graffiti Eraser, Milk From Nose, which transposes the strength of your stream into a jet of nasal milk directed at opponents representing previous users of the urinal and The North Wind And Her, where urinary pressure is translated into a breeze, gently lifting the skirt of an anime maiden.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Second Cousin of President Obama Runs a Conservative Blog!
The Wolf Files asks this rhetorical question:
If ObamaCare is so great, why does the White House keep exempting its best friends from it?
First, I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a gracious offer from David Mastio at The Washington Times to become a regular contributor. I will primarily be covering health care politics but wherever liberty is under assault, I'll be there.
If you would like to know what the White House really thinks of Obamacare, there’s an easy way. Look past its press releases. Ignore its promises. Forget its talking points. Instead, simply witness for yourself the outrageous way the White House protects its best friends from Obamacare.
Last year, we learned that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had granted 111 waivers to protect a lucky few from the onerous regulations of the new national health care overhaul. That number quickly and quietly climbed to 222, and last week we learned that the number of Obamacare privileged escapes has skyrocketed to 733....
If ObamaCare is so great, why does the White House keep exempting its best friends from it?
First, I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a gracious offer from David Mastio at The Washington Times to become a regular contributor. I will primarily be covering health care politics but wherever liberty is under assault, I'll be there.
If you would like to know what the White House really thinks of Obamacare, there’s an easy way. Look past its press releases. Ignore its promises. Forget its talking points. Instead, simply witness for yourself the outrageous way the White House protects its best friends from Obamacare.
Last year, we learned that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had granted 111 waivers to protect a lucky few from the onerous regulations of the new national health care overhaul. That number quickly and quietly climbed to 222, and last week we learned that the number of Obamacare privileged escapes has skyrocketed to 733....
Geneticists Play the Skin Game Again
The Root, a blog of the Washington Post, reports a study that narrows down whiteness of skin to ONE LETTER of DNA code out of 3.4 billion.
"Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.
"The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world's races.
"Leaders of the study, at Penn State University, warned against interpreting the finding as a discovery of 'the race gene.'Race is a vaguely defined biological, social and political concept, they noted, and skin color is only part of what race is -- and is not...."
EDITORIAL NOTE: This hypothesis doesn't explain why at least once a generation, someone in our family is born with a lighter complexion than most Caucasians, whether they are full-blooded Japanese or not. The whole business of judging people by their skin color may be lucrative to some agitators and community organizers - but is quite meaningless to people like myself. But while we're on the subject, the same source has an article entitled:
"The Blackest White Folks We Know."
"Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.
"The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world's races.
"Leaders of the study, at Penn State University, warned against interpreting the finding as a discovery of 'the race gene.'Race is a vaguely defined biological, social and political concept, they noted, and skin color is only part of what race is -- and is not...."
EDITORIAL NOTE: This hypothesis doesn't explain why at least once a generation, someone in our family is born with a lighter complexion than most Caucasians, whether they are full-blooded Japanese or not. The whole business of judging people by their skin color may be lucrative to some agitators and community organizers - but is quite meaningless to people like myself. But while we're on the subject, the same source has an article entitled:
"The Blackest White Folks We Know."
Good-News Item: The United States of Awesome
Deciding that "The United States of Shame" map is too depressing, I am posting instead Ilya Gerner's antidote from "Poltical Language."
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Is Obama Reading the American People Wrong?
Free Republic reminds us once again that Americans are a proud people, and many of us are scratching our heads at the number of times President Obama has compromised the dignity of his office by bowing to tyrants.
U.S. Government Had Been Toying With Regime Change in Egypt for Three Years
The Telegraph (U.K.) ran a story that indicates that Wikileaks revealed an ominous trend that all of us should have paid attention to even before Barack Obama was elected President.
...William Hague, the [British] Foreign Secretary, urged the Egyptian government to heed the “legitimate demands of protesters”. Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, said she was “deeply concerned about the use of force” to quell the protests.
In an interview for the American news channel CNN, to be broadcast tomorrow, David Cameron said: “I think what we need is reform in Egypt. I mean, we support reform and progress in the greater strengthening of the democracy and civil rights and the rule of law.”
The US government has previously been a supporter of Mr Mubarak’s regime. But the leaked documents show the extent to which America was offering support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt while publicly praising Mr Mubarak as an important ally in the Middle East.
In a secret diplomatic dispatch, sent on December 30 2008, Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador to Cairo, recorded that opposition groups had allegedly drawn up secret plans for “regime change” to take place before elections, scheduled for September this year....
...William Hague, the [British] Foreign Secretary, urged the Egyptian government to heed the “legitimate demands of protesters”. Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, said she was “deeply concerned about the use of force” to quell the protests.
In an interview for the American news channel CNN, to be broadcast tomorrow, David Cameron said: “I think what we need is reform in Egypt. I mean, we support reform and progress in the greater strengthening of the democracy and civil rights and the rule of law.”
The US government has previously been a supporter of Mr Mubarak’s regime. But the leaked documents show the extent to which America was offering support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt while publicly praising Mr Mubarak as an important ally in the Middle East.
In a secret diplomatic dispatch, sent on December 30 2008, Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador to Cairo, recorded that opposition groups had allegedly drawn up secret plans for “regime change” to take place before elections, scheduled for September this year....
Friday, January 28, 2011
Oxygen Thieves More Cold-Blooded than This Bloodthirsty Warmonger
An American Thinker article by Andrew Walden reveals that the final solution to human-caused climate change is to eliminate the humans.
A study touting Genghis Khan's environmental record is being cheered by the team which produced Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Genghis Khan's great accomplishment for the green cause? Killing off 40 million humans so their un-tilled fields would be overtaken by forests.
While some may find genocide morally repugnant, environmentalists had a different concern: Would reforestation be enough to overcome the greenhouse gases released by all those decaying bodies? Julia Pongratz, who headed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology research project from the Institution's Stanford University campus offices, provides the answer in a January 20 news release:
We found that during the short events such as the Black Death and the Ming Dynasty collapse, the forest re-growth wasn't enough to overcome the emissions from decaying material in the soil. But during the longer-lasting ones like the Mongol invasion ... there was enough time for the forests to re-grow and absorb significant amounts of carbon....
A study touting Genghis Khan's environmental record is being cheered by the team which produced Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Genghis Khan's great accomplishment for the green cause? Killing off 40 million humans so their un-tilled fields would be overtaken by forests.
While some may find genocide morally repugnant, environmentalists had a different concern: Would reforestation be enough to overcome the greenhouse gases released by all those decaying bodies? Julia Pongratz, who headed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology research project from the Institution's Stanford University campus offices, provides the answer in a January 20 news release:
We found that during the short events such as the Black Death and the Ming Dynasty collapse, the forest re-growth wasn't enough to overcome the emissions from decaying material in the soil. But during the longer-lasting ones like the Mongol invasion ... there was enough time for the forests to re-grow and absorb significant amounts of carbon....
Hundreds of Chicago Voters to Be Displaced by New Runway
From the Chicago Tribune: The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to review an appellate court decision affirming Chicago's acquisition of a 161-year-old cemetery that stands in the way of a future runway at O'Hare International Airport.
"It is technically not the end of the line, but it is pretty close to it,'' said Joseph Karaganis, an attorney representing St. John's United Church of Christ, which owns St. Johannes Cemetery and had sought the Supreme Court's review...
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Domino Effect
First it was Tunisia, now Egypt has become a hot spot. 82-year-old Hosni Mubarak, who has been running the country with an iron hand for nearly 30 years, is feeling the heat so much that his wife and son have left the country. Other countries such as Yemen and Lebanon, are showing signs of unrest, and the shock waves have not run their course. If Mubarak were overthrown, extremist elements such as the Muslim Brotherhood could use the fact that we have propped up his regime with billions of dollars in foreign aid against us, and they are in the running as a possible replacement for him.
American Students Raise Money for Clean Drinking Water and Toilet Facilities
ABC's "Good Morning America" ran a story about H20 for Life, an organization that links schools in the U.S. with schools in Third World countries that lack adequate sources of clean drinking water or decent restrooms. So far H20 for Life has raised over a million dollars by holding bake sales and other fundraisers.
Another Diva Report on Ex-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
The Daily Mail (U.K.) had this to say:
If the U.S. Air Force did all airline food, it would be strawberries dipped in dark chocolate and grilled chicken salads all round.
Unfortunately this luxury is reserved for top US politicians alone, as new documents detailing Nancy Pelosi's travel expenses reveal.
The former House Speaker was showered with a cornucopia of gourmet food and alcohol as she traveled over 90,000 miles around the world in just nine months last year - all courtesy of the US Air Force (USAF).
The revelations were among 2,000 pages documenting Mrs Pelosi's travel expenses, obtained by Judicial Watch.
Of 103 Pelosi-led congressional delegations, 31 trips included members of the House speaker's family.
Another Pelosi-led congressional delegation traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, to Baghdad included a shopping list that would be more at home on the fridge at a student party.
Among requests were Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Baileys Irish Cream, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Dewar’s scotch, Jack Daniel’s whiskey, and more.
Pelosi even used Air Force aircraft to travel back to her district of California at an average cost of $28,210.51 per flight.
If the U.S. Air Force did all airline food, it would be strawberries dipped in dark chocolate and grilled chicken salads all round.
Unfortunately this luxury is reserved for top US politicians alone, as new documents detailing Nancy Pelosi's travel expenses reveal.
The former House Speaker was showered with a cornucopia of gourmet food and alcohol as she traveled over 90,000 miles around the world in just nine months last year - all courtesy of the US Air Force (USAF).
The revelations were among 2,000 pages documenting Mrs Pelosi's travel expenses, obtained by Judicial Watch.
Of 103 Pelosi-led congressional delegations, 31 trips included members of the House speaker's family.
Another Pelosi-led congressional delegation traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, to Baghdad included a shopping list that would be more at home on the fridge at a student party.
Among requests were Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Baileys Irish Cream, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Dewar’s scotch, Jack Daniel’s whiskey, and more.
Pelosi even used Air Force aircraft to travel back to her district of California at an average cost of $28,210.51 per flight.
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