It’s been documented that the most uncovered story in the lamestream media is Climate-gate, the story about climate-change scientists fudging their numbers to make it look like there actually is global warming.
But you’d think that stories in which academic beta males whine about the Triangle turning into the desert [...]
An instant classic based on the Tommy James and the Shondells’ “Draggin’ the Line”:
[...]The mainstream media and the lefty blogs were quick to blame right-wing fanatics for the death of a census worker who was found with the word “FED” written on his chest. The case has now been ruled a definite suicide and has been cleared.
Waiting for the apologies. Waiting…waiting…waiting…
[...]It’s been rumored for some time that Angelina Jolie is interested in playing Dagny Taggart in a movie version of “Atlas Shrugged.” When I first heard that a couple of years ago I thought she was just another Hollywood lefty bent on ruining the book for the screen, but [...]
Navy SEALS who just captured one of the most-wanted terrorists in the world are being charged with assault because THEY BLOODIED HIS LIP!
God help us.
[...]Hardly a scoop. Pitts has been clueless for years.
[...]Usually, when only 19 percent of Americans believe something, they are considered to be either misguided, ignorant or delusional. So which one is U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan? The other day she confidently announced that one reason she was supporting Harry Reid’s health care bill was that it would help [...]
Remember a while back when Media Matters for America, the George Soros-funded lefty site that shills for every left-wing initiative going, excoriated George Will for having the temerity to question the global warming orthodoxy? Here’s what they said at the time:
In his July 23 Washington Post column, George Will [...]
My wife tried to leave a voice mail for U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-NC, to urge her to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Harry Reid’s 2,000-page government takeover of health care bill, but, guess what, both voice mail accounts in Washington are full, as is the one [...]
North Carolina has not been left out in the phantom districts stimulus sweepstakes. It has six of the 440 phantom districts in which the Obama administration has claimed stimulus jobs were “saved or created”:
North Carolina has distributed more than $5.7 million in federal stimulus money to six congressional [...]
Two Reidsville, NC, middle-school students were suspended because their parents gave them fast-food hamburgers to take to school for lunch. Charles Finney, one of the parents, was rightly indignant:
Finney said the principal told him the school policy does not allow outside food because it competes with child nutrition standards.
“They [...]
Al Gore, who was called by a Washington reporter friend of mine in 1988 “the smartest man in the Senate,” shows monumental ignorance on a subject about which he’s supposed to be the world’s foremost expert. He asserts that the core of the Earth is “several million degrees, as [...]
Don Surber finds something interesting in blog log files: Users on the left are whiter, older and more male than on the right. So much for that “angry white men” meme regarding the right. Here’s what he found out about the DailyKos’s users:
But old white men make up [...]
President Obama’s policies are working for Raleigh. Eighty-seven jobs have been created at the Employment Security Commsion to deal with rampant unemployment:
So far this year, more than 54,000 benefits appeals have been filed. At that rate, David Clegg, the commission’s deputy chairman and chief operating officer, expects appeals will [...]
For the first time in a couple of years I listened to NPR on the way to work today. Not only do I feel strangely soiled, but I realized why it will be another two years before I try again listening to the Network of Annoying Voices.
I stumble onto some [...]
President Obama yesterday called for a “jobs summit” to try to figure out why his stimulus plan is such a spectacular failure. Even the funny math being used by the administration to prop up the jobs supposedly “saved or created” is not fooling even the Obama-loving mainstream media.
So yesterday [...]
Actually, I don’t. I posted on Nov. 5 about the media effort to hide Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s religion, as if his name would not be a pretty good clue.
Later in the evening I showed several of the most egregious examples of flacking for Islamists.
Still, most of the [...]
U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-NC, and TVA officials earlier had told The Tennessean newspaper that there’d been no contact between the two about a water-access problem, but a new TVA report says that, though there was nothing wrong with contact as long as pressure was not exerted, Shuler did, [...]
There’s a disturbing trend in the land. Some of the most notoriously unethical people are being trotted out to lecture us on ethics.
First, Jayson Blair, the infamous New York Times dissembler, spoke recently at the Journalism Ethics Institute in Lexington, Va. If you don’t remember Blair, he’s the reporter [...]
Poor Richard at the Voice of the American blog, tells a story about his recent visit with Rep. Heath Shuler, D-NC:
We were sitting around the coffee table and he leaned forward and said, “You’re a registered Republican aren’t you?” I responded, ” Yes.” ( I wish I had responded, [...]
Rep. Sue Myrick, R-NC, has no PC illusions or reticence about giving her view of the Ft. Hood killings:
The shooter was radicalized and was a jihadist. The several terror plots uncovered across the country over the past few months all have one common thing: they are all connected by [...]
I chastised the editorial writers at The News & Observer the other day for their willful ignorance regarding the motives of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. The boys on the edit page were simply befuddled:
Was this a random act? Was there something in Hasan’s recent experience that may have prompted [...]
Today’s Veterans Day, so here’s a light-hearted salute from the legendary songsmith Johnny Mercer. That’s Johnny singing, too, by the way. He didn’t just write the words well. He was also a great singer.
Though written during WWII, the sentiments and the observations about the military are as valid now [...]
They’ve given us co-housing and other creepy collective innovations, but, finally, something that makes sense:
Denmark is boosting cash incentives to entice immigrants to return to their homelands if they ‘can’t or won’t’ assimilate into society.
The offer now on the table is close to £12,000 for every person who [...]
Well, that’s what the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index says, anyway:
The index includes questions about six types of well-being, including overall evaluation of their lives, emotional health, physical health, healthy behaviors (such as whether a person smokes or exercises), and job satisfaction.
North Carolina is 34th, Georgia 23rd, South Carolina 26th, [...]
First Van Jones, now Anita Dunn:
White House communications director Anita Dunn will step down from her post at the end of the month and Dan Pfeiffer, her deputy, will take over, according to sources familiar with the move.
Dunn, you might remember, is the Mao-loving Obama appointee who told [...]
While the President and most of the media wonder just what possibly could have prompted Maj. Maj. Nidal M. Hasan to do what he did last week, evidence keeps surfacing inconveniently and pointing to jihad:
The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood warned a roomful [...]
And what does the city of New London, Conn., tell Suzette Kelo? “Uh, our bad”?:
The private homes New London, Conn., took through eminent domain from Suzette Kelo and others, are torn down now, but Pfizer has just announced that it closing up shop at the research facility that led [...]
FBI: Hasan tried to contact Al Qaeda.
Law enforcement official: We’re not sure what his motive was.
This kind of politically correct denial has gotten a lot of people killed.
[...]Hard to believe this is from The Associated Press:
WASHINGTON — The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
[...]Several sources are saying that Rep. Heath Shuler, D-NC, has finally climbed down off the fence and will vote no on the health care takeover bill. Looks like Nancy Pelosi has corralled her 218 votes and has told Shuler he’s free to vote against it.
[...]The UK Telegraph says Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan worshiped in the same mosque as two of the 9/11 terrorists. The mosque is located in Great Falls, Va., which, one would think, would be an area covered by The Washington Post. This time, not so much:
Hasan, the sole suspect [...]
The News & Observer editorial writers usually go about their work with arrogant certainty, telling us all what’s what on the complicated issues of the day, their conclusions exclusively hewing to a lefty worldview. But today the scribes in the N&O’s ivory tower are simply clueless, don’t have a thought, [...]
Congressman Barney Frank, D-MA, was present at the pot bust of his significant other, James Ready, in Maine in 2007, it has finally surfaced. Of course, Frank claims he knows nothing about the marijuana. He told police he only smokes cigars:
According to a police report, police charged Ready with [...]
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters leaves no doubt where he stands on Hasan, the media coverage of the Ft. Hood murders, and the new politically correct U.S. Army that let this sad sack loser skate:
[...]David Horowitz says what needs to be said:
A Muslim fanatic with an Internet site praising Islamic suicide bombers as defenders of their comrades is a Major in the U.S. Army with access to military intelligence and lethal weaponry. And it’s not as though the army didn’t know that he [...]
Robert Gibbs, the former NC State soccer player who is President Obama’s press secretary, made an incredible statement at his press gaggle today. He was criticizing the few questionable signs at yesterday’s “Kill the Bill” rally at the Capitol:
Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images [...]
It’s pretty certain that five of North Carolina’s congressional delegation will vote for whatever budget-busting health care “reform” package that the House leadership proposes. They are Democrats David Price, Bob Etheridge, Mel Watt, Brad Miller and G.K. Butterfield. All the Republicans surely will oppose the government takeover of health care, [...]
An unemployed 26-year-old Florida man, Jason Sadler, came up with the idea of renting his t-shirt as advertising space and made $83,000 last year:
For his human billboard service, Sadler charges the “face value” of the day so January 1 costs $1, while December 31 costs $365.
Sadler said this may [...]
Does anyone remember the memo issued by Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano in April? The one that warned of the dangers of right-wing extremism among soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq?
I’ve Googled my fingers to the bone today and can’t find any instances of this as-much-as-predicted [...]
The civilian police officer who shot Nidal Malik Hasan was a female officer. That has to be a real downer for a devout Muslim like Hasan, to whom women should be covered and not heard:
Army officials say the suspect, “the lone shooter” for this tragic incident, [...]
The Times of the UK, which is pretty much The New York Times of England, had this to say today about the House Call-Kill the Bill rally in Washington yesterday:
Thousands of radical conservatives crowded on to the steps of the Capitol yesterday to voice their anger over Democrat spending [...]
About 100 anti-Obamacare protesters gathered at Democratic congressman Heath Shuler’s Asheville office yesterday. Most of them, according to reports, were senior citizens. A Shuler spokesman came out at one point and and read a prepared statement:
One of Rep. Shuler’s employees received our petitions and read a prepared statement saying [...]
There are two reports today of citizen journalists being treated differently from the “credentialed” media.
In one, a citizen journalist with a camera is pushed and told to put the camera away by a congressional press secretary, even though the so-called “credentialed” press were running around in the congressional [...]
The News & Observer of Raleigh joins The Los Angeles Times in the effort to downplay the Muslim background and, as some evidence suggests, the motive, of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan in yesterday’s shootings at Fort Hood. The N&O ran a New York Times wire service story that never mentions [...]
Allapundit, who has been the best source of info on this all evening, makes this point:
So here’s where we are right now, near 11 p.m. ET. This guy raged about Muslims standing up to aggressors, praised suicide bombers, and the lead theory in the media is … PTSD? For [...]
No journalist has yet to have asked what the MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) of this shooter was. We know he was a converted Muslim, from reports, but what was his job. Was he infantry, artillery, a chaplain. What?
This is why it’s a problem when there are so few people with [...]
The Fort Hood spokesman just told him, officially, that the dead suspected shooter was a convert to Islam and he hasn’t repeated it since. He’s content rather to let it seem that this is a clear case of battle fatigue. He just said the suspected shooter was angry about being [...]
Though I’m sure The Associated Press will call it “dozens,” first reports are showing a huge turnout at the House Call “Kill the Bill” rally in Washington today. The event was prompted by a call from Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-MN. The crowd includes several busloads of North Carolinians.
Here’s a [...]
Read this horror story involving the N.C. Department of Revenue and a design firm in Greensboro and you’ll come away seething. It began with a notice they received of an audit:
The odyssey that began for Tammy Webster and her husband and partner Jim Webster with that notice would turn [...]
Call your member of Congress. The vote is set for Saturday at 6 p.m., according to Roll Call.
[...]I was jumping around the channels last night trying to see how the traditionally liberal outlets were reacting to the big Republican wins in Virginia and New Jersey. When I switched to MSNBC late in the evening I realized I was watching a re-run of Keith Olbermann’s 8 p.m. show. [...]
Iowans who swooned over Barack Obama in 2008 and launched his disastrous administration now have buyer’s remorse:
Pauline McAreavy voted for President Obama. From the moment she first saw him two years ago, she was smitten by his speeches and sold on his promise of change. She switched parties to [...]
The Triangle Business Journal has the details:
Clear Channel station 106.1 FM WRDU will flip its format from country to conservative talk radio at the beginning of next year, local general manager Dick Harlow announced late Monday afternoon.
After the format flip, the 100,000 watt station will broadcast Glenn Beck’s show [...]
A new video of Barack Obama’s pastor lauding Marxism and bragging about his ties to communist dictators on South America has surfaced … and then promptly disappeared. Cliff Kinkaid of Accuracy in Media linked to it today in a column about the mainstream media’s lack of enthusiasm with [...]
Moe Lane made the following comment about New York’s City Council, but it could just as easily apply to North Carolina, which has been governed by Democrats for most of a century.
…one-party rule makes people stupid. And stupid people make mistakes.
Does the name Mike Easley come to mind?
[...]Nearly half of a House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending is being investigated for ethics violations. It’s time to clean house, er, House.
[...]On the same spot that a million Americans gathered in friendly and tidy protest on Sept. 12, Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic underground held an invitation-only, no-public-allowed ceremony to unveil their abomination of a health care bill, all 1,990 pages of it, costing $2.2 million a word:
House Democrats [...]
Margaret Carlson, lone one of the cattiest columnist going, really has her claws out for Sarah Palin. What is it about Palin that sends lefty columnists around the bend?
For those who wonder what former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is doing with her newfound freedom from the rigors of [...]
Hillary Clinton learned from The Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines that if you want to get in the good graces of people overseas, just say you hate Bush. That’s what she did in Pakistan today:
Answering questions from students on US intentions and perceived failings, Clinton acknowledged past mistakes but [...]
If goldfish have the eco-finprint of two cell phones, what kind of carbon footprint must a deer have? Those who are agonizing over the thinning of deer herds in Durham’s Duke Forest might take some solace in the fact that the more deer we kill, the smaller will [...]
N.C. Sen. Kay Hagan spurned the 11 moderate Democrats and one independent who refused to vote cloture on Harry Reid’s health care dodge yesterday. Instead, she voted for the 46 other Democrats who ended up on the losing side.
So, while all 47 who voted cloture were Democrats, the winning [...]
The Senate Finance Committee has produced a health care bill that’s 1,502 pages long. We know it’s got to be better than the House-authored HB 3200, which almost none of our members of Congress read, because it’s 400 pages longer. That shows our U.S. Senators are working hard for [...]
Phyllis Chessler gives two harrowing, real-world examples of political correctness run amok, which is the only place political correctness ran run, when you think about it.
[...]That’s the hallmark of the Obama administration. Just like the health-care mantra is “choice and competition” when it’s actually state-run totalitarian health care on the Soviet model, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has the unmitigated gall to say this:
The United States must live within its means once its economy recovers [...]
Actual empirical research shows that the preponderance of opposition to Barack Obama is not rooted in racism after :
Racism is not a factor driving conservative opposition to President Barack Obama, according to the results of focus groups conducted by Democracy Corps, a Democratic organization, released on Friday.
So, will the [...]
First it was insurance companies, then banks, then car companies. Is the National Football League now in danger of becoming the OFL, the Obama Football League?:
The plot thickens on the media’s character-lynching of Rush Limbaugh. Of the four stories run on ESPN.com about Limbaugh’s bid for the Rams (October [...]
This story is going to follow this budding journalist during his entire ca-rear:
A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.
The [...]
The Durham Police Department employee who claimed more than an entire year’s worth of overtime pay has been fired:
A Durham police officer in the center of an overtime scandal that led to the retirement of a senior officer was fired Wednesday, city officials announced this morning.
Alesha Robinson-Taylor has been [...]
A farmer was fined recently for keeping his cows in a dark barn at night. The Johnny-on-the-spot local officials noticed the bovine-imperiling low light levels when they visited the man’s farm to carry out tuberculosis tests:
While there, they asked where Mr Norcliffe intended to keep his cows in winter. [...]
I’m as in favor of good health and fitness as anyone, but I don’t think local government officials should go out of their way to promote one private business over the many others that also pay taxes in Durham. That’s exactly what Durham Mayor Bill Bell [...]
Even the UN, the left-dominated UN, understands what happened in Honduras. Would somebody please tell President Obama and his secretary of state who the good guys are:
A study by the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations Organization (UNO) on the causes of the crisis in Honduras, concluded [...]
When I worked at The Herald-Sun I’d often go to the microfilm and pull out years at random. In especially enjoyed the ads. The whisky ads were always entertaining, with brands you just don’t see anymore, like Old Overholt. Entertainment ads also were interesting. With Durham being near the halfway [...]
Hampton University, the historically black university in Hampton, Va., is experiencing some turmoil after a non-black student was named Miss HU last week. The winner, Nikole Churchill, is the daughter of a father from Guam and an Italian mother:
Nikole Churchill, 22, competed against nine black students in the 15th [...]
In an unguarded moment that former Labor Secretary Robert Reich probably thought was also unrecorded, the Lilliputian Lefty tells the truth about national health care:
[...]Gateway Pundit compiles a list of stories that go against the global-warming meme, including the latest that will surely be buried by the Old Media:
World Climate Report revealed this week that the ice melt during the Antarctic summer of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history.
[...]Rush Limbaugh has been named a judge in the 2010 Miss America Pageant:
The Miss America Organization (MAO) announced today that Rush Limbaugh has been named as one of the national judges for the 2010 Miss America Pageant, which will be held at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las [...]
Research from Canada I’m sure has the environmental wacko community in a tizzy this morning:
Psychologists in Canada have revealed new research suggesting that people who become eco-conscious “green consumers” are “more likely to steal and lie” than others. …
“Those lyin’, cheatin’ green consumers,” begins the statement from the university. [...]
Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee notes the absurdity of the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to President Obama, who took office only two weeks before nominations closed:
Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning for President.
Good. Grief.
UPDATE: This from the UK Telegraph:
The award of this year’s Nobel [...]
The Philadelphia City Schools’ leadership is concerned that only about a third of its students take advantage of free breakfast. This is seen as a failure of the school system, so much so that principals will be henceforth be judged on the percentage of their students to take the [...]
U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-NC, will join 14 other notables tomorrow night in a basketball game at the White House. Also on the roster are President Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who, one would think, might have more important things to do.
[...]Like gambling addicts who keep doubling down thinking they’ll come up winners eventually, the City of Durham keeps putting our money on Rolling Hills, the ill-conceived development south of downtown Durham.
Since the 1980s taxpayer money has been dumped into Rolling Hills to no effect. Every time one “developer” fails [...]
His comments on the Fox All-Stars last night could be boiled down into this line from Woody Allen’s 1971 movie “Bananas”:
It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.
Those were the words of Fielding Mellish, the [...]
The Left has been huffing and posting recently about the dastardly tactic of using hidden-camera reporting and disguises to catch ACORN enthusiastically embracing child prostitution. The Maryland attorney general said she was considering prosecuting James O’Keefe and his partner Hannah Giles for cruelly entrapping some Baltimore [...]
My anti-government instincts have always made me leery of census takers, even when I was a self-described liberal. But what was annoying could now be downright dangerous:
Robert Goldenkoff, the Government Accountability Office’s Director for Strategic Issues, said that the criminal record checks were bungled because of poor staff training. [...]
When it comes to using one’s position of power to gain sexual favors from underlings, David Letterman is a piker compared to Ted Kennedy:
Ted Kennedy slept with more than a thousand women – and spent at least $10 million in hush money over the years to keep his skirt-chasing [...]
Where’s all the concern about separation of church and state?:
The president of a small Catholic college in North Carolina is in a standoff with the Obama administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over demands that the school must offer contraception coverage in its employee health insurance. Belmont Abbey College [...]
Two stories today go against the narrative that evil humans and their exhalations are causing the destruction of the planet. First, the notion that Arctic ice is disappearing takes a hit:
The National Snow and Ice Data Center released its summary of summer sea-ice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, [...]
The creepy site of school kids singing the praises of The Great Obama in their school assemblies is one thing. Everyone knows public schools are captive of lefty tie-dies who couldn’t get a job anywhere else in the ’70s and ’80s. But now a major cable network has joined [...]
California’s Maxine Waters says critics should lay off ethically-challenged Charlie Rangel because, well, he’s not alone in “misreporting” his taxes:
“I want to tell you, there are many members who, if you go back over all of their records, over all of the years, you’re going to find that there [...]
On Sunday The News & Observer carried a story that will probably lower the consumption of hamburger, at least for a while. But today we learn that hamburger isn’t even on the list of the top ten risky foods. The irony is that some of the items on [...]
