The earth is burning, the earth is burning! And it’s all our fault!
That’s the essence of an editorial slated to appear in 56 newspapers worldwide today, including at least one in the U.S.
Michelle Malkin pointedly notes that we aren’t likely to see much interest in ClimateGate [...]
Blogger Doug Ross got to the news of the Congressional Budget Office’s Monthly Budget Report (PDF) over the weekend, quite accurately observing that the establishment news coverage of its content barely existed.
The results of searches at the Associated Press’s raw feed page on “[...]
68 years ago today was “the day that will live in infamy.”
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Two separate and independent sources claim that Air Tran Flight 297 out of Houston in mid-November was a terrorist dry run or at least a test of security seriousness. Given the common elements present in [...]
A local teen is being hailed a hero for her life-saving actions at a bowling alley.
Posted: 10:42 PM Dec 1, 2009
A local teen is being hailed a hero for her life-saving actions at a bowling alley.
Sixteen year-old Bethanie Riley is a junior at Northridge High School. [...]
How media magicians have made $80 billion, the homeless, and a thus far marginal Christmas shopping season disappear.
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Note: This items was posted at Pajamas Media and teased here at BizzyBlog on Friday.
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Have you heard about the $80.7 billion “reorganization gain” General Motors posted in [...]
Well, you can’t say they aren’t consistent.
Two brief AP dispatches from December 2 and December 3 about Michael Toole, a Pennsylvania judge who has agreed to plead guilty to corruption-related charges, fail to mention that Toole has at least been a contributor to the Democratic [...]
Primarily from Sacramento, California:
Dec 5, 2009 / 12:28 pm
Craig Manson, Distinguished Professor and Lecturer in Law at the University of the Pacific, has recently written about how the South in the U.S could be regarded as the “birthplace of black Catholicism.”
Explaining the historical context, Manson told CNA that [...]
…. on its perfect regular season.
What an incredible game.
UPDATE, Dec. 6: Dang (Texas 13, Nebrasksa 12).
The BCS’s mucked-up system is really, really, reeeeeeeally lucky that Texas won, because I suspect that it would still have rated Texas #2 if the ‘Horns hadn’t made that 46-yard field goal [...]
Normally, it’s news when a leading politician in a country hosting a summit expresses harsh dissent against that summit’s agenda — or at least it is when a leftist is the dissenter.
But I doubt that what Thor Pedersen, Speaker of the Danish Parliament, has to say [...]
From Hermon, Maine (video is at link):
A young woman is thankful to two good friends who saved her life when her car went off the road into a stream last week.
Johnna Kenney was driving home from work last Friday afternoon when she fell asleep at the wheel. Her [...]
Kristof’s column about a patient who can’t get treatment is best described as a pack of lies from beginning to end.
Michelle exposed it, and doubled down (with additional links; just go there), by doing something Kristof apparently wasn’t interested in doing: research.
If Kristof’s piece is the best [...]
Run-up: ADP reported 169,000 jobs lost in the private sector during November in the national employment report it released Wednesday.
This quickie note at a local Fox station predicts the unemployment rate will be unchanged at 10.2% and that 130,000 seasonally adjusted jobs will be lost. That same prediction is [...]
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
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The three disappearing acts cited in the column are:
The $80.7 billion in “reorganization gains” (i.e., gains resulting from the fleecing of taxpayers and creditors) recognized by [...]From D’Iberville, Mississippi:
Posted: Dec 02, 2009 9:31 AM
Updated: Dec 02, 2009 1:07 PM
A 19-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after her car ended up at the bottom of the Tchoutacabouffa River Wednesday morning. A D’Iberville Police officer happened to be on Lamey Bridge Road checking the river [...]
The coverage yesterday by the Associated Press’s Stephen Bernard of payroll and human resources giant ADP’s monthly jobs report for November focused on a relatively small reduction in the size of the decline in jobs lost and not on the fact that continuing to lose jobs [...]
In their report on Ford’s November sales results, the Associated Press’s Tom Krisher and Dee-Ann Durbin seemed to downplay the company’s pretty decent month, and definitely downplayed the company’s better near-term prospects compared to its principal rivals. Additionally, despite the report’s Wednesday time stamp, the pair [...]
Great catch by Taranto at the WSJ’s Best of the Web on Obama’s Afghanistan speech:
Little wonder Obama also said in his speech that “the wrenching debate over the Iraq war is well-known and need not be repeated here.” That’s easier than admitting that he has changed his mind and [...]
Dec 3, 2009 / 05:25 am
Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan will celebrate a special St. Patrick’s Cathedral Mass on Dec. 9 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Fulton Sheen. The Mass will be broadcast live on the Catholic television network EWTN.
Archbishop Sheen [...]
Dan Scott — “Who’s Next Under the Bus?” The theory is that Barack Obama will at some point have to distance himself from the data massaging, raw data-destroying, peer-review manipulating, public info-hiding con artists posing as scientists who have been pushing globaloney for so many years, and who threaten [...]
Dec 2, 2009 / 03:01 am
Fr. Paul D. Etienne, the bishop-elect of Cheyenne, is an Indiana outdoorsman whose vocation was nourished by a faithful mother and relatives in the priesthood and religious life.
Fr. Etienne, 50, will become one of the youngest Catholic bishops in the U.S. when [...]
Question that must be answered — Did the BBC’s Paul Hudson write this October 9 item wondering about global warming’s decade-long disappearing act before or after he received “some of the leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia more than a month [...]
….. did what?
Side note: Ed Morrissey’s headline at the Hot Air link (”Will Washington shooting damage Huckabee bid?”) is one I would rip into any establishment media outlet for using.
It wasn’t a “shooting.” Four cops were murdered. Huckabee pardoned the guy who did it.
That headline is pathetic, Ed.
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In light of World AIDS Day, the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) released a statement in which the bishops noted the struggles Africa faces while highlighting the work the Church is doing “facing HIV in Africa and caring [...]
The New York Times’s Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff published a long Saturday report on the Food Stamp program that went into print on Sunday.
This is the second of three posts on their coverage; the first went up earlier today at NewsBusters and BizzyBlog. It [...]
In a long Saturday report on the Food Stamp program that went into print on Sunday, the New York Times’s Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff:
Almost seemed to celebrate the program’s explosive growth. Bemoaned the fact that many who could participate do not. Both in their title (”Food Stamp [...]Nov 29, 2009 / 08:55 pm (CNA).- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has created an Advent and Christmas website with suggestions for daily prayers, readings, reflection and action. A collection of Lessons and Carols is also provided for live listening or download.
Printable calendars in English [...]
Have a Democrat President in office.
Haven’t heard much (total unique listings on “homelessness rising” not in quotes from November 24-28 are really only 22), have you?
[...]They name the malaise, but not the timing, which I’ll take care of –
What last month had appeared to be third-quarter growth of 3.5% in gross domestic product turns out to have been a more modest 2.8%. Consumer spending was pared back to 2.9% from 3.4%. The cash-for-clunkers subsidy [...]
New York Times environment reporter Andrew C. Revkin had a post yesterday that was primarily about an open letter from Judith Curry. Revkin describes her as “a seasoned climate scientist at Georgia Tech …. (who) has no skepticism about a growing human influence on climate.”
Revkin writes [...]
It’s nice that the story of Rom Houben has recently made the news. I carried it as one of my own “Positivity” posts earlier this week.
A Google News Search on “Rom Houben Laureys” (not typed in quotes; Laureys is the last name of Houben’s [...]
A leading light of climate change inadvertently exposes AGW’s crumbling foundation.
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Note: This column went up at Pajamas Media and was teased and extended here at BizzyBlog on Wednesday.
The evidence that the human-caused global-warming/climate change effort may constitute one of the biggest scams in all of human history continues to [...]
Things are so bad for Tim Geithner, who shouldn’t have been appointedin the first place, and should have resigned back in March, that even a column in Forbes (”The Gathering Geithner Storm”) by Thomas Cooley designed to buck him up for the tough times ahead [...]
Published: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Updated: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Thomas Hufford, 76, of Loveland, endured a massive heart attack in his urologist’s office Sept. 29. Now, doctors consider him a miracle.
Thomas experienced 25 minutes without blood circulation, and in order to save his life, Dr. Andrew Burger at [...]
This post is a BizzyBlog Thanksgiving tradition.
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Link:
General Thanksgiving
By the President of the United States of America
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection [...]
I really do wish Mike and Fran DeWine, their family, and his extended family a happy and blessed Thanksgiving.
But really, what I want to receive from from Fran and Mike is not what arrived in my e-mail box this morning:
Mike, Mike, Mike.
You’re not lobbying [...]
Who’s denyin’ now?
There may not be a better example of establishment media Climategate denial than Jim Tankersley’s “breaking” story at the Los Angeles Times’s Greenspace blog that President Barack Obama will attend the December 7-19 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Tankersley identifies all [...]
Original vid link (HT Instapundit):
The Climategate e-mail in question:
From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley, mann@XXXX, mhughes@XXXX
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow.
I’ve [...]
Given how many other writers have weighed in at PJM, I appreciate their acceptance of my submission on short notice.
The subheadline is, “A leading light of climate change inadvertently exposes AGW’s crumbling foundation.” That exposure comes from a Kevin Trenberth e-mail, acknowledged as genuine. It comments on [...]
Note: A slightly different version of this post originally went up in November 2007. Evening update: Moved to the top.
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I saw this about halfway through this post at Obi’s Sister. It was written to make a political point, which is fine, but it also makes a universal one [...]
This is the fifth year I have looked into how the media treats these two topics:
The use of “Christmas shopping season” vs. “holiday shopping season” (note how the AP photo at right uses “holiday” and not “shopping,” even though there is a C-C-, Chr-Chr-Christmas tree in the [...]From Brussels, Belgium (bold is mine):
Nov 23 02:13 PM US/Eastern
BRUSSELS (AP) – A man who emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state says he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed, his mother said Monday.
Rom Houben, 46, had a car [...]
A lot of people thought this might be coming:
Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the third quarter of 2009, (that is, from the second [...]
I’d have to brush up on the intervening history a bit to be sure of this, but it seems that if this holds, it could turn out to be the most important single Senatorial “No” since Kansas Senator Edmund Ross voted not to convict impeached President Andrew Johnson [...]
Stefanie Spielman has gone to a better place:
Stefanie Spielman, the wife of NFL and Ohio State star Chris Spielman who led a public fight against breast cancer, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with the disease. She was 42.
Stefanie Spielman died at the family’s home in Upper Arlington, surrounded [...]
Uncle Sam Cash Crunch update (through the third Thursday in November, 2009 and 2008):
Consider as well the estimated combined total collections for October and November, which I’m generously and probably overoptimistically pegging at $280 billion this year vs. $310 billion last year. I’m estimating that [...]
Government-managed economic projects rarely deliver.
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Note: This item went up at Pajamas Media and was teased here at BizzyBlog on Friday.
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Recent weeks have not been good to those who bitterly cling to the notion that governments can manage economic initiatives. Three of them — one in real estate, a [...]
To say that there’s good reason not to be impressed with quite a few U.S. Senators is to state the obvious.
But I hope Dana Milbank either hasn’t read or really doesn’t remember A Streetcar Named Desire. Because in his coverage of the Senate vote last night to [...]
Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often “illusory and deceitful.”
The Pope told the gathering of hundreds of painters, sculptors, architects, poets and directors, held beneath the [...]
Not that he set out to do it, but Mr. Wright has brilliantly explained (HT A Traditional Life Lived):
Why my call that the economy’s condition since the summer of 2008 is almost solely the fault of Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Harry Reid is [...]
At this point, there should be little doubt that there is a concerted attempt underway to use the war in Afghanistan as a justification for punitively taxing high earners.
Last weekend (noted at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the New York Times discovered that wars cost money. [...]
A merchant sea captain who was captured and held by Somali pirates in April reunited Thursday with the U.S. Navy crew and captain who were part of his daring rescue, thanking them for saving him.
“You are the true patriots,” Capt. Richard Phillips said on [...]
You’ve got to hand it to the propagandists at the AFP. When heavy-hitting members of the party they favor announce an idea whose main purpose is, as the New York Times suddenly “discovered” last weekend, to remind people that wars cost money and distract from supposedly [...]
Two months ago, there was the “Dog Ate My Global Warming Data” episode. As noted at NewsBusters and at BizzyBlog (original source: National Review Online), we learned that important original information forming the underpinning of global warming alarmists’ claims about the earth heating up has [...]
It seems like a long shot, but Buckeye Staters who want this country to be saved from statist health care ought to pursue it any way.
After spending 25 minutes on hold waiting to talk to someone at Sherrod Brown’s Washington Office, I was told that the Senator [...]
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
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Supplement: The column points out what should be obvious, but isn’t to many — Where government goes, trouble follows.
Of course [...]
Nov 20, 2009 / 01:21 am
An unprecedented coalition of prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders, and scholars has crafted a 4,700-word declaration addressing the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty. The declaration issues “a clarion call” to Christians to adhere to their convictions and informs civil authorities [...]
Really, who knew?
In what appears to be the opening round of a rearguard action against what leftists used to call “the good war” (only because they felt they needed to pretend they had pro-war bona fides to make their anti-Iraq War arguments look stronger to the general [...]
Given the time frame, this is well-done (HT Conservative Blog Watch):
The long version, all 2,074 pages of it, is at this PDF link originating at this post at The Hill.
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UPDATE: Nobody with a brain ever believed it anyway, but the core claim about cost savings at [...]
The Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut (saved here in case her report is modified or disappears) captured a comment Obama made to U.S troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea while heading back to Washington after his Asian trip.
I believe that the comment (bolded) could [...]
Look in the mirror, pal — “US President Barack Obama warned that the US economy could head into a “double-dip recession” unless urgent steps were taken to rein in mounting public debt.” It’s been your guys’ POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy since the summer of 2008; we’re just living in [...]
Posted on Tuesday, 11.17.09
A University of Miami student battling a rare disease is in remission, thanks to a discovery made by the UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
This summer, Steven Guarin had accepted his fate: The rare tumors ravaging his 21-year-old body would probably kill him within weeks.
The [...]
Yost, at his web site (excerpted; read the whole thing; bold after title is mine):
Lowering the Price of Perfidy
The taxpayer-funded defense of three rogue state workers who invaded Joe the Plumber’s privacy sends the wrong message to other state workers: don’t worry, we’ll take care of you if you [...]
Nov 18, 2009 / 12:50 am
On Nov. 11 the National Council of Kosovo met for the first time to organize the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Blessed Mother Teresa’s birth.
The Italian bishops new service (SIR) reports that the meeting took place in the Culture Ministry’s palace [...]
I noted this briefly this morning at Lickety-Split Links (”Recovery.gov lists hundreds of millions spent and hundreds of jobs created in Congressional districts that don’t exist“), and it has caught the attention of several SOBers:
Maggie Thurber — “Bogus jobs numbers in the stimulus & Ohio phantom congressional [...]
Leftists including those in the White House who presumptively and obsessively attack Fox News will not be pleased with this.
At Forbes (HT Hot Air Headlines), S. Robert Lichter of George Mason University’s Center for Media and Public Affairs, asks the question, “Fox News: Fair [...]
That Associated Press’s basement-level poll-cooking and poll-reporting standards are quite low, and quite agenda-driven, might as well be an article of faith by this time.
But the wire service-commissioned poll on health care, and Erica Warner’s report on it (saved here for future reference, fair use, [...]
Good thing they spent $18 million on the web site revamp — “Recovery.gov lists hundreds of millions spent and hundreds of jobs created in Congressional districts that don’t exist.”
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Maybe we should hold the congressional elections on April 16, 2010 — TaxProf Blog has a roundup of establishment [...]
It starts today at IBDeditorials.com.
Here are his first two paragraphs:
The new and risky methods of financing home purchases that rose to dominance in the early years of the 21st century could not have replaced more traditional rules and standards for granting mortgage loans unless those who regulated banks and [...]
What If ObamaCare Had a Rally and Nobody Showed Up?
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On Thursday, shortly after Lou Dobbs left CNN, the network finished fourth in the cable news race, both during the day and during prime-time, in the 25-54 demographic, behind its Headline News. Fox not only has a bigger overall [...]
It was a miracle: three Japanese fishermen were rescued after surviving for nearly four days with no food and water, trapped under their vessel which had overturned on the Pacific high seas due to an oncoming typhoon. On October 31st, the three were released from the [...]
In the alternative universe known as Government/General Motors Land, you can:
Talk about how your financial results are going to be better than last year’s and in the next breath caution that the numbers won’t be comparable. Inform the public that the financial information to be released on Monday [...]
In a report that is so riddled with bias and factual errors it’s hard to know even where to begin, Associated Press Writers Tom Raum and Andrew Taylor yesterday gave making President Obama look like a born-again deficit hawk their best shot.
The pair’s work is [...]
Nov 15, 2009 / 03:42 am (CNA).- On Nov. 5, Bishop Thomas Paprocki, known as the “Holy Goalie” of the Archdiocese of Chicago, skated with the Green Knights at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin and addressed the team in the locker room before their game.
Bishop Paprocki, a seasoned [...]
The heroic mom of a wounded serviceman shakes the author out of a temporary torpor.
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Note: This item went up at Pajamas Media and was teased here at BizzyBlog on Friday.
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Like many in our current economy, yours truly finds himself doing extracurricular things to bring in the daily [...]
In what is presented to readers of an Associated Press report as a done deal, the Netherlands will impose a mileage tax on drivers beginning in 2012. It goes beyond most if not all other government-imposed taxes in that it will charge more during so-called peak times [...]
Nov 13, 2009 / 11:32 am
A Texas woman in need of a kidney has received one from her parish priest. She has called the donation a “holy kidney,” while he says the gift of his kidney is an attempt to follow Christ’s life-giving example.
Carrie Gehling, who has lost [...]
It might seem odd, given its content, that I’m about to criticize yesterday’s Associated Press report on the deficit.
After all, AP business writers Martin Crutsinger and Daniel Wagner did give us the facts about Uncle Sam’s October Monthly Treasury Statement, put them into historical context, [...]
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
Sub-headline: “The heroic mom of a wounded serviceman shakes the author out of a temporary torpor.”
It’s a bit of a departure from the norm, if there is such a [...]
Otherwise known as the latest installment of, “If We Keep Going Down This Road, We Are Soooo Bleeped”:
A look at the detail shows that corporate income taxes were negative for the month.
Receipts are falling through the floor, and Congress wants to blow untold trillions on statist [...]
As noted earlier today (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), yesterday’s resignation from CNN by Lou Dobbs was his second during a storied career there. The first was at least partially driven by clear tensions between Dobbs and CNN head Rick Kaplan, a longtime friend of former [...]
Lou Dobbs has resigned from CNN, and his final show aired last night. The departure is reportedly on amicable terms.
That said, this is a good time to recall that Dobbs and his employer were at very visible loggerheads a decade ago. In fact, yesterday’s move [...]
(The following is satire — I hope)
Forget Ford Hood and investigating the so-called “terror” connections of Nidal Hasan.
Yours truly has come across something the current crowd running our government might see as even more sinister. The Obama administration, the FBI, the Justice Department, and, most importantly, the [...]
I never met Pete Shellem. I hadn’t heard of him until reading his obituary last week through a link on the blog of New York criminal defense attorney Scott Greenfield. But I wish I’d had a drink with the guy.
In an age when journalism has been inflicted [...]
The Wall Street Journal editorializes on what yours truly blogged about yesterday, casting doubt on the alleged development expertise of those who wear black robes:
Pfizer and Kelo’s Ghost Town
Pfizer bugs out, long after the land grab.
The Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London [...]
Ralph Peters, in “Deadly Denial“:
As President Obama belatedly appears at Fort Hood today, will he dare to speak the word “terror?”
He won’t use the word “Islamist.” If he mentions Islam at all, it’ll be to sing its praises yet again.
We’ve already learned that Islamist terrorist Maj. Nidal Malik [...]
God Bless America’s soldiers:
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It’s a development that I wouldn’t wish on anybody, but one that the City of New London, Connecticut largely brought upon itself by pursuing and winning the Kelo v. New London case at the Supreme Court in June 2005.
Some “win.” In what Ed Morrissey at [...]
As the Reason TV video (HT Instapundit) explains, the evils of communism are to a large extent not recorded in pictures. That’s why what Nikolai Getman did — from memory –is such a positive thing:
We cannot forget the objective evil that led to over 100 million deaths and [...]
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial today on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is excellent, as would be expected, and gives credit where credit is due:
In the debate over who deserves credit for causing the Berlin Wall to collapse on the night [...]
Isn’t that Paul Krugman clever? The title of his latest op-ed (”Paranoia Strikes Deep”) quotes a line, presumably deliberately, from a 1960s protest song many consider one of the opening shots in that decade’s protest movement.
Before he got cute with his title, Krugman should have gone [...]
Presence:
In response to what is probably the worst attack on American soldiers on American soil since the end of the 19th century (Hawaii was not yet a state when Pearl Harbor was attacked), our president …. made a statement that came off as perfunctory, and stayed in Washington for [...]Of course the president and Congress are after money, but they really want control over your life.
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Note: This item originally appeared at Pajamas Media and was teased here at BizzyBlog on Saturday.
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The House’s latest iteration of ObamaCare now weighs in at 1,990 pages. That’s hundreds [...]
Nov 8, 2009 / 02:33 pm (CNA).- From its humble beginnings in the church of St. Francis Xavier in Phoenix, Rosary Sunday has grown into an annual event that draws more than 5,000 people in devotion to Mary. Last month, Catholics in the diocese marked the [...]
Here’s the roll call.
I didn’t live-blog the vote because my instincts told me it would work out similarly to cap and trade, where Nancy Pelosi’s biggest decision was who to allow to vote “no” in the interest of protecting her party’s electoral majority.
In terms of Ohio, she must think [...]
From Victoria, Australia:
November 08, 2009 12:44pm
VICTORIAN teenager Lachlan Edwards has been praised after he swam to the rescue of two people caught in a rip at Point Impossible Surf Beach in the state’s southwest.
Lachlan, 15, had already rescued a man from about 70 metres offshore at about 7pm (AEDT) yesterday [...]
…. in one secretive statist health care bill (click here or on pic to open full-size pic in a separate window, and brace yourself):
The area in the yellow box in the top center was the chart as it existed several months and hundreds of [...]
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Monday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
The central point is in the subheadline: “Of course the president and Congress are after money, but they really want control over your life.”
One of its [...]
Nov 4, 2009 / 10:01 pm
On October 31, the Church beatified Bishop Zoltán Lajos Meszlényi, a victim of the Communist persecution of the Catholic Church in Hungary. The beatification was scheduled shortly after Pope Benedict approved a decree verifying the martyrdom of the bishop, who died [...]
Here’s the official video from the White House itself:
I think NBC Chicago has it right on this one:
Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
…. After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and [...]
