Last night, Hannity of FOX News had two female panelists, both conservatives, discussing Sarah Palin’s new book, her great success selling 300,000 copies the first day and the derangement syndrome of the left in trashing her and calling her “dangerous.” Obama’s campaign arm, Organizing for America, is looking to raise $500,000 to combat this “dangerous” woman.
I agree that the debasing attacks on the former Governor are ridiculous. Hannity just conducted an interview with Palin which brought him huge ratings. He was respectful to her and I’m sure the principles she trumpets are similar to his own. That is fine. What is not fine is the nonsense he spewed with his panel as they all got fired up defending Sarah Palin. Hannity made the remark that you can bash a conservative woman all you want – but no one would touch a liberal woman. He basically said if you’re Hillary Clinton, you’re safe from this kind of treatment.
Well, Sean, if you’re reading this – here is a little refresher course on what the left did to Hillary in 2008. And by the way, you and your right wing cronies taught them well with the fifteen years of Hillary bashing she and we have had to put up with. Here are a few examples… Read the rest
I had a big report all ready to share with you, but it got lost in the server upgrade. Cutting to the chase: You can watch the vote LIVE on Fox News TV (and on-line) or on C-Span TV (or on-line). I see that Blanche and Mary have caved, so it may be a done deal. But, I’m looking forward to Fox’s observations as the vote goes on. (The conversation is good.)
Update: In lieu of my missing story, let’s see what John Batchelor has to say in “Hunt for 60,” reprinted in full below the fold:
A peculiar cliff-hanger on Saturday 21 in the Senate that takes more sentences to explain than it takes to say that it come to very little. Read the rest
EDITOR’S NOTE: We are undergoing a server upgrade, and you will notice some glitches until the upgrade is complete. Bear with us. BTW: We have a live thread going up to cover the CLOTURE VOTE coming up. UPDATE: The upgrade is complete.
Trashing a vehicle is pretty easy to do.
Of course, if your goal was to to have fun and still be able to drive home at the end of the day, then breaking an axle can only be counted as a very costly mistake. The kind of mistake that makes you wish you could go back in time to when you were just dealing with a truck bogged down in the mud and still had hope for a positive outcome.
On the other hand, if the goal (as some tout) was to capture the public’s imagination and employ people while generating an endless cycle of destruction and construction of vehicles, I can’t help but think that this would be a highly profitable and entertaining method for achieving that goal. Read the rest
Fred Thompson addressed his radio audience (above) with a concise and entirely accurate measure of the Obama administration’s incompetence with regard Afghanistan.
POTUS has stalled and manipulated the McChrystal request for additional resources, and this peculiar commander-in-chief conduct has exasperated the public and puzzled the politicians. Read the rest
Is it the unemployment situation? Is it the volatility in the markets? The weakening greenback? Perhaps the generally perceived level of incompetence amongst our political and corporate leaders? Is it a media that does not hold our public officials and corporate leaders accountable?
While I could write extensively – and I have – on each of these questions, I am firmly convinced the ever increasing levels of populist rage go much deeper than any of these questions. How deep? To the very core of this great nation. What is at the core of any individual, institution, or nation?
Honesty and integrity.
Americans are a strong people. America is a proud land. That said, I believe we have allowed a semblance of moral decay to increasingly infiltrate our very core and we are now paying the price for it. How is this growing moral decay exemplified? Read the rest
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I know some consider us a full-up Barack Obama hate site. We are not. I do not hate the man. I do think he is a good husband and a good father. His daughters clearly adore him, and it is tough to fake what teenage girls think about their father–good fathers have a warm relation with their daughters. My beef with Barack Obama is simple–he is unqualified by experience and by judgment to be an effective President. At the end of his first term he will at least have the experience to be President. The judgment issue remains in question.
All of this is prelude to a comment about what Barack did on Veteran’s Day courtesy of Daily News reporter, James Meek. James is a friend and, if you have read his pieces, known for his steely-eyed search for truth. He certainly is not an Obama cheerleader or sychophant. So check this out:
Retiring Vermont Senator Judd Gregg was quoted in The Hill arguing in a sour fashion that the Democrats would pass some version of healthcare by moaning about 60 votes in the Senate and then constructing them afterall. The bill then will go to Conference, where all the progressive cooking by Mrs. Pelosi will be ladled into the Senate’s cautious cake mix, and then Hary Reid will find another 60 votes to pass the public option lite. Gregg offered no evidence for his measure, just craggy and disconsolate fatalism. Read the rest
Than look at ACORN. Yet, the hits just keep on coming. There is another tape out from James O’Keefe of filmmaker James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles going to ACORN offices in an expose of the lengths to which ACORN workers will go to assist in setting up an underage prostitution ring. Here is the latest video released by O’Keefe:
Oh, boy. So, did I get this right, ACORN has/is working with Larry Flynt, the king of pornography??? Holy crappydoo – I am sure so many people will be happy to know that’s to whom their hard earned dollars are going. Read the rest
The housing market dropped off a cliff in October, as the original Nov. 30th expiration date for the first-time home buyers tax credit approached, according to the Housing Market Monitor of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Read the rest
I love that pearl of wisdom shared by Danielle Park, my guest this past Sunday evening on No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle. I find it very applicable to the recently released economic report on housing starts. What did that report indicate? Housing starts in October registered a supposed surprising decline of 10.6% to a seasonally adjusted 529, 000 annual rate.
Is this truly a surprise? Market analysts and government pundits who continually ‘oversell’ economic data as legitimate, when in fact that data is gamed via government props, need to show surprise when a report disappoints. If they do not act surprised, then they merely expose themselves and lose credibility.
The simple fact is the housing market in our country remains in decline. One merely needs to look at the continually increasing levels of delinquencies to understand that. I addressed this important data last May in writing, “The Most Critical Economic Statistic”:
Which economic statistic is the most important? Unemployment? Housing starts? Trade deficit? Inflation? Retail sales? Read the rest
Nunly (aka, Divine Democrat), has allowed us to publish her post from Bad Habit.
Last night, while watching TV, I heard a blip on the news about how woman are being told that we don’t need those nasty ol’ mammograms anymore until we are 50 years old…and even then, only once every two years. My jaw just dropped. I thought it was some ridiculous rogue group that were shooting their mouth off, but no…it’s our government telling us that.
By now I’m sure most have already heard this news, so I guess I’m just writing this to blow off some steam and write my own views on this subject.
Ok…first let’s look at this government task force that has decided women should be the first in line to be thrown under the health care bus in order to save our government and the health insurance companies the costs of caring for us. According to the Chicago Tribune, this is “an influential group” called The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, a government sponsored group whose work is closely followed by doctors and insurance companies. Read the rest
Here’s Tina Brown’s lament for The One’s visit to China on today’s MSNBC Morning Joe, transcribed by moi:
It’s sad that Obama can’t say anything about dissidents when he goes to China. It’s sad that he can’t raise anything. You know, he just has to go there and suck up.
I’m sure we all agree that Miranda warnings for U.S. citizens are a precious right. (See the original Supreme Court decision and its history: Miranda v. Arizona.) Most everyone, thanks to countless TV shows, is aware of that right. And, also thanks to TV dramas, we’ve all seen instances in which an innocent person accused of a crime inadvertently said something to the police that came back to haunt him/her. Had this person taken advantage of having an attorney present, s/he would have advised the accused to remain silent. Read the rest
The Republican charges of “Death Panels” in the first House health care bill (a jumbled mess for the most part) was over-the-top dramatic. But as any reader could easily discern, the tide had shifted from “get a team OK before letting them go” towards “get a team to assess keeping them going.” In any event, this section was abruptly withdrawn and has not reappeared in any obvious way.
I don’t think I am being paranoid when I suggest that the new tactic for rationing health care will be to do it slowly, quietly, in little bits and pieces off to the side, and maybe no one will notice.
Well, a new set of mammogram recommendations has just been issued, and it would appear to be a good example of such a sly attempt.
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